Comments on: Can't we do something with this White House petition thing? https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/15/cant-we-do-something-with-this-white-house-petition-thing/ Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:03:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Cranky Geezer https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/15/cant-we-do-something-with-this-white-house-petition-thing/#comment-496031 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:03:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14317#comment-496031 How about a petition to repeal the law of gravity? But wait, there is still some uncertainty in the gravitational constant, so we better not act until that is cleared up.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/15/cant-we-do-something-with-this-white-house-petition-thing/#comment-496030 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:28:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14317#comment-496030 Iraqvet99, the duck money does as you say it does, but when it comes to sitting down at the table and working out conservation issues, the hunters have more say than they should and they use the duck stamp money as clout.

So, lets be fair about it. Give us a non-hunting stamp, let people who wan to support conservation buy it, and see if it amounts to anything. If when everybody sits down at the table there is an extra big pile of money for conservation, that is not a bad thing. It’s democracy.

I don’t see the similarity or parallelism between Occupy and Secession. Some similarities, but really, they come from very different places and have no common goals.

]]> By: Iraqvet99 https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/15/cant-we-do-something-with-this-white-house-petition-thing/#comment-496029 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:24:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14317#comment-496029 Well Greg me and you have not viewed many things eye to eye, and while I don’t support the secession, I do support the right they have for peaceful protest. Many of the liberal blogs have slammed this movement while supporting the occupy movement, why is this? Now I understand that many conservatives slammed that movement, but lets step back here a moment, the liberal side of the house proclaims to be the enlightened ones, so then why are they acting like 4 year olds? You don’t like me so I am gonna slam you! As to the duck stamp, and I am a duck hunter;) ( I would rather hunt flying NY strip than gamey small cows any day) more of that money from the stamps goes to wet land restoration and protection than to ducks and hunting related things.

Any rate I just want to say thank you Greg from a right leaning independent for your understanding the practices of our constitutionally given freedoms.

Ps if you want a good duck recipe e mail me at sja042799@yahoo.com!

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