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Windmills Are Killing Birds!

POSTED BY: KWICKO
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 09:07
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013 6:45 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)




Oh, wait - that's all the lead in the bullets:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/05/nra-enemies-list_n_3708593.ht
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Quote:

WASHINGTON -- In a move bizarrely reminiscent of its "anti-gun" enemies list, the National Rifle Association announced a new plan Friday to target scientists, environmental groups, government regulators and individuals who favor banning the use of lead in gun ammunition.

The targeted attacks are part of Hunt for Truth.org, a newly revamped effort by the nation's largest gun lobby to block attempts to regulate the use of lead in bullets. Regulations have been proposed in some states after studies have shown that millions of birds -- most notably the highly endangered California condor -- are dying of lead poisoning after ingesting lead bullet fragments.

The Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group, estimates that hunters in the United States shoot more than 3,000 tons of lead into the outdoors every year, and that as many as 20 million birds die annually from lead poisoning.




Next time your crazy FauxNews-watching uncle starts blathering about windmills killing birds, be sure to bring up this article to ask if he's just as outraged about all the birds dying from lead poisoning.





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"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

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Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."


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Tuesday, August 6, 2013 6:58 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Thanx, Mike; I popped into this to say "We've already had that story", but your point is even better.

I ignored the original thread on the windmills because it made me laugh, considering how MUCH wildlife is killed and injured across the country daily by, you know, cars, people, insecticides, pollution, and because I knew what the thread's purpose was.


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Tuesday, August 6, 2013 9:07 AM

FREMDFIRMA



I got no issue with makin bullets/shells out of something else - lead is friggin toxic as hell, so it makes sense.. one guy I know who hand reloads his own shotgun shells fills em with copperhead BBs (for large birds) so that he doesn't have to handle lead and says they work just fine.

Although it would put a crimp in that old joke.
"So, three bullets in him... cause of death ? lead poisoning."

For mine own I always wondered why we HAVEN'T moved away from lead earlier, surely there's other stuff we could use - just not DU, okay ?

-F

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