Unpossible

No, not another murder in a haven of onerous gun control laws. This involves the harassment of polar bears.

Companies get OK to annoy polar bears

Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.

The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies planning to search for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska if “small numbers” of polar bears or Pacific walruses are incidentally harmed by their activities over the next five years.

Environmentalists said the new regulations give oil companies a blank check to harass the polar bear.

First of all, yes, that was the real title of the article. They decided against going with popular public opinion and let folks now via the title that we are now, however slowly, probably going to turn our nation’s oil taps on, and instead went for the whining eco-angle.

Secondly, exactly how do you harass a half-ton omnivore that has six-inch claws and can fit your head in its mouth without even opening its jaw all the way?

Methinks the curious beast will find the presence of humans more “entertaining” than anything else.