Somebody didn’t like my post about the Giant Palouse Earthworm yesterday. In fact, they got all kinds of huffy about it and called me three kinds of stupid.
So, [email protected] , since you specifically wrote in your comment for me to not respond in the comments, I’ll just post my reply here for your enjoyment.
This particular earthworm is not important. Earthworms in general are important. They do wonderful things for the soil so as to make it farmable. But seeing as how we been able to live without even the knowledge of this species for the entirety of our human existence, not to mention the limited amount of time available so far to study this species (please note that it has been found to exist in a heretofore unknown location), this one is not important.
It is doubly unimportant when you factor in all the land use restrictions encased within the classification of “Endangeredâ€. For instance, farming could be forced to scale back, thereby knocking out entire regional economies.
All for an earthworm we didn’t know about until very recently.
I remember just a few years ago when the eco-socialists attempted to shut the USMC Camp Pendleton rifle training range using some supposedly rare sand gnat that would be harmed by the mere presence of humans. Luckily, the military was able to get the courts to tell the whiners that national security was not going to be sacrificed for an insect.
Yes, “The Global Warming Mythâ€. Anthropomorphic global warming is a lie promoted by those who seek to gather power using an invisible boogey man. There is no conclusive evidence of AGW from any reputable source who is not profiting in some way from the issue. In contrast, people have lost jobs, grant funding, been castigated from their professions and equated to deniers of the Holocaust merely for presenting evidence to the contrary.
Which is telling, seeing as how those are similar to the tactics as you used in your comment yesterday: You have no evidence for your opinion, so you relied entirely upon name-calling and flamboyantly stuffing your head in your ass, removing it only to spew yet another epithet.
You should really stop doing that, as it will eventually make your ears stick out like Barack Obama’s. I mean, how did you think his got that way?