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01-13-2012, 07:17 PM
 Marine biologist facing 20 years in prison for feeding whales http://www.stopidiocy. |
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01-13-2012, 07:33 PM
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Oh, wonderful. Now they'll never leave...
Seriously though, why is this illegal? |
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01-13-2012, 09:46 PM
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Tyranny of 1000 cuts.
The polls were not skewed, biased, oversampled or wrong. I was. There was no wave, no landslide, I was wrong about that too. Nate Silver is the gold standard of polling analysis.
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01-14-2012, 05:22 AM
Whether you agree with the Marine Mammal Protection Act is another matter (personally, I don't think it goes far enough) A heartless hand on my shoulder, a push and it's over
Alabaster crashes down (six months is a long time) I tried living in the real world instead of a shell But before I began... I was bored before I even began |
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01-14-2012, 09:22 AM
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If feeding whales is illegal, how come McDonald's is still in business?
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01-14-2012, 09:31 AM
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you know society is completely insane when murderers and killers and rapists get out of jail sooner than someone who feeds an animal...
it's sad how far the west has fallen in terms of common sense and perspective.    The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.But under the name of 'liberalism',they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program,until one day America will be a socialist nation,without knowing how it happened - Norman Thomas,6-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people,too much authority from the States,and too much liberty with the Constitution - R. Reagan |
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01-14-2012, 09:36 AM
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01-14-2012, 11:35 AM
If I appear to be ignoring your posts, it's probably because you are on my ignore list.
Xuéxi zhōngwén |
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01-14-2012, 11:42 AM
When the facts change, I change my mind.
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01-14-2012, 12:17 PM
I don't know about you, but I think a lot of people probably would have done the same thing in her situation. |
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01-14-2012, 12:25 PM
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01-14-2012, 02:50 PM
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01-14-2012, 03:39 PM
 Anyway, the article points out that the perp owns several whale watching services in the area. This is probably something she does on a regular basis--feed the whales and get them to do tricks for her customers, which gins up ticket sales. Wingnuts make such awesome pawns... 
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01-14-2012, 03:50 PM
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01-14-2012, 05:21 PM
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This blog article actually isn't very good and is lacking in most of the details that are in the original news article. Apparently there is a law that ship captains are to stay at least 100 yards away from whales. This is to protect ships, their passengers and the whales from colliding into one another. Ships have been sunk by and whales have been injured/killed in whale strikes (or should that be ship strikes?). I'd imagine feeding whales would bring a ship or would draw whales into dangerous proximity of one another. Also, I'd imagine, if whales develop an association between ships and receiving food, they will learn to approach them, in which case other/all ships are jeopardized, as well as the whales themselves. This isn't like feeding pigeons. These are giants.
Now, whether her offenses warrant the same level of punishment as, say, committing second degree manslaughter, probably not. It's important to note that the punishments stated are the MAXIMUM possible punishments, so her actual punishments could be...and probably will be...significantly different. Last edited by H00t; 01-14-2012 at 05:24 PM.. |
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