Eastern puma is declared extinct

[Captain Obvious]

Ah, who cares. Small price to pay for cheap gas, IPads and McFuckwiches.

http://www.wisconsingazette.com/envi...d-extinct.html

The eastern puma is extinct, declared so by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this week.

The federal agency announced the puma's demise as it removed the eastern puma from the list of protected wildlife and plants under the Endangered Species Act.

The eastern puma was a subspecies of the animal also known as cougar or mountain lion, which is still widely distributed across the West. It once roamed as far north as southeastern Ontario, southern Quebec and New Brunswick in Canada, south to South Carolina and west to Kentucky, Illinois and Michigan.

The eastern puma’s range contracted from the 1790s to the 1890s due to human persecution abetted by the extirpation, through hunting, of its primary prey, white-tailed deer. The last three eastern pumas were killed in 1930 in Tennessee, 1932 in New Brunswick and 1938 in Maine.

[Private Pickle]

It's a $#@!in Mountain Lion. We have thousands of em here... Pick a few western ones up...drop them in the east...KAPOW! No more extinct Eastern Puma...

[Crepitus]

sad

[Private Pickle]

sad

Not really. Laughable if you think of it. The last one was shot in '33? Naturally it took an inept government agency 82 years to figure out there were none left...

[Peter1469]

Not really. Laughable if you think of it. The last one was shot in '33? Naturally it took an inept government agency 82 years to figure out there were none left...

Just think of those clowns in charge of single payer health care.....

[Common Sense]

Just think of those clowns in charge of single payer health care.....

Nice spin...


The debate existed over their existence because people still said that they had spotted them. Most experts agreed that it was probably due to mistaken identity.

By the way, the government doesn't run hospitals in a single payer system. It only acts as the insurance company.

[Peter1469]

Nice spin...


The debate existed over their existence because people still said that they had spotted them. Most experts agreed that it was probably due to mistaken identity.

By the way, the government doesn't run hospitals in a single payer system. It only acts as the insurance company.

How about in Britain?

The NIH sets all the standards and caps the spending. Old people starve to death in the hospital to save costs.

[Private Pickle]

Nice spin...


The debate existed over their existence because people still said that they had spotted them. Most experts agreed that it was probably due to mistaken identity.

By the way, the government doesn't run hospitals in a single payer system. It only acts as the insurance company.

Yet CO thinks it was because of oil and McDonalds.

The government acting like the private sector is covered in red flags and impending doom.

[Common Sense]

How about in Britain?

The NIH sets all the standards and caps the spending. Old people starve to death in the hospital to save costs.

That's not exactly what happened, but sure. It's NHS, btw...

[Peter1469]

That's not exactly what happened, but sure. It's NHS, btw...

Yes, NHS