On Fri, 27 May 2005 13:21:19 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

Thank god there's still a few Democrats on the federal bench.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/national/27dams.html?

It's no wonder the Bush administration is fighting so hard to
stack the courts with their ideologues.

"It was the third time that federal courts in Portland have rejected the
fisheries services analysis of how federal actions might affect the fish
and what could be done.

The first two were in the Clinton administration.

The second, completed shortly before George W. Bush was inaugurated,

Ed. Note - from an objective standpoint, this is a leading phrase; it
makes no possible difference Bush if it was completed 1 second or
500 years before he was in. Why not say it was completed at the very
end of the Clinton administration, or even, it was completed 26 years
after the Beatles broke up.

included the possibility of dam removal, as a last resort, to protect
the fish."

So, Ken, do you prefer golf balls or barbeque forks?

HTH,
Dick