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Endangered species are species of animals that face a very close risk of becoming extinct.  There is an Act that protects these animals to allow them a fighting chance for survival but apparently there now are some people hoping to change that.

Read this quote carefully: “The proposed changes fundamentally gut the intent of the Endangered Species Act,” says Jan Hasselman, a Seattle attorney with Earthjustice, an environmental law firm, who helped Salon interpret the proposal. “This is a no-holds-barred end run around one of America’s most popular environmental protections. If these regulations stand up, the act will no longer provide a safety net for animals and plants on the brink of extinction.”

Why would we purposely want to kill of an entire species of plants or animals.  We should be saving what we have here on earth. 

How do you feel about this?

Will Gonzales really get kicked out soon?  I have been hearing this EVERYWHERE.  So I decided to get the facts.  I get the impression that the White House doesn’t really care, President Bush supports Gonzales.  So what is the deal with him firing 8 U.S. Attorneys?  Gonzles has said that he needed to remind the government officials of their special obligation to protect America against future acts of terrorism.  The article says, “No useful purpose? Wouldn’t members of Congress like to know — aren’t they entitled to know? — the extent to which White House officials may have helped Justice Department officials mislead Congress about the circumstances surrounding the firing of federal prosecutors?”

It really sounds like there is this whole mess surounding Gonzales and I feel that the White House is more responsible than they want us to know about.  You can’t just fire federal prosecuters for no reason, so why are they  hiding information and misleading Congress?  Isn’t that against the law?

As I logged onto wordpress today the blog of the minute caught my eye.  It’s title was from .ru with love.  I had no idea what .ru was so I clicked and I am glad I did.  This article really opened my eyes to what one can expect from overseas web travel to Russia, also known as .ru.

“The two riskiest large country domains to visit are Romania (.ro) and Russia (.ru), while the two safest are Finland (.fi) and Ireland (.ie).” Nice to see Ireland in the headlines for being peaceful.”  I currently have a professor from Finland and if everyone there acts like her, they are probably the most kind and sensative people on the planet.  So why are there differences on whats appropriate from country to country.

 There are always lots of stories about surfing the web, my family and I travel a lot, and we like to do a lot of internet searching before hand so I thought that it was interesting for me to find out about the friendliest places to visit on the web, after all I don’t really want to go to a country’s website and end up looking at something that I don’t really want to see.

At the end of the article it writes about how McAfee, and site that stated .ru as an agressive country also found that “On the bright side, it’s nice to learn that the “only frequently tested domain for which McAfee SiteAdvisor found no risky sites is ‘.gov’ which is only available to U.S. government agencies”

I for one certainly would hope that there would not be any risky sites in .gov because it is run by our government.  It kind of makes you think though, shouldn’t there be more safe areas for people to surf the web without worrying about finding porn and other obsecenities?  I certainly think so.