PARTING GIFTS FROM THE SPITEFUL EMPEROR

Not content with being the most despised would-be despot Since Hitler, George W. Bush is doing everything in his power to make sure that the destruction of the United States is completed on his watch. It seems he will not be satisfied until he is certain the damage he has done is beyond repair and the U.S. will never recover.

It becomes increasingly clear why this despicable excuse for a human being has purchased nearly one hundred thousand acres of land in Chaco, Paraguay. If it was good enough for nazi war criminals, it’s good enough for dubya. I doubt he will be welcome here, even in Texas.

In the final days of his hateful administration Bush has decided to make sure we will never forget just how vile he is. He is feverishly working to eliminate or cripple, as many as he possibly can, the regulations protecting our life support system. He is moving with all possible haste to make sure his new rules are actually in place before he takes his leave. He wants to make it as difficult as possible for the new administration to reverse them and begin to undo the immeasurable damage he has done.

One rule going into effect, three days before Obama takes office, will hand over two million acres of land in the Rocky Mountain states to energy corporations and allow them to pursue the development of oil shale. This process of extracting kerogen from sedimentary rock uses so much energy that the return is almost negligible. Furthermore it wastes massive amounts of water and is totally destructive of the environment.

Another plan is to auction off around fifty thousand acres of oil and gas parcels in Utah, land right on top of the Arches National Park.

A determined effort was initiated in May to make sure that, as existing rules limiting pollution are negated, new rules, which actually encourage its increase, are put in place.

From the beginning of September to the end of October eighty three rules have been reviewed by the Office of Budget and Management. That’s double the workload for the previous three years.

Virtually all the rules being pushed through, in these last days of the most destructive presidency in history, are a continuation of the insanely harmful deregulation that has brought the country to the verge of total collapse.

Evidently it is the greatest desire of George W. Bush to be remembered as the man who completed the demolition of America. It seems he would also love to go down in history as the man responsible for the deaths of more people than Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot combined.

Peak oil has been reached and passed. Climate change has passed the tipping point into the sixth global extinction event. The world economy is in an unstoppable downward spiral that will render all representative currency worthless.

If there is any recorded history of this time that survives into the future, dubya may well get his wishes.

These are just a few of the parting gifts that George wants to leave us to remember him by.

• Industrial-size pig, cow and chicken farms can disregard the Clean Water Act and air pollution controls.
• The interior department can approve development such as mining or logging without consulting wildlife managers about their impact.
• Restrictions will be eased so power plants can operate near national parks and wilderness areas.
• Pollution controls on new power plants will be downgraded.
• Mountain-top mine operators could dump waste into rivers and streams.
• 2m acres of land in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado opened to development of oil shales, the dirtiest fuel on Earth.

Thank you George. We’ll miss you.