Kayakas!

>The Bush team has granted Big Oil (BP) the right to increase its river polluting output. One cannot help but display a wrinkled forehead at the doings of the Bush team. America, via the Bush team, has had to relearn via experience, way too much of history. And based upon how it “managed” the Iraqi war and all the other major tasks it attempted - America is probably in BIG trouble again. And nobody will attempt to stop the Bush team juggernaut. The Democrats are too busy trying to fix the problems of the Bush team to look at the source of the problems.

A Burning river? You bet. Where? Ohio. Did the river have a name? Yes - Cuyahoga. Now listen to how others described it:

>Fires plagued the Cuyahoga River beginning in 1936 when a spark from a blow torch ignited floating debris and oils. The largest river fire in 1952 caused over $1 million in damage to boats and a riverfront office building. By the 1960s the lower Cuyahoga River in Cleveland was used for waste disposal, and was choked with debris, oils, sludge, industrial wastes and sewage. These pollutants were considered a major source of impact to Lake Erie, which was considered “dead” at the time. On June 22, 1969 a river fire captured national attention. Time magazine described the Cuyahoga as the river that “oozes rather than flows” and in which a person “does not drown but decays.” This event helped spur an avalanche of pollution control activities resulting in the Clean Water Act>, >Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement>

>and the creation of the federal and state Environmental Protection Agencies.

You would have to believe that most of the world would likely have nothing but admiration and respect for the giant effort put forth by the people of the United States of America to fix the problems of a burning river and two headed fish.

While the Bush team had no trouble believing in yellow-cake, the same may not be true of environmental issues supported by scientist.  

The Bush team may be different. Read the whole story at the below link:

http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/aoc/cuyahoga.html.

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