The White House and whales redux

My January 16th blog entry, linked here, dealt with President Bush's exemption to the Navy from environmental laws that would otherwise limit its ability to use certain kinds of sonar used in anti-submarine warfare training, even if that sonar causes harm to cetaceans.

Here's my brother's take on it:


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The White House and the Whales

"The fight over how humans should, and should not, interact with whales has moved from the waters off Antarctica, where environmental campaigners have been harassing Japanese whalers, to the White House.



While traveling in the Middle East on Tuesday, President Bush issued an exemption to the Navy from environmental laws that would otherwise limit its ability to use certain kinds of sonar used in anti-submarine warfare training, the Associated Press said."

Read the full story here.

Excited to be alive

Newborn dolphins and killer whales don't sleep. At all.