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venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)
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venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)
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Here it is and I would like to clarify that I had no problem getting it up, sounds like you guys need to see the MD.
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Bush Hosts Fishermen, Hunters on Ranch
Thursday, April 08, 2004
CRAWFORD, Texas ? President Bush was leading a tour of his ranch for hunting, fishing and land-conservation advocates Thursday, after national security adviser Condoleezza Rice's (search) testimony to the Sept. 11 commission.
Bush watched the testimony Thursday live on television, a spokeswoman said. Bush also spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin (search) for 20 minutes Thursday morning.
After Rice's testimony, he was meeting with the leaders of about 20 groups that the White House termed "wildlife conservation organizations." A partial list showed groups dedicated to protecting hunting and fishing rights and the habitat of fish and game, including Ducks Unlimited, Quail Unlimited, the Safari Club International and the National Rifle Association.
Another group, the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance, says on its Web site that it "provides direct lobbying and grassroots coalition support to protect and advance the rights of hunters, fishermen, trappers and scientific wildlife management professionals."
The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (search) invites people to join and "unite with America's hunters, anglers and conservationists to rekindle the conservation philosophy and solution-oriented legacy of America's greatest conservation president."
Some of Bush's guests for the one-hour visit were leaders of the organizations, while others were staffers from their affiliated magazines, the official said. The visitors also were meeting with James Connaughton, head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (search).
Bush is an avid fisherman, and occasionally casts into the bass pond just steps from his Crawford, Texas, ranch home. He picked the sport up from his father, the former president.
On New Year's Day, he went quail hunting in southern Texas with George H.W. Bush ? the most celebrated member of Ducks Unlimited.
In December, the current president met at the White House with John Tomke, president of Ducks Unlimited, for a meeting on wetlands protection.
The president leaned over to tell Tomke how much he enjoys hunting on the Texas Gulf Coast, where green-headed mallards and pintails flock every autumn. Tomke, in turn, reminded Bush that 22,000 hunters were among the 133,000 Americans who filed protests to a Bush administration wetlands plan that could have cleared the way for developers to bulldoze 23 million acres of fragile wetlands.
Four days later, the administration announced the president had personally decided "not to issue a rule that could reduce" federal wetlands protection, including smaller parcels important to wildlife called "isolated" wetlands.
But one of Bush's own aides has strongly criticized the practices of some of the hunting groups visiting the ranch on Thursday.
Matthew Scully, a presidential speechwriter, wrote in a book published in 2002 that hunting is an example of animal abuse.
The book, "Dominion," takes readers to a convention of Safari Club International, whose members pay up to $20,000 to hunt elephants, lions or other animals, either abroad or in American "safari ranches," where the animals are fenced in pens.
Describing the attitudes of the convention attendees, Scully wrote: "Nature and this holy rite is transformed into an endless theme park and the creatures into so many animatronic figures ingeniously designed to jump and flee and fall for the giddy delight of the boys."
Democrat John Kerry is an avid hunter, and he and Bush have been dueling over the votes of millions of hunters.
A Kerry spokesman used Bush's courting of the hunters to charge that the president is "systematically dismantling, neutralizing or defunding virtually every meaningful law, regulation and program that protects or restores fish and wildlife." The administration has broken a promise to "fully fund conservation programs," Kerry spokesman Phil Singer said.
"For someone who is supposed to be such an avid outdoorsman, George Bush has a funny way of showing his support for hunters and anglers," Singer said.
Bush on Thursday also was being interviewed by Ladies' Home Journal magazine.
The president's parents, mother-in-law and daughters were gathering, along with Rice, at the ranch this Easter weekend.
They planned to attend Easter Sunday services at Fort Hood, as they did last year, officials said.
Drum
Bush Hosts Fishermen, Hunters on Ranch
Thursday, April 08, 2004
CRAWFORD, Texas ? President Bush was leading a tour of his ranch for hunting, fishing and land-conservation advocates Thursday, after national security adviser Condoleezza Rice's (search) testimony to the Sept. 11 commission.
Bush watched the testimony Thursday live on television, a spokeswoman said. Bush also spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin (search) for 20 minutes Thursday morning.
After Rice's testimony, he was meeting with the leaders of about 20 groups that the White House termed "wildlife conservation organizations." A partial list showed groups dedicated to protecting hunting and fishing rights and the habitat of fish and game, including Ducks Unlimited, Quail Unlimited, the Safari Club International and the National Rifle Association.
Another group, the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance, says on its Web site that it "provides direct lobbying and grassroots coalition support to protect and advance the rights of hunters, fishermen, trappers and scientific wildlife management professionals."
The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (search) invites people to join and "unite with America's hunters, anglers and conservationists to rekindle the conservation philosophy and solution-oriented legacy of America's greatest conservation president."
Some of Bush's guests for the one-hour visit were leaders of the organizations, while others were staffers from their affiliated magazines, the official said. The visitors also were meeting with James Connaughton, head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (search).
Bush is an avid fisherman, and occasionally casts into the bass pond just steps from his Crawford, Texas, ranch home. He picked the sport up from his father, the former president.
On New Year's Day, he went quail hunting in southern Texas with George H.W. Bush ? the most celebrated member of Ducks Unlimited.
In December, the current president met at the White House with John Tomke, president of Ducks Unlimited, for a meeting on wetlands protection.
The president leaned over to tell Tomke how much he enjoys hunting on the Texas Gulf Coast, where green-headed mallards and pintails flock every autumn. Tomke, in turn, reminded Bush that 22,000 hunters were among the 133,000 Americans who filed protests to a Bush administration wetlands plan that could have cleared the way for developers to bulldoze 23 million acres of fragile wetlands.
Four days later, the administration announced the president had personally decided "not to issue a rule that could reduce" federal wetlands protection, including smaller parcels important to wildlife called "isolated" wetlands.
But one of Bush's own aides has strongly criticized the practices of some of the hunting groups visiting the ranch on Thursday.
Matthew Scully, a presidential speechwriter, wrote in a book published in 2002 that hunting is an example of animal abuse.
The book, "Dominion," takes readers to a convention of Safari Club International, whose members pay up to $20,000 to hunt elephants, lions or other animals, either abroad or in American "safari ranches," where the animals are fenced in pens.
Describing the attitudes of the convention attendees, Scully wrote: "Nature and this holy rite is transformed into an endless theme park and the creatures into so many animatronic figures ingeniously designed to jump and flee and fall for the giddy delight of the boys."
Democrat John Kerry is an avid hunter, and he and Bush have been dueling over the votes of millions of hunters.
A Kerry spokesman used Bush's courting of the hunters to charge that the president is "systematically dismantling, neutralizing or defunding virtually every meaningful law, regulation and program that protects or restores fish and wildlife." The administration has broken a promise to "fully fund conservation programs," Kerry spokesman Phil Singer said.
"For someone who is supposed to be such an avid outdoorsman, George Bush has a funny way of showing his support for hunters and anglers," Singer said.
Bush on Thursday also was being interviewed by Ladies' Home Journal magazine.
The president's parents, mother-in-law and daughters were gathering, along with Rice, at the ranch this Easter weekend.
They planned to attend Easter Sunday services at Fort Hood, as they did last year, officials said.
