] BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Environmentalists are blasting a
] Bush administration proposal to lift a ban on logging in
] remote areas of national forests, saying the move ignores
] popular support for protecting forests.
]
] The plan announced Monday would allow logging by
] permitting roads to be constructed in national forests.
] Governors would have to petition the federal government
] to block road building.

Everytime I turn around the Shrub is giving me another reason to hate his guts. I'm beginning to think that people who want to vote for him must care about absolutely nothing except prayer in schools and gay marriage. With the gay marriage amendment getting buried, it'll probably only become more of a sore spot for the upcoming election.

As an aside, I saw an interesting thing on expatriots last night on PBS. Apparently, there's several million American's living overseas that could be voting. There's a major drive in several countries from "both" parties to bring in voters.

Perhaps the most interesting part of the segment was when they interviewed a guy that had been living in London for 30 years. He said that, never, ever had he been accosted on the street about U.S. foreign policy until a couple of weeks ago. Thus, for those of us that will be travelling to covertly hostile countries soon, I propose wearing T-shirts with some of the following sayings:

"Kerry + Edwards = Hedgehog"
"I couldn't care less about gay marriage"
"Get rid of the religion in the religious right"

CNN.com - Bush plan drops logging ban for national forests - Jul 13, 2004