{"id":446,"date":"2009-01-17T04:42:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T04:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2009-01-17T04:42:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T04:42:29","slug":"about_those_geese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"About Those Geese"},"content":{"rendered":"

The problem of geese at airports is not new.  A lot of our airports are located near water (commerce generally centers at ports) and have marshland of some sort around them.  Washington D.C. is essentially a filled-in swamp, also parts of Boston are former wetlands claimed before ecology was in vogue.  Anyway, one of National Review<\/a>‘s blogs has an interesting article pointing out that in January of 2004 Senator Charles Schumer helped pass a law for a ‘non-lethal, environmentally friendly solution for controlling New York City’s Canadian Geese’ (giving $200,00 in tax money to the US Fish and Wildlife Service).  Evidently, what caused him to bring up the earmark and get it passed was the fact that Greenpeace was trying to save a flock of geese from Riker’s Island (in the flight path of Laguardia) rather than have the geese killed.  I couldn’t figure out from the article what was or wasn’t done to the geese, but I guess the question at hand should be, “Are people more valuable than geese?”.  I personally think sometimes you have to do hard things to protect people–move the geese or have them for dinner–but we need to protect the lives of passengers on airplanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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