Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Well, there goes the state.
Polistra noted last year the possible finding of a rare and nasty critter:
Now some complete live specimens of the Giant Palouse Earthworm have been firmly identified. It's not really giant (12 inches, hardly unusual for worms) and it's neither lily-scented nor spitting. But it is a distinct species and it's allegedly rare in the Palouse, so we can now be sure that the EPA terrorists will close down Washington's profitable wheat crops. ¶ 2:58 PM
A Gaian Church group is suing EPA to have the Giant White Palouse Lily-Scented Spitting Earthworm listed as an endangered species because only 4 specimens have been found in Whitman County in the last century. However, the very same worm is quite common a few counties north, around Leavenworth. Under the Endangered Species Tyranny, specimens found near Pullman count as a different kind of animal than the specimens found near Leavenworth, because the specimens found near Pullman are found near Pullman while the specimens found near Leavenworth are found near Leavenworth.
In this situation we are required by "science" to recognize two groups as different when they are precisely identical. With humans, we are required by "science" to recognize groups as the same even when all humans instantly recognize the groups as different.
Seems inconsistent? Not really. The underlying consistency, as Orwell showed us so many years ago, is to confuse and stupefy, to abort every type of thinking at its birth. That's the precise meaning of his Newspeak word unthink. Where logic spots a difference, "science" forces us to see equality. Where logic recognizes two things as equal, "science" forces us to see them as different.
Now some complete live specimens of the Giant Palouse Earthworm have been firmly identified. It's not really giant (12 inches, hardly unusual for worms) and it's neither lily-scented nor spitting. But it is a distinct species and it's allegedly rare in the Palouse, so we can now be sure that the EPA terrorists will close down Washington's profitable wheat crops. ¶ 2:58 PM
