{"id":81929,"date":"2022-05-04T06:08:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T11:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81929"},"modified":"2022-05-04T06:08:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T11:08:26","slug":"pay-to-play-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81929","title":{"rendered":"Pay To Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes  from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>An individual who kills an eagle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/law\/bald-and-golden-eagle-protection-act\">can be fined $100,000 <\/a>and sentenced to a year in jail.  An organization, $200,000.  Penalties increase for subsequent offenses. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>But a windmill energy company will be paying <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/wind-energy-company-kills-150-eagles-us-pleads-83916292\">less than $30,000 each<\/a> for dead eagles, with no jail at all.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Quite a deal:  a bulk discount on dead birds and immunity from imprisonment.  I guess that&#8217;s the price Mother Nature pays for saving the planet from global warming.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I fully (and only partially satirically) expect electric car drivers to get away with traffic tickets for running down pedestrians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: An individual who kills an eagle can be fined $100,000 and sentenced to a year in jail. An organization, $200,000. Penalties increase for subsequent offenses. But a windmill energy company will be paying less than $30,000 each for dead eagles, with no jail at all. Quite a deal: a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81930,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81929\/revisions\/81930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}