Iowa Rainforest - Good for America, Good for Puppies

[Toro]

Just found this.

As many of you know, my home state of Iowa has worked for years to promote the Iowa Child Project – a grassroots effort to restore Iowa’s depleted rainforests, which were destroyed some 400 million years ago by unregulated brontosaurus development and careless asteroids. The centerpiece of this critically needed environmental program is the Iowa Rainforest Project, a planned 85 acre glass-enclosed tropical bio-vegi-dome/ entertainment complex/ factory outlet mall slated for construction next to the I-80 Citgo Truck Haven in Coralville. This important project has earned the rave reviews of environmentalists, public officials, media, and glass contractors across the Hawkeye State. Their enthusiastic support has, in turn, spurred a major public-private partnership funded with federal, state, county, and township grants, as well as a major $150 private investment from the Truck Haven gift shop.

Yet, just as Iowa breaks ground on this mission to regain its long-lost Jurassic environmental heritage, a shadowy group of agenda-driven internet extremists has emerged who now have placed this vital project squarely in their crosshairs. Their mission: deprive the hardworking families of Iowa jobs, trees, as well as the trees' life-giving oxygen. Shamelessly using Hurricane Katrina relief as a clever subterfuge, these well-funded extremists have bombarded voters with a barrage of disinformation, distortions, and outright data to sabotage Iowa's tropical "Field of Dreams" at Exit 235. Today, it's time to stand up to this outrageous stealth campaign of fibbery. America needs to know the real facts.

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[actsnoblemartin]

why are they against what youre doing?

Just found this.



http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2005/09/rainforest_iowa.html

 

[Gunny]

Just found this.



http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2005/09/rainforest_iowa.html

I'm not part of that internet group, but you can bet your butt it's not through a lack of bitching since the first time I heard of this absurdity. This is one of the most outrageous pork expenditures ever contrived.

Want to see a rain forest? Take a field trip to South Florida.