Time to put a nix on this crap.

Two environ-"mental" groups are threatening to sue to halt oil exploration in the Arctic to "protect polar bears."

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) - Two conservation groups plan to sue to protect polar bears from petroleum exploration and drilling off Alaska's coast.

The Center for Biological Diversity and Pacific Environment gave the federal government formal notice Monday that they will sue under the Endangered Species Act to protect the bears, which were listed as threatened last month by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne.

Polar bears are threatened -- likely to become endangered -- because their sea ice habitat has melted dramatically and computer models predict further losses, Kempthorne said. Polar bears use sea ice for mating, denning and hunting.

Kempthorne said the best scientific judgments did not conclude that polar bears were threatened by oil and gas development.

The conservation groups do not agree.

Well, surprise, surprise, surprise!

The dirty little secret is that this has absolutely nothing to do with polar bears, or even the environment. The dirty little secret is that these pseudo-crises are manufactured by a bee-hive of pointy-headed, neosocialist, self-loathing morons who would like nothing better than and will not rest until the United States is reduced to a third world collective hellhole.

To even entertain complaints by these morons is a waste of time and money, not to mention a danger to our environment; and I'm sick and tired of these self-loathing, self-righteous, smarmy morons being given a front-seat to the interests of Americans whose only crime is to live by the rules and to try to provide for their families.