President Obama has made another huge concession to developers and drillers this week. He has abandoned a pledge to restore eligibility for federal wilderness protection to millions of acres of undeveloped land in the West. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who was himself viewed as a decidedly anti-environmental Senator before being picked by Obama, announced that millions of acres will no longer be designated as “wild lands.”
As with civil libertarians, environmentalists have long been dismissed by the White House as having no where to go in the next election. Accordingly, Obama continues to rollback on environmental protections such as his radical expansion of coal permits as well as his opening up of pristine areas of the East Coast to oil exploration.
The effort to protect the lands was blocked by Congress but environmentalists wanted the Administration to fight on this ground. Various business groups and conservative members of Congress heralded the President’s move. At risk are some of the most pristine untouched lands left in the country.
Source: Yahoo
Buddha Is Laughing
1, June 2, 2011 at 12:39 pm
And don’t exhale.
Just a suggestion.
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It’s gotta go somewhere … usually out her …….
🙂
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/02/mcconnell-epa-coal_n_870332.html
And don’t exhale.
Just a suggestion.
Oh dear, poor Tootie and the history books:
“The amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. There is nothing in the history of its adoption to suggest that it was more than declaratory of the relationship between the national and state governments as it had been established by the Constitution before the amendment or that its purpose was other than to allay fears that the new national government might seek to exercise powers not granted, and that the states might not be able to exercise fully their reserved powers…..” (United States v. Darby, 312 U.S. 100, 124 (1941))
Nothing allays one’s fears like a good rant … inhale deeper, Tootie, deeper … deeper
This sorry decision is yet more evidence that the re-election campaign is swinging into high gear.
Although I am unable to follow all of her reasoning, likely as a result of brain damage from the perversions I absorbed during the ’60s, Tootie is correct on a couple of points. First, pollution is bad stewardship. Second, hemp production should indeed be encouraged for its multiple uses.
Politics is a dog eat dog business. All you can do is keep fighting for what you believe in and not give up.
SM, you buried the lead. Tootie is pro-hemp!
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/romney-america-inches-away-from-ceasing-to-be-a-capitalist-country.php?ref=fpa Romney introduces his campaign today. Fear of socialism seems to be the theme. This ties in with Tootie’s statement.
This is likely because
#1 we are on the verge of catastrophic economic collapse and the left is dithering about being human and using the earth’s resources. That retrograde worship-the-earth pagan stuff is destroying us. WE ARE A NATURAL FEATURE OF THIS PLANET. And humans using the earth’s resources are (according to leftist Darwinian theories) the pinnacle of evolutionary development. God teaches us to have dominion over the earth but to be good stewards of it. Pollution is bad stewardship.
#2 Obama needs to earn a quick billion. Who is going to provide that? Some greedy lawyers who ruin civilization already? Not likely. And they are hanging on to their money for dear life. Perhaps those who do real work and are a benefit to mankind, like lumber harvesters? Yes, that sounds rights.
#3 Obama just MIGHT have given a little credence to science. We can harvest the earths gifts without ruining the environment and it is most easy to do that with the forests. Though we should be opening the floodgates to hemp growing as it is a cleaner method of providing raw materials to industry. And when companies slip up and do bad thing then we can put the ruthless hounds (lawyers) on them. That will keep the criminals off the streets and occupied in productive activities useful to mankind.
Anyway, who is hampering the hemp industry but the fascist Democrats who have controlled congress and the White House for several years now?
#4 the feds have stolen these lands from the American people in the first place. The feds have NO authority to control these lands. Give them back to the people.
#5 you should prepare for the next revolution: a restoration of the Constitution and liberty. This is the real revolution which is actually a counter-revolution against the 60s dirt-bags who are subverting our form of government (especially through our colleges and universities). The left (deviants and perverts that they are) thought the only freedom worth fighting for was the freedom to be a pervert. They never advance beyond this knuckle-dragging juvenile stage. Plus they are the war-mongers they claimed to loathe. They have become devoted to the fascism they claimed to abhor. And they are now the uber police-state.
There is only one way to stop them. Nullification. And they can even join in on that. We decent people can even free the dirt-bags from themselves.
So the real fight for freedom has begun. The left was never really interested in it. They never discovered the lawful way to fight for freedom (nullification) because though they tell us they are smart, they are not. They are just clever evil people mainly interested in filthy art, music, movies and snuffing out the lives of the unborn with a vaunted right to privacy. This they never really believed in either because now, because of them, I have a gun in my face and some fascist pig telling me to surrender my medical records and freedom to choose privately with my doctor over to D.C.
Stop not seeing the proverbial (and literal) forest because of the trees.
The solution lies in breaking the fascist totalitarian powers in Washington. You can live in a state that bans mining and harvesting. And others can live in a state that allows it. That was how the great experiment was meant to be. Your law schools have taught you lies about the Constitution if they taught you anything about it at all. Free yourselves from their lies. The answer lies in the 10th Amendment which the liars, totalitarians, and fascists will tell you is immoral and dead. It is neither. It is the key to liberty and justice (which is why they condemn it).
Choose freedom over fascism. Liberty over lies. Justice over injustice. Right over wrong. Choose nullification. Stand up to the revolving dictator who serves in the Oval Office each election season. Stand up to the totalitarian congress.
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/
http://youtu.be/3B5MpPDTPwc
Elaine, That’s right. Paul Ryan and the republican governors raised the stakes. Dredd, Obama could never run as a republican. Pro-choice politicians are not welcome in the republican party currently.
If the political process was fair to the voters, Obama would run as a Republican, the democrats would put up a real democrat, and we would have a real campaign and election.
This is the new American Politician, modelled after Pontius Pilate.
“Stay home on election day”. That is exactly what Obama wants, he wants to appeal to better quality votes who normally support the Republicans and thinks that such people are deterred by the false impression that the Democratic party might actually take the interests and desires of the so called base seriously.
See this Alternet article on how the Democrats have deserted the middle and working classes in favour of the plutocrats.
Swarthmore mom,
So sad that we’ll have to choose between bad and worse–not good and better–in 2012.
The base would also like to keep their medicare. Don’t think they will stay home like 2010.
Offtop.
Didn’t find any contacts, still wanted some kind of reply: UN decided drugs are good. Ridiculous if you ask me.
http://pravo.ru/store/interdoc/doc/242/Global_Commission_Report_English.pdf
James M, Republican governors like Rick Scott are activating the base.
James M, No way will the base stay home when you look at the republican candidates. Do you really think women want to have their access to abortion or even family planning eliminated? The Obama administration is the only thing stopping that from happening.
James…..Yes….but whats the alternative….
The President keeps alienating his base to such a degree that they may very well just stay home on election day.