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They have devolved into bloated, bullying and brainless monstrosities that must be put down.
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If you're looking for brilliant ideas regarding how to stay in power, looting a treasury and self-aggrandizement, politics would be the grand daddy of them all. If however one is looking for ideas as to help the populace, well, not so much.
Good idea though!
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--If you know what I mean.
The theory of "man-caused global warming" is a tool used by liberals to gain control of the energy sectors of the world's economies and to create a one world government.
The EPA is a tool of the left and it should be abolished.
of a lot of legal actions, but the progressives have been the
cause of the EPA, don't you think??? -- j
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Study History, please. The idiots were NOT the folks at the chemical company!
The company DID try to do the best, cheapest, if not longest term solution for the community, and THE COMMUNITY, via its government, did THE OPPOSITE and Then Blamed The Chemical Company!!! THAT is the point I was trying to make... the nonsense of blaming the company for something which MIGHT have been avoidable (maybe forever... no way to tell) if the local government hadn't acted the way it did!!
Likewise, when the PCBs in the Hudson River were discovered to have come from a GE transformer plant, there WAS a brief point made that leaving the nasties at the bottom of the Hudson might be a good solution, compared to dredging 'em up, stirring them into the surface water and top of the river channel, too!
And here's a HazMat conundrum for you... Some months back, I went to my local hardware store to try to recycle some dead NiCd batteries.
The folks there explained to me that they no longer did that. Why not? They couldn't justify the Cost of that much Green-ness. It cost them hundreds or thousands of dollars EVERY time they wanted the ni-cads removed, because they were charged basically for a full EPA HazMat team to come out, secure the area and make sure it was spotlessly clean after the 'cleanup.'
Unintended Consequences, anyone? Have you ever read the Freakonomics series? Their analyses of unintended consequences and surprising 'connections and results' of many laws and "good ideas" is very mind-expanding. I'm recommending it to all my friends, relatives and gifting some with 'em...
Open for discussion, or are you too much of 'an expert in your field' to be open to a discussion?
Why does this feel like a Global Warming or Jesus Is Coming And The Bible Says So kind of interchange? Because yes, that's what it feels like.
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Please do not take my comments negatively, I just wanted to point out that doing what is the norm does not make it the right thing to do, no one thought that discharging crap into water or burying it was a bad idea, out of sight out of mind so to speak. It just doesn't work that way.
There was some kind of similar pollution cleanup near the Raleigh-Durham Airport a few years ago. The contractor basically dug up a LOT of dirt, baked or burned the Bad Stuff out of it and put it back. It created a water-vapor plume a hundred or two feet in the air for weeks or months on-end. I haven't heard anything negative as a follow-up so far. Apparent success. I wish more 'cleanups' were as successful and quick, too!
Now about those UFO fluids... :))))))))))
employ Chicago or New Jersey methods? -- j
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hip-deep in hay and poop -- and it made for some very fine
tomatoes, beans, squash and potatoes!!! -- j
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loved it. . gradually, we converted marginal soil to exceptional
stuff for a garden. . and now, all we have is one dog. . oh well....... -- j
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The War on the West goes at least back to the 70's with FLPMA. One could argue even further back with Taylor Grazing Act, the creation of the Forest Service, etc. But as we speak, they are pulling out all the stops with controlling access to western lands.
Two aspects for reining it in. Congress duly passed NEPA and are unlikely to repeal it. But, one must ask where does it apply? There is no authority for it within the Constitution, so it can't apply to/within the States. That leaves territories only. Puerto Rico, Guam, etc. Second, and even then, administrative procedure must follow the letter and intent of the law. They cannot just go rogue and make up law by executive decree.
And there is the rub, they are doing that in all these areas and the other two branches of government are letting executive administrations get away with it. There is the occasional victory, that only amount to little speed bumps in their road to total control.
I proposed in my a Regulatory Bill of Rights (http://hallingblog.com/2010/12/02/reg...) to give individual citizens real power to fight regulatory over reach with real teeth