An EPA official likens what he thinks his agency should do to normal-people energy producers to the way Roman military units subdued Mediterranean communities during the empire days.
It's on purpose, people, and there's nothing sensationalistic about saying so.
Does your psycho profile indicate a stubborn paranoic tendency?
ReplyDeleteSo you're okay with a government official saying that his agency - already known for heavy-handed regulatory tactics - should apply slash-and-burn ruthlessness in its dealings with private-sector organizations?
ReplyDeleteLook, this guy's comments caused such a firestorm, he had to publicly apologize this week.
ReplyDeletePlus, shortly after he said them back in 2010, the EPA went after several power companies on the totally discredited basis that their fracking techniques were causing environmental harm.
Or think Gibson Guitar factory raids over a type of wood grown on Madagascar.
So he will be part of Apologies of the week on Harryh SHearer's LeShow from London but its on NR. Fracking causing environmental harm is still quite implicated in some unusual midwest earthquake activity. Damage to Gulf of Mexico sea life still neing found. I have no sympathy for the oil companies either.
ReplyDeleteAnd these at best spurious claims of yours that fracking has caused harm are justification for this guy using crucify-the-first-five-guys-you-encounter-when entering-a-Turkish-village rhetoric in his official capacity as an EPA spokesperson?
ReplyDeleteIncidence of mid continent earthquakes of mag 3 or higher has increased 6 fold. Don't you think it should be investigated? Verdict far from in on damage done by gulf oil spill.
ReplyDeleteI agree the guy really messed up and deserves the fallout for sure. Here you will continue tp gripe and post any and all evidcence you find to support your unwise choice of terms for liberals and often centristsx that your friends and relatives told you turned them, your fondest fans, off.
ReplyDeleteLook, I do not like Obama. Its just that I do not like Pubs more or worse. Individual freedom, not corp. freedom when they conflict...
The whole point of this blog is that there have been some very disturbing trends in Western civilization over the last 100 years that are now reaching a crescendo. We must reverse course, or it's all over.
ReplyDeleteNearly every post you see here - unless it's a diversion having to do with food, music, sports or travel - has to do with the alarming erosion of precisely that which has made the West great.
It's interesting to see that there are two points of agreement in your most recent comment: the guy messed up, and individual freedom is supremely important. Things get a little muddy when you try to make some distinction between that and "corporate freedom." You have the most important part correct, though.
We have to beware of self-fulfilling prophesies (what the thinker thinks, the prover proves), don't we? Tea Party darling Rick Scott as guv of FL thinks they have a drug prob within state govt. Labor pool so wants to randomly impose urine testing. He just lost on the appellate level but vows to take it up with the SUPREME court too, despite the less than 1 per cent positive finding in employees suspected of drug use which existing statute allows state to test. Beware if vhidden freedom loving agendi. Scott once owned interest in a pee pee testing co. And is a known corp. hatchet man who is on a mission to thin the ranks of the governmentally employed, many if whom resent having their jobs dedpend on the cleanliness of their formerly pot-tainted piss.
ReplyDeleteHidden freedom hating (for those not "with" them agendi abound within your Tea Party ranks. Sure you claim to possess the adult, commonsensical approach but inwardly you are marauders and killers.
You pay taxes in Florida, don't you? I'd think you'dwant the leanest possible government.
ReplyDeletePot use is not a litmus test for conservatism one way or the other, but at present it is illegal. Sorry, your argument doesn't fly. If people freely choose to take state jobs and continue to smoke weed, we have to assume they are smart enough to have weighed the risks to their employment.
If Scott no longer owns stock in the pee-testing company, how does he stand to gain from what he's doing?
The controlling shares of his crooked co. Solantic went into a trust fund in his wife's name. If he is so concerned about "his" employees breaking the law perhaps he should consider installing a chip in their bodies at the time of piss testing if he ever gets it by the courts which it looks quite like he won't.
ReplyDeleteHow bout that other Hero of yours down here, Alan West comparing Dems to Nazis, claiming dozens of his Dem colleagues are Commies and calling our prexy the dumbest person walking around in America? Wow, he is breally ready to kick some ass and he is naming names first. We'll have to wait to see how this all works out for your freedom grubbers down here in what is shaping up bto be the ugliest campaign in history. You gotta love it, noM
And no I do not pay anything but sales tx down here. Florida does not have a state income tax and I am still an Indiana resident. How come Mitch Daniels doesn't propose mandatory and random piss testing of our Hoosier state workers? Could it be that he recognizes the unconstitutionality of it all? Stay legal now dude, no puffin on that weed now. You know they want to enforce your servitude. Hey, I hear your exalted oil cos. Are payintg big dolla to the proletariats up in ND. Frankly, I. Resent the tax breaks they get and the money they throw around affects my. Pocketbook at the pump. Do they randomly bpiss test? Evcerybody knows how to get around the pre-employment impositions on their quite personal freedoms.
ReplyDeleteAllen West has been exactly correct about everything he's said.
ReplyDeleteWhether marijuana is legal or not is not one of the twenty most important issues facing America.
Oil companies get the same tax breaks as any other type of manufacturing company.