Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
I’m linking because I want to keep track of when this happens. It so seldom does. There are very, very few syndicates, coteries or factions that are told to go off somewhere and stick it, less often than the environmentalists. Their ideas turn out to be bad ones…they turn out to be worse…they turn out to destroy jobs and houses and families and humans…then they turn out to be awful. Still, anyone elected or appointed whose judgment is trusted on issues that really matter, caves in to the environmentalists.
Well, not this time.
Honoring a tradition that dates at least to the Reagan administration, [President George W.] Bush is pushing through a bundle of controversial last-minute changes in federal rules — many of them involving the environment, national parks and public lands in the West.
President Clinton used his final weeks and months in office to strengthen a host of environmental rules and lock up federal lands with wilderness and other protective designations. Bush is using the same window of opportunity to open wilderness for oil and gas drilling, and to loosen safeguards for air, water and wildlife.
In recent days, the Bush administration announced new rules to speed oil shale development across 2 million rocky acres in the West. It scheduled an auction for drilling rights alongside three national parks. It has also set in motion processes to finalize major changes in endangered species protection, allow more mining waste to flow into rivers and streams, and exempt factory farms from air pollution reporting.
Researchers who track “midnight regulations” say Bush pushed 53 of them through the federal Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the last three weeks, nearly double the pace of Clinton at this point in his final year.
Yeah, and this will make people hate him MORE. And kids will cry when they find arsenic in their drinking water.
The regulations Bush is overturning — these do not clean the environment. These regulations obstruct business. That is what they are for, and that is the effect they have. Our tradition is to gum up the works with all of these kinds of anti-business regulations, as many as we can afford to have — plus just a few more.
It’s a great time to roll some of ’em back.
We know the modern enviornmental movement is hostile to private-sector commerce. We know modern socialism has worn environmentalism as a convenient disguise. We know it’s quite often that true environmental protection, and success for the businesses, share interests that are overlapping and not oppositional — and when that happens, what we today call “environmentalism” opposes them both. We know these things. They’ve been proven.
And we know the modern environmental movement’s public-relations techniques work exceptionally well. Better than anyone else’s. Of all the destroyers who crank away on the P.R. machine, laboring tirelessly to convince the public that they’re really preservers and not destroyers, the destroyers who are environmentalists succeed at this more impressively than anyone else. Business after business fails under the crushing heel of their draconian regulations, and they still get to pump out more. Nobody ever tells ’em to stick it. Ever.
So I’m sure this feels like quite a poke in the eye. To them.
That doesn’t mean that’s what this is. It’s simple opposition. Things signed in to law that you happen to not like. Get used to it, environmentalists. Everyone else has to…and some of the people who’ve learned to tolerate this from time to time, actually build things and make life better for people. It’s about time you got some o’ yours coming.
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