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Gary
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Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dick Pearl? Now there's a name ripe with possibilities.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Do you really think the Republicans have your best interest in mind?
WASHINGTON — In a sharp challenge to the Obama administration, House Republicans intend to unveil legislation Wednesday to ban the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act and expect to advance the bill quickly, officials disclosed Tuesday night.
The officials said the bill would nullify all of the steps the EPA has taken to date on the issue, including a threshold finding that greenhouse gases constitute a danger to the public health and welfare.
I find this deplorable.
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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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The House of Representatives, now controlled by Republicans, is a perfect example of grandstanding without responsibility or accountability. For the next 18 months, urged by the tea party zealots, they can say and do whatever they think will appeal to their "base". It's largely irrelevant, in that little will get past the Senate let alone the President. Cheap theatre. It may be entertaining to watch as the radicals gradually come to realize that they're not in charge, and in fact have made little real change apart from wind. And as the extremists realize that the voters will hold them accountable for their obstructionism.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Indeed Locker, how anybody can think the Repugs are in it for the People after this, well they just have to be dumb as bat shit:
Here's the HuffPo link: [url="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/01/house-gop-epa-restrictions_n_817277.html"]
House GOP Readies Severe New Restrictions On EPA[/url]
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shut up and pull
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FROM DENNIS PRAGER, NATIONALLY SYNDICATED TALK SHOW HOST:
February 1, 2011 12:00 A.M.
A ‘Crusade’ for Liberty
Put left-wing speech control in the crosshairs.
The most common left-wing objection to the Right is that it wants to control others’ lives. But in America and elsewhere, the threat to personal liberty has emanated far more often from the left.
In the past generation, the Left has controlled so much speech and behavior that these controls are now assumed to be a normal part of life.
Through the use of public opprobrium, laws, and lawsuits, Americans today are less free than at any time since the abolition of slavery (with the obvious exception of blacks under Jim Crow).
Public opprobrium is known as political correctness and it has suppressed saying anything — no matter how true and no matter how innocent — that offends left-wing sensibilities.
“Merry Christmas” offends leftist views on multi-culturalism, so it’s largely gone.
Honest discussion of male-female differences is also largely gone — a lesson the former president of Harvard, Larry Summers, painfully learned when he simply asked if fewer women succeed in math and science because of innate differences between men and women.
Discussion of disproportionate rates of black violence is not allowed, no matter how well-intentioned — unless it is to “prove” how racist America is because of the high number of black men in prison.
In Europe — and in all likelihood, soon in America — Christians who, citing the Bible, argue for a heterosexual ideal are arrested.
Thanks to the Left, students at colleges get speech codes. They learn early in life that much speech is not permitted.
One may not favorably compare Western or American culture with that of any other. Led by Jesse Jackson, leftists chanted “Hey, hey, ho, ho Western Civ has got to go” at Stanford University. And away it went.
The Left owns the language. Married women are not to be referred to as “Mrs.” but as “Ms.” And the words “lady,” “feminine,” and “masculine” have largely gone to their graves. High-school and college teams with American Indian names must drop those names because, by definition, according to the Left, they offend American Indians.
(This last example has always perplexed me. Why does the name Florida State Seminoles offend Indians? One caller to my radio show once responded to that question by asking me how I would feel as a Jew if some team took the name “Jews.” I told him that I would be thrilled. For nearly 4,000 years, Jews have been looking for fans.)
Back to leftist controls on speech: One can only speak of male-female differences if the difference shows the female as superior. Thus, to say women are innately more intuitive is perfectly acceptable but to say men are innately more likely to excel at math is “sexist.”
A woman may reveal as much of her body as she wishes. But if a man is perceived by a woman as looking too long at what she reveals, or if he comments on what she reveals, he may be fired from his job or sued for “sexual harassment.” A woman may wear a miniskirt and crop-top, but a man may not have a calendar of women wearing miniskirts and crop-tops on his desk at work. That constitutes sexual harassment and a “hostile work environment.”
Graphic torture and frontal nudity may be shown on screen, but smoking cigars or cigarettes may not. A Churchill museum in London has removed the cigars from wartime Churchill photographs, FDR has had his ubiquitous cigarette holder removed from his photographs, and the cigarettes have been removed from the Beatles’ hands in the famous photo of them crossing Abbey Road.
The list of forbidden words and behaviors due to leftist activism is quite extensive.
The latest example is the Left’s war on any words or images that come from the worlds of war or of guns.
Already, “crusade” has been removed from Americans’ vocabulary — lest it offend Muslims. Overnight, the Left effectively banned the use of a perfectly legitimate word that usually described an admirable preoccupation with doing good: “that newspaper is on an anti-corruption crusade.”
Now, the Left has announced that words such as “target” and “crosshairs” are offensive — on the idiotic pretense that such imagery causes people to murder. If I were the CEO of Target stores, I would be concerned. Will my company be sued because of its name and logo?
Will the word “war” be next? Perhaps “war on poverty” caused murder. And how about “war on cancer” — only God knows how much killing that caused. Perhaps we should now say “project to eliminate cancer.” But, then again, doesn’t “eliminate” have genocidal overtones?
It was understandable but mistaken for Sarah Palin to take down her map of congressional districts in crosshairs. There was absolutely nothing wrong with that map. Only the totalitarian Left argues that it caused the murders in Tucson or anywhere else.
So what’s the answer?
If you love liberty, you must target the Left and put its totalitarian tendencies in your crosshairs. We must shoot down political correctness and wage a crusade for truth and liberty. All those ladies and gentlemen who cherish personal and societal freedom must fight like great Indian chiefs, braving secondhand smoke if need be, in affirming a masculinity that has been under relentless attack. And yes, we must even endure the taunts of our foes and, at the appropriate time of the year, wish fellow Americans a “Merry Christmas.”
Then, and only then, will we be able to vanquish lies, defeat the foes of liberty, and once again proudly sing a national anthem that affirms that “the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.”
If we don’t, that line in “The Star-Spangled Banner” will go the way of “Merry Christmas.”
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Problem number one:
Can't read
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Locker, the Republicans are in a tight spot.
Their party is fractured in a way that has not happened in 30+ years, with the tea party movement a serious threat.
By far their best move would have been to consolidate around defense, jobs, economic growth.
Instead, they have had to do all this symbolic stuff that will go nowhere.
In fact, the anti-abortion actions and anti-clean air actions will do a lot to mobilize the liberal base for the next election.
This is a stunning action, which could have a dramatic impact on the election results. The democrats could win back the house.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Caribou Barbie and the Tea Party:
Two gifts to the Democrats that will keep on giving.
RUN SARAH RUN
Palin/Fattrad in 2012
PLEASE
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Here in California, the Republicans are on a suicide watch.
Gov Brown has actually come up with a plan for a budget which balances, which actually involves NO NEW taxes, only extension of current taxes, deep cuts across the budget, sparing only k-12 education, and polling shows this is supported by the electorate!
It will require a vote of the people to extend the temporary taxes that are expiring. This will require an election for that purpose, and the legislature must approve it, which requires a 2/3 vote. At least 4 Repubs must vote to place the extention on the ballot, for people to vote on.
At this point, ALL Repubs refuse to allow voters to vote on the issue!
Let me repeat that: The Republicans refuse to allow voters to vote on the issue of extending taxes needed to balance the budget.
The alternative will be DRACONIAN cuts in state spending, including to k-12 education, which polling clearly shows that NOBODY wants.
The proposed cuts are deep, cross all party interests, appear to have been fairly applied, and are going to hurt a lot of people. Failure to approve the tax extensions will result in further cuts that will be terrible.
Jerry Brown is coming off as a real champion, here. Whatever happens that is bad, is going to be on the necks of the GOP, and they are not going to get that off their table for a long, long time.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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We don't need no big government passing laws that limit profits.
Bottom line.
Seat belts, good example, this has cost auto manufacturers millions to install.
Money that could have been given to the majority shareholders instead.
And who needs Environmental Protection anyhow?
We don't need no "Nanny State" looking out for our interests.
You libs just don't get it. Greed is good. If you further enrich the already rich, they
are more likely to buy more homes and employ more gardeners and maids.
It's all about job creation. Libs just don't understand how to stimulate the economy.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Sorry Locker, I'm under the gun at work, and it's Letter of Intent day for football fans, so I have very little time to respond, and no time to stick around.
The regulation of carbon emissions is a political question because it has severe economic consequences. I see nothing wrong with putting that decision in the hands of elected officials, rather than unelected bureaucrats and courts.
John
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Come on over, Locker!
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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It's a GUD thing Locker.
The EPA was trying to ban CO2
No CO2
no bud.
And they could fine you for burnin it and producing more CO2
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dr. F is spot on!
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shut up and pull
climber
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FROM INSTAPUNDIT:
ANN ALTHOUSE: “When Did The Left Turn Against Free Speech?” When they started losing the debate. “Free speech was only ever a means to an end. When they got their free speech, made their arguments, and failed to win over the American people, and when in fact the speech from their opponents seemed too successful, they switched to the repression of speech, because the end was never freedom.” Nope. It was always about control.
Plus, from the comments: “I think the reason the Left so often opposes free speech now is that they have victoriously marched through the institutions and are now in control. And those in control don’t care for there to be further discussion that might threaten their power. Those who are not in power are the ones who want free speech.”
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Harrison Schmitt is a bona fide scientist, and holds a Ph.D. in geology. And a long ago one term senator. Although he might have gone crackers since he walked on the Moon in 1972 - he can't be much short of 80.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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hope all four of you are having fun
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