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News Droppings
It has been a busy week for news already. Some of the highlights (or lowlights):
USFS Chief Gail Kimbell proffered an excuse for soaring fire costs and her agency’s failure to do a Congressionally ordered analysis of the nation’s aerial firefighting program following fatal crashes of planes working on wildfires: “We are a nation at war, and we’re a nation with a huge budget deficit.” [here].
Pretty cheesy. We can’t do our job because the nation is at war. It could be the war that Kimbell is talking about is the one the USFS is waging on forests and landowners throughout the West. Her agency did find $54 million to spend on conservation easements to stop homebuilding on private land. It “saved” the taxpayers money by curtailing private property rights and resident stewardship of the land in favor of holocaust megafires.
Weyerhaeuser was busted in another anti-trust case. A Portland jury on Monday ordered Weyerhaeuser to pay almost $28 million for unlawfully monopolizing the market for finished alder lumber [here].
U.S. Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey was in Missoula on Monday to answer questions about controversial secret meetings between the U.S. Forest Service and the Plum Creek Timber Company. Plum Creek is the country’s largest private landowner, with 8 million acres nationwide and 1.2 million acres in Montana [here].
More gravy for the Big Potato. Maybe Mark doesn’t realize that we’re a nation at war.
In wildlife news, a rabies outbreak is plaguing the Southwest. A rabid bobcat attacked two hikers, who had to kill it with a hammer [here]. Lesson: never go hiking without a hammer. For more rabies news see Wolf Crossing [here].
Speaking of disease-carrying animals, twelve “environmental” groups have sued to halt wolf delisting [here]. Nuff said.
On the climate front, the founder of the National Hurricane Center is being forced out for his failure to buy into Algore’s Inconvenient Lie [here]. Naughty, naughty. Here come the PC police.
And finally Friends of the Earth have been blamed for starving millions of poor to death after spreading ugly rumors about American food aid to Africa [here]. Guess that’s one way to deal with the overpopulation problem. Pin a medal on FOE.
Lovely news. Going outside now. Had my fill of it. If there were some way to dig the news into my garden, I’m sure I could grow pumpkins the size of Volkswagens. For big punkins, it’s all about the bull …
by Joe B.
Human caused Global Warming, climate change is the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind. It’s a collection of studies and a theory so bogus a toddler could debunk it out of hand, yet, it persists because the jackasses label intelligent people who can think for themselves as deniers, a direct insult meant to conjure up subconscious images of Germans who denied the Holocaust, something that did actually happen, as opposed to a damn fad of SUVs causing cute and cuddly death machines to run out of ice in the north pole.
I challenge Algore to a debate, but I require the world’s biggest cry baby to debate me, my facts against his lies, I’ll kick his sore loser ass so bad he’ll wish his daddy was around to shove a silver spoon in his mouth again.
But I have to give the man credit, he sells a fraud and makes millions off of even dumber people who are guilt ridden because of their success. But not so guilt ridden that they wouldn’t participate in a scam where they pay for carbon credits to ensure poor kids never improve the quality of their life.
I cannot imagine a time when the earth had more dumbasses and scam artists living together in some sick symbiotic relationship, where the scam artists suck the life out of the dumbasses and the grotesquely ignorant while the latter groups applaud the former.
I had an old teacher who used to say stupidity is its own punishment. That no longer applies, STUPIDITY SHOULD BE PUNISHED.
I’m sorry but I don’t have anymore time to waste on a damn secular religion because you’ve grown up to find your liberal, godless lives wanting.
Oh man, outside it’s 40 and hailing!!!
One more news tidbit, this one thankfully smacking of rational thought. From the local rag: