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Green, You're a Hog
Townhall.com ^ | July 7, 2011 | Bob Beauprez

Posted on 07/07/2011 5:16:02 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 07/07/2011 5:16:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Like the raging wild boar, nothing will stop the Green movement short of blood. It certainly can't be stopped in the political arena.

Even after all countries have been ground into bankruptcy, the Green movement will be the first to start up with state blessing in a 'revamped' government.

2 posted on 07/07/2011 5:30:04 AM PDT by deadrock
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To: Kaslin

It has absolutely nothing to do with the enviroment, it’s all about control. If you control the energy production, you control the population. That’s their end-game, and as of late, they seem to be ramping up for something, judging by their actions.


3 posted on 07/07/2011 5:30:27 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Kaslin

http://bobbeauprez.com/about/

About Bob Beauprez (the author of the article)

Former Congressman Bob BeauprezBob Beauprez is a Colorado native. He was raised on a third generation dairy farm near Lafayette, and spent 20 years in partnership with his parents and brother in that operation marketing their animals across the globe. Following the dairy career, Bob purchased and managed a community bank growing assets from 4 to over 400 million in 12 years. Additionally, he managed the family’s real estate development creating a 1500 residential unit golf course community.

In 2002, Bob was elected as the first representative from Colorado’s seventh congressional district, and re-elected in 2004. While in Congress, he served on the Ways & Means, Transportation, and Veterans Committees. He was the Republican nominee for Governor in 2006.

Most recently, Bob has published his first book, A Return to Values ( http://areturntovalues.com/ ), and is editor-in-chief of an e-magazine, A Line of Sight ( http://alineofsight.com/ ). But, his greatest enjoyment comes from his buffalo breeding ranch in the northern Colorado Mountains where he and his wife of 40 years love to spend time with their four children and three grandchildren.


4 posted on 07/07/2011 5:33:40 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: DEADROCK

To use the game metaphor, it’s time to let loose the Angry Birds.


5 posted on 07/07/2011 5:33:42 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: factoryrat

socialism, socialism, glorious godless socialism!

i found it hard to swallow that this was truly the overarching principle of Obama, but what else could move his administration to diss several religions and a delicately strategic ally with the recent State Department gay fete in Pakistan? He can’t brook ANY rival that hails from beyond this mortal coil.


6 posted on 07/07/2011 5:37:39 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Kaslin

The “Green” movement stopped being about the environment a long time ago. I do believe that it once was populated by people who genuinely do care about the environment, but that it was hijacked by socialists who are frustrated that people won’t just accept socialism on its merits.

If they really cared about the environment, you would see them writing articles about cost/benefit/risk analyses of all the various energies. But they don’t. Their only “solution” for everything is to stop allowing it.


7 posted on 07/07/2011 5:43:57 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: Kaslin

Look at ethanol. Even 90/10 has about 54 cents a gallon in federal subsidies. The more ethanol per gallon the more the fed subsidy. This drives up the cost of corn and corn products.


8 posted on 07/07/2011 5:44:15 AM PDT by Lumper20
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To: HiTech RedNeck

IHMO, obama is way beyond socialism. His actions to date seem to be right out of the playbook of a former German “community organizer” from back in the day. He’s more fascist than socialist.


9 posted on 07/07/2011 5:51:16 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Kaslin
Re point #3 (Renewable Energy Sources Require Vast Amounts of Natural Resources), the author could have made a better case using the report from Per F. Peterson at UC Berkeley, March 2, 2009 titled Status and Progress for the Pebble-Bed Advanced High Temperature Reactor. Not that it would make any difference because as many have pointed out it is NOT about creating reliable, abundant and low-cost energy supplies upon which we can grow and prosper.

Here's the key slide from the presentation:


10 posted on 07/07/2011 5:58:42 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Kaslin
Green? Hog?


11 posted on 07/07/2011 6:00:36 AM PDT by ctdonath2
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To: Kaslin

You should also read this:

http://alineofsight.com/policy/greatest-generation

“The Greatest Generation”

June 20, 2011 | By Bob Beauprez


12 posted on 07/07/2011 6:10:47 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: factoryrat

What puzzles me is, to what ultimate end does Obama aspire. If he can be said to aspire. Maybe as you suggested it’s just his private ideas of what society all over the world should be like and he wants to be the nanny in chief of that? Like Bloomberg writ larger and with a (D) by his name? Even Joe Biden, the willing village idiot, could come up with better ideas than that. If this is fascism, he weaves a pretty weak fasces. It seems to follow a recipe for coming apart at the seams, not cohering.


13 posted on 07/07/2011 6:12:24 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Texas Fossil

Great article. Thanks for the link


14 posted on 07/07/2011 6:17:26 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: exDemMom
Their only “solution” for everything is to stop allowing it.

Absolutely correct. They don't want business impact on the environment to be reduced; they want it eliminated. They want a significantly smaller population on this planet; they want us living in caves, like animals...forever foraging and grubbing for scraps of food from wherever we might find it. The green movement is not progressive; it's the exact opposite. It's anti-Progress.

15 posted on 07/07/2011 6:25:55 AM PDT by Lou L (The Senate without a fillibuster is just a 100-member version of the House.)
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To: Lumper20

Here in Iowa, we subsidize ethanol to the point that it is cheaper (about $0.10 per gallon) than everything else. I quit using it years ago. My ‘sensitive’ car could tell when I put ethanol in the tank - the ‘check engine’ light came on about 10 minutes into a fill with ethanol. Then it took about 4 tanks of ‘good’ gas for the light to go off.

I have tried telling folks that it is cheaper not to save the 10 cents at the pump - you pay for it in taxes...but no one listens.


16 posted on 07/07/2011 6:32:08 AM PDT by LearnsFromMistakes (Yes, I am happy to see you. But that IS a gun in my pocket.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Maybe he aspires to be a dictator, or a president for life, or whatever his third-world upbringing has instilled in his head. Maybe he interpreted the signals from the leftists in this country wrong, and they prefer some european socialism vs. hard core fascism. Or he could just be a total idiot. Judging by his end run around the Constitution by means of all of the alphabet soup agencies, he does have a plan and he’s trying like hell to implement it. Either way, this guy has to go.


17 posted on 07/07/2011 7:01:02 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: factoryrat

With that “Dreams Of My Father” schtick, maybe he’s thinking his dad’s game in Kenya will somehow import well into the USA. Of course it won’t, but it is a recipe for weakness and chaos.


18 posted on 07/07/2011 7:12:57 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yeah, tribal-feudalism doesn’t sit well with most Americans.


19 posted on 07/07/2011 7:31:27 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Kaslin

Unintended Consequences.

Biofuels. = High food prices.
Windmills.= Killing Birds and eagles, noise
High maintenance expensive,
Solar. = Doesn’t put out enough current to mak
it worth while, who is going to clean
all of those panels, What harm is done
to the environment by reflecting all
that sun? Do we know?

Battery powered cars. = Cost to build and get rid of the battery’s, where does the electricity to charge them come from if we close coal plants. Small , big family’s cannot use them. Etc.


20 posted on 07/07/2011 8:00:05 AM PDT by Venturer
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