Worse than this?
Posted on 01/15/2017 8:06:35 AM PST by rktman
The environmental movement could have a bad year in 2017.
Environmentalists saw their favored political party suffer losses in the 2016 election. Billionaire Tom Steyer was 2016’s biggest political donor, pouring more than $87 million into Democratic coffers — but his preferred candidates lost across the board.
President Barack Obama is leaving office Jan. 20, and President-elect Donald Trump will take his place. Republicans control both chambers of Congress, and have vowed to roll back Obama-era environmental regulations.
That’s bad for environmentalists, but it could be even worse for these seven reasons:
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
We are about 1000 feet above the valley floor and are enjoying a bit more snow in the southwest side of town. It was pathetic this past week, though, after 19 years in DC and having grown up in Alaska in Idaho, to see the school district shutting down and delaying school almost every day because of a couple snowflakes. These were The weather ones, not the political ones, but I guess they’re all driven by the same people.
Us too. Longer term residents are a little disgruntled by some of the newer residents and their lack of coping abilities with a little snow fall. Heck, we came here from FL 5 years ago and did a lot better than some folks. But, we don’t HAVE to be anywhere in particular so we can be choosy if we like about going out. One car is AWD and the other one is a Ram 4x4 so, worry about the other guys driving crazy.
I live about 4 miles north of the Tellico Lake...The delay in closing the dam after the land had been cleared allowed for brush and undergrowth to sprout all over that soon to be flooded land...it created some of the best rabbit hunting land ever...
The claim that creating the lake would ruin trout fishing in the Little Tennessee river was unfounded for trout are still being harvested beneath Chilhowhee Dam at the back of the lake...
On the other hand, you are right that some of the land purchased (not by TVA, but by another organization) was way above the high water mark.
One farmer I knew had to give up 147 acres of his farm...The lake covered about 3 acres...He was ripped off big time...
That’s funny; environmentalists lose, not the environment. At least that Freudian showed what it really is and isn’t about. I’m certain if they got rid of the Dept of Ed they would be worried about teachers and not students.
1.) Trump Will Be The Green Movement’s Worst Nightmare
2.) Environmentalists Themselves Say It’ll Be A Hard Year
3.) All Of Obama’s Green Regulations Can Be Overturned
4.) The EPA Will Likely Stop Listening To Greens
5.) This Is The End Of The Clean Power Plan
6.) The Keystone XL Pipeline Will Likely Be Built
7.) Solar And Wind Power Aren’t Doing Well
Okey dokey. What’s the down side?
Rush had said that the eco movement is where all the commies went after the fall of the USSR.
I can’t remember the name of the private company, but it was something like Tellico Natural Resources Developement Corp.
“How environmental, doncha think?”
Like eaaagggles chopped up in the blades.
or dancing naked and playing enviro charades!
They’re called “watermelons”, green on the outside, red on the inside.
"Republicans control both chambers of Congress, and have vowed to roll back Obama-era environmental regulations."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
If the corrupt, RINO-controlled Congress would read Free Republic then it would know the following. The states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate environmental protections. And the Supreme Court has clarified that power not expressly delegated are prohibited.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So patriots need to support Trump in peacefully “forcing” the corrupt, RINO-controlled Congress to let the states take over environmental issues, or lead the states to amend an environment protection amendment to the Constitution to give the feds the specific power to do so.
And speaking of “environmental” protections …
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist justices off of the bench.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed below.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
There is a world of difference in being an ‘environmentalist’ and ‘a dirt worshiper’!!!
I read that too. They finally get rain, then leave the dams open. They deserve another drought. Idiots.
That’s great! Thank you; I assure you I’ll do my bit to “mainstream” this new expression.
In a “King of the Hill” episode, Khan is ridiculed by a fellow Laotian for turning his back on his Laotian heritage by becoming a “banana” - he has yellow skin, but is white on the inside.
Then there’s “Oreo”, black on the outside, white on the inside.
I remember that term used for mulattos.
I’m still lookin’-——————nope still haven’t found it.
Worse than this?
I do very well as I lived in Loudon County.
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