First! ("When incompetence is no longer believable")

The Virginian ^ | 7/3/2010 | Moneyrunner

[moneyrunner]

I love it!

When I wrote this essay: Does EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Want to Kill White Americans? (When incompetence is not longer believable) I was concerned about being too outrageous, knowing I would certainly be accused or racism and spinning tin-foil-hat conspiracy theories.

So I was surprised, hell I was overjoyed, to find others – people with much bigger reputations than mine like Paul Rubin writing in the Wall Street Journal, and Paul Driessen at Townhall.com who were coming to the same conclusion.

Here's one man's experience when he went to the Gulf coast to help:

[Eaker]

So what if he’s ‘pimping’ his blog?

Rather than posting a legitimate article you like it better when a nobody rewrites it and posts it on their own blog as their work then excerpts it to drive traffic from FR just for meaningless blog hits?

Gotcha.

[humblegunner]

I thought FR was friendly to blogs.

I depends.

If a blogboy writes something on his blog and posts it here
in it's entirety.. good on him. He can link back to his blog
and if he's any good folks will click on his blog and read more.

If he sucks and rips off other folks words or videos and just
posts a teaser and makes folks visit his virus-laden blog to
access the content.. he is being a pimp. Pimps are bad.

[Stultis]

This blogger fails to give a source or link for the commentary of the would-be bioremediator he quotes.

I found it, posted as a comment to Paul Driessen's column, Obama's Deliberate Katrina, at Town Hall.

Here is the full comment. Note that the writer identifies himself at the end of his comments -- HOPEFULLY SOMEONE AT FOXNEWS WILL BE CONTACTING HIM -- although the blogger again strangely did not include this id:

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I am just back from Florida, where I spent a week helping Advanced BiofermentationTM Services (ABS) Inc., wade through federal documents, specifically, the EPA Regional IV Response Team - Approval for Bioremediation Use Guidelines. It will take a great miracle to instigate any clean-up of the beaches and marshes on the Gulf Coast. This is not because the technology does not exist, or man-power, or ready equipment. It is not due to the impossible magnitude of the oil spill. No, it is the massive, mind-bending bog of paperwork created by the bureaucrats that will destroy any progress forward.

To use Biotechnology, first, the "agent" (microbe culture) must be identified, tested, approved, and listed on the National Contingency Plan (NCP) Product Schedule, before being considered for a Bioremediation Use Approval Form (BUAF), which a State/ City / County must submit to the EPA for approval, in order to use microbes in a clean-up. The EPA and State agencies admit in their own documents that they have not yet written requirements or policies regarding bioremediation - other than "it must be used in combination with other methods, unless the other methods (physical / chemical) are not capable of meeting the demand of the cleanup (iow - the spill is too damn big).

Unfortunately, knowing which microbes will be most effective cannot be determined until they are applied. The ABS Inc. method of biofermentationTM uses indigenous oil-eating microbes which they can safely grow on-site by the tons daily, and inject / apply to contaminated water surfaces, beaches and marshes, accelerating long-term, safe, clean-up. More unfortunately, these microbes haven't been listed on the NCP Product Schedule. We submitted the completed requirements to for approval of our “agent”, under the title “miscellaneous oil-eating microbes” – a government term – and just received a further delay of a 28 day test requirement! The government may or may not then give approval for listing on the NCP Product Schedule, but they have 60 days to let us know (which I can attest they will take). If not, we start over again, and wait another 60 days. Meanwhile, the oil does its damage.

Also, a Bioremediation Work Plan and a Bioremediation Monitoring Plan must be written and reviewed for each area, before the BUAF will be accepted. My job was to try and simplify this process for the Vender and the Applicant (City / County). Once the application is submitted, the applicants are at the mercy of whoever receives / processes their paperwork. That person is likely out eating donuts with the local Code Enforcement Officer!

Obama's call to action was to form a Commission to study the cause of the spill. Unbelievable!

I hope blowing my vacation on paperwork, and the money ABS, Inc. spent to fly me down, was not in vain. People often give up during the approval process, and by the time they finally get approval, the damage is done.

Obama is proving his incompetence daily. To borrow a line from Dick Morris, “The obvious fact is that Obama has no executive experience, and neither do any of his top advisors. Without a clear mandate from the top, needed efforts to salvage the situation on the Gulf coast are repeatedly stymied by well meaning bureaucrats strictly following the letter of their agency policy and federal law. The result, ironically, of their determined efforts to protect the environment has been the greatest environmental disaster in history.”

I am an Environmental Investigator for the State of Texas, and can tell you without exception that Mr. Morris is right on!

“The condition for a miracle is difficulty; however, the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.” - Angus Buchan

[moneyrunner]

Actually, my blog post has a direct link to Driessen’s article. Please stop lying to Freepers.

Regards.

Moneyrunner

[Stultis]

O.K. I see that now.

But there is no INDICATION of that.

It’s just that you never mention the passage you quote is from a comment to Driessen’s article. One has no way of knowing that from your blog post. I found the comment by googling.

[Marie]

*sigh*

I liked the article, mr. (I especially enjoyed the cartoon!)

It was a worthy read and I don’t care who wrote it.

[SunkenCiv]

Does EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Want to Kill White Americans?

Thanks moneyrunner.

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[moneyrunner]

My post has lots of links. It's easy to see the links because they are underlined and in a different color. It's the way most bloggers do it. How do you show links?

By the way, if the headline of an article I post on my blog is underlined it means that the headline is a link to another article. That's the convention I use on my blog. It's fairly simple and people who read my blog understand it. Almost none of my posts are link less because I believe in crediting others for their ideas. I just don't point and say HERE because people who read me are knowledgeable about link conventions.

As a side-note, I tried to find a way of linking to the comment we both cited but I was unable to find a way of linking just to that comment. It does not seem to be possible to link to specific comments at Townhall.com. If you know of a way, I would be happy if you would show me. Regards.

[Stultis]

Again. You did not in any way, even indirectly, indicate where the comment came from. There is no way for anyone simply reading your blog post to know the quote was from a comment to one of the articles you linked, or, if so, which one. I only found it, not through any of your links, but be googling a phrase from the quote.

This is all I'm saying.

[humblegunner]

If you know of a way, I would be happy if you would show me.

Here's one: Stop blogpimping.

Come up with your own content and post it in it's entirety.

Ya pimp.

[moneyrunner]

Let's see, I link to the WSJ article by Paul Rubin and to the Townhall.com article by Paul Driessen, naming both of them by name and you tell me that I'm not giving enough information?

It's the way things are done throughout the Internet. Check out Instapundit, PowerLine, Ace of Spades, Belmont Club, Etc. Etc. Etc. These are some of the most popular Conservative bloggers in the country. They all do the same thing. That's why I do what I do.

Did you bother to click on the links in my post? Did you read them? Did you check the comments?

As I explained, I tried but did not find a way of linking to the comments in the Driessen essay. I'm still waiting for someone to show me how to create a link to a Townhall.com comment.

I then go on to quote most of the comment. If you will note, the quote is indented and in blue, the way I show that I'm quoting someone else. It's a convention I follow in all my posts. It's a convention most other bloggers follow.

Regards.

[moneyrunner]

Thanks. Hundreds of others also did; lots of the Freepers like yourself. And lots of it was me. Here's a link to the essay that began it all. Thanks again. Regards.

[moneyrunner]

Thanks. FR is friendly to blogs. Some of the people here have decided to form a posse and try to drive bloggers away. That's unfortunate because bloggers are some of the most important parts of the “new media.”

Regards.

[moneyrunner]

I have wondered if Obama might not be the best thing that could have come from the last election.
(1)McCain was not elected and the economic problems are not Republicans' fault.
(2)Palin is becoming a political force to be reckoned with. It's not something that would have been possible if she had been VP.
(3)We may be able to clean up Washington better than we think; and
(4)may have just inoculated Americans against bigger government.

[moneyrunner]

Thanks. I assume that means “yes.”

[moneyrunner]

It is entirely possible that some foreign governments might decide to clean up some of the mess, on their own!

I would welcome that. The people down there are suffering and it's going to get worse.

[moneyrunner]

Vote in November. Drive your friends to the polls. Tell your kids to register and vote. The future of the country is at stake.

[PA Engineer]

STALIN IN DRAG!

[Stultis]

Let's see, I link to the WSJ article by Paul Rubin and to the Townhall.com article by Paul Driessen, naming both of them by name and you tell me that I'm not giving enough information?

It's the way things are done throughout the Internet. [...]

As I explained, I tried but did not find a way of linking to the comments in the Driessen essay. [...]

I then go on to quote most of the comment. If you will note, the quote is indented and in blue, the way I show that I'm quoting someone else. [...]

I really don't understand why you're having so much trouble understanding what I am saying.

Yes. It was clear you were quoting that material -- from somewhere. I never suggested otherwise.

The problem was you never indicated where the quote came from. Get it? The issue is not that you failed to link to the comment directly. The issue is that you failed to introduce the quote by writing something like:

"Here's a stunning revelation from one of the commentors at Town Hall!"

Or whatever. A simple oversight. Not a huge deal. Just made your blogpost a little confusing is all.

[Stultis]

Some of the people here have decided to form a posse and try to drive bloggers away.

I'm not one of them, btw. I think that was a great find, and am glad you brought it to our attention.

However...(next post)