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What We Need Here Is More Sand
MOTUS A.D. ^ | 8-17-17 | MOTUS

Posted on 08/18/2017 5:32:20 AM PDT by NOBO2012

THINGS WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER: Nature

Consider this update on the cottage-eating sand dune near Lake Michigan that I reported on last month

silver lake sand duneThe cottage the sand dune swallowed in April, left, the threatened cottage, right.

Man may not be able to dictate to mother nature, but government sure can. From the Detroit Free Press:

Now, the state of Michigan has ordered the Dresslers to stop their latest effort to save the remaining summer home from destruction: The sand is protected as a "critical dune area," so trucking it away is forbidden.

"They're killing us," said David Dressler, 58. "I'm so pissed off right now, I'm beyond words." 

I’ll bet the Dresslers aren’t nearly as upset with Trump pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord as they are with the Michigan DNR’s mandate which places the sand’s right to march ahead of the security of their property. I suspect the State is attempting to find a way to make the Dressler family and other property owners pay for a sand-abatement program.

reagan“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” – Ronald Reagan

THINGS WE CAN CONTROL: Immigration.

I apologize if this makes me seem callous towards the recent Islamic terrorist attack in Barcelona but how many acts of barbaric savagery must we obsess over before Western civilization decides to do something rational to stop it?

dune3

Under the circumstances continued immigration would be like Silver Lake residents hauling in additional sand to augment their dunes.

Posted from: MOTUS A.D.


TOPICS: Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: environment; globalwarming; regulation; ronaldreagan

1 posted on 08/18/2017 5:32:20 AM PDT by NOBO2012
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To: NOBO2012

i would jack the house up... put it on stilts.

til it set atop the sand dune and done.


2 posted on 08/18/2017 5:35:22 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: teeman8r

Sell it to a cement company.


3 posted on 08/18/2017 5:47:51 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
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To: NOBO2012

Looking at that picture I’d say that whatever steps they’re taking to stop the dune are going to prove futile. So all they’re doing is wasting their effort trying to save it.


4 posted on 08/18/2017 5:52:20 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: NOBO2012

"Stop, thief!"

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5 posted on 08/18/2017 5:55:00 AM PDT by moovova
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To: DoodleDawg

It would seem to me since the dune is really like a (very) slow moving storm, an “act of God”...and one the state won’t even allow preparation for, or remediation of..... the cottage owners should be able to apply for disaster relief funding.


6 posted on 08/18/2017 6:01:47 AM PDT by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG...)
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To: NOBO2012

If it were my cottage, I’d move it. I can’t believe the owners of that cute little cedar shake cottage didn’t move it to another lot on the lake and instead, just let the dune devour it like that.


7 posted on 08/18/2017 6:06:09 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ("A is A. A thing is what it is." Ayn Rand)
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To: teeman8r

“I would jack the house up... put it on stilts.”

“The good news honey...we saved the house! The bad news? Remember that Stairmaster Exercise Climber you wanted...?”


8 posted on 08/18/2017 6:07:28 AM PDT by moovova
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To: AnalogReigns
It would seem to me since the dune is really like a (very) slow moving storm, an “act of God”...and one the state won’t even allow preparation for, or remediation of..... the cottage owners should be able to apply for disaster relief funding.

I doubt that would work. It's like one of those big sinkholes in Florida that swallows houses. I don't think disaster aid is available for them. Just homeowners insurance.

9 posted on 08/18/2017 6:22:00 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: NOBO2012

Ah yes. The nasty little govt loser bureaucrat getting his jollies by getting revenge on all those evil nasty rotten people who aren’t twisted evil losers like him.


10 posted on 08/18/2017 6:26:52 AM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL - F*** A Bunch Of Liberals)
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Pick your property wisely. Or just go camping.


11 posted on 08/18/2017 6:32:55 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: NOBO2012

The sand is going to win. The State is doing them a favor, though I’m sure that’s not its motivation.


12 posted on 08/18/2017 6:35:36 AM PDT by PLMerite ("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
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To: NOBO2012

The technology used to hydraulically mine gold would handle that in an afternoon. Added bonus would be all the strokes it would induce in regulatory personnel...


13 posted on 08/18/2017 7:18:28 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: NOBO2012

14 posted on 08/18/2017 8:27:33 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: NOBO2012

Meanwhile...

There is THIS story about the worldwide shortage of sand!

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/21/538472671/world-faces-global-sand-shortage


15 posted on 08/18/2017 10:42:26 AM PDT by FlyFisher
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