[NormsRevenge]

Ooops!

Bette Midler smiles as she speaks during a news conference at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, in a Thursday, May 3, 2007 photo. Entertainer Bette Midler is expected to be fined by the state of Hawaii for cutting down more than 230 trees around one of her properties on Kauai. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file)

[dersepp]

I recall she was part of an effort to sue and hold accountable someone on an adjacent property who also felled trees, graded, and dammed up a stream that burst loose and killed a few people. I suppose she thinks she is immune from causing the same problem(s).

[freekitty]

Well, now she will have something to you know what about in her new LV show.

[goldstategop]

You need government permission to remove trees from your own property. That's evident regardless of what I think of Bette Midler's politics.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[macamadamia]

the Compost Queen





"Yes, she was a font of simian kindness."

[DakotaGator]

So! Instead of going through endless paperwork and possible challenges to obtaining a permit Ms. Midler merely pays $6,500.

Looks like she got exactly what she wanted for pocket change.

[scott7278]

"The whole idea with cutting the trees down was with the idea of improving the lot with native species" instead of the nonnative, invasive species that had grown there, Graham said. "It's unfortunate that a mistake was made."

She wanted to bring a native species in that's really non-native instead of having the native, yet somehow non-native species that were already there.

My head hurts.

[taxesareforever]

I know lots of people who would gladly pay $6,500 to whack down trees and build their own road. I’m sure that this hits Bette where it hurts. NOT! Not that I care. To me, people are more important than trees.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"Midler, known for her longtime commitment to the environment, was once known as the Compost Queen and appeared on billboards in Los Angeles advocating green recycling containers are for yard trimmings...."

Lol! Love it when big shot hypocrites get embarrassed!

[Fire_on_High]

LOL I’ll wager she did it expecting a fine and considered it simply the price of doing business.

[Hugin]

"The whole idea with cutting the trees down was with the idea of improving the lot with native species" instead of the nonnative, invasive species that had grown there, Graham said. "It's unfortunate that a mistake was made."

There are no native species in Hawaii. Everything came from somewhere else.

[RichInOC]

“I will nevah forget it, ya knowwwww...Ernie asked me, ‘Soph, why’d ya do it?” And I told him, ‘Ern, don’t complain...that’s more wood than you’ve had in years.’”

[yarddog]

A typical liberal hypocrite doing what she says for us not to do.

As much as I dislike her, I think what she does with her own trees on her property is no one else’s business within reason.

[Polynikes]

“Midler is set to replace Celine Dion as a headline performer at Las Vegas’s renovated Caesars Palace next year.”

I guess Celine has paid off her husbands gambling tab?

[JoeSixPack1]

Hmmmmm... Cut, excavate, build, pay fines, do penance.
OR
Apply for permits get refused, fight city hall, pay lawyers, wait years, change plans, get bored, sell.

Hypocrites are people too!

[Paleo Conservative]

Those are cheap trees, just $28.26 each.

[BurbankKarl]

She is a star, she can do what she wants.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Bette doesn't care about the environment. Who cares if she'll pay the fines? She got caught.

What this says is she is willing to slaughter hundreds of trees--"protected" or not, to make herself more comfortable, to accomodate her desires for her property.

The same thing the liberals she supports would take away from, ahem, the middle class.

[rod1]

Its OK as long as she pays ALGORE a ton of money for carbon offsets.

Then it will be ...nothing to see here ..for the limosine liberals.