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Avoiding slam fires |
Good read,finally common sense has been appointed | |||
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Staring back from the abyss |
His sights are set just a few blocks to the east of the Department of the Interior. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Mired in the Fog of Lucidity |
Sounds like my kind of pragmatist. | |||
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Had the pleasure of meeting him and his staff and toured the Interior Department. Things are looking up with guys like him in D.C. | |||
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He is an Eagle Scout so he loves and respects the outdoors. Retired SEAL, he can deal with those who don't. | |||
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I believe in the principle of Due Process |
He was born and raised in Montana. That's all they have there. Outdoors, I mean. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
Secretary Zinke is looking like one of President Trump's best picks. Serious about crackers | |||
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Can we get a Cabinet full of Zinke's ? This guy is great. | |||
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I believe in the principle of Due Process |
A watchdog group asked the Interior Department's inspector general on Friday to investigate whether Secretary Ryan Zinke violated the law by chartering private planes for purposes that may represent conflicts of interest. The Campaign for Accountability, a watchdog group focused on public accountability, asked both the Interior Department's Office of Special Counsel and the inspector general to investigate whether Zinke violated conflict of interest laws and the Hatch Act by using private charter flights to travel for public speaking events, including addressing professional sports teams, as part of his official duties. "Interior argues that by speaking to a group of highly paid – mostly foreign – athletes, Sec. Zinke was reaching ‘a key audience of people we are trying to target to use our public lands,'" said Daniel Stevens, the group's executive director. "Shouldn't Sec. Zinke be more focused on American families and how they can benefit from our national lands? Rather than putting America first, Zinke is putting a top donor first," said Stevens. An agency inspector general office tends to take requests for investigations seriously, and will tell the group whether or not it will procede with an investigation within a specified timeframe. Politico first reported on Thursday that Zinke chartered private and miltary transport planes at a cost of $12,000. The news broke after Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt was found to have spent $58,000 on private flights. But that is next to nothing when compared to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price who spent about $1 million in military and private flights. Price resigned on Friday over the allegations. Cabinet secretaries are required to use commercial airlines for travel, with restrictions on the use of private charter flights and military transportation. Zinke on Friday called the dust up over the flights "a little B.S.," but that was before Price resigned. The watchdog group pointed out that the Washington Post reported on Thursday that Zinke had taken a private charter plane in June following a "motivational speech" to the Vegas Golden Knights, a National Hockey League team based in Las Vegas, Nev. The team is owned by Bill Foley, the chairman of Fidelity National Financial, which had been a campaign contributor to Zinke's two congressional races when he served in the House. "In addition, Fidelity National Financial and affiliates donated $1 million to President Trump's inaugural committee," according to the group. The group argues that Zinke's trip to Las Vegas to speak to the team, "whose owner has been a major benefactor to both Mr. Zinke and President Trump, seems to be a special favor provided to a major political supporter, in violation of conflict of interest laws." It added that Zinke's motivational speech may also be considered a "prohibited political activity under the Hatch Act, which bars executive branch employees from engaging in political activity while on duty." Link Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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The 'Yep' sign is a wood plank with the outline of Montana as the background. Yep and other outdoor scenes are carved by a local man who is a lawyer for our Justice Dept. He also has the old go cups we used to buy produced with 'Yep'. Jon and his wife also have a series of children's books about the life of 'Jack Pants'. Their son was born very premature and has some physical issues. You can find them on FaceBook I think. | |||
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I liked this guy ever since he showed up for work on horseback. He's mainly been in the background, although I'm not a big follower of the news, so I may be wrong. Although I agree completely with his statement that "I’ve only ever thought there are two things our government should fund absolutely: our military and our parks system", the second half of it can't be supported by the constitution. Doesn't matter, I agree with it 100%. (It reminds me of a statement I heard attributed to Bill Clinton, that we all agree we need government, the big question is how much. A very wise observation.) I do disagree with his position on shrinking Grand Staircase/ Escalante and Bear's Ears. However, in fairness, I'm a desert rat, and would love to see as much of the desert southwest preserved as possible. If it were open to "development", I'm afraid of what would happen - see the "is government corrupt" thread for my fears. On the other hand, oil and gas development has put roads in that open up more remote areas, to those that aren't afraid to travel them. So you know where I'm coming from, I consider myself an avid outdoorsman, more in the flavor of REI than Cabelas (i.e., a "tree hugger"). Yes, I'm conflicted.... Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. - Dave Barry "Never go through life saying 'I should have'..." - quote from the 9/11 Boatlift Story (thanks, sdy for posting it) | |||
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Good except for the fracking. I highly suspect that with fracking underground aquifers will eventually be contaminated. I would leave fracking alone unless we were in an emergency, such as really running out of oil. Somewhere in I believe in SoCal, some frackers dumped waste fracking water into an location that was illegal. It totally contaminated a large aquifer and ruined the water. The few and possibly elite saved a few dollars, and the public terrible taken advantage of. People get greedy, and a certain percentage of them are going to dump their waste water where they should not. Contaminating your drinking water with oil, can't get much worse than that. -c1steve | |||
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Ubique |
Illegally disposing of waste water is not confined to frackers. Do you think gold mines, smelters, manufacters and other water users should be similarly banned? Calgary Shooting Centre | |||
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Okay, good point. However I still think we should hold off on fracking until needed. If one day the world starts running out of oil, we may need to obtain it from any source possible. Hard to pump oil is like money in a savings account. Oil supply is great now, but no one knows how long it will last. -c1steve | |||
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Ubique |
Are you old enough to remember peak oil? We were going to run out of oil in the '90s. Reserves are larger than ever now. Fracking is safe if done properly and North American production is heavily regulated, not so for much of the rest of the world. Furthermore, less money for the crazies in the middle east, or Venezuela or Russia is always a good thing. Calgary Shooting Centre | |||
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I believe in the principle of Due Process |
The world supply of petroleum was going to be exhausted in 1996, according to the forecast I saw as a youth. That dissuaded me from going into the awl biness. It has also made me aware of the disparity between forecasts and reality. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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