Posted on 08/26/2007 8:05:12 AM PDT by McLynnan
I wonder about you
Thanks for posting.
Caring about the environment is not the same as being a tree-hugging whacko. The whackos want to ban ALL development, to put us back to pre-historic times.
Responsible people realize that we are biological creatures who need a basic range of conditions to survive. We believe in not wasting resources (isn't efficiency an essential conservative principle?). And we want to go in the woods, back into G-d's creation, and hunt our supper.
Sometimes it seems people here are more interested in being anti-liberal than conservative.
Just like a lot of liberals were more interested in being anti-Bush than pro-Kerry during the 2004 presidential election.
If you belief that tobacco taxes pay for smokers healthcare then you have no beef, but you seem to have a big chip on your shoulder for smokers.
BTW Everone I have ever known who has or had cancer didnt smoke.
Hows about we all get the same treatment and tax burden?
* Guns are harmless, inanimate objects.
Bump
My personal favorite:
“It’s better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.”
“But they’re all good.”
This is true, but just because they do stupid things doesn't mean we have to.
What we need to do is focus less on personalities and childish name calling and focus on the message of life, decency, destroying poverty through economic growth (as opposed to continuously redistributing wealth). This is why I am no longer a Rush or Ann fan...they focus on the trivial, not the critical.
. I believe in private ownership and control of property (the means of production), and the environmentalist movement does not. I own land, on which I practice good forest conservation principles because I too believe in taking care with God's creation. I do not believe that government is better than individuals at taking good care of land and nature - experience shows (through the tragedy of the commons) that government ownership or control is worse for the environment.
I've been deep in the belly of the green beast, and they think private ownership of property is the leading environmental problem. They are well aware that getting control of one aspect or another (saving snail darters; regulating native vs non-native plants; preserving habitat) will help them get control of all property, and that is the ultimate goal.
Do you believe there is one perfect balance of nature for each spot, and that 'environmental scientists' can determine what that balance is and what must be done to restore it? I see nature as far more chaotic with or without us, and that the nature of our natural environment is constantly changing. I would never presume to know what the appropriate number of deer, chipmunks, bear, birds and beetles on my land should be, and I'm not arrogant or godless enough to believe that I can manipulate the numbers of different species and create the 'perfect balance'. The environmentalists advancing the cause of bio-diversity believe they can and should do exactly that.
It's all about control of resources, which is at odds with a belief that capitalism works and that our freedoms come from God not man.
That's why I was disappointed to hear Ted repeating the bio-diversity talking points.
“By Red Baiter
Aug 26, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this
I just hope he repeats those comments AFTER Hillary Clinton is elected President. He will be in jail so fast he won’t have time to reload! Terroristic threats are not funny. Hateful, vulgar, crude insults have no place in political discourse....”
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Now that comment shows just how indoctrinated into Socialism these libRats are. He/she is publicly admitting that Clinton will - rightfully in her/his thinking - abolish free speech - if it comes from a conservative.
Rather chilling.
If it was the last one you will ever smoke, then the 10 minutes won't matter. If it's not the last one, then the 10 minutes won't matter.
that's a fact.
Funny. Just yesterday, down to my village store, I was reading the headlines for this month's feature articles in The Maine Sportsman telling how the bear population is on the increase here.
I'm an ole granny, but I could take you to where I guarantee you'd see a bear in it's natural habitat on any given day...
And these are the same people who high-five each other after calling for the stoning of Henry Hyde and his family, after calling for the death of President Bush, cheering when President Reagan died, etc. Who also had the nerve to use Paul Wellstone’s memorial for a political rally.
If Paul Mc Cartney REALLY took too much acid,he never would have wrote a song like Silly Love Songs!
just the opposite for me, including the fact that now I'm on SS as the widow of a lifelong smoker 0 who died last summer of lung cancer...
What is the zip for the State of Denial?
Here’s a clue,
No one gets out alive
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