tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748604.post3406749906414009078..comments2024-03-28T10:29:29.176-06:00Comments on THE WESTERNER: Trump plans to ditch Obama’s protection for small wetlands and waterwaysFrank DuBoishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04078935296275462544noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748604.post-84960597712422923502017-02-28T01:35:06.640-07:002017-02-28T01:35:06.640-07:00It hits a little close to home when the 76 acres I...It hits a little close to home when the 76 acres I almost bought was 1,500 feet away from the same property that's pictured (Duarte Nursery) on the front page of Congress's 38 page review of the Wotus rule.<br /><br />The realtor told us we couldn't deep rip it or plant orchards due to fairy shrimp in the vernal pools.<br /><br />Yet, it was about to be - along with a couple thousand surrounding acres - put into homes on 1/4 acre lots before the economy crashed. <br /><br />Anybody notice a urban/rural double standard here? But wait, there's more:<br /><br />Wotus was supposed to 'exempt' normal farm practices, but we all know how that played out. <br /><br />Was there any exemption regarding backyard gardeners? Don't recall any urbanites needing a $260,000 permit to dig around in their yards, even during the Calif. drought when lawns were being switched out for less-thirsty landscaping. <br /><br />In fact, the guvmint gave the homeowners about $2,000 apiece to make the switch.<br /><br />What about the debris from the infamous 'Ghostship fire' that's been dumped near wetlands in the enviro-mentally-friendlier SF east bay during all this rain? "oh, we'll find out who left it there and get them to clean it up".<br /><br />Any fines with that one? Would they be anywhere near the 'rural standard' of $75,000 a day? <br /><br />Urban hand slap vs. rural handcuffs ?<br /><br />In those big cities, with all the homeless people they have using the sidewalks as a toilet, how much cleaner is their water run-off during a rain?<br /><br />If it is cleaner, then gardeners should ditch their steer manure fertilizer and head to the nearest municipal sewage plant or skid row and load up.<br /><br />They're trying to say that the beef and dairy cattle are polluting the air/water in Point Reyes, CA. Yet, a few months later in an unrelated study, they say that Point Reyes has had the cleanest air in the entire Bay Area.<br /><br />Different 'they sayers', same audience - nobody notices the contradiction.<br /><br />And the media, naturally, doesn't either, even if they've reported both stories.<br /><br />The media will say it was the dumb rural rednecks that got Trump elected and then they say it was a Russian hack that affected the election. <br /><br />And the media completely forgot about Hillary's uranium deal with Russia that led to the communist behavior of the EPA, BLM and DOJ - well, they never actually acknowledge it in the first place. <br /><br />Speaking of uranium mines - would Wotus be overseeing the EPA's next Animus river?<br /><br />This communist-like double standard treatment of rural Americans is the 'Russian influnece' that influenced rural America in the election to vote for Trump.<br /><br />We need to write to Trump AND Steve Bannon and have them bring to national attention specific examples of how the overreaching government and it's biased media were "enemies of the people". <br /><br />Shedding light on the plight of the Hammonds, Finicums, Bundys, among many others out there, will cast enough of a negative light on the democratic party and it's media in the public's eye to give Trump an advantage next election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748604.post-90130247411314648132017-02-27T17:38:19.073-07:002017-02-27T17:38:19.073-07:00It will take calls and emails from all of us to ma...It will take calls and emails from all of us to make sure Congressman Pearce gets the message that your property rights and rights in general are paramount to you. That you do not want infringements on government coming on your property to dictate to you what you can and cannot do, with the threat of 6 figure fines if you do not submit and comply with their orders.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748604.post-40403322822904261142017-02-27T17:32:07.073-07:002017-02-27T17:32:07.073-07:00Their is an effort by law professors/lawyers to ch...Their is an effort by law professors/lawyers to change the meaning of words. <br />SHALL doesn't mean will or do it anymore if they get their way, but they are teaching it. Now SHALL can mean might or maybe. That would change the meaning of the 2nd Amendment, among millions of other court rulings and laws.<br /><br />Our own elected republican to Congress is reluctant to introduce amendment to CWA, while all the violations and government over-reach to property rights/rights happened during their terms.<br />H.R.637 Stopping EPA Overreach Act of 2017 is one such Bill, by Representative Gary J. Palmer (R, Alabama) on 24th January 2017 introduced his bill addressing over-reach by EPA using the Clean Air Act for it's excuse. <br />I suppose carefully adding language to HR637 to make it encompass both the Clean <br />Water Act and the Clean Air Act could work. The title fits both. If Congressman <br />Gary Palmer would agree? <br />Than both Alabama and NM Congressman would be doing a great thing for the American people. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com