Stay of execution

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/wa...ision_in_bill/

daytripper wrote:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/wa...ision_in_bill/

If they steal everything this year they wouldn't have anything left to
do in the next three years.

daytripper wrote:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/wa...ision_in_bill/

Good news, but there's still one ominous passage in that article:

"A spokesman for House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo said
he would work with Gibbons to modernize mining law next year."

"Modernize mining law", eh? I wonder what that means?


Chuck Vance

"Conan The Librarian" wrote

Good news, but there's still one ominous passage in that article:

"A spokesman for House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo said he
would work with Gibbons to modernize mining law next year."

"Modernize mining law", eh? I wonder what that means?


Chuck Vance

the article also contains this passage

"Critics -- including hunters, anglers and several Democratic Western
governors -- said the legislation could prompt the sale of millions of acres
of public lands. "

notice the grouping .... hunters, anglers and DEMOCRATS .... I hope to hell
that 'Sportsmen for Bush and Other Thieves" will someday SOON wake up to the
fact that sportsmen have more at stake when we vote than keeping an AK47

Pombo is not the Rep for my district, but, rest assured that I will do
everything I possibly can to help keep him from being re-elected. The Rep
for my district, another Republican, did vote for the House version of the
budget that included Pombo's "modernizing" and also voted for Pombo's
gutting of the Endangered Species Act. He too has become a target of my
wrath. I haven't been politically active, beyond casting my votes, since
the early 70s but I will be now ... the public is under attack .... and the
attackers are public enemies that must be stopped.

Mr Pombo, and cronies, I care what all the kids of the future receive in
their legacy as Americans, not just the kids of the very wealthiest
families, and I VOTE

Larry L typed:
"Conan The Librarian" wrote

Good news, but there's still one ominous passage in that article:

"A spokesman for House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo
said he would work with Gibbons to modernize mining law next year."

"Modernize mining law", eh? I wonder what that means?


Chuck Vance

the article also contains this passage

"Critics -- including hunters, anglers and several Democratic Western
governors -- said the legislation could prompt the sale of millions
of acres of public lands. "

notice the grouping .... hunters, anglers and DEMOCRATS .... I hope
to hell that 'Sportsmen for Bush and Other Thieves" will someday SOON
wake up to the fact that sportsmen have more at stake when we vote
than keeping an AK47

You missed this part: "Wyoming Sen. Craig Thomas, one of the **Republicans**
opposed to the language, said Tuesday that "the mining provision never
belonged in the budget reconciliation package." Considered on its own merit,
the mining portion of the bill would have never seen this much light.

Not all Republicans are the evil, land-hoarding, pillaging mass you think
they are. I mean, we're obviously evil, but the horns have auto-retracting
mechanisms that allow us to walk among the angels (Democrats) without too
much notice, and many of us have opposed this portion of the proposed
legislation from the time it was made known.
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TL,
Tim
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"Tim J." wrote...

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Not all Republicans are the evil, land-hoarding, pillaging mass you think
they are. --
TL,
Tim

Very true. And not all Democrats are 'surrender monkeys', either. And as
soon as the talking heads/mouths/asses on BOTH sides of the political
'aisle' realize this (instead of just throwing labels around) maybe
something wothwhile will get done.

Dan
....who ain't holding his breath...

"Tim J." wrote in
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Not all Republicans are the evil, land-hoarding, pillaging mass you
think they are.

Just those actually IN the White House.


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Scott
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"Tim J." wrote

You missed this part: "Wyoming Sen. Craig Thomas, one of the
**Republicans** opposed to the language, said Tuesday that "the mining
provision never belonged in the budget reconciliation package." Considered
on its own merit, the mining portion of the bill would have never seen
this much light.

Not all Republicans are the evil, land-hoarding, pillaging mass you think
they are. I mean, we're obviously evil, but the horns have auto-retracting
mechanisms that allow us to walk among the angels (Democrats) without too
much notice, and many of us have opposed this portion of the proposed
legislation from the time it was made known.
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Tim, you are absolutely right

Fwiw, I HAVE voted for some Republicans over my years of voting.

My point, and I admit it was very poorly made, was that we have to VOTE for
people that really represent us and what is best for the long term and our
great grandkids. If Pombo was a Democrat, I'd work just as hard to get rid
of him, and hate him just as much. It is significant that I was up this
morning before 5AM, even though retired, because I couldn't sleep. Why?
Because I was tossing and turning trying to decide who to call, what to do
today, to try and get Pombo's 'mining language' stopped ... it's that
important to me, and that may be why my reaction to seeing the good news
here was over done.

I firmly believe that the ( or certainly one of the ) greatest things we
could do for future generations is to forget our b.s. differences and work
together to help provide them with clean air, clean water, and special
places to visit and cleanse their souls. A stupid law passed by one side
or the other can be reversed, but a special place, or a species, once gone
.... is gone.

I deserve your sarcastic rebuttal, but certainly you must admit that this
particular Republican is as much a public enemy as public servant,
especially if we allow ourselves to think past the near future and profits
for the few.

Please accept my apology ( no I'm not afraid to apologize on roff ), Tim,
and all Republicans that I made feel lumped together with one particularly
bad and smelly egg.

Larry L typed:
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Please accept my apology ( no I'm not afraid to apologize on roff )

It's not a matter of being afraid. It's just bad form. ;-)
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TL,
Tim
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"Tim J." wrote

Not all Republicans are the evil, land-hoarding, pillaging mass you think
they are.

truth be known, i'd vote for you for damn near any office you chose to
seek.
but, yeah, i know--if nominated you wouldn't run, and if elected you
wouldn't serve.
that's why i trust you.

yfitons
wayno(not *quite* a yellow dog democrat, but it's damn close)