Redneck, the elder Bush was the older type of conservative. When all was said and done, he was intelligent and cosmopolitan enough never to doubt the planet was round, billions of years old, and went around the Sun, and he governed himself (and, to a degree, the nation) accordingly. Where he was with Barbara when they made W., I don’t know, but the evidence suggests disporting themselves in an overchlorinated pool.

Jeb gave signs of considerably greater intelligence, but was not in line for the throne, either because of birth order, or (it is whispered) because his half-brother might be Vicente Fox.

So the Bushes aren’t considered right-wing racists if they support “smart-growth” policies that usurp private property and constitutional rights? Got it.

I am an environmental consultant and I work almost exclusively with Fortune 500 companies. The majority of their concerns about environmental regulation is to ensure that they are applied equally to all emitters (that’s emissions to the air, land, and water) so that they aren’t competitively disadvantaged. You see, at the plant and national level (with the exception of some C-suites), the environmental, safety, and operations managers all live here. While environmentalism was once a “fringe” thing, the vast majority of manufacturers are proud of the gains they have made in reducing pollution and making manufacturing cleaner and more efficient.

Regulation isn’t done on a whim. It involves drafts, comments on drafts, comments on new drafts, etc. The U.S. EPA has a fact sheet on the process. I would advise anyone who bitches about regulations, but knows nothing of how they are made, ought to check it out. It will make you a lot less easy to talk-show crazies to manipulate you.

I can also tell you, from first-hand experience (and I have been at this for 25 years), that it doesn’t matter who they are — Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Socialist, Black, White, You-name-it–if people believe that their drinking water is contaminated with carcinogens, they want it fixed, pronto! (They also are often furious that “the government” didn’t do more to protect them, because, all of a sudden, they understand why regulators and regulations can protect them in the security of their own homes and persons.)

This concept that we cannot have productivity and a clean environment was debunked years ago. “Waste not, Want not,” isn’t some socialist mantra — it’s damn good business, and it makes sense on a household level, too.

Yes — there are some players in industry (and some industries — don’t want to mention here) that are still dangerously out of control and need to be reined in in regard to poor (or criminal) environmental performance. However, as I already stated, the thing that gets MY corporate clients going isn’t that they must comply with regulations — it’s when others slip out of them (as happened with electrical utilities in 2001 when Pres. Bush let them off the hook for air regulations that other sectors, such as the chemical industry, had already spent the big bucks complying with).

Some of the stuff touted as sustainability is silly — but it is heading in the right direction. It’s a shame that you are apparently too much swayed by the imbeciles of Fox News and/or talk radio to realize that using resources wisely is smart for everyone.

Also, what could possibly be a greater human right than the ability to live, work, learn, and play in a safe and clean environment? I’m glad SPLC is paying attention to this. Environmental Justice helps all of us — even you, sir.

I think his solution starts with a ‘D’ and ends with ‘eath camps.’

What’s ‘pragmatic environmentalis?’ Because I get a strong feeling it’s a whole lot more Malthusian than anything the ’sustainalchemists’ are pushing…

Also, you sure made a lot of claims in your post. But did you present a single piece of evidence to back up said claims? I’m hearing crickets and watching tumbleweeds roll though town, friend.

What you really have here in the environmental movement overreaching, with the light of day finally being shone on the wrong priorities and misanthropic policies of Leftists.

Those of you who are on the sustainabilchemy kick, one example to prove my point (one. there are dozens).

The US government has spent over $100 BILLION of taxpayers money on “climate policy” since 1999. (Eco-socialists, please do not challenge this figure. This is an Obama administration CBO number). Meanwhile 1-2 billion people on this planet live off less than $1.50/day, live in poverty, have insufficient clean water, food, are dying from easily-preventable water-borne diseases, and cook their food over dung when they’ve cut down all their trees for fuel. And guess what, environmentalists; instead of actually targeting these environmental ills effecting humans, you wasted $100 BILLION on something that is inconsequential to humanity.

Worse, it is documented that because of your “carbon” (Kyoto) and “sustainability” policies, people in Africa and India have been killed in the name of carbon offsets and population control.

Meanwhile, the best you people can do is link to thinkprogress and rightwingwatch.

The story behind the snarky Leftist article here is that the gig is up. We are exposing your environmental Malthusianism and socialism one non-crisis at a time. And when this happens, it ain’t about the GOP in Alabama, it’s about you environmentalists.

Here’s a tip for you neo-environmentalists: You are not fighing the “fossil fuel lobby”. You are fighting empirical evidence, logic, reason, the laws of physics and economics, the sunlight disinfecting your green utopia.

You will be dragged back to pragmatic environmentalism, kicking and screaming or willingly. Your choice.

Farrakhan is not associated with the NAACP in a leadership position. He’s associated with the Nation of Islam, which the SPLC does list as a hate group.

Not that we’d expect you to actually READ THE DAMNED WEBSITE or anything…

I know about North Carolina, by the way. Maybe their legislature doesn’t like Cape Hatteras much. Also, the Chincoteague ponies are good swimmers, but they better get better.

Try a little reading before you make an ass of yourself on your first visit.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-i.....-farrakhan

But the funniest thing about this is that apparently no one in the Alabama State Legislature has ever heard of the “just compensation” clause of the Fifth Amendment.

I guess it too is right-wing hate.

By the way, why isn’t Louis Farrakhan at the NAACP not make them a hate group? Any Republican group that allowed in David Duke would be classified as such by the $PLC in five seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYame5yVkuw

There are serious credibility issues at the $PLC.

Why not address left-wing hate? That’s OK here it seems.

ON JUNE 8TH, 2012 AT 1:53 AM
If we Complain about his WHITE-Half, is it STILL Racist?”

Uh….WHO are you talking about here?

Alabama is not a sovereign nation.

Misty,

I’m not jewish.

Coral Sea,

I spent my first nine years in Florida living on Coral Sea Road.

Not quite sure as to where the blame lies within the scheme of things, but I don’t recall this country being in the type of tailspin it is in at this moment before the various religions began to insert themselves into the political discourse of the country. I’d say we are shooting ourselves in the foot from the pulpit.