Obama: The Will Of The People Be Damned – I’LL Decide Who Can Go Fishing
*Now* he means to ration recreational fishing and boating, folks
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It all started here this morning:
The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
I had to read that 3 times before it sank in…and then I did a little research. Guess what old Barack (I’ve never had a fishing rod in my hand a day in my life) Obama has been up to since last year? Plotting a Federal takeover of all our bodies of water (freshwater…saltwater…doesn’t matter), in an effort to set up MORE bureaucracies and circumvent the rights of the States to determine fair use and access rules amongst themselves based on the local interests of everyone involved.
If he was out to ban recreational fishing this piece would be easy enough to write; scream a little, stomp my feet, vow he’ll have to pry my fishing rod from my cold dead hands, etc…and be done with it. Problem is, this is much darker and more corrupt than that.
The White House plan would establish 9 regional planning bodies (bureaucracies) whose job would be to bring “Federal, State, and Tribal Partners together” to look for ways to “decrease user conflicts; improve planning and regulatory efficiencies and decrease their associated costs and delays; and preserve critical ecosystem function and services.”
It should come as no surprise that the Administration is no longer accepting comments or input from the public (though you should click through to see some of the doozies that WERE accepted), and it should come as no surprise that a member of Obama’s Administration (Jane Lubchenco, NOAA administrator) has some interesting ties with a couple private charities and goofy greenie groups whose interests will be very well served by a Federal takeover of our bodies of water:
While she possesses impressive academic and professional credentials as a marine biologist, she also has close ties to those who produced the November document. For example, she was a trustee of the Environmental Defense Fund, and served on the Pew Oceans Commission.”
More info here, and a call for some Asian Carp-killing love here. Don’t miss the policy pdf here if you really want your head to explode. Read between the lines folks…this will lock down oil exploration faster and farther than the moratorium Congress JUST let expire ever did, and allows the greenies to set policy for fishing AND boating (at the expense of millions of jobs and billions of boating and fishing industry dollars).
ALWAYS worry when you read this from Obama’s people: “The planning process would be fully transparent and participatory.” and don’t forget to laugh out loud when you follow up with this timeless classic: “Places Science-Based Information at the Heart of Decision-Making. Scientific data, information and knowledge, as well as relevant traditional knowledge, will be the underpinning of the regionally developed plans.”
How’s that “settled” climate change science mumbo jumbo working out again?
haystack @ March 9, 2010
Obama Invents Bush’s Idea
Bambi suffers the Barney Rubble Syndrome...again...
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CNN is reporting that the White House is considering a military trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. WOW! What an inspiration! Why didn’t we think of this before? [face in palm]:
White House advisers are considering recommending alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be tried in a military court instead of a civilian one in New York City, a senior administration official told CNN on Friday.
It was only a few short months ago that Holder et. al. had announced plans to try KSM in New York. That was not well-received by ANYONE who lives near where the trial would take place…nor anyone else for that matter (save for the “peace at all cost” crowd).
Among the many arguments against such a terrible idea, the issue of huge costs for extra security and the overall cost of even conducting such a trial (which could potentially go on for several years before all was said and done) were the first ones to be quickly discounted by the Administration. Their defense of a public trial was that the American justice system worked just fine thankyouverymuch, and they meant to prove to our enemies that we knew how to play fair.
A lot of us out here believe this animal doesn’t deserve to enjoy the same freedoms as those he successfully plotted to kill on 9/11, and that ALONE should be enough to try him like every other enemy of the State. It would be nice to think Obama finally came around to our way of thinking on this topic. Sadly, his motivation is solely in deference to the “bottom line”:
New York police have estimated the cost to the city would exceed $200 million per year in a trial that could last years. They have said, among other things, that they would need to install more than 2,000 checkpoints in Lower Manhattan.
[snip]
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday the administration was evaluating its options “based on New York City logistical and security concerns.”
The WH has obviously gotten the message. We’ll fight the battle over who deserves American civil justice another day. For now, at least, Manhattan has been spared.
haystack @ March 5, 2010
What Goes Around…Well, You Know The Rest
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[Image via National Enquirer ]
I don’t have anything more to say, really…I just wanted to follow up on my previous thoughts about how I feel about John Edwards .
oh, alright, you made me…
a hahahahahaha…Breathe….AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….[gasp] ok, I’m done now…no reall… ahaha hahahahaha hahahahaha….phhhft…snorkle…sputter…[wipe tear]…I’m ok now, really….
pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt……..
haystack @ March 4, 2010
*Some* Democrats Are Starting To *Get* The Problem(s) With Federally Funding The Slaughter Of Unborn Human Life
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It’s not always easy for me to tip my hat to the left. They, by and large, have acted as if they were so wrapped up in their status as “The Majority” that they had forgotten what their jobs were; represent their Constituents on issues that matter to them…in Washington DC. Most have lost their way since taking over, but there are signs that a few of them are starting to understand the expression “a line Americans won’t cross.” And thank God for that:
A dozen House of Representatives Democrats opposed to abortion are willing to kill President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform plan unless it satisfies their demand for language barring the procedure, Representative Bart Stupak said on Thursday.
“Yes. We’re prepared to take responsibility,” Stupak said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” when asked if he and his 11 Democratic allies were willing to accept the consequences for bringing down healthcare reform over abortion.
“Let’s face it. I want to see healthcare. But we’re not going to bypass the principles of belief that we feel strongly about,” he said.
It should be enough that Americans, by huge margins, don’t want this health care nonsense to go through. So far it hasn’t been. It should be enough that Americans have had enough of those Political heroes who continue to make it clear they are more interested in saying they “got health care done” than in saying they put a stop to bad legislation we can’t afford and no one can agree on…and that the taxpayers don’t actually “want.”
It does appear that a handful of Democrats have finally decided that using Federal funds to pay for the killing of innocent human life just MAY, after all, be farther than they are willing to go in order “to get health care done.”
We’ll see.
haystack @ March 4, 2010
Never Let Facts (Or your constituents) Get In The Way Of Greatness
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A full 73% of Americans polled a week ago have problems, to varying degrees, with the “we will pass healthcare at all costs” fool’s errand being run out of Washington these days. Obviously, our Political heroes don’t give a flip.
haystack @ March 4, 2010
