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TechnoratiSenate Boosts Wilderness Protection Across US
WASHINGTON - In a rare Sunday session, the Senate advanced legislation that would set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as wilderness. Majority Democrats assembled more than enough votes to overcome GOP stalling tactics in an early showdown for the new Congress.
![[This Aug. 2, 2003 picture shows Lake Superior seen from the North Ridge hiking trail at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore near Munising, Mich. (AP Photo/Bob Brodbeck)]](http://www.commondreams.org/files/article_images/wilderness-0112.jpg "wilderness-0112.jpg")
Republicans complained that Democrats did not allow amendments on the massive bill, which calls for the largest expansion of wilderness protection in 25 years. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and other Democrats said the bill - a holdover from last year - was carefully written and included measures sponsored by both Republicans and Democrats.
By a 66-12 vote, with only 59 needed to limit debate, lawmakers agreed to clear away procedural hurdles despite partisan wrangling that had threatened pledges by leaders to work cooperatively as the new Obama administration takes office. Senate approval is expected later this week. Supporters hope the House will follow suit.
"Today is a great day for America's public lands," said the bill's sponsor, Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M. "This big, bipartisan package of bills represents years of work by senators from many states, and both parties, in cooperation with local communities, to enhance places that make America so special."
The measure - actually a collection of about 160 bills - would confer the government's highest level of protection on land ranging from California's Sierra Nevada mountain range to Oregon's Mount Hood, Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado and parts of the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia. Land in Idaho's Owyhee canyons, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan and Zion National Park in Utah also would be designated as wilderness.
Besides new wilderness designations, the bill would designate the childhood home of former President Bill Clinton in Hope, Ark., as a national historic site and expand protections for dozens of national parks, rivers and water resources.
Reid said about half the bills in the lands package were sponsored by Republicans. Most had been considered for more than a year.
"I am happy that after months of delay we will finally be moving forward," Reid said.
The bill's chief opponent, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., denounced what he called Democratic bullying tactics.
"I am disappointed the Senate majority leader has refused to allow senators the opportunity to improve, amend or eliminate any of the questionable provisions in his omnibus lands bill," Coburn told fellow senators.
"When the American people asked Congress to set a new tone, I don't believe refusing to listen to the concerns of others was what they had in mind," Coburn said. "The American people expect us hold open, civil and thorough debates on costly legislation, not ram through 1,300-page bills when few are watching."
Coburn and several other Republicans complained that bill was loaded with pet projects and prevented development of oil and gas on federal lands, which they said would deepen the nation's dependence on foreign oil.
Environmental groups said the bill set the right tone for the new Congress.
"By voting to protect mountains and pristine wildlands, Congress is starting out on the right foot," said Christy Goldfuss of Environment America, an advocacy group. "This Congress is serious about protecting the environment and the outstanding lands that Americans treasure."
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Show AllSooooo Wilderness protection gets a "boost" with another increase of 2 million acres (Ma), more or less. Hmmmm, it is,of course, in the name of "balance" (think Fox News variety) federal wilderness lands represents a "massive" 4.7% (a tad over 107 Ma and more if we add state and tribal "wilderess" areas) out of a total landmass of the U.S. or approximately 2.3 billion acres or 2,300Ma. Remove Alaska's designated wilderness and the acreage falls to roughly 50Ma. The amount makes made head swirl as if I am an overwintering Common Redpoll feeding on moldy seeds. Without a context in which to place 2Ma (coupled with a societal mesmerization regarding a million anything as if it is a huge amount) it seems like a lot when it is nothing more than moldy birdseed.
The best way to protect wilderness is to use birth control.
Too little, too late.
Sounds like they're trying to invite us to make merry with them at the celebration party. If you go, beware of the Koolaid™ (I heard it might be spiked with LSD). But maybe they have genuine intentions- like Disneyfying these sacred places just like Yosemite. Furthermore, note the obvious omission; Drill Baby Drill National Park of Alaska.
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As far as Pictured Rocks is concerned:
It's too bad they didn't get this done before they started bulldozing miles of the regenerating, maturing forest to straighten and pave a road through this narrow idyllic paradise that clings to Lake Superior and in which the major activities are backpacking, kayaking, hiking and (sigh) snowmobiling.
For years the park was serviced only by a very VERY rough gravel/dirt road on which travel over twenty miles-an-hour was inadvisable and really not recommended for more reasons than just the bumps, curves and bounces... it winded through and under a canopy of maturing beech, maple and hemlock forests finally protected from the regular periodic ravages of lumbermen as well as high speed traffic.
Paving the road was promoted for years, and many were won over, thinking care would be taken to preserve the unique flavor of travel through the area, while making it less expensive for the rural townships and counties to maintain a road that needed frequent grating and repair. Locals wanted the road due to the fact that people from elsewhere simply did not know how to slow down enough to drive through safely and the area had been depressed ever since lumbering and fishing gave out and the locals were promised jobs and tourist dollars when the park was put in. The asphalt is now being laid, but instead of following the curves and rises of the terrain in the original road bed, the bulldozers are stripping an arrow-straight path through the state and federal lands south of the park. An incredible, and sad, mess.
The area south of the park was for a time denoted as a buffer area, and is full of little lakes and rivers (Hemingway fished here) surrounded by state land that is being decimated by a state still reeling from the tax-cutting exploits of a certain governor, Fat King John (Engler), who defunded the formerly nationally pre-eminent state natural resources department. If the feds were serious about creating a wilderness area here they would act to make sure those boundary areas were protected from exploitation as well.(There is an area just south of the park that still shows mile after square mile of huge silvered stumps of the white pines that were clear cut in the early 1900s and that used to dominate the area: the soil was too poor to regenerate this forest, though there is a wolf pack back in there now. You can howl with them if you want to.)
The park, at its widest, is less than ten miles wide and the gorgeous waters and woods south of it are continually under threat by a state unwilling and unable to shed the legacy of Fat King John and a state legislature that reminds one of the jury in Lewis Carroll's Behind the Looking Glass. The sound of loons constantly interrupted by the sound of behemoth lumber trucks hauling away the clear cut trees. Little gems of lakes shrinking due to disruption of water shed drainages and flows as well as climate change.
I have nothing against sustainable lumbering and am realistic about the need for renewable resource use, but making a sliver of land like this a wilderness, without protecting a larger area and the watersheds and riverine sources that make it so unique, is short-sighted and doomed to fail beyond being a public relations opportunity.
Thanks for helping reveal the rest of the story.
Go Democrats!!!
Go Obama!!!
This is a new era!!!!!!!!!!
Pattern Recognition:
When the press neatly presents contentious debate in a "Dems, are for", "Repub's are against", format, they can hurry on to the next story to spread more truth and enlightenment. Unfortunately, such reportage fails to cover the magnitude and exquisite dilemmas reflecting backroom dealmaking by self-selecting groups organized by the Forest Service which has been run by a former timber industry lobbyist and who happily endorses such disposals of publicly-owned resources.
A quick review of massive omnibus lands bills (nearly 1300 pages), passed under unusual circumstances ("in a rare Sunday session"), claiming breakthrough bipartisan "win-win" agreements, passed at the eleventh hour of an administration known for unprecedented hostility against all but the richest one percent of society, Brace Yourselves for Profound Regret when the details slowly emerge.
It will reinforce all we already knew of how the rich get richer off the disposal of the public lands once referred to as the commons, and how the poor get poorer, losing ownership of the commons.
.I don't know about all that but I do know this:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wilderness12-2009jan12,0,5425754.story
Federal wilderness protection for California land moves forward
The Senate clears the way for passage of legislation that would expand wilderness protection to more than 2 million acres of public land nationwide, mostly in California and the West.
By Richard Simon
January 12, 2009
Reporting from Washington -- Large swaths of California wild lands would gain federal wilderness protection under legislation that took a step toward approval in the U.S. Senate during a rare Sunday session.
The measure, which would expand the protection to more than 2 million acres of public land nationwide, may be the most significant conservation legislation in a decade, said Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the bill's manager.
It would designate as wilderness -- the government's highest protection -- about 190,000 acres in Riverside County, including parts of Joshua Tree National Park; about 450,000 acres in the Eastern Sierra and San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles; and about 90,000 acres in Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks, including John Krebs Wilderness.
The measure also would authorize $88 million in funding to launch an ambitious effort to restore the San Joaquin River, which has been drained for decades to supply Central Valley farms. More water would be left in the river, and populations of spring-run chinook salmon would be returned under terms of a legal settlement in a long-running environmental battle over the river.
The proposal is expected to win final Senate approval by the end of the week and then go to the House, where it is also expected to be approved.
"We're very excited that these slices of wild California are so close to being permanently protected," said Ryan Henson, policy director of the California Wilderness Coalition.
As part of its wilderness protections, the measure would authorize a study on whether the Tule Lake Segregation Center, a World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans, should be included in the national park system.
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Besides California, wilderness designations would be made in Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Michigan, West Virginia and Virginia. The package of about 160 bills also would designate former President Clinton's childhood home in Hope, Ark., as a national historic site.
The measure also includes initiatives intended to reduce wildfire risk and increase water supplies.
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Furthermore, the Sunday session was called by Reid out of anger at what he said were stalling tactics by certain Republicans. I am uncertain as to the basis for this opposition to what appears to be a plain Jane creation of a new series of wilderness areas. Much of the work of this bill was done in the previous session of Congress and I do not know what if any input from the Forest Service was required or about such "backroom dealmaking". What I do know is that opposition to this bill comes chiefly from the right.
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We see things, not as they are, but as we are.
Anais Nin
Thanks for another link to a media who would prefer to look at the"bright side", and keep the story nice and simple.
Quid pro Quo:
Wilderness, good, but at what cost? Do the areas that got set aside represent the biologically vital areas that will assure ecological integrity through preservation of migratory corridors and low elevation habitat? Such considerations are manifold in their complexity and depth. Sure seems like biologists should be doing this, not free marketeers. Besides, isn't the real issue the techniques of rapacious unregulated corporate extractors of public resources? If they were held to strictly operating sustainably and accountably, we wouldn't even need to set aside Wilderness.
How do we feel about such decisions being a product of negotiation with recidivist corporate environmental criminals? Can a "win-win" solution come out of a process in which "stakeholders" sit down with "environmentalists" being funded to represent all present and future citizens' best interests? Who the hell gives a small group the right to make such decisions? People like Mark Rey, former,(and I contend present) timber industry lobbyist, that's who.
Buried in the 1300 pages are massive corporate giveaways of resource-rich areas once owned by the public, and watered-down language in which environmental laws like the Wilderness Act of 1964, NEPA, and National Forest Management Act, etc. get diminished into lesser conditions for the areas around where the great deals were made.
Backroom deals:
Collaboration and compromise at roundtables organized by Federal Agencies like the Forest Service, which like the Department of Interior has systematically suppressed science and has literally been in bed with the industries they're supposed to be regulating, deserves serious circumspection, not knee jerk accolades equating any area set aside as Wilderness so it "must be good".
Free market environmentalists like Trout Unlimited, The Nature Conservancy, The Wilderness Society, etc. who are accepting corporate and foundation funds dedicated to specific roundtable outcomes are circumventing an important part of democracy in an exercise known as "devolution". The public deserves to know the whole story, and their best interests represented, which, I assure you, are not in such a process.
Free Market Environmentalism? What's that?
That, is the rest of the story.
You're not likely to hear this on the news, but the environmental movement has been split into two factions: the traditional, and the free market environmentalists. The ranks of the traditional environmentalists are from all walks of life taking action out of altruistic motives, giving voice to the voiceless, driven by conscience and attachment to place.
Free market environmentalists most often are "professionals", political "realists" who have an equal sense of attachment to place, but are more driven by profit motive, ostensibly, to allow them to do even more good work for the environment. Sort of, a perpetual motion machine that would scan the landscape in search of imperiled real estate to apply a "win-win solution" to.
By such methods, the Nature Conservancy is now among the richest non-profit environmental groups in the world.
I have a problem with this approach.
I assure you, the public's best interests are not served by such organizations or processes. Google the Washington Post's expose' on TNC.
Look at the gritty details of the bill and you'll realize the scoreboard of acres set aside as wilderness isn't the whole story.
I am more inclined to agree with ardee on this one.
The Senate and the House are bodies that will NEVER have the character we want. That is the nature of the beast. We are (sad to say) what passes for the radical left in the USA and we are therefore the minority. We won a huge victory in the house and senate but it was by NO means complete. It never will be.
Indeed, even in 2003, probably the darkest days ever for progressive politics, when we held the fewest sympathetic ears in the House and Senate ever....and around the nation....if you look at the conservatives they were STILL upset with congress and STILL blaming us as the boogey-men for not whole-heartedly turning the USA into a Christian Corporate Theocracy where the 10 commandments would be on display in every park and Creation Science (under it's guise of Intelligent Design) would be taught across the nation.
Just as they were disappointed in 2003 (thank goodness!) so we too will be disappointed in 2009.
We need to NOT make the same mistakes the conservatives made. They became negative, disaffected with their own movement, and just plainly idiotic.
.Even paranoids have enemies.
You provide a rather lengthy yet at the same time empty condemnation of the environmental movement and make reference to subterfuge and error with no link to fact and little in the way of proof that the lands set aside are not what they claim them to be. Frankly I fail to understand your objections to setting aside wilderness in perpetuity.
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We see things, not as they are, but as we are.
Anais Nin
Sounds like ardee works for the United States Forest Service.
This is one of many references. Thanks for asking for the details.
http://www.westlx.org/OwyheeThrive.pdf
"Land talks heat up over Owyhee Canyonlands Environmentalists fear that conservation groups on panel are ‘selling out‘"
"In an effort to maintain local control of the sage-covered desert and keep ranchers on the public land, Owyhee County commissioners created the Owyhee Initiative, a hand-picked panel of ranchers, environmentalists and recreation enthusiasts, to hash out a legislative proposal that guides the use and protection of the land. Some environmental groups, including Western Watersheds, were specifically excluded from the negotiations. The talks started nearly two years ago and now the 36 groups who signed the letter say they and the public have been left in the dark as the Owyhee Initiative drafted a plan the signees say exempts some of the most vulnerable areas of the Owyhees from protection. The signees contend the areas slotted for protection already are protected..."
.Wait a hold it, Davian. Firstly I am engaging in a debate with you, not defending my employer, which happens not to be any federal or state agency but a private firm. Your attempt at a slur is both unappreciated and far off the mark.
Secondly, in response to a request to confirm your charges about the environmental movement you produce a local issue and one that reflects not at all upon any national or state group concerned with saving our environment. This is some hand picked ripoff by local interests and has nothing whatever to do with the Forest Service ( which was indeed subverted by the Bush appointee, as were most everything under Bush) or the other such groups that have earned your criticisms.
I am very interested in the charges you level but I will need far better than this to find common ground.
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We see things, not as they are, but as we are.
Anais Nin
Test complete. Accusations of "paranoid" then, is not a slur?
"Hand-picked rip-off by local interests" had, has, and will continue to rip off the commons as many supervisors of national forests realize they cut themselves out of a future and face limits imposed by national environmental legislationESA,NEPA and NFMA in particular. "Collaboration" is actually proof the laws were working, collaboration with "stakeholders" can only ONLY occur with the help of the feds, and freemarket environmentalists.
Nonetheless, I appreciate you keeping the door open. Personally, I've always delighted in the discovery process on my own, but I'll be glad to get you started. It will demonstrate one of many national groups not only signed-on but facilitated each collaborative process. As far as Forest Serevice I counted at least 3 national forests (Monongahela,Mt Hood,Jefferson) in the first scan of the bill, and if you think the USFS hasn't participated directly in the collaboration then you also will not acknowledge the agency has morphed in the last eight years, into a self-directed attempt at becoming a corporate real estate agent at great public expense.
Here's a start of national free marketeers posing as environmentalists starting with The Nature Conspiracy website:
"The Nature Conservancy believes that by working together, we can conserve this special place for people and nature. We believe that conservation solutions must also address the needs of ranchers, who have been in the Owyhees for generations and have strong ties to the land.
That's why we have been a member of the Owyhee Initiative, a work group that brings together conservationists, ranchers, sportsmen and the Shoshone-Paiute tribes to find new solutions for often contentious land use issues in the Owyhees.
A proposed legislative packaged, recently reintroduced by Senator Mike Crapo, would create new wilderness and wild and scenic river designations, and provide improved management in the Owyhees including better enforcement of off-road vehicle use, control of weeds and wildlife management that benefits bighorn sheep, sage grouse and other wildlife."
(http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/idaho/preserves/art20601.html)
As far as the most detailed examination undertaken of the boilerplate QPQ wilderness model, (dated), but likely comprising much of the final version, here's a look at some of the the issues of one of the areas:
(excerpt from link below)
The tradeoffs for wilderness protection included:
the release of 25,000 acres of Wilderness Study Areas;
the granting, for free, of 25 miles of water pipeline rights-of-way on federal land to the Southern Nevada
Water Authority to bring more water into Las Vegas from over the Lincoln County line, and an additional
192 miles of right-of-way to the County and its for-profit water company partner, Vidler Water—for a total
of 8 miles;
the conveyance of over 8,000 acres of federal land, for free, to Lincoln County for open space and to the
State of Nevada to expand state parks;
the disposal of 100,000 acres of federal land, to be relinquished from federal management and auctioned off
to the highest bidder. This provision also effectively nullified a successful lawsuit brought by environmental
groups pertaining to about ,500 of these acres.
This excellent overview gives a peek at what the mainstream media isn't telling you about QPQ Wilderness, and represents the hard math of overwhelming odds plus an uninformed electorate mostly stuck in a "what's in it for me?"mindset equals a rip-off of the commons.
http://www.westernlands.org/quid-pro-quo.pdf
Want more specifics?
from:Western Institute for Study of the Environment Commentary
(http://westinstenv.org/sosf/2009/01/13/bribery-in-action-mt-hoodgate/)
13 Jan 2009, 10:19am
Federal forest policy Politics and politicians Private land policies
by admin
Bribery In Action: Mt. Hoodgate
"In September, 2006 SOS Forests reported on Mt. Hoodgate, a sweetheart bailout package for a multi-million dollar company and its tycoon owner [here]. The Oregonian reported it too, in a full-color editorial that called for the American taxpayers pony up the cash and land to buyout/tradeout a private company.
Well, it happened. S. 22, the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, was passed Sunday by Harry Reid and the US Senate, their very first action of 2009. The entire Act is 1,264 pages and may be downloaded [here].
I haven’t read the whole thing yet (it’s 1,264 pages long), but right there on pages 62 to 66 is the sweetheart landswap with the millionaire, laid out in black and white or more properly red ink for taxpayers. All that is missing is the quid pro quo that sleazed into Sen. Ron Wyden’s back pocket."
SEC. 1206. LAND EXCHANGES.
4 (a) COOPER SPUR-GOVERNMENT CAMP LAND EXCHANGE.—
6 (1) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection:
7 (A) COUNTY.—The term ‘‘County’’ means
8 Hood River County, Oregon.
9 (B) EXCHANGE MAP.—The term ‘‘exchange map’’ means the map entitled ‘‘Cooper
11 Spur/Government Camp Land Exchange’’,
12 dated June 2006.
13 (C) FEDERAL LAND.—The term ‘‘Federal
14 land’’ means the approximately 120 acres of
15 National Forest System land in the Mount
16 Hood National Forest in Government Camp,
17 Clackamas County, Oregon, identified as
18 ‘‘USFS Land to be Conveyed’’ on the exchange
19 map.
20 (D) MT. HOOD MEADOWS.—The term ‘‘Mt.
21 Hood Meadows’’ means the Mt. Hood Meadows
22 Oregon, Limited Partnership.
23 (E) NON-FEDERAL LAND.—The term
24 ‘‘non-Federal land’’ means—
1 (i) the parcel of approximately 770
2 acres of private land at Cooper Spur identified as ‘‘Land to be acquired by USFS’’
4 on the exchange map; and
5 (ii) any buildings, furniture, fixtures,
6 and equipment at the Inn at Cooper Spur
7 and the Cooper Spur Ski Area covered by
8 an appraisal described in paragraph
9 (2)(D).
In September of 2006 we reported that the US Government Accountability Office investigated the deal, and the investigators had serious problems with the land appraisals. It seems the appraised land values on the acres the private company, Mt. Hood Meadows Oregon, Limited Partnership, wishes to convey to the government were hugely overstated.
.Be careful what you ask for I guess...OK this is an overwhelming bunch of stuff and it is going to take some time to wade through.
I have already noted your objection to water lines accessing such lands and find that to be expected and natural and can find no reason to object to such. There are 300 million of us in this nation and some accomodations must be made.
The Nature Conservancy operates on the principle of land swaps:
http://www.nature.org/aboutus/howwework/?src=t2
which I find to be a reasonable way to gain large tracts of land to preserve. There are going to be some who profit from these desires as long as capitalism and money rule our legislative process, it is unfortunate of course but your anger is misplaced in my opinion. Conservation faces an uphill battle in coping with the greed that rules this land, but saying they are part of the problem is over the top in this poster's opinion.
More later.
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We see things, not as they are, but as we are.
Anais Nin
There's a vast wealth of critical, well reasoned scientifically-based information out there, ardee, that demonstrates biologically corrupt real estate brokers posing as environmentalists are not going to save, in time, what we have been and are losing. We are in the midst of a wave of extinction of species unprecedented in the last 650,000 years and likely have already passed climate change tipping points.
There will be no turn around from certain inexorable realities such as ocean acidification if we're going top play the business as usual, negotiation and collaboration game you seem so entranced by. It is becoming increasingly clear in this "debate" that you've accepted both the media's blithe oversimplification of issues, and the greenwashed double-speak of free marketeers. You are clearly their target audience. Eat it up, it's the stuff of wanton consumption as if there were no tomorrow.
You are clearly seeing this (according to Anais Nin) as you "are" and I hope you are willing to realize you're either part of the problem or part of the solution. As far as your choice to invoke the slur of "misplaced" "anger", I would venture: To see both sides of this issue and not feel angry at the willful ignorance with which we conduct our democratic responsibilities says more about one's moral underpinnings than emotional response.
"To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinking deeply. One of the rewards to deep thought is the hot glow of anger at discovering a wrong, but if anger is taboo, thought will starve to death." --Jules Henry, Culture Against Man, 1963.
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"Hope has two beautiful daughters: their names are anger and courage. Anger that things are the way they are. Courage to make them the way they ought to be." --- St Augustine.
(Thanks to ICH for providing the quotes)
.I doubt any further discussion between us, at least on this topic, is warranted or could one hope for honest exchanges. I do not know where your almost rabid reaction to such as the Nature Conservancy, GreenPeace or any of the well intentioned and honest efforts of such as the Sierra Club became twisted into identifying them with the very real opposition to saving this planet, done in the name of selfish profit.
Nor in fact do I care, excepting as it interferes with honest and rational dialogue. I guess this makes me one of the "enemy" to you, but I would think that this places me on a very, very long list. Good luck.
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We see things, not as they are, but as we are.
Anais Nin
Greenpeace? Sierra Club? These are your inventions, not my references. If you raise the question of honest exchanges I can unequivocally vouch for my statements being honest and have presented the facts upon which I made the statements.
Rabid? Slur test complete.
That all your responses were devoid of references to support your counter argument other than a link to TNC's PR claims was not lost on me.
So it comes as no surprise your closing lines disclose that, ultimately, you really do not care.
And that is precisely the problem.
.I do not care about a psycho conspiracy theorist who has lost all sense of rationality...thats for certain...
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We see things, not as they are, but as we are.
Anais Nin
Sounds like one of the better bills we have seen in recent years.
Since the Germans constructed a replica of the Dachau Camp, the US should construct a replica of Tule Lake Camp.
How do we find a list of the locations this bill will protect ?