This recent land grab is courtesy of California Senator Dianne Feinstein. 82 year old Senator who hates energy, peoples freedoms, and too few regulations on everything!
Sent from my iPad > On Feb 12, 2016, at 3:59 PM, Galactic Stone & Ironworks via Meteorite-list > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I do agree that the government is terrible at administering anything, > be it a local neighborhood dog park or a national forest. BLM rules > are a mess and the enforcement is inconsistent at best. > > But, one thing to remember is that government officials do not come > from another galaxy and force their way into Congress. They are the > cream of the private sector crop and we put them there. If government > sucks, it's because we keep electing people who suck. Worse, 99% of > the the choices we get to choose from also suck to roughly equal > degrees. > > What do we expect when we let a bunch of CEO's, lobbyists, hedge > funders, washed out lawyers, and ego-tripped doctors run the > government? And we get a selection of idiots to pick from every four > years - some of those idiots have Ivy League credentials, and some do > not, but they all suck. > > Until the masses demand competent candidates based on merit and not > charismatic fools with deep pockets, we will keep getting the same > treatment every four years. > > I don't care if the president or our congresspeople are black, white, > male, female, religious, atheist, socialist, libertarian, gay, > straight, or whatever. But, I think we should demand competence. > Congressmen which no knowledge of science should not sit on committees > responsible for funding scientific projects. Presidents or congressmen > with no war-fighting experience should not be starting wars, etc. And, > by extension, BLM rangers and officials should not be making or > enforcing the rules of land management unless they have some degree of > expertise in the academic/scientific/engineering or field aspects of > the resources they govern. > > So, back to meteorites and rockhounding - this is what happens when we > elect people to oversee resource-rich lands who no background or > interest in geology, forestry, or related fields. The rank and file > BLM field rangers might know their business, but they do not know the > intricacies of the entire body of federal regulations that they are > trying to interpret and enforce. The bureaucrats at the top of the > chain are so far removed from the field, that they have no expertise > with rocks, minerals, or natural resources - they are a bunch of > former lobbyists, white collars, and people who have never had their > hands dirty. > > That's my two cents, actual worth may vary widely. ;) > > PS - I do not think Adam intended his post as racist or Islamophobic. > People are getting a little too touchy these days. But, there is a lot > of bigotry out there, so those are the days we live in and sometimes > appearances matter more than substance. We have to be careful about > what we say, where, and how we say it - and, how other people might > interpret what we say or play semantics with our words. It sucks, but > that's how it is. > > [/rant] > > Best regards and happy huntings, > > MikeG > > > On 2/12/16, Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Where I grew up in the Northwest, if a person is angry or disgusted, they >> use the person's entire name to emphasize a point. I knew there was trouble >> >> when my mother called out to me, "Adam Charles Hupe, What have you done?" >> instead of just, "Adam." People are far too sensitive these days. I do >> not like it when a politician of any sort makes unilateral decisions without >> >> public input. >> >> Rock hounding used to be considered a healthy pursuit. Now a huge corridor >> >> is completely off limits practically in my back yard here in the Mohave >> Desert. >> >> Best, >> >> Adam >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> >> Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the >> Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com > Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone > Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone > Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone > ------------------------------------------------------------- > ______________________________________________ > > Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the > Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
