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Culled from 880 photos. I see roadrunners almost every day. (Yeah, I know a few of these aren’t roadrunners — there’s a good reason for that.) Date: Jan 16, 2011 |
Only Other Conservatives Can Deal with Lush Limbaugh
ThinkProgress » Fox News’ Chris Wallace: You Don’t Have to Call Everyone ‘Socialists’ or ‘Fascists’
A debate over tone, though a small-scale one, does seem to be emerging on the right. Wallace, in pleading for a more agreeable tone, may have been responding to Rush Limbaugh — who attacked Wallace and Charles Krauthammer this week for praising Obama’s speech in Tuscon. “They were slobbering over it for the predictable reasons,” Limbaugh said. “It was smart, it was articulate, it was oratorical. It was, it was all the things the educated, ruling class wants their members to be and sound like.”
Fox News actually played the clip for Krauthammer yesterday, and Krauthammer joined Wallace in gently pushing back against Limbaugh’s vitriol: “As one of the three slobberers…I find it interesting that only the ruling class wants a president who is smart articulate and oratorical in delivering a funeral oration,” he said.
ThinkProgress » Fox News’ Chris Wallace: You Don’t Have to Call Everyone ‘Socialists’ or ‘Fascists’
Maybe those ATVers are all gun-totin’ left-wing progressives
The Right whines that the Left is “just as bad” when it comes to threats of violence. OK: Send me a link to a story in which a right-wing group is “wanted dead or alive.” Or, show me that ATVers are leftists and wilderness advocates are right-wingers.
The Durango Herald 01/08/2011 | ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’ posters target local conservation group
Under a skull and crossbones are the words: “Wanted Dead or Alive.” Beneath, in larger type, it reads: “Members of Great Old Broads for Wilderness are not allowed in San Juan County Utah.”
“We’ve run into hostility before but never so overtly,” Ronni Egan, executive director of the group, said Friday. …
The apparent reason: their involvement in trying to restore an area rich in archaeological treasures that has been invaded by off-road vehicles.
The Durango Herald 01/08/2011 | ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’ posters target local conservation group
Back from the Wilderness thinking Patti Smith may be right that “joy shall conquer all despair” (In My Blakean Year).
peace, mjh
26 years ago, my Mom died on this day, in the wee hours. I’m off to the wilderness to remember the dead.
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Cue Dave Carter’s “When I Go.” (He’s dead, too.)
As a Constitutional Scholar, Harrison Schmitt is a Bang-up Engineer
New Mexicans should read Tom Cole’s quotations from Harrison Schmitt, Martinez’s proposed head of the state Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department. I’ll start with the end of Cole’s column.
ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Harrison Schmitt: in His Words
In one posting, he says a "philosophical wedge" has been driven between the government and its citizens, creating a divide that is wider than at any other time since just before the Civil War.
It seems to me that Schmitt has been doing some of the hammering on that wedge.
ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Harrison Schmitt: in His Words
Schmitt on Anthropogenic Global Climate Change:
"There exists no true concern … about the true effects of climate change — only a poorly concealed, ideologically driven attempt to use conjured up threats of catastrophic consequences as a lever to gain authoritarian control of society."
Classic conservative paranoia: It’s all part of the totalitarian movement of the Left. (Just like the “Patriot” Act and DOMA.) I think Climate Change Deniers are part of a power grab by corporations that will destroy anything and everything for profit. Schmitt also supports endless corporate welfare in the form of “Cold War II” with China.
One more quote from Schmitt, who believes the Minimum Wage and Social Security numbers are unconstitutional:
"The Government violates constitutional equal protection most generally by restricting the land-related economic and recreational activities of residents of Western States when no comparable restrictions are possible in most Eastern States. …”
Yup, Western wilderness is unconstitutional because there aren’t comparable Eastern wildernesses. Apparently, engineers make lousy constitutional scholars. (BTW: I’m all for creating equally large wildernesses in the East. It’s only fair.)
A tangent regarding the endless ways in which abqjournal.com frustrates its users. When you select text to quote from the site, text is appended to that quote, such as this:
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Kudos to the Web designer who is so clueless about interface yet able to hack some JavaScript. Now, I know that some media sources object to the common practice among bloggers of quoting from those sources, even though every media source quotes other media sources – somehow, it’s wrong when bloggers do it. Like almost every blogger, I cite the sites I quote from. Still, abqjournal.com insists on tacking on this ugly bit of code. (Note the hideous URL.) I’ll bet this got the coder a pat on the head.
2010 Photos, 2nd Edition – Revised & Expanded!
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It was so hard to pare 7500 photos down to 12. Granted, that was a useful exercise. But then I started discussing the short list with Merri and she said, “Did you include the little blue heron?” No. “How about the pelican?” Mind you, I didn’t need much excuse to expand the list. So, I’ll leave my original Top 12 blog entry as is, but I have added more to the album, including some by Merri Rudd. (I cannot admit here how many more photos I’ve added. Still a tiny percentage of 7500.)