Ease up on the throttle, Kristi:
This is probably the most anti-business, anti-farmer EPA we have ever had.... I don't trust them enough to take their word for anything [Rep. Kristi Noem, in Mike McGraw, "Air Rules Are Creating Dustup in Farm States," Kansas City Star, 2011.10.07].
Apparently Kristi's neighbors in Watertown and elsewhere around the state do not share her categorical mistrust of the Environmental Protection Agency. Seven South Dakota political subdivisions are requesting nearly four million dollars in grants from the EPA's 319 program to improve rural watersheds. The projects proposed by the City of Watertown, the Day Conservation District, and other groups are "intended to promote better management practices by farmers and ranchers to reduce runoff of manure and farm chemicals." Such projects are good for everybody, including farmers and ranchers, who have just as much interest in clean water as everyone else and who have a keen interest in seeing less of their expensive chemical inputs washed out of their fields.
It's one thing, a good thing, to analyze regulations and identify specific rules that might do more harm than good. It's another thing to shout blindly, as our Congresswoman does, that we can't trust anything government does. And it's wholly irresponsible and dishonest, Kristi, to sow such mistrust but still take Uncle Sam's money.
Bonus Noem Hypocrisy: Congresswoman Noem thinks South Dakota pheasant hunting needs federal support.
People really don't understand much about how their government works, and Republicans in the political class have become very adept at manipulating that ignorance through this sort of dishonesty.
The Republican power structure long ago realized that they could generate funds through EPA programs. It's been some time since I checked, but during the 1990s about 70 percent of South Dakota DENR's budget came from federal funding. For the most part, SD DENR operates the EPA environmental regulatory programs in South Dakota. EPA has some oversight responsibility, but DENR has primacy.
Second, most people may not realize that the projects funded by EPA are decided upon in Pierre by state lawmakers (Noem was one) and the state bureaucracy (controlled by Republican governors since 1978). The money usually ends up funding local projects supported by local Republican politicians. Further, the EPA money is usually spent with firms and consultants who have considerable tie in to the SD Republican Party. Those people donate money to the SD Republican Party. Some of them, I noticed, donated to Noem.
The last thing the Republican power structure in South Dakota wants is to get rid of the EPA, because then the gravy train would end.
Cory, the EPA is the government's enforcement arm of the New Age Pagan Theocracy that is being established. For more on that, research UNESCO.
text me the phone number of your pot dealer, Steve; you're definitely getting the best bud in SD: 484-7288
Cory, Sibby and Larry bring a whole new meaning to your "Madville Times" masthead. You may not want to change it after all. ;^)
"text me the phone number of your pot dealer"
Larry, a "Dr" Henry Morris backs up my point:
"The ethnic religions of the east (Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, etc.), which in large measure continue the polytheistic pantheism of the ancient pagan religions, have long espoused evolutionary views of the universe and its living things, and so merge naturally and easily into the evolutionary framework of the New Age philosophy. It is surprising, however, to find that Julian Huxley and Theodosius Dobzhansky, the two most prominent of the western scientific neo-Darwinians, were really early proponents of this modern evolutionary religion.
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Prior to these modern developments, Sir Julian Huxley, arguably the leading architect of the neo-Darwinian system, had written an influential book called Religion without Revelation, and had become, with John Dewey, a chief founder of the American Humanist Association. As first Director-General of UNESCO, he formulated the principles of what he hoped would soon become the official religion of the world."
http://www.icr.org/article/evolution-new-age/
And Bill, you have been promoting unity, so from the same link:
"Thus the general philosophy of UNESCO should, it seems, be a scientific world humanism, global in extent and evolutionary in background."
"The unifying of traditions into a single common pool of experience, awareness and purpose is the necessary prerequisite for further major progress in human evolution. Accordingly, although political unification in some sort of world government will be required for the definitive attainment of this state, unification in the things of the mind is not only necessary also, but it can pave the way for other types of unification."
i don't dispute your evidence, Steve, just your conclusions. Huxley: "to invoke the operation of God in the process is not only unnecessary but intellectually dubious."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,869678,00.html#ixzz1bErZBEua
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/18/141276405/the-man-who-tracks-viruses-before-they-spread
Larry, Time magazine's purpose is to implement the "New Age", or what people like daddy Bush (see Yale Skull and Bones) would call, "The New World Order".
"There need be no conflict between science and religion, says British Biologist Julian Huxley, but there is a sharp conflict between science and Christian theology."
Yes Larry, I already knw tha the New Age Theocracy is anti-Christian. So much for the separation of church and state. That only applies to Christian Church.
Steve, i'd like to empower the EPA to have influence to send troops to enforce environmental protection outside the US and have no problem with the NWO as long as it's done under the body of law built on the US Constitution. Bush I blew it with me by not marching on Baghdad in '91.
Statehood for Mexico!
Steve, to be clear, I'm not "promoting" unity as something that can be "achieved."
I'm asserting that there IS unity and that a great many of us are unaware of it, preferring instead to view the world in dualistic terms, either intentionally or unintentionally, out of paranoia (neurosis/psychosis) or ignorance respectively.
Unity is something one "wakes up" to, and in so doing, experiences liberation and self-actualization. i.e. the freedom was always there, just not apprehended and experienced by the individual's consciousness.
And it can't come by "believing" in it. It has to be experienced.
Hence, the "experience" of unity is what is to be achieved, not the unity itself. The unity is fundamental. A priori. The ground of being.
Ok BIll, I stand correct. Here is more (go down to the section called Servants of the Lights)
http://www.canisiusbooks.com/articles/art_na_ed2.htm
Exactly, Steve. Clearly someone is trying to brainwash you into believing in a false dualism and thereby instill in you feelings of fear, discord and mistrust in the name of some angry, paranoid construct of the Almighty. Sounds like a false prophet to me, Sibby.
Bill,
When it comes to Jesus Christ, either you are with the program or you are not. There is no middle ground. You can go ahead and call me paranoid for warning others about those who are anti-Christian, including the New Age Theocracy.
There is no middle ground in unity either, Steve.
Empirically. Literally.
All means All.
One means One.
Everything means Everything.
There are no sides on a circle.
Would jesus support a military intervention to end the rape of the Amazon Basin, ANWR, or the 'enlistment' of child soldiers, Steve?
larry,
Jesus said the Kingdom of God is not of this world.
Bill, we are united in Christ. Otherwise we have chaos. Just look around Bill.
Yes, I see people sleeping. The unity is invisible to them.
Oh, Donald, how I would love to work up a list of all the EPA-funded projects that Noem voted for in during her tenure in the Legislature. Excellent points!
Every year there is an appropriations bill whose title reads something like this: "to make appropriations from the water and environment fund, the water pollution control revolving fund subfund, and the drinking water revolving fund subfund for various water and environmental purposes and to declare an emergency."
Much of this appropriations bill is simply providing authority for various state authorities to spend federal money on various state projects. Some projects are named directly in the bill. Other parts of the bill provides a chunk of money to a specific fund from which a state board decides the specific spending levels on various projects based on rules and guidelines. The bill almost always passed unanimously, so Noem has her fingerprints all over this federal money.
Just to be clear, most of the projects since the beginning of Governor Mickelson's term have had good justification. The water project system was reformed then, and the state bureaucracy does a pretty good job most of the time in selecting the projects that get funding.
Ah, so you must be referring to these bills:
2010: SB 64
2009: HB 1238
2008: HB 1277
2007: HB 1245
Noem supported all four of these spending measures, as did all of her Legislative colleagues (except for Rep. Iron Cloud, the lone nay vote on the 2009 neasure).
I also see Noem supported increased regulation of concentrated animal feeding operations by requiring them to obtain water pollution permits (2007 SB 9). I'm of the impression CAFOs have expanded since that regulation was passed. Hmmm....
The CAFO bill (SB 9) is really Exhibit A in what goes on in South Dakota. This regulatory bill was introduced at the request of DENR and supported by the South Dakota ag power structure. The environmental community did not testify for or against the bill. I'm not sure of the backstory on this one since I've been out of SD for 10 years, but it would be interesting to find out.