Rep. Kristi Noem got her embarrassing, myth-based, no-jobs dust bill through the House last week. She's already lied about the health effects of the rural dust she wants to exempt from EPA regulations. Last week she lied from the floor of the House about the intent of her signature bill.
At 1:43 in the above video, Rep. Noem says, "this bill doesn't eliminate any regulations." But Noem's HR 1633 does eliminate regulations. It exempts rural nuisance dust from the Clean Air Act. In her very next breath, Rep. Noem admits this: "It simply leaves the regulation of rural dust to the states and to the local communities who best understand how to manage what is happening in their own backyard."
Elsewhere, Noem says "Dust is an inherently local issue." In other words, if you (or more accurately, the wealthy industrialist campaign donors in your backyard) want your county to go back to looking like 1970's America or today's Beijing, then she won't let the Environmental Protection Agency do its job and protect your neighbors from harkful particulate matter. She will eliminate publicly beneficial regulations and lie in the process.
We can tie this nicely to your other thread on atheism like this, Cory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0zSB2WEtwU
All we are is ducks in the wind....
In dust we trust...
She is such a liar. That is what kills me about Barth and Varilek calling her a Tea Partier all the time. She is only looking out for one person. Herself.
It would be nice if the Dems could get J Ellis to stop writing fluff pieces about her every couple weeks. I can only imagine what he has already sitting in his desk about her graduation from college.
Sure hoping that this comes up during the campaign. You know, the whole lying to the American public in passing a law might not go over very well.
Noem, of course, will be tied to this one and only piece of work she has done for South Dakota.
Mike, I would hope and think that the political reporters in the state could probably have some fun with this. Unfortunately the media's sense and sensibility for picking lies out of political rhetoric is no longer important. More the pity, it's probably because there are so many to choose from.
Of course a prominent citizen journalist/blogger could call/email her staff and get her to explain why it isn't a lie...have fun Cory. Their non response would be incriminating. Lessen of course Mr. Shields would like to dig a deeper hole for his employer.
Of course the RepubKlubs could give her a litmus test and find her lacking in their eyes and primary her. I wonder what bills they would have to weigh her performance on...
Go get her Stace!
Retrograde Republicans is a phrase you are free to use. Even abbreviate it to RetroReubs if you want to.
The hog dust in confinements is a serious problem. When I farmed I was not in them all day and my coughing allergies went down by half when I quit farming. The farm magazines in those days noticed that the full time employees who worked in them all day could get respetory deseases in five years. So they started letting Mexicans in on five year work permits so they could go home to Mexico to die. You can not grow up on a farm now days and tell me you are not at all aware of at least some of this problem. Blame in on dust from a field but that is not what industrial dust is about. It is about the dust from the industry that is caused by the industry that kills people. They never were talking about the wind blowing dirt.
Its one thing when people make fun of you for your passion or for your principles whether they are leftist or righties. Its another thing when you are made fun of across the nation for being dumb. Which is what happened to her, and ultimately South Dakota when she introduced this bill. I had friends across the country textin me saying how did you guys elect this person, when this bill came about.
Those darn liberals over at the RCJ editorial board seem to think this isn't the best use of Kristi's time and efforts.
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/opinion/editorial-farm-dust-bill-is-unnecessary/article_1b512d06-2517-11e1-af60-0019bb2963f4.html
I think we need Kristi to introduce a bill that guarantees no one will stop Sibby and Stace from selling fairy dust from their unicorn ranch on the internets.
Never mind that they're not doing it now and don't intend to. We need a law that protects their right to do it if and when they want to.
I think we need to be crystal clear about this Cory and Jana. There could be a lot of jobs on the line here, guys. Let's not kill the unicorn job creators or the confidence fairy.
That's what I think anyways.
Noem campaign beneficiary of alleged illegal PAC activity:
http://www.rollcall.com/news/reform_groups_ask_irs_to_investigate_crossroads_gps-211051-1.html
A constant flow of information from health and agricultural agencies used to come across my farm editor's desk on the health hazards of farming, which is ranked among the top 3 hazardous occupations. Farmers lung is a very old disease about which the extension services sent out bulletins. Organic toxic syndrome became rather prevalent. These are all air borne hazards. Before no tillage and minimum tillage practices became widespread, the Dakota sky used to turn grey and pink as the winds of March and April carried the soil aloft. As the low tillage practices took hold, a new disease became prevalent. It was a toxic reaction to residues from herbicides and pesticides carried by dust particles in the air. Apparently, the controls for wind soil erosion have seemed to reduce that syndrome. During the late 80s and early 90s, the agricultural chemical companies were besieged with law suits from people who suffered the effects of breathing residual chemicals that invaded their lungs and were absorbed through the skin. I experienced the syndrome at the time with an annual spring cold that caused the cancellation of classes for many days at a time, and finally during a siege that seemed like it was headed for inevitable pneumonia as I was traveling to deliver a paper in Michigan, i was sidelined to the University of Iowa Hospitals where a physician knew what the problem was immediately. After administering some shots and providing me with a face mask, I was sent on my way. For a number of springs after that I was the masked professor on campus. However, that problem seems to be no longer prevalent, and I haven't needed that face mask for many years. However, when this EPA look at farm dust regulation came up, I was looking for some mention of this problem and found the discussion was absolutely silent on that subject. I wonder if the problem has been greatly reduced or if Monsanto also has board members serving on the EPA.
Surprise! Ag dust laced with Atrazine linked to menstrual irregularities, maybe spontaneous abortions:
http://www.onearth.org/article/atrazine-in-water-tied-to-menstrual-irregularities-low-hormones