Comments on: Going, Going, Gone! Bush Auctions Off Wilderness Land in Utah

By: paz3

paz3 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:57:05 +0000

The whole state of Utah is a “rethug” area, except for Salt Lake City, and there will not be any drilling or mining there.

Try again…

By: james

james — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:05:45 +0000

Hey, it’s all good, right?

I mean we elected a black man president, didn’t we? And y’all know that the color of one’s skin and the platitudes and aphorisms they spout speak so much louder than the actions they take, right?

Obama is speaking volumes with his actions by letting a war criminal (Gates) remain in his cabinet post, by naming the enemy (Republicans, and yes, they are the enemy at this point) to cabinet posts, by hinting that the Bush tax cuts will remain in effect while the rest of us take it up the rectum and pay from the same orifice.

Obama, change? As far as I’m concerned they shouldn’t be used in the same sentence.

By: cinnamonape

cinnamonape — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:05:24 +0000

Also today Bush signed an executive order allowing medical personnel to deny treatment if that violated their religious beluiefs.

I know this is Bush’s FU to people who want women to have access to abortions and contraception…but what I guess that means is that someone that believes that medicine gets in the way of miraculous cures could deny any treatment to patients at all. Or providing health assistance to someone they consider a demon (i.e a dictator, murderer, terrorist, or merely, perhaps, someone who is mentally ill). A doctor converted to the branch of Catholocism that Bobby Jindal belongs to might recommend exorcism. Doctors might start denying immunizations. Some religious sects actually say that transplants and transfusions are sinful.

And someone who belongs to a Christian Identity White Supremicist church may be allowed to deny treatment to a minority group.

By: cinnamonape

cinnamonape — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:57:54 +0000

“I wonder if anyone is eligible to buy up sections of the beautiful wilderness simply to preserve them…I’d love receive some wilderness for Yule this year!”

I’m not sure if the leases requires the actual development of the lands for mining/ranching…but I suppose one could bid, not use them, and then they would come up later for another auction through a voiding of the terms of the lease. THAT might allow the lands to be “recaptured” for conservation usage.

By: Kassandra

Kassandra — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:47:13 +0000

Somebody should have told Bush that, when they stole 2000 for him, they did NOT give him the deed to America. Oh they DID give him the deed? Nevermind…….

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:51:53 +0000

I wish could do a film on Artesia, NM. The City was named for its artesian wells. There is a refinery there which supplies the military as a result many environmental protections have not been enforced. Driving east on hiway 82 starting at US285 (the route from Roswell to Carlsbad) immediately at the intersection is the refinery. A nose clip is advised. Proceding east past all the oilfield junk one comes to major oilfiels. A disaster of epic proportions. The delicate flora totally abused by roads pits and pumps. By the way the water in Artesia is no longer potable.

By: RevBev

RevBev — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:47:01 +0000

How scary….Ive known some about the Mormon influence, but had no idea of the pervasiveness, I guess. I had a woman friend who had been raised Mormon, and the whole experience was still terrifying for her and very sad in the way her family still believed.

By: Blub

Blub — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:42:53 +0000

actually, the new, post-shrub Utah landscape can be pretty too:

Bingham Mine, Utah:
http://bp3.blogger.com/_Ymx9e6.....tynsky.jpg

And nickel tailings runoff.. the colors aren’t photoshopped:
http://bp3.blogger.com/_Ymx9e6....._34_EB.jpg

Beautiful in an eerie kind of way.. just a little cancerous.

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:33:38 +0000

Gee, will they be able to remove their mountain tops too. /s

By: Hugh

Hugh — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:33:11 +0000

It’s just some last minute looting. They will be doing this until Obama actually takes the oath of office. As Addington said, they will keep pushing until they are stopped, and no one has ever been there to stop them. They still aren’t.