[meteorite-list] President Obama Places Over 265 Million Acres Of Land Off-limits

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---- Michael Blood via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote: 
> Please keep political pronouncements off this list - especially pretending
> It has to do with meteorites, their recovery or some other form of
> propaganda.
> Sincerely,
> Michael Blood
> 
> 
> On 2/12/16 9:58 PM, "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> >   Our freedoms have been horribly eroded in the last few years, especially in
> > the last 7 years.  People just let it happen and don't complain unless it
> > directly, and seriously affects them.  It is now affecting the meteorite
> > hunter's ability to hunt for meteorites, and that affects us all, including
> > the modest collector.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Meteorite-list <meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com> on behalf
> > of Dennis Miller via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> > Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 9:25 PM
> > To: Galactic Stone & Ironworks
> > Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com; Raremeteorites
> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] President Obama Places Over 265 Million Acres Of
> > Land Off-limits
> > 
> > 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
> >> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> 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
> >> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> 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
> >>> 
> >>> 
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