Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) lashed out at Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and accused him of using junk science to kill the last operating oyster cannery in her home state.
The Drakes Bay Oyster Company had been in a long fight with the Interior Department, who said the fourth-generation family business was harming harbor seal pups and native plants, and wanted to return the coastal region in Marin County to its natural state.
In 1972, the National Park Service purchased the land that housed the oyster operation and the owner reserved a 40-year right to continue its activities through November 30, 2012.
“I’ve taken this matter very seriously. We’ve undertaken a robust public process to review the matter from all sides, and I have personally visited the park to meet with the company and members of the community,” said Salazar in a statement yesterday. “After careful consideration of the applicable law and policy, I have directed the National Park Service to allow the permit for the Drakes Bay Oyster Company to expire at the end of its current term and to return the Drakes Estero to the state of wilderness that Congress designated for it in 1976. I believe it is the right decision for Point Reyes National Seashore and for future generations who will enjoy this treasured landscape.”
The popular business enjoyed strong community support and over the years millions of dollars in studies went into the protracted fight with the government.
“As stewards of the land, our practices are driven by a deep respect for the earth and the waters of the Estero ecosystem. The farms provide jobs, housing, and income to many locals, and are a significant part of the history and diversity of this thriving agricultural community,” the company said on its website.
Now, just before the holidays, 30 people are out of work.
“I am extremely disappointed that Secretary Salazar chose not to renew the operating permit for the Drakes Bay Oyster Company,” Feinstein said. “The National Park Service’s review process has been flawed from the beginning with false and misleading science, which was also used in the Environmental Impact Statement.”
The case divided California’s two Democratic senators, with Feinstein laboring to keep the business alive and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) supporting the environmentalists.
“The secretary’s decision effectively puts this historic California oyster farm out of business,” Feinstein said. “As a result, the farm will be forced to cease operations and 30 Californians will lose their jobs.”
Death by a thousand cuts…and millions of pin pricks.
Death by a thousand cuts…and millions of pin pricks.
If you remove the word “pin” from your comment, it’s just as accurate.
Or just flip them
Death by a thousand cuts…and millions of pricks with pins.
Or
Death by a thousand cuts…and millions of pricks with pens.
let’s see- there’s 535 pricks in Congress, then there’s Obama and Biden, that’s 2 more pricks, then there’s the hundreds of czars…. man, that’s a lot of pricks.
California deserves what they get. They continue to vote in these socialist anti-Americans, so why have sympathy for them. My question is, “Why did the owners originally sell their property to the government, and why did they not get more than a 40 year extension on the permit? It’s a lick on them!
Didn’t Obama promise to renew our manufacturing capabilities?
I’m waiting for news of new factories opening…
I thought that it was encouraging that even one Democrat opposed this “green” initiative. The question of environmentalism and its penetration by radicals is still up in the air. My answer: push science education in the schools as soon as practical, but it must not be politicized. It will be, however, so the struggle most indicated is for school choice, supporting those schools that are not anti-science. I wrote about that here: http://clarespark.com/2012/11/25/the-tea-party-and-the-greens/.
What he maybe meant was the manaufacture of regulations/laws/edicts
This is much more “eco” than the manufacture of actual hardware, which harms Mother Earth.
Even the democrats are being effected by their own policys. Feinsteins is upset over the Oysters, what about all of the farmers in Northern California that lost their jobs (thousands – not to mention some of the best produce in the world is now gone too) because of a silly fish the delta smelt!!! Does anyone remember the blueberry farmers in Oregon that were threatened if they didn’t pay up big to the feds they weren’t going to be able to ship their berrys this fall? – And it is a democratic state!!!
Just wait until all of the defense contractors begin to loose their jobs. Thousands are projected to get cut in January!!! And all of those union workers that voted for Obama – won’t they be proud as we slide into another recession? Just who is going to buy their cars???? Can they say Hostess!?
You are right, the defense contractors jobs are “loose” and they very well may “lose” them.
DiFi doesn’t like the result but doesn’t see any connection or responsibility for her support of the Dumbocrats. She is too corrupt and too dumb to realize that linking herself with the Party Of Barbara Boxhead will result in the destruction of America.
The most egregious part is the spending of “over the years millions of dollars in studies.” Government fraud and waste.
That’s the game. Favored “green” consultants and lawyers get involved with sweet contracts ( which perhaps 10% of $$$ somehow finding it’s way back to the politicians) and deliver a result (or should I say scientific study) which is politically correct.
Just following the UN’s Agenda 21 anti human policy.
On the one hand – you have to love seeing Feinstein screwed over by the EPA.
On the other hand – you have to hate another example of fake science by the EPA.
On the third hand – it sounds like the government cut a deal to buy the land for a park in 1972 which the sellers now want to get out of – and I say the company made a deal, don’t try to use political connections to walk on that deal.
Did they “make a deal” or were they given an offer they couldn’t refuse?
I tried to find the history and cannot. The current owner purchased the operation in 2004 – so he knew he was buying a company based on a lease that expired in 8 years at the time. Presumably he priced his purchase accordingly. So the current owner is voluntarily in the deal.
If back in 1972 the government used condemnation to obtain the underlying land, then the then-owners were forced into the deal but at least with some protection to protest the price. On the other hand, tough for me to see a “national seashore” as justifying condemnation although clearly Kelso (a stupid decision) would rule otherwise.
Over50, the original sale and lease-back call for renewal of the forty-year lease in perpetuity: http://is.gd/3Ux00c This is a case of Interior/EPA not honoring agreements made by their predecessors, and using junk science to justify their decision.
(Of course, this is nothing new for Salazar, who used falsified reports to justify the drilling “permitorium” after the Gulf oil spill a couple of years ago.)
There is a whole lot of history at this blog: http://oysterzone.wordpress.com/the-chronology-of-drakes-estero-events/
The 44-page chronology is an interesting place to start.
This has nothing to do with the EPA. It’s the Park Service that wanted the oyster farm gone, and they report to Salazar.
The “deal” that the oyster farmers made was to purchase the remainder of a permit that was RENEWABLE. The Park Service has edited that out of the narrative.
Senator Feinstein got involved at the request of the Marin County Supervisors. They asked for her involvement when it became clear that the Park Service was using *falsified science* to try to further its agenda. The Park Service has a shocking amount of power, and they abused it here.
Pretty soon the whole state will be returning to its “natural state of wilderness,” as everyone will have left.
California is attempting an interesting experiment. They’re attempting to create an entire ecosystem (and econsystem) populated by parasites. Somehow, I don’t think that’s going to end well.
WordPress is sucking again. Attempt #4.
Over50 – I thought I read that the origninal understanding was that the lease would be renewed in perpetuity – this is fairly (ar at least used to be) when leasing land in a National Forest.
On the other hand, understandings and realities may be too different things.
The current owner purchased the operation in 2004 – presumably he was smart enough to pay only what the remaining 8 year lease term justified. At a minimum I would have structured the deal to pay in 2004 for the 8 year value and agree to a further payment if a renewal was granted. No matter what the history and “understanding” might be, when it comes to paying hard dollars (OK Ben B. to be inflated dollars) anyone with common business sense should have put the risk of renewal on the seller.
This was not a normal business transaction because it involved government land. In that situation, you can’t just structure things the way you prefer.
The previous owner was all set to do construction on a big visitor’s center and new processing plant (approved by the Park Service in 1998–nothing has really changed since then except the NPS agenda) but then he died so it didn’t happen. The current owners, the Lunnys, purchased the remainder of the lease but it is much more complicated than a lease, being a deal with the government–it’s a “reservation of use” and there are various arcane rules and hoops to jump through.
I would have to review the documents, but it appears that whatever they said, they did not clearly give rights in perpetuity – otherwise the owners could be in court enforcing their rights. That means they bought it knowing there were only 8 years left but hoping to renew. (A “reservation of use” does not tell me anything without seeing the terms of the document; again if it was a right of use in perpetuity, they could go get it enforced.) If they bought in 2004 without thinking the government might refuse to renew, they were foolish. If they bought and decided to take that risk, well, sometimes those risks you assume occur.
So, is she going to sponsor some legislation to rein in the Department of the Interior, the EPA, et al?
*crickets*
Salazar is Colorado’s gift to the nation that keeps on giving. Feinstein is only a capitalist when it suits her.
Sorry Californians, this is what you want. You’ve voted for this garbage time and again.
“You’ve voted for this garbage time and again.”
So, since Salazar and Obama have been renewed on the Federal level, YOU also deserve to support the people who work in small businesses in California that are being forced out by their arbitrary decisions?
The whole country is being decimated by these people and you think we DESERVE it? That’s the attitude that will allow it to continue and destroy us all.
If you’re from CA then yes, you deserve it. You continue to elect environmental extremists to all levels of government and inflict them on the rest of us. I have no sympathy for self-inflicted wounds.
Eric, can’t disagree with you more. I am from California and as long as this state and many others are controlled by the Urban Archipelagos that exist, our country and state will slowly die. Remember “a farmer can feed a city but a city feeds no one”.
Mac
Mac,
there is a reason that states like CA lead the pack in terms of people leaving – even they finally realized the stupidity of re-electing the same folks with the same ideas was not going to yield better results. Your state took a huge chunk of farm country off the grid, and for what?
Elections have consequences and Blue states are losing people day by day, year by year. I don’t mind them moving to my part of the country but I will have to insist that they don’t attempt to remake it into what they left.
Alex: “…I will have to insist that they don’t attempt to remake it into what they left.”
How do you propose to do that? They come in to your state with their horrid politics & overtake the voting process with their numbers & guess what? Now your state is run by a bunch of extremist liberal whackos who have never seen a tax hike they didn’t like & just love pols who look for ways to put employers out of business for the “sake” of the environment.
Alex,
>Elections have consequences and Blue states are losing people day by day, year by year. I don’t mind them moving to my part of the country but I will have to insist that they don’t attempt to remake it into what they left.<
There's a problem with your supposition. Emigrants from failing blue states will not be interested in your insistance that they not remake your part of the country. They will bring their insanity with them and their numbers will be sufficient to adversely affect your state, especially if your population is small. Ask Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Idaho how thats working out for them. Here in New Hampshire (motto "Live Free or Die", Massachusetts and New York emigrants have turned things upside down. Texas can absorb this insanity, small states cannot.
Another CA victim here. I am not disagreeing in general but to be accurate, we do not necessarily vote for environmentalists. We vote primarily for public union shills with a few eco-types thrown into the mix. The union owned politicians however, have no incentive to do a cost/benefit analysis on any environmental policy. We the private sector victims of extreme eco-policies can’t touch them and they get to posture on about saving the planet etc to draw attention away from the fact that they are controlled by the unions.
And those that pulled us all into surfdom DESERVE to be destroyed.
If you haven’t gone Galt yet, please stay there and roast.
We don’t want you despoiling Galt’s Gulch too.
I mentioned in the local papers regarding this travesty that, odds are, most of those people that worked at the oyster farm probably voted for Obama. You have to wonder if they would again? I wouldn’t be surprised if they would. Californians are funny like that.
That’s highly unlikely.
You need to rejigger your estmates. The business is semi-rural, and the workers are many of them blue collar. At least *some* of them are Republicans and voted for Romney.
Go to the Oyster Bars in San Francisco, and look at 1000 people who eat the oysters from this place, who are going to see the price of oysters go up when they have to be shipped in from out of state…those people are pretty much exclusively Democrats…
This is the *Feds* shutting down a local business. California Fish & Game actually stood up for them recently, and the Marin County Board of Supervisors worked hard to try to protect the oyster farm from this abuse of power.
She’s only upset because she bought oysters from there and it would be inconvenient to shop elsewhere. This kind of thing is happening all around the country as Interior and EPA smash farms and businesses left and right. But you never hear the liberals complain until such a strike causes them personal inconvenience.
That’s not true. Senator Feinstein has worked hard on behalf of the Lunnys because they were being railroaded by the Park Service, which used false science to conduct their harassment campaign. Just as her statement says.
Just because you don’t agree with everything a person does–or even if you disagree with most of what she has done–that’s no reason to assume the worst in every case.
Senator Feinstein has acted honorably here and deserves our thanks for that.
Does DiFi prefer Tabasco sauce or horseradish on her oysters?
A Democrat acting honorably? You should write for Leno or Conan.
She supported legislation, Interior and EPA when these things ravaged businesses in other parts of the country and bragged about her environmental record. The fact that She’s now getting a taste of her own medicine can’t change all of that. I’ll grant you maybe she doesn’t eat oysters from there, but her constituents do and they are threatening something even more valuable than oysters to a politician: votes.
I lived in California for decades, and although she is a Democrat, DIFi always struck me as having a core of integrity, and was someone who worked for her constituents.
In other words,a old time Democrat. Not my party, but people you could work with. Rarer than spotted owls now.
Then, Sarah, that is the only positive thing she has attempted to do that I can recall.
Bet they took the money anyway when they sold the 40 acres to the gubmint.
Faustian deal. Tough $**t, guy.
Bet he’s a Democrat too. Learning now, guy?
So when the delta smelt, a fish about the length of your pinky, allowed enviros to shut down a huge portion of California’s farmlands, DiFi didn’t bat an eye. But by God, shut down her favorite oysters! It’s junk science and how dare you! There’s no hypocrite like an old, ugly California hypocrite.
What DiFi really ought to be upset about is the millions of acres Salazar has made off-limits to drilling and the thousands of people put out of work because of his high-handed and illegal tactics. But oysters are important.
Just curious if Feinstein worried about the people losing their jobs because of the delta smelt? Good job California another company lost and more people out of work. Good thing we raised our taxes. Geez
She voted against it. I remember that. Tom McClintock was trying to get them their water back and she wouldn’t let them have it. Whole town went Detroit.
If a doctor informs you that you have brain cancer and will shortly die, you presume his findings are based on science. If NASA announces they have landed a robot on Mars, you know this was based on science. If the Interior Department announces that they have spent millions of dollars on science, and as a result, will destroy the livelihoods of thirty oyster cannery people, you can be absolutely certain that this is based on politics.
Or witchcraft. We are not far from the Salem Witch trials. In the future we may expect oyster beds to be formed by cadavers, anchored to the sea floor by chains. The innocent capitalists will float, all others will support the environment, by government decree.
Green is an ugly color.
So, when her favorite oyster company gets taken out, it’s junk science, so does that mean all her electricity has to get shut down before she’ll get upset about the global warming junk science?
– still will kow tow to Ubama.
It is very heartening to see these staunch allies at odds with each other. Although I’m sure Feinstein will find some way to subsidize this injustice.
This is what happens when you have Statist in your government ! Welcome to Communism , America ! Because half of the electorate are illiterate in economics , Civics and pre-occupied with free Obamaphones, American Idol, free foodies , free housing , we have been saddled with a Marxist Revolutionary free to forge forward with Agenda 21 ! Until these parasites are mugged by reality , they will be asleep !
Don’t worry Di, the current license to Drakes Bay Oyster Co. will not be extended. But, be patient, in a year or two a new license will be issued to a trusted Obama supporter. Remember how the Presidio in San Francisco got cut up among “friends” when the US Army gave up the property?
Does Salazar have a son-in-law who knows anything about oyster farming? What about Biden’s kid?
Why do they have to know anything about oyster farming? Wouldn’t it be more typical to give a massive federal subsidy to someone who knows nothing and then marvel when the business fails? Of course said individual will be a staunch Democratic supporter, will have Democratic investors, and be fully unionized.
Not surprising that she would try to save the jobs of 30 constituents. Seems too many of them have left the state because the businesses are leaving in droves. Who wants to do business in a state that has so many crazies that they vote to increase their own taxes?
I also wonder if her bed partner Pelosi is peeved because her hubby has controlling interest in the cannery?
There is always so much beneath the radar corruption (and stupidity) in CA that one has no difficulty understanding why they keep electing Waters, Pelosi, Feinstein, and Boxer.
Isn’t this part of Agenda 21?
This is liberal cannabalism.
The bay area foodie movement, exemplified by high priestess Alice Waters, has emphasized fresh local products with a minimal carbon footprint.
Leftiest restaurantiers will take it lying down rather than defy the Holy Bama.
Diane reaps what she sowed….. The Oyster farm was environmentally sound and nothing was harmed .. Nothing.. But when you sleep with dogs, fleas can happen.
A few days ago my PETA belonging sister ( who I love dearly ) forwarded a Defense of Animals e mail to me titled “ WHY DOES PELOSI SELL VEAL? ” ( Seems she has ownership in the Piatti chain of restaurants and the move a lot of veal chops ) and my suggestion that as most San Francisco Liberal s she is pathologically hypocritical. Well , here is Diane Feinstein a US Senator and Liberal San Francisco Pol, who I am sure has something to say about everyone else’s environmental trespasses all pissed off at her own guy, Obamas Secy of The Interior , Kingpin Beef Rancher Salazar. False Science yet… Like Man-De-Made Global Warming maybe ? This is sooooooooo rich.
“Treasured landscape” doesn’t feed your family. Return Marin county to its pristine natural state by evicting the environmentalists.
When do you suppose CA will come asking for help in the form of dollars? Or maybe demanding help from the rest of us that live in prudent states that live within our means for better or worse. I grew up in CA, and loved the state, but saw 30 years ago where it was going…now America is doing exactly the same thing.
amazing how it’s “junk science” when it affects someone on the left.
Note to DiFi: welcome to the reality you voted for. The guy at the head of your party sees destruction of capitalism as the goal and every step he has taken is in that direction. But you folks keep pulling that Team Blue lever.
So Mrs.Feinstein is crying about those her ilk put into power? That’s rich. Funny she isn’t crying about so many others she’s responsible for putting out of work. SB 510 comes to mind.
Senator Feinstein
After all of the unbelievable actions and legislation you have been involved in over your many years in the Senate, you are now concerned about not getting oysters. How does that old saying go, yes “paybacks are a B***H.
Well I am confused. Feinstein is on the side of junk science, but she is upset when it hits one of her constituents. Salizar is the consummate fraud pushing leftist, so where have you been the past few years leftist incarnate Feinstein?
Ken Salazar has consistently struck me as a not too bright diehard egotist, dogmatic, arrogant, somewhat in the style of SEIU guy Andy (“If we can’t use the power of persuasion, we’ll use the persuasion of power”) Stern.
So many of Barack’s appointees have that characteristic, ASIF they’ve been appointed to dictate, not to make good policy decisions. A lot of these agencies are out of control, inside their own power bubble, like the EPA.
Salazar was the guy who left for his Colorado vacation immediately after the Deep Horizon well blew in the gulf.
One piece that’s worth reading from February, 2011. Includes a lengthy post from one of the commenters above. It has a lot of history of the farm (including that the lease was supposed to be renewable). I wish I had more time to read the comments at the bottom of the piece, but maybe after work.
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2011/02/public-comments-run-against-extension-oyster-company-lease-point-reyes-national-seashore7597
Sometimes you like DiFi, sometimes you don’t.
Sometimes she seems confused, as in an argument for term limits (She’s been “serving” in the Senate for 20 years.)
Sometimes she’s pure democrat hypocrite, as in promoting gun laws for the hoi polloi while she, herself, is a gun owner.
No, actually, I NEVER like DiFi. She is a 100% reliable enviro-wacko anti-business (except HER business) big-government anti-freedom senator. She’s an expert at divide & conquer tho, but this time she got what she asked for: a government agency that can act independently to shut down a business it doesn’t like, any time it likes.
She’s just pissed off that HER ox got gored. Otherwise she wouldn’t give a crap.
The FEDERAL government needs to go.. It has zero authority to exist and commit the crimes it does on a second by second basis 24/7. It’s time.
Sorry Feinstein, this is what youve supported for your whole life.
Enjoy!
So…………. what was Di-Fi doing for the past 40 years? Sound asleep? Too busy making chocolate chip cookies? What? She’s been in the Senate forever. Why wait until it’s a done deal to flap her lip at Salazar. She must have known for along time that this was going on in her state!
My guess is that it would have been out of sync with her Liberal constituency and her outrage right now is a sop to those who actually have companies that provide jobs for California residents.
I feel sorry for the family and the company. No sympathy for the two female dog senators from California who perpetrate such Agenda 21 nonsense on the American citizens. Frankly, however, if people were more willing to defend their property (and I don’t mean with shysters) this government scum would be forced to either give up or show their real nature. NO MORE PROPERTY RIGHTS… THE GOVERNMENT WANTS IT ALL. The “environment” is just their current excuse.
1. So Senator Feinstein is against “false science” when it directly affects her constituency. Should we look for her to oppose any measures to “curb global warming?”
2. Under what Constitutional authority does the National Park Service exist?
Feinstein recognized junk science in this one instance – Amazing – but I have faith that she will not connect the dots to all of the other junk science that is used by the EPA, DOE, DOI etc that funds stupid rules and restricitons on Americans and development. Of course the one thing these agencies, feinstein and bureaucrats in Washingotn DC have in comon – they are all liberal fascists who want to control peoples lives and undermine individual freedom.
Hey Di,
Not so funny when it happens to YOU or your constituents, huh?
Point Reyes and Drakes Bay areas are as different as us and the moon. Drakes is a quiet, peaceful, bay (named after Sir Francis Drake, who made anchor here with the crew of the Golden Hind). I think we can tolerate the historic oyster canning company. AND if you visit both you’ll see they are not connected. I rarely agree with Senator Feinstein but in this case… GO Dianne !!!!!
I will wager a large sum of money that a majority of the oyster company employees vote Democratic, year in, year out. And just how’s that working out, anyway?
GOD PROTECT US FROM ENVIRONMENTALISTS.
Apparently, the reason downtown NYC was hit so hard by Hurricane Sandy was because the oyster beds that used to surround lower Manhattan/Brooklyn are all gone — long ago dredged to extinction for a deep harbor. The law of unintended consequences: NY needs a deep harbor for commerce, but flooding destroys commerce. There’s talk now of trying to bring the oysters back.
In this case, it is in the interest of the oyster company to make sure that the oyster beds it harvests continue to grow. This will keep the oyster company in business, at the same time protecting the water and land. This is the science National Park Service seems to have missed. The oyster beds will be better protected by the oyster company, who has a financial interest in its survival, than by anyone else.
Screw ‘em– Marin County went 72% Obama. I am done going to bat for these idiots.
I haven’t heard of Sen Whinestein complain about Al Gore’s junk science. Would she know junk science if it bit her on the nose?
All true, Mike@46, but…
Real science, facts, logic, have never been a bureaucrat’s strong suit. Compliance with his bosses’ wishes have. Therein lies a big part of our problem. The “bosses” are politicians, hiding behind their bureaucrats when that suits them, throwing them under the bus, when not.
The pol’s game is power-poker, fueled by financial interest. Scientific truth is only one pawn in that game. “King” is a sufficiently informed, reasonable, but also insistently vocal majority (or minority) with sufficient means and a consistent desire to exert its influence. This has become rare in our highly diversified, sound-bite driven, range-of-the-moment culture. That is, it has become rare on the “maker” side, the makers being too busy, as well as socially ostracized, whereas the “takers” by definition have plenty of time on hand to stir their “agenda cauldrons”. The second big part of our problem.
DiFi needs to be seen as both, a symptom of this process, and one of its co-creators. Proof? She becomes energized “in the right direction”, acting from own initiative, only when reality personally affects her negatively. The remainder of her time she is involved in creating, to her own benefit, precisely the problem she now feels compelled to solve. How did she get there? She, herself, couldn’t tell you to save her life. Does she even notice the connection? Better to doubt that. If she does, will she act on it? Better doubt that, too. The third part of the problem.
All of her life, she has “gone along to get along”, without any particular concern for the primacy of science, facts, logic, or truth concerning real things. “Truth” was what other people thought might be so, and what seemed “saleable” to their tastes and prejudices. Now that a minor crisis has forced her to attend, temporarily, to physical reality, she will find some way out of it that squares HER sums. When she does, expect no further residue from this teachable moment. It will be back to business as usual, the game of power-poker.
This MO, of this world’s DiFi’s, will continue until “we the people” change our lackadaisical and naively trusting MO with regard to selecting our rep’s, to one where we become extremely distrustful, misanthropic even, and utterly humorless, demanding, martinets. Are we up to it? To demanding reason and a staunch adherence to fact and truth from our pols? Will our culture still support, let alone reward, such efforts? I don’t know, and I suspect neither does anybody else commenting or blogging here.
And, therein lies the fourth part and greater measure of our problem. We have come to lack confidence and coherence of will; the confidence that we can make truth matter, the coherence of will to demand, intransigently, nothing less. Truth, by nature, is intolerant of compromise, while our recent cultural relativity and diversity have falsely taught the supreme value of compromise as an end in itself. People must rediscover and demand a recognition that the reality of oysterbeds, and of a pleased constituency devoted to magical thinking of one kind or another, are not of the same order.
The reality of oysterbeds being beneficial to our survival, and even to our comfort, and being still more beneficial when properly attended and groomed by our input while generating tradeable revenue, is as intransigent as is our danger and discomfort from its neglect. This reality is not tradeable against magical incantations. It admits of no compromise.
You may be able to conjure a “deal” with your “god”. Your oysterbed will only respect your proper stewardship, and only then will it serve you well. The “oysterbed issue” will have to become our key metaphor in dealing with our representatives’ incantations to our wishful thinking. Our will to demand only real solutions to real problems will decide the outcome. Only this will solve the problem of too many Dianne Feinsteins in politics.
Well, Diane, this is the shoe on the other foot. You commissioned your little study about whether bringing Gitmo detainees onto US Soil presented a security risk and – surprise!! – the results of the report were exactly what you needed for your agenda of closing the facility and bringing the terrorists here (begging the question: what are you getting out of carrying the water for the recent Federal purchase of an Illinois maximum security facility intended to be used “to provide humane and secure confinement of individuals held under authority of any Act of Congress” (http://michellemalkin.com/2012/11/30/gitmo-north-returns-obamas-shady-prison-deal/). At the very least, you and Senator Levin earn the Useful Idiot of the Week Award.
Ken Salazar hates human beings and all their works, and the merest microbe has a greater claim on existence and survival than any person or human endeavor. He commissions studies that invariably support his agenda, or give him the ammo necessary to browbeat people into submission to it.
So, Di, how does that petard you’re hoisted on feel?
It couldn’t have happened to a better place, Marin County. While I feel sorry for the employer and employees they will be able to enjoy the benefits of Obamanomics. They need to sign up for every social welfare program available and be drains on the economy instead of taxpayers. In fact the more California residents that do that the better. They need to crash the economy there.
It’s lovely when she complains about something that her legilative record has supported and encouraged.
Richard Blum must have an interest in the business.
Things have to get worse before they can get better. As a customer, I m sorry to see them go. As a Libertarian, I am waiting to see how many more businesses needed to go before the state gets wise. I predict a LOT more.
Just another step towards the Eco-Shoah.
While this pales to the large scale impvoverishment of the Central Valley when San Fran stole their water, this is part and parcel of the mindset.
If I were the owners, I would chain myself to the property.
It’s a sour laugh, but I’m laughing.
This could be right out of one of Ayn Rand’s novels.
Dutiful Liberal Sen. Feinstein discovers at last
that making friends with the Wolf is no guarantee that he’ll only eat
people you don’t like…
Feinstein goes strictly by the Alinsky playbook. The entire Senate needs removed and let the “Treason” charges begin. On the other hand,if she is standing for something right,you can be sure that she is up to no good behind the curtain. She and Boxer are right behind “Agenda 21″. They are both anti-American,”useful idiots”. California elections struck by fraud again. Will Californian’s let yet another fraudulent election stand?
Sen Feinstein, if this is “junk science”, then you need to admit that all environmental “science” is junk as well. You swerved into the truth here as a matter of constituent service, and now you’re going to have a lot of explaining to do to your base. I won’t bother asking you to consider adopting this position for all environmental “junk science’ because I’m not stupid and know you will never do that, but I am going to keep an eye on this in the hope that the environmental extremists who are your base make you pay a political price for your heresy.
Nothing more satisfying than a liberal ox gored, and as Jeremiah Wright might say, her ‘chickens come home to roost.’
The EPA and other government agencies have their doctrine resting on junk science and science fraud. Consider the method used by the supervising government scientist in presenting DDT information to the Congressional subcommittee.
The government has embeddeed Linear No Threshold into law and has no knowledge of the Hormesis Effect.
These morons that we have for representatives just prove that they are all self serving hypocrits that care nothing for the interests of our country. And the proof that’s in the pudding is that the constituencies that represent labor unions, environmentalists and lawyers are wrecking havoc on our once thriving economy. It won’t be long until no one has a job in America. It appears that dumbing down works because we just re-elected dedicated Socialists that are intent upon weakening the economy further.