Lazy Blogging
October 29th, 2003 - 12:48 am
Another busy night and morning, so here’s some linky goodness to tide you over:
Wes Clark does another backflip.
Hey, why not just give everything west of the Mississippi to the Feds?
Bill Safire gives us “The Ecstacy Index.”
How Bush is right — and wrong — about postwar Iraq.
Deputy Mayor assassinated in Baghdad.
More space rays coming to kill your cell phone.
Say it ain’t so — Courtney Love charged with drug possession.
Discuss amongst yourselves for a bit.
I feel so alone, there’s no one to play with at 4:15 am.
Anyhoo, I clicked on the Courtney Love link… I was disappointed. She got busted for prescription pain killers. I figured it was herion again.
Even the hard-druggin’ rockers are getting tame.
It’s a sad commentary on our nation’s drug elite. They’ve all gotten soft.
Check again, Steve….
Much of the land west of the Mississippi already belongs to Federal Goobermint. BLM and Forest Circus administrated lands account for about half of the area of the 11 westernmost states. Up until about 20 years ago, the Feds were trying to give it away (Mining Act of 1872, Homestead Act, etc).
Now, there are many initiatives to get back land from the regular people (notice where the funds from the Colorado Lottery go? open space purchases).
It seems that us regular guys can’t be trusted with land. Only the likes of the Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, Earth First, etc can have the insight on what to with open space.
Ed
Oh, sure Ed. The mean old Nature Conservancy is out to rob deh regular workin’ joe out of his property.
Gah. Who do you think gives and sells property to TNC? People who want to see their family lands not turned into strip malls and WalMarts. Here’s a clue: “regular guys” don’t build strip malls.
Here’s another clue: The economic value of open space is enormous. When you add the benefits of clean air, water, intact soils, etc. to the value added by recreational opportunities, it beats ranching and farming hands down.
Here in Kansas, less than 10% of the state’s GDP goes to agriculture and ranching. About 80% of its water does.
Ranching and farming in the Dakotas just isn’t possible without Soviet style socialist big money pumps propping up failed economies. These towns are emptying out, the population is aging — what’s your great idea to do about it, if not a preserve like the Buffalo Commons?
hey i’m a regular joe and i do develop land and build walmarts.. you’re not being civil and i’m very close to blowing a gasket
leftists like you sell their land to tnc (which is funny, cause you should just give it away and get away from this whole bourgeois oppression thing)
but yeah, no subsidies of any kind for anyone
Hey, Hey since much of the Dakotas, etc. are losing population, I don’t see anyone building stripmalls or anything else for the forseeable future.
Bison seem to be God’s way of turning that part of the world into protein. If tourists and dollars follow – well then maybe folks like you will have an opportunity to build something.
The point is that we now know that “rain doesn’t follow the plow”. The nineteenth and early twentieth century settlement model is an expensive failure.
We don’t need to take folk’s land – if the BC model works, people will adopt it as that becomes obvious. All it needs is a little frontloading; let’s see if it works.
So hey, how do you know I’m a leftist? Have you looked at my voting record? Peered into my mind? I guess I’m the only pro-Iraqi war, pro-gun, pro-school choice leftist around. And why are you getting so p.o.’d if I wasn’t responding to your comment?
Some people do give their land to the Nature Conservancy. Others sell it. The bottom line is that they make life better for everyone.
Except in North Dakota, where supposedly pro-property rights people have passed a blatantly unconstitutional law banning donations of land to land trusts unless the Governor officially approves the gift.
And sorry, hey, “regular guys” don’t have the cash to develop land and make strip malls. You can have the money, and good on you, but you can’t claim to be a “regular guy” when you’ve been blessed with the good fortune to pop out of the middle class.
I like the way that halfway through the buffalo article the name of the town changed from Rawson to Rawlins.
Gotta love the research here.
noticed that too hey.. hilarious
and uh… most land developers i know start off middle class… and most of them end there or worse (industry has a vary high failure rate)
your hatred of business and business people indicates a leftist or communitarian streak…
it don’t take much money to develop land, just cojones and a way with banks!
you also obviously don’t begin to understand the economics of developing strip malls…
just go on hating… its a good way to end up on welfare or in a union, most likely both
No, Dan…I don’t think the NC is out to get my house. They just covet it. And want to tell me what I should be able to do on it.
My internet is back, and just in time for me to go recreate……..hunting Bambi is on for this weekend.
No matter what PETA thinks.