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I am so fired up after reading Michael D. Nash’s inspiringly ballistic April 2 letter to the editor that I have only two questions: Where do I get my torch and pitch fork, and when do we leave for the Capitol in Denver?
The increasing majorities of those bleeding-heart liberals and brain-dead hypocritical environmentalists we have elected over the past two years need to know that oil and gas are the mothers’ milk of our democratic traditions, and no threat or encouragement to panic is too small to utilize in our quest to enforce our majority will.
Tourism, water supplies, hunting and fishing and undisturbed natural beauty? These are things we can do without, but not our sacred oil and gas treasure.
We really haven’t tried to drill our way out of the mess those liberal pinko commies in Washington have gotten us into, so I say let’s give it a chance to succeed, like deregulation in our financial institutions!
Rules are for wimps. Although our national campaign may be a little difficult with two-thirds of the people — whose jobs are gone and retirement savings trashed after eight years of vacation, and are therefor supporting the current bleeding-heart brain-dead hypocritical liberal environmentalist in the White House — be not dissuaded. After all, every righteous journey of 1,000 miles begins with one small step.
MICHAEL R. MARQUARDT
Whitewater
14 Responses to “Rules are for wimps”
Posted April 2nd, 2009 at 5:59 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Remember the free market you were all so in favor of?
I’m in favor of it too.
Here’s the thing Mr. Marquardt, natural gas has fallen 70% in the last year.
And as for the rules, that would add 3%, yes, may be slightly significant right now, but I still don’t want well water exploding and people burning their throats because there’s benzene in the creek water that runs through their property.
If the rules you so object to were pulled for all eternity tomorrow, how many energy companies do you think would come back and start drilling right now?
Yeah, grab your torch and your pitch fork . . . and you know where you can put them. In that place where you keep your brains.
Posted April 2nd, 2009 at 6:13 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
dgadbc,
Mr. Marquardt is funning us.
Posted April 2nd, 2009 at 6:20 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Oh, and look what’s happening in Wyoming where they don’t have any of those pinko commie liberals to worry about.
http://www.trib.com/articles/2009/03/25/news/energy/0b9feb23501e95b287257584002674cc.txt
Posted April 2nd, 2009 at 6:21 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Oh RATS. I’m such a gullible trusting fool.
I fell for some really embarassing 4/1 jokes yesterday.
Oh well.
Posted April 2nd, 2009 at 8:06 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
relax francis
Posted April 2nd, 2009 at 8:17 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
One can understand dgadbcs’reaction when you think of how many diatribes you have seen in this paper that were equally outrageous, but written in earnest.
Posted April 3rd, 2009 at 5:06 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
It’s called satire…but so close to much of what we read and hear around here, almost got me going….good one!
Posted April 3rd, 2009 at 6:30 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Hey duke, thanks for the support, but I bit that one.
Nobody around here’s going to dis hunting and fishing whilst railing against the rules.
Now I’ll go put on my pointy hat and sit in the corner.
Posted April 3rd, 2009 at 7:23 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Sometimes I think living in Mesa County is like April Fool’s Day all year round.
Posted April 3rd, 2009 at 8:38 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Record bull elk bagged in oil and gas field…oh wait, my bad, in roadless and wild land.
“The precipitous west ridgelines and deep timber to the south and east indicated the kind of terrain elk love: mostly roadless and very wild.”
http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20090403/LIFESTYLE05/90403032
Protecting habitat (through things like these new rules) protects hunting opportunities and protects our diverse economy. Diverse economies protect jobs, economies highly dependent on a single industry shed jobs when economic doldrums hit.
I know, I know, facts are not welcome here.
Posted April 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Thanks Oliver. Now I DO feel vindicated.
Posted April 3rd, 2009 at 12:08 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Prophetic 2004 analysis:
Green + Red = Blue
“In Colorado, where Democrats won a U.S. Senate seat, a U.S. House seat and the state legislature, the Bush administration has riled up locals by trying to weaken the Clinton-era Roadless Area Conservation Rule.”
“Specifically, the White House is pushing a court case that would make sure the law does not stop industrial development in designated roadless areas. According to the Denver Post, the gas drilling that such a case would allow “generally horrifies locals in the Roaring Fork Valley”—a traditionally conservative area. “This is all about quality of life for folks in the Carbondale area—quality of air, water, hunting, fishing, recreation and ranching,’’ said town trustee Scott Chaplin.”
“Not to be deterred by this kind of grassroots anger, Republican Colorado Gov. Bill Owens’ administration is now considering providing more big-game hunting licenses to private landowners—effectively making the wealthy the arbiters of hunting policy. Colorado outdoorsmen oppose the measure because landowners would be able to sell their licenses for whatever price they see fit. As one local newspaper columnist wrote, the move would “greatly diminish access to prized bull elk, buck deer and buck antelope for anyone who doesn’t pay the increasingly large fees for a privately controlled tag. … Such a trend takes Colorado hunting increasingly toward the European model of privatization of game.”
Read More: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/1746/
Posted April 3rd, 2009 at 12:20 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Sounds like Owens wanted to limit protected public lands, where everyone can hunt (with a license) toward a system more like the European model, where game and hunting occurs on private lands.
Protected public lands are good for hunting, good for wildlife, good for communities. They protect clean drinking eater sources, replenish our air, mitigate carbon dioxide, and provide all manner of quality recreation, breathtaking scenery, backdrops to towns and cities.
Posted April 3rd, 2009 at 10:35 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
While I had not intended my “rant” as an April Fools joke, I suppose it came across as such, although my last paragraph was edited to the point where it took me awhile to figure out what I had intended to say; satire? absolutely, for I am one of those bleeding heart liberal brain-dead hypocritical environmentalists that Mr. Nash referred to. After watching Colbert tear Glenn Beck a new one, I’m sure that Beck was the inspiration for Mr. Nash. Actually I’m quite pleased that many of you got it, and that some didn’t! Reading the editorial page every day is an exercise in self-control.
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