Axe on November 30, 2012 at 5:27 PM

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. . . . . Congress stymies itself most of the time. That’s awesome. That’s what I’m talkin’ about. The way government should be.

The problem of big government is accelerated most effectively by executive agencies . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . Eliminate the agencies, make Congress decide everything, and you won’t get very many decisions. Hallelujah!

J.E. Dyer on December 1, 2012 at 12:29 AM

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DITTOS ! … : )
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“The more Government does for us, the exponentially more they do TO us.”

And with respect to owning your land, you rent your land from the state.
Bcs if you pay don’t pay your land taxes, they will confiscate your property from you.

That was a bitter pill to accept after paying off my house but true.

Don’t pay your rent (taxes) and they will take the land you spent decades working to obtain.

Doesn’t seem right does it?

You warn people, and they don’t listen. They insist on voting for leftists (and feel righteous about it), then, predictably, get hurt. It’s a perfectly understandable lack of sympathy, plus hoping now they might get a clue.

Thank you for posting what I could not articulate clearly.

And when they burn their fingers, do you stand by and laugh, let the burn get infected and continue to mock them when the doctor eventually amputates their hand?

I think these people have learned a life’s lesson. I guess you are finished learning all of yours.

JellyToast on November 30, 2012 at 10:12 AM

Nobody is laughing, and nobody is, as another person posted, mocking. In fact, it’s rather grim.

You warn people, and they don’t listen. They insist on voting for leftists (and feel righteous about it), then, predictably, get hurt. It’s a perfectly understandable lack of sympathy, plus hoping now they might get a clue.

Not mocking, and not laughing at. And I defy anyone to find any laughing or mocking (up to the point I’ve read thus far, which is up to your post).

Axe on November 30, 2012 at 5:27 PM

But Axe! But Axe! Pelosi can’t do jack. She’s in the minority. She can talk a moronic game, but she can’t get anything done.

Congress stymies itself most of the time. That’s awesome. That’s what I’m talkin’ about. The way government should be.

The problem of big government is accelerated most effectively by executive agencies. If you want to locate the basic systemic sources of our government problems today, that is one of the two biggest. The other is the corrupted view of the role of the Supreme Court, in the dynamic of the people and their representatives interacting with the Constitution.

Eliminate the agencies, make Congress decide everything, and you won’t get very many decisions. Hallelujah!

Never, ever, ever, trust the government to renew something “in perpetuity”.

AZfederalist on November 29, 2012 at 9:24 PM

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Except tax increases.

labrat on November 30, 2012 at 5:52 PM

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“Rim-shot.”

Chief of Interpretation and Resource Education John Dell’Osso has been with the NPS for 25 years, so he’s seen a few things. He’s watched the situation with Drakes Bay Oysters develop, and he’s the first person to say the episode hasn’t been the agency’s finest hour. “Our job is to protect our resources and follow the law. We don’t typically get involved in defending ourselves,” says Dell’Osso. “But he [Lunny] put us on the defensive by going after our scientists. And this had a snowball effect over the last two years.”

Dell’Osso continues, “Kevin did a good job cleaning up the oyster farm, and we were happy he bought the place. But there’s an agreement he’s known about and we can’t change it. There is no mechanism for us to continue it.”

In the end, given hindsight of 20-20, taking on the Feds may have been a bad business decision for Lunny. “The Park Service added new permit provisions that would cripple the business and began to make allegations of serious environmental harm caused by the oyster farm. We had to find out what could be done and we had to hire consultants and lawyers,” he says a little wistfully.

It’s hard to tell a rancher to back off since, by nature, they seem drawn to doing things the hard way. But Lunny and his brothers have invested more than $1 million into the oyster operation, and if it closes in 2012 as scheduled, there’s going to be a tsunami of red ink to clean up.

http://www.northbaybiz.com/General_Articles/General_Articles/Something_Smells_Fishy.php

Something Smells Fishy

rukiddingme on November 30, 2012 at 7:12 PM

More than that. :)

He continues, “The next day, Don calls me back and says, ‘Was I dreaming? Did you ask about buying Johnson’s?’ Then he says he thinks having us buy it is a great idea. He says there are some permit issues but they can help us with those.”
There were three different permits that had to be obtained. According to Lunny, the first two were simple and caused no problems; the last contained a new clause that contradicted language in the ROU and specifically stated the Lunnys agreed to be out by 2012. “I asked Don, ‘Why would we sign that? The ROU agreement already states the deadline, but why would we want to tie our hands like that?’” Lunny asks. “This wasn’t what Don wanted to hear, and that was where the tension began.”
The debate heats up

Dressed in jeans and a short-sleeve print shirt, Lunny looks like a gentleman farmer. His face is shaded with sandpaper-like stubble, and his left eye is set in a perpetual squint. We’re seated at a folding table adjacent to a gent playing banjo and serenading shoppers with an old Steve Martin song, besieging listeners to put a live chicken in their underwear.

Lunny raises his voice. “We had a business plan so we could break even; make a little money if we left in 2012. But we also found out it was possible for the Park Service to extend the deadline.”
Lunny is referring to a continuation clause within the ROU that states: “Upon expiration of the reserved term, a special use permit may be issued for the continued occupancy of the property for the herein described purposes, provided however, that such permit will run concurrently with and will terminate upon the expiration of state water bottom allotments assigned to the Vendor.” (According to Lunny, the California Department of Fish and Game shellfish lease—aka the state water bottom allotment—expires in 2029.)

In the meantime, the Lunnys invested $300,000 in capital improvements and, soon, the oyster farm was humming along. The family had no problems selling its shellfish and business was good, which meant it was due for some bad news. The last permit required by the NPS was slow in coming. By 2007, it still wasn’t in place, and relations between the Lunnys and the Park Service deteriorated.

Lunny decided to ask Marin Supervisor Steve Kinsey for help. Kinsey met with Neubacher and, after their conversation, asked Neubacher to appear before the full Board of Supervisors to explain alleged environmental problems posed by the farm’s operation, including NPS claims that it disrupts native seal populations and that the boats damage native eelgrass beds. During the meeting, Neubacher gave the Supes some inaccurate information based on questionable science.

“They started a campaign to discredit the farm,” charges Lunny. The issue came to a head when the Lunny family wrote the United States Department of the Interior alleging National Park Service officials of “scientific misconduct and disparate treatment,” according to an official report from the Office of the Inspector General, the investigative arm of the NPS.

Something Smells Fishy

You are stuck on one detail that doesn’t have anything to do with the agenda.

plutorocks on November 30, 2012 at 5:28 PM

Dante is an anarchist. In case anyone doesn’t know or get that. And he’ll never stop arguing for removal of the structure, in one way or another. So MK puts this post up as an example of government corruption, which should, I agree, piss off every conservative on earth; but for Dante, it’s an example of the corruption that is government.

There’s no “winning” the argument with Dante without capitulating to Dante’s overall terms, because he’ll never capitulate to anyone else’s.

Just FYI. For the worn-out or flummoxed.

Never, ever, ever, trust the government to renew something “in perpetuity”.

AZfederalist on November 29, 2012 at 9:24 PM

Except tax increases.

Owning the land has nothing to do with it.

plutorocks on November 30, 2012 at 4:03 PM

Ownership has everything to do with it.

Dante on November 30, 2012 at 4:35 PM

Can’t see the forest for all the trees.

You are stuck on one detail that doesn’t have anything to do with the agenda.

Screw them . . . . .
. . . . . I won’t shed a tear for these idiots.

ThePrimordialOrderedPair on November 29, 2012 at 9:31 PM

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Screw you.

Mary Katharine Ham on November 29, 2012 at 9:40 PM
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Wow! And I thought you were pretty.

Bulletchaser on November 30, 2012 at 12:15 AM

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They’re not mutually exclusive.

Mary Katharine Ham on November 30, 2012 at 12:44 PM

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Don’t ever stop being yourself. . : )

Congress must make every decision.

J.E. Dyer on November 30, 2012 at 3:03 PM

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/11/30/pelosi-of-course-i-support-giving-obama-unilateral-control-to-hike-the-debt-ceiling/

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