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[bstewert]

I wonder if this really happened:

 

[BlackSmith]

Probably, you can do a lot of damage to yourself falling off a curb...

 

[Levi]

Sounds like quite the fall.

 

[Fiddler]

the guy wasn't hurt...only detained, and his name was different. Apparently someone added the last paragraph to the original article and emailed it.

 

[Levi]

Fake news?

 

[MasterBlaster]

I hate that shit.

 

[cory]

Trump picks montana congressman ex SEAL for Sec of Interior. Jim, do you know of him?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...as-interior-secretary/?utm_term=.cd7f717221ad

 

[FireFighterZero]

I have never met him, but I did vote for him!

I think he is a pretty good choice for sec. of the interior. Coming from Montana is a good start, lots of BIA and BLM land out here.

Seems to be a pretty good conservationist, but is also a realist.

He had a pretty impressive career with the SEALS, cant be all bad.


This will mean coal will have a friend in the administration........the Reservations here will love that.

 

[cory]

Why will they love it, they have coal lands that they lease? Or are a lot of the injuns miners?

 

[FireFighterZero]

They make a pretty penny off of coal leases.

 

[cory]

Is that strip mining or underground?

 

[FireFighterZero]

As far as I know it is all strip mined.

The tribe down there maintains that as long as we are going to burn coal, it might as well be American coal.

 

[stig]

So they are cool about tearing their ancient lands up with strip mining, but balks at having a pipe line go through them.

 

[Jomo]

Can forests be healthy vibrant and sustainable, without men chainsaws n woodmills?

That is the question!

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-sierra-tree-mortality-20161129-story.html

Jomo

 

[cory]

So they are cool about tearing their ancient lands up with strip mining, but balks at having a pipe line go through them.

They were worried about the threat to drinking water (and, I think, sacred ground).

According to this link, they were wise to protect their water. http://www.sciencealert.com/that-thing-the-standing-rock-protesters-were-afraid-of-just-happened

 

[gf beranek]

Appears you're feeling a little better, Stig.

 

[FireFighterZero]

I would bet five dollars against a stale ginger snap that Warren Buffett is behind all this somewhere.

 

[Levi]

I think he ate one of your cookies too.

 

[FireFighterZero]

I don't trust that guy.

 

[Levi]

He might be alright, I bet he has some good scotch.

 

[Levi]

How easy is it to sway the masses

https://news.google.com/news/amp?ca...in-poll-favorability-trump-2016-12#pt0-816642

 

[BlackSmith]

Breaking: The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in killing Harambe the gorilla, according to officials briefed on the matter.
Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden and others, including Harambe’s own caretaker, according to U.S. officials. Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost the nearby Columbus Zoo and
Aquarium’s profits.
“It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one zoo over the other,” said a senior U.S. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to U.S. senators. “That’s the consensus view.”

 

[kevin bingham]

I have never met him, but I did vote for him!

I think he is a pretty good choice for sec. of the interior. Coming from Montana is a good start, lots of BIA and BLM land out here.

Seems to be a pretty good conservationist, but is also a realist.

https://www.outsideonline.com/21429...k&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=facebookpost


He had a pretty impressive career with the SEALS, cant be all bad.


This will mean coal will have a friend in the administration........the Reservations here will love that.

https://www.outsideonline.com/21429...k&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=facebookpost

seems like a reasonable dude

 

[FireFighterZero]

When I saw that you had quoted a post of mine I figured I was in for a fight........

I may come off as an asshole, but one thing to remember is that all 8000 or 10,000 of my acres are open to the public.

 

[kevin bingham]

thats great! can I open up a strip mine? are you not sure if your land is 8,000 or 10,000? thats a nice problem to have I suppose.