Environmental politics, commentary and analysis from the inside.
Friday, November 30, 2007
No Hard Questions Please
GOP sniing and softballing was upset by planted opponents? Gee lets keep the audience friendly, lest something hard be asked for these rich boys. CNN did a bad enough job choosing questions dominated by idiots and the only two that were tough, based on staunch positions on of course sex, a long time Republican hang up, are in question? Did they think all the voter questions would come from registered Republican voters? Give me a break.
Grist Sponsors Presidential Forum. I was there sitting with CNN as it were. Good presentation and I give the highest marks to Hillary. Edwards and Kucinich reached too far in fighting world poverty, which makes real problem solving on global warming by rich countries and China look like it's in the realm of the Miss America pagent. Don't bite off too much. Just get something viable. And soon.
Although only three candidates showed up, others who propose things like carbon taxes for everyone on a gallon of gas are losing proposals in my view. We have enough poor people taxes as it is. What we need are corporate penalties for not producing the same dirty coal and gas and credits for converting to green energy. Carbon credits. Only then we get them from free market capitalism. The beauty of this system is it can be directed to produce any damn thing we need. It just needs a little nudge. A truly green eccomony will be the result and profits will soar from helping insdtead of hurting our home. We can do this.
So conservative publisher Regnery is ripping off the writers who carry their BS water. As a writer, it seems like all of us are ripped off to a point, if you can get anything at all, but for this bunch, it's chickens meet roost. You know what they say, lay down with dogs, get fleas, or something of that sort. I mean. Of course there's always Publishamerica. If there was ever an outfit with the same family values...
The wisdom and punditry of Mark A. York: Fishery biologist, journalist, Historian, Eagle Scout, and novelist. I was a staff writer for The Livingston Enterprise in Livingston, Montana. I wrote special projects for the Idaho Mountain Express
in 2011. I'm the author of Patriot on the Kennebec and the global warming eco-thrillers, Warm Front and Heat Wave.
Thank you to Mark A. York, a descendant of Reuben Colburn, for information about the crucial role his ancestor played in Arnold's march to Quebec. The Colburn House in Pittston, Maine is on the National Register thanks to his efforts and is open to the public.