tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post6924379864425342985..comments2023-12-07T00:44:23.610-08:00Comments on The Trojan Heron: Siege MentalityECKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13031277544085651063noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-11759136119394659202012-05-06T17:23:49.784-07:002012-05-06T17:23:49.784-07:00Community Enragement Director?Community Enragement Director?ayuro kaminahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04480627770162088368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-49623659612634277622012-05-06T13:17:28.949-07:002012-05-06T13:17:28.949-07:00Don't worry. The "Friends" are activ...Don't worry. The "Friends" are actively recruiting a Community Engagement Director. Good luck with that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-34115266080792688212012-05-06T11:31:22.701-07:002012-05-06T11:31:22.701-07:00Seems crystal clear. This isn't about the envi...Seems crystal clear. This isn't about the environment or science. This about a new way of living, a new world, a new Man. Will we go quietly into the night?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-31254787495547043802012-05-06T11:14:46.578-07:002012-05-06T11:14:46.578-07:00"It is so difficult for me to accept that the..."It is so difficult for me to accept that the Planning <br />Commission, Planning Department, and the County Council seem absolutely determined..." <br /><br />Before hurling rocks at the Planning Commission, you might want to look at the motions made during the Wetlands CAO, or look at some of the discussions during the hearings. A fair number of the Planning Commissioners raised substantial objections and concerns to the proposal before them, and got those concerns on the record...<br /><br />It might be handy to ask the County Council about some of those issues when they take up the matter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-27602791877742768092012-05-06T10:36:19.057-07:002012-05-06T10:36:19.057-07:00Environmentalism has lost its way. The last forty ...Environmentalism has lost its way. The last forty years of environmental activism have created the most densely organized movement in human history. Environmentalism has adherents that believe in the supremacy of environmental issues with a cultish or even religious fervor. They obsess in their green sensitivities and superiority, and will reflexively provide unsolicited advice for your environmental rectitude -- recycling, carbon footprints, endangered species, and the like – with the moralistic certitude of an apostle. And, with little or no practical credentials or cost considerations, environmentalists will gladly rearrange your life according a green dogma that is antithetical to humanism and capitalism. Such eco-proselytizing is not merely a question of manners, timing, tone or spin; this is a serious cultural blindness and childish arrogance with psychological predicates. It is ENVIROPHOBIA!ayuro kaminahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04480627770162088368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-16579476628936129552012-05-06T09:21:16.723-07:002012-05-06T09:21:16.723-07:00Pondering the state of things on this Sunday morni...Pondering the state of things on this Sunday morning, I have come to the conclusion that I don't understand much at all about local government. Let's take the CAO as an example. It is so difficult for me to accept that the Planning <br />Commission, Planning Department, and the County Council seem absolutely determined not to consider that maybe, possibly, there might be unintended consequences to the legal tome they are creating. They've bought into the enviro "precautionary principle" completely, but can't imagine the same principle being applied to the economic and social spheres of life in the county. I had the opportunity to talk at length with one of the Council members yesterday. The lack of understanding of what is in the ordinance, the basic science, and of what the goals are was staggering! I had to explain a number of things, and the dull glaze in the eyes indicating non comprehension was sad to see.<br />So, on this pleasant Sunday, I've come to the conclusion that we are well and truly screwed.ayuro kaminahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04480627770162088368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-89976472598116908782012-05-05T19:13:55.514-07:002012-05-05T19:13:55.514-07:00And its not the Council's fault the public rec...And its not the Council's fault the public recently woke up to the ... uh ... complexities of the site specific buffer approach. Sure in some respects the idea was good, trying to make buffer policy fair ... sew a purse from a sow's ear, and what we all got from the exercise was the fact that buffers don't really work, there is no credible science, and it is all about policy. That's why the public is irate. Besides just look at this Shore Master Program Revised Inventory and Characterization Report. Model of simplicity in its 400 pages of elegant rationale. No. These guys are not paid to do "simple." They are pretty much paid by the word. And the word is getting around.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701287883415687326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-41338970171224322322012-05-05T17:40:11.180-07:002012-05-05T17:40:11.180-07:00This is exactly the drivel spouted by Council duri...This is exactly the drivel spouted by Council during the Council meeting. It's like Jon Stewart exposes every week--the Republican "communications" team issues talking points each week, and their talking heads diligently repeat them. An organized campaign? That's precious--bunches of citizens show up at a meeting and ask questions of staff: heresy! And they don't get PAID to attend these meetings, like Ecology, Friends, etc. Yes, the County must be quaking in its boots in the face of this "organized campaign."Professor Chaosnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-37951382167484975112012-05-05T16:39:09.729-07:002012-05-05T16:39:09.729-07:00Lice cartoon ? Where? Did I miss it?Lice cartoon ? Where? Did I miss it?Genl. Disarraynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-61939525144498891442012-05-05T12:07:52.039-07:002012-05-05T12:07:52.039-07:00All for one and one for all? If there has ever bee...All for one and one for all? If there has ever been a call to circle the wagons, it doesn't get much better than this. And, looks like Pete followed through on his vow "I will do it" and so his junior mouthpiece Stan Matthews promptly attacked the community howling for a hoax. Might as well yell fire in a crowded theater. That was not a very intelligent way to get folks to simmer down. But it is pretty hard to look at the world clearly from inside a delusional bunker of one's own making.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701287883415687326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-76974430337575097372012-05-05T11:46:58.846-07:002012-05-05T11:46:58.846-07:00Gee, an "attack" on one of us is an &qu...Gee, an "attack" on one of us is an "attack" on all of us?? No, sir, I think most County employees are just fine. The arrogant tone-deafness, paranoia (violence? R U kidding?) and misrepresentation are all in the Privy Council.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com