Alaska Lawmakers Ask Fed to Take Over Central Park to Point Out Hypocrisy
- Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:49pm by
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Perturbed with outsiders interfering with the right to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Republican Congressman Kyle Johansen introduced a resolution in Juneau Monday that gives those on the east coast a taste of their own medicine.
Thus, in the interest of preserving one of the few remaining glimmers of urban greenery left, Alaska state legislators are asking the federal government to take over Central Park.
Yes. The Central Park in New York City.
The New York Times reports:
It urges the feds to “declare Central Park to be a wilderness area and to prohibit any further improvement or development of Central Park unless authorized by an act of Congress.”
Many of Mr. Johansen’s colleagues immediately signed on as co-sponsors, including the speaker of the house.
The resolution, first noted on this coast by West Side Rag, is primarily a piece of political satire, Mr. Johansen said Wednesday, but one with a solid basis in history.
“What I’m trying to accomplish,” Johansen said, “is to basically make a point of the hypocrisy of — and don’t take offense — those East Coast folks who write a lot of checks to shut down Alaska, while in their own backyard, Manhattan has been turned from a pristine wild island supporting an amazing Muir web of life to having only Central Park left as a green belt. And even Central Park has been radically changed.”
The Times adds:
Central Park makes up 6 percent of Manhattan; the area that pro-drilling lawmakers seek to open to oil exploration makes up 8 percent of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Ergo, if one landscape is worthy of federal protection, why not the other?
Though extractive industries are not allowed to operate in Central Park (unless you count the overpriced organic hot-dog vendor near the skating rink), the landscape has indeed been repeatedly disfigured over the years by zoos and faux Gothic castles and whatnot.
But Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe said that “the premise that Central Park is not as protected as a federal property in Alaska is not true.” Among other things, the park falls under the Public Trust Doctrine, which bars use of parks for any non-recreation purpose without approval from the state legislature.
According to the Times, the resolution explains that before Henry Hudson arrived in 1609, Manhattan was “a remarkably diverse and natural landscape of hills, valleys, forests, fields,” as well as marshes, beaches and streams that sustained populations of elk, gray wolf, black bear and mountain lion.
Since that time, the measure continues, “the unrestrained development of buildings, highways and urban sprawl on Manhattan has destroyed habitat, displaced indigenous peoples and disrupted” ecosystems.
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Comments (155)
AxelPhantom
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 2:22amA Rant:
I am so sick and tired of the cities dictating to people in the rural areas how to live or worse sending their problems ( garbage, runoff, sewage, politics) out to us. They have paved over the land, cut down all but one or two trees and then somehow they are all “experts” in land management and conservation.
We had a neighbor who moved out from the city to the country by us. At first she went on and on about the beautiful deer (then they ate her heritage roses). She lasted less than a year. The mountain lion citing in another neighbor’s property was just too much for her I guess.
Mercy me! Those beautiful fuzzy cats you see in the zoo look a whole lot different when they may see you first (and the last thing you see is a set of incisors)! Carrying one of those “nasty” guns with you on the property at all times, starts to make sense.
When you go to the grocery store and pick up a steak for dinner, or an “organically” grown head of lettuce do you know how it got there? It involves blood, animal poop (from those “poor captive” animals) and a whole lot of dirt under the fingernails (and you don’t smell too good at the end of the day either). But we are just clinging to our bibles and our religion here in “Fly-over-country”, “doing the work Americans won’t do” all so they can avoid the reality of the food chain they say they so desperately want to protect.
Report Post »itot
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 2:57amMaybe some outsiders should “occupy ” Central Park for a few nights. Could have a nice little Tea Party and clean up after ourselves. I understand you don’t really need a permit, could just have a big overnight picnic. I hear the weather is nice in September.
Report Post »Worldsapart
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 6:26amAxelphantom,
Report Post »Thank you for the work you do. I truly appreciate that steak. Keep it coming.
4xeverything
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 6:31amFunny, I spent every summer on my grandmother‘s farm learning what you’ve described and so much more. All I’ve ever wanted to be when I grew up was a farmer. Blood and all. Instead, I’m stuck in suburbia, the bane of humanity. City folk have no understanding of the true nature of life and can’t imagine the smarts and respect it takes to live in the country. I’m talking about the real country, where you are at least an hour from the hospital/police department. Where a trip to town is a huge excursion.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 6:38am(satire)
Report Post »“All you people who hunt and fish should stop it and buy your meat and fish from a grocery store where no animals are killed.”
Seriously, Alaska is right: the EPA and other Sierra club tree huggers should get their filthy noses out of state’s rights and personal property issues.
dukielouie
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:06amAll this part of Un Agenda 21 control our lives . Move us into the Urban Boundary ,take our cars away, control our food, and energy. Look up the wildlands project, Dr. Michael Coffmans biodiversity map,or http://www.agenda21today.com. Romney has put these sustainable development laws into place when he was the Governor. Smart growth and more. George H Bush supports him and he was the president that signed Un Agenda 21 into soft law. The republican elite are the problem too.Start asking the questions and see the run to the hills.
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:16amLiberal Marxist’s … I can hardly wait to take ‘em out!
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:30amSpeaking of Alaska…Sarah Palin’s FaceBook: But this whole thing isn’t really about Newt Gingrich vs. Mitt Romney. It is about the GOP establishment vs. the Tea Party grassroots and independent Americans who are sick of the politics of personal destruction used now by both parties’ operatives with a complicit media egging it on. In fact, the establishment has been just as dismissive of Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. Newt is an imperfect vessel for Tea Party support, but in South Carolina the Tea Party chose to get behind him instead of the old guard’s choice. In response, the GOP establishment voices denounced South Carolinian voters with the same vitriol we usually see from the left when they spew hatred at everyday Americans “bitterly clinging” to their faith and their Second Amendment rights. The Tea Party was once again told to sit down and shut up and listen to the “wisdom” of their betters. We were reminded of the litany of Tea Party endorsed candidates in 2010 who didn’t win. Well, here’s a little newsflash to the establishment: without the Tea Party there would have been no historic 2010 victory at all… http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150516734848435
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 8:09amYea, it’s Agenda 21. Move all the people into “urban centers” and turn the rural areas back to wildlife habitats. Where would the farms be? On the edge of the urban centers, and government controlled. I‘m glad they’re trying to make this point. The regulations have gotten to the point that in “federal reserves” you practically can’t do anything, even as a citizen. I agree. Give them a taste of their own medicine. Can you imagine what chaos it would cause if they did that to Central Park? Unfortunately, the satire will be lost on the left, they just won’t see the connection.
Report Post »gmechanic
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 8:09amGood Rant – Amen
Report Post »Pug
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 8:28amIf we ever have a diaster, it will be the farmers and hunters that will know how to survive….
Report Post »kcares
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 8:45amI love getting in my garden and spreading manure, growing my own, and having dirt under my tails. Makes me tired at night, and I sleep so good. I told one blogger that they are welcome to come down south, but don’t try and change us. In one town I lived in, people from Michigan came down, and started trying to change our schools. When in Rome.
Report Post »NEAF
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:02amSteak medium cook, sweet potato, and sweet tea. Please.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:13am@dukielouie “All this part of Un Agenda 21 control our lives ”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lVD_R2WQOVw
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p8ZL42MSZY&feature=player_embedded
Baddoggy
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:22amThe States need to collectively say…NO MORE! But we have too many mamby pamby liberals and progressives in our State houses.
Any State with any balls at all coulf neuter the Federal Government. But they wont becuse they are beholden to the dollars…Well time to satF the dollars and secceed.
Report Post »Jive Mickey
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:48amDoes anyone remember hearing reports of a mountain lion roaming Washington D.C. and being sighted in Maryland? Rumor has it that back about 1995; some Westerners became fed up with proclamations from Washington after a woman was eaten by a “protected” mountain lion. The orphaned cubs got more funding and attention than the children of the woman that was killed.
Report Post »Over time, they captured several Mountain Lions, loaded them into trucks, drove them to areas of Maryland near Washington D.C. and released them. Perhaps the East Coasters needed a taste of their idyllic utopian world. The animals generated a panic and several “official” reports of “false” sightings. Naaaa, those people were “delusional”, no such thing. Perhaps they found this more worrisome than the “pretty deer” eating their prized Azaleas. “Anybody see my pet Foo-Foo?” The animals are still being sighted, even though they had supposedly been “eradicated” in the 1800s.
Telcoman
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:13amI have lived in the big cites (Houston, Chicago, Miami etc.) but use to spend my summers at my Grand Fathers farm. You can have the Citys, me give me the farm life any day. Yes it is alot of work but at the end of the day when I sit down to dinner, most of what I eat I grew or raised. You have to love that!
Report Post »nestbuilder
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:22amwell said my friend. When we first bought our house it was in the country. More and more we see these City Dwellers moving to rural areas and they are the absolute worst neighbors. I have had to pen my dogs thanks to complaining neighbors who have no idea what country living is. I can’t wait to move back to the country again. This time I‘ll buy enough land that I don’t have to deal with them. I sometimes think they all live in another world.
Report Post »Persimmon Knob
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:31amI was once a resident of the Peoples Republic of Illinois. I was actually, unlike some democrat politicians, born there. Should you wish to observe how only a percentage of a states population can control the whole of the parent simply look at Crook—-er— Cook county and the city of Chicago. A classic example!!
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:19pmThe Global powers don’t want “AMERIKA” to be energy independent and there just happens to be enough slime in the media and DC to help them get there wish, but you cant keep the Genie in the bottle forever.
Report Post »10-32inIdaho
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:36pmEvery now and then there is a story that gets posts from people who make me feel like I am not alone. Thank you to all that understand, work hard and just do the right things. Sometimes it seems we are in smaller supply, then I read this stuff.
Report Post »Buck Shane
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:59pm@ AxelPhantom
New Yorkers know. (The city, not the state) They know everything. They even know things they don’t know. And, they make judgments – because they know.
One of the things New Yorkers know is New Yorkers. They make laws that contend with what New Yorkers are. Those laws a different than laws in other areas because New Yorkers are different.
An example of laws to control New Yorkers, is their gun laws. New Yorkers know that New Yorkers are not capable of making their own decisions, or acting in a responsible way to defend themselves. New Yorkers know that New Yorkers can’t make adult decisions, so they have the city make the decisions for them. New York is a city with a crime rate higher than any state, but since New Yorkers do not trust New Yorkers’ intelligence, they ban New Yorkers from carrying the means of self defense.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:32pm10-32INIDAHO,
No, you are not alone. There are those of us around that love our land, respect it for the life blood that it is and know what it is to put in a hard day’s work; To go to bed happy with dirt under our nails, blisters on our hands and usually a bruise or two. We don’t mind and wouldn’t trade it for the world!
We don’t run to the doctor for a pill for our arthritic hands or when the kids are running a low temp for a day. We know by the smell of the air when it is going to rain or just stay overcast. We don’t care if we have the new BMW, give me a new tricked out Massey Ferguson instead! We don’t need $100 designer jeans, when the $20 jeans get the job done better. We teach our kids that the world does not revolve around the winner of American idol, but whether the rains come on time. We teach them that education does not begin and end at the schoolhouse door or with a piece of paper; that life is a temporary situation and we only have so long to make it something worthy of defending before God. And yet somehow we are the stupid people, rednecks, hicks, the gullibles take your pick…..
No, you are not alone!
Report Post »Do The Right Thing
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 4:20pmWell said, Axel…
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 4:44pmPUG one of the first laws Obama implemented was to increase the power of The Wildlife and Fisheries Dept. and to increase restrictions on fishing on natural waterways, then he went after Mom and Pop fruit stands and roadside venders, even little “Sally” was herassed for her Lemonaid stand. They are systematically going after all means of being self sufficient (note the family in Atlanta told to get rid of their garden). How else can they enforce the “Mark of the Beast” if people could still sustain theirselves?
Report Post »wolfinshdo
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:22pmHey I think all cities with over a million people should be forced to give up their cars and all use public transportation. It would help make up for all the electricity they waste. Maybe even help cut down the obesity levels. Can you imagine the carnage that would follow? The gang violence, muggings, murders, etc… It might even make some of the politicians worry more about their own cities and “districts” and less on what some little town does 500 miles away.
Report Post »Babci
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 8:03pmNice rant…much more rational than mine usually are. Thanks for sharing.
Report Post »Carolina Patriot
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 11:36am@AXELPHANTOM: If the Feds did take over Central Park, the wildlife folks could do what they did here, repopulate the area with animals that were indigenous before they were were bumped off because they are dangerous to mankind or are nuisance animals. We just got an infusion of gray wolves and cayotes.
Just think, they could reintroduce copper heads, wolves, cayotes, lions, bobcats ,deer, and heaven knows what else. They could also stop all of that silly lawn mowing and remove all of the pavement to turn it back into pristine wilderness. Now, that would make all of those big city liberals really happy, Of course they would need a gun or two to take a walk in the park, but that should make them happy.
Report Post »ConfederateExile
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 2:10amI wonder if you can smoke a cigarette in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? No matter, my mind was simply wandering. What wildlife is allowed refuge in Central Park? (O.K., I heard all of those and they were funny.)
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 2:35amThey have the “Wilding” species and the African Ooobamba man roaming free after dark …. ;)
Report Post »10-32inIdaho
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:40pmOWS. Mating is encouraged!
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:44amMe like it :)
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 2:02amI agree 100%. The Federal Government should prohibit drilling for oil in Central Park.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 2:12amCool, JZS agrees 100%. Accordingly, he wants to “declare Central Park to be a wilderness area and to prohibit any further improvement or development of Central Park unless authorized by an act of Congress.” — just as the article described. With bi-partisan support, this might become law after all.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 2:52amChuck Stein, you are correct. That is my opinion.
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 3:57amSink the next oil well in Santa Monica Bay. :-)
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 6:32amRay2447
I have been off of the coast of Santa Barbara. During 1900 to 1910 there were oil derricks right on the beach & in the shallows. Now the few derricks left are off shore & the NIMBYites don’t even want those.
It must be pointed out that the NIMBYites drive gas hogging cars, fill-up coal burning cars & fly carbon producing jets.
Oil literal seeps out of the ground in California, which is how they found it around or just south of Santa Barbara in the 1st place. “The Beverly Hill Billies” story is wrong in one respect. It wasn’t just Appalachia where oil seeped out of the ground naturally. It happens all over (New York for example).
It still happens underneath the waves off the coast of California.
EnViruMentalists are nimby like, anti-scientific, innumerate, Luddite religious fanatics. They have a mental disorder.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 6:42amjzs
Those who prohibit drilling should be prohibited from filling up their cars or going to the grocery store & buying food brought to market by diesel powered 18 wheelers.
Report Post »10-32inIdaho
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:43pm@walkabout- You forgot banning any oil byproduct like any plastics etc.
Report Post »PJL
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:23amLol.
Report Post »SekndAmendment
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:23amHaha I LOVE this!!!!
Report Post »Dream On
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:08amHow many people go to Central Park in a day? How about a year? How many families of four or even two do you suppose visit ANWR a year? We are preserving this land for??????
Report Post »I think it would be really interesting to fly Obama and his family to ANWR and drop them off for a week’s outing so they could experience it first hand. Oh yeah, there are no buildings motels or hotels or phones or other people to disturb them. Just some caribou , and bear, and thousands of mosquitoes.
NeoFan
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:23amThe entire area of new york city should be returned to its natural state.
Report Post »Andy Cooper
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:30amYou are almost right. They would find the village of Kaktovik AK. This coastal village is the only human settlement on the edge of a vast sea of empty tundra. You see Alaska is a land of myth. The biggest being that our state is teeming with life. We are not, a human would starve to death in ANWR if they didn’t freeze. That is why the Natives don’t live inside of ANWR, there is nothing to eat there. You see, there is no wildlife in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve. One more thing, please don’t suggest the golfer in chief come here, we don’t want him.
Report Post »drydino
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:39amGreat idea. Even better would be to leave him there!!!!
Report Post »stitchak
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 2:15amThank you Andy Cooper! :)
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 6:50amGreat idea- except they’d infect the wildlife. Still, there‘s so much lard in Moochie’s butt she could develop into an oil reserve.
Report Post »gemmeri
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:56amInteresting & entertaining, but ultimately futile. Corruption knows no bounds. It has no conscience. Waste away. Sweet dreams. Pave Paradise. Put up a parking lot.
Report Post »B_rad
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:49amAwesome, and exactly right. The guy from Alaska has hit the nail on the head and makes an excellent point. Good on ya, Alaska, keep it up.
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:01amAs one born in the Territory of Alaska (and DAMN those who voted for Statehood; ya shoulda gone for Commonwealth!), this tickles me to death. Yes, B_RAD, if you only knew that half of it…..!
Report Post »justangry
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:43amThis is funny, but I doubt it will amount to anything. Got to love their spunk though.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:04amBoy if anything, maybe this would stop rapes and murders in Central Park.. More than anything though it sends a clear message, we won‘t tell you what we do with your state and you don’t tell us! Alaska is a vast empty state.. Sure its beautiful but don’t you think if God placed oil or gas or whatever there he did it for the benefit of mankind.. We need to drill.. but at the same time we need someone over it to maintain the beauty of the land. How hard is that for pete sakes?? Alaskan’s can do that all by themselves> They are a awesome people. And they like the rest of America need jobs. something clearly Obama and his administration don’t want, or the yuppies and tree huggers. They could give a darn whether you can feed your family or not! God help us!
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:02amI think Alaska has hit on a pretty good way to dramatize how the insidious EPA tramples on state’s rights by hogging up vast tracts of land that can not be used for anything. If the Feds can mandate that 8% of Alaska is untouchable wilderness, why shouldn’t Central Park be protected, as the only remaining 6% of “unspoilied wilderness” in Manhattan?
Hey, all you liberal New Yorkers–what is good for Alaska is good for you!
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 5:12amThis won’t change anything. It’s a waste of time and money. All the screaming and hollering that has gone on for many years now has not changed anything. Neither will this. It’s just for show, thats all. It will take a president and congress that is willing to actually do something right for a change to get anything done. The progressives can’t be embarrassed into it. It’s a nice sentiment. But thats all it is.
Report Post »THEBAT
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:53pmWAKE UP AMERICA ! throw this communist ******* out of our house,send the dirtbag back to Chicago,with all his commie minions ,do it ! do it A.S.A.P
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:52pmDont tempt this criminal federal out of control psycho clan… They’ll take central park if you let em….
Report Post »Maxim Crux
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:17amThat is exactly what I was thinking.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:40pmWe better wake up quick…. This is exactly what our founders warned us against… And they kept the federal govt micro small for good reason…. After world war two , our Government basically took over the world…. And by doing so , bankrupted our kids… The Criminal Federal Govt needs to be cut by 75%….. PERIOD…. they are by far the greatest threat to the well being of this nation… Not some camelhumpin inbred Iranian… Sorry !
Report Post »cyntro
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:40pmI’m not quite sure this goes far enough. I am sure the squirrels and birds are disturbed by the constant presence of humans. The damage to the flora should be controlled as well. Perhaps a limit to the number of people allowed in the park should be looked at. I am also sure the mechanical noise from the surrounding streets, as well as the cross traffic thru the park should be controls. A complete ban for all motorize vehicles should do it. While we are at it perhaps we should look at a ban on the use of the air space above the park as well.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:47pm@cyntro
Report Post »But in the meantime, lets close the park and do a thirty eight million dollar study, headed up by some Kennedy moron….. Just to be sure …
tonydanibradbury
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:02amAnd then we’ll start a “Restore the Ecosystem” project. We’ll start by slowly but surely tearing down all of the buildings, sidewalks and streets that directly touch Central Park. We’ll replant trees, reintroduce wild life, etc. We‘ll continue expanding the territory further and further until finally all of man’s horrible marks on nature are erased.
We can even put to good use all of those “Turtle Tunnels” earmarked in the stimulus bill.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 5:39amIdaho has some Wolves they can Have !
Report Post »They forced us to reintroduce Wolves
now we’re up to our a$$ in em.
I suggest 8 that’s what we started with.
raspberrytea
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:18pmway to go! but, they’ll never see the hypocrisy.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:27pmThey will just regulate the muggers out of existance, junkies will get free needles, New Yorkers will think they are a godsend, and then all city and state parks will be nationalized. Way to go Alaska.
Report Post »darkrage000
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:42pmthey will see it as an opportunity to raise taxes. need more money to say you cant drill in central park
Report Post »OklahomaBound
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:15pmI don’t know why states keep complying with the take-over of their own land by the Feds and their Eco-Na zi EPA, just drill. Give Obama the finger and drill, what can he do, send troops? Well states have their own National Guard and since the regulations always happen in Red States you can count on thousands of well armed conservative citizens to show up as a civilian militia as well.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:21pmDitto. What OklahomaBound said!
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:25pmWhile they are at it (drilling)…. Alaska should build it’s own refinery and sell oil cheep to only Red States.
Report Post »wbalzley
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:33pmThe fed’s weapon of choice is to cut federal funding for infrastructure, education, and public services. They can also use federal law enforcement agencies to arrest people for trespassing on federal lands, and state officials could be held liable as accessories–although it has never escalated to that level before…
Report Post »anniedogdoll
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:36pmNot a bad thought! Do like Obama…Assume the “right” and go until someone stops you.
Report Post »BillAdams3277
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:42pmA rifle behind every blade of grass.
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:03amAsk Newt how 114 million acres got designated conservation areas in Alaska, I am certain he knows very well. Since he voted with the Carter Administration to make a Federal Land grab from the state of Alaska. Why do you think we have those HARP projects going on there ? I love how the feds can establish super powered antenna’s capable of charging the ionosphere, but no drilling. What a crock. Wonder if Newt would be ok with drilling on the Moon ?? The greatest part of the irony is the fact Palin endorses him, with his wife coming darn close. Yep, Drill baby drill…. You would have thought Palins would have known Newt was a land grabbing, Sovereignty destroying, constitution denying, progressive… but nope. Better not spank your children in front of Newt either, might rile him up, have him calling for you to have your 2nd amendment rights taken away from you. That’s right Newt, bash Romney while you undermine out 2nd amendment rights. You and Obama and your global ideas can suck it !! haha.. JUst found the boat load of links for NEWTY BOY – Gingrich Backs Abortion Funds, He defended Romneycare,Gingrich says NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico ,http://www.newtexposed.com/
Report Post »rox
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:06amOaklahoma- I whole-heartedly agree. Just do It.
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:19amStates have the power to thumb their noses at the federal govt through County Sheriffs. Read up on the powers of your County Sheriff. They can arrest the Feds. Read up and encourage your County Sheriff.
Report Post »ExpertShot
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:03amThank you Oklahoma, I’ve been saying this for a while. The feds may try to cut off federal funding but I bet you a dollar to a doughnut if Alaska defied the feds & drilled anyway, there would be so much support from the rest of the country (outside of the west & northeast) they wouldn’t need federal funding.
Report Post »wdittgasn
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:32amI was just thinking the same thing while reading the article. I agree just start drilling. to hell with the constitutional destroying feds.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:12pmWhat’s good for the goose, is good for the gander. Or as we say out here in the Rocky’s, bring it baby. Just remember, Me and my son can take an Elk down at 500 yards.
Report Post »wbalzley
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:35pmSNARK: Yeah, and our drones can take out a target at a distance of 10 MILES…and you would never see it coming…
Report Post »Eleutheria
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:37pmElk don’t return fire, wear camouflage, or understand the concept an ambush ;)
Report Post »1moreOutnumbered
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:51amI feel ya on that one. I know while I was in the service I practiced on man-sized targets from 500 yards. The fed shouldn’t be as large or control as much land in the states as it does.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:11pmRumor is that there is Gold in Central park,, GOLD, Da Ye Hear Me,prospectors, GOLD. Welcome one and all to dig, anywhere and everywhere, Gold Nuggets the size of Grapefruits.
Report Post »wbalzley
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:53pmShhhhh…the FED is listening….
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:09pmTurn about… FAIR PLAY
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:08pmIf the dems wanted to drill in Alaska the R’s would be against it…I’m so tired of politics…This country is doomed
Report Post »First on Foot and Right of the Line
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:22pmThat is just a silly statement.
Report Post »ibthumper
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:16amAnd you knowledge of this fact comes form?
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:29amSarah Palin would Drill Alaska full of holes !
Report Post »Because She Knows it’s GOOD for Alaska an Good for America
Psychosis
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:04pmlol BRILLIANT give the retarded lefties a taste of their medicine
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:08pmGL with that Kyle J. u should remember ur dealing with idiots.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:11pmrain man was a rehtard
Report Post »Satrix
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:03pmDoes anybody remember the movie Escape from New York? Do you see where I am going with this?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:20pmOws? Sorry, they won’t let me get away with all caps…. OWS?
Report Post »Ken2
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 3:19amFunny story about that movie. They couldn’t find crappy enough locations in New York, so they filmed a good portion of it in my dear St. Louis.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:01pmYes like there is not anything more important than a Elementary School brawl??? I agree Alaska should be able to drill and the Caribou actually overpopulate areas pipelines are……
Report Post »wbalzley
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:51pmEXTREME SARCASM: Screw DRILLING, I say we turn the entire state into a giant STRIP MINE!! There’s GOLD in them there hills! And copper, and coal, and iron….you get my drift…
Kick out the indigenous peoples, kill the polar bears and turn them all into fur coats. BEAR is on the menu! Feed them to the Miners. Cut down the forests, turn them into chopsticks, and sell them in China! Yeah! AWESOME!
Turn the entire state into one giant industrial park, liquidate all its assets, and put all that money in the pockets of the evil Koch Brothers…
(Sorry, I am tired of Liberals making us out to be monsters because we want to develop our natural resources)
Report Post »wbalzley
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:00amWhen I say “us” I mean industrialists…
Report Post »Lesterp
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:01pmPerfect!
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