IS IT TRUE May 8, 2013

1. Mr. Mounts needs to fire his CFO before the Utilities get themselves up in their heads with more do-do. She is worthless and incompetent and is not worth what they are paying her.

2. Wait, I thought you hated regulation and the EPA? Shouldn’t we be allowed to just dump sewage in the river as much as we want without federal tampering with free markets?

   • You have obviously not been reading anything written here about the sewer problem. We have advocated from a position of “sewers before toys” since we started. The CCO supports good public policy and having a functional sewer system falls into that category. So do roads, fire, and police. What free markets are you referring to with your sarcasm? Are there any private businesses competing to treat our sewage?

     Please do not confuse our opposition to subsidizing hotels, restaurants, and apartments which are businesses that private companies compete in for sewers.

     • +1

   • Don’t conservatives complain about EPA restrictions on anything as they’re “hindering free market economics and job creation.” How’s dumping sewage any different than other forms of pollution? We don’t want them gol dern feds messin’ with us!

     • There you go attaching labels to the CCO again that it does not attach to itself with words or opinions. You are blinded by cynacism and probably despise pracitcality. There are places for government and there are places the government should stay out of. Basic services like sewers, roads, fire, and police protection are best provided by local government. Hotels, luxury apartments, and restaurants are not basic services and should never be.

       You seem to have the barefoot, toothless, buffoon language down pretty well though. Do you have a moonshine still?

       The same arguement works at the state and federal level. Government should handle the big basic things that benefit everyone like national security, energy policy, and immigration law. Government has proved they have no business in things like mortgages, housing, and venture capital.

       The recent disclosures by high ranking democrats that ObamaCare’s implementation is a “TRAINWRECK” emphasizes how inept government can be. When the folks who wrote the bill run from it like a rabbit you gotta question their competence. We do wish the government could do things right though. It seems the only thing we do well is blow things up.

       • I do wonder, though, why The Editors would trust such items that are so fundamental to our society (public safety, utility and transportation infrastructure, national defense) to an organization that they feel is largely incompetent. Why should those activities not be left to the private sector as well? If the government can’t be trusted to spend $37 million on a hotel, why would you trust them with a $600 billion defense budget?

         Seems a basic disconnect in the conservative mindset.

         • Come on man, there is no private company that can defend the country at any price. We don’t trust the government to be efficient or even competent in their stewardship of our tax dollars, but we need defense and government is the only viable provider in the modern world. Hotels on the other hand are built and managed by everything from a high school grad to a Ph.D. It is not the job of local government to play small business entrepreneur or to fund one instead of another one. It is not a disconnect, it is a practical mindset for fairness in government.

         • You guys got way off topic. My point was strictly about the EPA and how conservatives complain about the cost of protecting our basic resources like clean water. If the private sector was completely unregulated, like most people around here seem to advocate, we might as well go live in Bangladesh.

         • You think if Uncle Sugar decided to put out a RFP for provision of the national defense (we’re talking a guaranteed, multi-year, multi-trillion dollar contract), that NO company or consortium of companies would bid on it? I respectfully disagree.

           Your answer is covered in weak-sauce. The private sector can be trusted to provide, can it not? Either interference by Big Gubmint is abhorrent to the conservative mindset or it is not. Settling for the worst option simply because it’s the only option isn’t what made this country great! Ask any boostrapper out there!

           Visions of our soldiers with corporate logos emblazoned across their body armor too disturbing? U.S. Marines raising a flag with the Wal-Mart logo over the next Mt. Suribachi too weird?

         • DeltaBravo-

           Most conservatives I know believe in “limited government” not “no government.” Your argument is reductio ad absurdum. It is akin to a conservative saying that liberals believe EVERYTHING should be done by the government.

           Not that it really matters going forward anyway…these idiotic distinctions between “liberal” and “conservative” aren’t going to continue to dominate our politics for another 50 years.

     • John Doe, off-topic stuff is the best stuff of all. I’m having a bit of fun with The Editor. It’s all good. I’ll let things return to the exciting topic at hand… 🙁

       • It is fun from this side as well. Thanks for your participation. It is only through being challenged that we can all improve.

3. This is a bit off topic but its importance requires that it be known:

   http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr1764

   We all know that the only way to stop HLS from continuing to manipulate the ammo market is through a legislative fix. Well, here it is. Demand that it be given a fast track to approval.

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   • Ammunition Management for More Obtainability (AMMO) Act of 2013

     Sens. Jim Inhofe, and Rep. Frank Lucas, both Oklahoma Republicans, have introduced in their respective chambers the Ammunition Management for More Obtainability (AMMO) Act of 2013.

     The bill, according to a statement from Sen. Inhofe, would require the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a report on the purchasing of ammunition by federal agencies, except the Department of Defense, and its effect on the supply of ammunition available to the public.

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     • More feel good legislation that is not needed. Even the NRA doesn’t think government agencies are manipulating the ammunition market. The editorial in the last issue of American Rifleman says as much.

       Newsflash: Numerous local/state/federal government agencies purchase ammunition for training and duty use. They typically put in bulk orders and multi-year contracts to take advantage of bulk pricing.

       We were fighting two serious shooting wars in 2006-2007, and the level of violence (i.e., ammunition consumption) was at an all-time high in those theaters. Multiple government agencies were also ‘up-gunning’ their training due to overseas commitments and perceived homeland threats. However, ammunition was plentiful and cheap. What changed? Knee jerk panic buying by the public because they think da gubmint is coming for their gat-sticks.

       This is a ‘crisis’ made by the public. Legislation is not needed.

       Now, back to the discussion of Poop on The Ohio…

       • The American Rifleman

         Where have all the primers gone.

         by: Mark A. Keefe

         ” Major firms have been hesitant to purchase additional new tooling or add permanent employees out of uncertainty over future legislative issues from the current administration and Congress-and this is true of many firearm manufacturers with record backlogs as well.”

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         Are you talking about this article?

         And now back to poop in Washington.

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         • No. This one, also by Mr. Keefe:

           http://www.americanrifleman.org/blogs/where-has-the-ammo-gone/

           Primer production, etc. was just fine until the public started panic buying.

4. Why is our mayor spending our tax dollars in Amsterdam when the same service is available in Colorado and Vegas; buy American when you can.

5. Before we get too far from the Bolin-Brooks issue, I would like to say that I don’t know what area encompasses the area the Rev. is looking to revitalize but if it’s the entire inner city I would like to challenge him to come out with his support of placing the ball fields at Kleymeyer Park. One of those reasons is due to the fact that African American participation in baseball is declining (an unintended consequence of hispanic and latino participation increasing).

   If we were to replicate the fields like the vintage MLB fields done in California, one of those fields would be Ebbets Field which is where Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and is currently being remembered with the movie “42”

   The African American museum could sponsor an annual Civil Rights game at this field each year….

   http://rememberrobertsstadium.blogspot.com/2012/09/kleymeyer-park-ball-fields-would-enable.html

   If we are going to be successful in stopping Bob Warren from building in the county we need the Reverend to speak up for the inner city youth. Thanks.

6. There is a tragic, wonderful kind of symmetry to this:

   Cities that wallow in their own excrement politically end up wallowing in their own excrement literally.

   #smh

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