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Mike says:

Thanks for this biased article, full of spin, it sounds like a corporate energy PR campaign. I love how fracking is highlighted, because the release of bromide into the water supply is good for you, (sarcasm) I guess people don’t realize that these environmental regulations are in place to prevent cancer. But that’s not a problem for the wealthy since they own the natural gas companies that create the pollution, and the pharmaceutical industries that will treat the cancer it produces. Seems to me like a good old fashioned racquet, create a problem and provide the solution.

John Kimbrough says:

Using the image of a murderer of women and children and hater of American values and the American way of life just shows the stupidity of the liberal mind set. Another inept government lacky of the Obama administration.

Bob says:

American schools need to reinstitute and require that every student take civics and American History classes that include having to studying the U.S. Constitution with emphasis on the Bill of Rights, the biographies of some of our better known presidents, what they believed and accomplished, how our country differs in allowing the freedoms we have, and our major wars, why they were fought and what the alternatives to fighting them may have been.

As a Ph. D, Armendariz should have known better than to make such a comparison and to encourage such behavior. Goldring was really probably simply too young to know who Guevara was. By the way, for whoever wrote this, the ancient Romans would not have been able to crucify Turks as the Turks did not come out of Central Asia until well after the fall of the Roman Empire. The Turks did conquer what once was part of the Roman Empire and for a short time was known as the Eastern Roman Empire before becoming the Byzantine Empire. The Eastern Roman and Byzantine empires were both Christianized, however, and by the time the Turks arrived to conquer the Byzantine over a period of centuries beginning in the late Middle Ages, crucifixion, practiced only by the pagan Romans, would not have been used. If it was ever used in the area later occupied by the Turks, its victims at that time would most likely have been Greeks, Phrygians, Circassians or other occupants of what was then Anatolia and became Turkey.

Elina Castro says:

Absolutely marvelous — Lloyd Billingsley is totally on course.

As a foreigner I won´t comment on the EPA but I´ll take his word for it.

On Che Guevara I can say that he was a fascist and a serial killer, and only total ignorance or greed would use him as an icon.

Perhaps the EPA will buy my book, “Last Tango for Che” (if I ever get it published) and learn something of what his followers did in Argentina from 1973 to 1976.

Thank you for leaving this clear. We sure need clarity as regards Che Guevara.

By the way, the slogan, which is still used today in Argentina, originally read: “We shall fight until victory, always”

libertarian jerry says:

To balance the situation and in fairness I think that the EPA should have Fascist history month. And that all EPA employees should be encouraged to wear Adolph Eichmann tee shirts every Friday for the entire calender month.

Mary Saunders says:

I do not approve of adding right/left language to this discussion, as EPA behaviors concerning water are under attack by groups drawn from both ends of that false axis.

In Portland, for example, a crony got a very bad clause inserted in water policy that has contributed to horrific increases in water costs in a place where it famously rains, a lot. It has allowed no-big, last-minute exploitation of water ratepayers. An estimated 40% of our water bills are devoted to debt, to guess-whom (but you have to find out from Matt Taibbi about this kind of thing, in Rolling Stone, a music magazine for cryinig out loud).

How do we clone Taibbi and Erin Brockovich, when ordinary people need protection from crony misbehavior? We have appealed to both to out our city council, which pretends to be green, to no avail.

They are being sued, and the auditor is after them for violating city code, but they appear not to care. They will tie things up until they are out of office and try to get other crony-pleasers in behind them.

It is a struggle to figure out what to do about cronyism, but it will require cooperation across unusual boundaries and put-downs are of no help.

We need the discipline to talk details and to show ordinary people how they are going to get hurt, before the hurt un-houses them.