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  • 9/18/2008 4:12 pm - Federal Judge Blocks Recreational Snowmobiling in Yellowstone National Park : MRC, The outbreak of massed hostilities in Europe over the summer of 1914 riveted & consumed (horrified) America, President Wilson and the Congress (destroying, as they did, much of the civilized world). So intense was the political climate that by June 1915 the Secretary of State William Jennings Bryon had ...
  • 9/18/2008 11:47 am - Trigger-happy Man Shoots Another Rustling in the Brush : No doubt, there are individuals & organization who will try to use incidents like this to argue against firearms, period. As noted, it's not directly germane to whether the firearms are being packed within the National Parks (though of course that won't stop some from trying to connect them). To ...
  • 9/18/2008 11:02 am - How Did The National Park Service Err So Badly On the Yellowstone Winter-Use Plan? : Anonymous, I will certainly grant you, that corporations & industries spare no effort or expense to drum-up & excite consumer interest in their wares, and that often enough this situation does seem to fly in the face of our better interests. But it's sure not a problem for which we ...
  • 9/18/2008 10:20 am - Federal Judge Blocks Recreational Snowmobiling in Yellowstone National Park : It may be, the first item in exploring a possible reform of the National Park Service Organic Act of 1916, is to ask what the context or 'provocation' of such a process might be. The Homeland Security Act of 2002, for example, took advantage of the attacks of Sept. 11, ...
  • 9/17/2008 2:11 pm - How Did The National Park Service Err So Badly On the Yellowstone Winter-Use Plan? : Jim, I did make a couple over-night/weekend visits to West Yellowstone from my military station at Idaho Falls, 1972-3. Seemed like a regular little backwater (or as we fondly say, 'dirt-bag') town. Snowmachines were still very early then ... but your description of the culture jibes with what my expectations ...
  • 9/17/2008 12:35 pm - How Did The National Park Service Err So Badly On the Yellowstone Winter-Use Plan? : Anonymous, and Kurt; Ok, since my characterization of the 'mentality' or 'correct-thinking' issue embedded in main environmentalism themes is distracting from the actual discussion-points, I will set aside that 'device', and work to frame a more-palatable way of illustrating the point I'm making. True, Kurt, importantly true, there is a ...
  • 9/17/2008 11:55 am - Federal Judge Blocks Recreational Snowmobiling in Yellowstone National Park : Frank C., I did indeed misread the author-name, and attacked you for someone else's statements. I'm sorry. Frank C, a related issue/question I have been mulling and do not know how to approach, is the relationship between the Wilderness Act, and the Organic Act. Since some "wilderness" are lands covered ...
  • 9/17/2008 11:30 am - How Did The National Park Service Err So Badly On the Yellowstone Winter-Use Plan? : Kurt, I swung my brush at "environmentalism", not at an environmentalist. Please check the spelling. Sure, there are plenty of us around who know how to squirm out of any stereotype. But there an awful lot of folks who fall in with the herd mentality, too ... and they are ...
  • 9/17/2008 10:43 am - Federal Judge Blocks Recreational Snowmobiling in Yellowstone National Park : Frank C., Road building? Who's talking about road building? Well ... [i]you[/i], mainly. Snowmobiles don't need roads, remember? You consistently caricaturize "access" in ways that are not real, not happening, and not a threat. You should actually read the [url=http://www.nps.gov/legacy/organic-act.htm]National Parks Organic Act of 1916[/url], posted on the National Park ...
  • 9/17/2008 9:24 am - How Did The National Park Service Err So Badly On the Yellowstone Winter-Use Plan? : Jim Macdonald says:[quote]"Ironically, that suggests I'm all for cherry picking so long as we are honest about why we are doing it."[/quote]Yes, you're right - 'discretion' is part of both law enforcement by cops, and law interpretation by courts, and that word is just another way of saying 'cherry picking'. ...