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Call Me A NIMBY |
January 29, 2010
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Call me a NIMBY if you will, but I don't want rotting corpses in my neighborhood. I'm not a mindreader, but I'd be willing to bet that most other homeowners in the community feel about the same way I do.
Mesa State Professor Michael Bozeman says it would be a good thing to build a place here in the valley where academics can study rotting corpses. Good for who? About as good for the community as the idea a handful of assholes at the Department of Energy had when they thought it would be good to build a mercury storage facility here. Good for him, maybe, because that's what he does for a living. But good for us? Good for anyone who has to live near the stench? Get real.
According to the Sentinel,Just under an acre of land has been fenced for the project, and the college has designated room to expand the site to five acres. That means that SOMEBODY knows where this monstrosity is going to be built. Why not the taxpayers? Why the secrecy?
If Bozeman or his benefactors at Mesa State think he is going to slip this through the planning and zoning process, he (and they) have another thing coming. You think Brady Trucking was a nightmare? Just wait.
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In a brazen political move, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper had the unmitigated gall to address the Colorado Oil and Gas Association.
That pissed oil and gas puppet Josh Penry off so much that he had a tantrum and fired off "an angry e-mail to oil and gas officials."
You see, in Penry's mind, the Republican Party owns the Colorado Oil and Gas Association. Or maybe, in Penry's mind, it's the other way around--the Colorado Oil and Gas Association owns the Republican Party.
It's inconceivable to someone like Penry, who has no association with energy industry other than having taken their money for years, that there are people in the energy industry who have not sold their souls to it. Hickenlooper was a petroleum geologist in Colorado before he was laid off in the last energy bust and started businesses that revitalized downtown Denver.
Scott McInnis, Hickenlooper's opponent for Governor, was invited to the COGA reception but didn't show up.
I'm sorry that Penry will have to find a new meme because the old one, that Democrats are somehow bad for the energy industry, doesn't play anymore. But it's been a tired old meme (read "a lie") for such a long time that Penry might as well learn to get creative.
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Tonight is the so-called "Wolf Moon," the largest full moon of the year. That's the full moon at perigee, when the moon is closest to the earth.
It's already up, so you missed the best part (moonrise was spectacular tonight). But still, go out and glance at it.
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