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By Bob Beck on 04-14-12 @ 3:59 pm
Readership should do a little research on HB 1505. You would be doing yourself a diservice toaccept Mr. Diamond’s dismissal of its impact.
By greenriverkate on 04-14-12 @ 4:16 pm
I so agree with Bob Beck. If you take the word of anyone without doing the research yourself, it proves you are lazy and ignorant. And if you want the truth go all the way back to 9/11 laws and
how they were added to by the Bush admin, to take OUR RIGHTS away as citizens. Just to be
clear, I AM a liberal with guns and the constitution!
By Eileen Wright on 04-18-12 @ 10:23 am
Mr. Obama likes signing a lot of things in private. His Executive Order 13575 is a gem thatgives government departments and Czars oversight on all things agricultural including family
farms and farmers markets. No complaint from the left on that one.
By greenriverkate on 04-18-12 @ 11:43 am
The coin phrase “czar” was started under Bush
By bocephusj57 on 04-18-12 @ 2:31 pm
Exracted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czar_(political_term)
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Czar or tsar is an informal title for certain high-level officials in the United States and
United Kingdom. Political czars can run or organize governmental departments, and may devote
their expertise to a single area of work. The “czars” have various official titles such as
adviser, director, administrator, or diplomatic envoy, but such titles are often quite long or
awkward sounding.
[For you morons who shriek about czars being a clear sign of socialism, read that last sentence
again. It’s just a nickname, a shorthand version of a jobtitle.]
In the United States, czars are generally executive branch officials appointed by the President
either with Senate approval or without it. Some appointees outside the executive branch are
called czars as well. Specific instances of the term are often a media creation.
During the latter stages of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson appointed financier Bernard
Baruch to run the War Industries Board. This position was sometimes dubbed the “industry czar”.[1]
One of the earliest known metaphorical usages of the term in the U.S. were to Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Landis, who was named commissioner of baseball, with broad powers to clean up the sport
after it had been dirtied by the Black Sox scandal of 1919.[2]
In 1926, a New York City chamber of commerce named what the New York Times termed a “czar” to
clean up the milk delivery industry.[3]
In the United States, the term czar has been used by the media to refer to appointed executive
branch officials since at least 1930s and then the 1940s under President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.[4][5][6] In 1942, The Washington Post reported on the “executive orders creating new
czars to control various aspects of our wartime economy.”[7] Positions were created for a
transportation czar, a manpower czar, a production czar, a shipping czar, and a synthetic rubber
czar, all to solve difficult problems in coordinating the resources necessary to fight World War
II.[1][8] Not only did the administration of President Roosevelt advocate their creation; in
December 1944, Republicans in Congress advocated that a “food czar” position be created that
would have almost unlimited control over food pricing and distribution.[9] Certain of
Roosevelt’s Cabinet secretaries were called “czars”, despite having been duly confirmed by the
Senate, at the point that their powers were increased by statute.
Since then, a number of ad hoc temporary as well as permanent United States Executive Branch
positions have been established that have been referred to in this manner. The trend began again
in earnest[1] when President Richard Nixon created two offices whose heads became known as
“czars” in the popular press: drug czar in 1971,[10] and especially energy czar in December 1973.
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How about that, a Republican socialist started the latest era of naming special assistants czars.
By bocephusj57 on 04-18-12 @ 2:41 pm
As for Eileen’s latest paranoid John Bircher blurt regarding the voluntary UN Agenda 21, here’sa starting point for researching it further:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Rural_Council
By Eileen Wright on 04-18-12 @ 5:13 pm
Who knows what Obama’s 54 Czars do, what they are paid and how big their staffs are?
By bocephusj57 on 04-18-12 @ 5:38 pm
Google is your friend. Looks like you’ve got a lot of work to do. Have fun.
By Mark Phillips on 04-18-12 @ 9:17 pm
What does the good Mr. Rehberg say about this bill. He is one of the official sponsors.Makes you wonder why they thought it was so necessary to smash through protected lands. Invasion of the
Canadian body snatchers no doubt.
By breaks on 04-18-12 @ 10:17 pm
Ronald Reagan’s “drug czar” was Bill Bennett, aka “values and virtues” czar. But Bennett doesn’t seem so bad now, with all the GOP’s phoney family values b.s. And Denny “don’t let
your friends drive (boats) drunk”? Brag him up good now, Diamond.
By breaks on 04-18-12 @ 11:22 pm
Who’s lying? H.R. 1505 authorizes the Dept. of Homeland Security to construct roads and fences on ANY public land, without any limitations. You don’t think “fencing us off from hunting
and other uses” is a reality, Diamond? Consider the sponsors: Bishop R-Utah, Hastings R-WA.
Totally anti-public land. And throw in Denny R-Freemen of Eastern MT, and it doesn’t just take
your “I’m-the-only-one-who-can-read-a-bill” baloney to figure out that this bill has absolutely
nothing to do with Homeland Security and everything to do with eliminating public lands. It’s
Denny’s claim to a vainglorious legacy of corporate control of land. Now, if you really wanted to
profess your bill digest intelligence, Diamond, tell these “liars” how 1505 was first worded
before the final draft. It authorized the Dept of Homeland Security to construct not only roads
and fences, but ANY “infrastructure”. I like the “infrastructure” wording. Sounds so divinely
corporate. And you say, “It does not prohibit traditional uses”, D.D.? “LAWS WAIVED-”
Endangered Species Act, Federal Water Pollution Control Act, National Historic Preservation
Act(might as well just burn all the FS cabins) Migratory Bird Act (what’s a few less Trumpeter
Swans?) Clean Air Act, Safe Drinking Water Act (we can just have more 7-11’s in the Bob so
we can buy bottled water—more corporate opportunism) Solid Waste Disposal Act (just throw it
in the creek, Clean Water Acts are already waived) Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. Farmland
Protection Act, and on and on and on. Tester HAS clarified his position regarding border
security, so that’s just more smoke on your part, diamond dan. And your concluding rant on
PACs exposes your real intent in this garbage letter; that your feigned attempt at justifying H.R.
1505 aligns you with the likes of jokers such as Bishop, Hastings, and Rehberg; and you just
bumbled yourself into a silly accusation of your own exact likeness.
By jimbo on 04-19-12 @ 7:57 am
Being a conservative, it also pains me to say I have “seen the light” regarding Rehberg. He is a catastrophe in the highest order regarding the average joe’s use of public lands.
For those whom are interested, he is also the face of the SFW, Sportsmen for fish and wildlife
out of Utah. Bad news!!! Yeah they are anti-wolf, but they are also anti-‘joe hunter’. SFW
founder Don Peay actually said in a speech or interview, that the North American Model of
Wildlife Conservation is a form of “socialism”. Look it up, its horrific how these people think.
Look up the Independent Institute out of Utah as well. Free market environmentalists that want
public resources privatized. Dr. Charles Kay, the SFW’s low ball ecologist is a fixture in this
outfit.
By halcyonkayak on 04-20-12 @ 9:22 am
Jon Tester just won an award from the National Shooting Sports Foundation. He’s a Democrat. Iguess party lines don’t always apply. Go figure
http://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/2012/04/18/DC90196
By Fast on 04-20-12 @ 10:28 pm
I ‘m Senator Barry Goldwater republican and and a constitutionalist .But what I find funny is no one has taken any of my gun rights away since The Clinton days. Actually I have more rights today I now can carry my 44 mag in national
parks now. I’m a life long member of the NRA but they like to control the weaker mined members of my club.
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