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Jim Buckley's avatar

Mike: It is a good idea to remind people that Republicans have better ideas, so thank you for that. We need Republicans and common-sense advocates to rein in out-of-control EPA administrators who, for example, classified a random puddle created on a California farm by a heavy rainstorm as part of its mandate to protect "navigable waterways." Some people always overreach.

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Nancy Freeman's avatar

Jim Buckley, Nothing like enjoying your own crap. ( Giving yourself a “Liked “. )

You guys are like a bunch of sickies…all pleasuring each others. Do you notice no one else bothers to read your slanted lies?

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J. Livingston's avatar

Having another bad day, Nancy?

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Dale Lowdermilk's avatar

SOMEONE'S been "midnight-snacking" on that soggy non-GMO cat food again.

Is "...pleasuring each other..." like obsessing about the definition of BEARS vs BARES or "...fake blonde hair careening" etc. etc....oh. let"s refresh "our" recollection regarding "sicko" comments...straight from a feral cat's scratching post:

Nancy Freeman

Nancy’s Substack

Feb 6 2024

OUR COUNTRY IS DIVIDED BETWEEN THOSE WHO WATCH MSNBC ( fact-based info with sources quoted ) AND THOSE DELUDED ONES WHO WATCH FOX ( lies and hopeful opinions and idiotic women wearing f-me high heels and revealing their thighs……what has that got to do with FACTS?

Oh, I forgot the requisite long false hair careening down to cover each breast…..oh help me…WHOM ARE THEY APPEALING TO?j

PLEASE, NancyKaren, keep speaking to us about the "bear" facts.

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Earl Brown's avatar

"Whom are they appealing to . . ." ? Me.

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Dolores's avatar

Figures it’s you Nancy, you’re comments always fall flat.

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Nancy Freeman's avatar

Show me “flat “. Hitting the mark, which elicits no facts from you liars, is hardly “ flat “. I listen and read you all, and can not find ONE sentence which is a rational explanation for why you support the Large Orange Uneducated One.

Just like Fox, none of you ever explains your support for him.

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Jeff barton's avatar

No one else except you? Just sitting here with Jeffrey Toobin trying to figure out your post.

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Nancy Freeman's avatar

Well, a modicum of intelligence…like understanding English, would be a beginning.

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Palmer G Jackson Jr's avatar

Spot on, Mike!

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Emmett's avatar

Republicans fought for civil rights and equality. Dems did not.

Republicans protect nature.

Dems destroy by pushing dirty polluting technologies.

Solar panels, where do you think the quartzite comes from to make solar panels? Fracking, slave labor. How do they melt the quartzite? Coal and burning rubber tires.

EV batteries, where do the chemicals and minerals come from? And where do there go in 10 years when the battery life expires? In a landfill.

CO2, plants need CO2 to live. Dems are trying to prevent CO2 emissions.

CO2 levels are at the lowest levels.

The planet is the greenest it’s been since we’ve had satellite imagery.

They choose to use 120 years of data ignoring millions of years.

Dems force people into concrete jungles that create heat to push their “global warming”

They are geoengineering the atmosphere, not exactly letting nature do its thing.

They talk out one side of their mouth while doing the exact thing they accuse you of.

In the 80s we were all going to freeze to death.

Today we’re all going to melt.

Sea level is rising, but they all buy beach houses.

Don’t you dare travel, while they fly in their private jets.

What lie will they think of next to cover up what they’re really doing?

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Thomas John's avatar

And this guy ran for school board? OMG.

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J. Livingston's avatar

Voters lost a voice for common sense and balance, when they continued to support only teacher-union dominated interests on our local school boards.

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Thomas John's avatar

We lost a person who seems to hate half the population.

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J. Livingston's avatar

TJ: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. (Carl Sagan)

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Jenn's avatar

Well said and spot on 👏

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Eric Nicol's avatar

Sadly you conflate facts with pure nonsense. Yes plants use CO2 but the burning of fossil fuel, oil products & coal put CO2 and many other gasses into the environment that are directly responsible for temp rise of 0.8 deg/decade as predicted at Chevron Oil in 1980s.

Moving to all alternate sources of energy including nuclear is required at this time. Your screed about solar panel production is right out of the gas industry talking points and is total myth. 99% of all climate, environmental, earth scientists agree that alternative energy is needed now and coal should be sunset asap. Please get engaged with real science not the 0.05% spewed by the oil industry.

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J. Livingston's avatar

Clean air and clean water matter. Democrat "climate change" has been a Trojan horse creating one more partisan Democrat slush fund, benefiting their friends while punishing foes.

Trump was on track - support what is viable, what works, and what can be measured. The rest of the fabulist "climate change" agenda demands separation of church from state.

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Eric Nicol's avatar

Up your meds. How you go from environment to separation of church and state is baffling. That said, the separation is written into the founding documents of our nation: God not mentioned once in the constitution, written by Quakers and atheists not Catholics.

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Brent's Journal's avatar

Mike, thanks for all the info. In Biden's Delaware the state agency told me that I needed to complete the same form for a stream in my backyard too small for their maps, as was necessary to damn the Delaware River. These are the type of rules it seems the Trump Administration eliminated.

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Robert Ludwick's avatar

Thanks, Mike. These pesky facts you have recounted really make for lively dinner party discussions. If politics is like baseball, these "box scores & game summaries" help clarify what actually happens vs what we/they THINK happens duing the game. Doesn't really matter if I like the player...its hard to argue against scoreboard. Even if you don't like the front of someones baseball card or the color of his uniform, you have to appreciate the objective detail on the back.

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Elizabeth's avatar

Thank you for this Mike. It is long overdue to highlight these points and wonderful to be reminded of so many of those on the Republican side who have loved and cared for the environment over time. Although today we know this continues to happen despite the "other" side appearing to have appropriated all and everything relating to the topic of Earth and its protection, never mind that the majority of those ideas are neither good for planet nor good for people.

Those on the left use fear tactics to make us believe that the "climate change problem" is so bad that we are heading for absolute doom! How scary!! Remember Paul Ehrlich and his 1968 book "The Population Bomb"? How many bad ideas did he spew and all of them have turned out to be false! But the real truth is that humanity is fine and actually, has never been better in terms of human progress and flourishing. The list is long but just to give you an idea, less children under 5 yrs of age are dying of disease, more people around the world have clean water and toilets. Life expectancy is up! Salaries are up too. More people, women included, know how to read and write and the list goes on.

Next week, I will be speaking with Dr. Marian Tuyp and "Celebrating Families and The Flourishing of Earth" to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the year of the Family. If you would like to hear Dr. Marian Tupy and learn more about his recent publication titled "Superabundance - The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on An Infinitely Bountiful Planet", here is the link to register: https://forms.gle/Hd1ioXs8aC4ANgGN8 When: May 15, 2024 from 2:00PM - 3:00PM ET (11:00 SB Time)

Jim Buckley and Lake Cachuma...Yay!!

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Jeff barton's avatar

All done without a trillion dollar environmental bill named infrastructure. Real environmental issues can be solved within existing structures without huge spending bills. Perhaps the Democrat party is using environmental fear porn as justification for greater government spending, government growth and wealth redistribution.

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Colleen S's avatar

History's view of what a Republican is, is not today's view. It's an important distinction to remind people that the parties views have essentially swapped places over time...so claiming that Republicans have done more for the environment is a fallacy used to mislead people. https://www.studentsofhistory.com/ideologies-flip-Democratic-Republican-parties

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Thomas John's avatar

I beg to differ. If you'd like citations I could add them - but it doesn't seem like common practice here. Mike Stoker was quite the cherry picker for this article.

The Trump administration's approach to enforcing the nation's environmental laws was markedly different from that of the Obama administration, with a general trend toward deregulation and reduced enforcement activity. This shift can be observed across various dimensions, including regulatory rollbacks, enforcement actions, and overall environmental policy orientation.

The Trump administration focused on deregulation, particularly in the environmental sector. It rolled back or weakened over 125 rules and policies aimed at protecting the nation's air, water, and land.

This included significant changes such as the repeal of the Clean Power Plan, which was replaced by the Affordable Clean Energy rule, projected to result in only a 1% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants compared to no policy at all. The administration also targeted regulations governing the production and use of fossil fuels, lifting bans on oil and gas exploration in sensitive areas and reducing regulation of toxic substances from power plants.

Under Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) saw a substantial drop in enforcement activity against polluters compared with both the Obama and Bush administrations. This included a decrease in the demands for injunctive relief, which are fixes that polluters are required to make, dropping to about 12% of what was sought under Obama and 48% under Bush, when adjusted for inflation. The administration also put new limits on the power of EPA enforcement officials to order pollution tests, a move criticized for potentially letting violators of environmental laws off the hook.

The Trump administration's environmental policy was characterized by a focus on energy independence based on fossil fuel use and a significant departure from the Obama administration's priorities of reducing carbon emissions and conserving the environment for future generations. The administration supported energy development on federal lands and rolled back 98 environmental rules and regulations, with an additional 14 rollbacks still in progress by the end of Trump's term

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J. Livingston's avatar

Energy independence is a very worthy goal. Essential in fact. Get on board.

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Arnie Cooper's avatar

But we ARE energy independent and have been since 2022. We've been a net exporter of energy since 2019, so the tired, lifeless Republican talking point is no longer relevant. See the link: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/imports-and-exports.php

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J. Livingston's avatar

How does draining down the strategic reserves and then trying to refill them from Venezuela make us "energy independent"? Sad to report, but when data comes from any .gov resource, it falls immediately into the circular file.

Past 3.5 years of .gov misinformation about Russia-gate, Hunter Biden's laptop, "covid", election integrity, climate change, the economy............, etc, etc, just to name a few of the blatant .gov misinformation campaigns, means even trust, but verify cannot remedy any .gov data.

It never should have come to this, but it has. Defund .gov paper pushers.

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Ira Gottlieb's avatar

This is a crock. Yes, over a century ago, TR made environmental advances. And Nixon, a liberal compared to current Republicans, signed the EPA. Since then, Republicans have been captive to oil and gas and fracking interests. Can you say, Drill, baby drill”? As for Trump, he was no more a friend to the environment than he is or was to democracy, truth, working people or people of color. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-is-the-trump-administrations-track-record-on-the-environment/

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thomas wright's avatar

Regurgitated hollow and baseless talking points aside (TDS), citing the Brookings Institute is a giveaway.

The importance of cheap and affordable energy for the entire population is Econ 101...just ask "working people or people of color". So sign me up: "Drill Baby Drill".

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Ira Gottlieb's avatar

When you can’t challenge the facts, question the source. There is no shortage of criticism of Trump’s biz-friendly pollution-friendly policies; indeed, advocacy of cheap energy is code for harming the planet and perpetuating environmental injustice. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html

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J. Livingston's avatar

Cheap energy is cheap energy. It is not code for anything else. It is the engine for life on this planet. Work on the demand end of this equation, if you want to establish your own creds - stop all AI and bit coins development now. Unplug your multiple devices and wear a sweater when it gets cold.

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Thomas John's avatar

I'm betting he's never taken Econ 101 either.

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Ira Gottlieb's avatar

Haha. Fwiw, I was an Econ major in ancient days. And one thing I learned is that standard Econ doesn’t account well for what it deficiently labels “external” impacts of economic activity, like pollution. Those environmental costs thus end up being absorbed by others who gain little benefit from the activity. Hence, environmental injustice amid a flawed capitalist system.

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J. Livingston's avatar

Morphing from "pollution" directly into "environmental justice" makes my head spin. Slow down. One thing, at a time. One measurable thing at a time, when you are spending my tax dollars.

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Lou Segal's avatar

Can you share with us why the Trump Administration or at least your superiors at EPA unceremoniously ousted you as regional administrator of the West Coast region?

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Pablosdog's avatar

Politics are decisive by design. Clear example here. We all got suckered into playing “their” game….the illusion of choice.

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J. Livingston's avatar

Decisive or divisive? Probably both.

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Pablosdog's avatar

Whoops…decisive. Much like arguing about professional sports. A major distraction as well.

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Pablosdog's avatar

Spell check gone wrong…

The one with the v…😎

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Michael Callahan's avatar

Claiming that Donald Trump is an environmist is like claiming Adolf Hitler was a humanitarian.

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Nancy Freeman's avatar

So Trump left America with cleaner air, cleaner environment….so much cleanliness!….you Republican males ( always males ) profess.

Too bad Trump’s mouth, brain, ethics, morals, life-style, business practices, political maneuvers and MORE OF HIM is so dirty, filthy, disgusting, immoral……91 INDICTMENTS!!

WHY DONT YOU CLEAN-ORIENTED REPUBLICANS EVEN ADDRESS all his other digusting dangerous love of Putin-Hitler and promises of being a dictator if he gets into office? Why don’t you?

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Jenn's avatar

I cannot fathom how anyone can criticize Trump when China joe Biden and his corrupt disgusting son still walk free…

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Earl Brown's avatar

Right on hon, only we call him FJoe Biden.

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Nancy Freeman's avatar

You “ can not fathom “? That’s because you’re obviously not intelligent OR your source for information is faulty. Clear as day.

Advice: for true information about the shenanigans of one orange lump called Trump and the massive flaws of the present Republican Party, and the truth about President Biden’s son, listen to: NPR, LAWRENCE O’ DONNELL and RACHEL MADDOW on MSNBC: read, N.Y. REVIEW OF BOOKS, ATLANTIC MAGAZINE….for starters. Search for the truth for the truth will set you freeeeeeee!

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DLDawson's avatar

Nancy, I too watch your channels & scan those publications, but for different reasons...some of us know that LAWRENCE O’ DONNELL and RACHEL MADDOW on MSNBC are on the Mockingbird payroll (run by the DNC & receive the daily 4 AM talking points)…both of these actors have likely trained at "The Farm" (see also Anderson Cooper, Jake Tapper, Dana Bash +++ on CNN)...the reason to watch is they often include interviews w Deep State actors...and their narratives provide insight into the directions that they herd us…

best to expand your sources when taking in information... you see, they have ALL of us driving back-and-forth on this little two-lane road looking at their ever changing billboards...one must pull over, exit the vehicle, cross the channel, & find the wide-open roads less traveled...it helps to have a well rounded view...

PS…I also BIG issues with the happenings in Our Country...take care…

PSS…I’m a Taoist…one of my favorites:

WATCH YOUR THOUGHTS THEY BECOME WORDS

WATCH YOUR WORDS THEY BECOME ACTIONS

WATCH YOUR ACTIONS THEY BECOME HABITS

WATCH YOUR HABITS THEY BECOME CHARACTER

WATCH YOUR CHARACTER IT BECOMES YOUR DESTINY

LAO TZU

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Earl Brown's avatar

Nance - you forgot ’The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx calling for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie by the proletariat to establish a Democrat society. So I substituted ‘Democrat’ for ‘classless.’ As a Commie-Dem I’m sure you get the point! :)

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Leslie Colasse's avatar

I have read many of your posts over the months on SB Current, Nancy. It is clear that you are an ardent feminist or man-hater and your website indicates that you now live in DC - where the “women can do it all all of the time” agenda is consistently perpetuated. I imagine that the idea of an orange haired man that is powerful and who surrounds himself with beautiful women disgusts you. But that is your own bias. You may want to consider healing yourself emotionally and sticking to facts. I have absolute faith that your posts would be received more positively by those on all sides of the political spectrum as a result.

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J. Livingston's avatar

Nancy is a Beltway Swamp Creature? I did not know that.

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Jeff barton's avatar

N Freeman is illiterate.

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Earl Brown's avatar

Sounds like Trumpy is a b a a a d boy!

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Justin Shores's avatar

This is refreshing, an article where Stoker is not grifting or actively helping the SB Democrats.

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