I’ve mentioned the Brandon admin’s EPA trotting out their Big Massive Government Waters of The US rule ahead of a Supreme Court decision a few times, to go with a few times while Brandon was Obama’s VP. Perhaps it’s time for an explanation of how bad this is
Biden backs his administration into a puddle
For a president who supposedly likes building infrastructure, President Joe Biden has a funny way of showing it. In a New Year’s Eve news dump, the Environmental Protection Agency issued new Clean Water Act regulations that will make it more expensive for people to build roads, bridges, and homes.
At issue is the definition of the term “waters of the United States,” which for decades meant interstate waters that were “navigable in fact,” such as a river, canal, or lake. But in a blatant power grab, the EPA expanded that definition to include not only “intrastate lakes, rivers, streams” but also all “mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, or natural ponds.”
If there is a puddle somewhere, Biden wants authority over it. Under his administration’s new definition, if your property has a dirt road that occasionally gets muddy after a hard rain, it was now part of the “waters of the United States.” Under the Clean Water Act, this meant that if you wanted to pave the road, put a building on it, or run a power line over, you would need to get not only state and local permits but also a federal permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Getting a permit to build even adjacent to “waters of the United States” takes an average of 788 days and $271,596 in costs. Almost $2 billion is spent on federal water permits each year by people trying to improve infrastructure and housing stock. No wonder infrastructure and housing are so expensive.
This is a massive, humongous, insane level of federal over-reach, of control of huge swaths of privately owned property.
Instead, Biden issued a new rule last week that restores the permitting process to its pre-Trump absurdity. This means there will be hundreds of days of delay and hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs for virtually every infrastructure project in the country.
Fortunately, the Supreme Court is set to deliver a decision that might overturn the Biden water rule. In 2004, an Idaho couple began to build a house across the street from a lake after obtaining state and local permits. Then EPA officials showed up and threatened them with thousands of dollars in fines per day unless they immediately stopped construction and got a federal Clean Water Act permit as well.
The couple sued, and their case was argued before the Supreme Court last October. A decision is expected this spring.
Hopefully the Supreme Court will do the right thing and smack the federal government around for assuming vast authority to regulate people’s private property.
Water being liquid often moves from one place (your place) to a different place. You can not put a sceptic leaching field wherever you want
American Freedom means being able to shit wherever you want! Freedumb!
Not sure why this would surprise anyone. The criminal commie left has made it clear they intend to totally control EVERYTHING and EVERYONE. This is just one step among countless they will use to achieve that goal. They will never stop, never quit, never go away….. EVER. The ONLY way to stop them is to kill them. Nothing else will work.
At least Mr Dan is honest! Confession is rare for a nuCon.
If they can’t defeat people at the polls – kill them!
We get it. It’s frustrating when the majority doesn’t buy your bull. What’s a frustrated minority to do? Administer “a bit of the old ultra-violence”.
Dan: How will you go about killing people?
Killing people is not difficult. Humans have known how to do that for millenia. The left is especially adept at it. When they succeed in taking total control over a country they kill unarmed citizens by the millions. Violence is the only language they hear, respect or will listen to.
Democrats in Portland letting their voices be known:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FlgE2pbagAEW_N6?format=jpg&name=small
Dan: How will you go about killing people?
Take a page out of your leftist book. You guys have killed hundreds of millions since your foul immoral plan was begat. You are the greatest mass murderers in history or can’t you see that? You won’t even leave the unborn or elderly alone you murder them by the millions too.
Abortion Was The Leading Cause Of Death Worldwide In 2022, Once Again
Abortion was the number one cause of human death worldwide in 2022, with an estimated 44 million dead in the past 12 months, nearly quadrupling the number of global deaths from infectious diseases.
Well done you commie filth, well done. But wear those masks.
CarolAnn,
So, your plan is to kill millions of Dem/libs in gas chambers like Hitler did, starvation like Mao or gulags like Stalin?
Your plan is to kill leftists by forced abortion and killing elderly liberals?
Your anger and frustration has made you hysterical!
‘Gun Owner Elwood P Dowd’ is almost certainly a FedBoi Glowie. A government paid troll. Don’t feed the trolls.
Dan,
No, he is a pharmacist who believes in communism and the carbon god.
When there were enough homeless in the City By The Bay, someone came up with a San Francisco poop app, to help people avoid such piles of excrement. So yes, apparently American freedom does mean being able to defecate wherever you want.
Farmers and conservatives were also against banning DDT
As usual another red herring. You just can’t help it can you?
Also as usual DDT is still used around the world once more proving conservatives and farmers correct. But you thought you sounded profound and that’s all that counts.
DDT was banned worldwide for broad agricultural use in the 70s and 80s. The US ban in 1972 was comprehensive.
DDT is still used in local areas where malaria is endemic, primarily in Africa, but there are still some “illegal” uses in crops in developing countries like India.
DDT is one of 12 pesticides recommended by the WHO for indoor residual spray programs in areas with endemic malaria.
DDT is very stable in the environment and accumulates in fat tissues in animals. It’s half-life in marine enviroments is estimated at 150 years.
There are county and city regulations regarding the placement construction of septic tanks.
Mr Dan,
The question was, “How will YOU go about killing leftists?”
Do you advocate that rightists take their AR-15s (with the new “switches” to convert to auto) and shoot Democratic officials?
Murder school teachers? Murder hybrid/EV drivers? IEDs in big cities? Firebomb gay clubs and drag shows?
Does your “honesty” only go so far?
As the public school teachers get more and more into the transgender and homosexual activist arena, we have reasonable hope that they’ll simply non-reproduce themselves out of existence. As liberal
menmales turn increasingly soy boy, they’ll start to non-reproduce themselves out of existence as well.And, of course, as the 90%-likely-to-vote-Democratic population of St Louis and Philadelphia and Chicago keep on killing each other, we have high hopes there; we don’t need to kill them while they are busy killing themselves.
The Gun Owner Elwood P. Dowd wrote:
One would think that, being a firearms owner yourself, you’d realize that converting an AR-15 to fully automatic would reduce the number of people someone could kill with it, as it wastes bullets and overheats barrels. A shooter would have to change magazines far more frequently, and might damage his weapon beyond the capability to fire as he overheats it.
The United States Army restricted the M16 and later M4 to three-round bursts on full auto; no more rock-and-roll settings! This was to save the weapon from overheating damage.
Police are certainly concerned about the “Glock switches” and “AR switches”. Mo’ bullets means mo’ killing.
There’s no evidence to suggest that mass murderers are as discerning as the US military.
Also, the Marines use the M27 (magazine fed) and other branches use the M249 (belt fed).
The proof of the pudding is in the tasting, so the piles of bodies will inform us.
Since Mr Dana appears to support the killing of libs, how does he propose to do it? He clearly supports gangbangers killing each other (although it’s unlikely many of them vote), and several thousand dead young black men each year is unlikely to turn an election. Same with LGBTQ teachers. Most connies SUPPORT the birthing of MORE potential Dem voters!
Dana,
The US military has found there are some practical reasons to keep fully auto, just not on every weapon. Even going back to the 70’s, rifle doctrine called for 2 people per fire team to have weapons on fully auto while everyone else stayed on semi. In the 80’s, those members were armed with the belt fed SAW instead. The SAW, like other machine guns, had a replaceable barrel so that they could be swapped out and allowed to cool. As it is, the military is phasing out the M4/M16 altogether.
Jan. 6
Never forgive, never forget.
#LetsGoBrandon
Bwaha! Lolgf
Today is the 2nd Anniversary of the unsuccessful Trump Coup.
Never Forgive! Never Forget!
America cannot afford to forgive sedition. The forces aligned against the United States are still here, waiting for their next opportunity.
America cannot afford to forgive sedition. The forces aligned against the United States are still here, waiting for their next opportunity.
You are correct. THe slave owning democrat party who rebelled against federalism in 1861 are still here and are still a clear and present danger to the United States as founded. They are radical leftist today, filled with anti American/White/Christian/conservative hate and are on a direct course to destroy America…again. They already had their first insurrection that cost at least 600,000 American lives. Then in 2020 they managed to cheat their way into their second revolt and steal our republic, murder innocent women, incarcerate without bail protesting citizens and declare 100,000 million of us enemies.
BTW Elwood, you are the ones who want to kill everybody. People like you always cause the problem and when others react you blame them.
CarolAnn,
It’s difficult to follow your “thought” processes at times; I apologize for my slowness.
The Old Confederacy (southern states) seceded from the United States because they wanted to preserve their “way of life” (slavery). This triggered the Civil War which ended up killing over 600,000 Americans fighting over slavery. It’s difficult to know for certain how one would have reacted to events over 150 years ago, but I suspect I would have opposed slavery, but who knows. Perhaps if I had grown up in Georgia as the child of slave owners I would have thought differently.
Currently, a minority of white Americans claim that the 2020 election was “stolen” by “the left”, although there is no credible evidence to support the claim. It appears that the electoral loser, Don Trump, claimed he won and that was enough to activate his supporters to riot and commit crimes against the nation.
As unfortunate as it was the Ms Babbitt was killed, she was part of a feral mob breaking windows, breaking down doors, assaulting officers, and apparently intent on harming US Representatives, Senators and even VP Pence (Hang Mike Pence!, Where’s Nancy?). Ms Babbitt was the first of the mob to try to enter the House chamber through a smashed window. An officer shot her as she crawled through. She died. Tragic, but sometimes perpetrators are harmed during the commission of a crime. This was Trump’s rebellion, and although he was safely back at the White House, this was trump’s responsibility. The officer was within his rights to protect himself and the House members. Did you watch the videos of the incident?
You appear to justify the Jan 6 riot based on your false belief the election was stolen! Your side lost the election. That does not justify rebellion. We understand that it’s frustrating for a far right, white christian American to live in the United States, what with our freedoms and diversity. Conservative, white christians have long had privileges and those privileges are under threat.
That doesn’t make sense to me. Could you offer more detail to what you’re thinking? Thanks. Happy New Year.
There is now and has been enough “credible evidence” election fraud via the voting machines, chain of custody and videos of people CHEATING, not to mention the HUGE revelations by Twitter of censorship and illegal government intervention to at least warrant an audit and an investigation of both the 2020 and 2022 elections. You refuse even to LOOK at the evidence because you and your nazi party know if the truth be known you overthrew the US in an election coup.
That entire paragraph is full of lies and false allegations. Please start speaking the truth. Babbitt was not part of a feral mob any more than any other protest except she was white so it’s okay to murder her. “The officer” you claim was “within his rights” was not protecting himself from anything since he was behind a locked door and 12 feet away from a 100 lb unarmed lady. If it had been a black lady and a white cop would you and your lying comrades still me insisting her murder was justified? What capital crime did she commit where she deserved the death sentence? Stop acting like you are blind. ” sometimes perpetrators are harmed during the commission of a crime.” except she was not committing a crime she was protesting the election. I guess it’s only okay when feral black demofascists burn down cities, murder dozens of people and destroy $2 billion worth of property then you call it a protest.
LG Brandon is correct. You are no more than a lying commie pig. You leftists will kill us all if you get the chance.
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Conservative White Christians created and built this country you rotten commie cunt.
Thank you CarolAnn. It’s nice to know that at least one female here understands that a person who hates so many fellow Americans like dowd does is not what we should be as a nation.
The only minority dowd thinks is wrong are ” a minority of white Americans ” who disagree with your commie ideas.
I love America and I love Americans. All colors and all religions that themselves love America. I don’t like liars and dowd is a rotten liar. I don’t like any political r religious party that hates the USA. Being a commie dowd hates the USA.
So far I’ve spent the most of my life being a fireman and doing my best to save fellow Americans from harm. What has dowd done? Who has dowd saved? NOBODY! dowd thinks only of dowd and what he wants.
CarolAnn,
You’re a rotten fascist cunt.
Lucifer,
You’re a lying, rotten, fascist cunt.