From U.S. Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA-9):
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Friday, March 22, 2019 –
Promising Developments in Research
During the recent congressional district work period, I had a chance to spend some time at Virginia Tech. While on campus, I met with some of the talented people who work and study there and heard firsthand about their important research and development projects. Some of their work promises great benefits for the economy and the quality of life, both here in Virginia and across the country.
My first appointment was with Dr. Roe-Hoan Yoon and the team at the Center for Advanced Separation Technologies. I’ve met with him several times over the years, and he spoke at a symposium on the future of coal I convened in 2016 in Wise.
His work focuses on developing processes to extract rare earth elements (their rarity is due to the difficulty of extraction) from coal byproducts. Viable extraction techniques would provide the American economy with a new supply of rare earth elements, which are prized for advanced manufacturing purposes.
A new supply pipeline of rare earth elements would bring benefits for the economy and jobs. It also would serve national security purposes, as right now the United States almost entirely depends on China for these resources.
At our meeting, Dr. Yoon updated me on progress in this field. A consortium of universities, including Virginia Tech, is moving forward with testing extraction methods. The consortium won a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy last fall for a pilot project to test a hydrophobic-hydrophilic separation process to produce clean coal and specialty carbon products for discarded coal wastes.
I have been happy to support the consortium’s work by encouraging the Federal Government to fund such projects, and I am excited by the potential they hold for a coal breakthrough.
The next meeting of the day regarded the work at Virginia Tech’s Sustainable Water Infrastructure Management (SWIM) Center, led by Dr. Sunil Sinha, partially funded by a federal grant.
Clean water is important for health and safety, but aging infrastructure and uninformed maintenance strategies can hinder access to it. We remember the tragic situation in Flint, Michigan, where lead poisoned the water.
SWIM’s mission will help to prevent future failures by gathering data on water infrastructure systems nationwide. Collecting, securely maintaining, and analyzing this data will contribute to a better and broader understanding of our water infrastructure’s status. For example, it can indicate the reliability of various pipe construction materials in the area and the conditions that surround them. Factors like the type of soil or the proximity of railroad tracks can affect the lifespan of a pipe.
The data will be housed with Virginia Tech’s PIPELINE infrastructure DATABASE (PIPEiD), which aims to provide uniform standards for water infrastructure data and centralize it in a geographic information system (GIS), essentially providing a map of the data. This database will help municipalities large and small visualize their infrastructure issues.
I was struck by the usefulness of this approach, and during our meeting I noted that a similar mapping process would be helpful in addressing another critical infrastructure issue: broadband access.
As it happens, during the same week that I visited Virginia Tech, a pilot project was announced that would take a step toward mapping broadband availability. The Broadband Mapping Initiative, conducted by USTelecom and a consortium of broadband companies, is launching a pilot project in Virginia and Missouri that will develop tools and gather information to understand where broadband is – and more importantly isn’t – available.
I am glad to see that Virginia was chosen as one of the pilot states for this initiative. This data will be gathered and shared with consumers as well as the Federal Communications Commission and will hopefully be a productive step towards accurate and comprehensive broadband maps.
These various projects are examining different challenges that face our society and economy today, but they have much in common, including a commitment to research and evidence and cooperation among partners in the private, public, and higher education sectors. I think they offer a model for problem solving. And they are happening in our part of Virginia.
If you have questions, concerns, or comments, feel free to contact my office. You can call my Abingdon office at 276-525-1405 or my Christiansburg office at 540-381-5671. To reach my office via email, please visit my website at www.morgangriffith.house.gov. Also on my website is the latest material from my office, including information on votes recently taken on the floor of the House of Representatives.
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Friday, March 22, 2019
Friday, July 22, 2016
Remove Coal Ash...to Where?
Here's another petition I won't be signing, although it interests me, and some readers may want to sign it. Do you see what I see in these River Healers' petition?
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We have a safer demand. Dominion Virginia Power should be required to move all of the coal ash from these old ponds to a location where it can be safely stored away from rivers and communities.
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The problem I see is that there aren't a lot of locations that are truly "away from rivers and communities." If this petition had explained which locations are a little further away from the sources of Dominion Power users' drinking water, without being closer to anyone else's drinking water, I'd sign it. DP should clean up its own mess. The solution, however, is not just to pick up the trash in one's own yard and throw it over the fence into the neighbors' yard. The world is round. You can't go very far in Virginia without coming to a river--every one of which is valued by somebody or other--and, strangely enough, people in Maryland and North Carolina feel pretty much the same way about their rivers that people in Virginia feel about ours. And in places where there are fewer rivers, the feeling is even more intense.
Can the stuff safely be transferred to an uninhabited planet? I wish. Can anyone on this planet deserve to have to live with the coal ash residues more than the community in and for which the coal was burned?
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Oppose Domion Power's current dewatering and solid waste permits. The permits as written would allow coal ash toxins to continue seeping into rivers and remain indefinitely on various floodplains. Permanently leaving coal ash waste sites in their current place through proposed "capping" methods removes the environmental responsibility that Dominion Virginia Power owes to the public.
We have a safer demand. Dominion Virginia Power should be required to move all of the coal ash from these old ponds to a location where it can be safely stored away from rivers and communities.
We demand that Dominion Virginia Power must dig up and remove all coal ash from power stations that are located next to valued Virginia communities and Virginia rivers. We demand that The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, The Virginia State Water Control Board, and Virginia State Legislators act accordingly to our rights and close these coal ash ponds appropriately, by digging them up. Hold Dominion Virginia Power accountable for properly closing coal ash waste sites at the Chesterfield Power Plant. Dig it up!
The problem I see is that there aren't a lot of locations that are truly "away from rivers and communities." If this petition had explained which locations are a little further away from the sources of Dominion Power users' drinking water, without being closer to anyone else's drinking water, I'd sign it. DP should clean up its own mess. The solution, however, is not just to pick up the trash in one's own yard and throw it over the fence into the neighbors' yard. The world is round. You can't go very far in Virginia without coming to a river--every one of which is valued by somebody or other--and, strangely enough, people in Maryland and North Carolina feel pretty much the same way about their rivers that people in Virginia feel about ours. And in places where there are fewer rivers, the feeling is even more intense.
Can the stuff safely be transferred to an uninhabited planet? I wish. Can anyone on this planet deserve to have to live with the coal ash residues more than the community in and for which the coal was burned?
Thursday, February 7, 2013
HB 1757: Wetland and Stream Replacement Fund
Virginia House Bill 1757 appears to be yet another attempt to spend money in the hope of proactively addressing a problem that would respond better to a negative, judgmental approach. It creates a "Wetland and Stream Replacement Fund."
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB1757EH1
What happened to enforcing existing laws against pollution? Verify that water is being polluted, and start slapping fines on the property owners until they sell the property to someone who wants to do something more wholesome with it. Why do we need to add a new, expensive Fund to that? I can understand why, all right. Take a real-world example of how it'd work, and you'll see why some people read HB 1757 as an "Agenda 21" scheme to destroy all that makes the United States what we are.
For example, yesterday I mentioned the phenomenon of bad neighbors who pasture cattle above a mountain spring and abandon the carcasses of illegally killed deer in the spring branch. I know who owns the cattle. I don't know that the same individual is to blame for the illegally killed deer. The family are privately working on it. We shouldn't have to work on it; we pay taxes in order to let trained, armed police officers work on it. They don't care. We do. What I know for sure is that the spring from which the Cat Sanctuary gets water has been polluted, and nobody from the Cat Sanctuary has been doing it.
Enforcing existing laws would be inconvenient. It would mean that the sheriff's deputies would have to get out of their cars and prowl around the mountain, stalking silent, stealthy, possibly violent poachers. The sheriff's deputies don't particularly enjoy doing this and, when called to investigate damage to a property owner's water line at 4 a.m., they seem about as sleepy and grumpy as the offended property owner is. If there's no bleeding body to transport and no stolen diamonds to track down, why should they have to write a report, they grumble. Who blames them?
So we get what this web site's Tea Party contacts identify as Agenda 21, or whatever its proponents are currently calling the unhelpful alternative kind of suggestions. "Well, of course people who work during the day tend to fall asleep at night, and although that's what they are paid to do we understand that the sheriff's deputies don't enjoy chasing outlaws around the mountain at night either. Why should private citizens, especially old ladies, have to live on a beautiful mountain near a sparkling mountain spring. Let's 'plan' something more efficient. Let's throw some money at a conservation group, and perhaps they can persuade the old ladies to move into a retirement project in town somewhere, and 'preserve' that beautiful mountain for some wolves and bears, who will probably scare away the poachers."
On paper, to the "planners," these things sound very wise. Of course, in practice, people whose home is on a mountain don't thrive in retirement projects. Probably the "planners" think we're no loss. This is an overcrowded country and many people think the part of the population that most needs thinning is the old ladies. Well, naturally the position of this web site is that the part of the population that most needs thinning is the part that naturally tends to thin itself--the violent mental cases. However, if transferred to retirement projects against our wills, some old ladies may become violent mental cases; there's always that possibility.
And the legitimate hunters we know shoot squirrels and coyotes for fun, so to them the words "wolves and bears" mean "Bring the appropriate ammunition." Probably the poachers do too; I've seen that they strip the meat off deer carcasses they leave lying about, presumably in order to eat it, and committed carnivores say there's a lot of good eating on a bear.
There is an international drug trade in the United States. So far, gangsters aren't raising marijuana and manufacturing drugs on farms owned by private families. That's partly because it's so much easier for them to do those things on state property, which is less often patrolled by owners and managers.
Meanwhile, although a reasonable number of pure, wild nature preserves are sustainable and a delight to the public, there is a limit to the number of nature preserves the state can afford. Sooner or later, and I hope it's later than my lifetime, a bankrupt state will get a deal it can't refuse on those nature preserves. We've seen logging, and not very efficient, sustainable, or enlightened sorts of logging, in National Forests. We'll probably see strip mining in those "preserved" former farms.
If conserving Virginia's resources is the goal, I think our legislature might do better to work on ways to keep every possible acre of land in the hands of private owners, with particular attention to those whose ancestral ties to the land go back furthest...and keep land out of the hands of nonprofit organizations, which tend to be more short-lived and less dependable.
HB 1757 passed the House and is currently before a committee in the Senate. If one of the following State Senators is supposed to represent you, you may want to suggest that he (or she) be cautious about giving taxpayers' money to unprofitable, er, nonprofit organizations. The committee members are Senators "Hanger (Chairman), Watkins, Puckett, Ruff, Blevins, Obenshain, McEachin, Petersen, Northam, Stuart, Marsden, Stanley, Black, Miller, Ebbin." (Don't you love the way lis.virginia.gov prints each name as a link you can use to e-mail your Senator?)
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB1757EH1
What happened to enforcing existing laws against pollution? Verify that water is being polluted, and start slapping fines on the property owners until they sell the property to someone who wants to do something more wholesome with it. Why do we need to add a new, expensive Fund to that? I can understand why, all right. Take a real-world example of how it'd work, and you'll see why some people read HB 1757 as an "Agenda 21" scheme to destroy all that makes the United States what we are.
For example, yesterday I mentioned the phenomenon of bad neighbors who pasture cattle above a mountain spring and abandon the carcasses of illegally killed deer in the spring branch. I know who owns the cattle. I don't know that the same individual is to blame for the illegally killed deer. The family are privately working on it. We shouldn't have to work on it; we pay taxes in order to let trained, armed police officers work on it. They don't care. We do. What I know for sure is that the spring from which the Cat Sanctuary gets water has been polluted, and nobody from the Cat Sanctuary has been doing it.
Enforcing existing laws would be inconvenient. It would mean that the sheriff's deputies would have to get out of their cars and prowl around the mountain, stalking silent, stealthy, possibly violent poachers. The sheriff's deputies don't particularly enjoy doing this and, when called to investigate damage to a property owner's water line at 4 a.m., they seem about as sleepy and grumpy as the offended property owner is. If there's no bleeding body to transport and no stolen diamonds to track down, why should they have to write a report, they grumble. Who blames them?
So we get what this web site's Tea Party contacts identify as Agenda 21, or whatever its proponents are currently calling the unhelpful alternative kind of suggestions. "Well, of course people who work during the day tend to fall asleep at night, and although that's what they are paid to do we understand that the sheriff's deputies don't enjoy chasing outlaws around the mountain at night either. Why should private citizens, especially old ladies, have to live on a beautiful mountain near a sparkling mountain spring. Let's 'plan' something more efficient. Let's throw some money at a conservation group, and perhaps they can persuade the old ladies to move into a retirement project in town somewhere, and 'preserve' that beautiful mountain for some wolves and bears, who will probably scare away the poachers."
On paper, to the "planners," these things sound very wise. Of course, in practice, people whose home is on a mountain don't thrive in retirement projects. Probably the "planners" think we're no loss. This is an overcrowded country and many people think the part of the population that most needs thinning is the old ladies. Well, naturally the position of this web site is that the part of the population that most needs thinning is the part that naturally tends to thin itself--the violent mental cases. However, if transferred to retirement projects against our wills, some old ladies may become violent mental cases; there's always that possibility.
And the legitimate hunters we know shoot squirrels and coyotes for fun, so to them the words "wolves and bears" mean "Bring the appropriate ammunition." Probably the poachers do too; I've seen that they strip the meat off deer carcasses they leave lying about, presumably in order to eat it, and committed carnivores say there's a lot of good eating on a bear.
There is an international drug trade in the United States. So far, gangsters aren't raising marijuana and manufacturing drugs on farms owned by private families. That's partly because it's so much easier for them to do those things on state property, which is less often patrolled by owners and managers.
Meanwhile, although a reasonable number of pure, wild nature preserves are sustainable and a delight to the public, there is a limit to the number of nature preserves the state can afford. Sooner or later, and I hope it's later than my lifetime, a bankrupt state will get a deal it can't refuse on those nature preserves. We've seen logging, and not very efficient, sustainable, or enlightened sorts of logging, in National Forests. We'll probably see strip mining in those "preserved" former farms.
If conserving Virginia's resources is the goal, I think our legislature might do better to work on ways to keep every possible acre of land in the hands of private owners, with particular attention to those whose ancestral ties to the land go back furthest...and keep land out of the hands of nonprofit organizations, which tend to be more short-lived and less dependable.
HB 1757 passed the House and is currently before a committee in the Senate. If one of the following State Senators is supposed to represent you, you may want to suggest that he (or she) be cautious about giving taxpayers' money to unprofitable, er, nonprofit organizations. The committee members are Senators "Hanger (Chairman), Watkins, Puckett, Ruff, Blevins, Obenshain, McEachin, Petersen, Northam, Stuart, Marsden, Stanley, Black, Miller, Ebbin." (Don't you love the way lis.virginia.gov prints each name as a link you can use to e-mail your Senator?)
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
How HB 2048 Boggled the Delegates' Minds
This portion of an e-mail from Sandy Garst's Shenandoah Constitutionalists is priceless. It relates to a 49-page monster of an atrocious bill that I seriously doubt anybody could have read, and fully analyzed, in one month. I suspect the House of Delegates voted to pass HB 2048, which has been discussed here before, because they were stupefied by the obfuscatory quality of the writing.
The following breakdown of the vote sounds a little suspicious, and I have mixed feelings about sharing it, but if you've tried to read HB 2048 you can see how it is at least possible. If any Delegate claims it's not accurate, we'll retract it, but meanwhile it seems valuable as gallows humor...that would be the gallows of property rights in Virginia...
"Agenda 21: HB2048 The Agenda 21 "on steroids" Omnibus Bill Water quality; transfer of responsibility for administration of programs.
floor: 02/04/13 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (82-Y 17-N)
YEAS--Albo, Anderson, BaCote, Brink, Bulova, Byron, Carr, Cole, Comstock, Cosgrove, Cox, M.K., Crockett-Stark, Dance, Dudenhefer, Edmunds, Fariss, Filler-Corn, Garrett, Greason, Head, Helsel, Herring, Hester, Hope, Howell, A.T., Iaquinto, Ingram, James, Joannou, Johnson, Jones, Keam, Knight, Kory, Krupicka, Landes, LeMunyon, Lewis, Lingamfelter, Lopez, Loupassi, Marshall, D.W., Massie, May, McClellan, McQuinn, Merricks, Miller, Morris, Morrissey, O'Bannon, Orrock, Plum, Pogge, Poindexter, Purkey, Putney, Ramadan, Ransone, Robinson, Rust, Scott, E.T., Scott, J.M., Sherwood, Sickles, Spruill, Stolle, Surovell, Tata, Torian, Toscano, Tyler, Villanueva, Ward, Ware, O., Ware, R.L., Watts, Webert, Wilt, Wright, Yost, Mr. Speaker--82.
NAYS--Bell, Richard P., Bell, Robert B., Cline, Cox, J.A., Farrell, Gilbert, Habeeb, Hodges, Kilgore, Marshall, R.G., Minchew, Morefield, O'Quinn, Peace, Rush, Watson, Yancey--17.
ABSTENTIONS--0.
NOT VOTING--Hugo--1.
Delegate Crockett-Stark was recorded as yea. Intended to vote nay.Delegate Kilgore was recorded as nay. Intended to vote yea.Delegate Anderson was recorded as yea. Intended to vote nay.Delegate Lingamfelter was recorded as yea. Intended to vote nay."
I believe that this report is consistent with the life and work of Delegates Crockett-Stark and Lingamfelter. After the General Assembly, when our legislators get time to breathe, we can ask Delegate Kilgore whether he did in fact intend to vote yea to this abomination, and if so why, and also why, if there is anything good in these 49 pages of links and references and bad writing, the writers did not put it into a separate readable bill where it could be appreciated.
Delegate Kilgore is my third cousin once removed; he was four years ahead of me at school, thus not what might be called a close relative, but I have a lot of respect for his intelligence and general good will. I'm not pleased when Tea Party contacts impugn both--or find reasons to. I think it's possible that several Delegates' intelligence and good will may have been clouded by the sort of private problems that have tempted more than one family in Scott County to indulge in fascist fantasies.
I will share this much of something that has hitherto been an extended-family secret, and not even shared with most of the extended family. Delegate Kilgore is aware of the problems the Cat Sanctuary has had with a neighbor who has definitely done harm to our water supply (and to me, personally) and to the water supply of our townspeople in Gate City (who at least have a filtration and chlorination system, designed to prevent this kind of bad neighbors from doing harm to the townspeople's bodies). We discussed this last summer at some length. I think we are in agreement that people who run cattle above a mountain spring, spray pesticides around a mountain spring, park cars practically in the spring branch below a mountain spring, and dump animals killed out of season into the spring branch below a mountain spring, are bad neighbors; that they are not gentlemen; that they don't deserve to own land, and that, if they were to maim or kill themselves in the process of wreaking further damage on their own little patch of land, it would not be an entirely bad thing.
We are not the only people whose water supply has been endangered by bad neighbors. Other neighborhoods in Scott County have seen horrible things happen to what was supposedly minimally processed water straight out of mountain springs. It is possible that, somewhere in HB 2048, Delegate Kilgore saw some hope of help for his faithful constituents.
It is possible that he underestimated our ability and willingness to help ourselves...how else could anybody vote for a land grab? Conservative readers, remember Hurricane Sandy? If you want to sit back and watch TV when people need help, Big Government is going to have an excuse to step in and do things their way.
Residents of the Cat Sanctuary did not ask for any piece of legislation that would authorize land grabbing in order to "protect" people even from bad neighbors like this one. Bad neighbors can be better dealt with by good neighbors than by bigger government. From bad neighbors we can at least get the land back. Once Big Government gets title to a piece of land, it's lost to the decent law-abiding citizens of Virginia until Big Government goes bankrupt and sells the land to malevolent foreign interests. People lose their homes, their lives, their heritage...I'm starting to feel beleaguered here, and because I've had so little in life but my home and have so little else to lose, you do not want me feeling beleaguered...and the state loses its tax base! For pity's sake.
Attention Tea Partiers. If you want to be part of a demonstration of the American way to deal with bad neighbors who pollute mountain springs, tell Saloli. (Yes, what you can do will involve money first and publicity second.) We'll demonstrate, we'll discuss how the demonstration works, and we'll even try to share some pictures. We may need a little help from friends, but we do not need "help" from the likes of HB 2048.
The following breakdown of the vote sounds a little suspicious, and I have mixed feelings about sharing it, but if you've tried to read HB 2048 you can see how it is at least possible. If any Delegate claims it's not accurate, we'll retract it, but meanwhile it seems valuable as gallows humor...that would be the gallows of property rights in Virginia...
"Agenda 21: HB2048 The Agenda 21 "on steroids" Omnibus Bill Water quality; transfer of responsibility for administration of programs.
floor: 02/04/13 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (82-Y 17-N)
YEAS--Albo, Anderson, BaCote, Brink, Bulova, Byron, Carr, Cole, Comstock, Cosgrove, Cox, M.K., Crockett-Stark, Dance, Dudenhefer, Edmunds, Fariss, Filler-Corn, Garrett, Greason, Head, Helsel, Herring, Hester, Hope, Howell, A.T., Iaquinto, Ingram, James, Joannou, Johnson, Jones, Keam, Knight, Kory, Krupicka, Landes, LeMunyon, Lewis, Lingamfelter, Lopez, Loupassi, Marshall, D.W., Massie, May, McClellan, McQuinn, Merricks, Miller, Morris, Morrissey, O'Bannon, Orrock, Plum, Pogge, Poindexter, Purkey, Putney, Ramadan, Ransone, Robinson, Rust, Scott, E.T., Scott, J.M., Sherwood, Sickles, Spruill, Stolle, Surovell, Tata, Torian, Toscano, Tyler, Villanueva, Ward, Ware, O., Ware, R.L., Watts, Webert, Wilt, Wright, Yost, Mr. Speaker--82.
NAYS--Bell, Richard P., Bell, Robert B., Cline, Cox, J.A., Farrell, Gilbert, Habeeb, Hodges, Kilgore, Marshall, R.G., Minchew, Morefield, O'Quinn, Peace, Rush, Watson, Yancey--17.
ABSTENTIONS--0.
NOT VOTING--Hugo--1.
Delegate Crockett-Stark was recorded as yea. Intended to vote nay.Delegate Kilgore was recorded as nay. Intended to vote yea.Delegate Anderson was recorded as yea. Intended to vote nay.Delegate Lingamfelter was recorded as yea. Intended to vote nay."
I believe that this report is consistent with the life and work of Delegates Crockett-Stark and Lingamfelter. After the General Assembly, when our legislators get time to breathe, we can ask Delegate Kilgore whether he did in fact intend to vote yea to this abomination, and if so why, and also why, if there is anything good in these 49 pages of links and references and bad writing, the writers did not put it into a separate readable bill where it could be appreciated.
Delegate Kilgore is my third cousin once removed; he was four years ahead of me at school, thus not what might be called a close relative, but I have a lot of respect for his intelligence and general good will. I'm not pleased when Tea Party contacts impugn both--or find reasons to. I think it's possible that several Delegates' intelligence and good will may have been clouded by the sort of private problems that have tempted more than one family in Scott County to indulge in fascist fantasies.
I will share this much of something that has hitherto been an extended-family secret, and not even shared with most of the extended family. Delegate Kilgore is aware of the problems the Cat Sanctuary has had with a neighbor who has definitely done harm to our water supply (and to me, personally) and to the water supply of our townspeople in Gate City (who at least have a filtration and chlorination system, designed to prevent this kind of bad neighbors from doing harm to the townspeople's bodies). We discussed this last summer at some length. I think we are in agreement that people who run cattle above a mountain spring, spray pesticides around a mountain spring, park cars practically in the spring branch below a mountain spring, and dump animals killed out of season into the spring branch below a mountain spring, are bad neighbors; that they are not gentlemen; that they don't deserve to own land, and that, if they were to maim or kill themselves in the process of wreaking further damage on their own little patch of land, it would not be an entirely bad thing.
We are not the only people whose water supply has been endangered by bad neighbors. Other neighborhoods in Scott County have seen horrible things happen to what was supposedly minimally processed water straight out of mountain springs. It is possible that, somewhere in HB 2048, Delegate Kilgore saw some hope of help for his faithful constituents.
It is possible that he underestimated our ability and willingness to help ourselves...how else could anybody vote for a land grab? Conservative readers, remember Hurricane Sandy? If you want to sit back and watch TV when people need help, Big Government is going to have an excuse to step in and do things their way.
Residents of the Cat Sanctuary did not ask for any piece of legislation that would authorize land grabbing in order to "protect" people even from bad neighbors like this one. Bad neighbors can be better dealt with by good neighbors than by bigger government. From bad neighbors we can at least get the land back. Once Big Government gets title to a piece of land, it's lost to the decent law-abiding citizens of Virginia until Big Government goes bankrupt and sells the land to malevolent foreign interests. People lose their homes, their lives, their heritage...I'm starting to feel beleaguered here, and because I've had so little in life but my home and have so little else to lose, you do not want me feeling beleaguered...and the state loses its tax base! For pity's sake.
Attention Tea Partiers. If you want to be part of a demonstration of the American way to deal with bad neighbors who pollute mountain springs, tell Saloli. (Yes, what you can do will involve money first and publicity second.) We'll demonstrate, we'll discuss how the demonstration works, and we'll even try to share some pictures. We may need a little help from friends, but we do not need "help" from the likes of HB 2048.
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