Must Be Another Example of that Invisible Hand of the Market!

[Minimalist]

Watch out, Oklahoma...you're fucked.  But you deserve it for electing these shits in the first place.


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/oklahoma...-fracking/

Oklahoma oil billionaire demanded university fire scientists studying dangers of fracking

According to Bloomberg Business, Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm met with Larry Grillot, dean of the university’s Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy, in 2014 and expressed his dismay with work being done on the school’s Oklahoma Geological Survey.

“Mr. Hamm is very upset at some of the earthquake reporting to the point that he would like to see select OGS staff dismissed,” Grillot wrote to Dammy Hilliard, University Vice President for External Relations and Planning.
In the email, Grillot noted that Hamm had made a veiled threat to the university, telling the dean, “he would be visiting with Governor [Mary] Fallin on the topic of moving the OGS out of the University of Oklahoma.”

[Anomalocaris]

That ain't nothing next to Wyoming's new law which made it a crime to gather any environmental data and sharing the data with Federal or STATE agencies.

This is because Wyoming ranchers would like their cattle to be able to randomly shit in the rivers and streams of Wyoming, and would not like any Wyoming citizen who gets sick from the resulting E. coli outbreak in the rivers and streams of Wyoming to be able to give state or federal agencies the data needed to support regulation on where ranchers can let their cattles shit, for the sake of the health of the citizens of Wyoming.

[abaris]

That ain't nothing next to Wyoming's new law which made it a crime to gather any environmental data and sharing the data with Federal or STATE agencies.

This is because Wyoming ranchers would like their cattle to be able to randomly shit in the rivers and streams of Wyoming, and would not like any Wyoming citizen who gets sick from the resulting E. coli outbreak in the rivers and streams of Wyoming to be able to give state or federal agencies the data needed to support regulation on where ranchers can let their cattles shit, for the sake of the health of the citizens of Wyoming.

That's why I'm not overly fond of the American system. Whenever there's a dime to be made, people's wellbeing comes second. Even down to the most basic level of letting them rot in the streets, if they can't pay for a treatment.

[Minimalist]

Whenever there's a dime to be made, people's wellbeing comes second. Even down to the most basic level of letting them rot in the streets, if they can't pay for a treatment.

Hey, haven't you heard?  We're xcepshunil.

[Anomalocaris]

That ain't nothing next to Wyoming's new law which made it a crime to gather any environmental data and sharing the data with Federal or STATE agencies.

This is because Wyoming ranchers would like their cattle to be able to randomly shit in the rivers and streams of Wyoming, and would not like any Wyoming citizen who gets sick from the resulting E. coli outbreak in the rivers and streams of Wyoming to be able to give state or federal agencies the data needed to support regulation on where ranchers can let their cattles shit, for the sake of the health of the citizens of Wyoming.

That's why I'm not overly fond of the American system. Whenever there's a dime to be made, people's wellbeing comes second. Even down to the most basic level of letting them rot in the streets, if they can't pay for a treatment.

I think it's fair to say the singular hallmark of modern American conservatism is the encouragement of Calvinistic vindictiveness towards those whom one has been indoctrinated to perceive as being not quite like oneself.    To facilitate this conservatism encourages that narcissistic but idiotic exceptionalism mentality which allows one to reflexively deem those not like oneself to be more flawed than oneself.

[abaris]

To facilitate this conservatism encourages that narcissistic but idiotic exceptionalism mentality which allows one to reflexively deem those not like oneself to be more flawed than oneself.

I'm not thinking about exceptionalism, I'm thinking about making as much money as possible by any means possible as the ultimate value. And that's not even a new phenomenon. Robber barons like Andrew Carnegy, who is ultimately responsible for a factory massacre, are presented as role models. So human life and wellbeing come second when there's a dime to be made and it manifests in the conservative disregard for the poor and needy. The belief that everything in life is a commodity. Kind of a Ferengi culture, if you so wish.

That's what makes me concerned, since there are certain powers in Europe, who have wet dreams about doing the same.

[Anomalocaris]

I think exceptionalism in a broader sense forms the moral foundation of making the last buck at the expense of everyone else.

I can, therefore I am exceptional, and because I am exceptional, i am entitled to make it suck to be you and rightly so. 

[downbeatplumb]

That's what makes me concerned, since there are certain powers in Europe, who have wet dreams about doing the same.

Which is why it is such a shame the tories won in the UK election.

We are now screwed.

[Anomalocaris]

Which is why it is such a shame the tories won in the UK election.

We are now crewed.

i think the British moneyed and titled classes has had a sense of exceptionalism more long standing, more deeply ingrained, and better armored with more layers of cunningly adapted and polished justification, albeit somewhat more dented by experiences since end of WWI, than any possessed by over-confident nouveau Riche yokels on this side of the pond.

[abaris]

i think the British moneyed and titled classes has had a sense of exceptionalism more long standing, more deeply ingrained, and better armored with more layers of cunningly adapted and polished justification, albeit somewhat more dented by experiences since end of WWI, than any possessed by over-confident nouveau Riche yokels on this side of the pond.

I guess, not losing any world wars and therefore still having the same old upper class might play a role.