(May 16, 2015 at 4:17 pm)abaris Wrote:(May 16, 2015 at 4:10 pm)Chuck Wrote: 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.
