dagblog - Comments for "Environmental Malfeasance: &quot;TX Gov should resign for lies &amp; inaction about climate&quot;" http://dagblog.com/link/environmental-malfeasance-tx-gov-should-resign-lies-inaction-about-climate-23423 Comments for "Environmental Malfeasance: "TX Gov should resign for lies & inaction about climate"" en Would be awful if normal http://dagblog.com/comment/242544#comment-242544 <a id="comment-242544"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/242540#comment-242540">p.s.: I did not know the</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Would be awful if normal people tried to get real health care, rather than suing someone for $10 million the way real independent types handle it. God works in mysterious ways - first strikes you down, then lifts you out, or at least gives you a huge lifelong subsidy.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 04 Sep 2017 10:47:54 +0000 PeraclesPlease comment 242544 at http://dagblog.com p.s.: I did not know the http://dagblog.com/comment/242540#comment-242540 <a id="comment-242540"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/242538#comment-242538">Nice argument but fat chance</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>p.s.: I did not know the governor was in a wheelchair until I saw him on TV during Harvey. I looked up the reason. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Abbott#Early_life.2C_education.2C_and_early_law_career">From wikipedia</a>, offered without further comment about possible lectures about relying on the gummint when misfortune occurs instead of gumption, prayer and good lawyering</p> <blockquote> <p>In 1984, at age 26, Abbott was <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraplegic" title="Paraplegic">paralyzed</a> below waist-level when an oak tree fell on him while he was jogging following a storm.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Abbott#cite_note-TXAttyGenBio-5">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Abbott#cite_note-6">[6]</a> He had two steel rods implanted in his spine, underwent extensive rehabilitation at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIRR_Memorial_Hermann" title="TIRR Memorial Hermann">TIRR Memorial Hermann</a> in Houston, and has used a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelchair" title="Wheelchair">wheelchair</a> ever since.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Abbott#cite_note-7">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Abbott#cite_note-8">[8]</a> He sued the homeowner and negotiated an insurance settlement worth more than US$10 million, resulting in payouts of US$14,000 a month.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Abbott#cite_note-9">[9]</a></p> </blockquote> </div></div></div> Mon, 04 Sep 2017 04:15:21 +0000 artappraiser comment 242540 at http://dagblog.com Nice argument but fat chance http://dagblog.com/comment/242538#comment-242538 <a id="comment-242538"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/environmental-malfeasance-tx-gov-should-resign-lies-inaction-about-climate-23423">Environmental Malfeasance: &quot;TX Gov should resign for lies &amp; inaction about climate&quot;</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Nice argument but fat chance it is going to register with Texans or with this president or vice-president if he takes over or most of this Congress.</p> <p>Strikes me that this is the overall ethos he is arguing against:</p> <p>Let the market do its magic free of federal government restraints including environmental ones! Let the people and companies build where they want subject only to the regulations and zoning etc. that their own local governments decide. Because: jobs jobs jobs! (Even jobs for workers from outside the state! Just no Mexicans, that's something the Feds will help insure!) The local corporations and people are wise and know what they want and need in the area of environmental clean up and future regulation, profit will guide the way</p> <p>Further, there is also this one: god gives us natural disasters in order for us to use our brains that he gave us to continually overcome them and not only that, get rich doing so! Prayer faith and gumption are all you need....</p> <p>I'd  even venture a guess that most Texans believe these kind of things more strongly than the current people in power in DC.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 04 Sep 2017 04:08:20 +0000 artappraiser comment 242538 at http://dagblog.com EPA MIA IN TX -WTF? http://dagblog.com/comment/242532#comment-242532 <a id="comment-242532"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/environmental-malfeasance-tx-gov-should-resign-lies-inaction-about-climate-23423">Environmental Malfeasance: &quot;TX Gov should resign for lies &amp; inaction about climate&quot;</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://apnews.com/27796dd13b9549b0ac76aded58a15122/AP-EXCLUSIVE:-Toxic-waste-sites-flooded;-EPA-not-on-scene">EPA MIA IN TX </a>-WTF?</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 03 Sep 2017 07:36:09 +0000 PeraclesPlease comment 242532 at http://dagblog.com