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Post by Joe Cocker on Aug 23, 2012 21:36:15 GMT -5
You had to say Robert Redford. It's ok for me to have a ski resort, that uses coal generation cut down trees.
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Post by danceswithdogs on Aug 23, 2012 23:11:36 GMT -5
Robert Redford is a real hypocrite. From the book: (pg.51) "Progressive Hollywood honestly must think we're too stupid to notice their hypocrisy. For example how is it that someone as environmentally obnoxious as Robert Redford, who Time magazine has listed as one of environmentalism's "Superheroes", could drone on and endlessly about the evils of environmental destruction and carbon emissions, even as he has, as recently as 2008, done ten voice-overs for commercials for UNITED AIRLINES? Seriously? Does he think just because we can't see his 74 year old visage that we don't know that it's his voice trying to get us to board those carbon canons called jets?
Redford's environmental hypocrisy runs much deeper. Redford recently sold a dozen pieces of land near his Sundance ski resort in Utah, which is home to 95 "guest cottages", 180 private homes, and a ski area. Redford sold the plots to developers who want to build luxury homes there in undisturbed wilderness near an undeveloped ridge. The motive for destroying the once pristine mountain peaks? Redford's dozen plots of land sold for $2 Million a pop.
It gets better. Redford recently lobbied against a similar project in California's Napa Valley, where he has owned a home for 8 years. The proposed plan for Angwin Ecovillage would create 275 eco-friendly homes that utilize solar energy, wastewater reuse, and organic farm co-ops. But, unlike his lucrative Utah land deal, Redford didn't have anything to gain financially from the Angwin Ecovillage. And so Redford issued the following statement opposing the eco-friendly housing development: "I believe that the citizens of Napa Valley, from American Canyon to Calistoga, care about preserving the beautiful agricultural and rural heritage. That is why I am happy to join the Advisory Council of Save Rural Angwin in its effort to preserve this naturally carved land-basin from development."
Just another typical Hollyweird ass who has his but uses his influence and name to butt in and prevent others from building homes where HE thinks they should not.
And I bet he does not drive (or ride a bike/horse) back and forth between his multiple mansions in multiple states.........
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Post by Joe Cocker on Aug 24, 2012 0:45:48 GMT -5
All true as my son worked for the the power company in Utah and now in New Mexico. The power company wanted more high power lines through his property he wouldn't let them put in towers and lines.
I missed him when he came into our shop to get his car repaired, to get it fixed correctly.
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Post by Joe Cocker on Aug 31, 2012 19:16:54 GMT -5
AMERITOPIA
Publication Date: January 17, 2012 AN INTELLECTUALLY BRACING NEW VOLUME ON AMERICA’S TRANSFORMATION AND THE CLASH BETWEEN CONSTITUTIONALISM AND UTOPIANISM—FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIBERTY & TYRANNY , MARK R. LEVIN
Hailed by Rush Limbaugh as “the most compelling defense of freedom for our time,” and “the necessary book of the Obama era” by The American Spectator, Mark R. Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny made the most persuasive case for conservatism and against statism in a generation. In this most crucial time, this leading conservative thinker explores the psychology, motivations, and history of the utopian movement, its architects, and its modern-day disciples—and how the individual and American society are being devoured by it.
Levin asks, what is this utopian force that both allures a free people and destroys them? Levin digs deep into the past and draws astoundingly relevant parallels to contemporary America from
Plato’s Republic
Thomas More’s Utopia
Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan
Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto
. . . as well as from the critical works of John Locke, Charles Montesquieu, Alexis de Tocqueville, and other philosophical pioneers who brilliantly diagnosed the nature of man and government. As Levin meticulously pursues his subject, the reader joins him in an enlightening and compelling journey. And in the end, Levin’s message is clear: the American republic is in great peril. The people must now choose between utopianism or liberty.
President Ronald Reagan warned, “freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” Levin agrees, and with Ameritopia, delivers another modern political classic, an indispensable guide for America in our time and in the future.
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1,679 Reviews 5 star: (1,287) 4 star: (33) 3 star: (20) 2 star: (26) 1 star: (313)
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