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Been reading “The Big Burn” by Timothy Egan (grew up in Spokane). It’s about the onset of the Forest Service, the fierce battles to oppose setting aside public land and the huge fire that turned public sentiment to the foresters.
Find it odd that Heyburn State Park was named for an Idaho senator who battled Teddy Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot because they wanted to prohibit commercial development on some lands.
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Arch_Druid on October 28 at 8:26 a.m.
Looking at the latest Michael Ramirez cartoon this morning. His political comment has gone beyond stupid. Wonder where the dude was at crying about GW putting capitalism on the “enemies list” which he most certainly had in real and concrete ways. Or when dissent included the Dixie Chicks and therefore the GOP and the cult of personality surrounding GW put the Dixie Chicks on an enemies list. Or when GW personally put different members of the news media on the exclusionary list. GW certainly had done a Nixon and excuse me, but Obama isn't anywhere near that.
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