All Things Considered - States Sue Federal Gov't Over Forest Protections

August 23, 2006 5:39 PM

NPR's All Things Considered on logging is enlightening, but it also has a moment of comedy genius from about 1min20.
posted by riotgrrl69 (24 comments total)

Which party was it that believed in limited powers for the federal gov and more autonomy for the States? I forget.
posted by mullingitover at 5:51 PM on August 23, 2006

It won't work for me. What happens?
posted by EarBucket at 5:56 PM on August 23, 2006

are you talking about the dude/chick screaming at them for cutting him/her down? I don't really understand.
posted by thanatogenous at 6:04 PM on August 23, 2006

I don't get it either. I'm pretty sure this shouldn't be here.
posted by mr_roboto at 6:07 PM on August 23, 2006

I lol'd. Then I played it over and lol'd again. He sounds so smug when he's first interviewed. Lol.
posted by thirteenkiller at 6:18 PM on August 23, 2006

mullingitover writes "Which party was it that believed in limited powers for the federal gov and more autonomy for the States? I forget."


The post-Dubya Republicans are a cult of personality and a desperate attempt by cynical opportunists to hold on to power by catering to corporate interests. It's no longer conservative in any meaningful sense. They're not conservatives that

• Edmund Burke (a critic of Empire who urged Britain to give the American colonies their freedom),
• John Adams (author of the Alien and Sedition acts but also the prime mover behind American independence),
• Henry Clay (author of the centralizing "American System" but also the "Compromise of 1850", the man know for saying "I'd rather be right than be President!"),
• Barry Goldwater (sure, in your guts you knew he was nuts, but at the end of his long life he championed, among other things, gay rights)
• or even Ronald Reagan (whose Administration's many flaws are outweighed by his signal contribution to ending totalitarian Soviet Communism) would recognize.

The current Republican Party resembles no real conservatives, it embraces no "conservative" ideas (outside of a warped and angry pseudo-Christianity) and the only conservative intellectuals it follows are cultural conservative Irving Babbitt (rightly ridiculed by Mencken, and source of name of Sinclair Lewis's novel) and that"neo-conservative" proponent of "noble lies" Leo Strauss.

Whatever the Dubya Republicans are, they aren't conservatives by any pre-21st Century definition of the word.
posted by orthogonality at 6:19 PM on August 23, 2006 [1 favorite]

You must be really fucking high. Else, how could this post fall so far?
posted by The Jesse Helms at 6:21 PM on August 23, 2006

Reagan ended the cold war in the same way that I ended the year 2005. Just being on hand for a historic inevitability doesn't make someone responsible, and I'm sick of that lie.
posted by Astro Zombie at 6:25 PM on August 23, 2006

Astro Zombie writes "I'm sick of that lie."

Surely you mean, "difference of opinion", not that I'm being intentionally disingenuous.
posted by orthogonality at 6:26 PM on August 23, 2006

What the hell is going on here?
posted by maryh at 6:27 PM on August 23, 2006

Which party was it that believed in limited powers for the federal gov and more autonomy for the States?

The Libertarian Party. No, wait, I take that back--the Libertarian Party believes in limited powers for all levels of government and more autonomy for individuals.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 6:28 PM on August 23, 2006

Oops- sorry, I missed mullingitover's original comment. My bad.
posted by maryh at 6:29 PM on August 23, 2006

Comedy genius? Almost as hilarious as being teargassed and beat with a billy club.
posted by gigbutt at 6:33 PM on August 23, 2006

MetaFilter: it was a complicated process but, y'know, we'll leave some mystery to that
posted by gubo at 6:33 PM on August 23, 2006

"It takes the forest service only a couple of hours to figure out how to cut Sutherland down."

*high pitched scream*



I'm sorry, I found that hilarious.
posted by geodave at 6:34 PM on August 23, 2006

I heard that yesterday. Whatever point NPR was trying to make was immediately rendered moot as all I could think was.

"Hur hur, that dude screams like a girl, hur hur."

I'm not proud of this.
posted by lekvar at 6:37 PM on August 23, 2006

Reagan ended the cold war in the same way that I ended the year 2005. Just being on hand for a historic inevitability doesn't make someone responsible, and I'm sick of that lie.
posted by Astro Zombie at 6:25 PM PST

All depends. If you believe that Reagan was going after the russian rubble via Leo Wanta and getting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to pump oil to drive the price down to $10 a barrel, then yea, Reagan did do something to collapse the Russian state.
posted by rough ashlar at 6:37 PM on August 23, 2006

YOU MONSTERS.
posted by knave at 6:40 PM on August 23, 2006

Dude, that wasn't a girl?
posted by The Jesse Helms at 6:43 PM on August 23, 2006

Are you sure that is was the guy in the tree that screams? I mean, could you actually see what was going on?
posted by NoMich at 6:45 PM on August 23, 2006

Until someone tells me what the hell is going on and/or provides me a transcript, I am going to assume that Ronald Reagan travelled forward in time to the year 2005 and smugly cut a screaming dude/chick in half with a chainsaw.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 6:56 PM on August 23, 2006 [2 favorites]

google news
posted by gubo at 6:59 PM on August 23, 2006

Thanks for this! That was awesome! I wish that would happen to all performance artists.
posted by Mayor Curley at 7:14 PM on August 23, 2006

Oh, sorry, I thought this Sutherlin person was protesting against blogging...
posted by wendell at 7:27 PM on August 23, 2006