{"id":198419,"date":"2007-11-09T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/09\/barack-obama-can-kiss-my-shiny-metal-ass-2\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T22:40:00","slug":"barack-obama-can-kiss-my-shiny-metal-ass-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/09\/barack-obama-can-kiss-my-shiny-metal-ass-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama Can Kiss My Shiny Metal Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s had a busy past day or so.  Not only has he <a href=\"http:\/\/nationaljournal.com\/onair\/transcripts\/071108_obama_barack.htm\">reinforced the Republican meme about killing social security by calling it a &#8220;crisis&#8221;<\/a>, he is now in full pander with the mining interests when he says that he is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-Obama-Mining.html?_r=2&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">opposing the repeal the 1872 Mining act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We have had 200 years of bad laws, but the 1872 Mining act is among the worst.  Under the 1872 law, a miner stakes a claim, and all they have to do is pay $5\/acre, and it removes pretty much all environmental protections from land put to this applications.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the law allows the land to be &#8220;patented&#8221; or transferred to private property for a small fee.  This is a bad law.  It has resulted in massive losses to the federal government, the pollution of 40% of the watersheds in the west, and continues to harm the delicate ecology of the west.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, with gold increasing in value, old mining sites will be doubtlessly be scavenged, doing more harm ecological harm.<\/p>\n<p>For just how bad this law that Obama supports is, go <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/specials\/mining\/26875_mine11.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s had a busy past day or so. Not only has he reinforced the Republican meme about killing social security by calling it a &#8220;crisis&#8221;, he is now in full pander with the mining interests when he says that he is opposing the repeal the 1872 Mining act. We have had 200 years of bad &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1079,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}