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Environmental Protection Agencies: Federal and State Versions Under Siege

Reducing Power and Lowering Standards of Environmental Oversight Is Fiscal Stupidity.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - They pitch the battle as environment vs. jobs, it is a phony argument using economic recovery through ecological laxity as the key to our nation’s fiscal woes.

This type of “Zero Sum Game,” is a winner-take-all scenario that will create more jobs---More jobs in the remediation and restoration career sectors after we’ve destroyed our country’s ecologies.

James Pribram Eco-Warrior Project: Dead On Arrival

Sponsor Xs® Energy Drink David Vanderveen Filed For Divorce in mid-November: Another “Hollywood Marriage” Kaput in 2011.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - OK, cue up Queen’s “Another One Bites The Dust,” another phony enviro-venue that ironically died just before Thanksgiving Day 2011..

So I’ll give THANKS today from not only myself, not only Laguna and knowledgeable industry surfies, but from the other legitimate eco-groups infinitely more deserving of support which suffered donation drainage.

Pricing Orange County`s Higher Educational Out of Reach

The escalation began with the realization that young educated adults often challenge racism and the status quo.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - The movers and shakers of Orange County, California have always portrayed the county as Disneyesque.

When thinking about Orange County our leaders would have us recite Ray Stevens' lyrics: "Everything is beautiful in it's own way, under God's Heaven, the world's gonna find a way."

Female Sportscasters: The Death Knell of Machisimo?

Who had the bright idea of phasing in eye candy as announcers in formerly macho sports venues in the last decade?

(LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.) - I just watched FOX Sports Network broadcast of the 2011 USC vs. UCLA game.

At half-time, UCLA losing 29-0 on their way to a 50-0 obliteration, FOX Sports Network reminded me about why I wrote this column for S-N.com several years ago------and why it needs to be put up again as a rekindling about where/how sports has been breaking bad. Celebutard broadcasters who know nothing of or about that which they cover.

The Marines Have Landed in Irvine

Too many dead and walking wounded; El Toro's dark side moving toward the light.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - Hundreds of Marines have contacted Salem-News.com since we started writing about the serious health concerns at the old, now-closed El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Irvine.

These needs of El Toro veterans are mostly unrepresented; they now have a friend on the Irvine City Council, Christina Shea, and that is good, because sometimes even warriors need a hero.

Governor Schwarzenegger: Environmental Buzz Kill

California's Eco-Future: "Hasta la vista, baby!"

(LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.) - Our "no problemo" Governor’s most recent failure, lost in an avalanched multitudinous legion of many, is an admitted refusal to properly seat our Regional Water Quality Control Boards to their fullest compliment and potential.

It reveals how truly ecologically hypocritical and phony he was when sworn in and still is.

Police Impersonator Loose in Oregon

Impersonator takes advantage of Oregon's strange law allowing unmarked police to enforce traffic laws.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Oregon's highly irresponsible decision to use unmarked police cars in traffic enforcement, is opening the door to new, innocent unsuspecting victims.

Police in Portland say Saturday night at approximately 10:55 p.m., a police impersonator in a blue or black Charger, the exact type of vehicle used by Oregon State Police for secret unmarked car traffic enforcement, stopped a driver on a quiet section of Highway 99E between 1st St NE and the Clackamas County Line, at the Pudding River Bridge.

Irvine-Corona Tunnel Through Cleveland National Forest Is Possible: As In Possibly Stupid

Do they think we, the public who will pay for this engineering fantasy, are that gullible?

(LAGUNA BEACH) - The tunnel that a major engineering firm deemed feasible recently is actually a two-tunnel project. The engineers were paid to justify and rubber stamp it by the combined transportation agencies of Riverside and Orange Counties, and this insanity should be abandoned, NOW.

The first phase is estimated at $8.6 billion, the second phase dependent upon funds generated by the first if you read the fine print.

Female Sportscasters: The Death Knell of Machisimo?

“I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change.” Fictional TV anchorman Howard Beale’s speech in the movie NETWORK (1976)

(LAGUNA BEACH) - Guys, who wants to dawg paddle over to the shallow end of the Salem-News online pool for a while?

Tired of all of those intellectually demanding, complex articles, the ones which after you’ve read them and the mind-bending comments sections that follow, you only succeed in giving yourself a migraine-sized headache?

Caltrans Stimulus Paving Project in Laguna Beach Pollutes Air and Sea

"Oh, Mr. Caltrans: Thank you sir, may I have another?" or "Christmas in November: Thank You Santa Caltrans!"

(LAGUNA BEACH) - The federally funded Obama stimulus paving project by State highway agency Caltrans in Laguna Beach constitutes cruel and unusual environmental punishment.

This fiasco of this pitiful paving effort by the ironically-named All-American Asphalt has slipped into Twilight Zone mode.