Guest post by David Middleton
Senate confirms Ryan Zinke as interior secretary
By Darryl Fears March 1
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Ryan Zinke’s nomination to lead the Interior Department by a 68 to 31 vote.
Zinke will head a department that manages a fifth of the land in the United States, about 500 million surface acres, a total that doesn’t include millions more acres and natural resources underground. Interior has an enormous environmental footprint, with agencies that decide how resources such as coal are managed and which animals are eligible for listing under the Endangered Species Act.
Republicans called the former Montana congressman and Navy SEAL a strong choice for Interior, as an avid hunter with Western roots who understands how federal regulations on the cultivation of coal, natural gas and minerals on public lands can hurt corporate revenue and reduce jobs.
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Lie #1 (a lie of omission)
The vote was 68-31… At least 16 Democrats voted for Zinke… One might think that an honest newspaper would call this “bipartisan.”
Lie #2
Democrats were wary of Zinke despite his declaration that he believes humans contribute to climate change. “Man has had an influence,” he said under questioning by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Zinke’s assertion that the level of human contribution is unknown, despite the near unanimous opinions of climate scientists who say it’s overwhelming, didn’t help.
There are no “near unanimous opinions of climate scientists who say it’s overwhelming.” The 97% lie doesn’t even assert that the human influence is overwhelming. It asserts that humans are responsible for more than 50% of the warming since 1950. An actual survey of the American Meteorological Society only found that 67% believed that humans were responsible for more than 50% of the warming. So, “near unanimous” and “overwhelming” are bald-faced lies.
Lie #3
Zinke’s confirmation came more than a month after the committee’s approval partly because of politics, and Murkowski and Cantwell’s speeches on the Senate floor reflected the broad partisan divide. Zinke was approved by a 16-6 committee vote largely along party lines. All of the committee’s 12 Republicans voted in Zinke’s favor.
Four our of ten Democrats on the committee voted for Zinke. This is nearly 50% of the Democrats on the committee. An honest newspaper would have called this a bipartisan vote. “Largely along party lines” is a bald-faced lie.
I thought about counting this as a lie; but I think it’s just plain ignorance. So I’ll give it the Tim Allen Grunt Award.
Tim Allen Grunt Award for Journalistic Ignorance
Zinke will head a department that manages a fifth of the land in the United States, about 500 million surface acres, a total that doesn’t include millions more acres and natural resources underground.
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The subsurface “acres” are included in the surface “acres”… A standard OCS lease in the Central Gulf of Mexico is 5,000 acres. An acre is a unit of area. The mineral lease includes the mineral rights. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be a mineral lease. It would be a five to ten year lease on the seafloor. While some of this acreage could become oceanfront property during the next glacial maximum… 
The Department of the Interior’s logo is very appropriate for the Washington Post’s Buffalo-schist-filled article.
Per the quote I would love to learn to cultivate Coal, should I plant cinders grow more or teach it bituminous Philosophy?
Edit: four out of ten…
“as Reported Very Dishonestly by the Washington Post”
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“Dishonest reporting by WaPo” is a tautology.
The Washington Post is a CIA/Globalist propaganda mouthpiece. Since the days of Operation Mockingbird to the >$600M Bezos/Amazon has received from the CIA for “cloud services” since 2013 (more currently in the FY 2017 budget).
Trump should defund Bezos and let the Washington Time die in it’s own waste.
Here’s some under-reporting for everyone to consider: President Trump delivered what even many liberals had to admit was a great speech Tuesday night.
And what did he say about global warming/climate change in that hour-long speech? Zip, nada, zilch.
So why wasn’t the lead of every liberal news outlet the following day something like: “President fails to protect the planet from certain destruction”?
Because the jig is up. They’ve lost both the argument and the game, and they know it. Massive defunding to follow shortly.
WaPo began endorsing presidential candidates in 1976. It has never, not once, endorsed a Republican to be president. It has always amazed me that newspapers endorse candidates then have the gall to pretend they are objective.
Washington is the home of the nation’s legal crime syndicate we call the federal government. A whopping 90% of the people who live in that cesspool of corruption voted for HRC. 4% for DJT.
WaPo is the crime syndicate’s hometown newspaper. It is a hyper-partisan Democrat rag. WaPo is selling what its audience wants to buy.
Republicans called the former Montana congressman and Navy SEAL a strong choice for Interior, as an avid hunter with Western roots who understands how federal regulations on the cultivation of coal, natural gas and minerals on public lands can hurt
corporate revenue and reduce jobs.
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Good news:
Washing Post conerned about “corporate revenue and jobs”.
He controls 1/5th of the entire land area of the USA? Land that was unconstitutionally seized from the states! Maybe his first act should be to return most of the land back to the states it was seized from.
Do you mean this one?
Yes… The one with the buffalo on it. The featured image of this post.
You are awesome! Loved your article. So, so true! And I especially like the Tim Allen reference! Luv the comments on that show! It should come back in prime time !! BTW, Ryan Zinke is a true American hero and perfect for this position. And, I know that on a personal level. I am a young senior, but I hope to b alive to see him President in my lifetime!
Zinke was approved by a 16-6 committee vote largely along party lines.
While this is quite misleading (to be generous), it could have been written …
Zinke was approved by a 16-6 committee vote with disapproval largely along party lines.
Update:
Ryan Zinke, before even taking his first full breath on the job, reversed the “parting shot” skullduggery of his predecessor by reversing Dan Ashe’s last minute Director’s Order that directed the phase-out of traditional lead-based ammunition and fishing tackle use on all 81 million acres of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lands and waters by 2022.
Anyone tired of winning yet? 😉