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Thank you to international lawyer Dan Harris from Harris & Moure and the China Law Blog for recommending my blog to his readers.

I wasn’t sure how people would react to this blog of mine, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised and motivated by all the positive feedback I’ve received so far. Thank you to all for your support!

Going back to Harris’ recent comments:

Today was the first time I’ve ever been compared to Donald Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney!

It’s ironic that I, the supposedly “responsible” blogger who refers to herself in the third-person, as pointed out by Harris (see: About the Author), has been linked to these two men, seeing as they haven’t held a very responsible environmental record.

“Leaving No Tracks“
By Jo Becker and Barton Gellman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

“By combining unwavering ideological positions — such as the priority of economic interests over protected fish — with a deep practical knowledge of the federal bureaucracy, Cheney has made an indelible mark on the administration’s approach to everything from air and water quality to the preservation of national parks and forests,” i.e. “the largest fish kill the West had ever seen” and “pushing to make Nevada’s Yucca Mountain the nation’s repository for nuclear and radioactive waste.”

Oh, and let’s not forget that Cheney thinks the Kyoto Protocol is “not a good idea–not adequate to task. It didn’t cover nations like China or India. It would have done serious damage to our economy. We decided not to go down that road.” (Read his interview with ABC News here.)

Cheney has also been known to say some catty things about China, even though the U.S. and China are supposed to be “working together” on environmental issues, according to the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Here’s Cheney’s latest criticism, via MSNBC:

“Cheney rips China’s anti-satellite weapons test“
from the Associated Press
Feb 23, 2007

“China’s continued fast-paced military buildup are less constructive and are not consistent with China’s stated goal of a peaceful rise,” he said.

Uh, does the VP not realize that the U.S. war in Iraq, which he strongly supports, isn’t “peaceful,” either?

So, anyway, I hope the comparisons stop at the fact that I have some mildly narcissistic tendencies, and not a pro-business, anti-environment, anti-China agenda.

And p.s.: Cheney isn’t so much guilty of speaking in the third-person as he is trying to cover up his identity, and then referring to himself in the first person, which really screws up his clever little disguise.

“Cheney’s Rules for the Press“
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
February 28, 2007

Cheney’s insistence on being identified as a “senior administration official” — even when the transcript shows he spoke in the first person — is in some ways laughably trivial.

I think it was actually this guy who exhibited the “speaking in third-person” syndrome:

“Some Question Background of Unit’s Leader“
By Barton Gellman
Washington Post Staff Writer
January 23, 2005

Col. George Waldroup, an Army reserve officer who commands the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Strategic Support Branch, is described by associates as a colorful Texan who refers to himself in the third person, as “GW.”

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