Ranchers in Nevada

 Think it’s all about saving the turtles?  Do ya think, except is the case of a stampede, that cattle can’t walk around without stepping on them?  And if it’s all about an environmental consideration and concern for the turtles that’s there’s the standoff between the Bureau of Land Management and the ranchers in Nevada, then why aren’t they as concerned for the birds that are being killed by the windmills that produce electricity?  The below article gives another slant to what is going on in Nevada.  Sometimes the biggest thieves are in government.  

Reports: Company Tied to Reid's Son Wants Land in Bundy Standoff

Rory Reid

Sunday, 13 Apr 2014 08:48 PM

By Greg Richter

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The Nevada rancher who forced the federal Bureau of Land Management to back down last week may have been targeted because a Chinese solar company with ties to Sen. Harry Reid's son wants the land for an energy plant, several websites report.

A report on Godfatherpolitics.com,  says Chinese energy giant ENN Energy Group wants to use federal land as part of its effort to build a $5 billion solar farm and panel-building plant in the southern Nevada desert. Rory Reid, the son of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, is representing ENN in their efforts to locate in Nevada.

Part of the land ENN wants to use was purchased from Clark County at well below appraised value. Rory Reid is the former Clark County Commission chairman, and he persuaded the commission to sell 9,000 acres of county land to ENN on the promise it would provide jobs for the area, Reuters reported in 2012.

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In addition to the county acreage, the federal Bureau of Land Management at one time was looking at BLM property under dispute with cattle rancher Cliven Bundy. The BLM is headed by former Harry Reid senior policy adviser Neil Kornz.

According to BizPac Review, BLM documents indicate that the federal property for which Bundy claims grazing rights were under consideration by a solar energy company. Those documents have since been removed from BLM's website, but BizPac quotes from one of them:

"Non-Governmental Organizations have expressed concern that the regional mitigation strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone utilizes Gold Butte as the location for offsite mitigation for impacts from solar development, and that those restoration activities are not durable with the presence of trespass cattle."

"Trespass cattle" is a reference to Bundy's herd. Bundy's family has grazed cattle on the land since the 1870s, and Bundy maintains he has grazing rights to the federal land. But he hasn't paid his federal grazing fees in 20 years in a dispute with the BLM.

BLM agents hired contract cowboys earlier this year to seize hundreds of head of cattle and were moving in to seize the rest when militia members from across the country and other supporters showed up last week.

Citing a dangerous situation, the BLM backed off its efforts and returned Bundy's cattle Saturday, but it has vowed to continue fighting him in court and administratively.

In its effort to get Bundy off the land, it has attempted to get him to reduce his 1,000-head herd to 150, The Blaze's Dana Loesch reports. Bundy says his ranch would not be viable with a herd that small.

The BLM claims a need to control grazing on the land to protect an endangered desert tortoise. But Loesch and others note that in August, the tortoise population in a nearby conservation center was set to be euthanized because of underfunding.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied those reports, saying that only unhealthy tortoises would be euthanized and others would be relocated. But KVVU-TV in Las Vegas reported that the agency didn't say how many of the tortoises in its care were deemed "healthy."

Further, Loesch reports, Harry Reid pressured the BLM to change the tortoise's protected zone to accommodate developer Harvey Whittemore, one of the Democrat's top donors. Whittemore was convicted in May 2013 of making illegal campaign contributions to him.

"BLM has proven that they’ve a situational concern for the desert tortoise as they’ve had no problem waiving their rules concerning wind or solar power development," Loesch writes.

"Clearly, these developments have vastly affected a tortoise habitat more than a century-old, quasi-homesteading grazing area. If only Clive Bundy were a big Reid donor."

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton

There’s a lot of hype in the news these days about Hillary Clinton being the front-runner to be the standard-bearer and likely Democrat nominee for the presidency in 2016.  Polls are showing her to have a 63% or more higher support in the polls that have been taken.  The bulk of that support could not possibly be coming from people old enough to have lived through and been aware of the politics of the early 1990s.  We already had a sampling of what Hillary was all about when she thought she was the co-president during the first two years of her husband Bill’s time in office in 1993 and ’94.  The younger voters of our present time would do well to find out what Hillary revealed herself to be at that time and why she was primarily responsible for the Democrats loss of both houses of congress to the Republicans in 1994 – for the first time in four decades. 

Hillary was not as cunning as President Obama when she was pushing for the passage of government-run healthcare during those first two years of President Clinton’s term in office.  Things were being revealed about the universal health insurance she and her cohorts were planning that are yet to be discovered about President Obama’s plan – and they’re both the same.  People would be losing the their doctors they had for many years that they had confidence in.  The country would be mapped out in districts and doctors would be assigned to  each of the districts and would not be allowed to cross from one district to the other.  It would be unlawful for doctors to offer their services on a pay-as-you-go cash only basis.  This is something yet to be discovered about the Obamacare plan.  No one will really know what Obamacare is all about until it is fully implemented.  Hopefully, it never will be.

Other matters were coming to the fore about Hillary Clinton’s radical socialistic leanings.  Mailings were being sent out from different watch-dog organizations telling about how Hillary Clinton was pushing for the ratification by the Senate of the The Law of the Sea Treaty.  If this treaty gets ratified by the Senate, that Hillary had been pushing and will be pushing big time if she becomes president, it will give a major part of the control of the country over to the United Nations.  It could all about render the Bill of Rights under our Constitution null and void.  A lot more will likely be said about this during the heat of the electioneering campaigns of 2016.

Pragmatist, Bill Clinton, got the message with the ’94 election results, took charge of his duties as President and steered the ship-of-state away from the course his wife was urging him to follow.  He became enamored of Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America plan and began to follow it.  Welfare programs were beginning to be revised creating incentives for people to find work and unemployment figures were improving.  He liked Newt’s plan so much that he had the Democratic Party adopting it to be their platform for the electioneering campaigns in 1996.  I sat in the living room watching the Democratic Convention on TV the night the Democrats were explaining what their platform was to be all about and I couldn’t help getting a hearty laugh as I was thinking, “This is the Contract With America Plan.  What will the Republicans do now, say, “Me too?”  I liked what Clinton was doing enough that I could have voted for him in ’96 if he had been pro-life.  We heard very little from Hillary after the 94 elections.  Now, 22 years later, a new generation of voters is swelling the polls in Hillary Clinton’s favor know nothing more about her than that she’ll be the first woman elected President of the United States and they’ll be witness to it.  If they succeed in electing her I’m afraid they’ll discover they elected the first “Dragon Lady” of the United States. 

Hillary Clinton is presently basking in the sun of what people think are objective news reporting outlets known as the mainstream media.  Fox News is not one of them.  The former get most of the attention.  When news analysts on Fox interview guests on their programs they have someone from each side of the aisle of political persuasion and the news truly is “Fair and Balanced.”  If people want to know what Hillary Clinton is all about they won’t get it from the mainstream media.  If there was ever a time when the free (?) press ever kept an eye on the Government to keep it honest and be the guardian of the benefits bestowed on us by the Bill of Rights in our Constitution there has surely not been much to show of it in recent times.   They act more like the Propaganda Ministry of this Socialist Administration.                      

   

Why she stays home

Why Michelle stays home

This is the text of an e-letter I received

  She has yet to accompany him to any Arab country?  Think about it.  Why is Michelle returning to the states when 'official' trips to foreign countries generally, include the First Lady??? Here's one thought on the matter. While in a Blockbuster renting videos, I came across a video called "Obama."  There were two men standing next to me and we talked about President Obama. These guys were Arabs, so I asked them why they thought Michelle Obama headed home following the President's recent visit to France instead of traveling on to Saudi Arabia and Turkey with her husband???  They told me she could not go to Saudi Arabia, Turkey or Iraq.  I said "Why not,(?) Laura Bush went to Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Dubai."  They said that Obama is a Muslim and therefore, he is not allowed to bring his wife into countries that adhere to Sharia Law. Two points of interest here: 1) I thought it interesting that two American Arabs, at Blockbuster, believe that our President is a Muslim, who follows a strict Islamic creed. 2) They also said that's the reason he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.  It was a signal to the Muslim world, acknowledging his religion. For further consideration, here is a response from Dr. Jim Murk, a Middle Eastern Scholar and expert on Islam. This is his explanation of what the Arab Americans were saying:  "An orthodox Muslim man would never take his wife on a politically oriented trip to any nation which practices Sharia law, particularly Saudi Arabia where the Wahhabi sect is dominant. This is true and it is why Obama left Michelle in Europe.  She will stay home when he visits Arab countries.  He knows Muslim protocol; this includes bowing to the Saudi King.  Obama is regarded as a Muslim in the Arab world because he was born to a Muslim father. He acknowledged his Muslim faith with George Stephanopoulus.  Note that he downplays his involvement with Christianity after touting it in the election campaign by not publicly joining a Christian church in D.C. and occasionally attending the chapel for services at Camp David. He also played down the fact that America is a Christian country and said, unbelievably, that it was one of the largest Muslim nations in the world, which is nonsense.  He has publicly taken the side of the Palestinians in the conflict with Israel, and he ignored the National Day of Prayer, something no other President has ever done.  He conceals his true faith to the detriment of the American people." > >--- Jim Murk, Doctor of Philosophy in Middle Eastern Culture & Religion. ACTIONS speak louder than words!!! > >Another interesting item regarding Sharia Law:  Why has Barack Hussein Obama insisted that the U.S. Attorney General hold the trials of the 911 Muslim Terrorists in Civilian Courts as Common Criminals, instead of as Terrorists who attacked the United States of America?  If the Muslim Terrorists are tried in Military Tribunals, convicted and sentenced to death, by LAW, Barack Hussein Obama, as President of the United States, would be required to sign their death Warrants.  He would not be required to sign the death warrants if they are sentenced to death by a Civilian Court   Muslim Jihadist, Army Major Hassan slaughtered non-Muslim soldiers at Ft. Hood, Texas rather than go to Afghanistan and be a part of anything that could lead to the deaths of fellow Muslims.  He stated that Muslims could not and should not kill fellow Muslims.  Is the motive for Barack Hussein Obama's insistence on civilian trials to make sure he doesn't have to sign the death warrants for the Muslim Terrorists?  Why would he, as President of the United States, not sign the death warrants for Muslim Terrorists who attacked the United States and murdered over 3,000 U. S. Citizens on 9/11?  Could it be that he is FORBIDDEN by his RELIGION to authorize the execution of Muslims? Think about that! Open your eyes, ears and mind to which the President is, how he behaves and what he is doing! Actions speak louder than teleprompter-written words!!! Please pass on to family and friends around the country and ask they do the same!!!

Later than we think?

This is the text of an e-letter I received. My commentary follows:

Lifespan of a Republic

About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;

From spiritual faith to great courage;

From courage to liberty;

From liberty to abundance;

From abundance to complacency;

From complacency to apathy;

From apathy to dependence;

From dependence back into bondage."

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million;

Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000

States won by: Gore: 19 Bush: 29

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2 Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
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There’s a very strong probability that we have already crossed the threshold of Constitutional Government into despotic rule by reason of the Executive Order President Obama signed in March of 2012. In a letter being distributed by Dr. Alan Keyes, he characterizes it as the day we ceased to be a Republic. By Presidential fiat Obama declared having the power to enact martial law and suspend the Constitution in the event of any kind of a crisis. Now all he needs is a crisis. How hard is it to bring about a crisis instead of just waiting for one? Fiscal chaos has been what brought about the demise of every Republic that ever came into existence. When the Democrats took over vetoproof control of both houses of Congress in the midterm elections of 2006, two years before Obama was elected President, the national debt was six trillion dollars. It is now over seventeen trillion and growing. The United States has dropped out of the top ten of the nations being regarded as having the freest economies. It is regarded to be number twelve, behind such countries as Chile and Estonia (Fox News Saturday AM 1/18/14). Standard and Poor’s has downgraded the county’s credit rating and is now incurring the wrath of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (Fox News 1/21/14). By Reason of a law passed by Congress in the seventies, Executive Orders cannot be rescinded through legislation. People were rioting in the streets in Greece in 2012 because the nanny politicians that gained office by promising the people everything under the sun couldn’t make good on their promises. The CEO of the International Monetary Fund felt that Greece reached its limits on what it should be allowed to borrow and was holding back on lending Greece any more money until it enacted an austerity program. How long will it be before China and other United States Creditors feel that way about us?

When the U. S. Constitution was ratified in 1787 Benjamin Franklin said, “We’ve given you a Republic. Now it’s up to you to hold onto it.” He knew how vulnerable Republics were to self-immolation and how tenuous the grip could be to hold onto that form of government. The country is infested with Gimmeites whose liberty can be bought with as little as a cell-phone or food stamps. The famous French historian of the 19th century, Alexis de Toqueville, said, “Republics endure until people discover they were being bribed with their own money.” When Congress wanted to pass a law requiring people who were collecting unemployment insurance, over a long period of time, to show they were looking for work, Obama squelched that. He wants people to be in a state of dependency.

I borrowed the book from the library and read Obama’s Dreams From My Father. In the very first chapter of that book he shows how, as a 22 year old Columbia College student, more than anything, more than money, he has a lust for power. He quit a very good paying job and turned down another “generous offer” from another company because he wanted to get into community organizing. He says, “That’s what I’ll do. I’ll organize the black people - for change.” He cites a number of times throughout the book that he resents being a black man being brought up in a white man’s world. Although having very little contact with his father over the years, he has a high regard for his father’s intelligence. Barack Senior visited the boy in Hawaii when he was ten years old. Barack Junior couldn’t wait for his father’s month-long visit to be over. Father Barack was taking over the maternal grandparents’ home and acting like he was the head of household as though he had always been there. He was a tough task-master and thought his son should have been putting more time into his studies. Nonetheless, Barack had a lot of respect for his father who was educated at Harvard with the help of Affirmative Action. He also didn’t think it was too outlandish of his father saying, “There’s nothing wrong with taxing at 100% if the returns are commensurate with the taxes.” Does this not show the Communist leanings of both father and son? Government, apparently, knows better how to manage our money than we do.

Since President Obama has taken office five years ago 18,000 new regulations have been imposed on the American people (Fox News Saturday morning 1/18/14) through government agencies such as the EPA, IRS, HHS or whatever other agency he has at his disposal. That’s the way he gets around the Constitution.

The systematic and incremental shredding of the Constitution: Aside from the freedom of speech and freedom of peaceably assembly clauses in the First Amendment of the Constitution is the clause stating that it prohibits “impeding the free exercise of religion.” President Obama doesn’t believe he should be guided by that. The Christian owned company Hobby Lobby is facing a 1.3M daily fine for refusing to cover abortion inducing drugs in their health insurance for their employees. The Administration is currently bringing a case before the Supreme Court asking it to rule in their favor to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to include contraceptive coverage in the health insurance they provide for their secular employees. Are we all so mentally deficient in being able to understand the clause in the Constitution that says that the state may not interfere with the free exercise of our religion that it’s necessary for nine justices of the Supreme to be asked to give a ruling on it? Is it really so ambiguous? I don’t think so.

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances”

The Second Amendment: Any excuse at all is being used by the Administration to restrict segments of the citizenry from the right to bear arms. In a letter being distributed by Steve Stockman, a Senate Candidate, tells about the latest group to be singled out to be restricted from the right to bear arms. He said that President Obama just issued an Executive Order expanding the Federal NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) database on gun owners, restricting that portion of the people from having the right to bear arms, to include millions of people who simply spoke to a health professional but have not been deemed a threat or danger to anyone.

James Craig, The Chief of Police of Detroit, was a guest on Fox News in early January, 2014. He spoke on how an armed citizenry deters crime. Much of what he said is also on the Internet:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/01/03/detroit-police-chief-james-craig-says-more-citizens-should-be-armed/ 

Chief Craig spoke of how a 78 year old man was broken in on three times. The 18 year old thug did not fare too well the third time. By now the old-timer had obtained a permit to carry a gun and the intruder found the door to eternity much before what should have been his time.

We have three more years of Obama rule ahead – three more LONG years. And if he gets the henchmen he’s looking for in the 2014 elections, the country ruled by “We the People” could soon be only a memory. Instead of being ruled guided by adherence to the Constitution it could be dictatorship ruling by regulation imposed by unelected bureaucrats.

Another one of Alexis de Toqueville’s poignant statements was, “Americans would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in liberty.” If he felt that way in 1831, how much more would he believe that today?

Detroit police chief James Craig says more citizens should be armed

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Detroit’s police chief has a solution to help drive down crime in one of the nation’s most dangerous cities: Arm more citizens.