A Nod To The Gods

Scary to think that this could end very badly for the rancher, with the desert tortoise is being terrorized by these viscous cattle, you can see why the feds could be a bit trigger happy. And my personal opinion is, he was there first and the turtles will survive.

Armed federal agents deployed last week to northeast Clark County, Nev., for what can only be described as a major escalation in a decades-long standoff between a local cattle rancher and the U.S. government.

Cliven Bundy, the last remaining rancher in the southern Nevada county, stands in defiance of a 2013 court order demanding that he remove his cattle from public land managed by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management.

The 67-year-old veteran rancher, who has compared the situation to similar confrontations with government officials in Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas, told TheBlaze that his family has used land in the 600,000-acre Gold Butte area since the late 1800s.

“I have raised cattle on that land, which is public land for the people of Clark County, all my life. Why I raise cattle there and why I can raise cattle there is because I have preemptive rights,” he said, explaining that among them is the right to forage.

“Who is the trespasser here? Who is the trespasser on this land? Is the United States trespassing on Clark County, Nevada, land? Or is it Cliven Bundy who is trespassing on Clark County, Nevada, land? Who’s the trespasser?”

“Cattle have been in trespass on public lands in southern Nevada for more than two decades. This is unfair to the thousands of other ranchers who graze livestock in compliance with federal laws and regulations throughout the West,” the Bureau of Land Management stated on its website about the case.

“The Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service have made repeated attempts to resolve this matter administratively and judicially. An impoundment of cattle illegally grazing on public lands is now being conducted as a last resort,” it added. Federal employees and contractors have so far impounded approximately 234 of Bundy’s estimated 900 “trespass cattle.”

The Bureau of Land Management has “overstepped its boundaries by not letting me access my rights, not recognizing state’s sovereignty, and having over 200 armed officers watching our every move and stealing our cattle,” Bundy said.

The rancher’s wife, Carol, said there now appear to be snipers stationed around the family’s 150-acre ranch. Asked about the Bundys’ sniper claim, Cannon would neither confirm nor deny the allegation.

The worst thing about this story is the information could only have been leaked by the IRS.

“The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious context, in the assurance that they could live a life of their own as ‘humanistic’ ethics, has resulted in our ‘cut flower culture.’ Cut flowers retain their original beauty and fragrance, but only so long as they retain the vitality that they have drawn from their now-severed roots; after that is exhausted, they wither and die. So with freedom, brotherhood, justice, and personal dignity — the values that form the moral foundation of our civilization. Without the life-giving power of the faith out of which they have sprung, they possess neither meaning nor vitality.”Richard Weaver

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Are you fucking shitting me. This asshat actually thinks he doesn’t make enough? Guess it’s tough to live on $3300 a week.

Congress works about 4 months per year if you compare it with the normal 40 hour work week of us worker drones, they don’t get anything done substantially but argue with the opposing party, fund raise for their next re-election, enjoy lavish dinners with CEO’s and lobbyist, and generally suck up taxpayer funds for whatever pork they can get away with. And if you count the benefits, staff, and housing paid for by their respective states, they want for nothing. Yet this man wants a raise.

“I think the American people should know that the members of Congress are underpaid,” Moran told CQ Roll Call. “I understand that it’s widely felt that they under perform, but the fact is that this is the board of directors for the largest economic entity in the world.” more here if you can stomach it

That statement alone should tell you all you need to know. The arrogance of an individual thinking government is the CEO over the economy, hell they can’t run a lemon aid stand let alone the country.

To the average American high school student a higher education is a lofty goal, even though a third of them drop out, getting that diploma will offer happiness and success. But what happens when Billy and Suzy don’t have the appropriate grey matter to grasp college curriculum?

The art of dumbing down something as complicated as a university is a tricky one. If you dumb down the engineering program you get falling bridges and dead people. If you dumb down political science, well you just get more NDP voters. The thing that politicians and the university presidents failed to grasp is that while creating more NDP voters is not a good thing in the short-run, it’s a disastrous thing in the long run. There is nothing more dangerous to the future of a society than half-educated liberal arts majors.

What do you do with a liberal arts degree?

You rule over people who didn’t take liberal arts.

Who do you think runs much of the mid and even high bureaucracy? Where do you think the bulk of political staffers, speech writers and high flying politicians come from? What do many journalists study before going to journalism school? It’s the liberal arts broadly defined. In the modern sense the liberal arts is no longer just the traditional subjects of History, Philosophy and Literature (English). It has expanded to include quasi-pseudo-subjects like political science, pseudo-subjects like semiotics and making shit up stuff like gender studies. When people complain that liberal arts gets you a job as a barista, they’re more often referring to the gender studies major than the history major. The latter is usually a bit more intelligent and far less “unconventional” in their personality. read entire article here

Why? Why now?
We can’t get emails from the IRS or answers about Benghazi but we are allowing classified papers about how we get terrorists to talk to be de-classified. For what? So the liberals can go all ape shit about Bush and Cheney again. You want to put these papers out just before mid-term elections?

Over 3000 people were killed on 9/11. Any discomfort terrorists had to endure pales in comparison.What in the hell is wrong with these people?

 

The Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday voted to declassify parts of a report that is highly critical of CIA interrogation methods following Sept. 11, 2001.

The Senate panel voted 11-3 to release parts of the executive summary and the conclusions of the 6,200-page report, which reviewed more than 100 individuals detained and interrogated by the CIA at clandestine detention facilities from 2001 to 2009.

“The purpose of this review was to uncover the facts behind this secret program, and the results were shocking,” Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the committee, said in a statement. “The report exposes brutality that stands in stark contrast to our values as a nation. It chronicles a stain on our history that must never again be allowed to.”

The Senate and CIA have recently been at odds with each other. Senators have accused the agency of spying on the committee and whipping files from their computers, a claim currently being investigated by the Justice Department.