Is this not incredible? NOAA needs a SWAT team, as does BLM and FWS and FRB?
And from whom do these divisions anticipate an assault?
From you, you incipient Prole, you Groundling, you Serf.
You should not laugh. You do so at your own detriment.
Your federal government gearing up.
BZ
From Breitbart.com:
“I am about ready,” General Abbott told Breitbart Texas, “to go to the Red River and raise a ‘Come and Take It’ flag to tell the feds to stay out of Texas.”
[ That would be Molon Labe.– BZ ]
Gen. Abbott sent a strongly-worded letter to BLM Director Neil Kornze, asking for answers to a series of questions related to the potential land grab.
“I am deeply concerned about the notion that the Bureau of Land Management believes the federal government has the authority to swoop in and take land that has been owned and cultivated by Texas landowners for generations,” General Abbott wrote. “The BLM’s newly asserted claims to land along the Red River threaten to upset long-settled private property rights and undermine fundamental principles—including the rule of law—that form the foundation of our democracy. Yet, the BLM has failed to disclose either its full intentions or the legal justification for its proposed actions. Decisions of this magnitude must not be made inside a bureaucratic black box.”
The great state of Tejas seems to draw a line in the sand and make a stand.
As to what kind of standoff might Texas might be facing with the BLM on this matter, Abbott said, “I think that we should be able to resolve this from a legal standpoint because, I believe, what the BLM is doing clearly violates the law. They don’t have any legal standing whatsoever to do this and that’s why I have issued this letter today.”
In the letter, Gen. Abbott details five issues for the BLM to address:
This is perhaps Rawhide Down.
Or is it not?
BZ
From KRNVNews4.com:
RENO, Nev. (MyNews4.com & KRNV) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hasn’t been very vocal about the cattle battle showdown in recent days, but says “it’s not over.”
Reid tells News4’s Samantha Boatman his take on the so-called cattle battle in southern Las Vegas. “Well, it’s not over. We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it’s not over,” Reid said.
Of course it’s not over; the events moved into the “public relations abortion” side of the column — a situation the feds didn’t see coming. They’ve pulled back, yes; but simply to regroup. Reid is correct about that.
If this turns into an actual shooting scenario, I can’t think of another setting that has the potential to turn the western United States into a powder keg, with huge ramifications for the rest of the nation.
BZ
P.S.
Why no word about this? I suppose solar projects don’t harm or inhibit the desert tortoise, but cattle do?
One small question for BLM: since 1993 and since Mr Bundy has grazed cows on the aforementioned property involving 160,000 acres, how is it that the tortoise species hasn’t been entirely wiped out and eliminated due to the torturous trampling of those evil methane-producing cows?
How is it the tortoise even exists on the property at all — since the government is killing this tortoise in another area of Nevada?
Moreover, where is Harry Reid on the issue? He is, don’t you find, remarkably and shockingly silent on the issue. I wonder why that might be?
BZ
From the WashingtonTimes.com:
by Phillip Swarts
The latest example of misguided government spending smells a little funny — and it might not be just because of the cost to taxpayers.
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management is taking heat for spending $98,670 to install a single outhouse at a trailhead in Alaska, the most recent example of federal agencies making questionable purchases in September.
Stop right there. I’ll bet this will be a tale of grief, woe, incompetency, unions, an inability to think freely, and the grip of inflexible bureaucratic gefuckishness. It will be a tale of ignorance, miscommunication, no communication, sexism, racism, and no regard for time or cost or agony.
The prefabricated Aspen Single, produced by outhouse manufacturer Romtec Inc., has a single toilet, operates without water and can hold 750 to 1,000 gallons of waste. But the company website puts the estimated starting price of the unit at $10,000, a little more than one-tenth of what the government paid.
Really? In the best of times, ONE outhouse costs TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS — ?
You think there wasn’t ONE local carpenter or construction company that couldn’t produce a frakking outhouse for less cash? An OUThouse? Even I could produce an outhouse with $2,500 worth of plucked Home Depot select wood and a few questionable hours of nail banging. And I’m damned near incompetent in terms of building. I bet I could find a few competent friends who would help me for free, however.
But here’s the deal:
After five companies competed for the contract, BLM hired Alaska-based Big Street Construction, a small company run by a married couple that is listed in federal databases as both owned by a woman and minority-owned.
“Owned by a woman and minority owned.” Clue.
So what do you think they did? Right. They sub-contracted to another company.
The actual manufacturer, Romtec, is based in Oregon, and government paperwork lists it as the manufacturing location. That suggests that the unit itself is being transported to Alaska all the way from Oregon. The trip from Romtec’s headquarters to the trailhead is almost 2,500 miles.
Another clue:
Representatives for Romtec and Big Street Construction did not return calls seeking comment.
The obvious:
The unit doesn’t have internal plumbing but operates similar to commercial portable toilets: All waste goes into an “underground vault.” Interior Department personnel then either have to let a separate contract for someone to empty the outhouse when it gets too full or face the unenviable task of doing it themselves.
Another contract, let with strict and onerously-ridiculous regulations, whilst spending cash that no one must account for in any way. Meaning: your cash. As an American Taxpayer.
Literally: $98K for a shitter.
This is simply insane.
BZ