The smoking solar powered gun behind the Bundy Ranch situation?

I'm sure you've heard all about how there was a "failed" or defunct solar power deal in line for the BLM land that is currently in the subject of dispute between the federal government and the Bundy Ranch.  One line of thought takes the approach that Harry Reid has some sort of solar power deal lined up with the Chinese.  At first, I believed that this was a red herring because of this article.......

Then, this was brought to my attention.  I'll quote directly from the now disappeared announcement at blm.gov.  Read carefully.

• 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.

I'm sure you would like to see the original but....it's been disappeared from blm.gov.

Is Cliven Bundy's real problem that he's not Bechtel?  Follow the money, folks.

The EPA as a political weapon

  We've already seen the antigun efforts from the Crimean conflict.  Now, the other political secret police arm of the government (the IRS being especially active as of late) the is assaulting gun owners with a raid on a Montana ammunition manufacturer.  Yes, a "raid."

  This is how we will lose more and more rights and not just gunowners but landowners.  The EPA.

On the growing epidemic of disability claims in the South

  I was talking with a good friend who is native of Appalachia about this and he had the following words that struck a chord with me.  Kinda reminds me of LBJ singlehandedly destroying the poor family unit, giving us our fifth generation welfare "families"  we have today.  I'm currently reading LBJ's biography at the suggestion of a good friend and it's truly revolting how slimey he (LBJ) was.

  Anyway, below are my friend's thoughts on the topic of the disability epidemic in the South.  Consider these words as a "report from the front lines."  Also, said friend is a bit of a thinker.  A self made man, he said he ponders this disability epidemic and sees parallels in F.A. Hayek's work "A road to serfdom".  My friend allowed me to use his words in hopes of getting more to think about what's happening to the self reliant culture of Appalachia.

"It's like this: 

Hard times hit the people barely getting by (see Appalachia) first and hardest and then you dangle that government tit out and once you are addicted, you're fucked.  All you can afford is the 99 cent cheeseburger instead of the salad, and once you get maladapted to that line of thinking, or nonthinking, even if you wanted to change, it is illegal to have a garden and the woodstove doesn't meet EPA standards

Yo dawg, the first hit's free"

A Border Patrol whistleblower and mission creep

  Christian Sanchez was transferred from action heavy San Diego to Port Angeles, Washington as a Border Patrol agent.  He quickly found out that his job was nothing more than ten hours a day of nothing but patrolling in a vehicle.  He looked at his station's size which had ballooned from four agents in 2008 to now forty according to Sanchez.  Aghast at the waste of money, manpower, and funds; Sanchez blew the whistle two weeks ago at an open forum in Washington, DC.

  Here are a couple of articles below.  Make your own judgement but to me, this reeks of the fact that once in place, government is impossible to remove.  It does seem odd about there being ten times the amount of agents in Port Angeles now as opposed to 2006.  Canadian invasion perhaps?

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