Islamic infiltration of US Govt.
schooling the left
1st Am. limits the government
…except under Obama when it doesn’t.
ascendancy of autocracy
Obama Is An Autocrat, Not A Democrat
By ERNEST S. CHRISTIAN
Posted 09/11/2012 07:09 PM ET
Barack Obama is very dangerous, the apotheosis of an insidious strain of authoritarianism that destroys freedom from within.
It had been gnawing away at America’s vitals since the 1930s. Then, impatient for power, Obama’s Chicago contingent hit upon the ultimate quick-acting fraud — capture the White House by electing an illusion.
They conjured up an imaginary Obama invested with virtues never before or since found in the original. The make-believe Obama then starred in an electoral fairy tale scripted by the media and proclaimed a hit by bewitched voters.
Thus did it come to pass in the year 2008 that Americans were duped into electing a president quite different from the illusion for which they voted.
The real Obama is a steely-eyed autocrat, dedicated to expanding power at the expense of our liberty, still a bit of a Marxist, alternately hostile to or agnostic about capitalism, and intent on transforming America into a government-controlled society composed of obedient automatons. [Read more…]
NGWA issues frack opinions
FINAL NGWA Comments on BLM Proposed Rule 08232012
National Ground Water Association:
The National Ground Water Association (NGWA) is the largest association of groundwater professionals in the world. Our members include leading public and private sector groundwater scientists, engineers, water well contractors, manufacturers, and suppliers of groundwater-related products and services.
General Comments:
NGWA recognizes that hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells is a mature technology and has been a widespread practice for many decades. While no widespread water quality or quantity issues have been definitively documented that are attributable to hydraulic fracturing and related activities at oil and gas well sites, there have been isolated cases where faulty casing installations (including poor cement bonds) or poor management of materials/chemicals at the surface are suspected as having negatively impacted groundwater, surface water or water wells.
dining on sacred cows
Background check on BHO
Israel Science and Technology Homepage
This tells the story in a way that makes you realize just who voters could be “hiring” on Nov. 4th.
Received this from someone who was in Government Security and also Corporate Security. He said, ‘Those of you that have worked in industries that require high level security clearances can understand the probable rejection of this Candidate.’
Imagine for a few moments that you are the Human Resources Director of a major multi-billion dollar corporation. You are sitting in your office when you receive a phone call from the Chairman of the Board of Directors. He tells you that the board is considering a candidate for a high-level executive position. He advises you to complete a thorough background investigation and have it to him within 10 days.
You immediately call the Private Detective Agency you have used for years and give them the name and address of the prospective candidate, along with the deadline for a high level security clearance. Your next move is to call your assistant to your office, giving him/her the candidate’s personal information along with instructions to ‘do your standard beginning background checks.’
Preliminary findings begin landing in your fax machine on the third day. [Read more…]
water special district moratorium
Persuasive
Not-Persuasive
Not-Persuasive
The not-persuasives prevailed – a harbinger of BOCCs to come? At least one commissioner speaks to following the rule of law, rather than the rule of the 10 noisy complainants who show up at every county meeting. I’m confident that most of the other 25,000 county citizens would favor the rule of law over the rule of 10.
the long war
In the United States, under the 1st Am. of the Constitution that protects freedom of speech and freedom of religion, we have one tool to offset a determined Islamic invasion. Islam is more than a religion. It also includes political, economic, legal and social systems. Yet whenever an Islamic manifestation bumps up against an American element, it takes shelter under the 1st Am. guarantee of religious freedom.
How does a religious system intent on replacing our constitutional government with a totalitarian caliphate of sheiks, get by with calling itself merely a religion? It does because dichotomies like this are in the nature of theocratic Islam.
So, since this battleground lives under the umbrella of the 1st Am., it is there, using free speech, that the battle must be engaged. That is why this video must be heard. That is why this discussion is essential to our future. We are up against an invasive system that intends to subjugate us, to force us to submit, to Islam in every aspect of our lives. And it is using our Constitution against us.
Our constitutional right to free speech is the only tool within America that can defend America against Islam. Coincidentally, it’s also the primary constitutional tool that the politically correct try to suppress. And it’s a tool that does not exist under Islam. If we don’t use this constitutional tool of free speech to not only defend America, but to also defend the Constitution itself which enables America to exist, we will surely lose both.
No American can safely ignore this battle. You can choose between fighting it, or losing it, because Islam is not just going to go away.
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Oil & Gas Task Force gone rogue
The Colorado Attorney General made it abundantly clear to Richard Miller and Elbert County back on January 24th that water quality enforcement incident to oil and gas drilling came under the jurisdiction of Colorado state regulation.
Colorado Attorney General to Richard Miller, January 24th, 2012
See Section III. D
The Oil & Gas Task Force headed by Richard Miller, in the latest MOU and in the draft Oil & Gas Zoning regulations, have completely ignored the Colorado Attorney General.
Moreover, while continuing to push an agenda for local regulatory intervention, the Oil & Gas Task Force has ignored the extensive Water Quality Baseline data already maintained and published by the COGCC.
Why have all the candidates, Democrat and Republican alike, ignored this brewing conflict, and ignored the extensive data already in place to resolve the matter?
Why have the sitting commissioners allowed this brewing conflict to continue?
Why have all of the liberal pundits at the Prairie Times, the Elbert County Sun, the Ranchland News, the Elbert County News, the New Plains, the Ecogig, and the Elbert Grab, ignored all of it?
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spending, insurance mandates, tax increases
There’s simply no money to pay for Obama’s plans. After adding $6 Trillion to the debt, why should he care? If the American dollar is inflated out of existence, it means he’ll get to preside over the disintegration of our economy, and it will provide him with the excuse he seeks to impose his totalitarian vision — a win/win for Obama.
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voter registrations don’t add up in Elbert County
With 18,000 eligible voters, and 4% extra registrations, that’s 720 erroneous voters assuming an otherwise perfect system, which would be an unreasonable assumption to make based on this uncovered error.
I wonder who gets to vote those extra registrations? Could this explain the primary results last June?
http://colorado.mediatrackers.org/2012/09/04/colorado-counties-have-more-voters-than-people/
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” Joseph Stalin
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good evening
Seniors suffer under Obama. Where’s the outcry?
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Thank goodness we have a Democrat in the White House. Otherwise, America’s seniors would be facing a serious crisis. [Read more…]
Happy national empty chair day!
I pledge dissent from the empty chair, and from the divided America for which it stands, one piece of furniture, under Obama, with oppression and tyranny for all. [Read more…]
Water quality baseline study
Why is the Oil & Gas Regulations task force writing an MOU/zoning regulation to collect water quality baseline data, as if that information did not already exist?
From as recently as May of 2012?
Including data from a well owned by one of the task force members?
See: Baseline Water Quality Review – Elbert County, Colorado
“Generally, groundwater quality in the wells sampled for this study is good. There’s no evidence that water quality has been impacted by activities related to oil and natural gas exploration or production activities.”
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Fascism – Obama already did it
Planning
Planners don’t have enough information. They never do. It’s the nature of their problem. Looking into the future when all things are known, from the vantage point of the present, has its limitations. Planners don’t have enough information because they can’t have enough information. They can’t have enough information because that information doesn’t exist yet.
This fact of space and the direction of time does not deter them. They envision a harmonious future world with all people and things relating to one another in the most optimally sweet balance of sources and uses, comings and goings, beings and doings, with socially just outcomes, no big losers, and no big winners.
In their future, earned equity is the only value – but only insofar as the equity has no past, no family, and no inheritance. Those things involve capital and capital comes from profit. Profit means that something more was gained by one party in a transaction than was fairly deserved based on cost. Profit can never be earned because it’s essentially unfair. The Marxist theory that labor determines value doesn’t allow for earned value to exceed the cost of sustaining the labor.
So planners posit their sustainable future without profit. Their models have people only needing and receiving enough to sustain them in the lifestyles they’re accustomed to. After all, why should they need more? They’re just going to die in a few years like everyone else. Shouldn’t someone else have a fair chance? It’s only fair.
In their optimally sweet sustainable future, people live in the class they were born into. They don’t profit, they don’t accumulate wealth, they don’t move up in society, because there are no winners and losers when we all balance each other from each according to our abilities, to each according to our needs.
Well that’s all nice enough on paper. It just falls completely apart when you try to shoehorn human nature into the picture. Without motivation, people don’t work. A system that provides a subsistence level of motivation yields a subsistence level of human energy where everyone just subsists…in an optimally sweet harmonious and fair balance…at the level of the least common denominator.
I’m not saying planners are short sighted, at least not more than the nature of their avocation demands. One can see from reading their plans, zones and various diktats that they’re quite thorough. They’re no doubt doing the best they can in trying to solve a problem that, by its nature, can’t be solved.
What confounds, however, is what on earth they must see in their harmonized sustainable least common future to motivate them to try to bring it about? Imagine a sailor who dreams of a flat lake without a breath of air to move his boat. It just makes no sense.
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taxation without representation
Notably absent from the Oil & Gas task force meeting last Tuesday were many property owners with Oil & Gas mineral interests. Everyone at the meeting, planner and audience member alike, seemed quite at ease with the proposal in the MOU to impose very expensive water quality testing protocols on all future Oil & Gas development.
Arguably, the proposed testing protocol could make energy development here so expensive as to preclude it ever happening at all. Judging from some of the body language by at least one of the planners (red hat), one might conclude that preemption of drilling was the real purpose behind the proposed zoning law.
Who would pay for these protocols? Payment would come in the form of reduced revenues to mineral property owners. Those imposing the law are not those who would pay for the law. Isn’t that an awfully familiar theme these days? The casual air with which these folks discuss making law to spend large amounts of other people’s money is quite astonishing.
In days of old we used to call that taxation without representation. A more modern description might be politically motivated bad science.
Those who have an interest in protecting their property might want to attend future meetings of this group and stand up for their interests. There is just no balance in the room right now.
Should laws be built around expensive experiments? Should those with no stake in bearing the expense of the experiment be the ones making those laws?
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Proposed water test protocol. Click to enlarge.
O & G Regulation Task Force mtg
OGR MOU Items for discussion with COGCC 8/28/2012
Note, the above document is discussed in the accompanying video. Video of Oil & Gas Zoning working group meeting 8/28/2012: http://bambuser.com/v/2941056
About the meeting:
Later in the second hour I asked the task force the question, “Is there any evidence from anywhere in the world where aquifers have been contaminated from the down-hole horizontal fracturing region of a well?”
As you can see from the above pdf, the proposed water testing protocols over the horizontal tangent portions of the wells — the fracturing zones — are extensive, and presumably expensive. In Elbert County geology, this fracturing zone is 10,000 feet deeper (roughly) than our deepest aquifer. Is it reasonable, or perhaps even remotely possible, that a fracture could penetrate 10,000 feet of rock to compromise an aquifer?
Team members admitted that there was no evidence that such a contamination had ever occurred anywhere. They also admitted that these regulations were constructed as an experiment to gather data to prove or disprove the issue. They said that, absent data, they had to take the most conservative approach possible.
Those are the bare facts behind this proposed law. This law is an experiment, plain and simple. Should zoning law be the proper forum to conduct geological experiments? Should property holders be forced to fund such experiments through zoning law?
Like anthropogenic global warming, this is probably another example of what you get when you mix politics with science — something really expensive without scientific support.
The other question this MOU begs, for me, is a procedural issue.
This water testing protocol has been copied from the working draft of the OGRs. As zoning law, those proposed laws must go through public hearings before they can become law. It was noted in the meeting that for any elements of the draft OGR that get pulled into the MOU agreement with the COGCC, those elements will be removed from the OGR.
The question is whether the MOU, as an intergovernmental agreement [IGA], is subject to the same public hearing and approval protocols as a proposed zoning law? If it is not, that is, if the MOU can be inked between Elbert County and the COGCC without a public hearing, then Elbert County CDS would be significantly impacting our property rights without broad public scrutiny.
I hope this is not the case.
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ElCo usurping property rights
A right is only as valuable as your ability to protect it. I recently wrote about water rights, and I had no plans to revisit the subject so soon.
At the last BOCC meeting, the Director of Community and Development Services [CDS] announced a meeting to be held this evening at 6:30 p.m. in the commissioners chambers to discuss the draft Oil & Gas Regulations [OGR]. The Director indicated the proposed zoning was nearing completion. I stopped at CDS today to pick up a copy of the current draft prior to tonight’s meeting, which they provided for $.25 a page. 56 pages.
I was also informed that the purpose of tonight’s meeting is to discuss a Memorandum Of Understanding [MOU] to be submitted by CDS to the COGCC. I presume that MOU hinges on having the OGR largely resolved. See Followup here.
I found some major problems with the Draft OGR.
I.
The first one is in Section 26.2 A, a. Suitability. This section forms the corpus of planning review criteria to be used to evaluate all OGR development. It says, “factors will be evaluated in accordance with applicable State, County, and Federal standards.” What standards? It doesn’t say. The applicable ones I guess. Which ones are applicable? Who knows.
Next, Section 26.2, A, c. Site Characteristics. “Factors for consideration include: topography, natural hazards (landslides, flooding, wildfire, etc.), cultural and historical uses of the proposed site, and current resource values (open space corridor and wildlife habitat).” Again, what defines these factors? It doesn’t say.
These two sections are meant to guide CDS, the Planning Commission and the BOCC throughout the implementation of these proposed zoning laws. They are a blank check, without an anchor in any specified written law, in the hands of the government.
Zoning that is not founded on published statutes or objective sources of law is a license for government to do as it pleases. There is no property right protection under such a scheme.
II.
Turning to Section 26.2 B, 1. Minor Oil & Gas Facility Defined. “Land use applications for a proposed Minor Oil & Gas Facility shall be processed administratively by [CDS] without a public hearing before the Elbert County Planning Commission or the Board of County Commissioners.”
However Section 26.2 B, 2. Review Process for Minor Oil & Gas Facilities, specifies adjacent property notice procedures and refers to “appearing at the hearing or by submitting a written waiver to the Director prior to the hearing.”
Now, there’s either a public hearing process for Minor O&G facilities, or there’s not, but the Draft OGR is internally inconsistent on the question.
III.
The largest objection I have to these regulations is in Sections 26.3 G. 5 – 9. Water Supply Plan and Surface Water / Aquifer Protection.
Section 5, “Prior to commencement of any drilling operations, the Operator will contact, by certified mail, all surrounding property owners with active domestic, irrigation or livestock wells … and ask permission to conduct water sampling and analysis pre-drilling, post drilling, post completion, and post production every (3) years for a period of fifteen (15) years.”
“The Director of Community and Development Services may require further water well sampling at any time in response to complaints from water well owners.”
“Additional testing, for cause as determined by CDS, will be done at any interval for any resident within the test area. A request for further testing must be submitted in writing and must include reason for request.”
The section continues and even specifies allowable methane levels in your water before CDS will require an Operator to investigate the source of the gas.
So, to summarize, this zoning law gives away your rights to protect your water quality to Elbert County bureaucrats, who may require an Operator to determine the source of gas in your water, if they agree with your written request, and if the test results meet their standard for water pollution.
Perhaps what most offends my sensibility is that this surrendering of your ability to enforce your own water quality comes in the form of asking permission by a non-governmental entity. A prospective operator asks you permission to test your water. If you give it, Elbert County steps in and becomes the arbiter and enforcer of your water quality. The county owns your water quality thereafter, and with that, they might as well own your water.
What if you don’t like the quality of water that the county finds acceptable for you? What if you think .9 mg/L of methane tastes funny in your water and you want a remedy, but the county doesn’t think your water pollution rises to the level it is willing to defend?
Don’t do it Elbert County citizens. Don’t give up your ability to protect your property interest in your water quality to government planners. Their interest in your property is just not as personal as yours.
These Draft OGR zoning laws undermine your property interest in owned mineral wealth by subjecting that process to an arbitrary set of laws. And they undermine your property interest in protecting your water quality directly.
Fail.
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Bob is a racist
not so smart
Mitt’s backstory
Joel Gilbert, “I accuse the press”
When Democrats Talk Like Socialists
By SVETLANA KUNIN
Posted 08/22/2012 06:47 PM ET
‘What exactly is the point of this article?” asked a reader of my last (July 25) column titled “President’s Attack On Success Shows U.S. Falling, Not Rising.” “That the U.S. has a robust private sector and a host of freedoms? That people with good ideas can succeed in America? Who is arguing these points?”
Too many people think that freedom, opportunity and a variety of choices are ever-present features of life in the U.S. — that fundamental transformation of America will not affect accustomed standards. [Read more…]
“The Unvetted”
America divided
- African Americans
- Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
- Catholics
- Educators
- Environmentalists
- Jewish Americans
- Latinos
- LGBT Americans
- Native Americans
- Nurses
- Parents
- People of Faith
- People With Disabilities
- Rural Americans
- Seniors
- Small Business Owners
- Veterans & Military Families
- Women
- Young Americans
These are groups Obama has targeted to re-elect him. Maybe this is just the list his campaign thinks can be reached on-line. There are other groups in play that don’t present so well on the internet such as government employee unions and government contractors.
Obama’s job is really pretty simple: Identify groups and pay them off. Authorize an entitlement, a benefit, a public expenditure for a group, expend the debt-financed federal money, move on to the next group.
Republicans have to sell an ideology, a basket of ideals that capture the imagination of their constituents – a much tougher proposition because it involves education, persuasion, historical context, ethics, morality … good grief, the list is endless.
To contrast, Democrats just write checks out of the treasury to their voters. Democrat constituents must possess the skill to cash a check, and then get to a polling place from time to time to pull a democrat voting lever — a pretty short resume’.
It doesn’t look good for taxpayers. They’re not on Obama’s list.
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Occupy ElCo Govt
Occupy Admits Its Real Goal: Communism
The Left: An Occupy organizer admitted over the weekend that the goal of his protest group was to “overthrow the capitalist system and build communism.” So the cat’s out of the bag again on this bunch. Where is the outrage?
The true agenda of the Occupy movement has been revealed — it’s a totalitarian one. Billing itself as a spontaneous people’s revolution and embraced by the media and Democrat political establishment, Occupy is really a destructive band of thugs whose goal is the violent demise of democracy. [Read more…]
ELCO’s CP
Not Communist Party, Cloward and Piven, though some might say that’s a distinction without a difference.
The ersatz Republicans at New-Plains continue their manipulation of ELCO Republican voters, causing confusion, corruption and chaos in their Cloward and Piven strategy to replace our system with theirs.
The Summer of the Schlegel Recall
www.new-plains.com
Only a moron or dedicated liar could twist it into anything approaching “partisan.”
The Cloward and Piven strategy: overwhelm the system, force it to collapse, replace it with a socialist alternative.
Cloward and Piven applied to Elbert County: overwhelm commissioners with open records requests, constant misrepresentations of their policies, challenges to every decision they make, spurious litigious actions. Cause the commission to expend money and resources defending against phantom issues, then blame them for doing so while at the same time ignoring any culpability or responsibility for generating the phantom crisis. Install socialist commissioners with plans to use zoning to take control of private natural resource properties.
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