August 17, 2011
RE: Elbert and Highway 86 Commercial Metropolitan District
Dear Commissioner Schwab and Commissioner Shipper, [Read more…]
water water everywhere…
Karl Nyquist defends pipeline plan
Lamar pipeline’s benefits, drawbacks debated – The Pueblo Chieftain
Sound off – The Pueblo Chieftain
Farmer sees payoff at both ends of pipeline – The Pueblo Chieftain
150-mile water pipeline gets Cherokee District nod
Action delayed on proposal to tap Arkansas River water – The Pueblo Chieftain
Pipeline plan catches Ark Valley off-guard – The Pueblo Chieftain
State water leaders wary of pipeline plan – The Pueblo Chieftain
Pipeline cost pegged at $340 million – The Pueblo Chieftain
Water company makes its move – The Pueblo Chieftain
Looking for gold in water projects – The Pueblo Chieftain
Ark River pipeline in murky waters – The Pueblo Chieftain
Speculative plan – The Pueblo Chieftain
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Elbert County Commissioners continue decision on metro district
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Note: Gravel pits never built and now planned to be used for water storage were sold to neighbors as gravel pits.
Gravel pit gets nod from commission
Gravel pit representatives pitch site
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Cherokee Metropolitan District Special Meeting Of The Board of Directors [Read more…]
Sharia Law
Congress should act under Article III of the Constitution, “In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.” …to define allowable subject matter jurisdiction for federal courts to exclude the authority of Sharia Law.
Pushed by a well funded and vocal monitory of Muslims, lower courts are picking away at this issue to steadily expand the influence of Sharia Law in American jurisprudence. Congress should act at the federal level to shut down the entire movement. Our laws are murky enough without incorporating this cult of religious law.
There are plenty of countries the U.S. can study in the world, such as Malaysia, to satisfy any judicial curiosities about Sharia Law. We don’t need to corrupt our own law to find those answers. Justice will not be served with Sharia Law in America.
Kiowa 8/5/2011
The New Normal
SCHOOLS FOR MISRULE pp. 219-220
“THE U.S. IN THE DOCK (CONT’D)
Another enforcement mechanism for international human rights likely to assume greater visibility in coming years is the U.N.-supervised process known as universal periodic review. [Read more…]
turning rights into licenses
Federalist No. 25
“For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.”
Schools For Misrule, p. 196
“Georgetown recently hosted a National Forum on the Human Right to Housing at which conferees were instructed on such topics as “promoting affordable housing using a human-rights based framework.” Loyola-Los Angeles put on a conference rallying interest in the new U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, hailed as an “international ADA” and presumably the catalyst for the future construction of sidewalk curb cuts and wheelchair ramps in remote tropical settlements. Numerous groups have united behind the fruitful concept of “poverty as a human rights violation,” said to justify proposals for an international guarantee of minimum income. According to the introduction to an NYU symposium, international law now guarantees rights to health, education, and “decent work,” not to mention freedom from “severe social exclusion.” [Read more…]
BS flag thrown on Gasland
Phelim McAleer, Director and Producer of “Not Evil Just Wrong,” questions Josh Fox, director of “Gasland,” about relevant omissions from his movie. Also see Mcaleer’s short video here.
Why does the left consistently alter reality to fit its’ agenda? What do they owe to this false agenda that gives it such power over them?
standpoint epistemology
Schools For Misrule, PP. 162-163
“The movements that bid to replace CLS at law school centerstage—Critical Race Theory (CRT), FemCrit, and their many identity-based analogues—promised to be different. To begin with, they rejoiced in diversity, and would never be confused with a gathering of middle-aged straight Anglo white males. While equally or more radical than the CLS crowd, they intended to spend more time listening to the stories of those affected by law at street level and less time on arid doctrine-chopping. Above all, they would aspire to act and not just develop critiques.
One of CRT’s key manifestos appeared in 1987 in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, a flagship of Left scholarship. Its author was a star of the emerging school of thought, Mari Matsuda, then of Stanford (later Georgetown). Matsuda was to win fame as one of the authors of Words that Wound, the book that made the case for legal suppression of racist and otherwise hurtful speech, and thus helped prepare the way for university speech codes—CRT’s first and still most notable real-world accomplishment. In her Harvard article, Matsuda laid out a version of one of the theories for which CRT and Critical Studies would soon become best known—sometimes called standpoint epistemology—and then proposed a new practical objective toward which like-minded colleagues could work. [Read more…]
Progressives
I’ve had enough of the progressives. Consider their accomplishments.
At the turn of the progressive century, in the name of civilization Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft gave us brutal repression in Cuba and the Philippines, hundreds of thousands killed, conditions that led to Japanese militarization and World War II, war on the Korean peninsula, war in Indochina, the Malay Peninsula, and Viet Nam. The progressive body count in the Pacific Rim runs into the millions. To the dead, a progressive bullet and a communist bullet are a distinction without much of a difference. [Read more…]
Medical tourism
govt. by litigation insiders
Schools For Misrule, pp 150-151
THE “CONTROLLING GROUP”
The standard rap against institutional reform litigation is that it gives too much power to the judge. But in their thorough and devastating book Democracy by Decree, Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod say the larger problem is the power it gives the advocacy groups that control the suits. The public might rail at the judge who signs the decree, but in most cases it will have been private lawyers who drafted most of the decree’s language. [Read more…]
News from Asian English Press
Incentives to illegals
In China, Thailand and Malaysia, people were uniformly incredulous that America offers free healthcare to illegal immigrants (EMTALA), that American hospitals will deliver babies of illegal immigrants for free, that those babies become newly minted American citizens at birth, that their citizenship provides an anchor to keep the rest of the family in America notwithstanding their illegal status, and that the left also wants to subsidize illegal immigrants with in-state college tuition. Everyone we spoke to was well aware of these American policies, and of the incentive they provide to people all over the world to illegally immigrate to America.
Back in the US of A
Would love to be canvassing the SF Bay Area, seeking out Sunday late night light shots on our layover, but a thin slice of Burlingame will have to do. That’s actually the moon at 800 iso along with a number of flights on final approach to SF.
From Kuala Lumpur to Hong Kong we flew over some incredibly beautiful resort islands off the coast of Malaysia in the South China Sea, then over a pretty broad swath of Viet Nam with its hundreds of thousands of rice patties in the south, and then a great circle around Hong Kong showing us all sides of it. It’s about 4.5 hours from KL to HK, then another 12.5 hours from HK to SF. The cell phone cam just didn’t do any of it justice.
Transferring between airlines in HK is pretty cool – they have a transfer lounge with reps from every airline. You just give them your bag check claims, they go retrieve your bags from the inbound flight, and then re-check them on the new outbound flight with the new carrier to destination. The nice thing is you don’t have to stand in line and go through immigration. You just do a quick security screen and they release you to the outbound concourse to be on your way. It’s definitely a better method from the traveler’s perspective than what they make you do at west coast airports which involves shlepping your bags and going through immigration.
more scenes from KL
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Kuala Lumpur scenes
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night on the Chao Praya
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Thai color wheel
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The Demagogic Style
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com
Victor Davis Hanson
July 11, 2011 4:00 A.M.
The Demagogic Style
President Obama is the new, cool version of the fifth-century Athenian Cleon.
The noun dêmagôgos first appeared in Thucydides’ history, mostly in a neutral, only slight disparaging way (usually in reference to the obstreperous Cleon), in its literal sense of “leader of the people.”
But very soon — in later fifth- and fourth-century authors (e.g., Aristophanes, Xenophon, Aristotle, the Attic orators) — both the concrete and the abstract nouns (demagogue and demagogy/demagoguery) and the verb (to demagogue) became ever more pejorative, describing crass popular leaders who alternately flattered and incited the masses (ochlos). Their trick was to obtain and expand their own personal power by clever rhetoric directed against the better off, coupled with promises of more entitlements for the “poor” paid for by a demonized “them.”
We often associate demagoguery in the U.S. with wild right-wing nationalists or cultural chauvinists, such as Joe McCarthy or Father Coughlin, or with folksy Southern “spread-the-wealth” populists, such as William Jennings Bryan (“The Great Commoner”) or Huey Long. And, of course, abroad there were no better demagogues than Mussolini and Hitler, who both started out as national socialists and then united the classes by transferring class hatred onto foreign bogeymen, in a fashion we later see most effectively in Juan and Eva Perón.
Demagoguery, at its best, requires good oratory and charisma — which is why Jimmy Carter was such a dismal failure at it, despite his half-hearted demonization of three-martini lunches and private yachts at a time of a record misery index that saw high unemployment, out-of-control inflation, and usurious interest rates, coupled with a neutralist foreign policy that had led to Russians in Afghanistan, Communist takeovers in Central America, and American hostages in Teheran. Carter’s mock-serious delivery was so droll, his presence so wooden, that his fist-pounding against “them” turned into caricature.
Under a more skilled practitioner such as Barack Obama, the arts of demagoguery have become somewhat more refined in our time, but they nevertheless follow the same old patterns: [Read more…]
gifs that keep on giving
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