[Jack Black]

Vandalized Valley by Victor Davis Hansen.

I am starting to feel as if I am living in a Vandal state, perhaps on the frontier near Carthage around a.d. 530, or in a beleaguered Rome in 455. Here are some updates from the rural area surrounding my farm, taken from about a 30-mile radius. In this take, I am not so much interested in chronicling the flotsam and jetsam as in fathoming whether there is some ideology that drives it.

Last week an ancestral rural school near the Kings River had its large bronze bell stolen. I think it dated from 1911. I have driven by it about 100 times in the 42 years since I got my first license. The bell had endured all those years. Where it is now I don’t know. Does someone just cut up a beautifully crafted bell in some chop yard in rural Fresno County, without a worry about who forged it or why — or why others for a century until now enjoyed its presence?

The Horde is Here!

CWII PING!

[SuziQ]

"Does someone just cut up a beautifully crafted bell in some chop yard in rural Fresno County, without a worry about who forged it or why — or why others for a century until now enjoyed its presence?

Yes, because it means nothing to them.

[rurgan]

Heard this monologue on Hannity form a guest host. It was imo the most Amazing monologue I’ve heard, a real call to arms:
http://www.hannity.com/videos/?uri=channels/400391/1681628

[AZLiberty]

And, to spite Arizona, California passed a law this week to make sure that the police aren’t allowed to call ICE for misdemeanor offenses. So even if Victor’s Vandals are caught, they won’t be sent back to Mexico, they can’t pay the fine because they have no “visible” source of income, and they can’t be put in jail because California’s prisons are already full.

Victor, and the rest of us, are screwed.

[MileHi]

Looks like a great place to deposite 30 pieces of lead.

[Eaker]

You should post the article by Victor Davis Hansen as a thread of its own.

[Tainan]

Is that home boy pic the local FOP?

[DTogo]

...the action necessary to reverse the sclerosis...

Hasn't been exercised since April 19th, 1775.

[Grampa Dave]

As VGH noted, the state of California can’t afford to arrest and convict felons, yet the criminals in charge of the legislature and their insane Moonbeam are passing the bullet train bill from nowhere to nowhere:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2904097/posts

You Decide: Obama’s Really Cool Train vs. Keystone’s Real Cool Jobs
Townhall.com ^ | July 8, 2012 | Mark Baisley

Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2012 7:19:12 AM by Kaslin

Four California Democratic State Senators joined twelve Republican State Senators last Friday in voting against funding for a new high speed train and rail line. But that only brought the opposition vote to 43% in the lopsided Democratic California Senate.

California continues to set new records in accumulated debt for a single state, now in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Only the State of New York is able to top California and only in one area; debt per citizen.

There is one good argument for the California State Senate to have passed the bill approving $4.7 billion in spending. It obligates the other 49 states to send $3.2 billion of their money in matching federal funds for the project. The Obama Administration committed that level of funding in 2009 primarily from his economic stimulus project.