Posted on 04/27/2014 5:34:05 AM PDT by rktman
Amid the circus that is the Bundy Ranch standoff is the much more important and revealing story surrounding a previously little-noticed agency called the Bureau of Land Management.
Even observers who believed that Cliven Bundy did not have a legal leg to stand on regarding his claims that he did not owe grazing fees for his cattle to the BLM were curious as to the reason behind the heavy-handed response to Bundy’s recalcitrance. The move ostensibly was to remove Bundy’s cattle from public lands, where they were illegally grazing. Even though every federal agency these days, from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Department of Education, feels the need to have its own SWAT team, 200 federal agents with assault rifles and dogs seems an inappropriate way to conduct a roundup.
Upon closer examination, the reason for the importance to the BLM of establishing its authority may entail much more than the revenue from grazing fees.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Dude. That’s like 12 years old. LOL! Thanks for the links. Some folks newer to FR may just have missed the original. :>}
Ha :-)
So many things new are old. Follow the money, with politicians and bureaucracies, ALWAYS. What’s in the ground, what’s it worth, and how can they control and profit from it?
You can’t leave out the tie-in with global warming and the war on meat. In terms of methane and production costs, per the left, beef is not a “green” food resource. A policy which pushes ranchers out of business fits the green agenda.
They buy a lot of signs with their $.
“No motorized vehicles”, “Travel only on marked trails”, etc.
And I have noticed a great increase of new ones this spring.
Yuk.
Check the price of ground beef lately? I’m thinkin’ about switchin’ to some caviar burgers instead. :>}
Can’t wait for the “No human activity beyond this point!” before to long. Of course with the Area 51 like “Use Of Deadly Force Authorized!” right underneath in tiny letters. Signed, courtesy of YOUR govt. Have a nice day polluter. :<{
Well, no.
WWII started because Germany and Japan decided that other people had something and they wanted it.
I know it is fashionable to say that if you just give the bullies what they want there will be peace but the problem is that what they really want is everything.
So no, FDR not giving them what they wanted did not start WWII.
Agenda 21.
Does the un have a catalog of available signs out yet?
BLM,like HUD,FHA etc etc etc are all troughs for feeding the pigs in (and sometimes out of) power. Kin, wives, children of the elected 537 Princes of the Universe..all get well paid jobs in these outfits...at OUR expense of course....Hells Bells....wasn’t David Gregory’s wife a well paid lawyer to one of those ???
That would be asshat “I’m above the law” david gregory.
BLM’s 150-page sign “guidebook” at http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/wy/signs/docs.Par.61916.File.dat/guidebook.pdf
No wonder this country is drowning in regulations.
Lighter than air that helium. Mostly it floats off in to space. It is not easy to produce so vapturing it naturally is best.
Good thing we have the federal government in charge.
and most people can’t connect the dots on all of the micro-transactions taking place that move the culture left and keep those in power more powerful
Every oil field in the world has outgassing helium - a non-biotic element if ever there was one.
Well, yes. Japan attempted to wipe out the Pacific Fleet because fuel wise they would only become weaker as time went on. I wear suspenders, that is how fashionable I am plus Goodwill turns me down when try to drop off my clothes.
Hitler decided to go to war with us, honoring the treaty he had with Japan, far as I know the only treaty he honored.
Aside from all that, I do not like the social policies FDR introduced into the US. Without FDR’s New Deal we would not have most, if not all, of the nutty social programs we have now. FDR was also a bully, he just put a nicer face on it.
On top of that, Eleanor was dog ass ugly.
But WWII had already started.
In fact you could say that for Japan WWII began in 1905 when they began the forced annexation of Korea but certainly it began with the conquest of Manchuria in 1931.
So no matter how much people wish to blame FDR he did not start WWII when he was Governor of New York.
Yes, the Japanese were kicking butt all over Asia, I think FDR hurried the war along with his actions. I doubt we could have stayed out of it and let everyone slug it out. Now we best learn Chinese instead of Japanese or German, or we may need to learn Russian.
I don’t like FDR mainly for his social policies here in the US and I believe without him this country would never have accepted creeping socialism. You may well be right and I wrong but it is sorta like global warming, no matter how much evidence to the contrary I will hold on to my beliefs about FDR. One other thing, I have often felt the real start of Big Government was based on the regimentation of Americans by the military of both soldiers and civilians. That generation that served accepted the idea that the government always had the best interests of the common man at heart. My father was one of them and he could not believe the government would, as he said it, ‘take bread off a man’s table.’ He believed it until a few short years before his death. It was a hard lesson for him.
If FDR could have started the war as Governor or Sec. of the Navy he would probably have to help out Uncle Joe.
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