Advocates of splitting California into six states gathering signatures

LA Times

Molly Kelley, 62, of Klamath River, holds up a State of Jefferson flag as she folds it inside the

Klamath River Community Hall in California.

"The idea is the brainchild of Timothy Draper, a venture capitalist from Menlo Park – or as he hopes to some day call it, the state of Silicon Valley.  Draper has sunk $2 million into signature gathering for the proposal.

 He maintains it will break bureaucratic deadlock in Sacramento (proposed state of North California) and attract more business.

" 'California has become the worst managed state in the country," he told The Times this spring. "It just is too big and too ungovernable."

"Draper, a political independent, needs about 808,000 signatures by July 18 to get the measure on the ballot in two years. He has said he has support from the Oregon border (proposed state of Jefferson) to San Diego (South California), but the plan has been given almost no chance of success by some experts and ridiculed by Democrats and Republicans alike."

Fears of EPA ‘land grab’ create groundswell against water rule

The Hill

"Lawmakers are up in arms over an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal that they fear could give federal officials expansive new powers over private property and farmland.

"The EPA is seeking to redefine what bodies of water fall under the agency’s jurisdiction for controlling pollution. The scope of the final Clean Water Act (CWA) rule is of critical importance, as any area covered would require a federal permit for certain activities.

"The rule is facing a groundswell of opposition from lawmakers, who fear the EPA is engaged in a “land grab” that could stop farmers and others from building fences, digging ditches or draining ponds."  Read more...

EPA's rules destroy our property rights  "As American Farm Bureau Federation president Bob Stallman testified to Congress last month, “The proposal … categorically regulates as ‘navigable waters’ countless ephemeral drains, ditches and other features across the countryside that are wet only when it rains and may be miles from the nearest truly ‘navigable’ water. It would also regulate small, remote ‘wetlands’ — which may be nothing more than low spots on a farm field — just because those areas happen to be adjacent to a ditch or located in a floodplain.”

"The EPA’s public statements are filled with words like “wetlands” and “waters,” he points out. But those words don’t mean the same thing to the EPA as they mean to us."

Inside the jealous feud between the Obamas and ‘Hildebeest’ Clintons

NY Post

 

"Outwardly, they put on a show of unity — but privately, the Obamas and Clintons, the two power couples of the Democrat Party, loathe each other.

“ 'I hate that man Obama more than any man I’ve ever met, more than any man who ever lived,” Bill Clinton said to friends on one occasion, adding he would never forgive Obama for suggesting he was a racist during the 2008 campaign.

"The feeling is mutual. Obama made ­excuses not to talk to Bill, while the first lady privately sniped about Hillary."
...
"Their favorite bête noire was Hillary Clinton, whom they nicknamed “Hildebeest,” after the menacing and shaggy-maned gnu that roams the Serengeti."

Radical Marxist DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA list of members in Congress...for your reference in elections

Mona Breed Johnson

Quoting:

 

Q: How many members of the U.S. Congress are also members of the DSA?
A: Seventy
Q: How many of the DSA members sit on the Judiciary Committee?
A: Eleven: John Conyers [Chairman of the Judiciary Committee], Tammy Baldwin, Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez,
Melvin Watt, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Barbara Lee, Robert Wexler, Linda Sanchez [there are 23 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of which eleven, almost half, are now members of the DSA].
Q: Who are these members of 111th Congress?
A: See the listing below... 

Our Vacuous* Foreign Policy; Our enemies have a strategic vision for a global conflict, but we don’t.

 

No bro hug?

Andrew C. McCarthy   ... "Syria, we are told, disintegrated because President Obama’s abdication created a leadership void — “the vacuum” — that al-Qaeda rushed in to fill. The “moderate” Sunni “rebels,” the story goes, were poised to fulfill America’s top priority, undermining Iran, by overthrowing the Shiite regime the mullahs control in Damascus. But the president failed to back “moderate” Sunni “rebels,” who threw in their lot with al-Qaeda — strictly, we are to believe, owing to Obama’s default, not to the ideological harmony of the “rebels” with the jihadists.

"Cross Syria’s eastern border, though, and the vacuum abruptly warps. Now, far from undermining Iran, America’s top priority somehow becomes propping up an Iran-backed Shiite state. Obama’s abdication is thus said to be the failure to “consolidate the gains of the Iraq War” by keeping about 20,000 U.S. troops in place to fend off Sunni “rebels,” who — I know you’ll find this hard to believe — have yet again thrown in their lot with al-Qaeda.

"In fact, it turns out that if the same “rebel” gravitates from Syria to Iraq, he’s no longer even a “rebel” anymore; he’s a “terrorist.' ”...

*Vacuous   1. without contents; empty: the vacuous air.

2. lacking in ideas or intelligence: a vacuous mind. 

3. expressing or characterized by a lack of ideas or intelligence; inane; stupid: a vacuous book. 

4. purposeless; idle: a vacuous way of life.

 

Any time you see definitions included in a post, you will know I had to look up the meaning myself.

The #Iraq War Comments @TheDemocrats Would Like You To Forget

American Glob  "Here’s an important yet inconvenient history lesson.
"Do you think Bush just charged into Iraq with no bipartisan support? If you do, you’re wrong. In fact, that description is more fitting for the way Obama and Democrats handled ObamaCare, but I digress.
"Let’s take a walk down memory lane with Democrats on Iraq, courtesy of Instapundit…"  

Scenes From D-Day, Then and Now

The Atlantic Monthly via Robert Hope, former Marine at my duty post in Hawthorne, NV back in 1958. Thanks, Bob, and Semper Fi.

The body of a dead German soldier lies in the main square of Place Du Marche after the town was taken by U.S. troops who landed at nearby Omaha Beach in Trevieres, France, June 15, 1944. Click to view the same location on August 23, 2013.

 

(Posted on June 5th, 2014) "Tomorrow, June 6, 2014, will be the 70th anniversary of the D-Day Allied invasion of Europe in World War II. Seven decades ago, the largest amphibious invasion in history took place, changing the course of the war. Nearly 200,000 Allied troops boarded 7,000 ships and more than 3,000 aircraft and headed toward Normandy. Some 156,000 troops landed on the French beaches, 24,000 by air and the rest by sea, where they met stiff resistance from well-defended German positions across 50 miles of French coastline. Two photographers recently traveled to France, seeking to rephotograph images captured back then. Getty photographer Peter Macdiarmid and Reuters photographer Chris Helgren gathered archive pictures from the 1944 invasion, tracked down the locations, and photographed them as they appear today. Starting with photo number two, all the images are interactive -- click on them to see a transition from 'then' to 'now', and see the difference 70 years can make. [21 photo pairs] "

 A crashed U.S. fighter plane on the waterfront some time after Canadian forces came ashore on a Juno Beach D-Day landing zone in Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, France, in June 1944. Click to view the same location on August 23, 2013 

Plus this: 

"Here's a Normandy Beach landing photo they don't show you in textbooks. Brave women of the Red Cross arriving in 1944 to help the injured troops." 

Do Something

Teachers At Texas School Have Come Up With A Brilliant Way To Protect Their Students From Shootings

This comes via the Independent Journal Review :

Longview News-Journal, Longview, TX   "The Union Grove ISD board in January enacted a policy to allow select, licensed and trained teachers and administrators to possess a firearm on campus. Community members wholeheartedly supported the move.

"Union Grove ISD, a 2A school district with 761 students in rural Upshur County, was the second district in Texas to enact such a policy. The first was Harrold ISD in 2007.

“ 'The worst thing we can do is nothing,” Union Grove school board Vice President Rusty Dyar told the News-Journal in January." ...

Hat tip to John A Diefenbach at Conservatives Network

Abdication has a price

Charles Krauthammer  "Yes, it is true that there was no al-Qaeda in Iraq when George W. Bush took office. But it is equally true that there was essentially no al-Qaeda in Iraq remaining when Barack Obama took office.

 

"Which makes Bush responsible for the terrible costs incurred to defeat the 2003-09 jihadist war engendered by his invasion. We can debate forever whether those costs were worth it, but what is not debatable is Obama’s responsibility for the return of the Islamist insurgency that had been routed by the time he became president.

 

"By 2009, al-Qaeda in Iraq had not just been decimated but humiliated by the U.S. surge and the Anbar Awakening. Here were aggrieved Sunnis, having ferociously fought the Americans who had overthrown 80 years of Sunni hegemony, now reversing allegiance and joining the infidel invader in crushing, indeed extirpating from Iraq, their fellow Sunnis of al-Qaeda." ...
...
"Which is what made [Obama's] failure to do so in Iraq so disastrous. His excuse was his inability to get immunity for U.S. soldiers. Nonsense. Bush had worked out a compromise in his 2008 SOFA, as we have done with allies everywhere. The real problem was Obama’s determination to “end the war.” He had three years to negotiate a deal and didn’t even begin talks until a few months before the deadline period."    Emphasis added, TD

My opinion is that Obama wanted to please an idiot electorate. A nation gets the leaders it deserves and he was what his shallow, unaware voters inflicted upon this world. TD

Reprise:

http://netrightdaily.com/2014/06/cartoon-drain/

New Map Shows ‘Most Liberal and Most Conservative Towns’ in Each State — or Use This Online Tool to Find Ones That Most Closely Reflect Your Values

The Blaze   "New data from Clarity Campaign Labs purports to identify the “most liberal and most conservative towns” and cities in each U.S. state. Business Insider then used the data from the political data analytics company to create this nifty graphic:"

 

...

... "The tool, released on Tuesday, uses “seven identifiers” to determine each user’s political ideology:

• I identify with the Democrats more so than the Republicans.
• Abortion should be legal and accessible to all women.
• I attend religious services regularly.
• Climate change is an immediate concern that must be addressed.
• There should be more restrictions on purchasing and carrying guns.
• The government should reduce the deficit primarily by raising taxes rather than cutting services.
• I prefer urban areas.

Full Article.
Hat tip to Jeff Hayden; Plano, TX 

"OBAMA INC’s AGENTS FOR SHARIAH:CRIMINALIZING CRITICISM OF ISLAM VIA THE ISTANBUL PROCESS!ITS TENTACLED LINKAGE FROM BENGHAZIGATE’s VIDEO SUBTERFUGE,TO OBAMACARE & MORE"

Adina Kutnicki

Secretary Clinton addresses the “Istanbul Process” for Combating Intolerance and Discrimination

Based on Religion or Belief, Washington, DC

"UNDER the guise of “tolerance”, the truly intolerant and dangerous, Islamists and leftists, are joining hands. They are actual force multipliers, but against liberty! It is under their Orwellian, taqiyya-laden umbrella (via CAIR, the Brotherhood’s American propaganda arm) that the made up out-of-whole-cloth term, Islamophobia, comes into sharp relief."
...
... "yes, Muslims are the truly injured/aggrieved party" ...

Hat tip to Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

"Climate Change" at the VA: The sick and halt wait but the solar panels don’t

Washington Times   "The administrators at the Veterans Administration have apparently been busy while old soldiers waited to see a doctor, after all. Serving those who served is not necessarily a priority, but saving the planet is Job 1. Solar panels and windmills can be more important than the touch of a healing hand.

"The department early on set up an Office of Green Management Programs designed to “help VA facilities nationwide recognize opportunities to green VA, and to reward innovative ‘green’ practices and efforts by individual facilities and staff within the VA.” This sometimes means paying more attention to greening the department and saving the polar ice caps than to health care."... 
...

"At the Phoenix VA Health Care System, where 20 Americans died from incompetence and cover-up, the department spent $20 million putting solar panels on the hospital roofs."  Read more: