The Gold King Mine Fiasco: What It Tells Us About the EPA

Power Line

 "If a private company had been responsible, the EPA would have come down like a hammer. But not this time:"

 "We have written here and here about the EPA-caused spill of three million gallons of toxic liquid into the Animas River in Colorado. Private companies that have caused environmental disasters of that magnitude (or much less) have been criminally prosecuted; in some cases, individuals have been jailed. Will the EPA face similar accountability? Just kidding.

"At Watts Up With That?, Paul Driessen has an excellent update on the Gold King mine disaster. This is what happened:

On August 5, an Environmental Restoration company crew, supervised by US Environmental Protection Agency officials, used an excavator to dig away tons of rock and debris that were blocking the entrance portal of Colorado’s Gold King Mine, which had been largely abandoned since 1923. Water had been seeping into the mine and out of its portal for decades, and the officials knew (or could and should have known) the water was acidic (pH 4.0-4.5), backed up far into the mine, and laced with heavy metals.

But they kept digging – until the greatly weakened dam burst open, unleashing a 3-million-gallon (or more) toxic flood that soon contaminated the Animas and San Juan Rivers, all the way to Lake Powell in Utah. To compound the disaster, EPA then waited an entire day before notifying downstream mayors, health officials, families, farmers, ranchers, fishermen and kayakers that the water they were drinking, using for crops and livestock, or paddling in was contaminated by lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic.

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inhabitat:  "The EPA just spilled 1 million gallons of mustard-colored mine waste into a Colorado river"
 

BUSTED: Leader for #BlackLivesMatter is Actually a WHITE GUY!

http://hopenchangecartoons.blogspot.com/

Progressives Today

 

"It’s the Rachel Dolezal story all over again. At least it looks that way. Shaun King, a blogger for the far left site Daily Kos is a leader within the #BlackLivesMatter movement but it turns out he’s not black at all."

From the New York Daily News:

Rachel Dolezal 2.0? Shaun King, activist for the Black Lives Matter movement, outed as a white man
It’s the second coming of Rachel Dolezal.
Shaun King, a prominent leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, may have just been outed as a white man.
Boasting a vast following on Twitter, a title as justice columnist for a social progressive website, and acquiring a full-ride college scholarship from Oprah Winfrey to Morehouse (an award designated for black men, the site alleged) are the markings which have made King, 35, a go-to source for breaking news on police brutality against African-Americans around the country.
But there seems to be one hitch: He isn’t actually black, according to recent findings from conservative news website, Breitbart.

Here’s the report from Milo Yiannopolous of  Breitbart" . . . 
 

Does #blackprivilegematter at #blacklivesmatter?
 "Do white lives pretending to be black lives matter? "

Obama: Earning Contempt, at Home and Abroad

Victor Davis Hanson  . . . "The more Britain’s Chamberlain and France’s Daladier in 1938 genuinely sought to reassure Hitler of their benign intentions, the more the Nazi hierarchy saw them as little more than “worms” — squirming to appease the stronger spirit. Both were seen as unsure of who they were and what they stood for, ready to forfeit the memory of the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of their own on the false altar of a supposedly mean and unfair Versailles Treaty. 

"Hitler perversely admired Stalin after the latter liquidated a million German prisoners, and hated FDR, whose armies treated German POWs with relative humanity. In matters big and small, from Sophocles’ Antigone to Shakespeare’s King Lear, we see the noble and dutiful treated worse by their beneficiaries than the duplicitous and traitorous. ". . .  Read more

A Great Solution To End Police Shootings Of Black Youths

Joshuapundit
It happened again today. Two white policemen in north St. Louis shot and killed a black man...

. . . "The locals don't like the police, to put it mildly, and I'm sure that the police themselves don't enjoy going into neighborhoods where their attempts to do a difficult job are looked upon by a significant number of the inhabitants as the provocation of racist interlopers.

"Mr. Fred Price points the way to a win win resolution that will please everyone. Let's indeed give the residents of north St. Louis and other similar areas a way to keep the police out of their neighborhoods.

"Let the residents take a vote on making their neighborhoods off limits to police. If such a vote passes, let the residents make their own arrangements for crime prevention or policing should they see fit to do so,and offer property owners a discount on their taxes based on this city service they would no longer be using.

"Police would be limited to enforcing the perimeters of such neighborhoods, so that thugs and criminals would be prevented from leaving these neighborhoods during certain hours. But inside the perimeter, the residents themselves would take responsibility." . . .
. . .
" Like I said, a win win. The inhabitants of these neighborhoods would get the kind of policing they deserve, and those vicious police killers would have no opportunity to practice their racism."

 

Coulter: FOX NEWS ANCHORED IN STUPIDITY ON 14TH AMENDMENT

 

Ann Coulter    "Based on the hysterical flailing at Donald Trump -- He's a buffoon! He's a clown! He calls people names! He's too conservative! He's not conservative enough! He won't give details! His details won't work! -- I gather certain Republicans are determined to drive him from the race.

"These same Republicans never object to other candidates who lack traditional presidential resumes -- Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain, to name a few. I'm beginning to suspect it's all about Trump's opposition to mass immigration from the Third World.

"Amid the hysteria, Trump is the only one speaking clearly and logically, while his detractors keep making utter asses of themselves.

"By my count -- so far -- Fiorina, Chris Christie, Rick Perry and the entire Fox News commentariat are unfamiliar with a period of the nation's history known as "the Civil War." They seem to believe that the post-Civil War amendments were designed to ensure that the children of illegal aliens would be citizens, "anchor babies," who can then bring in the whole family. (You wouldn't want to break up families, would you?)

"As FNC's Bill O'Reilly authoritatively informed Donald Trump on Tuesday night: "The 14th Amendment says if you're born here, you're an American!"

"I cover anchor babies in about five pages of my book, Adios, America, but apparently Bill O'Reilly and the rest of the scholars on Fox News aren't what we call "readers."
"Still, how could anyone -- even a not-very-bright person -- imagine that granting citizenship to the children of illegal aliens is actually in our Constitution? I know the country was exuberant after the war, but I really don't think our plate was so clear that Americans were consumed with passing a constitutional amendment to make illegal aliens' kids citizens." . . .

 

 

You Will Never Be a Better Dad Than You Are a Husband

Michael T. Hamilton

 

"All the time I hear people lampoon others by opening with a caveat like “So and So’s a good guy,” followed by “It’s just that he….” Commence butchering.

. . .

"This kind of caveat doubles as both a way to talk about someone without feeling like you’re gossiping, and as a handy way to excuse someone’s incompetence, ignorance, or negligence.

"On one side is fraud, pretending to respect a person so that you will not look so bad when you trash him or her. On the other is rationalization, performed to justify behavior you don’t want to confront in others–or in yourself.

. . .  “So and So is a good guy, but he is completely out of touch with students or what it was like to grade papers 25 hours a day.” At my next school, teachers used the other edge of the sword. All you have to do is invert the sentence structure. “He is completely incompetent, lacks all passion, and is incapable of relating to the people who work for him on anything resembling a human level. But he’s a good guy with a good heart.”

"Maybe he has a great heart. Or maybe it’s rotten. Caveats and excuses reveal more about those who use them than about anyone else. This is especially true of parents. Most people who have ever worked a job they hated or had a friendship go south have used these. But there is one category of people whose experience extends to expertise: dads." . . .

DESTROYING AMERICA THROUGH IMMIGRATION TACTICS.

John Proteus at  Mark Levin's Fan Club of Intelligent, Thinking Women (and Men)

For Every New Job, Two New Immigrants

Since 2000: 9.3 million new jobs, 18 million new immigrants.

. . . "Of course, the argument is often made that immigrants create more jobs than they take. The last 14 years are a good test of that argument. Since 2000, 18 million immigrants have arrived, yet job growth has been very weak despite record immigration. In fact, the number of immigrants that arrived was about twice the number of new jobs. While employment rises and falls with the economy and temporary changes in the business cycle matter little when considering a big policy question like immigration, when we examine long-term trends we find that the level of immigration (mostly legal) and natural population increase have completely swamped job growth. As a result, there has been a long-term decline in the labor force participation rate of working-age (16 to 65) natives. This is certainly not the long-term pattern we would expect if immigration is the boon to native employment that so many immigration advocates argue."

Obama 1984 type policies becoming more evident with instituting his Racial Database. Cartoon by A.F.Branco ©2015.
More A.F.Branco Cartoons at Net Right Daily.

Obama minions target Schumer over Iran deal

"TEL AVIV – Progressive groups that participated in a conference call with President Obama to coordinate support for the Iran nuclear deal are now leading campaigns against U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer’s Democratic leadership bid in the Senate."
. . . 

"In response, major progressive groups have mobilized to oppose Schumer.
MoveOn.org announced a “donor strike in response to Schumer’s Iran position.”
The George Soros-funded radical group threatened it will “organize grassroots progressives across the country to withhold campaign contributions from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and from any Democratic candidate who succeeds in undermining the president’s diplomacy with Iran.”

“Instead, they are sending a rather pointed message to the pro-Israel community that no one, not even a good Democratic soldier and future leader like Schumer, can get away with crossing the president when it comes to his plans for détente with Iran.”

Here Are Three of the Criminal Aliens Being Released Into Our Neighborhoods

Independent Sentinel   "According to a Texas Department of Safety report, in five-and-a-half years, there were more than 600,000 criminal charges against illegal aliens. That’s only Texas. It’s playing out in states all over the nation.
"So, while ICE celebrated the apprehension of its 300th criminal illegal alien in fiscal year 2015 yesterday (out of millions that should be deported), they were simultaneously releasing animals like the following into our community.
"Is our immigration system broken? You bet! But it has nothing to do with the law, only its enforcement.
"Sheriff Paul Babeu held a press conference today to announce an ICE release of 3 violent criminal illegals into Arizona. The three criminal illegals have been charged, convicted and sentenced to crimes including kidnapping, aggravated assault and murder. Instead of being deported back to their country of origin, ICE is releasing these violent criminal illegals into Arizona." . . .

"A Russian national set a police informant on fire. An Iraqi killed his two-year old daughter. An illegal from Sudan has committed multiple assaults in two states.
"These are the kind of people the administration and the Democrats want in our neighborhoods."

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Hillary......

"Hillary may have had over 300 classified documents on her secret server in a bathroom closet in Denver. She turned a server over to the FBI that had been wiped clean. Bob Woodward compared her email issues to Richard Nixon’s tapes. His tapes only contained an 18 minute gap." Chip Bok

http://bokbluster.com/2015/08/18/white-house-secret-server/

Clinton pulls plug on testy presser over server questions . . . "A visibly aggravated Clinton repeatedly insisted that she had done nothing wrong and seemed frustrated by questions about the issue.
"What I did was legally permitted, number one, first and foremost," the Democratic presidential candidate said in response to a question from Fox News reporter Ed Henry. "We turned over everything that was work-related, every single thing."
She added that in "retrospect," it had not turned out to be convenient to have the private server during her years as secretary of State.
"I regret that this has become a cause celebre. But that does not change the facts, and no matter what anybody tries to say, the facts are stubborn," she said.
"I know there is a certain level of anxiety or interest in this, but the facts are the facts." . . .

Who wiped clean Hillary's server, when, where, how and why? 

ON THE SERVER, HILLARY PLAYS DUMB: “LIKE WITH A CLOTH OR SOMETHING?” 

"Hillary Clinton took some questions at an event in Las Vegas today, and a reporter asked her whether she had wiped her home server clean before turning it over to the FBI, as news reports indicate. Hillary responded in her usual condescending style, failing to answer the question. When the reporter repeated it, she played dumb– “Like with a cloth or something?”–and disclaimed any knowledge of how digital devices work. You almost have to see it to believe it:"

NJ Woman’s Dying Wish: “In lieu of flowers, please do not vote for Hillary Clinton”

A special request in the obituary for Elaine Fydrych - See more at: http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/08/nj-womans-dying-wish-in-lieu-of-flowers-please-do-not-vote-for-hillary-clinton/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29#sthash.U35JQyFW.dpuf

A special request in the obituary for Elaine Fydrych

The Tragic and Complete Collapse of Racial Relations

 Polls show that racial relations have gotten much worse under Barack Obama. Why has that happened?



Victor Davis Hanson   "Why do polls show that racial relations have gotten much worse under Barack Obama, who won the White House with over 95% of the black — and 45% of the white — vote?


"A recent New York Times/CBS News poll  just revealed that about 60% of Americans feel race relations are not good. Some 40% think that they will become even worse. Yet when Obama was elected, 66% of those polled felt race relations were generally OK. All racial groups, according to recent polling, believe that Obama’s handling of racial relations has made things worse since 2009. Another recent Pew poll confirms these tensions, and suggests whites are now about as pessimistic as blacks.

What has happened to racial relations?
 
"Crime. A small cohort of urban African-American males under fifty — no more than 3-4% of the general population — is responsible for about 50% of many of the violent crimes committed. Blacks are 5-8 times more likely to commit rather suffer an interracial crime, which makes up less than 10% of most violent crime. Both the analysis and solution have become taboo subjects. Writing the above is a near thought crime" . . . Full article

Carly Is a Winner

 

 American Thinker  "The strong performance of Carly Fiorina in the second-tier Republican debate and the evolving 2016 presidential race makes her perhaps the strongest and best Republican candidate yet.  Conservatives should care not just about strong candidates, but about true conservative candidates who will not wilt.  Carly fits that need, too.  There is not a single issue in which Carly is not on the right side. 

"She ran as a conservative Republican in a California, a state leftist Democrats dominate, which has not elected a conservative Republican since Reagan’s second term as governor.  This puts Carly Fiorina (and Scott Walker) in a special class.  Indeed, if Carly had beaten Boxer in 2010, she might well be the Republican presidential nominee today. 

"Conservatives like Huckabee, Perry, Jindal, and Cruz have run and won as conservative Republicans, but they have won their elections in Republican-run conservative states that routinely go Republican in presidential elections.  While these probably are true conservatives, none is a conservative who has had to persuade non-conservatives to vote for him." . . .Read more

 ‘I Have Such Great Admiration and Empathy for Hillary Clinton’: Carly in 2008 
. . . "But GOP primary voters might be interested to know that back in 2008, Fiorina effusively praised Hillary Clinton and told Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus at the time that if she weren’t supporting McCain, she would be backing Clinton." . . .BuzzFeed: