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A LEAD PIPE CINCH

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The residents of Flint Michigan, Detroit’s sister city, have been drinking lead laced water for a few months. What happened is a cause of concern. How it happened is a tragedy. The blame game has entered the octagon. From what we know, the EPA (Environmental Pollution Agency) gave the green light to send the noxious fluid through the Flint’s corroded pipes. However, before this happened Flint was in the bankruptcy court; to save money they opted to exit the Detroit’s water supply and pump the polluted Flint River water through century old pipes, which by the way were known to be in need of immediate maintenance while awaiting the construction of a new pipeline bringing water from Lake Huron. The EPA turned a blind eye as officials ran afoul of EPA regulations. Remember Flint is just a figment of their former self, now a city of poor people, a 100,000 at last count, down from 200,000 four decades ago. Most of the middle class fled along with the jobs provided by the Big Three.

The Environmental Protection Agency director overseeing a region that includes Flint, Michigan, is stepping down after contaminated water in that city exposed residents to lead poisoning.

The EPA on Thursday also announced an emergency order requiring that the state and city “take a series of immediate steps to address the drinking water contamination in Flint.”

It said the city and state’s response to the crisis has been “inadequate to protect public health.”

The EPA’s emergency order comes nearly four months after advocacy groups petitioned the agency to step in.

In October, the National Resources Defense Council, the American Civil Liberties Union and local groups petitioned the EPA to use its emergency powers to secure safe water in Flint. In December, EPA responded that it would “defer action” until the city had the corrosiveness of its water under control.

“The failure to act on it was bizarre and unacceptable,” said Henry Henderson, director of the NRDC’s Midwest program. “This action today reflects different thinking.”

MICHAEL OBERNDORF WEIGHS IN ON THE STATE OF AFFAIRS

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The Revolution is Over

 

News flash from the gummint and the Republican Party Establishment (aka, the Misleadership): “Ladies and gentlemen, the Revolution is over, and so as not to inconvenience anyone, nothing has been changed.” And so it would seem. Despite an historic landslide victory for supposed conservative Republicans in both houses of Congress, Obamacare has not been repealed or defunded; Obama’s illegal Executive Amnesty has not been defunded nor has anyone been indicted for defying court orders to end it; the butchers at Planned Parenthood will continue to be funded with taxpayer money; tens of thousands of Muslim “refugees” are being forced on the country, despite the opposition of the  vast majority of Americans; the unconstitutional EPA is still operating as a Democrat political sledgehammer, killing jobs and extending federal control over all land use; the dismantling of our military continues apace and unimpeded; the Middle East, and thus the world, has been brought to the brink of WWIII, thanks to the ineptness or intentional machinations, supported by the Republican Establishment, of Obama and the globalist Council on Foreign Relations-dominated State Department; and though the traitor Boehner has been pressured into quitting, it appears likely he’ll be replaced by a business-as-usual political clone; etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, ad nauseam.

 

The mess Obama and the State of Confusion Department have made in their dealings with Putin, too, should be of extreme concern to thinking conservatives. Putin’s airstrikes against ISIS seem to be doing in a few days what the Obama-controlled ones of ours failed to do in months. Putin is looking like what a real world leader should look like, and Obama, and thus America, are looking like totally incompetent fools. And trust me, the world is watching very closely, much like wolves watching a crippled sheep.

 

China, in particular, is not just watching, but gathering its strength, getting ready to pounce. Comments by Chinese leader Xi Jinping indicate that the recent talks with Obama left him totally unimpressed and not the least inclined to alter their present aggressive policies with their Asian neighbors and in the South China Sea. Obama’s weakening of our military and the massive strengthening of China’s, particularly its navy, and Putin’s show of strength in Syria with the tail-between-his-legs-rollover submission there by Obama (and this ignores the glaring fact that we should never have gotten involved in Syria in the first place), make it very likely that China will also escalate its aggressive moves on its smaller, weaker neighbors.

 

The really despicable part of all this is the acquiescence of Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and the Republican Establishment. They have sat passively, or voted to allow Obama to create unmitigated chaos, at home and abroad. They could, and should, have impeached Obama years ago, but instead have aided and abetted him at every turn, all the while publicly pretending to be opposed to all his unconstitutional and illegal actions. If there were a law that any elected official who violated his oath of office would be summarily removed from that office, tried, and if found guilty of doing so intentionally, imprisoned for, say, one-to-five years, there wouldn’t be anyone left in Congress or the White House, and ¾ of the judiciary would be gone, too. Perhaps if we elect Trump or Carson or Cruz, we can get such a law.

 

Washington and our once (relatively) honest political system have been fatally corrupted in the past 25 years. Money has indisputably become King there, the driving force in all our politics, and all of the current gaggle of politicians, Republicans and Democrats, have, to some extent at least, been bought and paid for by special interests. It’s been a long time since they have acted in the interests of America or We, the People. We are inches away from being a totalitarian state, ruled by a self-serving, wealthy, globalist elite who see us as cash cows to be milked until we are dry.

 

It seems crystal clear that We, the People, are fed up and finally ready to fight back. The popularity of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Ted Cruz is no some passing fad, no flash in the pan. It’s a genuine reflection of the feelings of the majority of Americans who are done standing quietly in the background while radical leftists and neo-fascists dismantle and loot the country.

 

And woe be unto the fools who doubt this.

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AGENCY

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And counting; our guess is $50 billion, what is yours? EPA chief takes responsibility, what a bunch of lead. As “The Donald” would say, “your’e fired. The Navajos are on the warpath, they want the scalp of Gina McCarthy. Previously she was commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, 2004–2009.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy warned Tuesday that millions of gallons of contaminated water from Colorado’s Gold King mine now surging along Colorado’s Animas River could eventually impact Mexico, Utah and the Navajo nation.

McCarthy also told a press conference the agency is still trying to determine how it accidentally unleashed the wastewater into the river and vowed to use the “full breadth of the agency” to clean up the mess.

Tap onto the EPA website and there is no mention of the EPA responsible catastrophe. Gold King Mine Entrance.jpg

FIRE IN THE HOLE – KING COAL IS DEAD, MAY HE RIP

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FIRE IN THE HOLE.

The major coal-producing states are (in descending order as of 2000, with annual production in thousands of short tons):

Today, President Obama is expected to announce more stringent regulations that would inevitably put King Coal to bed. As noted above, power generation by coal has been in a slippery slope for the past decade. But with tougher regulations we can expect tough times for coal producing states.  This does not bode well for employment in the coal industry including those railroads who haul it to market. The days of coal are over.

Make no mistake about it the war on coal has been a Democrat agenda for the past two decades. What really surprised us is that the states with the most to lose voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012; for instance Colorado, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Now that their head is on the table they are the proverbial canary in the coal mine. And don’t for get these are union men and women who have been back stabbed.

Click here for the story of a Brazilian coal mine, once worth $600 million, sold for $1.

One more tidbit, Obama has now joined with the POPE in tackling global climate change. Do we remember the fuss when John F. Kennedy ran. They were afraid that Kennedy, a Catholic, would cede the presidency to Rome; fifty years later Obama has done so.