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CBS: Utah representative wants to shut off water to NSA facility

More nonsense from the 50 Chiefs and One Indian.
Next the NSA will blockade all roads in and out of Utah.
And then destroy every reservoir in Utah.
But wait, Western states are begging Obama for help since Congress is too impotent to act .
 
NIMBY said:
But wait, Western states are begging Obama for help since Congress is too impotent to act .
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Not much the prez can do.
He can't make it rain.
If it did rain, our greedy farmers would still say they don't have enough water.
Calif. agribiz won't be happy until the water from every creek, stream and river is diverted to the San Joaquin Valley.
In the meantime, our "fiercely independent, fiscally conservative" farmers will lineup for federal relief dollars.
I don't hear them whining about cutting off disaster relief nowadays.:roll:
 
The president can give your state 100 million as he did today, since Congress won't/can't act on anything.
People keep forgetting the reason for this decade's executive orders, the House is done for the year--and brags about it .
radioman said:
Not much the prez can do.
He can't make it rain.
If it did rain, our greedy farmers would still say they don't have enough water.
Calif. agribiz won't be happy until the water from every creek, stream and river is diverted to the San Joaquin Valley.
In the meantime, our "fiercely independent, fiscally conservative" farmers will lineup for federal relief dollars.
I don't hear them whining about cutting off disaster relief nowadays.:roll:
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NIMBY said:
The president can give your state 100 million as he did today, since Congress won't/can't act on anything.
People keep forgetting the reason for this decade's executive orders, the House is done for the year--and brags about it .
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Hmmph.....well, maybe our underworked reps can donate some of their salary to disaster relief.
 
You mean Christie's Democratic MOB supporters.
Not to mention their insurance perks.
time for citizens at the bottom to replace these assholes with amendments.
radioman said:
Hmmph.....well, maybe our underworked reps can donate some of their salary to disaster relief.
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Forgive me radioman, I just read an obituary on a former student, 20-YO .
 
NIMBY said:
Forgive me radioman, I just read an obituary on a former student, 20-YO .
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No forgiveness necessary.
We're just talking here.
So sorry about your loss.
It hadn't really occurred to me until now, there is a teacher-student bond not found in any other endeavor.
Almost like a parent-child relationship.
Again, my condolences.
 
All this bull**** talk on NSA as related to cutting off water doesn't even take into account how precious water is out west.
Unless a person lives out west as you do, and as I have when Dad was stationed at Travis,
or my 41 years coming west for several weeks at a time, they have no idea WTF they're talking about with cutting off water.

We have to do something with this new junk on the streets, just like the stuff that killed the actor.
He was a good kid, with a a baby boy, lost his job due to a mess-up in a schedule, got depressed, relapsed,
and went so young, like too many others AFTER high school.

Since we have a local chapter for Heroin abuse with kids, we need to branch out our AA's to the young to at least talk drugs.
There was a time when AA would throw you out if you tried to talk about drugs but they would give you
free generic cigarettes and plenty of coffee.

Anyway, I'm torn since we began our second round of wrestling tonite, called sectionals, and it finishes tomorrow and it's awesome.
Wrestling attracts a tougher group of kids as it is and I was really working our kids tonite, as well as one new one,
and getting after them to get more friends and cousins involved.
You and I both know the positive lifelong benefits from being in a sport as demanding as wrestling, with your band of brothers.

The wake and funeral are at the same times as the wrestling tomorrow and my wife and I will be going to the wake .
radioman said:
No forgiveness necessary.
We're just talking here.
So sorry about your loss.
It hadn't really occurred to me until now, there is a teacher-student bond not found in any other endeavor.
Almost like a parent-child relationship.
Again, my condolences.
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NIMBY said:
We have to do something with this new junk on the streets, just like the stuff that killed the actor.
He was a good kid, with a a baby boy, lost his job due to a mess-up in a schedule, got depressed, relapsed,
and went so young, like too many others AFTER high school.

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I don't have any answers, Linc.
I know we can only guide our little ones in the right direction.
We do the best we can.
Hug your loved ones and keep them close.
 
Wiseone said:
O look another politician who's counting on people not understanding how government works and what it can and can't do, and even worse look at all the people so quickly proving him right.
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Can you be more specific?
 
Bigfoot 88 said:
Can you be more specific?
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Literally the first sentence of the article

A state representative wants to shut down the National Security Agency’s Utah Data Center by shutting off its water, but has not yet filed a bill that he acknowledges has little chance of passing.
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In other words, "I haven't done anything yet, and anything I will do probably won't accomplish anything."

Do you really think that the state, even if this suggestion became a bill and that bill became a law, could actually force the water to be shut off in a Federal building?
 
Wiseone said:
Literally the first sentence of the article



In other words, "I haven't done anything yet, and anything I will do probably won't accomplish anything."

Do you really think that the state, even if this suggestion became a bill and that bill became a law, could actually force the water to be shut off in a Federal building?
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Sure. Although there would certainly be a legal battle.
 
Bigfoot 88 said:
Sure. Although there would certainly be a legal battle.
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And it will go nowhere and in the mean time waste tax dollars and government resources, and the morons who voted for this guy and his supporters will love every second of it.
 
Wiseone said:
And it will go nowhere and in the mean time waste tax dollars and government resources, and the morons who voted for this guy and his supporters will love every second of it.
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If the government is going to spend money, I'd love for it to be spent on fighting for the Constitution.
 
Bigfoot 88 said:
If the government is going to spend money, I'd love for it to be spent on fighting for the Constitution.
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To me its the push against a policy that many recognize as an affront to our fourth amendment protections.
 
Cardinal said:
I'm pretty confident this isn't going anywhere.
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True. I don't think anybody does. What could go somewhere is Jim Sensenbrenner's bi-partisan bill to overhaul the NSA. That's where the effort should be focused.
 
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