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Nevada ranching family claims victory as government releases cattle (excellent reporting)
Reuters ^ | April 12, 2014 | By Jennifer Dobner

Posted on 04/12/2014 8:08:46 PM PDT by Mariner

BUNKERVILLE, Nevada (Reuters) - U.S. officials ended a stand-off with hundreds of armed protesters in the Nevada desert on Saturday, calling off the government's roundup of cattle it said were illegally grazing on federal land and giving about 300 animals back to the rancher who owned them.

The dispute less than 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas between rancher Cliven Bundy and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management had simmered for days. Bundy had stopped paying fees for grazing his cattle on the government land and officials said he had ignored court orders.

Anti-government groups, right-wing politicians and gun-rights activists camped around Bundy's ranch to support him in a standoff that tapped into long-simmering anger in Nevada and other Western states, where vast tracts of land are owned and governed by federal agencies.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: blm; bundy; bundyranch; bunkerville; harryreid; neilkornze; nevada
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Can you not see that your screen name is spelled two different ways, as in my post?


121 posted on 04/12/2014 9:51:14 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Publius
"I honestly don’t remember Michelle being at Seattle’s house that afternoon. But maybe I’m having a senior moment."

Again, my memory is vague. But I remember you telling me you named yourself after one of the Federalists or anti_Federalists...after a few beers.

I also remember Bill was quite the cook.

If that's the same party, Michelle was there...or you left before she got there.

She mentioned she was "The Token Conservative" at the Seattle Times. Couldn't bring her husband (Stephen?) because he was home with the kid(s).

122 posted on 04/12/2014 9:51:36 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Pajamajan

Funny you mentioned DMV. When I went into renew my license, I noticed the people working there have Dept. of Homeland Security patches on their uniforms. I live in small town Tennessee.


123 posted on 04/12/2014 9:53:12 PM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Which is why this NOTAM is still in effect.
124 posted on 04/12/2014 9:54:11 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
FR’s software seems to degrade the Anglo-Saxon characters into what it perceives their plain English equivalents to be. I had to copy-paste the words when I was making my screen name.
125 posted on 04/12/2014 9:55:04 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Pope Calvin the 1st, defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades)
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To: Publius

I agree, but right now it’s an anonymous rumor pulled out of the comments section of yahoo. Does that pass muster for posting?


126 posted on 04/12/2014 9:55:51 PM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: Mariner

Alan was the cook. I was the drunk trying not to set the place on fire with the BBQ. ;-)


127 posted on 04/12/2014 9:56:40 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Betty Jane

Jim is probably catching some Z’s, but I pinged him to your post. We’ll see what he says in the morning.


128 posted on 04/12/2014 9:56:50 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Betty Jane
"Does that pass muster for posting?"

Absolutely. We are "The Paper of Record".

129 posted on 04/12/2014 9:57:13 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Nuc 1.1

Someone needs to keep tabs on everyone present at the confrontation, and document & publish who gets hit with that penalty. I expect part of backing off is to individually incarcerate each participant, then have at it again. “Disappearing” people is a long popular technique of crushing opposition; even if they’re merely incarcerated, they’re taken off the board for long enough to get the job done with minimal resistance.


130 posted on 04/12/2014 9:57:25 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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To: Billthedrill
"Does that pass muster for posting?"

Good times. We were but pups:)

131 posted on 04/12/2014 9:58:23 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: X-spurt

Cattle raiding a middle class family’s livestock = ‘Bad optics’

right, Rats?


132 posted on 04/12/2014 10:05:31 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Optimal institutions - optimal economy.)
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To: Mariner

We really should be going after the enviro wackos. This brand of patriotism will drive them nuts and expose them.


133 posted on 04/12/2014 10:08:38 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: Mariner

We really should be going after the enviro wackos. This brand of patriotism will drive them nuts and expose them.


134 posted on 04/12/2014 10:08:38 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: Mariner
""The sovereign militias are ruling the day," said Rob Mrowka, senior scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity. "Now that this precedent has been set and they're emboldened by the government's capitulation, what's to stop them from applying the same tactics and threats elsewhere?"

Typical liberal - pissed that his government men with guns didn't kill the people he wanted killed for his peaceful cause.

135 posted on 04/12/2014 10:16:08 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Betty Jane

How true,,,


136 posted on 04/12/2014 10:16:44 PM PDT by Big Red Badger ( - William Diamonds Drum - can You Hear it G man?)
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To: dragnet2
Sheriff

Now that's a name with a long history...over a thousand years....half way to the birth of Christ to put it in perspective.

First Sheriff in America was in Virginia in 1620....maybe he knew Shakespeare.

137 posted on 04/12/2014 10:17:17 PM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: Fungi; gaijin

Federal dog catcher.


138 posted on 04/12/2014 10:18:32 PM PDT by Salamander (Agent Of Fortune)
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To: Mariner

It’s just “community organizing”, Part 2.


139 posted on 04/12/2014 10:19:29 PM PDT by matthew fuller (No, I don't miss GWB- I miss Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld.)
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To: gaijin

Looks like a terrorist to me.


140 posted on 04/12/2014 10:22:18 PM PDT by matthew fuller (No, I don't miss GWB- I miss Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld.)
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