http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/291-federal-lands-in-the-us/
Posted on 07/01/2009 12:41:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The California governor's office says federal officials are threatening to seize six state parks if they are closed to help balance the state's budget.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed closing 220 state parks.
But the National Park Service warned in a letter to Schwarzenegger that six of those parks are on former federal land that could revert to the U.S. government if they are not kept open as parks.
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Great views at all of them, I am sure .. but I have never set foot on Diablo or angel island or those particular beaches.. and I’ve been here awhile.. my loss I guess. oh well, we have a pool. :) but no hot tub :-(
On another thread, I posted something about King Henry... but it was actually King William II who used about 1/3 of England for his own pleasure (hunting and he like) and strictly enforced a harsh "Forest Law" to make sure nobody interfered.
What about privatization?
When they start dumping tens of billions into California, they WILL have Nationalized the states.
Look at the dipshits smiling behind him who voted for him.
We have Tom Carvel for POTUS and Cookie Puss for his wife...great times we are living in.
Maybe the Federal government should take California back and reallocate it as 5 separate states (to conservative majorities)...
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BINGO!
Good luck dividing it. Change like that, likely?
Not with ‘Big FED’ in charge. ;-)
What was I thinking...
Well, the Bear Flag Republic was a pretty ad hoc deal that wasn't recognized by anyone. It only lasted 25 days, until Fremont showed up with a small group of US soldiers and claimed California for the USA, whereupon the Bear Flag Republic pretty much vanished without a trace. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ceded the land from Mexico to the US in early 1848 and California became a US territory for two years, until statehood in 1850.
Texas, on the other hand, was a real country with ambassadors and everything, and it lasted for ten years.
“Don’t worry, we will force tax payers in other states to pay for those parks so your illegals can keep enjoying them using them as meth labs”.
Burn them so they don’t fall into enemy hands.
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/291-federal-lands-in-the-us/
wow...and thanks.
I thought they had some of it at one time....
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Mexican province
Napoleon Bonaparte of France sold the vast Louisiana Purchase, which extended into the northeastern corner of New Mexico, to the United States in 1803. As a part of New Spain, the remainder of the province of New Mexico passed to independent Mexico following the 1810-1821 Mexican War of Independence.
Small trapping parties from the United States had previously reached Santa Fe, but the Spanish rulers forbade them to trade. Trader William Becknell returned to the United States in November 1821 with news that independent Mexico welcomed trade through Santa Fe.
Becknell left Independence, Missouri, for Santa Fe early in 1822 with the first party of traders. Wagon caravans thereafter made the 40- to 60-day annual trek along the 780 mile (1,260 km) Santa Fe Trail, usually leaving in early summer and returning after a 4 to 5 week stay in New Mexico. The Trail divided into Mountain and Cimarron Divisions southwest of Dodge City, Kansas. The rugged Mountain Division passed over Raton Pass and rejoined the more direct Cimarron Division near Fort Union, New Mexico. The dry southern Cimmaron route offered poor short grass and little wildlife. The Santa Fe National Historic Trail follows the route of the old trail, with many sites marked or restored.
The Republic of Texas claimed the territory north and east of the Rio Grande when it seceded from Mexico in 1836. New Mexico authorities captured a group of Texans who embarked an expedition to assert their claim to the province in 1841.
American territory
Tierra O Muerte – Land or Death. Some New Mexicans express dissatisfaction over land grant issues which date back to the Mexican War.American General Stephen W. Kearny marched down the Santa Fe Trail and entered Santa Fe without opposition in 1846 during the Mexican-American War, and his forces occupied the city, making New Mexico, which included present-day Arizona, a captive United States territory. Kearny asserted that his occupation was only of the eastern part of New Mexico (Texas, annexed by the United States in 1845, claimed all land on its side of the Rio Grande). He also protected citizens under martial law by the Kearny Code, essentially Kearny's promise that religious and legal conditions would not be disrupted by the United States. Though the reality of occupation soon included western New Mexico, the Kearny Code became one of the bases of New Mexico's legal code during its territorial period, the longest in United States history.
While Kearny's entrance into New Mexico was relatively peaceful, the region did not remain that way. General Kearny continued on to California according to U.S. wartime strategy, guided by Kit Carson, but leaving an occupying force behind. After Kearny's departure, a rebellion broke out in the town and pueblo of Taos, where Taos Indians killed Governor Charles Bent and all but two Americans in the town on January 19, 1847. Retaliating quickly, a U.S. detachment under Colonel Sterling Price marched on Taos, attacked the town, and concentrated cannon fire upon the church, the center of the insurgency, resulting in the deaths of 150 insurgents and the capture of some 400 more. Six leaders were arraigned and, on February 9, hanged for their role in the Taos Revolt. A series of skirmishes between mountain-based rebels and U.S. forces continued well into 1847, with casualties totaling more than 300 rebels and thirty "Anglos," as Americans were often called.
LOL! That's a good one...
Can anyone tell me what's the difference of the Feds running the park as opposed to the California officials?
Shut down the parks so drug dealers can grow pot on them.
It will be easier to grow and buy/sell a blunt if no Park Rangers or Feds are hanging around.
Lower taxes, deport illegals, end unions and cut 50% of the bureaucrats.
There, fixed the State.
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