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| Feds to seize more land - Obama to designate national monument in NM |
| 2014-05-20 |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #9 The next real president should designate the entire island of Martha's Vineyard as a national monument and toss EVERYONE off it. Man that would be funny. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2014-05-20 21:20 |
| #8 What one president does by executive order the next president can undo by executive order. Obama wants only an ephemeral legacy? Not the way I would go about creating my legacy. |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-05-20 19:49 |
| #7 "I have a pen and a phone" Obama When one man dictate with a stroke of a pen, you have Tyranny. |
| Posted by: Bubba Graiting8281 2014-05-20 19:41 |
| #6 #4 Given the plot of land is near Las Cruces, maybe a recreation of the Indian killing of the Hispanic settlers the name is derived from. Spanish explorers, including the famed Coronado, appeared on the scene by the early 1500s. At that time, the Spanish referred to the native inhabitants as Pueblos because of the villages or "pueblos" they built. In 1598, a trailblazer named Don Juan de Onate led Spanish colonists through Las Cruces on a route that became known as El Camino Real, or the Royal Highway. Onate and his group were the first to travel a desolate, 90-mile stretch of desert that became known as Jornado del Muerto, or Journey of Death. This route provided a shorter path than the one that curved along the Rio Grande, but the hot and arid conditions claimed the lives of many of its travelers. In addition, Apaches attacked the wagon trains and killed the settlers who dared to cross their territory. It was an Apache ambush on settlers that gave Las Cruces its name. When travelers from Taos were killed along the El Camino Real in 1830, the grieving survivors marked the graves with crosses. Thus, La Placita de Las Cruces, or the Place of the Crosses, became the frontier settlement of Las Cruces in 1849, when the first streets were marked with rawhide rope. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-05-20 16:32 |
| #5 President Obama on Wednesday will declare a national monument in southern New Mexico, delivering a win for environmentalists but angering ranchers and local law enforcement, who say the land restrictions will end up creating a safe haven for drug cartels to operate within the U.S. As designed. First he give them weapons via Fast and Furious - now he gives them a clear and very wide path into the US. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-05-20 16:13 |
| #4 Saddam had a dream that he would one day build a Disney style monorail around the old walled city of Babylon for tourists. He thought he was the reincarnate of old Nebuchadnezzar. Hard to say what the Champ is planning with his NM property. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-20 16:09 |
| #3 Provided there is anything left to leave. Welcome to Kenya. |
| Posted by: Elmumble Oppressor of the Pixies5813 2014-05-20 16:02 |
| #2 If you think that tiny spec of property is yours, simply stop paying taxes on it and see how long it will take until you are moved off of it. We come in with nothing. We take nothing with us when we depart. We'll soon be prohibited from leaving anything on the way out. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-20 14:01 |
| #1 Since you can't build your own pond without regime approval, the regime already owns everything. |
| Posted by: Bubba Graiting8281 2014-05-20 13:52 |