re: Bundy/BLM: Sheriff: "Feds Strategizing for Raid"

By the way, a big looming issue out there is a move by Las Vegas, in association with some private venture capitalists, to buy up all the water rights in Northern Nevada. As that moves forward, a lot of those rural anti government types are going to be viewing the feds in a much friendlier light, because the feds are the only ones who can stop Vegas from taking all their water.

Things in the west are way more complicated than anybody's pundit of choice would have you believe.

I lived in Boulder for a decade. I know all about the truly big issues of the west, like mandatory Lesbian Dance Therapy and handicapped-only bike lanes and such...

Cadillac Desert is a great book on the subject.

True story, quite a few former Monroe residents live in Taos. One family moved out there, and they liked it so much, their extended family and several friends followed them.

should get real interesting real quick

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because the feds are the only ones who can stop Vegas from taking all their water.

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And I agree with you. The government putting the majority of taxpayers concerns at the top of the priority list. The way it should be. However, just a tad to the left of the map we have CA where government is restricting water to farmers who desperately need if for crops to feed people but we got a fish to worry about.

The government is its own worst enemy when not using common sense in deciding some of these cases.