No Fish For You!

In another "historic" and "unprecidented" signal yesterday, the Obamachine seems poised to mow down another bit of American Sovereignty. - The right to catch our own fish, or as it's known in some parts of the world, food!

From ESPN:

The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters...

emphasis added

"In spite of what we hear daily in the press about the President's concern for jobs and the economy and contrary to what he stated in the June order creating this process, we have seen no evidence from NOAA or the task force that recreational fishing and related jobs are receiving any priority."

Led by NOAA's Jane Lubchenco, the task force has shown no overt dislike of recreational angling, but its indifference to the economic, social and biological value of the sport has been deafening.

Additionally, Lubchenco and others in the administration have close ties to environmental groups who would like nothing better than to ban recreational angling. And evidence suggests that these organizations have been the engine behind the task force since before Obama issued a memo creating it last June.

As more evidence of collusion, the green groups began clamoring for an Executive Order to implement the task force's recommendations even before the public comment period ended in February. Fishing advocates had no idea that this was coming.

Perhaps not so coincidentally, the New York Times reported on Feb. 12 that "President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities."

Morlock fears that "what we're seeing coming at us is an attempted dismantling of the science-based fish and wildlife model that has served us so well. There's no basis in science for the agendas of these groups who are trying to push the public out of being able to fish and recreate."Conflicts (user) are overstated and problems are manufactured. It's all just an excuse to put us off the water."

I know the answer and yet, I still find myself asking: "Who are these people? What freakin' planet did they come from?" 

Lord help us.

Read the rest here.
HT Quigley

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Obama Bans No-Bid Contracts!

... ummm, not so much. From Fox News

A synopsis of the contract published on the USAID Web site says Checchi & Company will "train the next generation of legal professionals" throughout the Afghan provinces and thereby "develop the capacity of Afghanistan's justice system to be accessible, reliable, and fair."
The legality of the arrangement as a "sole source," or no-bid, contract was made possible by virtue of a waiver signed by the USAID administrator. "They cancelled the open bid on this when they came to power earlier this year," a source familiar with the federal contracting process told Fox News.

That's nice. Friends of the Obama's and the DNC teaching the Afghani's how to be just and fair? Where did they get that knowledge?

Funny how the left will bitch and moan all over the place when the right does something questionable, but when the shoe is on the other foot, well, let's just say that I'll bet the hue and cry will be far removed from the front pages of the NY Times or any MSM sources.

I wonder how "fair" I could be with 24 million.

HT Quigley

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More Tricksters Than Treats

The American Thinker today has a very telling roundup of The One's witchy familiars and confidants, complete with enough bio and background to scare the socks off of anyone brave enough to read it. It is Halloween season, after all.
I like the term "locust horde".
I dare you to look in the basement.
HT to Keith

Here's a little music while you read. (dedicated to number one on the list, although I'm not sure who's the most frightening)

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