STUDY FINDS MEDICAL POT FARMS DRAINING STREAMS DRY

News from The Associated Press:
"STUDY FINDS MEDICAL POT FARMS DRAINING STREAMS DRY"
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Some drought-stricken rivers and streams in Northern California's coastal forests are being polluted and sucked dry by water-guzzling medical marijuana farms, wildlife officials say - an issue that has spurred at least one county to try to outlaw personal grows.
State fish and wildlife officials say much of the marijuana being grown in northern counties under the state's medical pot law is not being used for legal, personal use, but for sale both in California and states where pot is still illegal.
This demand is fueling backyard and larger-scale pot farming, especially in remote Lake, Humboldt and Mendocino counties on the densely forested North Coast, officials said.
"People are coming in, denuding the hillsides, damming the creeks and mixing in fertilizers that are not allowed in the U.S. into our watersheds," said Denise Rushing, a Lake County supervisor who supports an ordinance essentially banning outdoor grows in populated areas.

Is it possible to fix Detroit if they keep the same fools in power positions?-----How Michigan lost grip on Method Home Products

How Michigan lost grip on Method Home Products | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Method Home Products could have made Detroit -- or one of several other Michigan cities -- home for a large soap manufacturing plant.
It could have built a 200,000-square-foot factory.
It could have invested $35 million.
It could have created 100 green-manufacturing jobs.
 Instead, the spoils went to Chicago.
A year and a half ago, Detroit didn't step up to help the San Francisco-based company through the labyrinth of tax credits, abatements, zoning laws, real estate rules, legal wrangling and everything else it takes to turn an abandoned brownfield site into a successful business, said Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan, the Detroit-area natives who founded Method."

BIG BROTHER ALERT: Say the Wrong Thing on Facebook, Get Fined

BIG BROTHER ALERT: Say the Wrong Thing on Facebook, Get Fined:
"According to the Chicago Tribune, Christine Adamski received a citation in the mail which indicated that she used a dog park without a proper permit. 
Included along with the citation was a copy of a comment that she made on Facebook which the police indicated was an admission of guilt. "

Lake Superior Still Has Ice Despite Air Temperatures In the 80s on Memorial Day Weekend

Lake Superior Still Has Ice Despite Air Temperatures In the 80s on Memorial Day Weekend - weather.com
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Detroit "bus from and to Hell" on track to drain more moolah and no one got a clue where da money gonna come from------Rapid bus project for Woodward advances

Rapid bus project for Woodward advances | The Detroit News:
"“At this level of the analysis, we can’t make a determination of the final alignment,” said Carmine Palombo, the deputy director of the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, who is also one of leaders of the Woodward steering committee.
 “There hasn’t been anything decided upon at this point.
We’re just moving to the next level of analysis.”
Many questions remain, such as cost to build and operate, as well as potential ridership.
And in the meantime, groundbreaking is expected this summer on a light rail train route along Woodward in Detroit."

History for June 2

History for June 2 - On-This-Day.com:

Birth anniversary of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1731-1802).

Birth anniversary of Marquis de Sade (1740-1814).

Birth anniversary of Olympic gold medal swimmer and actor Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984).

Happy Birthday! Dana Carvey, Sally Kellerman,  Jerry Mathers

1774 - The Quartering Act, which required American colonists to allow British soldiers into their houses, was reenacted. 


1793 - Maximillian Robespierre initiated the "Reign of Terror". It was an effort to purge those suspected of treason against the French Republic. 


1883 - The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 


1886 - Grover Cleveland became the second U.S. president to get married while in office. He was the first to have a wedding in the White House. 


1896 - Guglieimo Marconi's radio was patented in the U.S. 


1897 - Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He was responding to the rumors that he had died. 


1953 - Elizabeth was crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey. 


1995 - Captain Scott F. O'Grady's U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs. He was rescued six days later. 

U.S. Soldier, Held Hostage by the Taliban Since 2009, Is Released in Exchange for Five Gitmo Detainees | TheBlaze.com

U.S. Soldier, Held Hostage by the Taliban Since 2009, Is Released in Exchange for Five Gitmo Detainees | TheBlaze.com:
"The officials said the Taliban agreed to turn over Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for the release of five Afghan detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The transfers happened after a week of intense negotiations mediated by the government of Qatar, which will take custody of the Afghans.
In a statement, President Barack Obama said Bergdahl’s recovery “is a reminder of America’s unwavering commitment to leave no man or woman in uniform behind on the battlefield.”

In Today's Copyright System, Everyone's a Violator

Christian baker ordered to endorse same-sex ‘wedding’

Christian baker ordered to endorse same-sex ‘wedding’
DENVER – The Colorado Civil Rights Division is telling a Lakewood, Colorado, baker he must violate his faith and create “wedding” cakes for same-sex duos, even though the state doesn’t recognize such unions.
....Two homosexuals filed the complaint after Phillips declined to provide them with a “wedding” cake. Phillips offered to provide other products but, citing his own Christian beliefs, declined to produce a message on a wedding cake that conflicted with his faith.
Administrative Law Judge Robert Spencer, however, earlier ordered Phillips, on pain of fines or even jail time, to violate his faith and provide the wedding cake to homosexuals Charlie Craig and David Mullins.
.....The notice argues Phillips “did not discriminate ‘because of’ sexual orientation” but acted “in accordance with the provisions of the Colorado Constitution, state law and the public policy of the state.”

This Simple Chart Shows Exactly What’s Happening To America’s Businesses

This Simple Chart Shows Exactly What’s Happening To America’s Businesses | The Federalist Papers

Without This Video Proof, You Might Have a Hard Time Believing Who Went Off on Ivy League Schools for Censoring ‘Conservative Ideas’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Without This Video Proof, You Might Have a Hard Time Believing Who Went Off on Ivy League Schools for Censoring ‘Conservative Ideas’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Neither Republicans or Democrats have a “monopoly of truth or God on its side,” Bloomberg continued. But when 96 percent of Ivy League donors are choosing one candidate, “you really have to wonder whether students are being exposed to the diversity of views that a great university should offer,” he said.
For many conservatives, Bloomberg’s anti-gun views and big government mentality are deal breakers as far as politics go, but he seems to have found at least some common ground with them in this speech."

Did we swap 5 mass murderers just to get an American taliban in return?------POW dad’s bizarre deleted tweet raises questions about Obama’s prisoner swap

POW dad’s bizarre deleted tweet raises questions about Obama’s prisoner swap - BizPac Review:

A Twitter posting by the father of the serviceman released from Taliban captivity  Saturday in exchange for five prisoners from Guantanamo Bay is raising deep questions about what exactly the Obama administration did to get Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl out of Afghanistan.

Here’s the tweet, which Robert Bergdahl posted May 28 – before his son’s release – and deleted Saturday, according to Twitchy.com.


Whatever else it might be, “God will repay for the death of every Afghan child, ameen!” doesn’t sound like a rousing call to patriotism.

ABalkhi is the Twitter handle of Abdulqahar Balkhi, a Taliban spokesman.

House Marijuana Votes Earn Backing of Rare Bipartisan Coalition

House Marijuana Votes Earn Backing of Rare Bipartisan Coalition (Video) | 218:
"In a series of late-night votes that marijuana-rights advocates say reflect a nation’s changing attitudes, the Republican-controlled House moved early Friday  to block the federal government from interfering with state laws on pot and hemp.
The most far-reaching of the votes — a measure to cut funds for Drug Enforcement Agency raids on medical marijuana operations — passed 219-189 on the strength of an unusual coalition that cut across traditional partisan lines.
The medical marijuana measure was offered by conservative Republican Dana Rohrabacher of California as an amendment to the fiscal 2015 Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill. "

Is Covering Christian Statues Really a Good Use of VA Time? | TheBlaze.com

Is Covering Christian Statues Really a Good Use of VA Time? | TheBlaze.com:
"The Department of Veterans Affairs may be embroiled in a healthcare scandal — the severity of which led to the resignation of VA head Eric Shinseki — but pockets of the VA health system seem to be focused not on improving healthcare for veterans, but on stripping religion out of hospital chapels.
Fox News’ Todd Starnes wrote on Friday of the VA hospital in Iron Mountain, Michigan, where an altar, cross and statues of Jesus and Mary are being scrupulously hidden behind a curtain — inside a Christian chapel."

Piling On: More New Research Shows No Link Between “Polar Vortex” and Global Warming

Piling On: More New Research Shows No Link Between “Polar Vortex” and Global Warming | Cato @ Liberty:

This is getting embarrassing.

Another scientific paper has just been published that again finds no association between Arctic sea ice loss and extreme cold and wintery conditions across the U.S.—White House Science Advisor John Holdren’s favorite mechanism for tying last winter’s persistent “polar vortex” over the eastern US to anthropogenic global warming (AGW).

We wonder just what it will take for the White House to publicly admit that it was grossly wrong. 

At the very least, it needs to disavow a widely-disseminated YouTube video featuring Holdren explaining the link between last winter’s polar vortex and human-caused climate change. 

There is no such link. 

Of course, this won’t happen, as Holdren was simply engaging in a publicity stunt relying on tenuous science to scare up support for President Obama’s Climate Action Plan.  

The President is hell-bent on an endless string of executive actions aimed at manipulating the energy market and reducing our energy choices along the way.

"Feel good" story of the day!--------------GUNMAN SHOOTS OFF HIS TESTICLES AFTER COMMITTING CRIME!

GUNMAN SHOOTS OFF HIS TESTICLES AFTER COMMITTING CRIME! | Americas Freedom Fighters:

                        A Criminal’s Unfortunate Mistake

Portland, Oregon – A 40 year-old man, or former man, named Joseph Johnson accidentally shot off his own testicles while he was fleeing the scene of the a crime. The culprit was committing a shooting in downtown Portland, and as he hastily fled the scene he holstered the gun in his pants, inadvertently firing the gun resulting in self-castration. This was not before he gave his victim, 32 year-old Jordan Merrell, a leg-wound. Of course we heavily sympathize with the victim, but compared to castration by gun a leg-wound sounds like a little slice of Heaven.

According to local police and eyewitness testimonies, the gunman and the victim knew each other very well and lived in the same apartment building. The conflict took place in a parking lot behind the building, which is where the gunman allegedly confronted the victim, demanded he hand over his property, and shot him in the leg. Police spokesman Sergeant Pete Simpson is on record as saying that “the suspect’s wound is consistent with somebody putting a gun in his pants.”

We have nothing to fear but apathy itself-----May cable news ratings spare no one

May cable news ratings spare no one - POLITICO.com:
"MSNBC had its lowest performance in prime time since July 2006, while CNN had the least-watched 9 p.m. hour in its entire history, a sharp drop after its quick jumps in April from its coverage of the missing Malaysian plane.
MSNBC’s highest-rated show was “The Rachel Maddow Show,” which placed 14th overall, with 738,000 average total viewers, and 11th overall in the demo, with 176,000 demo viewers.
"Anderson Cooper 360″ was the top CNN program, placing 21st, with 452,000 average total viewers, and 19th — with an average of 145,000 — in the demo."

Dem Rep. Declares There Are No Problems With Florida VA System… So the Internet Reminds Her | Video | TheBlaze.com

Dem Rep. Declares There Are No Problems With Florida VA System… So the Internet Reminds Her | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Despite the fact that many of her Democratic colleagues are calling for heads to roll over the Veterans Affairs scandal, Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) says the VA system in Florida is doing just fine.
During a Wednesday House hearing on the VA scandal, Brown said she did some “reconnaissance” and discovered there is not “one complaint” about the facilities in her state. It didn’t take long for her opponents to pounce."

What could possibly go wrong?-------City of Detroit to launch $3 million program for entrepreneurs

City of Detroit to launch $3 million program for entrepreneurs | Crain's Detroit Business:
"The city of Detroit plans to launch a new program for entrepreneurs.
No details have been released yet, but Mayor Mike Duggan said that Detroit City Council recently allocated $3 million from federal block grants to support the effort.
......“We want to help entrepreneurs get started, to show local entrepreneurs how to apply for national programs,” Lewand said.
“We’re just developing the program, but one idea is a lobby where people can come to one place and see what’s available.”"

Michigan teacher suspended after segregation lesson

Michigan teacher suspended after segregation lesson | Fox News:
"A southeast Michigan public school teacher has been removed from the classroom while district officials look into whether a lesson plan on African-American history and racial segregation laws was inappropriate.

Alan Barron was placed on paid leave nearly two weeks ago after an eighth-grade history class at Monroe Middle School was shown a video of how white entertainers once used black face paint to imitate blacks, according to The Monroe News (http://bit.ly/1gPFuNY ).
An assistant principal sat in on the history class as Barron, 59, discussed Jim Crow laws and showed the video.
...Adrienne Aaron, whose daughter is in Barron's class, said he simply was teaching history and that racial segregation is a subject that should be discussed with students.
"It had nothing to do with racism. History is history," Aaron told the newspaper.
"We need to educate our kids to see how far we've come in America.
How is that racism?
"It's so sad this has happened to him.
He's one of the best teachers we've had.""

History for June 1

History for June 1 - On-This-Day.com:

Birth anniversary of Marilyn Monroe (1926-62).

40 years ago, in 1974, the Heimlich Maneuver was introduced by Dr. Henry Heimlich as a better way to aid choking victims.

Happy Birthday! Pat Boone, Morgan Freeman, Heidi Klum

1533 - Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s new queen, was crowned. 


1869 - Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric voting machine. 


1935 - The Ingersoll-Waterbury Company reported that it had produced 2.5 million Mickey Mouse watches during its 2-year association with Disney. 


1939 - The Douglas DC-4 made its first passenger flight from Chicago to New York. 


1944 - Siesta was abolished by the government of Mexico.
 

1958 - Charles de Gaulle became the premier of France. 


1970 - Zimbabwe came into existence. It was formerly known as Rhodesia. 



1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut as the first all-news station. 


1995 - At Disneyland Paris, the attraction "Space Mountain: From The Earth to the Moon" opened. 


2009 - General Motors filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The filing made GM the largest U.S. industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection.

Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi Book Chapter Revealed: Seven Points | TheBlaze.com

Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi Book Chapter Revealed: Seven Points | TheBlaze.com:

"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she won’t “be a part of a political slugfest on the backs of dead Americans” over the 2012 Benghazi attacks, according to excerpts of the chapter about the deadly assault from her forthcoming book."

Republicans Let John Kerry Off the Hook in Testifying on Benghazi… For Now | TheBlaze.com

Republicans Let John Kerry Off the Hook in Testifying on Benghazi… For Now | TheBlaze.com:

"Just last week, Kerry agreed to testify on June 12 in Issa’s committee, but the State Department made it clear that Kerry shouldn’t have to testify again in the select committee. Issa said he’d let Kerry off the hook in order to give the select committee priority when it comes to deposing Kerry.
But Issa wasn’t happy about it, and slammed Kerry for his ongoing attempts to hide the truth about the attack and the administration’s response to the attacks."

IRS Tax Migration | How Money Walks | How $2 Trillion Moved between the States

IRS Tax Migration | How Money Walks | How $2 Trillion Moved between the States - A Book By Travis H. Brown: