When you go to a car dealership and slap some money on the barrel head for a car, you come out owning that vehicle.  Your property right in that vehicle is fully vested and you can go drive it off a cliff if you want, and no one can complain to your heirs that you deprived them of their property.  Now if this cliff was in a national park your heirs might hear from a couple dozen governmental agencies, but at least the car wouldn’t be a problem because your property right in the car is complete or perfect, and that title comes without conditions or restrictions.

Groundwater rights in Colorado come with restrictions.  These government grants come in the form of adjudications which are water court decisions, or decrees which are decisions from the Colorado State Engineer. (more…)

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Note the expressed intent near the top of page 2 to supply Cherokee with “Denver and Dawson wells.”  This contradicts what Nyquist said to Wild Pointe residents and neighbors at Legacy Academy last week to assure them that “his” water comes out of lower aquifers and his plan would not affect their Dawson wells.

“Our water comes out of lower aquifers” (Nyquist audio from 8/17/11 Legacy Academy)

“Dawson wells not affected” (Nyquist audio from 8/17/11 Legacy Academy)

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“Our request to delay the vote on the district service plan amendment is simply to allow more time to educate the public and provide the facts about the project and its benefits,” he [Nyquist] said in a news release. “The project will be moving forward in all respects despite this delay.”

Elbert County water district withdraws push for controversial pipeline — for now

Commissioner Schwab’s announcement (audio)

After the meeting began, and before the above announcement, a woman quietly tried to hand me a bundle of notices to pass down my row.  “This is in case they vote yes,” she whispered with a knowing glance.   The notices contained an email address and a call for a recall of the commissioners.  I told her I didn’t believe in recall elections and to pass out her own notices.

Nyquist withdrew his amendment because he knew he didn’t have the votes to get it passed.  Watch and see how much credit our local lefties give to the commissioners over this decision–and it was a decision, it wasn’t just one side giving up.  My bet is they’ll keep sailing their recall boat upwind and simply tack in a new direction.

Update:  I left at the beginning of the public venting segment after I spied the lineup of characters preparing to share.  Turns out the prediction above was no stretch.  I heard the public comment segment became a bitch session about recalling the commissioners.  Talk about ungrateful.   From screaming elation to a series of screeds.  Perhaps there’s something in the water around here that causes mass bipolar disorder.  Maybe the commissioners should have let Nyquist sell it to the Springs after all.

2nd Update: What was in that second letter anyway?

RE: Mike Phillips from Elbert-grab.com

Mr. Phillips, you owe Commissioner Shipper a big apology.  It takes a “yes” vote from a commissioner to move Nyquist’s gambit forward.  An absence is tantamount to a “no” vote.  Commissioner Shipper effectively told you and everyone else what his vote was going to be, and you pilloried him for voting for the very same outcome you seek in your populist leftist fervor.

That makes you stupid, and the fact that you hit him while he’s down makes you intolerable.

Snake oil
Pipeline plan puts Ark Valley at crossroads
Rancher urges better analysis of ag water
Officials skeptical of GP Water claims
Granada farmer: Pipeline plan hurts area

Kudos to the Elbert County Sun and the Ranchland News for good investigative reporting.  Wish it had come a week sooner to inform the audience at the Nyquist dog and pony last night at Legacy Academy in Wild Pointe.  (click below to enlarge)

Sounds like the Imelda Marcos Shoe Museum during an earthquake.

August 17, 2011
RE:  Elbert and Highway 86 Commercial Metropolitan District

Dear Commissioner Schwab and Commissioner Shipper, (more…)

Karl Nyquist defends pipeline plan
Lamar pipeline’s benefits, drawbacks debated - The Pueblo Chieftain

Sound off - The Pueblo Chieftain
Farmer sees payoff at both ends of pipeline - The Pueblo Chieftain
150-mile water pipeline gets Cherokee District nod
Action delayed on proposal to tap Arkansas River water - The Pueblo Chieftain
Pipeline plan catches Ark Valley off-guard - The Pueblo Chieftain
State water leaders wary of pipeline plan - The Pueblo Chieftain
Pipeline cost pegged at $340 million - The Pueblo Chieftain
Water company makes its move - The Pueblo Chieftain
Looking for gold in water projects - The Pueblo Chieftain
Ark River pipeline in murky waters - The Pueblo Chieftain
Speculative plan - The Pueblo Chieftain

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Elbert County Commissioners continue decision on metro district

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Note: Gravel pits never built and now planned to be used for water storage were sold to neighbors as gravel pits.

Gravel pit gets nod from commission
Gravel pit representatives pitch site

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Cherokee Metropolitan District Special Meeting Of The Board of Directors (more…)

 Christie’s ‘Crazies’

Congress should act under Article III of the Constitution, “In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.” …to define allowable subject matter jurisdiction for federal courts to exclude the authority of Sharia Law.

Pushed by a well funded and vocal monitory of Muslims, lower courts are picking away at this issue to steadily expand the influence of Sharia Law in American jurisprudence. Congress should act at the federal level to shut down the entire movement. Our laws are murky enough without incorporating this cult of religious law.

There are plenty of countries the U.S. can study in the world, such as Malaysia, to satisfy any judicial curiosities about Sharia Law. We don’t need to corrupt our own law to find those answers. Justice will not be served with Sharia Law in America.

SCHOOLS FOR MISRULE pp. 219-220

“THE U.S. IN THE DOCK (CONT’D)
Another enforcement mechanism for international human rights likely to assume greater visibility in coming years is the U.N.-supervised process known as universal periodic review. (more…)