Thursday, February 12, 2015

1. FKAA says the sewage effluent will not rise to the surface waters from the shallow wells cased to only 80 feet into the limestone. Those of us who live here know that’s nonsense  (and so does FKAA) but we need to hire an expert witness for our case to demonstrate to the judge WHY it’s nonsense. Common sense and local knowledge are not enough.
2. Thanks to our urgings, USFWS is starting to question FKAA about the movement of the sewage effluent from the shallow wells to the wildlife refuge and marine sanctuary. We need a hydrogeologist to respond to FKAA’s flawed scientific analysis of the movement of the shallow well injectate to send to USFWS, too.
3. A world renowned hydrogeologist who specializes in karst geology like that in the Keys has agreed to help us as an expert witness at a greatly reduced fee. His name is Dr. Todd Kincaid. You can Google his impressive credentials under his name or Geohydro, his company.
4.  We only need another $2,000 and we meet our goal.
5. We won’t bother you again. Promise.

We have a PayPal account, so you can just click on the link below and make a contribution by credit card or through your PayPal account, directly to our campaign account. Link

If you prefer to write a check, also tax deductible, please make checks payable to “Caron Balkany PA Trust Account – legal costs for the shallow well challenge,” and mail to Caron Balkany, our volunteer lawyer, at: Caron Balkany PA Trust Account, PO Box 420859, Summerland Key, FL 33042. (305-849-1073 Balkany@aol.com)

Nonetheless I’m glad that he is pursuing it. If nothing else we may learn a little of his “strategy” to combat ISIS. We’ve seen that his lack of resolve to date has led us to a point wherein ISIS is now stronger than ever. ISIS is fully the bastard child of Obama and his policies. It did not exist until long after Obama became our President and refused to leave a peace keeping component of our troops in Iraq.

ISIS has now conquered Yemen, a nation that Obama mere months ago claimed as being one of his victories. We have closed our embassy, tucked our tail between our legs, and fled. Our President ordered our Marines to surrender their weapons, a grievous, horrible insult. Shameful beyond belief.

This is the third embassy that Obama has lost to radical Islam.

ISIS continues to grow every day and Obama dithers. ISIS struts and postures while gaining even more credibility with its base. Its numbers swell.

As this is written we don’t know a great deal of what is in Obama’s putative Use of Force Authorization, but some are reporting that it limits our pursuit of ISIS to 3 years and it precludes the use of ground forces. It is reported that his request would put geographical constraints on the pursuit of ISIS.

We do know that his proposal is being severely criticized by influential members of both parties.

Then there is the issue of sending in ground troops. This conflict cannot be quelled by the use of air power alone. Some argue that the conflict is regional and should be prosecuted by regional forces alone.

That view is nonsensical. We are not battling a nation state, we are battling a twisted, perversion of the Muslim faith. The single largest religion in the world. Our enemy is in the minority of the Muslims, but their fervor is maniacal. They have exploded in stature and power during Obama’s presidency. Yet he refuses to even name them. So far, has no taken no real steps to defeat them, he makes only cursory attempts to degrade them. He views their predation as being nothing more than simple criminal behavior.

Make no mistake about it, our enemy are not simple criminals, they are ravenous zealots who envision a world under the thumb of fundamentalist Islam.

We’ll think more, much more about Obama’s request for the Use of Force Authorization as more is known about. But for now I suspect that he is seeking to further limit our ability to combat ISIS. It is becoming clear that Obama does not want freedom to prevail.

I’m certain that you will remember Obama’s insane declarations that the Afghanistan war would end on a date certain. Those utterances led to an emboldening of our enemy. Now, the fecklessness of his actions have been reversed.  Long awaited and much desired by an anxious US military, we have reached an agreement with Afghanistan that troops will not have to withdraw by year’s end, and permits their stay “until the end of 2024 and beyond.” It is a head scratcher as to why Obama did not learn from the Afghanistan debacle and has again demanded a date certain to end hostilities. Perhaps it is to hobble our next President.

The new status of forces deal with Afghanistan ensures that Barack Obama, elected president in 2008 on a wave of anti-war sentiment, will pass off both the Afghanistan war and his new war in Iraq and Syria to his successor. In 2010, his vice-president, Joe Biden, publicly vowed the US would be “totally out” of Afghanistan “come hell or high water, by 2014.”

It is a complete mystery to me as to why Obama and the Democrats have any credibility and support whatsoever.