Hi, CJ — I see where our beloved lame-duck Sen. Harry Reid took to the Senate floor again April 7. This week's calumny? He insists that — with the "outrageous lawbreaker" Cliven Bundy and four of his non-violent sons now in custody (after a "deadly Oregon police shoot-out" in which the cops did all the shooting, as usual) — it's time to renew the push to "preserve the scenic Gold Butte area northeast of Las Vegas." Note that's an area now open to the public as well as to the Bundys' cattle, which the Green Extreme actually want to fence off from all motor vehicle access.

With summer temperatures soaring to 115 degrees and little surface water (the BLM have their hearts set on torching up and hauling away the Bundys' water tanks -– they've already started) how many people do you think will be hiking in the 20 or 30 miles from the highway?

Furthermore, please note the number of "threatened" desert tortoises rounded up in Las Vegas golf courses and subdivisions (and turned in as required) is now so huge that authorities are "euthanizing" them