Unable to delete absolutely anything in iCal

Hello,
I can't delete any calendar under "ON MY MAC" in iCal. I can't even delete any events that I created. I can't edit them. I am able to add events.
Thanks.

Thanks schoodle. My computer is still in warranty and I do plan to call Apple if I can't fix the problem through this site.
Details:
After everything I'd delete would reappear instantly like a ghost in iCal, I thought may be there are permission problems on locally stored calendars and events. So I thought of setting up Google CalDAV accounts, which for some reason keeps telling me that my password is wrong. It won't even allow me to delete CalDAV accounts from Preferences -> Accounts. I delete, it reappears instantly. Crazy!
Then I tried the iCloud thing. Signing into iCloud itself required two hours of hairpulling, success coming only after I deleted my keychains and tried again. I can now at least create/edit/delete calendars/events sitting on iCloud via my iCal.
But it still does not solve my problem. I want to be able to delete all the dummy calendars and events I created on my local machine under "ON MY MAC". I also have to delete those non-functional Google CalDAV accounts in iCal.
Also, this is my first brush with a Mac, so I might be missing some very fundamental stuff. But I have been a Linux user for many years, so I can fix something via terminal if suggested.

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