O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

9 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

1. Liberalism is a suicide pact. And if you don’t agree to it, they’ll force it on you anyway.
   Oh, and the taxpayers get to fund the entire thing.
   Welcome to California, comrade. Last week’s water ration has been increased to twenty ounces!

2. Delta water supplies most of California farmers and more than 20 million consumers.
   –
   I love this movie when I see water problems in California
   –
   Jake:
   “In the middle of a drought,
   and the water commissioner drowns!”
   Jake:
   Mulvihill! What are you doing here?
   Mulvihill: They shut my water off. What’s it to you?
   Jake:: How’d you find out about it?
   You don’t drink it; you don’t take a bath in it.
   They sent you a letter and you couldn’t read it..
   “Politicians, ugly buildings, and Whores Delta Smelt
   all get respectable if they last long enough.”
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYMWkRrC7UY
   1:55

3. Unmentioned in all of this is the Delta Smelt is an absolutely worthless crap fish. Of the six baitfish native to the area, it is least preferred by the remaining salmon still wending their way up the delta, and is seriously crowding out the others. But that’s not important.

4. One can only hope that the brush gets very dry this summer in CA and massive firestorms sweep through the mansions of the hollyweird rich who are in full support of killing people in order to save a useless fish. If the firestorm were followed by an earthquake it would be even better.
   CA has had cyclic droughts for as long as people have lived there. I recall being in LA during one of the droughts and spend an hour walking to what was marked on the map as a “river” only to find a huge channel filled with stand. It was interesting to stand in the middle of this “river” but it gave me an idea of the extremes of river flow that exist in that state. Of course, even in the 1970’s the state was taking significant action against the drought by requiring one to ask for a glass of water in restaurants.
   In the Eastern CA mountains, there are numerous spots in which to build reservoirs so that one can store up water for a drought which will inevitably come. Apparently there has been a largescale effort to remove as many of these flood control dams as possible for “ecologic reasons”. If a robust water storage/flood control system were in place, then agriculture would be booming in CA and there would be lots of water available during extreme droughts as well as a large amount of hydroelectric power.
   Perhaps we should have a show trial for the large number of traitors against the human race that have managed to work their way into positions of power. Someone who thinks a useless fish is worth killing people over should be either in a psychiatric institution or a jail. I suspect that if things get much worse in CA, such traitors won’t be given such pleasant options when the people become totally fed up with the anti-human sabotage being carried out by these traitors.

5. General Rule of Thumb:
   Whenever a society of sickos and moral mutants embark on a suicide mission,
   encourage them.
   Go Smelt!

6. So, by logical extension of that rationale, the courts should award the consumer wads of cash for damages incurred from the state failing to manage the resource properly by trying to sustain a species with no capacity for adaptability to changing environments (which is naturally extinction-prone) instead of introducing a new successful species to take its place? Why should the taxpayer and consumer pay for such poor wildlife management – the name of the game in resource utilized environments is “management” not prohibition.
   Naw,guess not, didn’t expect any linear logic or fairness in leftard policy.

7. Back in January, SDA posted a link to this National Review story on the delta smelts: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/369490/green-drought-charles-c-w-cooke#!
   So I sent it to a family member who has lived in Fresno for 40+ years, is intelligent, interested and has “skin in the game”. This was his response.
   “Thanks for the link. I read everything and anything related to the Calif water issue.
   “I have been watching this scenario develop for decades and the confrontations are following the expected pattern. As things get worse, which is now almost assured, we will see an increased polarization between factions, and unfortunately, an increase in the vitriol and disinformation from all directions. If you are interested in some more history on this subject, I highly recommend “King of California” by Mark Arax. It is a long read, about 400 pages, but fascinating.
   “To save you time, here’s a link to Amazon where you can see a preview http://www.amazon.com/The-King-Of-California-American/dp/1586482815 and a link to an interview with Arax http://www.kpbs.org/news/2009/jun/25/king-californias-central-valley/
   “The subject of the book, J G Boswell, has been both demonized and deified. I see both sides. What detractors miss are his giant contributions. Calif would be quite different today if it weren’t for his entrepreneur ism, tenacity, and vision. What his supporters miss is his ruthlessness, greed, and bigotry.
   “The Delta Smelt paradigm is representative of most water dispute arguments and I think can be used to demonstrate how both sides (there are actually several perspectives/sides) are still stuck in their shit and not ready to advance to a solution. It is quite similar the argument that the Spotted Owl is at the crux of the logging issue. I digress.
   “The National Review does a disservice to its base when it rallies on the Delta Smelt. Even the spokesman for Westlands water dropped that distracting argument some time ago. In today’s Fresno Bee, 600,000 acre Westlands Water district spokesman, Dan Nelson, said “This is a very serious situation. Of course it is the result of an extreme drought.” If you can access today’s Bee, there are a couple great articles on the ramifications of this week’s historic water decisions. Anyway, the National Review knows that most of the readers do not have a full grasp of the topic and is banking on the power of disinformation. History has shown that that is not a winning strategy. Willkiam F Buckley Jr would be spinning (if he could).”

8. Yeah well, the econ-nuts who demand dams be removed, “so the rivers can flow free”…., back a year er two, managed to get the politicians to direct the normally pragmatic US Corps of Army Engineers to hole back water in reservours so that “natural” spring floods could rejuvenate the “ecologically stagnant” Upper Missouri….
   ‘member that….

9. well I de dammed!