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Governor Brown ISN’T serious about water

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Brown & The DroughtFirst: STOP THE SCAM-TRAM.
Second: BUILD DESALINATION PLANTS.

That’s how you solve Fornicalia’s drought.

Governor Brown, the poseur, had his fleet of security personnel trundle him up to the Sierra Nevada Mountains today, BZ’s back yard, for a photo op that proved without doubt he isn’t serious about Fornicalia’s water shortage in the face of its drought.

He wasn’t serious when he was governor in the 70s, and he isn’t serious now.

Brown had the opportunity to support and promote, for one thing, the Auburn Dam above the Sacramento Valley.  But he killed that project along with all others because he didn’t believe in funding infrastructure.

I find it so ironic that the man who killed dams and all other public projects (including vital additional highways) is finding himself in the hotseat regarding Fornicalia’s drought.

But his “solution” is no solution and proves he couldn’t care less about the state, much less the people who live here.  You know: Fornicalia, the COASTAL state.  The state with the ocean right next to its border.

The LA Times has decided it must continue to fellate Governor Brown, with its story here:

Brown orders California’s first mandatory water restrictions: ‘It’s a different world’

by Chris Megerian and Matt Stevens

Governor Jerry Brown, standing on a patch of brown grass in the Sierra Nevada that is usually covered with several feet of snow at this time of year, on Wednesday announced the first mandatory water restrictions in California history.

Brown ordered the California Water Resources Control Board to implement mandatory restrictions to reduce water usage by 25%. The water savings are expected to amount to 1.5 million acre-feet of water over the next nine months.

The article then goes on to describe a number of “water saving measures” that are akin to sitting in a chair and masturbating for all the good they will, overall, do.  The “measures” address nothing long-term.  The idiots amongst the media and ignorant Fornicalia residents applaud Brown.  What a strategic thinker!  The state’s growing illegal Mexican population can’t read and can’t understand English anyway.  Perfect for a conniving Demorat governor like Brown, where the state is 99.9% blue.  There are perhaps 75 Conservatives in Fornicalia.  Me and my Representative Tom McClintock in the 4th.  And trust me when I say I’ll Tweet him a copy of this post.

In other words, these “measures” won’t do much of anything to defray the crisis state of Fornicalia now and in the future.  Because Fornicalia alternates between floods and droughts.  There are few stable times in between.  “Crisis” is more normal than normal.

With that in mind, Governor Brown has embraced and wants to enable with every fiber of his being the Scam Tram — his “legacy” — despite it’s first work being “unspectacular.”

In fact, Brown’s Scam Tram will cost, at this point, over $68 BILLION DOLLARS through the next 16 years.  That is a conservative figure.  Approved in November of 2008, Proposition 1A, it allocated $9.95 BILLION DOLLARS for the project.  To say that this figure has expanded would insult even the retarded amongst my readers.

Further, the Scam Tram won’t reach its claimed speed of 200 mph at all; at this point, with its promised stops, it won’t much exceed the FRA common passenger speed of 79 mph mandated by most common passenger diesel-electric locomotives via their gearing.

Anyone think that $68 BILLION DOLLARS somehow equates to an approved-by-the-voters $9.95 BILLION DOLLARS?

Oddly enough, I do not.  It — call me crazy — sounds to me like some kind of scam.  Perhaps even a Scam Tram.

At this point, let’s ask an obvious and an equally-political question: what takes priority?  Solving a long-time state-wide drought issue, or providing a rail project that guarantees nothing in terms of water provisions?

Governor Brown, you have a quandary.  Fund the Scam Tram or fund the obvious: water infrastructure projects to include desalination plants dotted from the north to the south on your coast.

One DS plant is being built in San Diego, funded far before you appeared on the scene.

Desalination16,000 desalination plants operate world-wide.

Saudi Arabia has many of them.

Each US Navy ship has a desalination plant on board.

To Governor Brown: you can’t find it within yourself to prioritize water before a lame-assed go-nowhere Scam Tram?

BZ

 

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Another view of Speaker John Boehner: he’s not moderate enough

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John Boehner Quite Frakking TanI chanced across a news site called the Missoulian, sent to me by a comment-friend (the symbols I cannot reproduce here in my basic version of WordPress), which featured a headline in this article that reads:

Congress: House Speaker John Boehner unwilling to jeopardize his position

Pat Williams, Missoula

Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner and I are friends. We have seldom visited since I left the Congress in 1997, but during Boehner’s first years in the House I was the chairman of an education committee of which he was a member.

Boehner, despite our political differences, was attentive, engaged and always considering fresh ways, as he saw it, to improve the nation’s schools. I liked him and still do – although now I am troubled by the policy and political muddle in which he has been cast. It is also disappointing to note that he prefers to follow rather than lead.

Boehner, although a genuine “corporations come first” Republican, is far more moderate than his four dozen Republican members who agree with the “take no prisoners” radicalized creed of their tea party constituents. That minority within the House Majority trampled roughshod over the preferences of most of the citizenry by taking the U.S. federal government hostage to their demands.

And, of course, here is where the writer and I agree then depart, and not just a tad bit, but radically.

Yes.  Agreed: Boehner is “far more moderate than his four dozen Republican members who with the ‘take no prisoners’ radicalized creed of their tea party constituents.”

But a massively-important interjection: to believe in the Constitution, to believe in a limited government, to believe in a Constitution that, by its nature, tends to limit government (as I, frankly, quite nicely summarized here) is not a concept or philosophy that can be categorized as “radical” unless you yourself are a radical and a disbeliever in the brilliant precepts of our founding fathers — as horribly Caucasoid as they may have been.  Damn them for that.  When you minimize our foundational documents you bleat for a “Living Constitution.”  Meaning: you simply want more governmental Free Cheese.

In my opinion, as I wrote in 2010, it all gets down to:

POSITIVE vs NEGATIVE RIGHTS:

Our current Constitution frames much of what we value in terms of what the government cannot do.

–  The government cannot engage in unreasonable searches and seizures

–  It cannot inflict cruel and unusual punishment. 

The vitally-important final paragraph from the article is:

However, this year’s Boehner seems to feel the Speaker’s cloak slipping from his shoulders and apparently is unwilling to jeopardize his vaulted position. Thus he continues to substitute ducking and dodging for bold leadership. Perhaps it was too much to hope, but wouldn’t it have been historic if Speaker Boehner told his Republicans to either act like adults or find themselves a new Speaker of the House?

The GOP has pretty much “gone along to get along” and I am primarily done with that philosophy.

Captain ObviousBecause I should care to point out the statue of Captain Obvious standing in the room: when is it, precisely, when a moderate Republican has been embraced recently by the electorate, or not been demonized by the press, or not been castigated by the Demorats?  Clue me in, if you please: when?

So: “wouldn’t it have been historic if Speaker Boehner told his Republicans to either act like adults or find themselves a new Speaker of the House?”

Again, another point of departure with the — I submit — Leftist author: his Republicans in the arms-length guise of Ted Cruz ARE acting like adults.  The Fiscal Adults.  The Logical Adults.  The Common Sense Adults.  Sitting at the Adult’s Table.  As opposed to the kid’s table at Thanksgiving.  Because: there are no adults in DC these days.

Additionally: the GOP should find itself a new Speaker of the House.  Perhaps John Boehner should feel the speaker’s cloak slipping from his tanned shoulders.

One House suggestion: Tom McClintock.

An actual Conservative.

BZ

 

 

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