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California governor: Drought over, conservation must go on
Associated Press ^
| Apr. 7, 2017 6:47 PM ET
| Scott Smith
Posted on 04/07/2017 10:28:44 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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posted on
04/07/2017 10:28:44 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Yesterday afternoon it was raining so hard when I was driving from SF back down to Cupertino that I could barely see, and cars were hitting axle-deep pockets of water on the 280.
But Jerry still wants to act like there's a drought on. Of course - governmental controls are governmental power, and no government just gives up power voluntarily.
To: Olog-hai
Citizens will be paying higher taxes to stop flooding.
Trust me.
To: Olog-hai
This is like the old saying, the only thing that lasts forever is a temporary government agency. There is no outer limit to the crushing and unnecessary restrictions they will put people under.
The ONE place I’m not looking for work is California.
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posted on
04/07/2017 10:46:30 PM PDT
by
VideoPaul
To: Olog-hai
he is such a MO-RON.
We were walking hip high to MB Market in 77-78.
California is mostly desert, when it does rain it POURS.
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posted on
04/07/2017 10:51:30 PM PDT
by
acapesket
(all happy now?)
To: acapesket
“California is mostly desert”......
No, not really.
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posted on
04/07/2017 11:07:21 PM PDT
by
Sivad
(The Federalist #46 = Second Amendment)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
You folks need to get him out of office- He is obviously too incompetent to lead your state
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posted on
04/07/2017 11:07:29 PM PDT
by
Bob434
To: Bob434
He is obviously too incompetent to lead your state
Competence stopped being a qualification for public office in California decades ago. Degree of left-wing lunacy is the primary criterion for California politicians these days, and as an old-timer, Brown is actually pretty tame by current California standards.
To: Olog-hai
SOBs!!! Once they get you by the throat, they never let you go. Unless you chop their filthy, clammy hands off.
To: Sivad
“California is mostly desert......
No, not really.”
Actually when you look at the Central and Imperial Valleys, it is! You couldn’t grow a weed there without irrigation. Even in the Salinas Valley, where some of the best vegetables in the country are grown, nothing would grow there of any consequence without substantial irrigation. I have a second home in the area so I see it first hand.
To: Olog-hai
Must be saving up for the fire season that is coming.
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posted on
04/07/2017 11:59:09 PM PDT
by
taxcontrol
(Stupid should hurt; Dad's wisdom)
To: Olog-hai
Maybe, instead of wasting BILLIONS of $$$ on a useless high speed train, Californicate could use that money to interconnect all western reservoirs. So that full reservoirs can be pumped to less full reservoirs, thereby negating the need to dump water from overfull reservoirs.
For example, The world's longest crude oil pipeline is the Interprovincial Pipe Line Inc. installation, which spans the North American continent from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada through Chicago to Montreal: a distance of 3787.2km 2353 miles. Along the length of the pipe, 82 pumping stations maintain a flow of more than 254,000 m3 1.6 million barrels a day.
Maybe Californicate could build desalinization plants like Israel has done.
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posted on
04/07/2017 11:59:32 PM PDT
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: vette6387
Back somewhere in my agricultural education I learned that
it takes irrigation to grow what we WANT to grow but much
of California supports a diverse native plant population
although the amount of water availability varies in
different zones.
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posted on
04/08/2017 12:24:51 AM PDT
by
Sivad
(The Federalist #46 = Second Amendment)
To: Olog-hai
California is at war with Eastasia.
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posted on
04/08/2017 12:27:26 AM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: VideoPaul
I escaped CA a little over 6 yrs ago.
I’m never going back.
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posted on
04/08/2017 12:37:11 AM PDT
by
SirLurkedalot
(10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
To: Olog-hai
I’ve long thought that government restrictions, like drought condition control (precautionary or reactive) are like taxes. Once imposed they are [almost] never rescinded.
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posted on
04/08/2017 2:15:58 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: vette6387
Like the paradise Jews created in their little parcel on the sea. Whatever man turns to green, whether dollars or gardens, the destroyers, pickpockets all, will show up to claim them via every evil method invented. But it takes a special kind of destroyer to not want the dollars or green but to make sure no man will ever have them again, i.e., case in point not fixing Oroville spillway. Brown and the American 60’s radical leftists sure remind me of the radical Muslims. Both hate the beauty man has created on earth, both hate life itself and wish everyone to hate life as they do. Thank God I won't have to see the destruction of music, art, literature, skyscrapers, gardens, the happiness in my childrens’ eyes.
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posted on
04/08/2017 2:16:45 AM PDT
by
The Westerner
(Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education!)
To: Bob434
Moonbeam is on his final term as governor, so in 2018 we’ll have a much more energetic and ‘forward thinking’ liberal rather than someone who is fixated on his little choo choo and raising taxes whenever he can find the excuse.
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posted on
04/08/2017 3:26:57 AM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: Olog-hai
Gov. Moonbeam is right! Fill all the impounded waters right up to the top of the dam.
It worked so well at the Oroville Dam.
Or not . . . .
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posted on
04/08/2017 5:10:00 AM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
To: Bob434
No, no, no! Californians love their “Moon Beam”. Well, most of them. The ones that pay Federal and State income tax, mot so much. But what the heck, it’s the price you pay to live in the land of fruits and nuts. I say “Moon Beam” forever.
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