[SierraWasp]

"read a book like The Cadillac Desert"

I'm sorry to have to say this, but that book is the biggest pocket of mental puss ever registered in the Library of CONgress!!!

IMO Marc Risener doesn't begin to understand all he thinks he knows on the subject and has deliberately colored everything presented in that book in a severly slanted way that is disgraceful!!!

He deliberately set out to poison all the water the Bureau of Reclaimation has used the taxpayer's resources to bless this state with! Pat Brown presided over the vast improvement of the three biggest and most vital roles a government can engage in... Water, Roads & Education!!!

Only Wallace Stegner is a worse author of books on the subject of the erroroneus environmental policies and the politics of water especially in CA!!!

[forester]

"read a book like The Cadillac Desert"

I read that back in college, seams I remember that Risener recanted right before he passed away, said he got alot of stuff wrong. I think C_O was the one to tell me that.

Good to rant with ya like old times. Spend most of my time on the financial blogs. Definitely helped us plan for this recession. It ain't near over, despite all the hype from the drive-by media.