To a leftist, everything is more important than human beings.
Salmon swim upstream frantically to spawn, then after fertilizing eggs, succumb to exhaustion and die.
This is exactly how the Democrats treat their voters — once they’ve pulled that all-important lever, the hell with them.
January 14, 2025 at 6:13 am
Unca Walt
Drained water reserve because of a nonexistent fish.
Un-fargin-believable.
I hope The Department of Retribution prioritizes this one.
read somewhere recently that the so-called delta smelt wasn’t even a real specie of smelt. It was apparently a snail darter that a lefty prof renamed and used to push the eco-agenda for decades.
Had to laugh at “Your child Zed”. It reminded me of an event that has stayed with me all these years.
Before cell phones were everywhere my Mom and a good friend decided to take two weeks and explore England and Ireland. Mom was unable to contact either me or my sister before leaving to advise us of her trip. After a few days traveling Mom sent us both a few postcards from the area. My sister got her cards first. She became annoyed that she didn’t know where Mom was. So she called early one Saturday morning (5 am-ish) and virtually screamed into the phone “Do you know where your Mother is??!!??”.
I had no clue of course as my card had not yet arrived. I chuckled at Sis which was the wrong thing to do – DefCon 1 was invoked followed by the line going dead.
DefCon 1…
I had a manager once who whenever anything cropped up he didn’t know how to deal with, which was pretty much anything, would scream “It’s gone to DefCon SIX !!” I tried several times to tell hom that DefCon One was war footing with ‘attack underway’ and DefCon Five was peacetime operations so DefCon Six would have to be a 60’s hippie love-in, but he just couldn’t wrap his head around the scale.
Not sure which Reservoir is being discussed, but one was shut down for repairs some eight months before the fires. Apparently the protective cover meant to prevent evaporative loss was damaged, and so it had to be fixed or some nonsense.
Don’t have any idea as to why they’re still claiming to save a specific fish. The State of CA could solve 100% of their water shortage problems by the construction of 4-5 desalination plants along the coastline. They just refuse to do so, because of BS Environmental Impact Studies that they haven’t even done, and because Desalination plants wouldn’t look pretty. Never mind that the number of people that would be employed at the plants themselves would result in a couple hundred well paid folks, causing a ripple effect of more jobs in retail and entertainment, and in housing.
But the last few years, CA has had the following advantages;
Atmospheric ‘Rivers’ dumping huge amounts of rainfall(Which they allowed to run off into the ocean) which has resulted in also heavier snowfalls, and that has been raising the water level in lake Meade.
An exodus of people tired of the kind of policies Gavin New some and the rest of the CA Moonbat Government has been enforcing. Fewer people means more water for the rest.
But instead of taking advantage of that, and putting the water into the ground to reinvigorate and restore the Aquifer, they send it out to sea through concrete channels.
When I was a little kid, those miserable little sardine like fish would all come up the local creeks. You could take a bucket and scoop them up. One guy backed a farm wagon in and pulled it out full. My brother and I got to clean them for frying. Man, we hated them little things. That was up by Green Bay, Yah Hey!
Calipornia is busily destroying/removing dams because the cost of building fish ladders is too much. In the case of the Klamath River, it is being described the world’s largest dam removal project with a total of four dams either already removed or scheduled to be removed.
So when they return to having floods, when the farmland currently being irrigated by the water they’re unleashing, when the land starts desertification, I wonder who they will blame?
The cost of the fish ladders is just another excuse. The whole idea is to “Make Rivers Wild Again” to please the deep-ecology fanatics who want to erase civilization.
Yearly floods, which is what the Klamath River was infamous for before the dams were built, are very effective “erasers”.
Especially where humans living in the path of same are concerned.
And it’s not just in CA. It’s all over the West, and began when Bill Clinton was POTUS. MRWA was and is one of Hillary’s pet projects.
One thing I blame Bush 43 for is that he could have stopped it for at least eight years. Instead, he let EPA and Interior run on with it as per the Dems’ plans, and did nothing.
The One of course accelerated it. Trump apparently was unaware of it. Joe continued it.
It isn’t just CA that’s paying the price of this brand of insanity.
Those little fish that run in schools of a gazillion or so are gizzard shad- – – – -we use a cast net to harvest a 5 gallon bucket full to use for catfish bait here in Tennessee. I’d be glad to send a few bucketfuls to Commiefornia- – – -by USPS Parcel Post!
Thomas Jefferson didn’t believe in taxes, because that was what George III screwed up on. He believed that government funding should come solely from tariffs on imports.
In this way, domestic industry would be encouraged and the budget and therefore the power of government would be kept within reasonable bounds, whether bureaucrats and politicians liked it or not.
This is one more reason that modern politicians do not like Thomas Jefferson very much, at all.
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We must realize once and for all that other than their own “perfect” selves, progressives really don’t like “people” very much, if at all.
And if it takes an imaginary fish to give them an excuse to neglect or hurt “people”, they’re good with that.
clear ether
eon
They should have stopped imagining that fish 10 years ago.
https://yournews.com/2025/01/12/3103554/delta-smelt-unseen-for-nearly-a-decade-yet-california-let/
To a leftist, everything is more important than human beings.
Salmon swim upstream frantically to spawn, then after fertilizing eggs, succumb to exhaustion and die.
This is exactly how the Democrats treat their voters — once they’ve pulled that all-important lever, the hell with them.
Drained water reserve because of a nonexistent fish.
Un-fargin-believable.
I hope The Department of Retribution prioritizes this one.
And they have allowed once, rich, productive agricultural land to go back to desert.
Zar Belk!
Good one! And catchy.
Following Alinsky’s fifth rule for radicals (about humor).
Could be very effective if said three ways;
Long
Loud
Often
read somewhere recently that the so-called delta smelt wasn’t even a real specie of smelt. It was apparently a snail darter that a lefty prof renamed and used to push the eco-agenda for decades.
I thought the Snail Darter was Jimmy Carter’s bugbear.
Had to laugh at “Your child Zed”. It reminded me of an event that has stayed with me all these years.
Before cell phones were everywhere my Mom and a good friend decided to take two weeks and explore England and Ireland. Mom was unable to contact either me or my sister before leaving to advise us of her trip. After a few days traveling Mom sent us both a few postcards from the area. My sister got her cards first. She became annoyed that she didn’t know where Mom was. So she called early one Saturday morning (5 am-ish) and virtually screamed into the phone “Do you know where your Mother is??!!??”.
I had no clue of course as my card had not yet arrived. I chuckled at Sis which was the wrong thing to do – DefCon 1 was invoked followed by the line going dead.
DefCon 1…
I had a manager once who whenever anything cropped up he didn’t know how to deal with, which was pretty much anything, would scream “It’s gone to DefCon SIX !!” I tried several times to tell hom that DefCon One was war footing with ‘attack underway’ and DefCon Five was peacetime operations so DefCon Six would have to be a 60’s hippie love-in, but he just couldn’t wrap his head around the scale.
Not sure which Reservoir is being discussed, but one was shut down for repairs some eight months before the fires. Apparently the protective cover meant to prevent evaporative loss was damaged, and so it had to be fixed or some nonsense.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/reservoir-pacific-palisades-was-commission-fire-started-rcna187217
Don’t have any idea as to why they’re still claiming to save a specific fish. The State of CA could solve 100% of their water shortage problems by the construction of 4-5 desalination plants along the coastline. They just refuse to do so, because of BS Environmental Impact Studies that they haven’t even done, and because Desalination plants wouldn’t look pretty. Never mind that the number of people that would be employed at the plants themselves would result in a couple hundred well paid folks, causing a ripple effect of more jobs in retail and entertainment, and in housing.
But the last few years, CA has had the following advantages;
Atmospheric ‘Rivers’ dumping huge amounts of rainfall(Which they allowed to run off into the ocean) which has resulted in also heavier snowfalls, and that has been raising the water level in lake Meade.
An exodus of people tired of the kind of policies Gavin New some and the rest of the CA Moonbat Government has been enforcing. Fewer people means more water for the rest.
But instead of taking advantage of that, and putting the water into the ground to reinvigorate and restore the Aquifer, they send it out to sea through concrete channels.
I think there has been an awful lot of smelting going on in the Dem Party over the last 2 decades.
When I was a little kid, those miserable little sardine like fish would all come up the local creeks. You could take a bucket and scoop them up. One guy backed a farm wagon in and pulled it out full. My brother and I got to clean them for frying. Man, we hated them little things. That was up by Green Bay, Yah Hey!
Calipornia is busily destroying/removing dams because the cost of building fish ladders is too much. In the case of the Klamath River, it is being described the world’s largest dam removal project with a total of four dams either already removed or scheduled to be removed.
So when they return to having floods, when the farmland currently being irrigated by the water they’re unleashing, when the land starts desertification, I wonder who they will blame?
The cost of the fish ladders is just another excuse. The whole idea is to “Make Rivers Wild Again” to please the deep-ecology fanatics who want to erase civilization.
Yearly floods, which is what the Klamath River was infamous for before the dams were built, are very effective “erasers”.
Especially where humans living in the path of same are concerned.
And it’s not just in CA. It’s all over the West, and began when Bill Clinton was POTUS. MRWA was and is one of Hillary’s pet projects.
One thing I blame Bush 43 for is that he could have stopped it for at least eight years. Instead, he let EPA and Interior run on with it as per the Dems’ plans, and did nothing.
The One of course accelerated it. Trump apparently was unaware of it. Joe continued it.
It isn’t just CA that’s paying the price of this brand of insanity.
clear ether
eon
And it’s not just in the USA; it’s all western nations. Oddly, I don’t hear about this kind of thing from India, China, Russia or anyplace else.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240229-why-europe-is-removing-its-dams
Those little fish that run in schools of a gazillion or so are gizzard shad- – – – -we use a cast net to harvest a 5 gallon bucket full to use for catfish bait here in Tennessee. I’d be glad to send a few bucketfuls to Commiefornia- – – -by USPS Parcel Post!
The External Revenue Service, the ERS…I love it.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-unveils-new-irs-style-external-revenue-service-to-collect-tariffs-and-duties-from-foreign-countries-5791890?utm_source=RTNews&src_src=RTNews&utm_campaign=rtbreaking-2025-01-14-3&src_cmp=rtbreaking-2025-01-14-3&utm_medium=email&utm_term=digital&est=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa%2FYoLUFU6cbF7boC8GZWBulKAqNFr1GW%2FOtnx%2FwlXcE%3D
Thomas Jefferson didn’t believe in taxes, because that was what George III screwed up on. He believed that government funding should come solely from tariffs on imports.
In this way, domestic industry would be encouraged and the budget and therefore the power of government would be kept within reasonable bounds, whether bureaucrats and politicians liked it or not.
This is one more reason that modern politicians do not like Thomas Jefferson very much, at all.
clear ether
eon