CALIFORNIA: ONE YEAR OF WATER RESERVES LEFT

Cool story Sensetti!

Iska, Mexicans are everywhere, ever since I can recall, while we were content to stay near the border, wetbacks hightailed it to places like Chicago. Lately, I read they were finding better opportunities back east while LA had declining jobs.

I read somewhere else that Mexican cooking has been influenced by deportees who learned Philly style, NY and more places where they worked in gringo kitchens.

Sensetti says: I would certainly consider footing the bill to relocate a couple of them to Arkansas

I am by nature a loner and not one to seek out strangers but over the course of time I have met quite a few people, almost a dozen, I recall a vedette at Bob’s Gentleman’s Club, a short girl with wavy dark hair, she said she was from Philly. I asked what it was like there, she said it was a shithole. I think most of them would not want to go back to where they came from.

Snickety, it’s all about some chick. Maybe he might not relish going over the story again.

These water threads are stupid. Water is the most common substance on the planet. We know how to move it, have for centuries (ever hear of the aqueducts?) We know how to store it, We know how to purify it, matter of fact, it just falls from the sky. Taxing air (carbon dioxide) hasn’t been the big hit it was supposed to be. Counterfeiting money is late in the game. Peak oil came and went. How can the global ponzi be kept afloat a little while longer? Let’s try water scarcity again.

If we dump all the water in the ocean, we can scare the proles. If we get the proles nice and scared, we can charge them a lot more while we come up with some amazingly expensive ways to replace what we dumped. we are fast running out of places to build stadiums and light rail, what’s a crony capitalist supposed to do?

Sensetti dials up his inner Lex Luther and wants to depth charge the fault line and blow California out to sea at 1:28, he must have vast real estate on the Nevada border, oh my, this looks like a job for superman to save the day and keep Sensetti from then owning all the new waterfront property.

“Name ONE THING ‘the Government’ has gotten involved in that they haven’t fucked up beyond all recognition – and YOU want them running our water supply?

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Damn. At the moment I can’t recall the name of the economist (Austrian School, obviously) who once observed that “If a government were in charge of the Sahara Desert, it would soon run out of sand.”

Only problem, we have plenty of water. But the local news and the papers all went batshit hysterical, and they made restaurants only give you water if you asked. That’ll fix it. California is dumping their water in the ocean. This emergency they are having isn’t so bad that they will stop that. But you will have to ask for a glass of water. Don’t be a sucker

“If we dump all the water in the ocean, we can scare the proles. If we get the proles nice and scared, we can charge them a lot more while we come up with some amazingly expensive ways to replace what we dumped. we are fast running out of places to build stadiums and light rail, what’s a crony capitalist supposed to do?”

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Parsimony, eloquence, and precision.

The beginning and end of this “sudden crisis” is to be found in Sacramento and Mordor-on-the-Potomac, to which the political left have returned with dog-vomit reliability for decades.

Wanna know why California will never fall off into the Pacific?
Because the rest of the United States sucks!

I agree with those of you saying this is a bigger problem than TPTB want to admit. Not just our problem here in CA, Vegas is also in dire shape.

Desalination plants designed to be energized with wave power is what makes sense. The biggest drawbacks to the desal plants is what to do with the brine. Usually they funnel it back into the ocean and it will eventually disperse, but environmentalists are concerned about effect on marine life. Guess they didn’t ask about radioactivity effect on marine life before they build all the nuke plants oceanside, because Fukushima seems to be having an effect, but at the coast it’s barely measurable. Scientists think there may be radiation “hot spots” in the Pacific.

I’m with Stucky on this one:
“I hate California for the same reason I hate NJ; libtard, fucknut, tree-lovers, corrupt, Oreo lovers, fruits, nuts, flakes, and fags. CA is only worse … cuz all the shit starts there FIRST, and then spreads like a plague to the rest of the country.”

And I did live in the LA about 30 years ago for 3 years. It was 2 years and 360 days too long for me.

I’m not a CA hater.

But the stone truth is that California AND the rest of the southwest would be unlivable were it not for heroic water diversion projects, thousands of them, some of them paid for by local tax payers, but MOST of them paid for by the country as a whole.

What that means, of course, is that the liveable areas of the country- those that enjoy ample precipitation and fresh water supplies, fertile hinterlands where you can farm successfully without irrigation, and well-built old cities on good water transportation routes, were financially destroyed and depopulated to make the west a plausible place to live and to help 50 million people locate there and proceed to live as though they were still in St Louis, or Philly, or Hawaii or someplace, what with green lawns and golf courses in the middle of the desert.

Talk about a net resource fraud- through massive government subsidies for water projects there over the past 80 years, we have steered a large fraction of our population to places intrinsically unfit for human habitation at the expense of the best locations in the country.

If these people had had to finance their own water projects, most of them would not be living there. It costs $2000 an acre foot at least to desalinate, and many of the dams we built out there were so stunningly uneconomical that the cost of the water they store is nearly $3000 an acre foot, yet farmers in the implacably arid Central Valley pay only $20 an acre foot, while urban dwellers there, who only use 20% of the water, pay much higher rates than farmers. Meanwhile good farm land in wet, fertile regions, lays fallow.

Letting water be charged the price that it costs to divert it, store it, and pipe it, and you will see a mass exodus from the arid southwest.

“not Austrian School, but Chicago School Milton Freidman. And he said,’If the US government were in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years it would be out of sand.'”
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Thank you. I don’t at all doubt that Friedman had said it, but whether the idea behind it were any more original to him than “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” I have always had cause to doubt.

Friedman was, after all, a monetarist, and what monetarist is ever opposed to “short-run monetary nonneutrality” (i.e., government’s issue of fiat currency to normatively “fine-tune” the voluntary sector of society for political ends)?

@Bea, +1000

Yep, just because some stats put out by Cali and Fed says that Cali is a loss taxpayer to the Feds, just like Michigan does, does not mean it tells the whole story, it is absolute bullshit.

Well done Bea, simply beautiful.

BUT, just like me having to cover the cost of hurricanes when I live 1000 miles from the coast. It is insanity.

BTW, speaking of hurricanes, anyone else see the news starting to bubble up that 2-1/2 years after Sandy, there are still MANY people not in their homes, private crony-capitalists have been given billions and still there are hundreds of people without homes.

Where is the freaking outrage that was shown over Katrina? The money has been spent, but the work not done, hate to say it, but I will, typical inner-city Demoncrat response to anything.

Cry for the cash, spend it all, just never on the thing you actually cried about, but damn how funny it is that a whole bunch of companies/corporations, end up with even richer executives that just coincidentally end up being some of the biggest donators/fund raisers for the corrupted politicians.

When these bills for wasted and squandered resources finally demand actual payment, we may know true slavery again.

Surrounded by insanity, this is a sea of sanity, that is why I keep coming back, I feel almost normal here, usually.

Chicago, do tell where these magical fertile lands are, now laying fallow, where you can grow winter vegetables? And where are you coming up with the cost figure of 3000 dollars per acre foot to deliver water. Something tells me some logic has beentortured to come up with something like that.

Z – LLVIS left the building last month. Stucky was reminded why he is called Stucky.

Stucky

Good gawwwd stop tryin ter interject yerself into every news story you read on the drudge report. Yew do remind me tho uh that slab uh bacon I got tucked away in mah cooter, waiting fer the right time to fish it out and fry it up.

Sorry i go ter go now cuz billah’s calling from hillary c’s private jet and they’re headed to Russia to fight that submarine fire.

I think it was divine intervention that kept Mrs Freud’s son-inlaw from taking that flight.There are no coincidences.