California Fights Two Droughts, One Of Them Man-Made

Sierra snowfall, one year apart.

Victor Davis Hanson from Stephen Frank's California Political News

... "So if the drought continues, billions of dollars of Westside orchards and vineyards will die, row cropland will lay fallow and farm-supported small towns will likewise dry up.

 

"There is a terrible irony to all this. Never have California farm prices been higher, given huge Pacific export demand. Never have California farmers been more savvy in saving water to produce record harvests of nutritious, clean and safe food. And never has farming been so central to a state suffering from the aftershocks of a housing collapse, chronic high unemployment, overregulation and the nation’s highest sales, income and gasoline taxes.

 

"Yet there are really two droughts — nature’s, and its man-made twin." ...

Hat tip to Harley Standlee; Placerville, CA

 

More from Stephen Frank's site:

Environmentalists Fraud—Want Farms to Close Down—THEN Refuse to Allow Development or Use of Land

Killing of Jobs—Making Groceries More Expensive—Sacramento Democrats Goal

Stimulus Plan Explained by Abbott and Costello 

The Nuland Call; Russia’s interception and leaking of U.S. diplomats’ conversation is telling.

NRO ... "And what’s also pretty evident is Russia’s strategic motivation for this release: to exploit fissures in the U.S.-EU relationship. As German chancellor Angela Merkel’s angry reaction to the Nuland call illustrates, the relationship remains strained in the wake of the Snowden revelations. The Russians hope that by widening the gap between the U.S. and its European allies, they can consolidate their own position in Ukraine. They fear a Western policy consensus in support of the opposition.

"That takes care of Russia’s capability and motivation." ...

Photographic Proof That Sochi Is A Godforsaken Hellscape Right Now

Buzzfeed  I wish the Russians well and would like them to be proud of their Olympic accommodations. But how well can you do when your nation's business and labor has been steeped in extreme socialism for seven decades? For seventy-odd years, their work force were all government employees.

Sochi Problems@SochiProblems Follow

We torture your bowels with complex toilets. #SochiProblems #Sochi2014

 

 

Live wires in showers.

Men at Work ; Revisiting the alienation of labor

NRO By Kevin D. Williamson

 

"From a historical point of view, there are effectively no poor people in the United States or Western Europe. Those who go without shoes or sleep on the streets do so almost exclusively for psychiatric rather than economic reasons. (Our wealth makes their neglect more of a scandal, not less of one.) At the national level, mass unemployment constitutes a heavy brake on the economy. The Congressional Budget Office recently estimated that the Affordable Care Act would result in fewer Americans working — on a scale equivalent to the loss of 2.5 million full-time positions. The White House greeted this as a liberation: No longer would Americans be “trapped in a job” by the mere need to provide for themselves and their families."

 

NAACP: Bring Photo ID To Protest Photo ID Laws

NAACP guidelines for marchers

 

Truth Revolt   "The NAACP planned a peaceful march to protest the requirement of voter ID laws on Saturday at the "Moral March on Raleigh." Organizers said 20,000 to 30,000 Americans showed up to the protest. Rev. William Barber, president of the state NAACP, stated, "We return to Raleigh with a renewed strength and a renewed sense of urgency. This Moral March inaugurates a fresh year of grassroots empowerment, voter education, litigation and nonviolent direct action."

 

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/02/08/3601888/annual-march-rally-builds...

"In a flyer sent out entitled “Important Do’s and Don’ts for Marchers,” some very responsible marching elements were listed for people's safety.

 

"The most ironic recommendation on the list comes half way down, where march coordinators tell recipients: 

 

A conservative's protest against the hypocrisy of this policy was buried deep inside this sycophantic article:  Multitude at "Moral March" protest NC GOP policies

 

Via The Liberal Media - Killing America

What's the point of regulating lemonade stands?

Shutting down lemonade stands costs kids important entrepreneurial experience

 

The Week 

 

... "And while city zoning laws are useful for keeping heavy industry away from homes, selling lemonade or girl scout cookies is really a residential activity. Many of the world's most famous businesses — Amazon, Apple, Disney, Google, Hewlett Packard — were started in garages. An entrepreneurial culture requires the freedom to start a business at home. If we stop businesses and businesspeople from developing, we lose the benefits that come down the road, like job creation and innovation (not that little Suzie's lemonade stand will likely grow to rival Tropicana, but you get the point...).

 

"The sooner cities and counties realize this, and stop wasting resources going after the entrepreneurs of tomorrow, the better."   Via American Conservatives

 

Permit requirements shut down another kid’s lemonade stand — but it’s not what you think   "Lemonade Day is a big deal in Indianapolis. It’s a day dedicated to helping children learn simple business skills with their own small business ventures. But for 10-year-old Morgen Morris, Lemonade Day became a lesson in government regulation and unforeseen circumstances."

The Inexplicable War on Lemonade Stands  "I’m beginning to think that there’s a nation-wide government conspiracy against either lemonade or children, because these lemonade stand shutdowns seem to be getting more and more common. If you set up a stand for your kids, just be prepared for a visit from the cops."

Government for the people? What has happened here?

The TEA Party frightens liberals because...

Thanks to Lisa Moore at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

The Mary Poppins Presidency

 

Rep. Lee

- draft them, of course - and ask the president to stand with us on full employment."American Thinker   "Hudson quotes Sheila Jackson Lee of the Democratic Full Employment Caucus who maintains that all it takes is to "write up these executive orders

"This troubling word-magic mentality is becoming increasingly evident to a number of political analysts.  George Will comments that the "word-magic" mentality of the President and his minions is becoming downright scary. It is becoming more and more evident that the President thinks "that saying things is tantamount to accomplishing things, and that good intentions are good deeds,"

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The Hillary Papers; Archive of 'closest friend' paints portrait of ruthless First Lady

Alana Goodman

 

 

“What voters find slick in Bill Clinton, they find ruthless in Hillary.”

 

"The full memo is one of many previously unpublished documents contained in the archive of one of Hillary Clinton’s best friends and advisers, documents that portray the former first lady, secretary of State, and potential 2016 presidential candidate as a strong, ambitious, and ruthless Democratic operative.

 

"The papers of Diane Blair, a political science professor Hillary Clinton described as her “closest friend” before Blair’s death in 2000, record years of candid conversations with the Clintons on issues ranging from single-payer health care to Monica Lewinsky.

 

"The archive includes correspondence, diaries, interviews, strategy memos, and contemporaneous accounts of conversations with the Clintons ranging from the mid-1970s to the turn of the millennium."

....

“ 'It was a lapse, but she says to his credit he tried to break it off, tried to pull away, tried to manage someone who was clearly a ‘narcissistic loony toon’; but it was beyond control,” wrote Blair."

....

"Sen. Rand Paul’s remark about Bill Clinton’s “predatory behavior” on a recent Sunday talk show generated a days-long media firestorm and reignited the decades-old Lewinsky controversy.

"While Hillary Clinton has gone from the White House to the Senate to the State Department, experts say she will likely be forced to readdress some of the controversies that defined her husband’s presidency if she decides on a 2016 bid."

Winston Churchill answers Obama

American Thinker    "One of the first acts of Barack Obama's presidency was to send back to Britain a powerful Oval Office sculpture of Winston Churchill, looking beetle-browed and determined, the way Churchill really looked when he was defying Hitler."

 

... "Fortunately Churchill spoke prophetically about tyrant-appeasers like Obama and Kerry.  We have his prophetic words when Prime Minister Chamberlain came back from the Munich Surrender:

"You were given the choice between war and dishonour.

You chose dishonour, and you will have war."

"One tick of history later and Hitler invaded Poland in alliance with Stalin.

"Against the consistent advice of our best military officers, Obama has surrendered -- and surrendered to the most radical and fanatical mass murdering regimes in the Middle East." ... Full article here.

 

Emphasis added, TD.

 

Black History Month; Lets Bash America!

Lloyd Marcus  ... "I offer a bizarre concept. Why not celebrate BHM by featuring extraordinary blacks and their contributions? For example: In 1872 Henry Brown amazingly escaped slavery by mailing himself to freedom in a box.

 

"In the 1980s, Pillsbury Company appointed successful black business executive Herman Cain to be chairman and CEO of Godfather Pizza. Cain become the CEO of the National Restaurant Association.

 

"Herman Cain is a black conservative which by definition means he disagrees with Obama’s agenda. This disqualifies Cain, a great role model for black youths, from being featured in a Black History Month PSA.

 

"A black entrepreneurial magazine featured Obama on its cover as a champion of black empowerment. I thought, “Are these people delusional?” Obama’s presidency has devastated entrepreneurs, especially blacks. And yet, the black publishers chose to make race trump the truth."

From the UK Guardian: Lloyd Marcus is an unlikely Republican hero, finding his spiritual home in an anti-Obama movement often accused of racism

The Lloyd Marcus website

Russian Olympic TV announcers: Go Russia! Booooo USA!

CNBC  Video at the link.

 

"As the young Olympic gymnast competed in the all-arounds, the TV announcer said: "She messed up really well. This is so good, she got another deduction of points."

"Not the type of attitude you'd normally expect from a TV sports commentator. Unless the announcer is Russian, and the athlete is an American.

"Though every country's commentators undoubtedly want their respective nations to win, nowhere is that more clear than in Russia—the host country of this year's Winter Olympic games in Sochi.

"If the London Olympics are any indication, not only do the Russians want their athletes to win—just as importantly, they want the Americans to lose. "