Fish Instead of People, Ideologies without Consequences; "If only people had to live in the world that they dreamed of for others."

The water disaster is not shared by everyone in quite the same way. In a rare irony, the Hetch Hetchy aqueducts cross the San Joaquin River on their way to the Bay Area. Surely such Bay Area-owned waters might have been diverted to increase the San Joaquin River’s flow to the sea? Could not the Apple executives and the UC professors have showered once a week to save the smelt or to let the poor salmon at least make it to the Tuolumne River?

http://comicallyincorrect.com/2014/02/18/thirsty-in-california/

 

Victor Davis Hanson  ... "At some fateful moment in the 1970s, the other California on the coast, drunk with the globalized wealth that poured into Napa Valley, the Silicon Valley, the great coastal university nexuses at Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA and Caltech, the entertainment industry, the defense industry, and the financial industry decided that they had transcended the old warnings of more Californians needing far more water to survive more droughts. When you are rich, you can afford for the first time in your life to favor a newt with spots on his toes over someone else that lacks your money, clout, and sensitivities.

"The once envisioned reservoirs on the Klamath were cancelled. The supplemental lakes on the Sacramento and American were as well. There was to be no twin wet-year storage lake south of the San Luis Reservoir. No Temperance Flat was to augment Millerton Lake. Such construction was considered far too 19^th century in it unnatural building and damming and canaling." ...Full article

 

The Race-Hacks Defend Their Industry

Bruce S. Thornton

... That narrative is simple: white racism explains the epidemic of black-on-black murder, children without fathers, lack of education, and dependence on the government dole. Since Klan-style racist violence and Jim Crow legal racism have disappeared, “racism” has to be redefined in ever more subtle manifestations like “institutional racism.” The best example of this scam is the “disparate impact” standard for identifying racism, a favorite of the current Department of Justice. By this metric, a mere statistical imbalance in minority participation in car loans or home mortgages is a sign of racism even if no intent can be proven or even identified. This kind of thinking led to the federal regulations pressuring lenders to lower qualifying standards for home loans, which was a major factor in the housing bubble and the ensuing Great Recession of 2008. The hysteria over “profiling” is another example of this racialist voodoo. Even if a group is overrepresented among perpetrators of a crime, identifying suspects from that group when such a crime occurs is automatically racist." ...

Obama Munches on Pricey Reuben Over GOP’s ‘Stinkburger’ (Updated)

WSJ  "For lunch Wednesday, President Barack Obama munched on a reuben sandwich that would require shelling out the equivalent of two hours of work at the federal minimum wage of $7.25.

"The president used the stop at the Zingerman’s Delicatessen in Ann Arbor, Mich., to stump for raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. At that increased rate, a minimum wage worker could buy the same reuben — the “Nosher,” or “small eater” size – with 88 minutes worth of earnings.

"The sandwich, which the president noted was still huge, costs $13.99. With sales tax, that comes to $14.83. It is served with a pickle."

legalinsurrection

UPDATE from FreedomWorks Facebook

Is it called Obamacare or isn't it?

 

 

 

Mother Of Five: Obamacare Jeopardizing My Family’s Financial Future   "Wendt initially decided to discuss her plight in an ad produced by the advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, which has chronicled the negative impact of Obamacare on American families across the nation."  Video

ABC 6: Policy Critics Dispute ’7.1 Million’ Enrolled in ObamaCare 



4 dead, 14 injured in Fort Hood Shooting

Pamela Geller

"Shooter identified:  Spc. Ivan Lopez, 1st Battalion, Warrior Transition Brigade, ties a fly during an instructional class Nov. 3, 2010 at Fort Hood."

 

... "Attached is the Official Tyndall AFB Plan called “How to Survive an Active Shooter.” This is in response to the Fort Hood jihadi’s wholesale  slaughter of US soldiers, the largest attack on a US army base in American history. This report/response is a pathetic and embarrassing surrender to barbarians. Read it and weep.
"As you know, service members are not allowed to carry firearms on base. So what is the remedy? Our precious servicemen and women are instructed to dial 911 while playing dead (p. 18), and to attack the shooter with a three-ring binder or paper cutter (p. 19). Think I am kidding? Read the report — Download Military"

 

 

BareNakedIslam  "Possible photo of shooter, Ivan Lopez.  Lopez reportedly went from building to building looking for victims.

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Mediaite Lib Smears U.S. Marines As “Generally Violent” Goons…

Weasel Zippers   "Apparently Luke O’Neil has taken over for Tommy Christopher as most obnoxious lib on Mediaite.
"Brave Marine Steals Upside-Down American Flag from Scooter-Riding Hippie Protester — Mediaite" 

 

...This sort of contradictory militarized mindset of the contemporary conservative is perfectly illustrated in the video. In it two brave men, one of whom identifies himself as a member of the marines in both his words, t-shirt, and generally violent comportment, chase down two hippies on a scooter who are carrying an upside down American flag and probably on their way to to enact some insidious terroristic plot. When approached by what looks like a crustpunk Cheech to ask what they’re up to, IRL Marine Todd here yells: “I don’t give a s--t what the symbol is. We serve our f---ing country.”

"In other words, the brave men and women of the American military put their lives on the line every day so lib pukes like this can spout their freedom-hating nonsense. Except when they actually see them doing it, in which case they use their physical power to stop it. For liberty, or something."

"Most people thank our Marines for their service not smear them as violent thugs, not so much with this clown."

Remember the promises that made this nation vote for Barack Obama?

A list of some of the most egregious lies and broken promises by this President. Produced by The East County Underground at MY 1079 FM.

Obama voters  A nation gets the leaders it deserves.

Millionaires Need Your Help!

Ann Coulter

... "Here's another idea: How about a federal law mandating that employers of illegal aliens take responsibility for the people they hire? Why is the taxpayer on the hook for illegal aliens' food, housing and medical care, when Chuck Herrin got 100 percent of the profit from their cheap labor?
 ...
  " 'We" got hospital emergency rooms jammed with illegal aliens when we came in with heart attacks. "We" got the crime, drunk-driving and drug trafficking associated with illegal aliens. "We" got the overcrowded schools filled with kids whose illegal alien parents don't pay property taxes. "We" got to press "one" for English."
....
"I care more about my fellow Americans who can't get well-paying jobs than I do about multimillionaire farmers, demanding that the rest of us pay to support an industry that claims it can't compete without taxpayer-subsidized illegal alien labor."

Obamacare: what parts of it are here to stay?

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Krauthammer’s Take: 7.1 Million Enrollees a ‘Phony Number’    

“ 'If it turns out that the overwhelming majority of the so-called 7.1 were people who had health insurance, liked their health insurance, were renewing their health insurance, and got kicked off their health insurance, whose lives are disrupted, premiums are raised, deductibles are raised, and lost their doctors are now among the 7.1 . . . it’s a net negative,” Krauthammer said."

 

Why Believe 7 Million ObamaCare Sign Ups When ObamaCare Was Sold on a Lie?  

 

The Website Is only a Symptom  "Daily Beast columnist and CNN contributor Sally Kohn took to Twitter on Monday with a triumphant message to Republicans.  “Once again, Republicans,” she tweeted, “if you’re [sic] biggest attack against Obamacare is the website,that’s a sign you’re losing the larger debate.”

"Kohn’s tweet echoes a common theme among ObamaCare’s myriad media bulwarks like her-- a suggestion that criticism focusing on the technical issues experienced by the online ObamaCare exchanges is a sign of weakness in the public debate over healthcare."

 

Jennifer Rubin; Obamacare is not forever   "It will behoove the House to pass its alternative. It will be necessary for every 2016 contender for president to lay out his or her own ideas. If Republican reformers are serious, they will present a whole slew of GOP proposals to make life better for middle-class and poor voters, starting with a better health-care system, school choice, a pro-growth economic plan and a domestic energy initiative.

 

"The president has it exactly wrong. The debate hasn’t ended; it’s just begun."

The French Trains were on the Wrong Track

American Thinker  "Memory can be painful, even extremely painful. The death on March 8, 2014 of 93-year-old Leo Bretholz has evoked memories of a still painful and controversial issue in wartime France. His small role in history and in current lawsuits in Maryland resulted from his action on November 5, 1942 when he leaped from a train carrying him and a thousand other Jews to Auschwitz. That train, number 42 of the convoys taking Jews on the journey to their death, was operated by the French railway company, the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF).
....
"The issue came up again after the SNCF had won rail contracts in Virginia and Massachusetts, and was bidding for contracts in California and Florida." ....
....
"Was SNCF was merely an instrument of the Nazi war machine or an independent agent? The company claims it was coerced rather than responsible for its actions."
 

Somehow we failed to notice this on April 1

University of Wisconsin sidewalks to become one-way only 

 

"It would be great if humor were one of the attributes colleges and universities looked for in students, faculty, and administrators. But humor aggravates the perpetually aggrieved, so it's more of a liability in institutions."

 

Another comment to this post:

My institution sent around a mildly amusing "special edition" of the Friday campus newsletter, designed not to be offensive to anyone.

Then they killed humor dead with this tone-deaf note:

Editor's note: all material included in this special edition is satirical in conjunction with April Fools. These articles are meant to be humorous and should not be assumed as truthful reporting.
Has there ever been a more awkward phrase than "satirical in conjunction with April Fools."

 

Political correctness has decayed the traditional American sense of humor.

Environmentalists to the Peasants: Drop Dead

calwatchdog
 

Commentary Magazine   "California is going through a terrible drought and 2013 was the driest on record in the state. So who is suffering, financially and otherwise, from its effects? 

"Hint: it is not the coastal elite. The water still flows to the upscale neighborhoods of La Jolla, Malibu, and Marin County. Their lawns are watered, their BMW’s washed and polished, their swimming pools full.

"No, it’s the farmers in the Central Valley and the agricultural workers who are idled as 500,000 acres of the best farmland on the planet lies fallow. Where is their water going? To save the environment." ...

Victor Davis Hanson: America's coastal royalty out of touch