May 2010

California ag counties rank high for economic stress

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tuesday, 4 May 2010

More than half of the most economically stressed counties over 25,000 population in the nation are agribusiness centers in California. Remember that the next time the Farm Bureau brags about what a great economic engine agriculture is.
Badlands Journal editorial board
5-3-10
Associated Press
20 most stressed, least stressed counties
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100503/ap_on_bi_ge/us_stress_map_list

"Man-made" droughts and other absurdities

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wednesday, 5 May 2010

Investor's Business Daily's recent portrait of the "man-made drought" in California is written in the idiotic tradition of that rag, which claimed last summer that the great British physicist who suffers from muscular distrophy, would be dead if he had been taken care of by the British National Health Service. Of course, he had been and credited the Service with keeping him alive.

Falling in tall spring grass

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Monday, 10 May 2010

 
Yesterday I found myself standing in rich, dense grass as high as the tops of my rubber boots in the middle of a cow pasture. I got so engrossed in staring at the snow on the tops of the mountains in Yosemite and the whole visible Sierra range that my partner asked if I was OK. There was a steady breeze as soft as a horse’s sigh blowing across what’s left of the entire grasslands in the middle of the San Joaquin Valley of California, smelling of running creeks, sweet grass and cows.

Has McClatchy DC reporter joined Pombo campaign?

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Below, find a complex defense of former Rep. Richard Pombo, Crooked Cowboy-Tracy, currently running for a congressional seat far from his residence and home of his family's real estate business. McClatchy's Fresno and Modesto chain outlets have been covering the fund-raising efforts of Pombo, state Sen. Jeff Denham (endorsed by retiring Rep. George Radanovich), and two more Republicans and a brace of Democrats running far behind. Unlike Pombo and Denham however, the four in the rear of the race actually live in the district they are seeking to represent.

BP and the Pentagon

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Monday, 24 May 2010

BP's ace in the hole is its contracts with the US Department of Defense, the largest oil consumer in the world. While the military is fighting two wars, one for oil wells (Iraq), the other for pipeline routes (Afghanistan and Pakistan), one of the Pentagon's most favored oil companies commits one of worst oil spill on record and it is still spilling, unabated. Because of BP's military contracts, the government may not impose serious sanctions on the company. It could become "a matter of national security" that BP not be punished.

The U.S. Department of Westlands

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, 27 May 2010

We were deeply gratified that on the same day it announced a truly rotten federal court decision on the Delta pumps, one that will cause more damage to the endangered spring run of salmon and more economic damage to residents of the Delta and the Pacific Coast commercial fishery, the McClatchy Company’s Fresno outlet chose to run the long piece on revolving doors in resource regulatory agencies. We replied below to this act of self-righteous, hypocritical publication that becomes blatant propaganda considering its timing and place.
 
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