February 2013

Our Delta, displaying the national heritage of destruction of the natural environment

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, 7 February 2013

The state is going mad again. It is happening more frequently these days as it is necessary for the rulers to grasp at evermore absurd propaganda campaigns to mask their purposes. You can't even blame Jerry Brown. It is just the system, grinding on and on.
One of the dipbleep campaigns is to name the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta a "national heritage area," as plans move forward to excavate huge tunnels underneath it to take most of its fresh water supply from the Sacramento River above the Delta to the big north-south canals below the Delta.

What U say and what U do

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Saturday, 9 February 2013

College students, starting in small colleges in New England but in a movement quickly growing, are pressuring high education administrators and boards of trustees to divest investment in fossil fuel corporations.

Cardoza inducted into the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wednesday, 20 February 2013

We were deeply gratified to learn that Portugal, as we understand it from local sources, a small colony on the west coast of Europe of the famous Azores Islands, has made lobbyist Dennis Cardoza a Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator. 
We assume that the distinguished Order includes many other promoters of lady mud wrestling and other such diversions for the gentry. -- BLJ
 
 

Forgive them

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Saturday, 23 February 2013

We must forgive them. They don't know how to think. All they know how to do is sell. They think that if they connive with the Valley cities to build clumps of little condos all over town, that somehow the "empty nesters" they are targeting will miraculously get credit from banks to buy them. Or, do they know that isn't likely to happen so they are building the little condos for "empty nester investors" to buy and rent to empty nesters? Isn't it investors that are buying the few foreclosed homes the banks are letting go on the market?

"Inert"

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Saturday, 23 February 2013

If you've ever studied the label on a container of pesticide it will tell you the "active ingredient" and then, usually an overwhelmingly large percentage of the contents is listed as "inert."

Rubio trades senate seat for lobbying job

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sunday, 24 February 2013

Maybe when real men grow up in Kern County, they become oil lobbyists.
Anyone from the San Joaquin Valley can understand why a state senator from our area might find better things to do with his time than serve in a legislative body led by state Sen. Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento. But the abrupt departure of state Sen. Michael Rubio, D-Bakersfield, for the lobbying division of Chevron reveals a contempt for the democratic process that is something new in its aggression.

Three tribes fracked in North Dakota

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Monday, 25 February 2013

Yet, according to a large consensus of government and private sources, by far the largest oil shale formation, the Monterey, is largely located in the south San Joaquin Valley. So, suddenly who owns subsurface rights to public as well as private lands becomes a major issue for people not eager to have their already record-breaking bad air quality get worse, have their groundwater polluted with chemicals the very names of which are proprietary to the companies that inject them thousands of feet into the ground, and there is a minor seismic issue, which we will take up later. -- BLJ