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Artist's Rendering Of The California Drought

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A rude awakening...

 

 

Source: The Punch Line

 

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Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:23 | 6000383 Money Boo Boo
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pretty soon everyone will be drinking the fluid from their fake boobs

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:39 | 6000433 nailgunnin4you
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This cartoon is apolitical and peddles no exhausted gop rhetoric. 'the butthurts' will be most upset.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:09 | 6000550 NoDebt
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Clueless Red/Blue-fixated posting will win you few friends on here.  Not many here carry water for the Rs.  Most carry water for conservatism and Constitutional principles, however.  If that happens to overlap with the modern Republican party it's purely by accident, I assure you.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:18 | 6000583 Doubleguns
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"If that happens to overlap with the modern Republican party it's purely by accident, I assure you."

 

It only overlaps during the campaign period when they are running for office. After that they turn purple just like the D's that get elected and they only care about lobbiests, bribes they call campaign contributions, and their job security......voters?...fuck the voters!!!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:24 | 6001527 thatthingcanfly
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I'm pretty sure you missed it.

The "they" to which NoDebt was referring are ZH posters of a Constitutional Constructionist bent, NOT the Republicans "they" sometimes feel it necessary to vote for.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 01:20 | 6001910 Tall Tom
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Vote?

 

Most ZH posters are not Diebold programmers.

 

Why waste our time bothering to vote?

 

For what? The lesser of two evils?

 

A vote for the lesser of two evils is only a vote cast for evil.

 

No thanks. I will cast evil aside and choose that which is good.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 04:39 | 6002111 EBT excepted
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No thanks. I will cast evil aside and choose that which is good.

 

mebbe chood dat wut be goewd...see, fiks's it fo' you...

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:22 | 6000589 nuubee
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Well, at the very least we know that any overlap is not because the Republicans give a damn about the constitution anymore, except their most favorite parts that they can use to keep their masses distracted with rage.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:07 | 6000773 oklaboy
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well done ND

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:02 | 6001003 juangrande
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" The Raisins of Wrath"?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:47 | 6001025 nailgunnin4you
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Clueless Red/Blue-fixated posting will win you few friends on here. 

 

That's captain blue butthurt taking time away from his gop talking points to tell me I'm fixated on blue v red. I think he meant red-fixated posts will win few friends as it is overwhelmingly clear that anyone who criticises demos or obama are showered with lolz and agreement from every which way here (I will prove this for nodick by writing inaccurate, cliche and in some cases overtly racist criticism of obama and demos for the next week, and we'll see if I don't win a few hearts and minds here 'ey nodick?). For this I call nodick's objectivity, as well as his intellect, into question.


That he spends 90% of his posts decrying democunts and muslimsocialistkenyanobama regarding partisan wedge issues (those damn immigrants!!) should not take away from the fact he is right, even if he does not actually believe in the futility/inanity of the red&blue false dichotomy we are peddled and in fact is one of the red side's most staunchest idiots, do as he says and not as he does.

 

Most carry water for conservatism and Constitutional principles, however. If that happens to overlap with the modern Republican party it's purely by accident, I assure you.

 

Kinda like that guy who likes fondling kiddies, but is not a pedo, it's just that sometimes his beliefs and actions overlap with that of pedos. DIFFERENCE

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:02 | 6001244 nailgunnin4you
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Captain blue butthurt - http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-15/proof-us-peaked-during-ronald-r...

"Reagan was not perfect, but I'd pay real cash money to have him back over the current fucking bozo occupying 1600."

 

"Clueless Red/Blue-fixated posting will win you few friends on here."

 

Care to defend your idiocy nodick? I didn't think so.


Thu, 04/16/2015 - 23:13 | 6001680 Seize Mars
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LOL.

Tough guy

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 23:30 | 6001713 nailgunnin4you
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Yes, tough on idiocy.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 06:26 | 6002196 Arnold
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But, but, but,  you display it so well!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:40 | 6000437 Rainman
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Just tax it and the rain will come !

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:59 | 6000496 Lore
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Curse you, Pacific Decadal Oscillation

"The negative PDO is a trend that usually lasts for 25 to 30 years. Even when the drought ends, the state will be drier than it used to be. Californians are going to have to conserve their water. There is some good news. Pacific experts are warning that there is a good chance this year will see the arrival of an El Niño by autumn. El Niños usually bring glorious rain and snow to the West. Hang in there, California!"

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:34 | 6001133 Ex-MislTech
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Cali water usage is 10% tax payers, 10% industrial, 80% agriculture ( half now called ecological )

 

They need to stop shipping 100 billion gallons of water to China in the form of Alfalfa.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26124989

 

10% of the entire water supply goes to almonds...

 

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/05/_10_percen...

 

While I think uncovered pools is dumb, its not the real issue.

 

While I think grass requiring watering is dumb, its not the real issue.

 

As usual the government is all about deception.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:50 | 6001426 oddball
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Here is another government loving shill who can link the San Jose gazette, BBC, and Slate, but still cannot think for himself. 

 

Half Of California's water has been designated ecological for years, not just "now" as you claim.

http://www.water.ca.gov/swp/watersupply.cfm

 

Try these links asshole.

http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=1108

http://www.californiawateralliance.org/#!ca-water-use-facts/c1oxp

 

You are about deception and big government.  Why else would one state bullshit facts?   

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 13:45 | 6003559 Totentänzerlied
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That's like saying the NAO explains 100% of variance in Europe's climate. The NAO, and I assure you the PDO too, are affected by other/larger system such as thermohaline circulation, volcanism, and solar weather.

"Even when the drought ends, the state will be drier than it used to be", though an understatement, is all anyone should count on. Of course the day the first major rain hits, everyone will immediately label drought-forecasters "doomers" then promptly forget the entire thing ever happened.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 23:52 | 6013503 Lore
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Green-shirts are desperate to suppress the fact that CURRENT EVENTS ARE NOT UNIQUE!  "Global Warming," or the more strategically ambiguous "Climate Change," is the environmental equivalent of Al Qaeda, another swindle.

Tue, 04/21/2015 - 00:08 | 6013530 MEAN BUSINESS
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40,000,000 people living in California isn't unique? Current as of 2015.

CURRENT EVENTS ARE NOT UNIQUE!" 

400ppm isn't unique in the last 800,000 years?

warmists are terrorists eh? got it.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 04:36 | 6037016 Lore
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You misconstrue deliberately, but I understand. It's your way.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:49 | 6001201 Crash Overide
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What a great idea to build a city next to a desert, what's next a ski slope in Dubai?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:24 | 6000386 Thirst Mutilator
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You can bet your @ss that Pelosi's vineyard has zero water restrictions.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:06 | 6000538 tenpanhandle
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Her face requires more moisturizer than her vines.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:26 | 6000392 enforcer92677
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The illeagal aliens are exempt from any restrictions.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:36 | 6000426 kchrisc
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"The illeagal aliens are exempt from any restrictions."
If they are, the issue is not them being exempt, but who and why they are exempt.

The banksters need to repay us.

 

I stand with Aaron Russo.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:24 | 6000442 nailgunnin4you
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I stand with Aaron Russo.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:25 | 6001336 nailgunnin4you
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I know Russo was a jew but 11 dislikes seems excessive.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:07 | 6000534 tenpanhandle
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illeagal aliens soon to be called "drybacks"

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:53 | 6000709 Buster Cherry
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They get to enjoy Liberty here.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:32 | 6000407 kchrisc
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Come out come out
No use in hiding
Come now come now
Can you not see?
There's no place here
What were you expecting
Not room for both
Just room for me
So you will lay your arms down
Yes I will call this home
Away away
You have been banished
Your land is gone
And given me
And here I will spread my wings
Yes I will call this home
What's this you say
You feel a right to remain
Then stay and I will bury you
What's that you say
...
Don't drink the water
Don't drink the water
There's blood in the water
Don't drink the water

                                             Dave Mathews Band, "Don't Drink the Water."

The banksters need to repay us.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:40 | 6000441 MonetaryApostate
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The absurdity o f the bankers ever actually repaying us is like wishing this drought will just go away, while I'm not really a conspiracy theorist, I'd say there is more to this drought than people are letting on to, and the real question is... "In who's best interest would it be for there to be a drought to begin with?"  If you want a hot tip, remember that the banks are buying up all of the real assets (Read Water & Light, and Gas Companies) with this free money on their books, hell it's beyond free, they are getting paid to loan money to themselves, and if you can imagine that, then you can see the truth!!  

NIRP for the Derps and Herp Investors Money for the Bankers!

(That's where the bankers begin raping stocks like mad...)

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:48 | 6000470 Monetas
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The bankers need to repay us !  Hands up don't shoot !  Repeating drivel  won't make it be true !

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:10 | 6000554 silverer
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But they haven't paid yet.  Let me count the ways...

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:51 | 6000707 Buster Cherry
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I would have to be satisfied with heads on pikes and bodies dangling from streetlamps while the crows fed on them.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:12 | 6000563 kchrisc
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"The absurdity o f the bankers ever actually repaying us is like wishing this drought will just go away,"

The point is to get people thinking about and realizing that in, under, a fraudulent-reserve banking system, the wealth they are loaned, fiat-debt, was actually stolen from them, twice. That is, they are borrowing their own wealth. The banksters stole the people's wealth once when they pilfer their deposits. They plunder the people a second time via the counterfeiting that eventually shows up as price-inflation at the grocery store.

So it is they that owe us, the people, and not we that owes them.

As for "payment," gold, silver, and/or heads will gladly be accepted.

The banksters need to repay us.

 

I stand with Bastiat.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:33 | 6000414 Binko
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We just got our water bill today, living in a small city about half way between San Fran and Sacra.

I really expected it to have a big insert talking about the drought, what they are doing, what the plans are, how it will affect supply and prices.

But...nothing! Same old bill as always.

The inertia and inefficiency in governmental agencies is mind-blowing. Nobody has anything to gain by anticipating problems. And nobody has anything to lose by sitting on their ass and just slowly doing the bare minimum.

That means no meaningful change until the problem is completely overwhelming.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:35 | 6000420 angel_of_joy
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They are still developing Las Vegas ! You guys are nowhere close to that...

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:42 | 6000446 Statetheist
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Slightly south of you and same thing with my water bill and the website of our water supplier - no mention of anything except a small blurb on the site about conserving where possible.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:47 | 6000459 kchrisc
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"The inertia and inefficiency in governmental agencies is mind-blowing."

You should always keep Tyranny's Paradox in mind: Tyranny must both control and oppress their victims while simultaneously sustaining themselves off of those same victim's backs and production.

What that may mean in your locale is that the local water people find themselves very dependent on the lucre forwarded to them from you, and the rest of their subjects, and so don't want any cut backs in usage. How indebted to the banksters is your town?

If they come under pressure form the big biz and agri. controlled pols and crats higher up, they will then institute surcharges, fees, and fines on usage so that their lucre-flow continues unabated while pleasing the powers above them.

The banksters need to repay us.

 

I stand with von Mises.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:54 | 6000485 Monetas
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Reparations now ! The bansters need to repay us ! Hands up don't shoot ! No justice no peace ! My mother in law makes $7,000 a month working a few hours a day on her computer !

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:00 | 6000515 Sages wife
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You're an idiot.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:11 | 6000559 tarabel
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Yeah, but his mother-in-law's a flippin genius.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:29 | 6001358 Babaloo
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I live east of LA, and get my water from a publicly owned water company, Golden State Water, no gov't connection whatsoever. They have done nothing, mentioned nothing about the "drought" either. Putting this on government is stupid.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 06:33 | 6002205 Arnold
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Golden Water?

Sorry, saw it, took it.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:35 | 6000421 JuliaS
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The biggest drought since Enron electricity shortage.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:45 | 6000457 ILLILLILLI
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Wait until the level of Lake Mead goes below 1050 feet...no more generation from Boulder Dam.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:57 | 6000503 lasvegaspersona
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Las Vegans are tough...we can tolerate no A/C for a few minutes...like going from home to car and car to office. No electricity = no Las Vegas.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:01 | 6000518 ILLILLILLI
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Looks like there will some pain in a few other areas, too...

 

"Hoover Dam energy is marketed by the Western Area Power Administration to 15 entities in Arizona, California, and Nevada under contracts which expire in 2017. Most of this power, 56 percent, goes to southern California users; Arizona contractors receive 19 percent, and Nevada users get 25 percent."

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:24 | 6000605 COSMOS
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Meanwhile we spend billions if not trillions abroad while this place rots to the ground.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:04 | 6000757 Incubus
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the american way.

 

 

i goota go find some flag-sucking porn 

 

my nationalism is at an alltime high

 

just back from wal-mart

 

watching the tube

 

 

life is good

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:30 | 6000877 Oldwood
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A little nationalism wouldn't be so bad if it actually unified us to a real threat, made us focus and resolve issues that would preserve our nation....but, like everything else that once meant something good, it is now just another noose about our necks, another means of corralling us into collective actions to empower tyranny through democracy.

There is no action that has not been anticipated, calculated to provide benefit to our oppressors.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 23:15 | 6001687 nailgunnin4you
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A little nationalism wouldn't be so bad if it actually unified us to a real threat, made us focus and resolve issues that would preserve our nation..

 

Ah yes once again thanks must go to veteran receiver of the butthurt oldwood for reminding us yet again about the good old days of nationalism. This was a grand nationalism, a nationalism that frequently drove us to 'preserve our nation' like when we- the goodguys - murdered over 3 million 'real threatening' peasant rice farmers in Vietnam, fighting that Ho Chi Minh guy, a nationalist (but the bad kind!!).

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:40 | 6000440 Statetheist
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Dumb, not funny.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:41 | 6000443 wmbz
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Just send Lurch out there to negotiate with the water gods. I am certain he will come up with some great frame work, or at least an outline.

If that doesn't work then everyone should hold hands and sing.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 06:47 | 6002218 Arnold
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Maybe Madonna will show instead of Jimmie T.

 

Though the Red Hot Chilis would put it over the top.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:42 | 6000449 Sturm und Drang
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Comment found on a different site:

"The drought in CA is forcing the disease therein to metastasize to other states. This is by design. The only way to get those assholes to leave paradise is to turn it into hell. Mission accomplished. I’d urge border controls in flyover."

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:44 | 6000455 cpnscarlet
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Lake Mead lost three handles (1084,1083,1082) in two weeks.

Looks almost as bad as gold....

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:59 | 6000509 mbutler101
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Don't worry, just profit from the mayhem. Let the CME Group help you take advantage of the situation with their suite of weather dervivates http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/weather/ /sarc off.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:01 | 6000520 trader1
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Trockenbeerenauslese (literal meaning: "dried berries selection") is a German language wine term for a medium to full body dessert wine.

Trockenbeerenauslese is the highest in sugar content in the Prädikatswein category of the Austrian and German wine classifications.[1] Trockenbeerenauslesewines, often called "TBA" for short, are made from individually selected grapes affected by noble rot, i.e. "botrytized" grapes.

This means that the grapes have been individually picked and are shrivelled with noble rot, often to the point of appearing like a raisin. They are therefore very sweet and have an intensely rich flavor, frequently with a lot of caramel and honey bouquet, stone fruit notes such as apricot, and distinctive aroma of the noble rot. The finest examples are made from the Riesling grape, as this retains plenty of acidity even at the extreme ripeness.[2][3] Other grape varieties are also used, such as ScheurebeOrtegaWelschrieslingChardonnay, and Gewürztraminer and many are more prone to noble rot than Riesling since they ripen earlier.

These wines are rare and expensive due to the labor-intensive method of production, and the fact that very specific climatic conditions (which do not necessarily occur every year) are required to create botrytized grapes. Some of the best wines of this type are sold almost exclusively at the various German wine auctions. They are usually golden to deep golden in colour, sometimes even dark caramel. The body is viscous, very thick and concentrated, and arguably can be aged almost indefinitely due to the preservative powers of its high sugar content. Although TBA has very high residual sugar level, the finest specimens are far from being cloying due to high level of acidity.

Trockenbeerenauslesen have also been in common production since the 1960s in Austria. Most TBA wines from Austria come from NeusiedlerseeBurgenland. On both sides of lake Neusiedl those wines are produced. East of the lake, the village of Illmitz is known for the production of "liquid gold". At the western side of the lake in Rust and St. Margarethen, wine of exceptionally good quality can be found. This region is known for its wide and shallow lakes which can lose more than half their volume due to evaporation. The mists created by these lakes provide a very conducive climate for Noble Rot to shrivel grapes.

The style is similar to, but much more concentrated than, Sélection de Grains Nobles from Alsace.

In comparison to Sauternes, the wines are considerably sweeter, have a lower alcoholic strength and are usually not oaked.

As with most other premium grade dessert wines, Trockenbeerenauslese is to a large extent sold in half bottles of 375 ml.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:08 | 6000548 scatha
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Honest take on true California drought and false water crisis can be found at:

https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/california-waterworld-of...

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:15 | 6000571 tarabel
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I always wondered why California got such a large share of Colorado river water when it contributes practically nothing to the total flow.

Time for a dam on the Centennial State border and one big-ass, coin-operated water meter. All of us upstreamers could retire.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:25 | 6000609 markitect
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Better close up shop to fix that plumbing

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:25 | 6000610 markitect
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Better close up shop to fix that plumbing

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:03 | 6001009 max2205
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Pray for a heat wave out west to finish them off 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:33 | 6001129 joego1
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I was born in the desert, might be waiting a while.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:39 | 6001163 Salsipuedes
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DON'T SPRAY ME BRO!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:52 | 6001218 starman
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Isn't raisin refers to black people?  

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 23:18 | 6001692 bid the soldier...
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raisin bran refers to black people?

jeepers

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:23 | 6001329 Babaloo
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Clearly not a habitué of Napa - they don't water the mature grapes there. If you look at Cabernet grapes on the vine, they're really not much bigger than raisins.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:32 | 6001366 Fix It Again Timmy
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"What a great idea to build a city next to a desert, what's next a ski slope in Dubai?"

FYI - there is a ski slope in Dubai:

http://www.theplaymania.com/skidubai/welcome

 

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 01:34 | 6001930 Tall Tom
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So the concept of satire escapes you?

 

Do not read Swift's "A Modest Proposal" There is just too much cannabalism as it is.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 01:08 | 6001895 JoJoJo
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3 million illegals in California using approx 50 gallons/person per day equals 150,000,000 gallons of water consumed by illegals every day. Yeah, Jerry, just turn everyone's attention toward climate change. That will fix it.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 01:24 | 6001916 I Write Code
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Governator Brown's brain shriveled years ago.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 02:22 | 6001992 Jack Daniels Esq
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Musk battery bitchez gonna fix all - send moah $$

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 04:45 | 6002112 EBT excepted
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da gobal warmun be wut cause d' raisin', not d'drout...get dis strait peeps...soes you don' look like no foo' wen you be tahkin' to yo' peepses and $hit...jus aks d'bama...go'hed, aks him...he love to tell you wut it be like...

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