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California's "Unprecedented" Drought In Pictures

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California's drought has reached epic proportions, prompting Governor Jerry Brown and state water regulators to adopt "unprecedented" (and some say draconian) measures to counter what is perhaps the only example of a liquidity crisis more acute than that which investors face in secondary bond markets.

 

Cities will be forced to cut consumption by as much as 36%, a mandate that is expected to cost utilities upwards of $1 billion, lost revenue which, as we noted earlier this week, will promptly be recouped in the form of higher prices for any consumer who isn’t a MotherFracker. 

So with the state preparing to crack down on “wasters” in the form of $10,000 fines, and with more than 12 million dead trees greatly increasing the chances that wildfires could spread out of control, we bring you the drought in pictures:

 

We'll leave you with the following rather somber assessment from a professor of public policy at USC (via Politico):

“Politicians are paying attention, because some people — mainly the media and interest groups — are paying attention,” said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a professor of public policy at the University of Southern California. “But I’m not at all sure it’s really hitting home yet with the average voter. When they start to see rate increases, and fines for overuse, and brown lawns, then they will be paying a lot of attention. I think the politicians are smart to be trying to get ahead of it, because this is the new normal. We are a desert, and we should have remained a desert.”
 

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Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:35 | 6074195 Stormtrooper
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Yeah, and Utah is suffering from severe and continuous flooding so that Lake Mead is about to overflow its banks.  You know what the guy meant, he's just a little short on facts.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:02 | 6074289 Colonel Klink
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Oh I'm not short on facts.  I take the time to poke the state apparatus where I can.  Point is it consumes the very resource which is lacking for little purpose than to spy on its own people.

You got my point, and that was the point.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:38 | 6074209 Funny Money
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Utah is having a drought, too.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:00 | 6074284 Colonel Klink
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Yes I'm well aware of that dipshit but the point being is it's consuming a precious resource in that region.  The water used for the NSA center could be tasked elsewhere.

Thanks for stating the obvious though.

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 09:36 | 6075556 Flakmeister
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Playing fast and loose with truth and reality is a feature of the indigenous fauna here...

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:21 | 6074153 HungryPorkChop
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And we're just heading into the dog days of summer. 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:58 | 6074276 Chauncey Gardener
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Fire season should be awesome.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 20:45 | 6074697 Achilles Heel
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2006 was the year of the Fire Dog, 2016 = Fire Monkey

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 19:53 | 6074571 hairball48
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I'm no big fan of fracking, but fracking uses a tiny fraction of CA's water, something on the order of 0.006% of the total water usage in CA.

Farming uses well over 1/2, 50%+. 

The true price of water has been distorted so badly by gov't intervention(s) at all gov't levels that the situation is now nearly hopeless. I don't know how they will solve this water allocation issue without "blood in the street", maybe literally.

They can kill all the lawns and golf courses, stop fracking, empty swimming pools, outlaw private wells, etc. BUT

Until they figure how to allocate and manage water to farming operations, it's all just pissing in the wind imo.

I just hope the CA fucks don't come to Montana when they leave CA, and millions will be leaving CA....and soon.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 21:45 | 6074849 Ying-Yang
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Never the golf courses until the golfers leave.

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 07:42 | 6075442 Calmyourself
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Leave the fracking luddites alone now..  They watched a Matt Damon movie he told them all they need to know..

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 08:28 | 6075487 MFL8240
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Jerry Browns contribution to population control!

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:18 | 6074133 Salah
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The longer it continues, the greater the chance...from the vast economic destruction it engenders...serious people will show it's all due to standard California Democrat Party politics.

We could be witnessing the birth of a REAL 3rd Party competitor.

 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:22 | 6074155 firewolfsblog
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The you woke up, missed two strokes, and wondered where the dream went

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:45 | 6074238 AGuy
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"We could be witnessing the birth of a REAL 3rd Party competitor."

Sorry to disagree, but I very much doubt it. Even if a new party got started, DNC & RNC would kill it. Recall the the Tea Party was crushed by the IRS. Nobody is going to stick their neck out and get audited or worse, sent to some american Gulag for political terriorism. My guess is that the US continues as the DNC/RNC slowly merge into a single party, and some form of police state. At this point there isn't much difference between the DNC & RNC - Both want more authorian central control, more illegal immigration, more gov't regulation, and generally a much bigger federal gov't.

As I see it the drought will be used as excuse to take away more liberty and rights and the knot of federal control will tighten. I see the Fed Gov't spending $100 billions for Water piplelines and DeSal plants, and using more regulation and taxes (aka VAT tax or national water tax, or something worse to pay for it)

 

 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 19:00 | 6074450 knukles
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B I N G O
You see what I see, brother.

Never let a crisis got to waste to proliferate a larger more oppressive central planning mechanism

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 22:07 | 6074893 swmnguy
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The Tea Party was not "crushed by the IRS."  As I remember it, and it wasn't very long ago, the IRS approved all the Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status.  The one that complained the most was promising on its website (which I visited and read) to engage in direct lobbying.  You can't do that as a tax-exempt organization.  They were wrong, and hadn't even bothered to inform themselves of the rules, and when they were asked to explain themselves, threw a hissy-fit.  The only groups that the IRS did not approve were the anti-war groups.  And that's not surprising; since its inception, the IRS has been a favorite weapon against political dissenters.

No, what did the Tea Party in was allowing themselves to be co-opted by the GOP.  Now the Tea Party functions as the domesticated safety valve for unruly GOP'ers.  The GOP can blame any racist, sexist, religious bigotry or whatever else they get accused of on the Tea Party.  And, if you notice, now that the Tea Party is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the GOP, the IRS has lost interest.

Besides, as you point out, the DNC & RNC are slowly merging.  There is, as you point out, no real difference on a policy level.  They don't disagree on anything important; the only distinctions is which constituencies are sacred cows.

The rest of your post, and your prediction, I agree with wholeheartedly.  More taxes will be extracted, and that public money will be diverted into crony private hands, and water will be used as a weapon against any dissenters, just as water and food are in the more-arid African nations.  Remember, while the West was doing "We Are The World" and seeing horrifying images of starving Ethiopian children, Ethiopia was exporting food for cash.  The ones starving were the wrong tribe, see?  

Our DNC/RNC Elites aren't above that sort of thing, and they're getting a lot less squeamish every day.

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 02:10 | 6075233 OldPhart
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Pelosi Voters, Waters Voters...all the political clout is with the morons in the mega-cities.

They're too brain dead for any wake up call.

Besides they won't want to endanger their EBT.  (Here it's a card with foodstamps, welfare, etc all rolled into one.)

 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:19 | 6074134 Rainman
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It so bad the Okies are heading back to Oklahoma

.... the Mexicans like it just fine tho.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:18 | 6074136 Boondocker
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How many people do you see leaving?

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:18 | 6074137 Antifaschistische
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"I think the politicians are smart to be trying to get ahead of it"

LOL....did he really use "politicians" and "ahead" in the same sentence!!!

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:35 | 6074196 Five8Charlie
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They are thirty years behind and think they are ahead. Unbelievable.

 

Too late now, boys.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 20:27 | 6074667 hairball48
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You left out "smart" :)

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:18 | 6074138 netpounder
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There is plenty of oil to feed all the cars while some claim we have hit peak oil.  Now we have hit peak water in California.  Oh sure.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:35 | 6074194 BoredRoom
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well Global Warming causes Global Cooling...why do you hate science so much?

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:18 | 6074140 roadhazard
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Just think how bad it would be if there was global warming.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:42 | 6074226 DetectiveStern
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If you build a city in a desert then chances are nature will win. The earth is billions of years old and has gone through more shit than we'll ever know about. For people to think they know exactly how and why our climate is changing when the timespan is longer than the human mind can understand is stupid.

That said I like the idea of not using fossil fuels not because of the "environment effect" but because renewables give electricity generation to the peoplenot the BPs and Shells of this world and they allow self sufficiency .

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:08 | 6074309 European American
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Fossil Fuels? What is that? You mean, like old, real old composting material, e.g. plants and dinosaurs and that kind'a stuff, from prehistoric times, aged nice and ripe and over a period of time, miraculously turns into what we now call oil? Is that how oil is made? It that is the case, how come many of these so called empty wells are replenishing themselves?

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:14 | 6074324 Seek_Truth
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SHHHHH!

They think abiotic oil is "tinfoil" stuff.

The idjits.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:38 | 6074401 DetectiveStern
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It's not what the fuels made of that's the problem. The problem is it allows a select few to control the energy! That's why I like solar power etc because it allows Joe Average to power his house without giving money to the oil barrons and the banksters. I couldn't give a toss about the CO2 being released.

 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:45 | 6074414 Seek_Truth
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Sounds like you've got your head on straight, then.

As long as you realize that large scale alternative energy is very harmful to the environment.

But solar panels on your home much less so.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 19:23 | 6074512 Tek Kinkreet
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Same reason I support legalization. The more power the oil barons lose, the better because they help fuel the oligarchy.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:53 | 6074437 Buster Cherry
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I know of no other energy source that can run a ship or airplane well enough to cross an ocean.

If there's another that's practical, speak up.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 19:06 | 6074460 GoinFawr
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Interesting, so what did these have in 'em then? Wankel rotary or some'at? True, they never 'flew', but some musta made it across the Atlantic, or no?

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 19:58 | 6074582 trulz4lulz
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According to Purdue University, hemp based fuels are the only alternative. Hemp bases nano grapheme super capacitors are a step in the right direction.

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 09:54 | 6075575 El Vaquero
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Hemp based fuels are a pipe dream.  Probably better than corn, but still a pipe dream. 

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 22:42 | 6083552 trulz4lulz
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Why? According to Purdue we only need to use 10% of agricultural land to fuel all cars, trucks, and trains, at current consumption levels. What's stopping us? We afraid of hard honest labor? Or I guess the current american model of resource acquisition is your preferred model? What's stopping us, really?

 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:56 | 6074440 Buster Cherry
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I know of no other energy source that can run a ship or airplane well enough to cross an ocean.

If there's another that's practical, speak up.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 19:20 | 6074508 gwar5
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I believe in abiotic oil. And that wells are replenishing themslves.

 

Rusian scientists discovered Helium is found in deep oil deposits in large amounts. Helium is too light to ever sink 30,000 ft and it's really pretty unimaginable for plants and dinosaurs as well. Therefore, theory says the trapped Helium is from the beginning of Earth's formation and must be coming up with the oil from very deep places. Volcanic explusion are not inconsistent with deep oil, either.

Abiotic oil can already be made in a lab. I believe the recipe is:

CaCO3 + H20 + 20K-40K PSI @ high temperaures ---> Hydrocarbons chains      (ie., marble + water + high  pressure & heat ---> oil).

And Those are the same conditions found at great depth in the Earth >20k ft. The Russians are already the world champs at deep oil drilling. Why is that?

 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 21:04 | 6074760 Seek_Truth
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Shhhhh!

Mustn't upset the ZH crowd that believe they are "free thinkers."

No serious discussion of the fact that oil is abiotic will be entertained.

 

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 09:39 | 6075558 Flakmeister
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Because the idea that abiotic oil exists in any significant amount is complete and utter rubbish...

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 11:54 | 6081057 GoinFawr
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Bah don't waste your time Flak; I mean so what if it is all 'abiotic' oil rather than dinosaur farts? Big deal. Either way the real question has always been whether or not the black sticky icky is 'replenishing' itself @ a rate anything close to ~90million bpd, and rising.

 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 21:30 | 6074811 tarabel
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Uh, because they hired Exxon to do it for them.

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 02:13 | 6075235 OldPhart
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Shit, heat, and pressure makes coal, diamonds, gases and oil.

Just different combinations yields different results.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:19 | 6074141 saldulilem
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California, we hardly knew ye.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:30 | 6074181 Stormtrooper
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We can let the state go but we have to keep a transportation corridor to the ports so that we can keep importing all of that Asian crap otherwise Americans will have to get off of their asses and produce stuff here.  That would be bad because it would cut into the supply of bartenders and waitresses who would find it more financially rewarding to work in factories.  Bye, bye happy hour!

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:38 | 6074206 Seek_Truth
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Zing!

You said it, Stormtrooper.

That's the unpopular truth.

Better yet- people should have to make their own stuff, deliver their own services- and learn that barter and trade makes way more sense than the "employee" and "consumer" positions they've relegated themselves to.

The modern western world is Edward Bernays' wet dream.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:00 | 6074283 RaceToTheBottom
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Once the whole state becomes like the Bonneville Salt flats, cars can be moved quickly through CA.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:19 | 6074144 Skateboarder
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Meanwhile property values keep going up and the people rejoice... It 'rained' yesterday, a few droplets here and there. That's all we're gonna get till Fall.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:31 | 6074380 Monty Burns
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St. Jerome said that when Rome fell the citizens were still laughing....

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 19:04 | 6074466 knukles
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Talkin' 'bout water, the Muzzies cheered when they threw Leon Klinghoffer over the side of the Achille Lauro.
Allah Ackhbar

 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 19:15 | 6074488 Seek_Truth
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I, for one, appreciate that insightful comment.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:20 | 6074146 Ham-bone
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Not that I want Oregon associated with Cali...but the drought here is getting pretty serious as well.  Never seen a year when all the snow is gone already...never seen a year with less snow.  Record warmth all winter and just keeps on keeping on.  Gonna be a really dry, long, forest fire season.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:26 | 6074169 surf0766
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I have seen record warm winters and record cold winters. Record rainy and record dry. It is call the weather...

 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:05 | 6074208 Ham-bone
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Yup - no qualms there.  I think the bigger point is that, in our lifetimes, the economic and financial systems haven't been so fragile and decrepit so things that would typically be bumps in the road could be a-typically serious.  And the list of issues is getting really long...and the systems capability to handle them is so compromised.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:50 | 6074429 conscious being
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That's why they need a major distraction they can point to and say - It was not their fault everything collapsed.

GeoEngineering and complacent sheeple make it all possible.

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 03:50 | 6075306 Alvin Fernald
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Getting in on the comment about Oregon. It is the same in WA. Lived here my whole life and I have never seen the Olympics this short of snow in May. I have seen this little snow in August before though.
Same story in Anchorage I hear.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 21:28 | 6074808 tarabel
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Terrible, terible drought here in Colorado as well so you'd better look someplace else for a refuge.

It's so bad, our governor has instructed us to drive into the mountains and piss on the trees.

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 02:17 | 6075237 OldPhart
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Local saying...

"Pee makes the desert green."

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:24 | 6074159 Frankie Carbone
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My worry is that Kalifornicators will leave in droves and shit on other states with the stench of their presence.  This is not good for the rest of America. We had them mostly contained. Now what?

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:25 | 6074164 Stormtrooper
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How about a national ID so that we can stop them at the borders?

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:36 | 6074191 Frankie Carbone
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Well. We can always set traps. There appears to be one of the loons lurking among us by the way. We both got neg repped for "offending" the little Berkenstock cladden fruitcake.

 

My diversity skills suck.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:40 | 6074216 Stormtrooper
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Yeah, I hate those negative votes.  They're starting to take a toll on my bank account. /sarc

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:49 | 6074248 Frankie Carbone
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Au contraire. Coming from a fruity Kalifornian it's affirmation that you have been unpleasant to it, which is a good thing.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:58 | 6074274 Stormtrooper
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Ow!!  Kalifornian!  Low blow!!!!!!  Actually Ohioan first and then American as a secondary nationality.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:51 | 6074433 Frankie Carbone
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If I made you piss your pants then I apologize. 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 19:06 | 6074470 knukles
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You're worried about Californians entering the rest of the country?
Y'all been missing something or listening to MSNBC about the border (national border)?

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:01 | 6074285 Captain Benny
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How do you think we Nevadans feel?  Dumb ass Californians are moving here in droves, buying houses because they're way cheaper and bringing their idiotic nanny state beliefs and votes with them.  They're too stupid to realize that their statist beliefs are what ruined California.  They bitch about Nevada laws and lack of government intrusions ... Nevada being traditionally very libertarian in its legal system and statutes.

Fuck Californians.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 19:16 | 6074490 stormsailor
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like harry reid?

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 02:21 | 6075243 OldPhart
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Most tempting aspect of Nevada to me?

No state income tax.

Bordellos.

Northeast part of state pretty much empty, no neighbors to worry about offending.

Drawbacks...

Nuke tests.

Another 99,950 years of radiation to go...

Nevadans.

Californians.

 

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 07:48 | 6075446 Calmyourself
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Harry Reid libertarians,righto....  Vote Harry Reids brother a medal for kicking his ass why dont you?

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:51 | 6074424 BlowsAgainstthe...
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LOL!

 

List of U.S. states and territories by GSP in 2015

State     2015 Rank            2015 GSP $ Millions

California           1              2,287,021

Texas   2              1,602,584

New York           3              1,350,286

Florida 4              833,511

Illinois  5              742,407

Pennsylvania    6              664,872

Ohio     7              584,696

New Jersey       8              560,667

North Carolina  9              491,572

 

Georgia             10           472,423

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:25 | 6074163 HeavydutyMexica...
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This is an "unprecedented" opportunity to mine gold in lands that were until now, inaccessible.

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 01:44 | 6075217 conscious being
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Not really. Heavy rainfall years are when its easiest times to find nuggets and dust. The errosion from the runoff sets it in motion, then you pan for it downstream.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:26 | 6074165 Soph
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Lets see....screw with mother nature....try and change a desert into sprawling green....get bitch-slapped down by mother nature for your extreme arrogance....

 

Yeah, we haven't seen this movie play out a 1000 times before.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:42 | 6074224 Ban KKiller
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We don't study history anymore....too logical and might offer insight. 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:58 | 6074273 Frankie Carbone
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Oh please. Just irrigate with Brawndo.  It's got the electrolytes that plants crave!

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:26 | 6074171 Frank N. Beans
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The golf courses look normal to me. 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:39 | 6074210 ghengis86
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i thought that was sort of the point...crops dying, lakes drying up...but we can still fucking golf! 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:30 | 6074379 Bay Area Guy
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Most golf courses around the country are switching to non-potable water for irrigation.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 19:10 | 6074478 knukles
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For anybody golfing in the Central Coast area, the courses are irrigated with non-potable water.
As in cannot be consumed as in unfit for consumption.
           You'll get sick licking yours or you pal's balls.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 19:30 | 6074525 Crisismode
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Really?

Well, that's mighty white of them.

 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:28 | 6074175 Dixie Flatline
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geoengineering in 3...2...

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:29 | 6074178 zeroaccountability
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Sure, California:  Make adjustments NOW, AFTER the damage is done.  Douchebags.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:37 | 6074202 crisrose
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Since I moved here in 1985, I've conserved water: combine laundry loads, wash dishes by hand, turn off the tap while brushing teeth...  It makes me want to slap some people!

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:40 | 6074214 Seek_Truth
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It's a lonely place to be the voice calling out in the wilderness.

But the upside is that you sleep like a baby at night.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 20:43 | 6074698 Emergency Ward
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Al Gore thanks you for conserving enough water to let him water his vast lawn and keep his Olympic swimming pool full.  He is sure to propose some sort of "Water Credit" trading plan that will allow him to increase his wealth while maintaining his environmental bona fides.

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 02:29 | 6075250 OldPhart
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I have sand as a lawn.  Trees that aren't watered...if they don't make it they become firewood.

In the meantime, I pay the bill for what we use.  While we are pretty conservative, I'm not nuts over it.  I leave the shower running shile I soap up.  I flush if it's yellow rather than letting it mellow.  We run water continuously to rinse dishes.

Fuck em, I'll just pay for what I used.  All of it goes into the cess pool to be recycled anyway.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:33 | 6074189 docmac324
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After they destory one of the prettiest states in the union, they will migrate and destroy the next state.  All-the-while driving local housing prices out of sight.  Coming to a state near, THEM.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:41 | 6074218 BoredRoom
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Californians should all be sterilized as they cross the borders into neighboring states....

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:51 | 6074256 g'kar
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Ignore those downvotes, they were already on their way across a border and didn't want to be inconvenienced.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:52 | 6074257 crisrose
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I upvoted you as long as they're screened for both looks and IQ.  Smart and beautiful?  Leave them alone!

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 21:23 | 6074797 tarabel
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They should all be blindfolded and whirled around and then pointed back in the direction from whence they came. Take days for them to figure it out.

Or else they should have to live up to their disparaging "flyover country" BS and all be forced to move to New York.

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 02:32 | 6075252 OldPhart
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We're not all that way, just the majority in the mega-cities.

The rest of us, east and away from them, are pretty much like everyone else.

We just don't have the numbers to do anything about it.

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 12:27 | 6075838 tarabel
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I hear you.

Every state is the same.

Bomb the big city or cities that dominate and the rest of it goes back to being America.

 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:41 | 6074219 Amy G. Dala
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Mission accomplished, babe.   Oregon is already history.  Started in Ashland, skipped up to Eugene, and now the mayor of Portland is an bisexual environmental engineer.  A real do-gooder.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:21 | 6074346 Monty Burns
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Portlanders are doing it to themselves.  Used  to be America's happiest,most 'European' and Whitest city.  But then the Oreginian printed this oicture.  So now Portland is going the way of Baltimore, Detroit etc.

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 05:08 | 6075333 DontGive
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WTF. Did I miss something?

You link to a race baiting article pimping "overwhelmingly white population". Then compare it to "overwhelmingly black population".

I think your brain cells must have fused or something. Please see a lobotomist.

Aside from that, lots of Californians selling one house there, buying 3 here. And shitting up the politics - not that we're not good at that ourselves. /sarc off

Fuck it, who cares.

 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:43 | 6074229 Frankie Carbone
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Human locusts. Trendy, politically correct locusts.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:13 | 6074322 Monty Burns
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It's happening already. Descending in large numbers on places like Kalispell and being shocked at the lack of diversity. The vibrants will follow in due course.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:36 | 6074199 falconflight
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It'll maybe at least help thwart that deflationary bogeyman, more money chasing fewer foodstuffs.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:37 | 6074203 Thisisbullishright
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So of course the golf courses will no longer be able to water the grass as that is a monumental WASTE of water and....

Oh wait, I'm sure that won't happen!

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:44 | 6074232 Stormtrooper
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Send some of those hot California girls here to Ohio and we'll let you build a 20' pipeline from our Great Lakes to keep those golf courses nice and green.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:46 | 6074227 jomama
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California is only a desert from SLO down and east of the eastern Sierras.

California used to be home to largest wetlands in all of Northern America a mere 150 years ago. Irrigation projects around WWII - damming up the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers coupled with flood irrigation in the central valleys in the decades after destroyed these wetlands that took tens of thousands of years to form.

Sitting on the largest body of water on the planet and we're out of water? Simple irresponsibility.

Nestle CEO: Corporations Come Before Humanity
Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:43 | 6074230 Lazane
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Hey they have a Pacific Ocean of water right next door, better to get busy building desalination plants so the cows will come home, then to sit around complaining like liberals do counting beads of sweat and encouraging plenty of hand wringing. 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:59 | 6074275 cigarEngineer
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WaterFX builds solar-powered modules for desalinating water. Each module produces about 2.33 acre-inches per day. It's a parabolic-trough solar power system. Very interesting.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:57 | 6074441 conscious being
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A real engineer, back in the day would look up in the sky and ask wtf is going on before thinking about clever work-arounds.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 12:13 | 6081198 GoinFawr
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wait, what is it you think engineers do exactly?

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 02:24 | 6075130 GoinFawr
Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:43 | 6074231 BoredRoom
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It's a good thing that most illegals don't take regular baths, and most Californian men would rather have a steaming cup of man chowder than a glass of water.

 

 

Did that make me come off as insensitive?

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:03 | 6074294 Chauncey Gardener
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Of course not. Just non-inclusive.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:09 | 6074311 Monty Burns
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Yeah, beaner BO is legendary.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 20:14 | 6074630 The Magus
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Very insensitive. Being gay is disgusting. Get with the prog!

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 09:45 | 6075564 Government need...
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It's hard to find a steaming cup of organic man chowder these days.  I just cant take the gamey flavor that you find down in the Tenderloin section of San Fran.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:47 | 6074241 g'kar
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Can't we just see pictures of the Hollywood types luxuriating in their pristine swimming pools instead?

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:56 | 6074250 cigarEngineer
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Bureau of Land Management Press Release: Success! Now the Desert Tortoise can thrive!

But seriously, quotas and fines for "overuse" of water is a terrible tragedy that invites government-thug-jackboots further intruding into our daily lives. What happened to paying what it's worth? The problem isn't fracking, but big agriculture getting water at artificially-low rates, while citizens pay through the nose. You can have price controls and shortages, or you can have real price discovery where everyone competes for the finite resource that water is. Once the true price is discovered, they can have Very Large Crude Carriers deliver water to LA from Oregon. I calculated the cost in a previous post and transport costs about $1 per 226 gallons.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:07 | 6074303 Chauncey Gardener
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You are not entitled to my Oregon water. Get your damn fake lawn already. I'll flush hard.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:26 | 6074362 Seek_Truth
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Not even water from the Hanford site?

Man- you sure are selfish!

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:29 | 6074374 Chauncey Gardener
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Had to upvote you for that one!

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 05:13 | 6075339 DontGive
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At least it's "our" Hanford site.

Stick to poluting ZH with your posts. Looking at your history, you're quite the poster'er. Hope you get paid for that.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 20:06 | 6074607 TheGreatRecovery
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This year's new fad: boulder lawns in California. 

Donkey to Shrek (more or less): "Wow, and on such a limited budget.  Hey, that's a nice boulder!  I really like that boulder!" 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 17:50 | 6074254 IndianaJohn
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Every joker I see is carrying a plastic water bottle. They have been trained to pay retail for each sip. Well, I own Lake Michigan and you can buy water from me. Dip it yourself, pure natural unprocessed water for 2 cents per cup. Think of the savings! Special price to those who can show a California license; 1cent per cup. Come and get it.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:30 | 6074378 Seek_Truth
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You are quite correct.

Not everyone- but a large portion of the western world- has been conned into the consumerist lifestyle.

Me?

I like me water from a spring- pure and fresh- the way God made it.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:37 | 6074399 Berspankme
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I always love watching the old westerns where they go down to the stream and fill their canteens and take a big drink. Yep, all the modernization has been so good for us

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:51 | 6074434 Seek_Truth
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Lol!

Streams are still mostly safe for drinking from- I've been doing it most of my life.

If you do get sick- you'll most likely get over it.

People in other lands do it all the time.

It's a good thing to get used to, in my opinion.

Having said that, pure, spring-fed water is plentiful where I live.

So I would boil questionable water before drinking it.

 

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 08:45 | 6075508 Hyjinx
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A lot of people do... that is why they bottle and sell it!

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:01 | 6074286 Batman11
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Los Angeles the 22nd Century Angkor Wat.

 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 19:18 | 6074499 knukles
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LA is no palace, temple, sacred site or natural beauty.  It is a massive shit hole fit only for destruction by the first alien invasion.
Fuck LA
It is a prime example of what is wrong with America, let alone California. 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 20:08 | 6074614 TheGreatRecovery
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While watching the movie "Battle for Los Angeles" I kept wondering, "why would the aliens want Los Angeles?"

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 20:13 | 6074629 knukles
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When the trailer was shown in my village (Central Coast area) the audience went wild cheering that it gets destroyed for good.
A sorta real Sodom.... LOL

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 13:59 | 6076055 TheGreatRecovery
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I was kinda cheering for both sides.  At least the aliens realized the most valuable thing there was the water.  :0)

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 21:19 | 6074787 tarabel
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Hey, the La Brea Tar Pits are cool.

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 02:40 | 6075259 OldPhart
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I could do without LA, also.

A few years after "Volcano" (http://watch.movierojo.com/play.php?movie=0120461) came out, I was Director of Finance at LACMA.  It was fun to watch after working at the museum.

By the way, walk around the park at La Brea and you will see lush green grass with tar bubbling out of it.  There's even a healthy tree that perculates tar off a branch.

So much for oil/tar destroying the environment.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:04 | 6074295 Goldilocks
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Dane Wigington: Geoengineering-Climate Engineering Is Making a Host of Bad Things Worse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXlMzg6D8rw (24:12)

Published on Apr 28, 2015
Dane Wigington of GeoEngineeringWatch.org contends, “Climate engineering is shredding the ozone layer which allow more thermal energy to come in. So, the more they spray, the more they have to spray. It is also redirecting upper level wind currents, which is also redirecting ocean currents. We have warm water now pumping into the artic, and that is releasing methane. We have a global methane cataclysm going on right now. Geoengineering is making a host of bad things worse.”

How bad? Wigington says, “We have a species extinction rate today that is likely approaching 300 every single day. 200 to 300 different plants and species going extinct every single day. So, we are in the sixth great mass extinction now. I don’t care how much money you print. I don’t care how much you falsify unemployment figures. If the planet can’t support life, it’s game over. We are on a fast track for that place. . . . The bottom line, at this point, is the power structure is doing all it can to hide reality from the climate, to the species extinction rate, to the economic figures. It’s like a snake eating its own tail. They simply are trying to hide it as long as they can to stay off panic as long as they can, but we are on the fast track to total disaster and total collapse.

Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with Dane Wigington, founder of GeoEngineeringWatch.org - http://usawatchdog.com/geoengineering-fast-track-to-total-disaster-total...

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 04:03 | 6075310 Alvin Fernald
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Don't we agree that CA's normal water supply is being diverted to lower land values so people will sell?
Ala Lex Luthor?

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:05 | 6074299 Chauncey Gardener
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Look on the bright side--boat prices near CA lakes must be a real bargain.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 21:18 | 6074785 tarabel
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Great opportunity to do some lake bottom treasure hunting for sunglasses, watches, you name it.

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 02:43 | 6075261 OldPhart
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Well, all MY gold was lost at the botton of dry lakes to start with...

Sat, 05/09/2015 - 06:31 | 6075385 DutchBoy2015
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Probably find lots of guns and skeletons from people who ''disappeared''.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:20 | 6074344 Goldilocks
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THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/przion1.htm

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:22 | 6074350 Dixie Flatline
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R O F L !!!

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:30 | 6074376 Goldilocks
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"The only statement I care to make about the PROTOCOLS is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. THEY FIT IT NOW." - Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview published in the New York WORLD, February 17th, 1921

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:42 | 6074386 Dixie Flatline
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Hey the entire world and everything in it fits into your tea cup.  I'll try not to jostle your arm so's you don't spill any.

http://history.hanover.edu/hhr/99/hhr99_2.html

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 19:00 | 6074451 Goldilocks
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Oingo Boingo Dead Man's Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iypUpv9xelg (3:54)

Oingo Boingo - It's a Dead Man's Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UbGtjnluyY (4:16)

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 21:16 | 6074782 tarabel
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THE ACCUMULATED WISDOM OF THE WORLD NAZI CONGRESS...

( This space for rent at a very affordable rate. NO JEWS NEED APPLY!!!! )

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:18 | 6074338 Smartie37
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Super Genius Jerry Brown has the answers:

Bring in more immigrants so they can all pee and give us more water to recycle, then

keep building lots more houses so their all the new roof gutters can catch the rain to put onto their new lawns, then

bleed people out and extract the water from their blood to provide to fracking co's 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 18:30 | 6074377 Chauncey Gardener
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Absolutely bullish!

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 19:23 | 6074513 silverer
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Jerry Brown.  Maybe the next guy to run for gov should be Major Green.

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