[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The 88-year-old congressman died while traveling home to Alaska
Young lost consciousness on a flight from Los Angeles to Seattle and could not be resuscitated
'Don Young's legacy as a fighter for the state will live on, as will his fundamental goodness and honor,' his office said
Young was the longest-serving member of the current U.S. Congress and represented Alaska for 25 terms
Last year he filed to enter this November's election
In Congress, he was known for directing billions of dollars of federal money to Alaska, the largest state in the country but with one of the smallest populations
In late 2020, Young was diagnosed with COVID-19 after he had earlier ridiculed the disease as a 'beer virus'
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He was as GOPe as GOPe gets. Maybe it's bad form to bring that up at this time. The next question will be, is he replaced by someone even more GOPe, a Murkey clone, or Heaven Forbid, a dem.
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I don't dare give on thin dime to the GOP as long as there are RINOs (Liz, Mittens) or same old, same old (Graham, McConnell) types. When the lines are blurred between Dem and GOP, you know there's a problem.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s urban water users and farmers who rely on supplies from state reservoirs will get less than planned this year as fears of a third consecutive dry year become reality, state officials announced Friday.Water agencies that serve 27 million people and 750,000 acres (303,514 hectares) of farmland, will get just 5% of what they've requested this year from state supplies beyond what's needed for critical activities such as drinking and bathing.
That's down from the 15% allocation state officials had announced in January, after a wet December fueled hopes of a lessening drought.
But a wet winter didn't materialize and unless several more inches of rain falls this month, the January-March period will be the driest start to a California year at least a century. That's when most of the state's rain and snow typically falls.
Mandatory restrictions on using water for outdoor activities like landscaping and other purposes may come from local water agencies as they continue to grapple with limited supplies, said Karla Nemeth, director of the California Department of Water Resources.
Local water agencies that know their communities’ unique needs are better poised than state officials to set water use restrictions, Nemeth said.
"I think with this reduced allocation we are going to see more urban areas in California move into some kind of mandatory water conservation," she said in an interview.
State officials will continue urging people to voluntarily cut water use by 15%, an amount designed to get Californians' collective water use back to what it was during the last drought, which lasted from 2012 to 2016, Nemeth said.
Statewide water use in January actually went up 2.6% compared to the same month in 2020, due to dry conditions and warm temperatures.
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they could use natural gas to desalinize ocean water but since CA is a no fracking state they can't
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
03/20/2022 0:46 Comments ||
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Clearly Putin is to blame. Plus global covid warming
#6
That's by design. Poverty and food shortages for the California proles so they start to die off. Bill Gates owns more farmland in the water-rich regions than anyone outside of Sierra Pacific Industries
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#1 I have often wondered why California, which has 700+ miles of border with the Pacific Ocean, has not started a massive desalinization plan. I think the costs may be high; but how bad is the cost of not having water at all?
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03/20/2022 13:23 Comments ||
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^ Costs are high (energy) and the Environuts sue over the plankton and small fishkill by the intakes, making it even more expensive. I would propose that if one refuses to allow desal, they should have no pools and be limited to "Navy showers" ;-)
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Oprah and her neighbors don't have swimming pools, they have Forward Deployed Fire Suppression Caches....so she gets a pass, and he gets a pass, they all get passes!
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Not enough energy. North/west coast above Ventura is sunlight inconsistent
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Unclear power would be an excellent way to run desalination plants. Bu nooooooo!
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Put a (really big) dome over the Salton Sea, collect the condensate, pump it up to the aqueduct system, and let the Sea refill from the Gulf. Mine the salt deposited along the fringes.
[Gateway] "So, let’s get back to the name-calling," said "journalist" Leslie Stahl in an interview with then-President Donald Trump after dismissing what should have been one of the most consequential October surprises in presidential election history, the Hunter Biden laptop story.
The New York Post’s October 2020 bombshell story, which exposed a presidential candidate’s planned business deal with a CCP-affiliated company established precisely to enrich his family, set up so that the candidate himself, referred to as "The Big Guy," would receive a 10 percent share of future profits, should have derailed Joe Biden’s campaign. The emails revealed in this game-changing report provided a road-map of the Biden family’s long history of influence peddling.
But we quickly learned that a scandal is only a scandal if Big Tech, the legacy media and a group of former intelligence community leaders say it is.
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Crooked pols and the media. Something akin to termites in the South. Those little fellas are an assumed hazard of home ownership. If you don't have a "bug man" you're just not thinking.
[TheNewRepublic] Attempting to defend Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, House Bill 1557, Christina Pushaw, the press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, accused the bill’s opponents of preying on children. “The bill that liberals inaccurately call ‘Don’t Say Gay’ would be more accurately described as an Anti-Grooming Bill,” Pushaw wrote on Twitter, ahead of a vote in the state Senate. If you are against the bill, she added, “you are probably a groomer.” Those opponents would include gay Florida state Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, who called this out as a “bigoted attack,” to which Pushaw replied, “A hit dog hollers.”
Last week, H.B. 1557 passed the state legislature and headed to DeSantis’s desk (where he will most likely—but hasn’t yet—signed it into law). The resulting scramble to defend the Florida bill to a national audience has led the “grooming” charge to circulate more widely and perhaps more explicitly than it has before. On Fox last week, Laura Ingraham threw in behind DeSantis and the bill, scolding Democrats for calling the bill “bigoted” when “the real controversy” is “schools peddling gender ideology,” and calling schools “grooming centers.” In the Fox pantheon, “grooming” is being teed up as the next “critical race theory.”
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I’m very sorry, Spereger Graper4642 — we lost half your clever headline because it was after a double quotation mark. For some reason Rantburg cuts off all headline text after a double quote when the article is opened for editing. If you would inform me of the original, I’ll be happy to fix it, but in the meantime I just added enough so it is informative, if dull.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[Gateway] "So, let’s get back to the name-calling," said "journalist" Leslie Stahl in an interview with then-President Donald Trump after dismissing what should have been one of the most consequential October surprises in presidential election history, the Hunter Biden laptop story.
