Posted by
Gar on Sunday, July 05, 2009 10:24:08 PM
California is either the seventh or eighth largest economy depending on whose statistics you care to use, and now the Federal EPA Envirowhacko regulators are going to give the State of California another kick in the teeth. The Feds are going to mandate more water be sent down the rivers to make certain the salmon have a nice place to live. And with the salmon frolicing happily in the rivers and then the oceans the Killer Whales will have something to eat.
I'm so freaking happy for the Killer Whales, the salmon and of course the native americans who get to fish for or gillnet as much salmon as they want to whenever they want to do it.
No one by the way, has suggested the Native Americans hold off on the annual slaughter of thousands of salmon. Just the rest of the West Coast has to comply with the fishing regulations.
All of this for a bunch (pod) of only 85 Killer Whales? For 85 killer Whales an entire farming industry needs to go down the tubes? If this is a joke, I want the punch line fast, if it's real.... someone needs to wake up and smell the coffee - quick.
The farmers in the Central Valley are already having trouble with the drought we've been going through for the last three years, - and NO it's NOT anthropogenic induced/created global warming. Weather cycles are highly variable in California depending on ocean currents and El Nino/La Nina patterns.
Part of the B.S. in the scare tactic data is this line:
- The killer whale population is extremely fragile, and scientists said the loss or serious injury to just one could appreciably reduce the odds that the southern resident pods would recover or survive.
except thqt in 2001 there were only 80 Orcas in the group they're talking about and now there are 85. Common sense here says that if they recover from 80 to 85 in eight years while under stress they will recover anyway if they're good enough to survive at all.
At any rate, drought for three years, with reduced water from the Fed Water Freaks, and now reduce the water more to jack the cost of food higher? And put more farmers out of business? That's a plan some freak in Washington or Sacramento came up with to solve a problem based on 85 big a$$ FISH?
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Without wild salmon from the Sacramento and American rivers as part of their diet, the killer whales might face extinction, scientists concluded in a biological opinion that could result in even more severe water restrictions for farmers in the drought-stricken, 400-mile-long Central Valley of California . The valley is the nation's most productive farm region.
The plan has faced heated criticism from agricultural interests and politicians in California , but environmentalists said it represented a welcome departure by the Obama administration from its predecessor in dealing with Endangered Species Act issues.
The Spongebama administration I daresay hasn't even looked at a river in California except as he flew to or from the West Coast to extort money from the Hollywierd Liberals.
That is just what this state needs right now, a further crimp in the ability to grow crops. In case y'all didn't know it, the San Joaquin Valley is the second most fertile valley on the entire planet after the Nile River Valley. Although the San Joaquin is far more productive thean the Nile valley due to American farming techniques.
Producing food for federal regulators is of course only secondary to saving whichever fish, plant, critter, or bug the envirowhackos. Sort of like Kim Jong (I'm So) ILL does.....
Fine wines, lots of fancy food, all the treats and let the common folks eat grass along side the road or starve.
Undoubtedly the Washington D.C and Sacramento Liberal Effete Elites will get what they want and the rest of us can grow our own or starve.
A better plan is to hunt down those pesky Orcas in Puget Sound, kill'em dead, butcher the big beasties and put them in the market AS food.
Now we don't have to lose as many salmon every year to the Orcas, more food salmon for people, more salmon to reproduce, more salmon for the Native Americans, and the water can still be used by the farmers to produce more food and everyone gets to eat.
Sounds a lot more logical to me.
And if more food is needed... for dogs, cats, and other animals who can't earn a living doing something useful... part of the Effete Elite Liberals can always be turned into
Soylent Green on the cheap to fill the need for the remaining Effete Elites, and that includes a lot of unitended consequences which are totally positive (from my point of view)
For those youger than about forty or so, Soylent Green is a dystopian sci fi movie where Soylent Green is a food source which the bulk of society survives on.
A Dystopian society is characterized by poverty, oppression, war, violence, disease, pollution and abridged human rights.
Sound Familiar?