No Delta Gates Main site for opposition

Form to oppose 2gates

The experiment, proposed by (and paid for) by southern California water concerns and land developers, is a part of the California Department of Natural Resources modeling elements for the extremely controversial Peripheral Canal. f the two gates project can demonstrate it helps to protect the Delta’s endangered smelt population, this will help the Peripheral Canal project along in the approval process. The project is clearly pitched as a “Save the Smelt” project. Southern Calif. bastards are stealing our water! Includes address & phone number of Congressman McNerney.

Reports @USBR

Location Map – shows the proposed location of the 2 gates (from 2-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project)

… two temporary, mechanically operated gates that could help restore some of the Delta pumping recently lost because of biological opinions to protect fish. But these gates will cut us off from the rest of the delta.

Turbid = murky

a huge gain in water supply

Shortly after his coronation, Louis XVI visited Louis-le-Grand school. Maximilien Robespierre, then 17 years old, had been chosen out of five hundred pupils to deliver a speech to welcome the king. On the day of speech, Robespierre and the crowd waited for the king and queen for several hours in the rain. Upon arrival, the royal couple remained in their coach for the ceremony and immediately left thereafter. Later, Robespierre would be one of those who would eventually work towards the death of the king.

This is what happens when you snub your students.
(cf Maximilien Robespierre)

from: www.shorpy.com/node/5599

Election 2008

She voted for McCain in the classroom exercise.

I believe in giving children, and adults for that matter, information and letting them decide. I would never use my children to advance a political cause or candidate.

But I am pleased that Pulguito chose Obama. I don’t know why he chose as he did, but Pulguito was very vocal about it. I haven’t said so to my husband or daughter, but … really … Obama was the only logical choice. Just ask Pulguito.

Map of a different Color at Science Friday.

Mark Newman, professor of physics at the University of Michigan, has a new spin on an old map. He created a program to make cartograms–maps in which the states are drawn with their size proportional to population, not acreage. His latest cartograms describe voting in the 2008 presidential election. Find out what they show about voting trends.

Maps of the 2008 US presidential election results

His story makes me angry and sad.

Today I sketched the preliminary plans for a large country house which will be erected in one of the most beautiful residential districts in the world. . . . Sometimes I have dreamed of living there. I could afford such a home. But this evening . . . I returned to my own small, inexpensive home . . . in a comparatively undesirable section of Los Angeles. Dreams cannot alter facts; I know . . . I must always live in that locality, or in another like it, because . . . I am a Negro.

More on Mr Williams.

News articles on the topic.

We have met the enemy, and they are us. I’m so ashamed of the situation in Iraq. I wish there were an answer that we, the USA, could find. I’m afraid there isn’t. I believe that if we just leave, we are abandoning the civilians who just want to sent their kids to school, do their jobs, and live. I believe that if we don’t leave, nothing will get better there. Well, maybe not. I mean, we could go in and crush everyone, and that might work in the short run, but the middle east would explode if we did that, and it’s not justified. It would be criminal. It would be evil. It might be something that USA would do.

We are so dependent on oil. That is why we are there. I get that. I understand that without oil our military and commercial might would disappear. That’s my way of life. That is me. That is part of what makes it so hard.

What I don’t get is why we unfalteringly support Israel. Saudi Arabia, yes. Kuwait, yes. Dubai, yes. Anyone else who has large oil reserves, yes. But why Israel? If someone knows, please, tell me.

I also don’t get why Iran, a Shi’ite state, is part of the … what did our really stupid president call them? Empire of Evil?, but at the same time, we seem to be supporting the Shi’ites in Iraq. I mean, won’t the Iraqi Shi’ites turn to the Iranian Shi’ites the moment that the USA is gone? Isn’t that obvious? What’s going to happen to the Sunnis that live there? And what about the Kurds? I mean, now things may be better for them. They are fairly independent, but what happens when the USA leaves and the Shi’ites are in control of Iraq? Are the Kurds going to remain independent and safe?

And you know why I think we are allowing the slaughter in Darfur? I think we, the political entity that is the USA and controls the American military, are waiting for the people who are slaughtering the locals to finish the job, so that we, American industry, can go in and develope the oil.

We are pigs. We are slaves to oil. We have to do something.

While I’m at it, I’d like to point out that I understand that it’s really hard to give up oil. Look at Europe. They are 100% behind the Kyoto Protocol, or are they? Did they meet their goals? No.

I wish I had answers. Well, other than the reconsideration of nuclear power.