Drought

To James. He's always little brother Jimmy to me but he doesn't like that handle.

I was thinking about this the other day as it rained like mad for the third time in one day for the seventh day in a row. Weather unusual for Colorado, but then all weather is unusual for Colorado. That's axiomatic. And always has been.

The same line of thought is triggered again when scanning past a link on Drudge without bothering to click or read anything.

It's so stupid. 

So incredibly stupid. And I mean stupid as stuck in a high-school discussion that never ends. 

That really is your governor. Jerry Brown. Patently stuck in a high-school discussion and so is everybody who elected him. 

I thought about it again today as it rained so heavily so oddly and still requiring I water my plants because half of them don't even get wet, and again while watching t.v. the boy in the family band said he finally made it to California for the first time and it was raining. "Hey, I was told it never rains in California."

And recalling how it rained like mad, continuously, when we returned from Maui. All week. And the whole train ride back. The entire ride. Rain is not California's problem. Water is not California's problem. Overpopulation is not California's problem. 

You know by living there and by traveling around the state and the area that there is plenty of water and plenty of places to store water for times when its needed and plenty of money to do any engineering project your state wishes to undertake. Water is not the problem. You know as Christian God provides, you know by Christian history the stories of pharaohs learning from dreams and from Jews to parlay times of plenty to cover periods of need. You know by your third-grade science that water replenishes cyclically reliably. You know by driving your Cadillac into the twelve foot snowbank in the Sierras. Your common sense tells you drought in your state needn't be.

No, the problem is ideology. Pinched ideology. It is conservative principles, conservation, but torqued to pinched ideology. The problem is a type of conservation-liberal thinking and planning (To have discomforting shortages that forces change. They like that. It's their reason for being.), the problem is Democrats, the problem is Jerry Brown. Were it a Venn diagram the circles would be concentric.

Here's confirmation, here is how I aver all this confidently. A screenshot from Drudge. 

That's so Malthusian it's not even funny. That is very  1970's right there. That is a very old and barren concern and argument. Jerry Brown never grew up. As governor he is saying and showing that he refuses to prepare for more population. [Colorado shared this same governing attitude in reverse from Republicans, it was Democrats who insisted on preparing for growth and by doing encourage it] And this should prove that if you see any motion in that direction of preparing for a water secure future it will be only faint and half-hearted efforts because his and Sacramento's real and true concern will be to limit population. But watch. Oddly, contrary to federal law keeping borders wide open as possible and allowing even encouraging migration that leapfrogs over the legal system in place. All that together says quite clearly the governing class together there would strongly prefer ruling people ruled more easily than you.  Either stop breeding or get out, or stay away to begin with, or think of something else, or suffer with less water. There will be no or little preparation for future water needs because that would encourage internal U.S. migration to California its population to swell and causing Jerry Brown concern. They will do this with lawfare and with water and with whatever tools you allow them. 

Apparently, Californians agree or else they would not elect this antique, but they did. 

There is no reason to suffer drought.  No reason at all.  There is plenty of water replenishing constantly.  You know that by the sierras alone.