No Anthony, the first national monument was not the Liberty Bell. Theodore Roosevelt gave that honor to the Devil’s Tower, a slag of rock in Wyoming in 1906.
Good Riddance Billie Joe Armstrong — Billie Joe Armstrong who is the face of Green Day, which was popular 30 years ago, has renounced his American citizenship because the Supreme Court finally realized that the Constitution really doesn’t provide a right to have an abortion.
The hissy fit was something predictable, but in the end is right for the rest of us.
Most Endangered River Provides Water to 40 Million Residents
By Joe Guzzardi
At a June 14 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee meeting, environmentalists warned that the Colorado River’s reservoir level drop might bring dramatic cuts to water deliveries provided to the seven states dependent on the river. Those states are Colorado, California, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona and Nevada. Alarmingly, given its importance, the conservation group American Rivers ranked the Colorado as No. 1 on its list of the nation’s most endangered rivers.
Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton told the committee that maintaining “critical levels” at the largest reservoirs in the U.S. – Lake Mead and Lake Powell – will require large reductions in water deliveries. Touton advised the committee that, in the next two months, her agency is negotiating with the seven states that count on the Colorado River to develop a plan for apportioning the water supply reductions. The Reclamation Bureau is the federal agency charged with assisting the western states, Native American tribes and others to meet water needs. An estimated 40 million residents throughout the region rely on the Colorado for water.
The committee’s witnesses were unanimous in their predictions that acute water shortages are in the near-term future. John Entsminger, the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s general manager, said that the slow-motion train wreck that’s been accelerating for 20 years has created “the moment of reckoning.” Said Entsminger, “We are 150 feet from 25 million Americans losing access to the Colorado River, and the rate of decline is accelerating.”
Because the Western United States is suffering through a relentless drought, analysts predict that next year the affected states will cope with a decrease of between 2 million and 4 million acre-feet of water. Scientific Americanreported that 2021’s exceptionally dry year created a record-breaking drought, or mega-drought. The last 20 years have been the driest two decades in the last 1,200 years. To date, 2022 is the driest year on record in California. Researchers predict with a 94 percent degree of certainty that California’s drought will continue for at least one more year.
University of Colorado, Boulder climate scientist Imtiaz Rangwala has observed drought conditions increasingly worsen in the western and central U.S. “The last two years have been more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.1 Celsius) warmer than normal in these regions. Large swaths of the Southwest have been even hotter, with temperatures more than 3 F (1.7 C) higher.”
The link between more people and more water consumption is undeniable. Yet Congress, the White House, the media and academia refuse to have a rational discussion about reducing the flow of 1 million-plus legal immigrants which, with their offspring, drive population increases. Knowing that the nation’s western states are in a water crisis, opening the border to millions, as the Biden administration is doing, is ecological suicide. Nevertheless, the status quo on adding population continues on autopilot, consequences be damned.
Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the unfaithful for the upright.
Proverbs 21:18
Ransom for the righteous William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 6-27-22
Pat Poprik Nearly Bucked In Bucks — Barry Casper almost upset long-time Chairwoman Pat Poprik in yesterday’s (June 25) election of officers for the Bucks County Republican Committee.
It was the first challenge to a county party chairman in memory.
Casper got about 140 votes. It was uncertain how many Ms. Poprik received. There are 608 committee seats and just over 400 votes were cast. There were 111 committeepeople elected in the May primary. Soon after, however, Ms. Poprik filled more than 50 others via appointments.
The election included heated procedural disputes and those running things appeared oblivious to Roberts Rules of Order.
The disputes were such that Ms. Poprik pledged to convene a committee to address changing the party bylaws. This was also something that had not occurred in memory and Casper conveyed that this was a step in the right direction.
The votes were taken by roll call. Many of those voting depend on the party for jobs.
Also one voter, Mike Brill, cast 45 proxy votes, while another cast 35.
Q Is Back; Hasn’t Posted Since 2020 — For those curious about the infamous and mysterious Q and his army of anons, he/she/it posted yesterday, June 24, for the first time since Dec. 8, 2020.
The first post was made 9:26 p.m. and read: Shall we play a game once more?
The second at 10:09 p.m. was It had to be done this way and was a response to an anon who asked Throw us a bone Q, we’ve all been waiting for what seemed like an eternity.What’s going on?
The final at 11:04 p.m. Are you ready to serve your country again? Remember your oath.