So, let me see if I got this right – the frequent criminal Freddie Gray’s attorney, Billy Murphy, said that the Baltimore PD is “racist”???!!!!  The Baltimore PD is ~ (~ is an “approximate” notation) 40% minority and he calls it racist???!?!?!?!?!!

What I can’t understand is the desire of Democrats to look the other way on “illegal” activity.  Illegal immigration, illegally entering the country – pretty clear right? ILLEGAL

But, but, but they just want a better life and they provide us with cheap labor for jobs American citizens don’t want, right?  Well then let’s figure out a visiting worker program, register legally to come up here and work.  In other words, have a LEGAL process.  We do have legal processes now for student visas, green cards, etc.  Let’s work on that process to decrease the backlog and time it takes.

I love how skilled Hillary Clinton is at talking out of both sides of her mouth – as a U.S. Senator in 2007 Hillary Clinton voted for a so-called “poison pill” amendment that helped derail immigration reform and now she’s blasting Republicans for being mean to ILLEGAL immigrants.

We have seen how well looking the other way on illegal entry into the country works in the murder of Kate Steinle – #katesteinleslifematters

The mayor and city council and sheriff of San Francisco should be arrested for violating Federal law.  #arrestedlee

Let me see if I have this right:

I understand that a state should not have any flag other than the US and State Flags flying over state government property.

Also, it’s freedom of expression (a right protected by the Constitution) to stomp on the American Flag, so shouldn’t it also be freedom of expression for an individual to fly or demonstrate a Confederate Flag?  I’m shocked that ebay, Amazon and Valley Forge Flag Co are no longer selling them.

I was born in the North and was glad the North won and slavery was ended.  I have read a ton of Civil War history and the war was also a challenge for the independence of states to govern themselves.  None of us can profess to know or say with definition that anyone who has a Confederate Flag is a racist.  Since this controversy came about I’ve seen people espouse that to many Southerners its part of their heritage and something they identify with, that it was rebellion against the Northern aggressors.

And while I’m stream of consciousness writing, how did this Confederate flag thing become so suddenly important?  The thug who shot those good Christian souls was wearing a flag from the former apartheid government of South Africa.  Did I miss something?  Did they find Confederate flags at his house?

I just google shop searched for confederate flag and it said, my search showed no results.  What the hell?  Not to worry – Yahoo.com searches aren’t censoring.

And can’t you just see those Americans who say: if America would just be nicer to radical Islamist terrorists, they wouldn’t want to kill us – next they’ll say, we need to change the American Flag.  The American Flag incites angry feelings among those who took down the World Trade Center and fought us in Iraq and Afghanistan and killed our men in Benghazi.  The American Flag is that of an oppressive territorial super-power and that’s not fair.  It’s not fair that over 100,000 American soldiers lost their lives saving Europe from tyranny, either.

California needs to figure out its water shortage problem.  Sure, some of it is drought and there’s no easy fix, but I saw this article which gives a balanced view:

http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_26444134/california-drought-why-doesnt-california-build-big-dams

The few take-aways as I see it are that there hasn’t been a large lake been built since 1979 due to:

1) most of the best sites are taken
2) Environmental laws: Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, California Environmental Quality Act made it tougher to get such a project approved
3) California passage of Proposition 13 reduced Calif state tax revenue and federal laws were changed to require states to pay a greater share of local projects that benefited them.
4) Cities and farms improved efficiency – drip irrigation, more efficient toilets and faucets.  LA and San Jose use as much water now as they did 30 years ago.

This November, California will vote on providing bonds to fund more dams to retain the rain which currently runs off into the Pacific. Dam opponents say none of the big projects make economic sense. If the five most often talked-about projects were built, the cost would be $9 billion and the average annual water yield would be only 400,000 acre feet — 1 percent of California’s total annual use — said Ron Stork, with Friends of the River.

I bet Ron “Friends of the River” Stork probably sings a different tune when it comes to climate change.  Even though changes the world can make make will have as minimal an impact as he describes above, I bet he’s one of those crying, “but we have to do something!”  My issue with Friends of the River types is that they feel more strongly about preserving the habitat of a four tongued, three legged frog over the improvement of 14 million people’s lives through reduced water bills.

Bond supporters say that if more water is stored during wet years in new reservoirs, it can provide a cushion during droughts. They cite locally funded efforts like the Contra Costa Water District, which built Los Vaqueros Reservoir in 1997, or the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which built Diamond Valley in 1999 in Riverside County. Both regions do not have rationing now, and cite the stored water as a reason.

What do you think? Protect the rock gnome lichen, the dwarf wedgemussel, the Comal Springs dryopid beetle, and the tiny delta smelt or save rainwater from going into the Pacific Ocean for the future of mankind?