Article in this month’s American Spectator.

Notwithstanding the fact that California’s reservoirs are drying up because court orders to protect the smelt have emptied them.

Notwithstanding the fact that Global Warming would cause more, not less, rain in California.

Notwithstanding the fact that the current drought is a mild one by historical standards.

People have been conditioned to accept The Consensus unquestioningly as the excuse for everything.

I used to walk the fields in Le Grande with my father and grandfather. They told me stories of spreading gypsum on the fields when my dad was a boy. They moved from Oklahoma in 1941 during the dust bowl to find a farmer’s paradise in the Central Valley.

The environmentalists have completely destroyed what was once the greatest State in the nation.

when the cost of their food goes up yet again? And here I been told over and over that the folks in Washington care about the children?

why don’t they just catch some, put them in tanks and start breeding them? That’s basically how the buffalo were saved from extinction. The Bronx Zoo gathered some up shipped them back east and gave them an area to graze where they wouldn’t be hunted. When there was enough of them they shipped some back to the west ( There used to be a herd of them about a mile or two from our house when I was growing up in Colorado) but pretty much all the buffalo (American Bison to be technical) alive today are from the original Bronx Zoo herd.

Actually this story reminds me of a simlar situation I heard about several years ago. I stumbled across a petition that asserted the right to use arms in defense of liberty and emailed the author basically asking ” do you really think things have gotten to that point?”

He was more reasonable than I wouldn’t expected and wasn’t expecting to have to use arms in the near future – but he told me of the incident that sparked his petition.

In Oregon, the water supply had been cut off to a large number of farms out of fears it would drain a lack that was home to some rare fish. (According to him there was no danger of that even happening. ) They challenged it in court but either they didn’t get their verdict or it was dragging out forever and some farmers were going bankrupt and losing their land.

Finally a bunch of them took matters into their own hands – figured out a way to redirect the water without opening the dam that the courts had ordered and brought their guns when they went down to do it. The police came out and initially were going to try and stop them, but when the famers explained there point of view, explained that technically they weren’t violating the letter of the law, so cops didn’t really HAVE to intervene, and let the policemen see that they all had guns and were not going to back down – the cops were on their side and decided what the courts didn’t know wouldn’t hurt them.