Versailles in California

PJ Media ^ | 9-22-14 | Victor Davis Hanson

[BenLurkin]

TThe Lear Jet Leftists expect to form the core of the global Green Inner Party. They will continue to enjoy the finest foods and most advanced gadgets the world has to offer — while deciding your fate for you.

If you work very hard with unwavering loyalty, you may be permitted to join the global Green Outer Party. You will be allowed occasional servings of meat - and air conditioning on a rationed basis.

The rest of us will eat insects and swelter – “for the good of the planet”.

[Travis McGee]

“A History of the Last Days of Mexicalifornistan.”

[afraidfortherepublic]

I might add that there is plenty of offshore oil in CA too -- most of it off limits, thanks to the Sierra Club.

One has to wonder when they are going to get wise in my native state and install desalinization plants for northern and southern California cities andstartallowing the CONTRACTED water to be given back to the farmers where it is needed.

[Inyo-Mono]

The far distant watersheds and reservoirs that feed Pyramid Lake are about bone dry.

Yes they are.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This goes on in a lot of places. Government buildings are turning into palaces. The government workers really are turning into the new ruling class.

[Regulator]

I might add that there is plenty of offshore oil in CA too

In the state that uses the most gas in the country.

But it's OK as long as the oil comes from somewhere else...hidden from view.

The land of Screaming Hypocrites.

[Jane Long]

Hunger Games.

[pleasenotcalifornia]

Let California secede and perhaps enough far left loons will move there to leave the rest of our country majority conservative.

[Vince Ferrer]

This is the issue republicans can win on, if they feel like it.

[truth_seeker]

In historically conservative Orange County there is a planned but controversial desalination plant.

The liberal environmentalists oppose it. They are more concerned about the wellbeing of fishes, than of people.

And they make outlandish warnings, about the consequences of building the plant.

Up the coast a few miles, these same environmental extremists opposed a pair of jetties, created to restore tidal flushing into a degraded coastal wetland.

Since the project has been completed, NONE of the bad results warned by the liberal environmental extremists has occurred.

[fieldmarshaldj]

They never do that. They always crap their nest and leave to go crap in everyone elses’.

[DuncanWaring]

From the Notebooks of Lazarus Long:

There are hidden contradictions within the minds of people who “love nature” while deploring the “artificialities” with which “Man has spoiled ‘Nature.” The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of “Nature”--but beavers and their damns are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver damn (erected by beavers for beaver’s purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purpose of men) the “Naturist” reveals his hatred for his own race--i.e., his own self-hatred. In the case of “Naturists” such self—hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot. But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate. As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H. Sapiens is the only race I have or can have. Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women-- it strikes me as a fine arrangement and perfectly “natural.” Believe it or not, there were “Naturists” who opposed the first flight to old Earth’s Moon as being “unnatural” and a “despoiling of nature.”

[Don Corleone]

If you work very hard with unwavering loyalty, you may be permitted to join the global Green Outer Party. You will be allowed occasional servings of meat - and air conditioning on a rationed basis. The rest of us will eat insects and swelter – “for the good of the planet”.

However, the chocolate ration will NOT be increased.

[EagleUSA]

Radical liberalism of Taxifornia’s leftist government taking care of its own. Just ask Jerry Brown.

[cicero2k]

Let them drink Perrier?

[ArmstedFragg]

The state agency that allocates water rights was not required to limit how many it allocated. As a result, there are ten times as many water rights allocations as there is actual water available. Just a minor error in legislative drafting there...

[ArmstedFragg]

We fought a five year battle with them to get a San Diego County desal plant open.

[Mastador1]

The land of Screaming Hypocrites.

Actually the government of screaming hypocrites, just like, oh , N.Y., D.C., Washington State and a lot of other places in America.

[Fiji Hill]

There are rarely frosts or scorching 100-degree temperatures from San Diego to Berkeley, the coastal strip where there is little need for air conditioners or for daylong use of central heating.

Does Victor Davis Hanson ever leave his home in Selma, in Fresno County, to spend much time on the coast? I live about 30 miles from the ocean and we regularly use central heating in the winter and air conditioning in the summer.