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Sarah Palin just solved Californias drought crisis
People smart enough to pay $99.99 a year to subscribe to the Sarah Palin Channel learned that their winking maverick hero has solved the California drought crisis:
You might ask, though, why dont they just fix the infrastructure problem, why dont they just build more reservoirs and plants? After all, California is a coastal state. Its got a whole ocean right there, water all around ya. If we built reservoirs to capture the water coming down out of the mountains instead of wastefully putting it into rivers (to preserve wetlands and fish runs) there would be plenty of water.
http://boingboing.net/2015/07/03/relax-sarah-palin-just-solved.html
madaboutharry
(40,238 posts)skills is a terrible burden.
-none
(1,884 posts)Burden? What burden? The fix to so many things are simple and obvious. What could go wrong?
Iggo
(47,580 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)dembotoz
(16,864 posts)Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)Yes, it is a cartoon. Yes, it is on Netflix. Keith does the voice of the newscaster whale on MSNBSea and when he expresses extreme outrage water shoots out of his blow hole. Good times.
Takket
(21,655 posts)And while we are at it, if people are cold in the winter, why not just burn all that money you have lying around?
handmade34
(22,759 posts)she is even more ignorant than I thought... unbelievable... ignorance that obvious should be outlawed
marble falls
(57,403 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)KG
(28,753 posts)conservative 'logic' is built on layers fantasy and stupid.
edbermac
(15,948 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)It may have escaped her that the problem is that it doesn't rain or snow anymore.
The reservoirs we already have are empty and the rivers that feed them have dried up.
It must be wonderful to go through life completely clueless.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Thinking even Palin couldn't be that ridiculous. A whole ocean.
antiquie
(4,299 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)Here's a photograph of it from last fall.
antiquie
(4,299 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Palin's solution reminded me of this...
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Which explains quite a bit. Contestants are primed to answer questions by cramming as much information into the allotted time as they can. Sort of like first year law students who cite every precedent back to the Magna Carta or Hammurabi's Code to explain a simple contract. It's no wonder pageant contestants get bollixed up when the crowd is sitting there, the spotlight's on, and you're nervous to begin with.
I do not, however, have an explanation for why Gov. Palin still writes as if she's in a pageant.
rickford66
(5,530 posts)You just add water.
savalez
(3,517 posts)DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)Best laugh I've had all day!!!
JHB
(37,163 posts)You know how healthy ocean water is, right Sarah? After all, Alaska has more coastline than even California!
Drink up! Have another!
NickB79
(19,277 posts)Californias current megadrought hit a shocking new low this week: On Thursday, the states snowpack officially ran out.
At least some measurable snowpack in the Sierra mountains usually lasts all summer. But this year, its early demise means that runoff from the mountainswhich usually makes up the bulk of surface water for farms and cities during the long summer dry seasonwill be essentially non-existent. To be clear: theres still a bit of snow left, and some water will be released from reservoirs (which are themselves dangerously low), but this is essentially a worst-case scenario when it comes to Californias fragile water supply.
And this was over a month ago!
olddots
(10,237 posts)very misunderstood .......naw she is a mineral .
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)a stupidity for which there is no conceivable metric, into clean energy, we would have enough for a hundred thousand years and functioning warp drive within a year at most.
A hole in the ground (a "reservoir" is useless if the water table has been tapped dry.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)The right wingers chant these mantras so often, you could mistake them for Buddhists, if you didn't listen to the actual nonsense words. The emerging mantra from the water crisis is "more storage capacity." Of course, if you go look at the reservoirs now, with the tiny little trickles feeding them, you would ask, "To store what?" You can't store what doesn't exist. The mantra includes the suggestion that we can somehow put water in storage and hold it for an unlimited period. Leakage and evaporation would get some of it, but I bet most of it would be stolen legally or otherwise, by the various irrigators who all believe water is wasted on fish and people.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)So, $99.99 -- for a year? And is she really broadcasting 24 hours a day? Who else is on this channel? Mercy. I have no wish to see it, but am somewhat curious as to the reality of the thing. Anyway, gosh, Sarah, thanks. We are glad you solved this problem!!!
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)booger-eatin' stupid. Seriously.
Dumber than the bag of hair and sack of hammers put together.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)coming down out of the mountains? I understand that it never reaches the ocean because it gets all used up.
ladyVet
(1,587 posts)Why in the world are we not implementing this audacious plan? WHY? Californians are begging for water, and we refuse to build reservoirs.
Oh, the inhumanity of it all. The utter cold-heartedness of the American people who won't think of those poor people, surrounded by an ocean full of water, which we won't let them have.
I'm in tears just thinking about it. I'm so ashamed. Maybe we should divert all our resources into building bigger reservoirs. We could build them all over the place! I'm going to send Ms. Palin my deepest thanks for clearing up this issue. I'm going to write letters to the editor!
Which newspapers? All of them, of course.
And so, too, also.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)It's not a completely bad idea to look at more efficient and cheaper ways to desalinate ocean water.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Quixote1818
(29,000 posts)In fact, 17 desalination plants are already in the planning stages in California.
However, the plants cost anywhere from $150 million to $1 billion apiece, which will surely eat up a large chunk of the states projected $4.2 billion surplus very quickly.