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Posted 8:15 AM, September 22, 2014, by Larry Potash,
'Hi, do you have water?'
http://www.latimes.com/local/great-reads/la-me-c1-east-porterville-20140918-story.html#page=2'Hi, do you have water?' In a Central Calif. town, answer is often no.
By Diana Marcum
Column OneWater SupplyCalifornia Drought
The grandmother sat outside in her Sunday best next to a house with peeling paint, her canned iced tea resting on top of a washing machine that didn't work. She'd been without running water for four months.
Up an easy-to-miss dirt road, a 70-year-old woman moved 5-gallon jugs of water into her single-wide trailer. It was hard because she was weak from chemotherapy. Her water had stopped coming out of the tap three months ago. At the elementary school, a kitchen worker talked about all the children who were coming to school dirty.
This scattered Tulare County community may be the hardest-hit place in California's punishing drought. Of its 7,300 people, almost 1,000 have no running water. But few knew that until Donna Johnson, 72, started counting. Donna Johnson, 72, took it upon herself to collect donations of bottled water for area residents who no longer have running water.
Donna Johnson lugs bottled water for some of the hundreds around East Porterville whose wells have gone dry. She realized others might need help after her own well went dry in June. During a week when the temperature reached 106, Johnson drove her purple PT Cruiser past "Beware of dog" signs and up side roads that looked long-deserted. She found mobile homes hidden behind other buildings. She said to her newfound neighbors, "Hi. Do you have water?"
Again and again, the answer was no.
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Stats
An average 4 year old weighs about 40 pounds and is about 40 inches tall.
Adrian Peterson's stats: 6' 1", 217 lbs
Just because the child is "yours", does not mean you can abuse-at-will.
Size matters..
I know at 29, he is not a fully mature person, having been coddled and bravo-ed for most of his life, but he is a danger to his children because he obviously cannot control his temper.
4 year olds can be annoying, and tempestuous beings, but those things are no reason to hit them.
I was abused as a child, and was determined to break the cycle.. There were times I might have really wanted to hit them, but I also remembered how I felt as a kid..
No one can "give" democracy to another country
anymore than give a couple a happy marriage if the two people have grown to loathe each other.
The US has wasted so much money and blood trying to create democracies around the world.
The Middle East has NEVER had true democracies, and probably never will, because they are (and have been for thousands of years) a society of factions. Long ago they decided to stick to "their own kind", and chose to marginalize others whenever possible, and to do so in brutal ways.
I am so saddened every time we try to democratize others, when our own democracy barely functions anymore.
ISIS is a problem that Middle Easterners have to solve..or not. We have no business meddling anymore.
What probably needs to happen is for there to be a serious conference held, where any and all Middle Eastern countries send envoys who will get some "tough love"...namely.. "Get your act together, or perish".
Either have a mass "sorting" of population and move people into their own regions or have a massive knock down drag-out battle and settle this once and for all. Westerners have wasted too much time, energy, money and blood trying to sort things out.
Maria Shriver Erased
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/09/11/schwarzeneggers-estranged-wife-maria-shriver-erased-from-former-governors-official-portrait/Politics
Schwarzenegger’s Estranged Wife Maria Shriver Erased From Former Governor’s Official Portrait
by Carlos E. Castañeda September 11, 2014 1:00 PM
SACRAMENTO (CBS SF) — Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appears to have had an alteration to the official portrait unveiled in Sacramento earlier this week – the removal of an image of his estranged wife Maria Shriver .Thursday’s online San Francisco Chronicle Matier & Ross blog cites unnamed sources as saying the painting was done years ago and originally featured a lapel pin depicting Shriver.
The photograph-like portrait by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein shows a visible smudge on the left lapel.According to the column, Helnwein told Barbara Gasser of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association there was “one little interesting detail” in the portrait – “which I cannot give away because I am not allowed to tell, but it was very important and meaningful to the governor.”
A few months after Schwarzenegger left office in 2011, he and Shriver separated after 25 years of marriage. Days later it was revealed Schwarzenegger had fathered a son 14 years earlier during an ongoing affair he had with his household maid.
100 homes burned in Weed, CA ( a very cute little mountain town)
We stopped there for lunch on our way to Washington state.. and ended up spending a few hours wandering around their quaint downtown area..
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/09/15/wildfire-in-northern-california-town-of-weed-burns-100-homes-at-least-1500-evacuated-siskiyou-county-oregon-mount-shasta-fire-interstate-5-cal-fire/
WEED, Siskiyou County (CBS / AP) — A fire driven by fierce winds raced through a small town near the Oregon border on Monday, burning a church to the ground, damaging or destroying 100 homes and prompting evacuation orders for at least 1,500 people, authorities said.
This tiny town near the base of Mount Shasta in the Cascade Mountains was under siege from a 350-acre blaze that surged toward and through it through timberland.
The town sawmill caught fire, and a Catholic church was destroyed.
The blaze erupted at around 1:30 p.m. south of Weed, a scenic town of nearly 3,000 located about 50 miles south of the Oregon border and about half way between San Francisco and Portland, Oregon.
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What on earth was the Colombian cycling team thinking???
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/sep/15/colombian-women-cycling-flesh-coloured-kit-unacceptable-uciclick the link for the "inappropriate" picture
The design of a new flesh-coloured kit that makes a Colombian women’s cycling team look naked below the waist has been described as unacceptable by Brian Cookson, the president of the UCI.
Photographs of the Bogota Humana team were taken at the Tour of Tuscany, showing six women wearing red and yellow kit with flesh-coloured material immediately above and below the waist. It is unclear if the team intend to wear a similar uniform next week while representing Colombia at the road world championships in Ponferrada, Spain.
After the pictures went viral on social media, Cookson tweeted: “To the many who have raised the issue of a certain women’s team kit, we are on the case. It is unacceptable by any standards of decency.”
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The US needs a "permanent" war tax
The congress needs to make law that cannot "expire".. The law needs to say that whenever a new "war/military action/whatever they want to call it" is taken on, an IMMEDIATE 10% tax is levied on EVERY financial transaction...by EVERYONE..
We used to have a luxury tax on non-essentials like leather goods, furs, jewelry, perfumes, cosmetics, etc.
We need a war tax, so that when people see their receipts, they see WAR TAX on it, so they know they are paying extra for everything they buy..and I do mean EVERYTHING... every stock transaction,., every dividend check...even social security checks/pension checks.
When enough people realize that THEY are paying for adventurism so military contractors can get wealthier, perhaps they will start electing more responsible people.
Goodell's pasty white face betrayed him
Watch the interview he did recently.. When it starts, his color is "normal"..as he lies again and again, he flushes and becomes more and more red-faced.. OF COURSE THEY HAD THE ENTIRE TAPE.. THEY DID NOT KNOW THAT TMZ HAD THE WHOLE TAPE..
I don't understand why he didn't just say, I screwed up, and should have suspended him immediately, ..I am sorry and you can rest assured that it will never happen again.
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