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March 31, 2013

Sales pitch

March 31, 2013

Strange Sunday...

All those Sunday talk shows, and John McCain is nowhere in sight.

Odd.

March 29, 2013

Paging Dr. Carson

When I heard Dr. Ben Carson, ostensibly a brilliant pediatric neuro-surgeon, opine bizarrely on the gay marriage issue, my memory immediately went to, of all things, that old episode of "M*A*S*H" in which Harry Morgan plays Gen. Steele: "But first, a number!"

Oh, the irony. . .

March 29, 2013

Here's hoping

March 26, 2013

Natural Occurrence

March 26, 2013

Casting call

Soon!

March 26, 2013

Cities to ag: No extra water to lease this year

from the article:
Agriculture uses about 85 percent of the state’s water, according to the Colorado Division of Water Resources, but the ag industry doesn’t own nearly that much of the state’s supply — at least not anymore.

In 1957, when the Colorado-Big Thompson Project first went into operation, 85 percent of the water in the project was owned by agricultural users, according to numbers from the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, that oversees operations of the C-BT Project.

But today, only 34 percent of the water in the C-BT — the largest water-supply project in northern Colorado — is owned by agricultural users.

...

http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/5674778-113/cities-percent-farmers-users

There are 20,000 fracking wells in Weld County alone. City of Greeley has leased water to the frackers, millions of gallons per well; fracked water cannot be used for agriculture or any other purpose. Our food production land is being forced to go fallow. We're being fracked to death.

March 26, 2013

Futurescape

March 26, 2013

Welcome to North Dakota



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