February 21, 2013 Delta Water and News Links

Blend up a pitcher of these, It's National Margarita Day!

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/02/22/national-margarita-day/

Delta/California/Water News
Battle to Stop the Delta Tunnel Boondoggle Targets Southern California with TV Commercials and Website Launch
Yubanet..com
http://yubanet.com/california/Battle-to-Stop-the-Delta-Tunnels-Boondoggle-Targets-Southern-California-with-TV-Commercials-and-Website-Launch.php#.USeLHTdaaSo
Regardless of where one resides in California, this is nothing more than a power/water/land grab by a very few elite.  Theft is theft, at least it was the last time I checked, regardless of perpetrator.)
Southern California Water Alliance
http://www.deltatunnelsboondoggle.com/

Governor Brown Met Privately With Beverly Hills Ag Queen, Junk Bond King
Dan Bacher
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/09/1185886/--Governor-Brown-met-privately-with-Beverly-Hills-Ag-Queen-Junk-Bond-King#

DWR's Delta eNews
http://deltacouncil.ca.gov/science-event-detail/8649

Chronicle Editorial: Delta Pipes Pitch Less Than Perfect
C-WIN
http://www.c-win.org/content/chronicle-editorial-delta-pipes-pitch-less-perfect.html

Equite, Scarcite, Liberte
Delta National Park
http://www.deltanationalpark.org/blog/view/equite_scarcite_liberte/

State Water Plan eNews
http://www.waterplan.water.ca.gov/docs/enews/2013/cwp_e-news022013.pdf

California Farm Water Coalition
Farm Water News
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2013/02/news-articles-and-links-from-february_21.html

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development
Prominent American Scientists Call for Eco-Dictatorship Under U.N. Rule
BlackListedNews.com
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Prominent_American_Scientists_Call_For_Eco-Dictatorship_Under_UN_Rule/24367/0/0/0/Y/M.html
(This is scary...really scary...

Upcoming Scientific Publication: “(…) governments can and even should move beyond existent levels of public permission in order to shift norms, allowing public sentiment to later catch up with the regulation.”

American Farmland Trust: E Newsletter
http://www.farmland.org/news/newsletters/enews/2013/February.asp

Rural Counties Representatives of California
Newslette
http://www.rcrcnet.org/rcrc/
(Again, this is AG21, and your county has PAID DUES to this private, incorporated entity/organization to further entrench them into U.N. policies...another wolf in sheep's clothing, folks.)

Question Everything
Laurie Roth
NewsWithViews.com
http://www.newswithviews.com/Roth/laurie365.htm

Agriculture/Science News
Agricultural Climate Adaptation Can Mitigate, Too
EnvironmentalResearchWeb.org
http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/52444

The Questions that Won't Be Asked
Environmental Working Group
http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2013/02/questions-won-t-be-asked?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ewg_alltopics+%28EWG%3A+All+Topics%29
(Good read.)

EWQ's Farm Subsidy database
Environmental Working Group
http://www.ewg.org/node/353?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ewg_alltopics+%28EWG%3A+All+Topics%29

Farms, Land in Farms, Livestock Operations Summary 2012
Cornell University
http://usda01.library.cornell.edu/usda/nass/FarmLandIn/2010s/2013/FarmLandIn-02-19-2013.pdf

Grapefruit Seed Extract Information
http://grapefruitseedextract.org/
(Very interesting information.)

Levee/Infrastructure News

Fisheries/Wildlife/Habitat News
50,000 Juvenile Salmon Released in Flooded Rice Field
Recordnet.com
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130220/A_NEWS/130229995/-1/A_NEWS14

Environmental News
Darrell Steinberg to Unveil CEQA Reform Bill Tomorrow (2.22.13)
High Speed Rail Blog
http://www.cahsrblog.com/2013/02/darrell-steinberg-to-unveil-ceqa-reform-bill-tomorrow/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=darrell-steinberg-to-unveil-ceqa-reform-bill-tomorrow

Economic/Tourism News
Taxing Rich Ignores Underlying Problem
National Center for Policy Analysis
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=22871&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ncpadpd+%28Daily+Policy+Digest%29

Feds Want Your Retirement Accounts
AmericanThinker.com
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/02/the_feds_want_your_retirement_accounts.html

Rand Paul Returns Surplus Operating Budget
DailyCaller.com
http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/21/rand-paul-returns-surplus-operating-budget/

High Speed Rail/BDCP Conveyance News
How Philosophy Explains High-Speed Rail
Fox and Hounds
http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2013/02/how-philosophy-explains-high-speed-rail/
(Excellent satire.)

High-Speed Rail Enthusiasts Dream of National System
CalWatchDog.com
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2013/02/20/high-speed-rail-enthusiasts-dream-of-national-system/

And instead of taking a day or more to get from L.A. to NYC, it takes only 5 hours and 23 minutes. And costs just $318, nonstop.
The high-speed rail enthusiasts, including Gov. Jerry Brown and President Obama, seem not to know that in 1903 Americans Orville and Wilbur Wright invented trains with wings. Nowadays, the flying trains hold hundreds of people and fly in excess of 500 mph.

Draft California Rail Plan Released
California High Speed Rail Blog
http://www.cahsrblog.com/2013/02/draft-california-rail-plan-released/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=draft-california-rail-plan-released

National Political News
Chuck Baldwin--Christian:  It Is to Vote With Your Feet
NewsWithViews.com
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin741.htm

Columbine Survivor Pens Bold Open Letter to Obama Rejecting Gun Control
TheBlaze.com
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/20/columbine-survivor-pens-bold-open-letter-to-obama-rejecting-gun-control-whose-side-are-you-on/

Disturbing Trend in Our Military: Viewing Citizens as Threats
BlackListedNews.com
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Disturbing_Trend_in_our_Military%3A_Viewing_citizens_as_threats/24359/0/0/0/Y/M.html

Conservatives Hit University Where it Hurts - The Pocketbook
CollegeFix.com
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/12727?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thecollegefixfeed+%28The+College+Fix%29
(Interesting!)

Let's Stop Acting Like There's a Debate About the 2nd Amendment
GodFatherPolitics.com
http://godfatherpolitics.com/9567/lets-stop-acting-like-theres-a-debate-about-the-2nd-amendment/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GodfatherPolitics+%28Godfather+Politics%29

Firearms Company Striking Back at Anti-Gun NY by Cancelling All Orders for NYPD
GodFatherPolitics.com
http://godfatherpolitics.com/9560/firearms-company-striking-back-at-anti-gun-ny-by-cancelling-all-orders-for-nypd/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GodfatherPolitics+%28Godfather+Politics%29

Disarming America's Heroes
ImpeachObamaCampaign.com
http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/disarming-americas-heroes/

Comcast Cable Network Bans All Firearms Related Advertising
GodFatherPolitics.com
http://godfatherpolitics.com/9573/comcast-cable-network-bans-all-firearms-related-advertising/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GodfatherPolitics+%28Godfather+Politics%29

Tracking Current Federal Gun Control Legislation
GodFatherPolitics.com
http://godfatherpolitics.com/9575/tracking-current-federal-gun-control-legislation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GodfatherPolitics+%28Godfather+Politics%29
(Damn...)

California Political News

Litigation News
High Treason Against the United States of America and Its People
Bear Witness Central
http://bwcentral.org/2013/02/high-treason-against-the-united-states-of-america-and-its-people/
(Incredibly disturbing, please take the time to read just how deep high treason has gone in America.)

Fix the Law to Fix America
AmericanThinker.com
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/02/fix_the_law_to_fix_america.html
(Good read.)

Tribal News

Calendar
Restore the Delta's
Train the Water Advocate Conference
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=xp76ilcab&v=001VJlu5GGZPDThqqfb-RaJqWLUjsVHii8Vrv2r3vDP3ELlbbEAM_4dVIwzBTtgc2vUilKD2T-vTTVwoxYM3TqiSBhH7QEgG52IqYRLoma0Z5MhbWj3CUbZzA%3D%3D

Delta Stewardship Council's Delta Science Program
Brown Bag Unifying Aquatic Science for Adaptive Management of SSJ Delta
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
12-1PM
http://deltacouncil.ca.gov/science-event-detail/8649

Written Comment Opportunities

Because It's Cool!
Two Classics, One Car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHwwwJ83oWo
(Very cool!!!)

7 Types of Chicks Who Annoy Everyone Just By Their Very Existence
PJ Media.com
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/02/13/7-types-of-chicks-who-annoy-everyone-just-by-their-very-existence/?singlepage=true
(A good chuckle!!)