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kpete

(72,024 posts)
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 09:14 AM Jul 2015

Relax - Sarah Palin just solved California’s drought crisis

Sarah Palin just solved California’s 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 don’t they just fix the infrastructure problem, why don’t they just build more reservoirs and plants? After all, California is a coastal state. It’s 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

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Relax - Sarah Palin just solved California’s drought crisis (Original Post) kpete Jul 2015 OP
Having no critical thinking madaboutharry Jul 2015 #1
Not to those without it, it's not. -none Jul 2015 #28
She's lucky it doesn't hurt. Iggo Jul 2015 #40
It bears repeating... pinboy3niner Jul 2015 #2
I really miss him. nt Adrahil Jul 2015 #14
I would buy cable again dembotoz Jul 2015 #15
You can catch him commenting on Bojack Horseman Generic Brad Jul 2015 #31
Great idea! Takket Jul 2015 #3
... petronius Jul 2015 #41
Oh, FFS handmade34 Jul 2015 #4
If we were only blessed with a Sarah Palin drought! marble falls Jul 2015 #5
In perpetuity. nt hifiguy Jul 2015 #25
since teabaggers hate taxes, who's sposed to pay for these reservoirs? KG Jul 2015 #6
Just like she solved the crisis of teen pregnancy in America. edbermac Jul 2015 #7
And just what the f%#k does she suggest we put in those reservoirs? tularetom Jul 2015 #8
She must have somebody behind her poking her every few seconds and saying "Breathe" hobbit709 Jul 2015 #9
Our job is find that somebody and stop them! n/t dixiegrrrrl Jul 2015 #38
I went to see if that was satire treestar Jul 2015 #10
Reservoirs of Dust antiquie Jul 2015 #11
I live 20 miles from one of those dusty reservoirs tularetom Jul 2015 #16
So sad. antiquie Jul 2015 #17
For every complex problem there is a simple solution... and it is wrong. H.L. Mencken Tierra_y_Libertad Jul 2015 #12
California doesn't have reservoirs like U.S. Americans don't have maps...and the Iraq, such as pinboy3niner Jul 2015 #13
Remember, Gov. Palin was also a pageant contestant gratuitous Jul 2015 #26
Why not powdered water? rickford66 Jul 2015 #18
LOL!!!! savalez Jul 2015 #20
Awesome! DawgHouse Jul 2015 #22
OMG! RichGirl Jul 2015 #29
Bravo Sarah! To celebrate, have a nice tall glass of ocean water... JHB Jul 2015 #19
Hard to capture water when snowpack is at ZERO FUCKING PERCENT NickB79 Jul 2015 #21
she may just be the greatest comedian in history olddots Jul 2015 #23
If you could turn that kind of hard-core moronism, hifiguy Jul 2015 #24
Drill baby, drill! HassleCat Jul 2015 #27
I had vaguely heard of the Sarah channel. oldandhappy Jul 2015 #30
The woman is just Le Taz Hot Jul 2015 #32
OMG hifiguy Jul 2015 #36
Isn't that what happens with the Colorado River aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2015 #33
Good lord, the woman's a genius. She fuckin' brilliant. ladyVet Jul 2015 #34
She might be on something... Kalidurga Jul 2015 #35
I just felt my IQ drop. nt awoke_in_2003 Jul 2015 #37
Dear Sarth, California is already building a shit load of desalinazation plants Quixote1818 Jul 2015 #39

-none

(1,884 posts)
28. Not to those without it, it's not.
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 03:37 PM
Jul 2015

Burden? What burden? The fix to so many things are simple and obvious. What could go wrong?

Generic Brad

(14,276 posts)
31. You can catch him commenting on Bojack Horseman
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 05:20 PM
Jul 2015

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

(21,636 posts)
3. Great idea!
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 09:20 AM
Jul 2015

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

(22,758 posts)
4. Oh, FFS
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 09:23 AM
Jul 2015

she is even more ignorant than I thought... unbelievable... ignorance that obvious should be outlawed

KG

(28,753 posts)
6. since teabaggers hate taxes, who's sposed to pay for these reservoirs?
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 09:40 AM
Jul 2015

conservative 'logic' is built on layers fantasy and stupid.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
8. And just what the f%#k does she suggest we put in those reservoirs?
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 09:55 AM
Jul 2015

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.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
13. California doesn't have reservoirs like U.S. Americans don't have maps...and the Iraq, such as
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 10:05 AM
Jul 2015

Palin's solution reminded me of this...

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
26. Remember, Gov. Palin was also a pageant contestant
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 03:02 PM
Jul 2015

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.

JHB

(37,163 posts)
19. Bravo Sarah! To celebrate, have a nice tall glass of ocean water...
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 01:08 PM
Jul 2015

You know how healthy ocean water is, right Sarah? After all, Alaska has more coastline than even California!

Drink up! Have another!

NickB79

(19,274 posts)
21. Hard to capture water when snowpack is at ZERO FUCKING PERCENT
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 02:39 PM
Jul 2015
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/05/29/california_s_snowpack_now_zero_percent_of_normal_a_worst_case_scenario_for.html



California’s current megadrought hit a shocking new low this week: On Thursday, the state’s 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 mountains—which usually makes up the bulk of surface water for farms and cities during the long summer dry season—will be essentially non-existent. To be clear: there’s 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 California’s fragile water supply.


And this was over a month ago!
 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
23. she may just be the greatest comedian in history
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 02:50 PM
Jul 2015

very misunderstood .......naw she is a mineral .

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
24. If you could turn that kind of hard-core moronism,
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 02:56 PM
Jul 2015

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&quot is useless if the water table has been tapped dry.

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
27. Drill baby, drill!
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 03:06 PM
Jul 2015

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)
30. I had vaguely heard of the Sarah channel.
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 05:14 PM
Jul 2015

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!!!

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
33. Isn't that what happens with the Colorado River
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 05:27 PM
Jul 2015

coming down out of the mountains? I understand that it never reaches the ocean because it gets all used up.

ladyVet

(1,587 posts)
34. Good lord, the woman's a genius. She fuckin' brilliant.
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 05:38 PM
Jul 2015

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)
35. She might be on something...
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 05:43 PM
Jul 2015

It's not a completely bad idea to look at more efficient and cheaper ways to desalinate ocean water.

Quixote1818

(28,980 posts)
39. Dear Sarth, California is already building a shit load of desalinazation plants
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 08:27 PM
Jul 2015

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 state’s projected $4.2 billion surplus very quickly.

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