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Odds and ends: Our delusional salmon reality, water wasting rules different for different folks, are wildfires a result of weather modification?, and renaming San Francisco’s sewage treatment plant after George Bush heads to the ballot!

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on July 20, 2008 at 8:03 am

Breaking news and information from the blogosphere:

Delusional reality about the salmon: Dr. Robert Lackey, a senior scientist for the EPA says we’ve got to get real about dealing with the salmon crisis. If we really want to save the salmon, we need to deal with the growing population in California. Dr. Lackey writes: If the human population levels increase as expected, options for restoring salmon runs to significant, sustainable levels are greatly limited. Consider the demand for houses, schools, stadiums (PDF), expressways, automobiles, malls, air conditioning, drinking water, consumer goods, golf courses, and sewer treatment plants. Society’s options for sustaining wild salmon in significant numbers would be just about non-existent. Read more from Dr. Lackey on the Greenversations blog, the official blog of the EPA by clicking here.

Wasting water, wasting fuel, wasting your money — there’s different rules for different folks writes Ron Kaye of the RonKayeLA blog after spending some time over at Griffith Park: A city employee was hosing leaves off the asphalt and had been at his task for a long while from the looks of the mud puddles and mini-ponds forming downhill as he inched forward with his hose. Isn’t it illegal for you and me to hose down our driveways, or at least regarded as an anti-social waste of water, especially as we are faced with a water shortage crisis later this year and are being forced to pay higher rates so we can drink recycled toilet water one of these days. Clearly, the rules that apply to ordinary people don’t apply to the city. And that goes for just about everything. Read more from Ron Kaye by clicking here.

Is weather modification and chemtrails connected with California wildfires? Or maybe they’re pagan rituals? The Sonoma Chemtrails blog speculates: … isn’t it interesting that scientists have been working on weather modification for several decades and are using it to create ‘perfect weather’ for the China Olympics but they can’t muster up some rain clouds to help with the California fires? Plus did you know that the unusual and unprecedented multiple dry lightning strikes causing hundreds of fires began on June 20-21, 2008, the summer solstice or midsummer which is a high holy day for pagans and the occult as they celebrate with bonfires? Or maybe it’s barium from chem trails in the sky… Read more from the Sonoma Chemtrails blog by clicking here.

Ballot measure to rename San Francisco’s sewage treatment plant in honor of George Bush is headed to the ballot in November: Congratulations, crazy poop plant renaming people, says the SFist, who has the official press release, which gives us a glimpse of what’s ahead: The Presidential Memorial Commission is planning a creative, art-driven general election campaign, and is putting out a general call for support from artists who want to design flyers, billboards and other attention-getting devices. “We’re hoping for an election campaign like no other,” said Mr. McConnell. More from the SFist by clicking here.

July 20, 2008 · Filed Under Odds and Ends

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