February 16, 2014
This one should be a no-brainer; and, I have to admit — it was a contributor to The Letters’ section of my beloved Times who actually got me thinking about this completely logical solution to California’s water woes.
But before I delve into this topic – I have to apologize for the length-of-time between my profferings…I am back-in-the-grind of teaching college classes…but more important than this – I’ve been trying to get my musical oeuvre out to anyone who will listen: in the most polished and professional manner that I can: I remain anal retentive about my product(s).
Giti, however, reminded me that from her “working woman’s” perspective: I’ve been laying low for about-18-months-now and have yet to be discovered as a music maestro…which is true – but I have completed a “few” projects and may have finally set the table for music success with 3 upcoming promo releases (which no one will be able to find on my music website: www.anachronism.biz – as it is about to come under extensive reconstruction). Sadly, my efforts do not look like work to a Persian Woman.
So, since this coming August will mark the-end-of-my-second-year-of-semi-retirement; and, the money is starting to dry up — I may have to prostitute myself again if nothing happens on the music front: I had hoped that the pimps of U of H would not be as demanding as those here on the mainland – but there has been no word from the U of H as-of-yet.
And speaking of prostitution – it seems we Californians are continuously prostituting ourselves to get our water. Since water is way, way, way more important than sex or a bullet train (gosh, we need it for our survival and farms) – I vote for water above all else! Is Hollyweird in cahoots with the water pimps AND the bullet train pimps? Is this why “they” have made the oldest profession palatable for all??
We don’t need no stinkin’ bullet train – California is total car culture! (Think Ventura Blvd.!) Since we have already been pimped for cleaner fuel and cleaner air and DMV licensure fees – why should we get pimped again by the pimps who are part-and-parcel-of this train trough? They will irreparably harm the environment with the construction of a bullet train and they certainly won’t solve the California transportation problem: we simply have too many cool places to go to that require cars!
Let’s put the billions-of-dollars that would go into this ill-founded train project into desalination! Hell!! We can sell our excess water to Texas (which is about to become the 5th largest oil producer on the planet [thanks to fracking]): we can quit drilling here! I-for-one would like to get my Santa Barbara and Ventura views of the Channel Islands back!
I’m sure that 6-7 major desalination plants from San Fran all the way down to San Diego will not destroy marine habitats or prime surfing spots; and, they should give us all the water we need. How many desal plants do the Israelis maintain? Can you imagine the Israelis having to depend on anyone for their water?!
If anyone can pull this off – it would be Guvner Brown. It shouldn’t take rocket science to shift monies over to a grand desalination effort; and, Jerry can empty our prisons to get them built cheap!
Bite the bullet (train) and quit your hatin\’
Towards those of us perseveratin\’
On Cali\’s water there\’s no vacillatin\’
Spend those monies on desalinatin\’