Watch-out for Cloward-Piven! No-one wants to believe that their Strategy to destroy Capitalism" continues at work with the blessings of Obama and company which includes Czars, Feinstein, Boxer, and Sacramento Democrats who are mirror images of Mr. Obama's words and deeds. 

Remember the settlement back in'05-'06? Relative peace until '09. Just 'google' Cloward-Piven and notice the linking with Mr. Obama. Then think about the other article Mr. Frank has shared with us in "CA Capitol News".  

This President and his cohorts everywhere, have been and continue to be a very "Clear and Present Danger to Our Nation" and all it stands for. Problem, really is that It Is A War Without Bullets most Americans are to straightforward believers in truth to recognize this backward tirade on US(A). It is rapid fire - month 11 with 37 left, because time is against them, but Damage Done and Time Lost Is Against Our Nation! 

It makes it much more difficult to repair, especially when a young segment of the population who will add years, but not necessarily information about the "Unique Nature and Nature's God" and "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable" 3 Rights, as they take their turn leading the United States of America. At www.onenewsnow.org is an article about the most religious states. The Northeast does not number among the top, and there is a huge mix when actually Believing That God Did Involve Himself With the Formation of This Nation. It Is Not a What If idea!  

Now, the impact of business loans, environmental, energy-not alternative, plus the natural snowball effect which doesn't stop at just butter, sugar, almonds, fertilizer, machinery, schools, gas/diesel, animal care and its equipment, jobs, virtually everything relating or being the base commodities to allow manufacturing is affected! And one more idea: What was the contract between the Delta Gates and the Farmers before an environmentalist found the smelts suitable for destroying CA agriculture? It is quite obvious that the problems with the smelts must have dated from when the Delta gates first opened. The smelts didn't just happen! Lots of years went by before anyone even thought about smelts, much less inquired about numbers up or down!  

Everyone believing that these two characters - Cloward-Piven - have developed a strategy that works is not correct. What is correct is allowing our ignorance to accept a judge's ruling - without challenge- that smelt over-rule the lives and business' of millions of citizens! No-one has answered the question of how well were the Farmers/Rangers south of the Delta informed re this Judges decision? How much time did the farmers/ranchers have to adjust? It is my reading that planting was finished before the Delta was shut-down.  

To apply the Constitutions, both State and Federal,and for example: If the Delta water was shut-off after planting in the spring; and if the farmers/ranchers had no information before that: 1) the smelts were going to court to have 'their scales' protected; that the court date would preclude preventing or lessening planting, i.e. preparing for less or no water; or 
2) the farmer/ranchers knew about the date of the smelt's hearing for protection, but no idea about the outcome: shutting All water down; then the judge of the Federal Court and the 'case environmentalists' would be guilty of violating Article I:3b(1)(2)(4)of State Constitution and Amendment 4,14 at least,plus 5 and 9 of the 1789 Ratified Constitution. 
Farmers/ranchers safety of person, home, papers, and effects were unreasonably (the smelt) searched (the water for remains)and seizure (water, land, crops, livestock, jobs, etc.). No warrants issued for 'no probable cause'. If 4 occurred, then 5th Amendment "..nor deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;.. also occurred!  

Don't limit the viewpoints on how events, actions, regulations at cabinet level (ships have to adjust enviroment. by 2012 continues the GW non-scientific method basis of purposely incorrect data will result in purposely incorrect conclusions!0, the non-awaking centrist Democrats who believe they will be famous, or dealing politicians who put their constituents before Our Nation and in absence of "The American's Creed"! As many of the Obama, Cloward-Piven article's read - Offensive, Not defensive!!!! "All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be responsible; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be "oppression: The imposition of unreasonable burdens, either in taxes or services; cruelty; severity.")Thomas Jefferson in 1st Inaugural Address 3/4/1801.

Thomas Elias: Expect state water wars in new year

DECEMBER 28, 2009

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Expect wildly contentious battles over ballot initiatives in the new year over possible repeal of Proposition 8 (ban on same-sex marriages), whether to hold a state constitutional convention and whether to legalize marijuana, to name just three.

But the biggest fight, the sharpest split, may come over water. No one knows for sure, but the water plan and a bond issue approved last fall by lawmakers might determine who will become the next governor. All major Republican candidates back the plan, while Attorney General Jerry Brown, the lone significant Democrat now running, hasn't said much.

No one knows whether Mark Twain really did say in 1875 that in California, "Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over."

Whether it was his or not, the remark remains as apt as ever almost 135 years later.

The fighting this year will be over that $11.1 billion water bond proposition backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

It's vital to pass this, he and other advocates say, if there's to be progress toward assuring adequate water supplies for all parts of the state. There's money in it for new dams, groundwater basin protection, environmental protection in the vital Delta of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and many, many local projects. Almost every lawmaker put something for his or her district into this package.

Unlike past plans like the putative Peripheral Canal vetoed by voters in 1982, which would have carried water around the Delta in a concrete-lined ditch, this one has backing from some major environmental groups. Both the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund signed onto the water plan before it passed.

But whatever good will that reigned when the water measures passed in October quickly gave way to the discord usually prevalent whenever changes in California's water situation near reality. Brown, who okayed the Peripheral Canal idea while governor 28 years ago, was badly burned by the public's rebellion against it; maybe that's why he's being cautious now.

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But others are not at all reticent. No sooner had Schwarzenegger signed the water package than Delta area legislators, fishermen and Indian tribes claimed it would lead to utter destruction for the Delta — this despite creation of a Delta Stewardship Council designed to preserve species and water quality there.

They seized on Schwarzenegger's almost immediate announcement that he intends to pursue something like a Peripheral Canal, charging that because the governor will appoint four of the seven Stewardship Council members, "you can be sure ... the canal's construction [will be] a priority for the council members ..." This, of course, ignores the fact that Schwarzenegger will be governor for less than one year from now, while it will be many years before dirt is turned on the projects now contemplated.

Realities like that don't stop the emotional responses water always spurs, emotions likely to split the state on a north-south basis when the bond battle heats up next fall. Cries that vast quantities of Northern California river water are wasted washing cars and watering lawns in Central and Southern California were heard less than a day after the package passed. There will also be financial issues with the bond package, which would cost about half a billion dollars yearly to repay and contains an estimated $2 billion worth of pure pork. And some in the Delta area call for revival of the long-dormant Auburn Dam as an alternate to the Peripheral Canal or for a system of gates and locks within the Delta itself.

In the meantime, plenty of other fights are under way in courts and the bureaucracy. On those fronts, no sooner had federal Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asked for a National Academy of Sciences review of the environmental findings that led to reduced water pumping from the Delta last spring and summer than two environmental groups asked a judge to give even more protections to the threatened, minnow-like Delta smelt.

The Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity and the San Francisco-based Bay Institute sued together, demanding both endangered status for the Delta smelt and protected status for the similar longfin smelt.

At the same time, the Fresno federal judge who ordered pumping reduced ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation should have considered more environmental impacts like depletion of underground aquifers and more particulate air pollution via dust from fallowed fields before enacting its plan to protect the smelt.

It's a picture so complex and laden with emotion that no one can reliably predict the election outcome. And it will produce an expensive campaign likely to prove again the wisdom of another Twain aphorism: "Get your facts first, then you can distort them as much as you please."

 Thomas Elias, a journalist based in Southern California, writes about state politics. His column appears in Opinion on Mondays. E-mail to: Tdelias@aol.com