A Bad Case of Denial
September 30th, 2002Of late I sometimes feel like I’ve slipped into some French absurdist play, we Up is Down, and we chop down tree to save forests. Thats when I’m glad to encounter politicians, and policy hacks, doing what they do best, lieing, and covering up, though the bald faced, total lack of any attempt at coherence does seem to suggest that not only satire, but rhetoric is dead.
Dead Salmon
In the last few days, more then 10,000 Chinook salmon (an endangered species) have died in the Klamath river, the largest die off of its kind, due to water levels being reduced to illegally low level in an agreement promoted and feted by the president personally. Federal officials, while not conceding that administration policy had anything to do with the die-off, said they would [immediately] reverse an earlier policy and begin releasing water from Upper Klamath Lake. A simliar drama is also playing out along the Trinity river, were we spent last weekend, and locals are more very unhappy, and very clear on where the water went. Potato farmers, trying to grow potatoes in the Southern Oregon desert.
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