Smelting Humans

clipped from corner.nationalreview.com One of the hallmarks of the elite California mind-set has been to stop production, whether energy or agricultural, without any concern of the consequences on less fortunate others—and often to do so by judicial mandate or by legislative blockage. Here's the latest from the New York Times on our current drought, sort of an environmental version of our recent gay marriage judicial ruling: Even more significant, a judge in federal district court last year issued a curtailment in pumping from the California Delta — where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers meet and provide water to roughly 25 million Californians — to protect a species of endangered smelt that were becoming trapped in the pumps. Those reductions, from December to June, cut back the state’s water reserves this winter by about one third, according to a consortium of state water boards.