Western Kansas has borne brunt of aquifer loss. Full chart and legend
here.
In Kansas, wells tapping the critical Ogallala Aquifer
continue to run dry.
[I]rrigation soon could end on Peterson’s southwest Kansas farm. The wells under his land in Stanton County are fast running dry as farmers and ranchers across the Great Plains pump the Ogallala faster than it can be replenished naturally.
Three of his wells are already dry.
Within five years, Peterson estimates, he likely won’t be able to irrigate at all. [...]
With water levels already too low to pump in some places, western Kansas farmers have been forced to acknowledge that the end is near. That harsh reality is testing the patience and imagination of those who rely on the land for their livelihoods.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2005—Roberts, Choice and Unity:
This one is simple.
We need to come together. We need to stand united.
We must be prepared to filibuster, if it comes to that, a nominee who will not publicly state that he or she supports a woman's right to choose.
Among the many questions that we have for any nominee that George Bush might put before us, there is one question, given the balance of the Supreme Court, and this President's stated positions on abortion, that is central:
Do you support the substantive consequence of Roe, upheld in Casey, guaranteeing that abortion be safe and legal in all fifty states?
Justice Ginsburg, in her nomination hearings was unequivocal on this:
[The right to an abortion] is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity. It's a decision that she must make for herself. And when government controls that decision for her, she's being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices. |
We should expect no less an affirmation from any nominee.
Tweet of the Day
On
today's Kagro in the Morning show: Another Friday,
another mass shooting, one of many
murder-suicides this week. The
fluid definition of “Gun Free Zones.”
Nitwits want to play army outside recruiting centers. The Army does
not approve. Paul LePage is why
Maine can’t have nice things.
Armando calls into KITM: An “apparatchiks fighting in the back room”
story is
linked to Hillary Clinton by the
New York Times, then
stealthily unlinked, when the
bombshell bombs.
Fracking is shown to keep local hospitals busy. Somebody said
something about Trump.
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