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  That is the point, they don't need to use fresh water. Just water. Waste water can't be used for human consumption, but can be used for everything else. You are thinking in a box. I am not naive about anything, I understand all the factors. Factor 1. AI is the future, and data centers are the support for that computer network infrastructure, that is a given. 2. Those enters are coming whether the people like it or not, or else, ditch the computers and devices in your life, and that isn't going to happen. 3. Those centers have downsides, down sides that a city can either mitigate, or dismiss. The citizens fears and desires have to be taken in to account to a certain extent. But individual desires sometimes have to give way to the greater good. 4. The revenue that the Data Centers will bring, now and in the future. 5. Workforce. The workforce that Data Centers bring are higher paying, higher educated tech jobs, and skilled labor. Instead of lower paying tourist, and AG supp...

I would like to thank my mother for her unconditional love and understanding. My mother is and was a calming presence when my life when I was out of control. My mother is a genuine, compassionate, and loving person who had to put up with the likes of me in my youth. She deserved a better son, and I have tried to be the best son I could, but my personality and arrogance led me astray. My mother taught me how to spell, how to sew, wash dishes properly, cook, and manners. One of my many regrets is that I could have been a better child. So I would like to wish you a Happy Mother’s Day, Mother, and may it be as happy and as relaxing as you are loving and kind. Thank you for being my mother, and helping me through the dark years of my youth, and worst times of my life. I love you dearly mother .

  Memories of the Greyhound track, on the occasion of the tracks razing.  In the 1980's My father, and I worked the parking lot security there. He would patrol the parking lot to keep people from breaking into the cars parked in the lot. He also escorted people out that had worn money to their cars. His girlfriend was a cashier there. My father was retired, and did the security for extra money. He and I both worked kennel security. He worked the day shift, and I worked the overnight shift. That consisted of sitting in your own vehicle and checking the area around and inside the kennel It was an easy job. The hardest part was staying awake.   One night I came on at 8pm instead of 11pm, and was paid for the 3 hours by the mid shift guy cause he had something to do. I ended up there until 1pm the next day. I worked a double plus the three. I went home tired, and found a note on the door that said everyone was at Yuma Regional Medical Center, with my sister having ...

  Hollywood is no different than Washington D.C. Both are hubs of power. Remember, "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power, corrupts absolutely."

  If you think that the fascism that the Republican/Trumplican Party is displaying, is different, from the socialism that the Democrats are displaying, then you are ignorant, and don't know what either are. They are both displaying their form of ideology and oppression.

  I was workin for Caltrans, about 45 miles south on the 15, at the top of the mountain. We went to work at 6 am on the 17th, snow started at 10 am. Las Vegas Paving was working on the road, and had detours up. It didn't stop snowing all day and and night. We worked 27 straight hours to keep the road open. We lost it about noon, and were behind until it stopped about 18 hours after it started. At 6 pm the relief crew from Needles, couldn't get up to us, because the road was closed, so we worked another 12, and others went home to be the day crew. I was plowing with a CHP officer, retrieving people from stranded cars for about 8 or so hours during the night and into early morning. We got two and half feet of snow at Mountain Pass, which is the top of the mountain. 15 was snowed in all the way from Cajon Pass, to the state line (Primm). 40 was shut down because of snow at EB Barstow, and WB at Goffs, and 95 was shut down at Searchlight. Up on the mountain the snow was deep, but i...

  Something is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it. Worth to a person is subjective. Something that I have is worth what I want or need.

Because our Constitution says so. Our rule of law derives from that Constitution. There must be some resemblance of law and order in a civilized society, otherwise there is only anarchy, and chaos. Neither of which can be, if a society is to exist, let alone evolve. Courts are the adjudicators, and the police are the enforcement of societies rules for existence in said society

  Were they really war crimes? I mean did the U.S. ever have concentration camps? Did the U.S. ever put wholesale innocent people in ovens, and gas chambers? Or do unethical tests on kidnapped people? No on all accounts. So, no, we weren't guilty of real war crimes. Were we guilty of breaking the law, yes, I wasn't there, but I can figure out that to fight evil, we must get down on the same level. We must do that without losing our humanity, because that is the only thing there is remaining to glean from that situation.   There is no winning, nor is there any morality, killing is killing, and it is all bad, no matter the reason. No matter how much we try to justify it. Thing is, for us as a country to exist, we must fight and kill for that existence. This idea that there are rules that make it ok to kill, is pure fantasy. We need good men doing bad things to bad men for the good, the bad, and the indifferent, without losing our humanity as an individual or country. They ma...

  I saw the cars in California buried in mud. Those pictures remind me of when I worked for Caltrans at the Lake Henshaw Yard. The San Felipe Rd from SR 79 to Scissors crossing on SR 78 near Banner grade was 17 miles. It was a County Rd. They had a mud slide on the western 5 or 6 miles. They started from the 79 with a front end loader, a grader, and a dump truck and started east clearing the road. Another crew with the same equipment started from the east end and worked west. Took them 3 weeks to clear the road. On our end at the 79 JCT, there were about 6 or 7 cars buried in mud about 4 feet of mud. We had some problems in Sentnec Canyon the 78 between Scissors crossing and the Yaqui Pass Rd turn off. Which meant we had to go all the way to Julian and down Banner Grade to get there. Whi ch was about 40 miles around. I hadn't thought about that in years. Things you remember from a picture.

  In Bridgeport Connecticut, manufacturing has come back. Great right? Yes it has but not the way Trump wanted. He thought bringing manufacturing back would bring with it jobs. That is backwards 1950's thinking. Because it hasn't. “These newer, successful manufacturing companies in Bridgeport don’t have assembly lines with workers performing repetitive tasks. They have high-skilled workers meeting exacting specifications for a relatively small number of picky customers,” said the Post. “That’s what most American manufacturing firms look like today. Ninety-eight percent of U.S. manufacturing firms employ fewer than 500 people, and 93 percent employ fewer than 100, according to 2022 data.” The “manufacturing” jobs actually employ more robots than anything, per the Post's editorial. Automation makes them extremely productive, and more productive workers are paid more, but it still means fewer people work in manufacturing than in the past. Pay attention to what is going o...

 Goodbye Father Well father, here I am   a lost child once again, with no direction. Now, I do not have you to show me the way, or to help me along. What will I do? I wasted so much time not listening. I regret the times that I was a problem, you did not deserve any of that. I could have been a better son. In the end, I owed you much more than I could repay. I had to do the things the way I did them. If I were as smart as I think I am,   I would have listened to you once in a while. These are my regrets and they are not in dispute.   I would like to thank you for the things that you have given me over the years. I would like to thank you for the mental toughness to live life. For the driving vocation, and appreciation of all things cars and trucks. I would like to thank you for teaching me to think for myself, and to make my own decisions right or wrong. I would like to thank you for the wisdom concerning finances, and...

  This Is Who I Am. On the sad occasion of my beloved father’s passing, I have once again taken a look at myself. I no longer wonder what I have, or will become.    I wonder will I measure up in the end? What will be the book on me? The more I am like my father, the more I am who I am. Now on the backside of forty, I find myself in a little better position. I have a wife who loves me, a good job, and a future. I have commitments and responsibilities that I have not had before, these come with maturity, and age. I have lived long enough to grow old. The change in me is who I am. All my father did his entire life was to take care of the ones he loved. He worked until he could literally, work no more. The working exacted a heavy toll on his body. He sacrificed a life made easy for himself to make life easier for everyone else. He gave his last full measure of devotion not only to his country, but also to his family. He left this world earl...

  Devil’s Own Hand I took my first taste, When I was only nine, I grabbed it by the neck, Didn’t want any waste, Lying there in the sand, I soon found a lesson, That drinkin is, The devils own hand,   It took me on a ride, That wasn’t much fun, Straight to hell in a (ash, Ending on the wrong side, Of a mother and a son, I didn’t really care, All I wanted was to partake, From the devil’s own hand.

Twice Angry Sea   A long time ago, In a desperate time, The brine was cheated, By an arrogant father, Of its deadly due, By fate and courage, Becoming a twice angry sea,   The sinful father made a deal, And it did come to pass, Power and riches abound, Were a costly means, To a quick young end, His soul was a steal, For a once angry sea,   The son a better man, Without the sin of before, But not without his own, Has had to pay for the sins, Of a fathers reckless and past, Succumbing to a twice angry sea

 T here is a spectacle playing out in Washington D.C. It is a purely political one. One that is not uncommon in D.C. When one signs on to serve at the pleasure of the President, one does so at their own peril. They know the rules, and accept the risk. Some serve out of a sense of duty, some for power, some to network, and some for the money. When everything goes bad, then everyone will do what they have to do to save themselves. Loyalty will go out the window when one is under oath. When under oath, the truth might come out, or it might not, but one thing is for certain, the politics will come out. Everyone, no matter their ideology has an agenda when they serve, and that agenda is self preservation. Whether that preservation is their freedom, reputation, bank account or what have you, self preservation is the individual mandate, and everything comes in a close second. Politics is a dirty nasty business, that is inherently perception driven. Truth and ethics take a backseat to pow...

Because he is not likeable, or relatable. He acts entitled. Then when he gets shorted it is because of others. The reason teams were we  ambivalent to him is because he wss ambivalent to them. His entitlement  gave him an unearned sense of self worth. He no doubt  has some talent. Thing is he doesn't have superstar ability. His lack of respect, is more about him than others. Deion taught him alot, but not self awareness. Deion didn't teach him self awareness, because Deion didn't have either. He was too busy promoting himself and his brand. He did that in order to make money to feed his family. Which makes Deion a good man. Because that is what good men do. Hype is always at the expense of self awareness. Shedeur, and Deion are guilty of both. Arrogance as a by product of confidence is a good thing. Confidence  in one's ability  to a point of arrogance is  ok, as long as it is tempered with self awareness, and humility. Not subjugation of spirit. There is a...

  Smith and Wesson jury; it knows no sorrow, sees no color, and shows no mercy.

  When it comes to family, the gray area g grows proportionately with the size of the family responsibilities. You do what you have to do to take care of your family and live with it the rest of your life. With family the end does justify means.

  After 100 plus years of discrimination, this country turned a racial corner electing a black POTUS. The left wants to punish the white's for centuries of systemic discrimination. So they elected Obama. I wasn't a fan of his either. He was even less qualified than Trump or Biden, and was not a leader in any stretch of the imagination. Obama got elected because he was Black, no other reason, he certainly wasn't qualified. That being said, him being elected also shows the left that this country, while not totally devoid of racism, has come a long way in 1560 years. From enslaving black citizens, to electing them to lead. That while we started out as slaveholders, we changed and become the beacon on the hill that we were destined to be. The racial bigotry notwithstanding. Every bad thing that this country has done we have done better, whether it be slavery, and the 14th Amendment, or the genocide and the Dawes Act. We are not a perfect country, but over the 250 years of our e...