Dust Bowl Blues

I just blowed in, and I got them dust bowl blues,

I just blowed in, and I got them dust bowl blues,
I just blowed in, and I'll blow back out again.

wow..look..an editorial by Nipper! now I know Nipper fancies himself a water expert and who can argue the point when he writes about water conservation and uses an opening line from the Wall Street Journal about the "brutal drought" in the Midwest....

do you know how much water it takes to make a glass of wine or beer: 32 gallons! and how many freakin ass wineries do we have in Santa Barbara county? a zillion!!! small businesses my ass! they are leeches, all of them... slobbering over their little glasses of beer and wasting a precious resource so they can get a little buzz....and all you little hillbilly homophobic hillbilly bigots eating your little Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich just cost me 175 gallons of water!! punks!

I don't think Nipper knows what a watershed is but anyway he lists all the water sources available to Santa Barbarans and of course at the top is bottled water because he has some ties to the industry apparently...but Nipper insists that "drinking water is a crucial part human water needs" and "without quality drinking water, life cannot survive"

I had a gal, and she was young and sweet,
I had a gal, and she was young and sweet,
But a dust storm buried her sixteen hundred feet.

She was a good gal, long, tall and stout,
Yes, she was a good gal, long, tall and stout,

I had to get a steam shovel just to dig my darlin' out.

life cannot survive?? well that's an interesting statement...being that global warming is gonna kill everyone except the well prepared, and that the 20 degree below zero winters in Montana will actually be more like a balmy 30 degrees F, but I will not panic...I am prepared regarding foodstuffs: I got kidney beans..a shelf life of about 5 years is good...and some canned salmon good until 2016..who would eat fish that old? I would...and sardines will last a few years...yum!

milk and eggs..only good for a few weeks.....Betty Crocker potato flakes..I opened a box once and bugs flew out! sorry Betty, you're not on the list

Mama Cocco's spaghetti sauce...2016! good mama! and pasta will last until 2015...both excellent sources of comfort food when the world is melting all around you...

and water..of course we need water in any form...so it is important not to waste it making plastic bottles or using redundant "purification" processes.....just store some tap water and you'll be fine..and all those purification devices are a waste of money!!

Nipper's survival tips are attach yourself to wealthy host and drink bottled water....not good tips at all

some water facts:
about 1.5 million barrels of oil—enough to run 100,000 cars for a whole year—are used to make plastic water bottles, while transporting these bottles burns even more oil.The growth in bottled water production has increased water extraction in areas near bottling plants, leading to water shortages that affect nearby consumers and farmers. In addition to the millions of gallons of water used in the plastic-making process, two gallons of water are wasted in the purification process for every gallon that goes into the bottles.

more pools, less beer!

Bottled water is the most visible and pervasive attempt by corporations to control our water. By turning water into a brand through misleading advertising bottlers take our water and sell it back to us. Pepsi's Aquafina, features a beautiful snow-capped mountain on its label, even though its contents come from municipal tap. The harmful effects of bottled water can be seen anywhere from India, where Coke and Pepsi have drained community wells, leaving residents without water, to places like Mt. Shasta, CA and Mecosta County, MI where Nestle has used its political power to ink deals that put corporate profit ahead of human need. Here is more info on the water issue www.thinkoutsidethebottle.org.

water is life, don't waste it