A Dam Story   

   Hoover Dam and Lake Mead are an American success story. The lake reached near the top in the year 2000. 

   Since then, the water level has fallen 140 feet, its lowest point ever. Only 36 percent of the lake's capacity has water. 

   An estimated 40 million people rely on the Colorado River. Likewise, four million acres of farmland.

   Last year, 64 percent of the American West was under drought conditions. This summer that share is above 97 percent.  

   We wonder when the rest of the country might feel the affects of water and crop shortages out West. 

Saving Our Democracy

   What do you think of this idea? 

   Instead of bemoaning riots, free shoplifting and burning, defunding police, critical race education, serious criminals going free, our border now useless, election cheating, deficit spending, skirting the rules, outright lies, Marxist cancel culture, corrupted news media, BLM, Antifa, The Squad, Marxist class warfare, mandates on masks, playing nice with Iran and all things China, loss of energy independence, printing money to hand out (when jobs are plentiful)...

   Republicans could go all out, supporting these very practices while campaigning in Democratic neighborhoods. 

   The Democrats would suddenly express horror at their own ideas, quickly restoring America's founding principles. 

   Oh, we know. They will still make trouble, and anyway, the Marxists among them would welcome Republican overtures, so it all might backfire.

   Better not.

                Jimmy