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";s:4:"text";s:22768:"I don’t understand the EBT system. My relative has sold her 20 acres to a successful almond grower; that was the last parcel other than my own left of my great great grandmother’s farm. The very end of the article follows: I turn on the local news and channel surf for 10 minutes. I suppose no scavenger thinks it can be recycled. Three observations: many of the shoppers seem to be here for the air conditioning (the forecast is for 105 degrees by 5 PM). Almonds can net far more per acre than raisins and do not require much more water and require almost no labor. I offer another chronicle, a 14-hour tour of the skeleton I once knew as California. I am talking ag pumps at home with some farmers. The renter promises to lower the other one, whose pump is pumping air, now well above the sinking water table. Will the power go off? I take another walk around the farm. Goodbye California. that law-abiding taxpaying citizens have to put up with in this country each and every day. I’m on the upstairs balcony looking out over miles of lush countryside. I suppose if one cannot grasp, much less deal with, $19 trillion in debt, a foreign policy in shambles, the largest state in the union on the cusp of a disastrous drought, a Potemkin health care system, zero interest on passbook savings, and the end of all federal immigration law, then the trivial must become existential. It reminds me of Obamacare: after my accident last May, I had lots of procedures and hours in waiting rooms. https://hvr.co/2S0Fr7Z Your email address will not be published. I drive on the 99 freeway past Kingsburg on the way to Visalia. ... Goodbye, diversity. I try to drive by the Reedley DMV on the way home to switch a car registration. It is striking how young the overweight are! Notable quotables from Victor Davis Hanson, Laura Hollis, James Craig, and more. Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Content Agency March 20, 2021 - 10:17 pm March 20, 2021 - 10:17 pm The U.S. military has turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Victor Davis Hanson (born September 5, 1953) is an American conservative commentator, classicist, and military historian. I can hear the ag pumps of the surrounding farms everywhere churning 24/7. Where does one acquire multiple cards? And then, presto, the governor just announced a wish that the poor should be given “ticket amnesty.” So much for Sacramento’s idea of fining California drivers into becoming a reliable revenue source for a broke state, given that it has affected far more drivers than the shrinking and hated middle class that could supposedly afford the new sky-high tickets. years. Pipes? Taxpayer Dollars' and Given to Illegal Aliens, U.S. City Journal is a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI), a leading free-market think tank. I turn on the local news and channel surf for 10 minutes. Ao Vivo; O Festival; Regulamento; Inscrições; Programação; Filmando S8; Edições Anteriores; Contato I got back inside in case things go dark to review the mail. Good — no one has yet shot the majestic pair of red tail hawks yet, who greet me on their accustomed pole. Shingles?). (How do you sue Caltrans — and why is it that four or five men always seem to be standing around one who is working?) And does their success depend on fools like me, who are expected to keep roadsides tidy by cleaning up past trash to make room for future refuse? This litany blares out: Bruce Jenner’s new sexual identity, the latest racial controversy, this time over the crashing of a private pool party and the police reaction, the Obama’s new stretch Air Force One jumbo jet, Marco Rubio’s one ticket every four years, Miley Cyrus’s bisexuality. And if orchards and vineyards, a mass die-off will follow of trees and vines. Struggling to make ends meet, Hanson reluctantly dusted off his résumé, got into his truck, and drove to the closest university, California State at Fresno. A friend calls and mentions that local JCs had a spate of car vandalizations. This is what national suicide looks like. The very end of the article follows: - YouTube President Trump recently ordered a … All Rights Reserved. (Prices for drilling by the foot have increased fivefold, and are said to go up monthly). 1,000 feet and dropping) will go fallow if they are row-crops. As Califonria goes, so goes the nation. I discovered something listening to the desk people deal with Obamacare signups: a vast number apparently have not regularly paid the monthly or quarterly premiums. Hanson’s entire piece is about all the micro-insults, micro-falsehoods, micro-injustices, etc. Quite often, someone after too much to drink goes airborne and hits a power pole on these rural roads. – A quote I have heard many times in my life. From what I’ve seen White Conservative “men” had better get serious and snap out of it fast. The lines at the office suggest that many DMVs simply have transmogrified into illegal alien license-processing centers. The construction hazards are of the sort that would earn any private contractor a lawsuit. This litany blares out: Bruce Jenner’s new sexual identity, the latest racial controversy, this time over the crashing of a private pool party and the police reaction, the Obama’s new stretch Air Force One jumbo jet, Marco Rubio’s one ticket every four years, Miley Cyrus’s bisexuality. And some had no notion of a copayment. How well we take refuge in the absurd. As Califonria goes, so goes the nation. He claims it is diet, but tastes like regular Coke. And goodnight once great country. Goodbye, diversity. And any objective observations about our plight are labeled “micro-aggressions.” I know the feeling. Then come two sirens. Go for the sheet rock? Only recently has the state decided to upgrade the fossilized two-lane 99 into an interstate freeway of three lanes. Most of the surrounding countryside, piece-by-piece, is being reconstituted into vast almond groves. Required fields are marked *. I just lowered the pump to a 110-foot draw, and decided to get on the “waiting list” for a new domestic well. The water table here has gone from 40 feet in 2011 to 82 feet now — the result of four years of constant pumping combined with below-average rain and snow runoff, and the complete cut-off of contracted surface water from the Kings River watershed (don’t ask why). How well we take refuge in the absurd. and now wants a tax hike to keep up with increased expenses. Victor Davis Hanson (author@victorhanson.com.) Oddly, or perhaps predictably, the land to the naked eye looks better in the sense that the power of corporate capital and savvy scientific expertise has resulted in picture-perfect orchards. Obesity among the shoppers seems epidemic and no one is talking about it. Under Fire For Not 'Sharing' the Coronavirus Vaccine, LGBT Activist Urges the Government to Fight 'The Pernicious Power of Prayer', The FBI's Jaw-Dropping Conclusion About Leftist Terrorism Raises Serious Questions, Poll: Americans Not Buying Into Democrats' Anti-Gun Panic Rhetoric, Joe Biden Needs a Dose of Reality—No One Needs His Permission to Celebrate the 4th of July, California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. – A quote I have heard many times in my life. You can reach him by e-mailing [email protected]. I appreciate California logic: don’t dare suggest that massive new commitments to ensure social parity for millions of new arrivals through increased state legal, medical, criminal justice, and educational programs ever come at the expense of investments in roads, bridges, reservoirs, airports, or public facilities — or even the accustomed state services that one took for granted in 1970. Victor Davis Hanson is a contributing editor of City Journal. This time targets are catalytic converters (for precious metal salvage?). America is rapidly circling the drain while the good guys do absolutely nothing more than bitch to each other about how terrible thing have gotten. The idea that a bankrupt state would create a task force to go after such thievery is absurd. Windows? Could we not have a simple state rule: “no high-speed rail corridors until the 101, 99, and I-5 are three-lane freeways, and the neglected Amtrak line achieves profitable ridership?” It is almost as if California answers back: “I am too bewildered by your premodern challenges, so I will take psychological refuge in my postmodern fantasies.”. One must be prompt: even a small pile attracts dumpers like honey to bees. When the taps at Facebook or the Google toilets go dry, will the state again invest in water storage? He is the author of the recent novel The End of Sparta and of the forthcoming The Savior Generals. I get the impression that today’s Gothic looter and Vandal is more ingenious than the state’s work force. The state announced that it was surprised that “unexpectedly” (the catch adverb of the Obama era) nearly 500,000 illegal aliens have already been processed with new driver’s licenses. https://www.city-journal.org/html/california-here-we-stay-13507.html My cousin’s pile across the road has grown to Mt. An even larger group has no idea what a deductible is, or that it actually applies to themselves. My house well is only 140 feet deep. Victor Davis Hanson - WTF Happened in California? Note the new California: the citizen is responsible for picking up trash or keeping a car running clean with a converter. But the construction is slow and seemingly endless. I’m now 58 and I figure that I’ve got a couple of decades coming to me. Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won," from Basic Books. I offer another chronicle, a 14-hour tour of the skeleton I once knew as California. And their children either sold the parcels and moved away (the poorer seem to head to the foothills, the middle class go out of state, the better off flee to the coast) or rent them out. Victor Davis Hanson is a noted historian and social critic whose philosophies are rooted in classicism. In fact, half the mail seems to be drought information from various agencies. Copyright ©2021 PJMedia.com/Salem Media. It is a road-warrior maze of construction and detours. My latest PG&E bill reminds me to apply for income-adjusted reduced rates — if I qualify. I lowered one 15-hp submersible to 100 feet (the well is only 160, which used to be called “deep” when the water table was 40 feet). The last time I had visited the office, I noticed the customers were also dealing with fines, tickets, or fix-it citations as part of the process. No longer operative? But I do notice someone has forced open the cyclone fence around the neighbor’s vacant house. Tree fruit, given its expenses and risks, can lose your farm. Appointments take a long waiting period, but the line of the show-ups is still far out the door and well into the parking lot. Report: 'Border Czar' Kamala Harris's Book Is Purchased With 'U.S. If the drought continues, one will see two unimaginable things by next spring: thousands of abandoned older homes out in the countryside from Merced to Bakersfield, and tens of thousands of acres on the West Side (water table ca. Almost all our small towns now have new state/federal dialysis clinics. is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Cannot the state at least offer public health warnings to the immigrant community that while diabetes is alarming among the population at large, it is becoming epidemic among new arrivals from Latin America and Mexico? By Victor Davis Hanson | August 20, 2020 at 12:40 p.m. President Donald Trump recently ordered a 12,000-troop reduction in American military personnel stationed in Germany. Your email address will not be published. Susannah “Suzy” Hanson, daughter of mil­itary his­torian and Dis­tin­guished Vis­iting Pro­fessor of History Victor Davis Hanson, died last Thursday in Los Angeles after a brief illness. She was 27. It breaks my heart to say it. Print Listen Insight: “True liberty cannot exist apart from the full rights of property, for property is the only crystallized form of free faculties.” —Auberon Herbert (1838-1906) An acquaintance had also emailed and reminded me that not far away there was a mound of used drip hose on the roadside. The reality of all three sends many into a near frenzy, reminiscent of the idea that a driver’s license means keeping up with registration, smog rules, and paying outstanding warrants — until the state provides the expected amnesties. Is this not a state emergency? “She was a won­derful girl, and the apple of the eye of her great father, whom she adored,” Pres­ident Larry Arnn wrote to the Col­legian last night. How is it that customers ahead of me pull out not one, but often go through three or four cards before they cobble together enough plastic credit for the full tab? Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; his focus is classics and military history. It’s quite scenic, something in between verdant Tuscany and the aridness of Sicily. This is the waste product of zero actionable PUSHBACK. (Note that Silicon Valley’s Crystal Springs reservoir on freeway 280 is “full.” No Bay Area green activist is arguing either that the deliveries through massive conduits should be stopped at the San Joaquin River to be diverted for fish restoration, or that the entire project is unnatural and a scar on Yosemite Park, warranting shutting down the huge transfer system in favor of recycling waste water for showers and gardens.). As a youth, we used a tiny window, inefficient air conditioner far more in the 1960s and 1970s than I ever do now with central air. I remind him that it is so only because the artificial sweetener has been energized by some cane sugar and it is not so diet after all. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for National Review, The Washington Times and other media outlets. All that remains is the original house I live in and 40 acres. I plan to rent out mine next year for such conversion. Almost all the small farming neighbors I grew up with — of Armenian, Punjabi, German, or Japanese descent — are long gone. In a normal year they would never be turned on, as river water irrigated the fields and recharged the water table. To do so is nativist, racist, and xenophobic. Goodbye California: A Lament | Wesley J. Smith | First Things This is not, and will never again be the great nation it was in my younger Stories that 25 percent of all state hospital admittances suffer from high blood sugar levels circulate. I argue in a friendly way with a customer in line about the new “green” Coke. (What do you do after stealing copper wire? I thought, how will they pay for all that, given that “living in the shadows” and ignoring summonses and threats is far easier than paying what the state wants? I’m on a PG&E off-peak rate schedule, so I’m waiting until evening to turn on the air conditioner. No one in the Bay Area, whose green agenda has led to the highest power rates in the country, seems to have thought that all of California does not enjoy 65-75 degree coastal corridor weather. I don’t, so keep the air conditioner off all day. I suppose if one cannot grasp, much less deal with, $19 trillion in debt, a foreign policy in shambles, the largest state in the union on the cusp of a disastrous drought, a Potemkin health care system, zero interest on passbook savings, and the end of all federal immigration law, then the trivial must become existential. “Lowering” means less water pumped, more energy costs, a waiting list for the pump people, and sky-high service charges. The old agrarian idea that 40 acres also grows a unique family, not just food, is — how do we say it? Posted June 19, 2015. I’m at the local supermarket two miles away. Victor Davis Hanson, Niall Ferguson, and Russell Roberts discuss the history of socialism and capitalism, part of the Hoover Institution's Human Prosperity Project speaker series. What was so awful about building just two or three one million acre-foot reservoirs, or raising Shasta Dam? Do freelance dumpers make good money promising to take away their neighborhood’s mattresses and trash without paying the $20 or so county dumping fee? I promise to haul it away this week. I finally got around to retrieving the car seat that someone threw out in front of the vineyard near my mailbox. That mess proved to be quite large, maybe 1,000 feet of corroded and ripped up plastic hose. We could begin today. The last vestiges of small, agrarian farming in these parts died sometime in the 1990s. I’ll leave a very serious comment somewhere and all too often it’s met with humorous idiotic replies by White Conservatives, damn troubling. The local irrigation district has not delivered water in four years (what do ditch tenders do when canals and ditches are empty?) https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/california-apocalypto I pass. (Don’t try waiting dumpers out — as if it is not your responsibility to clean up California roadsides.). They are an ingenious and industrious lot (sort of like the cunning and work ethic of those who planted IEDs during the Iraq War). VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Ignoring Current Problems, California Comes Up With Illogical Reparations Bill OPINION VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Unscientific Attack On The Science Of Dr. Scott Atlas It is 104 degrees outside and 96 degrees inside the house. A renowned historian and social commentator, Dr. Hanson's scholarly work ranges from historical studies on the Peloponnesian War to the demise of classical studies in the American academy. (He is buying eight six-packs in fear of shortages.). Rushmore proportions. 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