how could they know that it rains in the spring and the the snow melts causing runoffs that could cause floods if it all happens at once?

These rightarded piles of shit HATE America, and they have the ability top hate our country because their wages are paid for by our tax dollars.

These mother fuckers got theirs, they don't want hard-working American citizens to have any.

Why is he such a crotchety old fart? Did someone take his pudding when he was 3 and he never got over it? Mean-spirited old bastard.

Republicans ARE practicing seditious DEMAGOGUERY and anti-democracy OBSTRUCTIONISM intended to destabilize our economy for purposes of political exploitation.

Republicans AREN'T making a sincere effort to STOP the bleeding THEIR incompetent leadership and failed policies created. Instead, they're using inflammatory lies and accusations as a smokescreen to conceal their subversive agenda, which is to cause President Obama and America to fail so they can blame Democrats for the consequences of THEIR calamitous mismanagement.

Republicans ARE preposterously professing that THEIR disgraceful political WHORING had nothing to do with the banking, real estate, stock market and employment catastrophes that resulted.

Republicans ARE trying to hamstring Democrats to prevent them from repairing the damage caused during a Republican presidency that was irresponsibly enabled by Republican Senators and Representatives.

Republicans ARE offering ridiculous arguments meant solely to disrupt and prevent progressive change. They'd rather divide America and create political gridlock than endure the political consequences of effective Democratic governance.

Republicans AREN'T the LOYAL OPPOSITION; they ARE the ENEMY WITHIN whose mercenary priorities have eroded their moral and ethical standards to the point that duplicity and betrayal have become their preferred modus operandi.

It's one thing to advocate their conservative beliefs; it's another thing entirely to willfully sabotage America's government because a successful Democratic presidency would not be vulnerable to the greed, fears and hatreds that have produced and sustained the radical Republican anti-government corporatism and anti-Christian faux theocracies that are poisoning and crippling American society.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?p...

"The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities."

"In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with people's money, or their economy, or their form of government, be conservative."

"[T]he purpose of the Republican Party is to establish and maintain a peaceful world and build at home a dynamic prosperity in which every citizen fairly shares."

"We shall ever build anew, that our children and their children, without distinction because of race, creed or color, may know the blessings of our free land."

"We believe that basic to governmental integrity are unimpeachable ethical standards and irreproachable personal conduct by all people in government. We shall continue our insistence on honesty as an indispensable requirement of public service. We shall continue to root out corruption whenever and wherever it appears."

Since California's employment future will be positively impacted by energy policies, especially development of new green technology, elections matter.

Elections have consequences. But some of them might not be apparent. In Boxer's case, her defeat is vital to Republican hopes of retaking the Senate. Well, something voters should ponder: if Boxer is defeated and the GOP retakes the Senate, her role as chair of the Committee on the Environment (one of the key energy committees) will pass to the same guy who headed it under most of Bush: Oklahoma's James Inhofe (aka Senator Big Oil).

Inhofe's return to dictating committee energy policy would be catastrophic for California, the Nation and, without hyperbole, much of the planet. Something to consider, independents/moderates, come election day.

..works is a scam. The government PAYS billions to insurance companies, underwriting them against floods, mandates that homeowners in flood prone areas have Flood Insurance, while homeowners PAY premiums to insurance companies who deny them payoffs when they do get flooded. Well, maybe not so much that last part but I'll bet there are hundreds of stories of reduced payments or denials or some of the crap insurance companies are regularly accused of out there. Hey, they wouldn't be profitable if there weren't. But anyway, the double-dipping: income from the gov't and the insured, is the way I heard this plan is administrated and if I'm wrong, I apologize but isn't it about time we A) cut the insurance companies out as the middle man much the same way we just did with Student Loans and B) develop a "Manhattan Project" or "FDR style" program to build a national aqueduct system in America to move flood waters away from flood prone areas into water poorer areas, grow more greenery in the process that would offset some carbon, maybe generate a little electricity, put thousands to work on infrastructure, recycle plastic, rubber into some matrix with which we make the pipes out of. This is another place science and politics could work together for the benefit of mankind. Its not as sexy as launching people to the moon or putting solar panels on every roof of America but consider how many BILLIONS are lost every year due to flooding and then tell me its not something that shouldn't be considered.

A quick story..when my wife and I bought our house 16 years ago, the mortgage company wanted us to buy flood insurance. Granted, we live in sight of a small harbor but we are higher than most of the neighborhood as we are set well back from that harbor. When I asked the mortgage company why, they said I'm in a particular zone that will flood; I demanded proof of this. Turns out, their survey map was wrong and had our house located in the zone that IS the harbor rather than the zone that is above the flood plain. I reasoned that if I hadn't questioned them, I'd be paying for insurance I'd never need. I really made them look pretty stupid but for years, they kept at it. One time, a bank rep called about it and I asked whether they were familiar with our neighborhood. They said NO of course and I said well until you come and see for yourself, don't bother me any more with this crap. They had the information on file but they were relentless about getting me to sign up for flood insurance.