Alabama, Georgia and Florida are expected to miss their Friday, Feb. 15, deadline for reaching a regional water-sharing agreement, the Associated Press reported today.
The states have been squabbling for years, and the situation only grew worse as last year’s drought drove levels at Lake Lanier — Atlanta’s main water supply — perilously low. When that happened, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue did more than pray for rain (though he did that, too): he asked the feds to let his state hold back more water in its reservoirs rather than maintain federally mandated river flows into Alabama and Florida.
Since setting the mid-February deadline for a resolution, Bush administration officials have been working to mediate an agreement among the three states.
Thirsty for water, Georgia is also toying with the idea of “correcting” an 1818 survey in order to move its northern border with Tennessee up a mile, which would give it access to water from the Tennessee River. Needless to say, Tennessee officials are not amused.
Georgia’s efforts to keep more water for itself suffered a setback this month when the U.S. Court of Appeals tossed a 2003 agreement between the state and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The compact would have boosted Georgia’s Lake Lanier water rights.
You mean we haven’t solved all our critical problems, like water supplies to major cities and we are over in Iraq telling them how to live! Shit! I thought we knew it all! Can’t be! Just hop in your SUV and bring some water in from the lake!
Some of the assholes in Washington should be tarred and feathered and fucked up the ass by Bubba for this “oversight” No way they bailed out the crooks on Wall street for $700 billions of dollars while we can’t even take a bath! We are American citizens, we have entitlement! Washington, fill our reservoirs and our gastanks and do it fast, or else – or else nothing, we’ve had it up the ass again, the rich boys did us again!
Saw this on the net, nearly puked, but it is true:
Tender spot hurting a lot? Other side too? bruises on your face and body throbbing? Is that blood running out your nose, skirt above your head in the wind, panties torn and soiled, titties swelling and turning blue by the minute, lost on the roadside, hoping not to die? Did you recognize the tail lights of the limo that threw you off? Was it the same limo that picked you up at election time, promising a good decent clean ride? Will you ever learn? Last time these guys did this to you, your babies were killed in Iraq and your retirement fund spent to do it, your taxes went up, you did not get destroyed by the weapons of mass destruction, they were never found. Poor little America. Our heart-felt prayers from Canada go out to you!