"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" - E. A. Poe
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." - V
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” -Teddy Roosevelt
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage."
- attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler "The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic" (1776)
"If there is any hope for America, it lies in revolution. And if there is any hope for revolution, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara." - Phil Ochs
Women are 4 times more likely to be the victims of a sexually motivated murder than men, but men are 10 times more likely to be the murderers. That's just the way it is.
"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?" -The Buddha
"We need above all, to be shaken out of our indifference — the greatest source of danger in the world…For, remember, the opposite of love is not hate but indifference. The opposite of faith is not arrogance but indifference; the opposite of art is not ugliness but indifference. And the opposite of peace is indifference to both peace and war — indifference to hunger and persecution, to imprisonment and humiliation, indifference to torture and persecution." - Eli Wiesel
"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in
his facts." - Bernard Baruch
Achtung! Das machine ist nicht fur gerfingerpoken und mittengraben. Ist easy schnappen der pringenwerk, blowenfusen, und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fur gewerken by das dumkopfen, das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands in der pockets, relaxen und watchen der blinkenlights.
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Less water means water wars. I'm moving to where the water starts, not where it (hopefully) ends up.
Scientist warns of climate change impact
LAS CRUCES, N.M. Associated Press - Climate change could mean higher temperatures, less winter precipitation and less spring runoff for the Southwest, a climatologist says.
Temperatures in New Mexico could increase by a few degrees by the end of this century, said Gregg Garfin, project manager of the Climate Assessment Project for the Southwest at the University of Arizona.
"It seems very likely that temperatures will continue to increase and probably more rapidly than we've seen in the past," he said Monday.
The warmer weather will cause snowpack to melt earlier each year, and there is a chance less snow will fall, Garfin said. Earlier snowpack melts will mean water supplies will be more vulnerable to evaporation because water will sit longer in reservoirs before it is used, he said during a global warming workshop forum in Las Cruces.
The forum, sponsored in part by the state engineer's office, was the first of five planned across New Mexico.
Gary Esslinger, manager for the Elephant Butte Irrigation District, said he has heard about the impacts of climate change at other water workshops, so Monday's presentation was no surprise.
"It's a concern for agriculture, just the whole idea of climate change," he said.
Farmers in southern New Mexico rely on runoff flowing into the Rio Grande for irrigation each summer.
For farmers, Esslinger said the predictions are a "triple threat" because the water supply will shrink, higher temperatures will increase the water needed for a plant to survive and farmers will rely more heavily on groundwater, which will deplete aquifers.
Michael Nivison, an Otero County commissioner and Cloudcroft administrator, said his community has experienced water shortages and has been forced to truck in water.
"I think that we're behind the curve, but it's excellent to have somebody pointing out the issues that pertain to water," he said. "Until you run out of water, you don't realize what kind of problems you're facing."
