When the Levee Breaks

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay. – Led Zeppelin

So knows Narlens. That city has essentially been destroyed. “No jobs, no food, no water, no services, no nothing,” said the NO police chief in encouraging stragglers to leave. What we’ve seen going on the past week in that hell hole, does indeed expose how tenuous and fragile civilization is. The fingers have started pointing, of course, but let’s not forget the history of this disaster as we seek to heap blame.

Elections have consequences. Consider that fact the next time you pull the curtain in the booth to cast your vote. If nothing else, the aftermath of this tragedy reminds us of that, then perhaps something worthwhile will have been learned. – Rick Moran (Rightwing Nuthouse)

Truer words may have never been spoken (or written) even if Rick was speaking about Katrina the Cruel. But his words apply to us as well. Hier ins Cullyforjna, we have other levees breaking – moral levees as the Hoguester called them. Do you know what your elected representatives did yesterday??? In “The Best Damn Argument for Redistricting, Period!” your legislators voted to make same sex marriage legal yesterday. Do any of you remember Proposition 22? I do – so to speak. If our legislators do, they could care less. Your opinion of what marriage "is," (there's that "WORD" again!) downright has them shaking in their boots it does. And the good Govinator thinks the courts should decide this issue. Great. Hopefully that implies a veto. Leadership just abounds in this state. “Elections have consequences.” Damn right. As elected guv-mint leaders in Louisiana and on up frittered away precious time both before (waaaayyy before in some cases) and after Katrina the Cruel, our guv-mint leaders chip away at a moral decision we made just a few years ago. Your legislator has no fear of you my friends. He/she is safe in their padded districts, parts of which will deliver them a safe majority to keep them in office to engage in whatever they want to do with no fear of consequence from you come election day. Check out the California Legislature web site. The State Senate offers the following for a district map:




Easy enough to decipher, but what gives with Senate District 5, or the Los Angeles area Senate Districts? They make sense to politicians, but few else. The Assembly offers the following followed by a link with just a county map of California and a zipcode control box to find your assembly rep.




How about a map so we can see how these districts relate to each other like the Senate is courteous enough to do? What does that idiot box mean anyway? The districts are so convoluted and screwed up that not even the Assembly staff can figure them out? Here's an idea:

Redistrict Now!