{"id":5803,"date":"2013-03-16T04:10:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T08:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=5803"},"modified":"2013-03-12T07:47:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T11:47:35","slug":"year-4-month-3-day-16-pucker-up-sweetheart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-4-month-3-day-16-pucker-up-sweetheart\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 4, Month 3, Day 16: Pucker Up, Sweetheart"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Norman Transcript (OK) discusses Oklahoma’s drought situation and the measures the State government is taking:<\/a><\/p>\n

NORMAN \u2014 A measure to provide financial assistance to Oklahoma\u2019s agricultural community during droughts passed the Senate unanimously Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Senate Bill 996 would create the Emergency Drought Protection Special Fund. Sen. Ron Justice, author of the legislation, says the state\u2019s current drought is a tragic example of why the fund is needed. <\/p>\n

\u201cOklahoma is in one of the worst droughts in state history. Many farmers and ranchers have lost crops and been forced to sell livestock because there simply isn\u2019t enough water to maintain them,\u201d said Justice, R-Chickasha. \u201cSome have even stopped farming or ranching because they couldn\u2019t make ends meet and were near bankruptcy.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgriculture is the backbone of our state\u2019s economy. We must do all we can to protect this industry and this fund is one way we can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Oklahoma Conservation Commission would maintain the fund, which would consist of certain funds appropriated to it. Monies from the fund could only be spent when the governor declared a drought emergency to exist. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More hatin’ on Inhofe. March 6:<\/p>\n

It is a peculiar irony that as Oklahoma’s farmers struggle to cope with one of the worst droughts they’ve ever experienced, the state’s own Senator James Inhofe vociferously denies the existence, severity, and sources of climate change. Why listen to scientists who’ve studied the climate for decades? Why acknowledge that climatologists have long predicted that an accelerating greenhouse effect would put our agricultural sector at risk, prolonging droughts and increasing their intensity? Senator Inhofe won’t be bamboozled by people who actually know what they’re talking about \u2014 at least as long as his vehement rejection of scientific expertise continues to be funded by the fossil fuel corporations whose profitability will decline if America finally ends its addiction to their product.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma’s parched and cracking soil can’t be persuaded by hefty contributions from big oil. When it comes to the climate crisis, arch-denialist Inhofe turns out to be dumber than dirt.<\/p>\n

Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Norman Transcript (OK) discusses Oklahoma’s drought situation and the measures the State government is taking: NORMAN \u2014 A measure to provide financial assistance to Oklahoma\u2019s agricultural community during droughts passed the Senate unanimously Tuesday. Senate Bill 996 would create the Emergency Drought Protection Special Fund. Sen. Ron Justice, author of the legislation, says the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[733,599,207,212],"class_list":["post-5803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-agriculture","tag-drought","tag-idiots","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5803"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5824,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions\/5824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}