Is the Obama administration sacrificing America's ecosystem for two Congressional votes? Something's fishy in the state of California, and it stinks of political corruption most foul.  The water supply to the San Joaquin valley was shut off on December 2008 and remains off today, destroying thousands of lives and livelihoods of the farmers, small business owners and their employees who live and work in the valley.  Additionally, it has crippled our domestic crop production, of which about 12% was grown in this area. This tremendous sacrifice was absolutely necessary, at least according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Obama administration.  A valuable endangered species, the Delta Smelt, was being threatened by the diversion of water into the valley.  Local salmon and steelhead were threatened, as well.  The overwhelming menace to the Pacific ecosystem was so extreme that no amount of pleading from California politicians such as Governor...(Read Full Post)