The highest expression of the Democrat party is the rapist wallowing in the human excrement of "Occupy Wall Street".

Most years, L.A. rainfall starts in December and is done by May. More than half the year is entirely without rain, which is inconvenient at best.

There is no excuse for this

People need food to live. Food, in the form of plants, needs water and sunshine. Oregon and Washington have lots of water and not so much sun. California has lots of sun but less water. Shipping sunshine to Oregon and Washington is not practical. Can you figure out the rest?

The problem is more serious now than it used to be, because bogus ecological claims have caused water previously sent from the Columbia River to flow into the ocean.

Draining off the top half meter of Lake Superior will do the job.

As long as there are cowards, there will be people selling insurance.

It is Cuban policies that make Cuba a failed state, not American policies.

I live in a port city and see lots of ships, but I'm not sure this baby could even enter the harbour here.

It's far bigger than what the Panama Canal can handle (maximum 290 meters long), as well as the Saint Lawrence Seaway (225 meters). The Panama Canal was designed for the largest ships of the day, RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic.

...laura

In this case, the problem is racism, conservatism...

Grow up. The accusation of racism is 50 years old, and the implication that conservatives don't think is even older. The current situation has no winners, and using insults and apocalyptic predictions does not improve the situation.

You are assuming that everyone who lives 30 miles away from his job lives in the same place. 'Taint so.

There aren't a lot of tall buildings in Los Angeles - a few dozen downtown, some along the Wilshire corridor. Beyond that, there are big hotels in some critical spots and not much else. If you limit new construction to 3 stories all that will happen is that 3-story businesses replace residential neighborhoods, and residential neighborhoods will move into the mountains and farmlands to the northwest, east, and south. Problems will be slightly worse than without the restriction.

From 1890 to 1990 Los Angeles grew by about 6500%, and since then has grown by about 13%. This is not the sort of thing that is easy to plan for.

IIRC, sidewalks on the north side of Sunset Boulevard, just north of UCLA, are absent.

The three second rule would cut rush hour capacity on the 405 by half or worse. It simply could not work.

People like me who don't want to scrape dead children off the pavement when a hotrodder does 70mph in a 20mph zone.