Black Balls

BALLS!

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“ Department of Water and Power workers are emptying out bales of plastic balls in the Ivanhoe reservoir in Los Angeles on Monday, June 9, 2008. Department of Water and Power released about 400,000 black plastic 4-inch balls as the first installment of approximately 3 million to form a floating cover over 7 acres of the reservoir to protect the water from sunlight. When sunlight mixes with the bromide and chlorine in Ivanhoe's water, the carcinogen bromate can form. ” This cracks me up.  Are they trying to stop evaporation because of the severe water shortage?  Noooooo.  They're worried that the sun might cause a chemical reaction with other of their brilliancies.  And how was clearance granted for this environmental outrage?  How soon before a bird swallows a black ball and chokes to death?  The humanity! In that event, expect U.S. CircuitJudge Oliver Wanger, who is largely responsible for the water shortage anyway,  to come to the rescue, screaming "get your balls out of my water!" BTW, for six years I've been checking who appointed judges who make idiotic-to-obscene rulings from the federal bemch.  This is only the second time that  a president other than Carter or Clinton was responsible (Bush 41).