Holiday Travelers Warned: Huge California Snowstorm Could Close Sierra Nevada Roads -- LA Times; Three People Shot Near Bakken Lives Matter Protest -- November 23, 2015

While preparing for their trip to cover the global warming conference to be held in Paris, Los Angeles Times reporters took time to file this report: Holiday travelers are warned: a huge snowstorm could block Sierra Nevada passes.

Nearly 20 inches of snow could fall on the Sierra Nevada from Yosemite National Park to north of Lake Tahoe this week. Drivers could find blocked and buried mountain passes this Thanksgiving holiday.

A massive storm, reaching across about half of the state, is expected to move in Tuesday and peak Wednesday, where it will drop up to 18 inches of snow on mountain summits from Shasta County and Lake Tahoe to Yosemite, said Nathan Owen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.

And so it goes.

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All Lives Matter

Minneapolis StarTribune is reporting that three people were shot near the site of Bakken Lives Matter. Oh, my bad. Not Bakken Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter. 

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Dictatorial?

Petulant?

The governor of New York will order state regulators to mandate that by 2030 half of all power consumed by New Yorkers be generated from renewable sources. One would think that in a democracy, the people's representatives would write the law and the governor would ensure the law is followed.

But I guess in New York, the governor can tell the regulators what to do even if no law exists. Maybe I'm missing something.

Or petulant?

The governor is doing this because "he is frustrated by the pending shutdown of two nuclear power plants on Lake Ontario."

I can't make this stuff up.

The New York Times reports the story. That's all I'm going to write. It tells me about all I need to know about "Governor" Andrew Cuomo of New York. I have better things to do, like watch Midnight In Paris and The Big Lebowski.

At least he's not doing what Angela Merkel in Germany did: she closed down the nuclear reactors and returned to coal to produce electricity. Something tells me New Yorkers will need a lot of wood chip power plants to make up for the loss of two nuclear reactors. I understand North Carolina has a lot of wood chips.