Reply #49: I had thought several times of mentioning this a great book about the River and the South. [View All]

The southern and central states are getting hammered this year by weather.

Global climate change is a better descripter than global warming although global human industrial caused warming is a cause and symtom.

Human's modern industry, dominance of the planet, and mining of fossil fuels and use of fission creates weather extremes. The train has left the station.

Hoover was not a bad man. He was a mining engineer. He helped feed Europe post WWI. He had a local prescence where I grew up (a genberation before my birth) and now live in age. The only item I have ever purchased off Ebay was a picture of Hoover fly fishing for steelhead in the River riffle at my grandparent's resort in the early 1920s.

Likely POTUS Obama is analygous to POTUS Hoover in that they are products mostly of the status quo and an idealistic upbringing. Both my parents knew Hoover when he was on his true vacations and they were in their teens (plus my grandparents). They liked Ike but loved FDR. My Dad got into Reagan in old age who I hated but they were of the same age and hairstyle.