this is a photo today from the california water blog, which is an excellent blog. and the california water blog, as you can see in this picture, it shows this pod of hippos that the city of stockton brought in to graze on the weeds around the big industrial port. they brought this herd of hippos from botswana. they radio tagged them so they don t lose them. they keep people far away, because the hippos don t much like people. other than that, it is apparently working like it is supposed to. hippos love delicious water hyacinths. they re helping stockton with their problem. stockton brought in a second slightly cuddlier hyacinth eater. these adorable little capybara in the river. they re giant swimming rodents
had suggested bringing in manatees from florida. to eat the water hyacinthths in the river. apparently it s like their favorite food. they can eat 100 pounds of those weeds a day or something. manatees are impractical to be moved from florida to stockton. even though the stockton mayor suggested that idea. without the manatees they have come up with the next best thing. so behold stockton got hippos instead. this is a photo today from the california water blog which is an excellent blog. and the california water blog as you can see in this picture, it shows this pod of hippos that the city of stockton brought in to graze on the weeds around the big industrial port. they brought this herd of hippos from batsotswana. they radio tagged them so they don t lose them. they keep people far away because the hippos don t much like people. other than that, it is
weeds a day or something. alas manatees are super endangered, so obviously it s impractical to move manatees from florida to stockton. even though the stockton mayor suggested that idea. without the manatees, they have come up with the next best thing. so behold, stockton got hippos instead. this is a photo today from the california water blog, which is an excellent blog. and the california water blog, as you can see in this picture, it shows this pod of hippos that the city of stockton brought in to graze on the weeds around the big industrial port. they brought this herd of hippos from botswana. they have radio tagged them so they don t lose the hippos. they have the coast guard watch over them, and keep people far away. because the hippos don t much like people. other than that, it is apparently working like it is supposed to. hippos love delicious water hyacinths. they re having lovely meals. they re helping stockton with their problem.
this american morning. . busy weekend. good morning, august 1st. a lot going on today. it was an agonizing weekend and we were all up late last night. e-mails flying at midnight. it was busy. but things are a little brighter today than they were last night and saturday night and a little brighter. tiny bit. we start with that possible break-through in the debt ceiling crisis. in a few hours the house and senate are expected to vote on a plan by president obama and congressional leaders to raise america s borrowing limit in exchange for massive spending cuts. i want to announce that leaders of both parties in both chambers have reached an agreement that will reduce the deficit and avoid default. the default that would have had a devastating effect on our economy. a sense of what the agreement looks like, going to increase the debt ceiling by up to $2.4 trillion. that is enough to get us through 2012, we hope. the plan also includes $917 billion in immediate spen