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Batter Up Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0 |
Having known many MENSA Members (Top 2% I.Q.): Doesn't really mean anything. Some puzzles. One can have a 130 IQ and be dyslectic or have ADD. |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
Having known many MENSA Members (Top 2% I.Q.): Doesn't really mean anything. Also very true. Reality Internet Personality |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
It looks like the protests worked. Statement on DWSD Halt to Water Shutoffs Reality Internet Personality |
Batter Up Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0 |
It looks like the protests worked. So why should anyone now pay the water bill? I know I wouldn't. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19072 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
To me it looks like some of those intelligent migrants from the south might have jumped straight to Canada. Venezuela’s oil diaspora - Brain haemorrhage Many headed to Alberta, in Canada, where the tar sands yield a residue that is similar to the heavy oil from the Orinoco belt, which Venezuela is struggling to develop. There were 465 Venezuelans in Alberta in 2001; by 2011 there were 3,860. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19072 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
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betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
So why should anyone now pay the water bill? I know I wouldn't. That speaks of your integrity. So at heart you are a self confessed thief. |
Batter Up Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0 |
Batter no you shamed yourself. Some people choose the high road the rest don't. Only a capitalist 1%er would demand payment for a "human right". Have you no shame, at long last have you no shame? |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
Any one else find this bizarre? PETA will pay water bills for 10 Detroiters willing to go vegan When I saw the headline I thought it must have something to do with them worried about pets going without fresh water...but nope.. Now I'm a vegetarian, but to use people's distress to push being a vegan seems really off to me. Reality Internet Personality |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34831 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Whoever said that PETA wasn't? I remember posting a few other links in several other threads over time about the bizarre/offensive/stupid/weird (and/or) stuff that this group gets up to. Cheers. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30661 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
A new site lets you help pay Detroit residents’ water bills Meanwhile, a local attorney has filed a class action suit against the city on behalf of residents, claiming that the shut-offs – which fall overwhelmingly on black households – are racially motivated. http://detroit.areaconnect.com/statistics.htm White 116599 12.26% I'd like to know how it couldn't fall overwhelmingly on African American households? Detroit city council It is some sort of racially motivated scheme? I suspect a lawyer who needs clients and a publicity scam to try and get them .... and a journalist who should know better than to publish mushroom food. |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
A new site lets you help pay Detroit residents’ water bills Are you suggesting that Detroit was left to fail because most of its population is black? Much the same way no one was sent in to help the Hurricane Katrina victims? Reality Internet Personality |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
Whoever said that PETA wasn't? They give animal welfare activists a bad name :/ Reality Internet Personality |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30661 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Are you suggesting that Detroit was left to fail because most of its population is black? Much the same way no one was sent in to help the Hurricane Katrina victims? Of course not. "The city of Detroit, Michigan filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy on July 18, 2013." "In October of 2012, President Barack Obama triumphantly declared he "refused to throw in the towel" and "let Detroit go bankrupt."" The people in the picture, and their predecessors, must have just flat out mismanaged the city. There is no way President Obama did a Katrina on Detroit. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30661 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
California Water Cops! http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/25/california-watercops.html What you gonna do when they come for you? |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
If the drought continues the life style of the South West is not sustainable. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30661 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
If the drought continues the life style of the South West is not sustainable. And you had better start worrying ... http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/ In 2012, California's 80,500 farms and ranches received $42.6 billion for their output. California remained the number one state in cash farm receipts with 11.3 percent of the US total. The state accounted for 15 percent of national receipts for crops and 7.1 percent of the US revenue for livestock and livestock products. Exports totaled $18.18 billion in value which represents an eight percent increase over the previous year. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
And you had better start worrying ... Yes I am concerned. In the mid term your previous climate is probably be what my part of the world will become, not a good thing for us moss backs. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30661 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
And you had better start worrying ... You do understand that every fruit, nut, vegetable, chicken, cow, pig shipped out of California has a lot of California water in it? You also realize California supplies a huge portion of the food you eat. Are you getting a bit hungry yet? Wallet getting squeezed having food flown in from another continent? Understand the sigh in Spanish and you will begin to understand the issue. There is water in California, but it is reserved for the delta smelt. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
There is water in California, but it is reserved for the delta smelt. For the short term the delta smelt are ok but in the long run if the drought continues much will change including the fish. |
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