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2009-07-15 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Your Leaders Will Determine What You May Eat or Drink

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Posted by Glenmore 2009-07-15 08:10|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Well paying $2 or more a litre for bottled water when equally good water was available from the tap for free was always the icon of liberal derangement for me. That was until Global Warming came along.

Now they have replace one irrational idiocy with another. Except this time they expect everyone else to pay for it.

Posted by phil_b 2009-07-15 08:23|| 2009-07-15 08:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Bottled water is about portability. You see these yahoos giving up their cell phones and be tied to wire connected to the wall to talk?

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-07-15 09:54|| 2009-07-15 09:54|| Front Page Top

#3 What about sodas or flavored water like gatorade? That's copacetic, right? Doesn't put out CO2 bottling that stuff, I guess.

Posted by mojo 2009-07-15 10:48|| 2009-07-15 10:48|| Front Page Top

#4 phil_b: Years ago I found out that the "powers that be" in my State created "pure water" organizations before they were fashionable. However, they did so to keep control over the system, so they could decide what "pure water" was.

And they were "liberal" about what they considered "pure water". Basically, anything but large chunks of feces was cool.

When LBJ started his push for clean water by setting up federal standards, it was pretty shocking how much crap the State had permitted. Sky high in heavy metals and arsenic, and volatile toxic waste like jet fuel and synthetics. In some parts of the State, natural fluoride levels were so high that it etched the teeth of children.

With the creation of the EPA, a lot of water wells were closed because of contaminants, and in some cases, superfund sites were set up to permanently mark areas for no well drilling.

We still have a lot of problems with various salts and phosphates. If you reverse osmosis our typical city water, you will get a substantial quantity of sludge.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-07-15 10:54|| 2009-07-15 10:54|| Front Page Top

#5 All my coffee and drinking water (ice too) has been reverse osmosis water since 1985.

You can really tell the difference when the coffee maker wears out without ever needing decalcifying cleaning.

Posted by 3dc 2009-07-15 11:56|| 2009-07-15 11:56|| Front Page Top

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