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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-10-07 10:36 AM
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16. The "dead zone" in the White House will have to be fixed first.
Until then, the federal government will not do anything genuinely productive toward cleaning up our environment .
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  -Despite promises to fix it, the Gulf dead zone is growing. Maddy McCall  Jun-10-07 01:08 AM   #0 
  - important story . . . there are also dead zones in the Atlantic . . .  OneBlueSky   Jun-10-07 04:00 AM   #1 
  - I certainly can empathize--one of the biggest problems  OHdem10   Jun-10-07 04:08 AM   #2 
  - Republicans are actually fiscal liberals, not conservatives.  Lasher   Jun-10-07 09:23 AM   #11 
     - K & R especially for this post nt  glitch   Jun-10-07 10:01 AM   #14 
     - Well said Lasher.  Uncle Joe   Jun-10-07 06:03 PM   #28 
  - I recently saw an article about a plastic filled area  pokercat999   Jun-10-07 05:47 AM   #3 
  - I saw that too. It was horrifying.  emmadoggy   Jun-10-07 09:41 AM   #12 
     - Me too.  Lasher   Jun-10-07 12:40 PM   #20 
  - Kick n/t  intheflow   Jun-10-07 07:09 AM   #4 
  - More worthless talk....with NO ACTION....  jus_the_facts   Jun-10-07 07:25 AM   #5 
  - "same ol' worthless spew from politicians and gov't"  Massachusetts   Jun-10-07 07:39 AM   #6 
  - Divers begin to clean tires from ocean floor  okoboji   Jun-10-07 07:56 AM   #7 
  - This was a gift to private landfill operators - untested as to feasability in ocean  Divernan   Jun-10-07 11:53 AM   #18 
  - They don't even give a hoot about the *people* who live there  FloridaJudy   Jun-10-07 08:12 AM   #8 
  - follow the money  riverwalker   Jun-10-07 08:51 AM   #9 
  - It all goes back to ag subsidies, depressingly  XemaSab   Jun-10-07 10:16 AM   #15 
  - Yuck!  be inspired   Jun-10-07 09:19 AM   #10 
  - ARRRGGGGHHHH!!! Have those bastards funded ANYTHING besides their  emmadoggy   Jun-10-07 09:49 AM   #13 
  - The "dead zone" in the White House will have to be fixed first.  Zorra   Jun-10-07 10:36 AM   #16 
  - We're talking about Bush's brain, right?  Lord Balto   Jun-10-07 11:41 AM   #17 
  - They call this eutrophication, IIRC. We used to wring our hands  kestrel91316   Jun-10-07 12:24 PM   #19 
  - So how is your lawn?  Botany   Jun-10-07 01:23 PM   #21 
  - I don't do jack to my lawn....  okoboji   Jun-10-07 02:27 PM   #22 
  - I am with you Okobohi -- my yard is a sanctuary for dandelions, clover,  IndyOp   Jun-10-07 07:24 PM   #31 
  - Now see what happens when the Ortho fertilizer interests feel threatened  BornagainDUer   Jun-10-07 04:50 PM   #24 
  - what is a lawn?  kineneb   Jun-10-07 07:58 PM   #35 
  - ONe of the most "progressive" regions in the US  BornagainDUer   Jun-10-07 04:47 PM   #23 
  - If they can't fix something as "simple" as hurricane damage there is no hope  n2doc   Jun-10-07 05:13 PM   #25 
  - This is not good at all.  StarryNite   Jun-10-07 05:18 PM   #26 
  - Thanks for the thread Maddy McCall  Uncle Joe   Jun-10-07 06:01 PM   #27 
  - Let's just pull a magic-wand out of our ass...  19jet54   Jun-10-07 06:06 PM   #29 
  - And the ethanol boom is only going to make this worse, for a couple of reasons  hatrack   Jun-10-07 06:12 PM   #30 
  - Holy hell. Thanks hatrack. I was becoming disillusioned with biofuels -  IndyOp   Jun-10-07 07:28 PM   #33 
  - Plastic-Ocean  LibertyorDeath   Jun-10-07 07:24 PM   #32 
     - Okay. I'm stunned. Twice the size of Texas. Decreased fertility, cancer,  IndyOp   Jun-10-07 07:38 PM   #34 
        - Yes it's a very sobering article  LibertyorDeath   Jun-10-07 08:37 PM   #36 
           - "I have 2 young children & I fear for their future..."  emmadoggy   Jun-10-07 09:24 PM   #37 
 

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