BadgerLaw2010
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Thu Oct-11-07 09:02 PM
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| 138. So stop planting golf courses on sand and move back to the Midwest. |
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Edited on Thu Oct-11-07 09:02 PM by BadgerLaw2010
Destroying the ecosystem of most of the Eastern United States because you want a fountain in your yard isn't going to fly.
And, I'm sorry to say, there are a lot more votes in Great Lakes states than worthless SW states.
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| -New Mexico governor wants Michigan's water |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 02:46 PM |
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We have to drink somehow |
Pawel K |
Oct-11-07 02:49 PM |
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The get it from Lake Tahoe |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 02:52 PM |
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Shit happens, we are where we are. |
Pawel K |
Oct-11-07 03:06 PM |
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We do NOT have the water to spare |
1gobluedem |
Oct-11-07 03:10 PM |
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How much water is in the great lakes... |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 03:11 PM |
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Not enough and too much n/t |
1gobluedem |
Oct-11-07 03:17 PM |
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Well if you're so sure... |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 03:21 PM |
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As I stated above |
1gobluedem |
Oct-11-07 03:39 PM |
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And that's got nothing to due with New Mexico. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 05:54 PM |
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Why do you need to? |
1gobluedem |
Oct-11-07 07:36 PM |
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You sure as shootin' can leave NM. |
Romulox |
Oct-11-07 03:15 PM |
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My lifestyle is perfectly fine, thanks for asking. |
Pawel K |
Oct-11-07 03:22 PM |
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Then tell your governor to put his hand back into HIS OWN pocket. nt |
Romulox |
Oct-11-07 03:44 PM |
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You live in a place that hasn't got enough water to sustain the people who live there. |
Tesha |
Oct-11-07 05:12 PM |
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All of our lives are *FUNDAMENTALLY* out of balance with nature. |
SimpleTrend |
Oct-15-07 01:06 PM |
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Then they should take it from the South |
Clark2008 |
Oct-11-07 03:17 PM |
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You do? Both Atlanta and Raleigh are facing imminent shortages |
KamaAina |
Oct-11-07 03:52 PM |
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No, we don't. We have a complete ban on outdoor water use in north GA. |
piedmont |
Oct-11-07 05:32 PM |
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Who is the "We"? Speak for yourself. |
bamalib |
Oct-11-07 07:24 PM |
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I'm in North Georgia and part of the "We." |
RebelOne |
Oct-15-07 01:18 PM |
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They don't have it to spare, that's the whole point |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 03:27 PM |
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And if thats the case, fine. |
Pawel K |
Oct-11-07 03:35 PM |
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Well there's not |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 03:42 PM |
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Is that all the water you guys have in the north west, just the great lakes? |
Pawel K |
Oct-11-07 03:43 PM |
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Northwest? Do you know where the Great Lakes are??? nt |
Romulox |
Oct-11-07 03:45 PM |
#52 |
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No I have no clue |
Pawel K |
Oct-11-07 04:33 PM |
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The Great Lakes are not in the Northwest |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 03:48 PM |
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Tell that to the Canadians. It's their water, too. |
amandabeech |
Oct-11-07 03:49 PM |
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Why do you think it would stop with NM? |
Zookeeper |
Oct-11-07 05:23 PM |
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Did I say I thought it would? |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 05:45 PM |
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I wasn't talking to you. n/t |
Zookeeper |
Oct-11-07 05:51 PM |
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OK, nevermind then. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 05:52 PM |
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You get the sun, we get the water |
gollygee |
Oct-11-07 05:07 PM |
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You have got to be shitting me. |
LeftyMom |
Oct-14-07 10:22 PM |
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Then move to a place with water. |
theHandpuppet |
Oct-11-07 03:48 PM |
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Good point - golf courses use excessive amounts of water |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 04:00 PM |
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It's not about drinking water |
Truth2Tell |
Oct-11-07 04:59 PM |
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Do you have a watered lawn? do you play on local golf courses? If you do you... |
Odin2005 |
Oct-11-07 05:11 PM |
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No, I dont play golf. |
Pawel K |
Oct-12-07 08:33 AM |
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you water your lawn? |
LisaM |
Oct-12-07 11:50 AM |
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Oh please, spare me the hippie bullshit. nt |
Pawel K |
Oct-12-07 12:00 PM |
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Seriously, you must be high |
LisaM |
Oct-12-07 12:02 PM |
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If you grew too big for your water supply, you'd better shrink. nt |
piedmont |
Oct-11-07 05:27 PM |
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So stop planting golf courses on sand and move back to the Midwest. |
BadgerLaw2010 |
Oct-11-07 09:02 PM |
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so move to where the water is. |
QuestionAll |
Oct-11-07 09:05 PM |
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How about living somewhere where the water is? |
JVS |
Oct-11-07 11:54 PM |
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Richardson wants states to discuss water policy |
heraldsqure |
Oct-11-07 02:51 PM |
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Why should they? |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 02:53 PM |
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Name removed |
Oct-11-07 03:23 PM |
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What water issues??? Here in Michigan we have plenty! |
Romulox |
Oct-11-07 03:13 PM |
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Exactly, with climate change water availability may shift. |
seasat |
Oct-11-07 06:30 PM |
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he's not proposing taking great lakes water.....yet. This is how it starts. |
bbgrunt |
Oct-14-07 10:39 PM |
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He can go to hell. Drain the Great Lakes? Or is the water going to be piped back? |
BadgerLaw2010 |
Oct-11-07 09:03 PM |
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Not just 'no', but 'HELL NO!' |
Romulox |
Oct-11-07 02:53 PM |
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EXCELLENT POINT |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 02:55 PM |
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I'll second that!! |
theHandpuppet |
Oct-11-07 03:52 PM |
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That's a great idea |
1gobluedem |
Oct-11-07 03:16 PM |
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Boo-Ya! |
Clark2008 |
Oct-11-07 03:18 PM |
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Ooh,I like that one |
sufrommich |
Oct-11-07 04:56 PM |
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Ought humans to live in desert regions? |
WinkyDink |
Oct-11-07 02:54 PM |
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Ought they live in Michigan? |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 02:56 PM |
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That's where the precious liquid stuff of life is--so, yes. They ought. |
wienerdoggie |
Oct-11-07 02:59 PM |
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It ain't liquidy when it's fifty below. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 03:03 PM |
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Well, the consequences of having enough fresh water |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 03:15 PM |
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That's what axes are for. |
wienerdoggie |
Oct-11-07 03:18 PM |
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And getting water from somewhere else is what pipes are for. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 03:22 PM |
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And yet, somehow the adaptable folks from Michigan manage to survive |
wienerdoggie |
Oct-11-07 03:23 PM |
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Michigan's completely self sufficient? |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 03:25 PM |
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I'm guessing not H2O. |
wienerdoggie |
Oct-11-07 03:26 PM |
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No. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 03:28 PM |
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Petroleum is drilled, refined, bought and sold by private industry. |
wienerdoggie |
Oct-11-07 03:39 PM |
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My relatives in Michigan, where I grew up, aren't interested in a business contract |
amandabeech |
Oct-11-07 04:16 PM |
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There is petroleum here as well natural gas for heating in Michigan |
1gobluedem |
Oct-11-07 03:42 PM |
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Are you for oil pipelines too? |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 03:25 PM |
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Uh, generally, yes. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 03:27 PM |
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Let me ask what you do to cut back energy (and water) usage |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 03:41 PM |
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Take navy showers |
Thothmes |
Oct-15-07 08:16 AM |
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good, stay the fuck down there, and keep your paws off the great lakes. n/t |
Scout |
Oct-11-07 03:59 PM |
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And matches |
Clark2008 |
Oct-11-07 03:24 PM |
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And kettles. |
wienerdoggie |
Oct-11-07 03:25 PM |
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you mean I dont drink Lake Michigan water in winter? |
LSK |
Oct-11-07 03:59 PM |
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I mean Michigan sucks. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 04:00 PM |
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uhh, Michigan is just across the lake from me |
LSK |
Oct-11-07 04:06 PM |
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Isn't Michigan just across the lake from itself? |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 04:10 PM |
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its down the road 3 blocks, take a left, turn right at the mail box |
LSK |
Oct-11-07 04:19 PM |
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Please explain that. |
NutmegYankee |
Oct-11-07 05:16 PM |
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People have been living in New Mexico for thousands of years too. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 05:54 PM |
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And they haven't needed Great Lakes water, so problem solved. |
spoony |
Oct-12-07 02:07 AM |
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And they got along fine. Guess they weren't using as much water. |
BadgerLaw2010 |
Oct-12-07 11:55 AM |
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Do you imagine our lakes |
sufrommich |
Oct-11-07 04:57 PM |
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Do you imagine things don't live in New Mexico? |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 04:58 PM |
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Did I say that? |
sufrommich |
Oct-11-07 05:15 PM |
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Don't bother. |
Zookeeper |
Oct-11-07 05:32 PM |
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Did I say the entire lake freezes? |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 05:43 PM |
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You said"it ain't liquidy",which I assumed |
sufrommich |
Oct-11-07 05:56 PM |
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The entire lake isn't at -50 below. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 07:25 PM |
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Well, duh---who is desperate for WATER here? |
WinkyDink |
Oct-11-07 05:25 PM |
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Yes. The Midwest is a normal temperate, wet, fertile climate. Very habitable. |
BadgerLaw2010 |
Oct-11-07 09:04 PM |
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Just an idea... |
silverweb |
Oct-11-07 02:59 PM |
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Probably easier to desalinate saline aquifers |
XemaSab |
Oct-11-07 04:07 PM |
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I don't know. |
silverweb |
Oct-11-07 04:53 PM |
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In Santa Barbara they found it easier to hook up to State water than keep the desal plant running |
XemaSab |
Oct-11-07 04:58 PM |
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For now. |
silverweb |
Oct-11-07 05:16 PM |
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Water shortages are a major global issue, so the smart.... |
Zookeeper |
Oct-11-07 05:39 PM |
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Exactly what I'm thinking. |
silverweb |
Oct-11-07 06:29 PM |
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Sometimes you just have to admit that any further growth must be curtailed, because |
wienerdoggie |
Oct-11-07 03:00 PM |
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This same sort of idiocy was spouted a couple of decades ago |
IDemo |
Oct-11-07 03:03 PM |
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The water wars may yet result in the break-up of the union. |
hedgehog |
Oct-11-07 03:03 PM |
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sorry no can do |
madrchsod |
Oct-11-07 03:05 PM |
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I'd sell water to NM. At $80 dollars/barrel |
Romulox |
Oct-11-07 03:10 PM |
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Well, that would certainly cure |
sufrommich |
Oct-11-07 05:17 PM |
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The problem is... |
Zookeeper |
Oct-11-07 05:42 PM |
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I've got no problem with that. It should go to the highest bidder, just like NM's oil |
Romulox |
Oct-11-07 11:40 PM |
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No. |
PDJane |
Oct-11-07 03:18 PM |
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Oh I find that hard to believe. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 03:29 PM |
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I presume that you aren't serious |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 03:54 PM |
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Well sure it's got a big moraine. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 03:59 PM |
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But it points to the fact that it's a finite resource n/t |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 04:02 PM |
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It also points to the fact that it's a renewable resource. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 04:10 PM |
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After the next Ice Age? |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 04:13 PM |
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No, thanks to precipitation. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 04:24 PM |
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Oh, fishing, shipping, commercial recreation, wind farms |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 04:32 PM |
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And this proposal would have a significant impact on those? |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 04:34 PM |
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Tinkering with natural resources is always a crapshoot |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 04:43 PM |
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Yes, the Great Lakes get affected by things. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 04:44 PM |
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I think probably both |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 04:52 PM |
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I only drink whiskey. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 04:52 PM |
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It's not all glacier melt, no. |
PDJane |
Oct-11-07 04:02 PM |
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Great Lakes water |
IDemo |
Oct-11-07 04:05 PM |
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Lets do the math. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 04:22 PM |
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What you're missing is the depth of the river. |
PDJane |
Oct-11-07 04:47 PM |
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Mmm, no I'm not. |
Bornaginhooligan |
Oct-11-07 04:49 PM |
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It's so cute to watch people from different states fight each other. |
originalpckelly |
Oct-11-07 03:34 PM |
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Michigan is actually less cold than some other northern states |
LisaM |
Oct-11-07 03:49 PM |
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both your descriptions are incorrect, in my opinion .... |
Scout |
Oct-11-07 04:05 PM |
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"one's colder than a witch's thorax" |
marmar |
Oct-11-07 05:00 PM |
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Indeed. It's too bad they don't play each other in football. |
KamaAina |
Oct-11-07 07:39 PM |
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Great Lakes diversion enrages all Great Lakes states. Fuck the Southwest. |
BadgerLaw2010 |
Oct-11-07 08:58 PM |
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Well, let him walk over to Michigan with a big bucket and a sponge. |
HypnoToad |
Oct-11-07 03:46 PM |
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Lake Superior was down a foot from last year |
LSK |
Oct-11-07 03:53 PM |
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desert rats, stay away from our Great Lakes water! n/t |
Scout |
Oct-11-07 03:54 PM |
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Sort of like what they've done in California? |
XemaSab |
Oct-11-07 04:09 PM |
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What about everyone who wants our (Louisiana) natural gas and oil |
RGBolen |
Oct-11-07 04:11 PM |
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BS hit piece. He did not say that. |
seasat |
Oct-11-07 04:47 PM |
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"States like Wisconsin are awash in water" |
malakai2 |
Oct-11-07 10:44 PM |
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Perhaps now people are realizing the lack of logic of building large cities in the DESERT?!!? |
marmar |
Oct-11-07 04:51 PM |
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I had a political science teacher |
sufrommich |
Oct-11-07 05:05 PM |
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Maybe the SW should quit wasting water on golf courses and pretty green lawns... |
Odin2005 |
Oct-11-07 05:10 PM |
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Agreed. |
Hell Hath No Fury |
Oct-11-07 05:30 PM |
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I live in a Great Lakes state and I collect rainwater to use in my... |
Zookeeper |
Oct-11-07 11:33 PM |
#144 |
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and lush green sodded lawns & fountains & imported garden plants |
SoCalDem |
Oct-11-07 05:31 PM |
#114 |
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ROFLMAO!!! What morans!!! |
Odin2005 |
Oct-11-07 07:09 PM |
#130 |
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Well, Richardson certainly has connections to people who.... |
Zookeeper |
Oct-11-07 06:15 PM |
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Those aren't the ties you need to worry about. |
seasat |
Oct-11-07 06:47 PM |
#129 |
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Yet, he's pointing out how much "extra" water we have up here... |
Zookeeper |
Oct-11-07 11:46 PM |
#146 |
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He wants reclamation to be a Cabinet level position |
LisaM |
Oct-12-07 12:00 PM |
#156 |
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Peak oil and gas will stop this shit. |
Bushwick Bill |
Oct-11-07 08:16 PM |
#135 |
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Fuck him, our lakes. |
BadgerLaw2010 |
Oct-11-07 08:57 PM |
#136 |
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Good thing we don't think the same way about our oil and gas. |
TX-RAT |
Oct-15-07 01:17 PM |
#170 |
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All your great lake are belong to us! |
fujiyama |
Oct-11-07 09:43 PM |
#142 |
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...... |
Zookeeper |
Oct-11-07 11:53 PM |
#147 |
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Tough... Don't blame us. Blame yourself or God. |
Romulox |
Oct-12-07 12:09 AM |
#149 |
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Dallas wants Oklahoma's water too |
Horse with no Name |
Oct-12-07 11:59 AM |
#154 |
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State hate people |
loser_user |
Oct-14-07 08:36 PM |
#158 |
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here's a bold idea: don't live in the desert if you want water |
mark414 |
Oct-14-07 08:38 PM |
#159 |
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Many years ago |
Blue_In_AK |
Oct-14-07 08:55 PM |
#160 |
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Many years ago |
Thothmes |
Oct-15-07 08:18 AM |
#167 |
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Perhaps |
CHIMO |
Oct-14-07 09:05 PM |
#161 |
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Privatize the Great Lakes...trade water like a commodity...let the free market decide |
entanglement |
Oct-14-07 09:57 PM |
#162 |
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if they want water, tell them to go to the golf courses and stand under a sprinkler. |
bbgrunt |
Oct-14-07 10:25 PM |
#164 |
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Uh, Bill? |
Jeff In Milwaukee |
Oct-15-07 08:37 AM |
#168 |
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