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I though drugs that potent ran out in 1970.

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This why they keep mid-level managers around. Ablative blame shielding. No CEO has ever been wrong. And if somebody convicted them of wrong doing, it was not on their watch and they were railroaded.

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I'm waiting for his ass to fall off from excess inertia.

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A perfect model of what Fritz Zwicky referred to as a spherical bastard. A bastard no matter how you look at him.

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Lost in a fold somewhere between his navel and knees.

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A more dignified large office holder.

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I don't think this is terrorism. Terrorists have a specific sociopolitical goal in mind. They try to achieve this goal through violence and/or the threat of violence. This is more greed. Disgusting, inhumane, greed.

The "Militia" occupying a wildlife reserve, that's terrorism.

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Until they settled in and became a ruling class. Although that really only reinforces Steven's point.

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Hey, so, I get that the pipes are now damaged and need to be replaced. But why isn't anybody talking about switching back to the city water they had before? Even once the pipes are replaced, who wants to continue drinking the fucked up polluted water?

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Even the purest cleanest water would become toxic sludge, because it needs to pass through the lead-puking pipes.

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They did switch back to water supplied by Detriot. The problem now is the pipes are so corroded even the cleaner water is still leaching the lead out of pipe solder. Also there is probably all kinds of other crap still in there that needs to be flushed out.

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Hey, so, I get that the pipes are now damaged and need to be replaced.

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Goddamnit, I love me some Maddow.

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Helluva lot safer than drinking lead.

however you're welcome to go up and pass these out, I'm sure that won't be expensive as hell.

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OK, but do you also get that they did switch back to Detroit water, but it did little good? (not accusing you of not getting it, just clarifying).

Also, I mentioned that switch in the very first paragraph of the piece...

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Nope, see, there's my problem, you totally did say that. Total reading failure on my part. It's my fault we can't have nice things like comments. Carry on.

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