Now let's go fire some school nurses! [contextly_sidebar id="qIJSTvNK0JXDVe1d9uR5rKVviBR3dUkD"]Just in case you were feeling extra peppy and cheerful today, we're here to wipe that smile right off your face. Because the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, just managed to get a little bit uglier: in addition to the lead in the water that Gov. Rick Snyder's administration
Sadly this is not the only place in our nation where the water is deadly to those who drink it. With taxes being cut along with many programs being cut we have seen what our roads and bridges look like. With the water it is unseen because they are hidden. Until we start replacing these water pipes, many of which are close to 100 years old, we will continue to hear these stories. It is a nationwide story that Flint has brought forward for all to see. I am one of the lucky ones who lives far enough away from any drilling or mining that put toxins in the water I use. I have my own well of good clean water and know what my neighbors are doing. I live close to the Olympic National Rainforest but far enough away that if they ever do drilling on it my water would be protected. Sadly, I have children and grandchildren who are not living in safe areas and have toxic water running in their pipes. The fix is simple, replace all pipes and use proper filtration systems. Yes the price to do so will be high but then it will be much worse after the damage is done to 90% of the people born in America who are on public water systems. Think of the jobs replacing all these pipes will create. Keeping it all American made pipes and American workers/contractors and a public works program would go a long ways to helping the unemployed and under-employed. Start restoring the tax structure of the 60's so we can start restoring our nation.
Next time our cats litterboxes go uncleaned for too long I'm going to blame HRC's email server. (I'll make a nice break from shouting "Benghazi!!!" at the cats when they stare at me disapprovingly.)
That reminds me of one of the coat closets at my elementary school where the names tags of the parent volunteers were also stored, hanging from a hook and one enterprising youngster made Mrs Tucker's name tag into Mrs F........Or maybe that really was her name.
Arsenic poisoning could also esplain some of it, depending on the form that is absorbed : http://www.dermnetnz.org/re...
Mercury "acrodynia" can cause some of the skin and hair symptoms but the neuropsych symptoms are more prominent (the Mad Hatter). The acrodynia is thought to be an allergy to mercury, but given that African Americans have a high incidence of eczema and atophic dermatitis, it might be a good explanation.
yep. Arsenic, mercury. All would beg the question of whether there is another shoe to drop... I guess the question might be asked what else was in the river water when they were connected to it, and whether enough time might have elapsed to reduce the likelihood that it might be easily found by blood testing... I'm also not clear whether they are testing for a cross-section of carcinogens or just for lead.
Well, the people could have used their freedom of choice and pulled themselves up by their bootstraps--with the non-existent jobs in Flint. They could just move where there were jobs; using all the money they had in the bank from living in an economically depressed area!
I thought Legionnaire's Disease was named after the American Legionnaires who contracted the disease at a convention at the Bellevue-Stratford in 1976 (I realize you are all capable of Googling this, you are just being funny.) Shortly after that, when the hotel reopened and were giving out buttons to promote buttons stating "We Love the Bellevue" or sumping like that and a friend of my SO was out drinking and was wearing one of those buttons when he and a buddy decided to go drinking at the American Legion (don't remember how many drinks they got in before being asked to leave.)
You mean "Mistakes were made" on your summer vacation? (one of my son's couldn't find his passport as we were getting ready to board the river cruise boat in Budapest--his brother found it a day later in his own suitcase("how did that get there?!!")
Sadly this is not the only place in our nation where the water is deadly to those who drink it. With taxes being cut along with many programs being cut we have seen what our roads and bridges look like. With the water it is unseen because they are hidden. Until we start replacing these water pipes, many of which are close to 100 years old, we will continue to hear these stories. It is a nationwide story that Flint has brought forward for all to see. I am one of the lucky ones who lives far enough away from any drilling or mining that put toxins in the water I use. I have my own well of good clean water and know what my neighbors are doing. I live close to the Olympic National Rainforest but far enough away that if they ever do drilling on it my water would be protected. Sadly, I have children and grandchildren who are not living in safe areas and have toxic water running in their pipes. The fix is simple, replace all pipes and use proper filtration systems. Yes the price to do so will be high but then it will be much worse after the damage is done to 90% of the people born in America who are on public water systems. Think of the jobs replacing all these pipes will create. Keeping it all American made pipes and American workers/contractors and a public works program would go a long ways to helping the unemployed and under-employed. Start restoring the tax structure of the 60's so we can start restoring our nation.
Clearly a failure of personal responsibility that each individual family didn't dig their own well.
Next time our cats litterboxes go uncleaned for too long I'm going to blame HRC's email server. (I'll make a nice break from shouting "Benghazi!!!" at the cats when they stare at me disapprovingly.)
a sense of humor, get one moron
That reminds me of one of the coat closets at my elementary school where the names tags of the parent volunteers were also stored, hanging from a hook and one enterprising youngster made Mrs Tucker's name tag into Mrs F........Or maybe that really was her name.
Arsenic poisoning could also esplain some of it, depending on the form that is absorbed : http://www.dermnetnz.org/re...
Mercury "acrodynia" can cause some of the skin and hair symptoms but the neuropsych symptoms are more prominent (the Mad Hatter). The acrodynia is thought to be an allergy to mercury, but given that African Americans have a high incidence of eczema and atophic dermatitis, it might be a good explanation.
yep. Arsenic, mercury. All would beg the question of whether there is another shoe to drop... I guess the question might be asked what else was in the river water when they were connected to it, and whether enough time might have elapsed to reduce the likelihood that it might be easily found by blood testing... I'm also not clear whether they are testing for a cross-section of carcinogens or just for lead.
eventually we give the (extraterrestrial) aliens who feed off of us the problem...
Well, the people could have used their freedom of choice and pulled themselves up by their bootstraps--with the non-existent jobs in Flint. They could just move where there were jobs; using all the money they had in the bank from living in an economically depressed area!
Duh! Need moar tax cuts!
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Of course! ;)
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I thought Legionnaire's Disease was named after the American Legionnaires who contracted the disease at a convention at the Bellevue-Stratford in 1976 (I realize you are all capable of Googling this, you are just being funny.) Shortly after that, when the hotel reopened and were giving out buttons to promote buttons stating "We Love the Bellevue" or sumping like that and a friend of my SO was out drinking and was wearing one of those buttons when he and a buddy decided to go drinking at the American Legion (don't remember how many drinks they got in before being asked to leave.)
Eets not wurking!
I miss O'Toole (although Hepburn was
miss-worthy also too.)
No, no. The Hampster Dance.
You mean "Mistakes were made" on your summer vacation? (one of my son's couldn't find his passport as we were getting ready to board the river cruise boat in Budapest--his brother found it a day later in his own suitcase("how did that get there?!!")
Gonna try that one. Here, kitty, kitty . . .