you know, alarm companies scaring people of their neighborhoods, president scaring people of terrorists, bottle watered sold because tap water is bad or not true?
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yes it always has. But sex sells more!
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Poor baby . . . . . . . .I hear people in hell want icewater!\n\nDarryl S.
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Fear is the great power.  It's used whenever they want something.  Look for some more terror color charts close to the election.\n\nWe're way beyond 1984.  "War is peace."  "Big Brother is watching you."  And another chilling quote from the book:\n\n"And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive."
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A ct system doesn't generate enough radiation to change the water.  And yes, it is safe to drink.  I would make kool-aid, set up a stand and safely sell it to neighborhood school children!
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well that is elementary my dear.  It is George Bush's fault.  He caused the hurricane to flood Mississippi and Louisiana where all the ketchup factories are and the hurricanes in Florida where the tomatoes are grown.  This has slowed the process and caused the price to shoot through the roof!!  All in a plot to make a fortune from his investments with Heinz (John Kerry's wife's fortune family).  You did know that GW has a hotline to God to cause these things, right?
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Web Master has a point. Not only is it unethical, it resembles the workings of Stalin during the Cold War. But this isnt too unusual. HE seems to make bad and at that HORRIBLE descisions in the oval office, starting with rigging the election. This is a catastrophe, and it doesnt suprise me that his idea of public safety is ruining, ending, and controlling the lives of his citizens, letting the REAL bad guys reign havoc, and be done in time to kill some more of his own people and innocent civilians elsewhere.
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Rush Limbaugh told that joke 15 years ago.  It's water.\n\n"when made into a gas it causes severe burns."  Steam.\n"it has caused many deaths in the past because people and/or animals have inhaled it."  They drowned.\n"It has caused millions of dollars in property damage and has rendered entire cities uninhabitable." See Hurricane Katrina\n"It is readily available to terrorists."  Well, except the ones in the desert.\n"Yet the government does nothing to ban it."  Really?
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Its the way the media works. Sensationalism. Which indirectly can also be considered fear-mongering. You know, the media seizes one story of something that MIGHT happen, blows it way out of proportion, and shows it over and over and over until you cant help but panic. Y2K was a good example, how many people went and bought electric generators because they thought everything was going to blow up or something? The bird flu is another example. My father went and bought tamiflu pills in Canada, stocked up an entire closet full of ramen noodles and spring water, and warned my younger sister (who still lives with him) not to tell anyone about any of it because hes afraid a mob will form to steal his pills. He was persuaded that by March half the country would be dead. Again, this is because he watches CNN obsessively and doesnt have the brains to consider what hes hearing without having a knee-jerk panic reaction. Its ridiculous...\n\n\nPeace
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You are asking a question that even sociologists have trouble answering. In many cases, it is as the other answer said, a higher density of people. Another sad fact is that the inner city has a greater density of poor people of which some, such as homeless folks, are heavy drinkers of cheap wine and alcohol. Sometimes for some folks, the bottle is their best friend. While it is true there are tons of folks drinking in the suburbs, problems can be hidden much better as well. I know that the Nation of Islam is trying to shut down some of the small liquor stores in some neighborhoods because they feel the amount of stores helps promote drinking.
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The answer is simple. Some people felt a need to control the population, so they invented these scary stories and spoke for a man behind the curtain that no one gets to see or talk to. Then all these idiots voted for Bush.
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I agree with you! What a great way to conserve water: lets drain your five pools Jay-Z, that should quench the thirst of about a third of our nation!! And there really are more important issues, what about starving kids in Africa, the murder rates all over the world, and here is Jay-Z worried about not being able to fill his five pools, of course he's worried, its probably not fun throwing pool parties with empty pools, that doesn't make you appear as rich!  Argh - those celebrities!!!
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Chlorination of drinking water eliminated typhoid, cholera, and dysentery that were commonly carried in drinking water when chlorination was introduced in the early 1900's.\n\nHowever, there are some negative effects:\nI quote:\n"... the July [1992] issue of the American Journal of Public Health, researchers found that people who regularly drink tap water containing high levels of chlorinated hydrocarbons have a greater risk of developing bladder and rectal cancers than people who drink unchlorinated water. The study estimates that about 9% of all bladder and 18% of all rectal cancer cases are associated with long-term consumption of these hydrocarbons. This amounts to over 20,000 new cases each year."\nhttp://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/water/watinorg.html\n\nEuropean water treatment has largely shifted to ozone and filtration, and they have found it works. Plus the chlorine residuals are about 10 times less than in US water.\n\nAnother negative effect of chlorination is that it can create what are known as trihalomethanes. One example of a trihalomethane is chloroform, which causes an allergic reaction in about 10% of the population. Chloroform, or trichloromethane can cause liver and kidney damage.  Fortunately the concentrations are monitored and are generally quite low. One trihalomethane, known as dibromochloromethane is associated with cancer risk of one per million at 0.6 micrograms per liter. That's about the same as 6 parts per billion. The cancer risk of this is only one per million, but that concentration is barely measureable, and most people ingest large quantities of drinking water daily, so it is not as insignificant as it may seem. \n\nBromine is also sometimes used, either in addition to chlorine, or as a substitute. This is the source of what I believe are the worst hazards, such as dibromochloromethane.\n\nAnother chemical that is added to drinking water is fluorine. Fluorine is added in much smaller concentrations than chlorine, and does substitute for some of the chlorine so it actually will reduce the amount of chlorination. You probably get quite a bit of fluorine in your toothpaste, as there is almost no toothpaste on the market today that does not contain fluoride. There are some potential negative health effects of fluoridation, however, there is lots of evidence that in the concentrations in most drinking water that it is beneficial more than harmful. Fluoridation is added in about 60% of US public drinking water.\nhttp://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/fluoridated-water\n\nIf you are concerned about your drinking water I suggest you use an activated carbon type filter and filter both drinking and cooking water. Not all activated carbon filters are created equal. Here is a source that explains what they will remove and what they won't remove:\nhttp://www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/h2oqual/watsys/ae1029w.htm\n\nDrinking bottled water does not mean you have avoided this problem. Bottled water is regulated in the US by the FDA, and must generally comply with the same standards as public drinking water. In many cases it is better because reverse osmosis, or distillation has removed any potential contaminants. One trade-off is that water in plastic bottles will absorb small quantities of phthalates. Studies that showed that phthalates caused cancer in rats were generally  dismissed as not being relevant to humans. They are also known to be broken down in the body within one or two days, so do not pose a risk of bioaccumulation. I quote:\n"The CDC report is, in all, very good news because the trace levels of phthalates found are within EPA safety levels and therefore should not pose a concern for human health."\nhttp://www.phthalates.org/yourhealth/human_exposure.asp
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well im sure that if you look up something like how to make a bomb or anthrax or something that you probably get red flagged by the government and moniter you.  if you arent doing anything though whats there to fear.  i would rather sacrifice my privacy if its going to make the US a safer place to live.
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You are right, how could a plumber do worse, and snobs like that comment about not wanting plumbers in office is what's wrong with the system now. The lawyers adobted their own language to keep the people confounded. The people that first ran the government went home to their farms afterwards and we grew just fine. Now we are more complicated mostly because they made laws and rulings that give them too much control over the common man, weneed to eliminate at the start, 50 laws to pass one bill on it's way. What about drastic change, for a drastic situation, perhaps two leaders, or presidents. One for domestic policy, and the other for foreign or world policies.
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How about something dealing with providing potable water or water purification... that's a heck of a subject and there should be tons of information about it on the Internet.  Besides... with the fact that drinkable water is becoming harder to obtain and the costs are going up to provide that commodity, water science will be a real 'Biggie' in the near future.
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See it started back when GW sr was the vice president. Him and his buddies: Donald "the liar" rumsfield, Dick "dead eye" Cheney, etc got to together. This group made a pack, you know like blood brothers, for world domination. It starts with putting massive quantities of LSD in the the water supply so Americans don't realize they have illegally tampered with poll results in the state of Florida. This continues with the events of 9/11. Thinking they can enrage the populous into a war. Bush and his merry men come up with this WMD story which is helped along when his old good friend Saddam "the mad man" Hussein keeps throwing out the UN inspectors. So the boys realize HEY we could make mad money off this whole war thing. Dead Eye your company haliburton will get crazy contracts for construction and defense. Dad and his oil Barron's will get to make millions of dollars via the stock market and the American people with their non fuel efficient cars. Yeah that's the ticket.\nBut see not all of America drinks water, not every one was so easily fooled and most of us know the deal. \nI think it more like people who don't like \nBeing told "told you so!"\nYou want to bet on it? (and they end up losing)\nAdmitting their were GRAVELY wrong and too many Americans and Iraqis died.\nThe fact the hijackers from Saudi Arabia not Iraq.\nSo it got to be an ego thing?
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i believe that it can be proved otherwise...\na corporation can make money and still serve society though it takes a lot of work and balance...\nokay sooo maybe conflict is inevitable, but that doesnt mean that a money making corporation cannot serve...\nthere is a company i believe they are doing well for themselves and still have the initiative to do what's best for their consumers, okay, so its a water refilling station, they make a lot of money and sure people argue that they have high prices but its really pure clean water (in contrast to scammers in the our in town selling cheap but unsafe water), so they serve society by providing the best quality of water they can.