California Targets Private Property With Latest Water Well Fees, Charges: Report

[Larry Caldwell]

Interesting viewpoint, but I see nothing at all about continued slavery.

Boston Tea Party - Wikipedia

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There's some good history there. Slavery was abolished by the Massachusetts Supreme Court as unconstitutional in 1781-1782, before the US adopted its constitution. It not only abolished slavery in that state, it set the precedent for judicial review of the constitutionality of laws, still one of the main tasks of the SCOTUS.

Shipping and longshoring indeed made heavy use of slaves, particularly in the West Indies, but the English abolition movement was on the back burner in the colonies in 1773. Abolition was a home grown Massachusetts issue. They wrote a whole bunch about the rights of man into their constitution, and then had to live up to it.

 

[not2old]

We just know better now. I grew up playing with mercury and following the DDT Fogger Truck down the alley.

Same here, plus melted lots of lead to make fishing weights and played in zonolite insulation. As young adults, removed lots of flooring with asbestos.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

My, how times have changed. Private companies now voluntarily report on their customers to the government.

Big brother? Hell, the whole family is watching you.

Big Business has been tracking every electronic transaction you have made for years. Then they share the data with anyone who will pay for it. China knows as much about you as your mother, maybe more.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

Big Business has been tracking every electronic transaction you have made for years. Then they share the data with anyone who will pay for it. China knows as much about you as your mother, maybe more.

Since I was one of the folks whose government personnel file was compromised when they broke inot the Office of Personell Management, and I had a clearance with full FBI background check to work for one of the alphabet agencies. They know who my preschool teacher was, and the first girl I kissed.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

Same here, plus melted lots of lead to make fishing weights and played in zonolite insulation. As young adults, removed lots of flooring with asbestos.

We had an orchard. I drove the tractor while Dad and my Older brother stood in the trailer with the sprayer and doused the trees with DDT and/or Malathion.

My buddy up the street’s Dad was a plumber. My buddy’s job was to mix lead shavings and asbestos 50/50, stir them up, and put the mix in coffee cans.

 

[stingray1]

Makes me glad I live in the free state of Tennessee.

 

[Dftodd]

With or without beans

Carry on

Beans

 

[3930dave]

Rainy day here, slowing down what I want to get done..... but there are worse problems...... Even the rich __________ in Cali can't get all the water they want......

California drought: On patrol with the celebrity 'water police'

Rgds, D.

 

[ultrarunner]

Rainy day here, slowing down what I want to get done..... but there are worse problems...... Even the rich __________ in Cali can't get all the water they want......

California drought: On patrol with the celebrity 'water police'

Rgds, D.

When the masses conserve the water districts say revenue falls short of expenses so conservation brings rate increases just as high use brings surcharges.

I’m starting to have more slow bathroom sink calls… too little water flow and the traps clog with toothpaste etc.

One point on flow restrictor not quite fully thought out and that is home fire sprinklers which affects new homes and comes with higher initial and monthly costs of due to larger meters.

Just wait until a house burns after the water departments has installed a flow restrictor…

 

[ultrarunner]

On a side note we might have some real rain today after months and months without.

The clouds are in the sky and moving fast which is nice after day after day of blue sky… just a week ago temp records broken all over California… the change is welcome.

If we do get a good rain I plan on some dozer work as I hate working in a dust bowl when it’s dry…