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2008-06-24 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-24 09:25|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Getting these meddlesome moonbats to switch to potassium cyanide in their own water-softeners is too much to hope for, isn't it?

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-06-24 11:20|| 2008-06-24 11:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Getting these meddlesome moonbats to switch to potassium cyanide in their own water-softeners

I'd settle for lithium chloride.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-06-24 14:23|| 2008-06-24 14:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, the problem with Scottsdale isn't Moonbattery. It's money.

For example, Scottsdale has almost no anti-smoking laws, because the entertainment industry doesn't want them. And in this case, they don't want salt in the water because it is hurting their golf courses.

Scottsdale is a weird town to begin with. It is mostly linear, with a single, long, thin park running through most of it.

Its city center is full of incredibly overpriced art galleries, and what used to look like a National Socialist realism civic center (created when they had a city councilman who had been a young SS officer in WWII.)

Much of the city is upper middle class and decadent wealthy. There are few minorities and homeless. A lot of the kids there behave like Paris Hilton with guns, and reenact scenes from Naked Lunch at parties.

Parts of northern Scottsdale are zoned for horses, typically ultra-expensive Arabians, and they also make big money from specialty hospitals.

Scottsdale has "gentleman's clubs", and a "pasty tax". That is, the strippers have to pay a hefty tax on the pasties they wear while performing.

So yeah, the evil UFO alien invaders would fit right in. Maybe they could get out alive.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-24 16:06|| 2008-06-24 16:06|| Front Page Top

#4 So, let me understand this...
They are softening water before watering the greens?
Why?

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-24 16:31|| 2008-06-24 16:31|| Front Page Top

#5 At a guess, because in the desert the salt builds up quickly in the soil, making it hard to grow vegetation of any kind. Getting it out of the soil is very difficult and expensive, I would imagine, at least more so than keeping it out in the first place.

Posted by lotp 2008-06-24 17:58|| 2008-06-24 17:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Colorado River water is full of minerals including salt. That's why they call it "hard" water. It doesn't taste all that great either and a lot of people won't even drink it so they pay for bottled water. Some sensitive people don't like the way their clothes feel if they've been washed in it. Some plants don't like all that salt and get a little brown at the tips of their leaves. If you iron your own shirts you might notice that all those minerals will collect in your iron and stain your shirts. One advantage is that soap rinses off a lot easier with hard water. I always notice that when I travel back East.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-06-24 18:02|| 2008-06-24 18:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Salty soil stops producing. That's one of the key reasons ancient civilizations collapsed with such regularity.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-06-24 22:39|| 2008-06-24 22:39|| Front Page Top

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