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2022-09-07 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Baltimore officials issue boil water advisory after high levels of E.Coli are detected across several neighborhoods - making Charm City just the latest American municipality this year to grapple with the failure of its water system

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Several cities, including New York City, Jackson, Mississippi and Benton Harbor, Michigan have had issues with their main water systems this year

Baltimore is encouraging its residents to use only bottled water after a boil water advisory was issued earlier this week after the detection of E. coli

E. coli contamination can cause intestinal distress, with symptoms that include stomach cramps, diarrhea and vomiting

Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-07 07:10|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 What's the deal with all these failing water systems? You just turn the tap and clean, drinkable water comes out. It's always been like that. If it is not working, it must be racism. We need more laws!

Posted by SteveS 2022-09-07 10:09|| 2022-09-07 10:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Here's what's in Biden's infrastructure proposal

"A roughly $2 trillion plan for improving the nation's infrastructure and shifting to greener energy over the next 8 years."

But it's gotta be green!

Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-07 10:25|| 2022-09-07 10:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Preventive Maintenance doesn't pay the same level of graft...

Posted by magpie 2022-09-07 10:50|| 2022-09-07 10:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Probably should change your refrigerator filter after the order is lifted or your ice cubes will be giving you the business down the road and we will run out of toilet paper again.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-09-07 12:46|| 2022-09-07 12:46|| Front Page Top

#5 "6. The Age of Decadence After a long period of wealth and power, Sir John established that all empires decline in this pattern. “Frivolity, aestheticism, hedonism, cynicism, pessimism, narcissism, consumerism, materialism, nihilism, fatalism, fanatics and other negative behaviors and attitudes suffuse the population. Politics is increasingly corrupt, life increasingly unjust. A cabal of insiders accrues wealth and power at the expense of the citizens, fostering a fatal opposition of interests between haves and have nots. The majority lives for bread and circuses (panem et circusem); they worship celebrities instead of divinities…. throw off social and moral restraints — especially sexuality; shirk duties but insist on entitlements.”

The actual collapse of a civilization is much like the bankruptcy of an organisation. It happens very gradually over a long period of time, and then suddenly, it folds. Eminent historian and anthropologist Sir John Glubb wrote The Fall of Empires in 1976 and said this:

“The life expectation of a great nation, it appears, commences with a violent, and usually unforeseen, outburst of energy, and ends in a lowering of moral standards, cynicism, pessimism and frivolity.”

Sir John Glubb lists the six ages of a civilization's growth and collapse ...most have lasted 10 generations or so, around 250 years.

In ways very prescient as we are in the 246th year of the Republic.While wary of simplified historical analysis, it is interesting nonetheless.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-09-07 12:51|| 2022-09-07 12:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Great reference, Nomo.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-07 14:25|| 2022-09-07 14:25|| Front Page Top

#7 All those cities are run by democrats, just saying...

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-09-07 14:32|| 2022-09-07 14:32|| Front Page Top

#8 A number of years ago, Birmingham AL got nailed with fines from the EPA for wastewater and potable water issues. Goldman Sacks had talked the city into selling their bond program to them, so there was no money available for fixes: bankruptcy ahead.
Regions Bank (headquartered there, big buildings) bought up the bonds (pennies on the dollar), and arrainged with the city to take over and run it. Fixed the system (out of bank profits, they gotta protect their investment), set up a corporation to manage things, and spun it off. City input not wanted.
Shareholders said "Attaboy, try not to let this happen again."

Posted by ed in texas 2022-09-07 15:33|| 2022-09-07 15:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Baltimore MD, Jackson MS.

They seem to have more in common than a lack of potable H2O.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2022-09-07 18:24|| 2022-09-07 18:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Vibrant and Diverse Leadership™

Posted by Frank G 2022-09-07 22:09|| 2022-09-07 22:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Baltimore MD, Jackson MS.

Let's not forget Flint, MI. The Flint Water Crisis was back in 2014 but it belongs on anyone's list of public works clusterfoos.

Are we forgetting how to civilization?

Posted by SteveS 2022-09-07 22:33|| 2022-09-07 22:33|| Front Page Top

#12 You know Democrats and their problem with real actual science....you know, things like clean water and having electricity that works 100% of the time.

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-09-07 23:43|| 2022-09-07 23:43|| Front Page Top

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