Applewood's Blog

' with liberty and justice for all ' boy did that ever get lost in this country.

Washington is nothing but a rat race, and the rats have won.

Let's see,pollutants from Iowa are causing a dead zone in the gulf,yet the rivers that are carrying the pollutants are teaming with life. That makes sense.

I know people who fish both rivers and eat the fish.If you buy catfish grown in Louisiana and Mississippi so do you.They use the river water on the farms.

***Off Topic***

You were so right on in a comment you posted today. I read it to my husband and he said, "who IS this person???"


The church has never prospered in an environment where the world tolerated it. Historically, without persecution religion begins to compromise and the members become almost indiscernable from those who are ungodly.

"The Church (note the capital C) is alive and well. It is without spot or blemish and will remain so, as long as it recognizes that it IS being persecuted. In The Revelation to John, it says that the prophets were slain before the alter. The persecution against the Church, is not coming from the logical and most obvious source (the secular world)it is coming from religion itself. The children of God need to obey the Word and come out from among them and be a separate people."

WOOOOOOOOW!!!!

All,

I usually don't want to regurgitate news commentaries because they are usually filled with bias or are trying to manipulate data to make a point, but in this case I have listened intently to interviews over the past six months or so (all on NPR) on the subject of the megacorporate farm discharges into the tributaries that feed the Missouri and the Mississippi and the refusal of the Feds to enforce the clean water act. This is being litigated right now. Also, the dead zone in the Gulf has consistently been attributed to this polution.

Who fishes and eats fish from the Missouri and Mississippi is completely unknown to me, nor do I make any assertions in that regard.

Applewood,

It is reported on NPR. NPR is not exactly what I would label as fair and balanced. However, if large agrabusiness is dumping ANYTHING untreated into rivers, then what in the heck are those environmentalists doing about it? They normally immediately file lawsuits to get them to stop, and the judge will normally impose an injunction.

Do cities dump untreated sewage into the rivers? I don't think so. A business would have to comply or face severe penalty.

I still agree with you that our elected folks are the problem and that we will need to deal with it soon, if not yesterday.

Marks the environmentalists are suing using the clean water act as the basis. The problem is that the way the act is written it is unclear whether the feds have jurisdiction over the tributaries. I agree with you about NPR. That is why I listen to it. I want to hear how the leftys think. This subject however, seems to be pretty well reported.

LOL @ furbie!