sadly, that would probably be the GOP solution.
after all, they thought we could bomb Iraq and Afghanistan into freedom loving democracies.

you saw the reaction the morning after the president stated in that interview that it was dumb to not get vaccinated.
they did a pretty good job squelching the kneejerks, but more than a few still slipped through.
can only imagine how many people got phone calls on the way to find a microphone.

for some reason you insist on conflating global averages and trends with local ones.

Really need to take your own advice.

says the flambaiting troll

Oh the delicious irony of your statements.
You're so blind you cant even see that you are not only been duped by the very thing you claim to hate, but you are willfully propagating further myths.

depends on the well and where you live. new wells are often tested when dug, especially if an area is known for said microbial problems. but rock is a pretty good filter, and most wells are pretty safe in my own experience. my grandparents well has been in operation for close to 45 years, and it just runs right to the house, pure as....water. no softening or filters needed. tastes pretty good too. but that's the norm where they live.

Malice doesn't need to be part of the motivation in order for harm to be done. Simple negligence suffices.

The purpose of the report was only and simply to state "hey, we detected some of the stuff in the water supply". It's a first step, but an important one as the biggest refrain we hear from the fracking companies is "it wont get in the water supply", "it's too deep", "we're taking precautions", etc.

this paper, while not alarmist itself, rather pointedly proves that the companies are wrong, knowingly or not.

and since they are wrong, further study will be warranted. particularly into the effects their chemicals can have, since most of them haven't been tested (most industrial chemicals aren't required to be tested for human safety), and are even considered trade secrets and thus in many instances its not even known (to the public) what chemicals are even being used.

Thanks for the tip, sounds like an interesting story.
I'll have to look that one up.

doh. I used greater and less than signs and it dropped half that sentence.
should say "minor citizen and adult citizen".

The intent is not stupid. Discrimination is wrong. Laws to prevent discrimination in hiring are absolutely a good thing.

It is however difficult to write such a law in a way that also precludes or prevents you (as the person doing the hiring) from lying.

Age discrimination is especially important to prohibit in a society that seems to be intent on forcing its old people to work until they day they die, especially as they keep trying to gut/eliminate/move-back-eligibility-age-of Social Security.

If you could actually live of Social Security alone, and begin collecting it at (let's just say) age 55, then I would be ok with companies not hiring anyone over 55, as we have then as a society deemed that persons over 55 are no longer required or expected to work, and can enjoy their older years without worrying about employment.

But currently we have no legally defined "senior citizen" status, only "minor citizen" (18yo). Anyone born after 1960 has to wait to collect Social Security until age 67. However Social Security is very rarely enough to live on, even for those who also receive the "survivor benefit", so even those individuals still effectively have to work until the day they due (since the majority of people since the 1970s have no retirement plans/funds in place, due to the collapse of most pension systems, reduction/stagnation in effective wages and all the other changes in worker compensation during the past 40 years of "trickledown" corporate-favoring nonsense that has screwed workers).

So....as long as people are expected to work until death, age discrimination laws will be important.

that is a blatantly false statement.

he's not interest in actual facts.

his posts fall into 3 general categories:
-science misinformation
-bad understanding of the Constitution
-expressing some form of bigotry, mostly against women, homosexuals, and Muslims.

Sorry mods, but pointing out someone's history of troll posts is not itself trolling.

Mi has a history of posting science misinformation, as well as calling actual scientists (including climate scientists) who come here liars. Somehow he apparently thinks he knows more than actual researchers in the field.

Mi also has a history of bigoted and discriminatory statements, against women, ethnic and religious groups, and LGBT persons.

These are facts. You don't have to read very far into his post history to find examples, as he provides new examples daily, which is what I said. Pointing this out is not trolling.