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Where have you been for the last decade? If you're white, you're automatically racist. Check your privilege.

Do you think that all the pipes in America that were installed before 1950 have been replaced?

Here's a link for an article http://michiganradio.org/post/where-are-lead-water-pipes-michigan-here-s-our-best-guess to educate yourself a bit on the topic, if you're not one of the people that is proud of their ignorance.

The article is Michigan local. The problem is not. Unless you live somewhere that didn't exist before 1950, you have lead in your service somewhere. The issue in Flint was corrosive water. There are still lead pipes all over the place.

False,They had recounts in all those states.

By your own claim, there was no valid recount in Michigan. And Pennsylvania's wasn't completed either.

In Detroit it was found there was enough significant voter fraud that they were unable to do the recount. The fraud in Detroit appeared to favor Hillary heavily. Michigan was unable to complete a recount that was demanded and paid for by the Jill Stein and the Green party because of how poorly the heavily democratic counties handled votes and counted some ballots 8 times election night. Parts of Michigan that there wasn't obvious voter fraud went strongly to Trump.

Your entire post is an outright lie.
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Actually, your post is leaving out something. Who was in charge. So let's see, we have Republicans all over, allegedly, yet they couldn't ensure a fair and honest election?

Oh wait, they're the ones who gerrymandered the state.

No wonder they couldn't ensure fair and honest elections statewide. No wonder we can't trust them. Maybe they didn't count 75,000 votes.

Also remember, the only outright evidence of election rigging was by the DNC, not Trump or Russia.

Oh really, and yet you provide none of this evidence.

Already, you're suspect with your own false claims.

I'm not chemist either. There are some details on the present state of affairs here.

To you point, "Marc Edwards is a civil engineering professor from Virginia Tech University" says, "water is [becoming] corrosive and it’s causing this higher lead, the pH value is plummeting, it’s becoming more acidic." So yes, I mean to say lower pH, or more acidic.

In my state Republicans are:
-against net neutrality
-forbids Tesla dealerships
-want to rescind even partial deregulation in the electric and gas industries
http://michiganradio.org/post/...
It's sickening.

It's why there are already places where it's illegal to be off the grid.

I found a few articles where not being connected to city water is illegal and/or the building size does not meet code but I have found none where someone was forced to connect to the power grid.

It should probably be tossed, or revamped. From what I understand (which comes from stories like this) kids need help from the very start. By the time preschool rolls around it is (largely) too late. Are we to ask the government to go into the houses of the newborn to two years old and have social workers talk to children? Now what I would propose as acceptable: subsidizing day cares for the working poor so that their children could be well cared for during the day time and have greater standards and practices for those in day care so that they try to do things (like using a greater vocabulary) that nurture these youngsters in a proven healthy manner. Not just feed and wipe them. We can't just throw money at problems, we need to understand the problems. Correction, we do not need to, we can just keep going deeper into debt while not understanding the new economy at all and do what we're doing with the inevitable doom. Good luck lower income families that are not able to inspire the minds of your young. The factory doors are closed.

Another faithful RP listener here. I've also bought many CDs of artists that I first heard on RP. I rarely listen to commercial radio anymore (unless my wife is driving, because she likes listening to oldies). When I'm in the car, I listen to public radio. When I'm at my desk, I listen to Radio Paradise. This works well, since the language part of my brain that I use to listen to talk radio isn't as heavily used when I'm driving.

Actually, as reported yesterday on WUOM (Stateside - audio archive) yesterday it is possible to have a tie in the electoral college. There are two states that do not vote as a block - one allocates two votes to the state leader, and three votes to three congressional districts. The other is similar with only two congressional districts.

When a tie happens the House of representaives votes (1 vote per state) to elect the president. If they tie then the Senate chooses a president to serve until the House comes into agreement. I can't remember the details completely, somehow the vice president candidates are involved (perhaps these are chosen to serve temporarily?)

In the last election it would have taken only two specific states changing places to cause a tie.

-Adam

Audio report on this story (produced for Michigan Radio's Stateside program):

http://www.michiganradio.org/stateside.asp

Scroll down to April 9th and listen in Real Player (sorry). The relevant bit starts at the 32:00 mark. (Yeah, the whole thing is an hour long... sorry.)

Anyway, this report was produced locally here in Ann Arbor, by a friend of mine who interviewed Dr. Miller in person. The whole point is that the dwarf/long-lived mutation is in fact naturally occuring, **not** the result of genetic engineering.

(Also, the audio report suggests that the colony is much larger, but perhaps the older mice are sequestered from the rest of the colony, so the AP report might have that right; hard to say.)

zach