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Massachusetts Considering Desalination Plants
Iphtashu Fitz writes "Despite a reservoir system containing some 412 billion gallons of water for Boston and surrounding communities, some eastern Massachusetts towns are facing water shortages and are now considering water desalination plants as a new source of fresh drinking water. The city of Brockton, 20 miles south of Boston, has plans in the works to build a $40 million plant and could begin construction as soon as this September. Currently there are fewer than 100 desalination plants in the US and most of them are in smaller communities, but that seems to be changing. The largest desalination plant in the country is located in Tampa, FL, which expects it to provide 10% of the citys drinking water by 2008. California also has at least 10 large scale plants on the drawing board. Some environmental organizations like the Conservation Law Foundation dispute the need for desalination plants however. They argue that many water shortages could simply be solved by better conservation of existing supplies."
HOWTO BE A NIGGER:
- Slink around, shuffling your feet and bobbing your neck like the lazy retard
you are.
- Walk down the middle of the street because you don't know what a sidewalk is
for.
- Hang out at carwashes and mini-marts because everybody knows these are the
best places to be a dope, I mean dope.
- If you're a nigger bitch, shit three nigger babies into the world before 17
years of age. This assures that welfare money will support you, so your
nigger men have more time to commit crimes. Oh yes, make sure each nigger
baby has a different father.
- Bastardize the English language in the name of nigger culture. Make sure
that several terms have multiple meanings and others have ambiguous meanings
and that only 50% of nigger words are even complete words. Real niggers will
know what you're trying to say.
- As a culture, make sure there are always more bucks in prison than in
college at any given time.
- Hang out in packs of 10 to 15 and make sure everyone acts as annoying as
possible. This helps to promote nigger individuality.
- Always talk loud enough so everyone in the 'hood' can fucking hear you, and
if they are niggers, they will know what your saying, bro.
- Wear clothes that are 10 sizes too big, making sure the pants hang off your
ass. Also huge pants facilitate stealing (let me translate that: "it be
easier to lift dat 'box at the Kmart, homes"). If you have to hold them up
while you walk, it only looks badder.
- Park at least 5 junk cars in your yard while being careful not to use the
driveway. It's OK to abandon them in the street as long as it's in front of
someone else's crib.
- Exaggerate every motion, every tonal inflection and grab your dick a lot.
Have red carpet, blue walls, brass and overstuffed furnishings (all rented),
purple bathrooms and keep all windows covered so that no light can enter and
no cops can see in while you...
- Do drugs, sell drugs, make drugs.
- Turn your backyard into a junk yard. If you don't have a backyard, turn
your mother's into a junk yard. Eliminate every blade of grass.
- Travel around leaching off relatives, friends, salvation armies. Abandon
your children with them also.
- Smack your kids and yell at them a lot. Make them feel less than human and
that they have no future, which they don't because they're niggers like you.
- Drink cheap wine and malt liquor every day, forgetting that "malt liquor" is
just fortified cheap beer.
- If you're a nigger buck: fuck anything that moves, no matter how ugly she is.
After two eight-balls, even the ugliest, fattest nigger bitch will look good.
- Be charitable and covet fat, ugly white chicks. After all, they're niggers
too. They can't help being so undesirable to white men that they have to
fraternize with black dudes on a 20/20 trip. And white ho's are a special
trophy too, especially the not so ugly ones.
- Spray paint everything in sight with scribbles that mean nothing to White
people but mean things to fellow niggers (except niggers from another hood
who will probably try to kill you for tresspassing on their turf)
- Use the term "motherfucker" in every sentence. It's one of the most
versatile words in the nigger language, being a noun, verb, adjective and
complete mini-sentence in event you run out of thoughts.
- Stop in the middle of the street, blocking all traffic to converse with
fellow niggers and have complete disregard for everyone else.
- Delay everybody at the checkouts while you and 3 other dudes fumble around
for the $1.42 for the bottle of Magnum.
- Clog isles at Kmart with strollers, bastard kids and your fat selves. If
you're a cashier, never look at or be cordial to a customer and always talk
to other niggers while you ring up the customer.
- Overcharge customers at Taco Bell and pocket the difference.
- Drive your car while slouched so low that you can barely see over the wheel
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Proof of the gay-linux conspiracy!
To say that Massachusetts labour unionists are influential in government would be to say that the Antarctic continent is freezing cold. Case and point: Boston's famous federally-funded Ten-Billion-Over-Budget scam known as The Big Dig.
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Do not believe the terrorist propaganda lies.
Boycott Unicode -- it is a tool of terrorism.
USE ANYTHING OTHER THAN US-ASCII AND THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY WON.
It turned the sky into a grey mess and was so dirty it was only fully fired up at night so you could not see the black clouds coming out of the stacks.
The odd time it rained, it rained black.
The water smelled oily and looked yellow so you still had to drink bottled water. Soap had trouble mixing with the water and shampoo was hard to get out of your hair and conditioner did not work. I never felt clean after a shower there. Hope this one can be cleaner.
These bozos should instead learn to conserve water. Millions of gallons of fresh clean potable water are wasted every day in typical American usage.
Do they have usage rates that increase exponentially as individual home water usage increases? Not likely.
Do they have ANY conservation program? Doubt It!
Given that this is Massachusetts the possibility that this is a giant pork project with massive 'Sopranos'-style kickbacks involved should not be discounted. If it were Rhode Island, then it would be the most-likely reason that this plan for such an expensive solution to the water shortage problem is being put forward.
Now that the 'Big Dig' project is winding up, there has to be a new avenue for big action. Massachusetts is always up for a big marginal public works project with lots of 'opportunities'.
It has been for four hundred years. Since the city fathers of Salem 'did good by doing well' selling off the conficated property of the burned witches for a toasty profit.
Fuck Massachusetts! If you live there, get a life. Get a future. Leave!
Clearly Taxachusetts, now that the big dig is winding up needs a nice big project to justify, ahem spend those millions of dollars of "use tax" they are collecting via dubious, privacy invading TIA-esque systems that we're also paying for!
I would like to know how this is modded insightful.
Stupid libertarians using mod points. You can just call it SLUMP. Hmmm, this post will get SLUMPed down too, so better post it with my karma bonus. And don't worry, I'll repost it when this gets modded below -1.