Dethklok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, though: The Florida water scam that is going on is one of the most reprehensible corporate takeovers of public interest that I have ever seen. For just $23 a year, they get to steal water from taxpayers, and sell it back as bottled watter at 1000X the cost. Not to mention the road raging cop who got out of his car to accost another car that flicked a cigarette on him, shot the passenger (who was actually not the one who flicked the cigarette), was never charged, and remains a cop today. And of course, what’s a good day without finding out that you can’t donate your kidney to your own mother, even when she is on dialysis? Go UK!
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Coming to Ram’s Head Live, Baltimore, MD!
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For $23 a year, Nestle got rights to bottle as much water as they want, and sell it right back to the same taxpayers who would otherwise get it for 1/1000th of the cost. State is already in a drought! Your lifeblood, sold to corporations for their profit.
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This is America. If you’re a cop — even off duty — kill with impunity. You will most likely be cleared. This is just another example. And this is precisely why off-duty police must be held to the same standards as on-duty police.
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I understand that some people may be in more need than others, but people are opting out of the organ donor system because of this. They’re MY organs. I can *cremate* them if I want. They will go to who *I* want. This is bullshit.
April 13, 2008 at 12:36 AM
Water Privatization:
Let me start by saying that I am against the privatization of water. This case is different though. This was not really public water to begin with, and to say so is a misconception.
It was private spring on private property. When it was sold to the state the owner obviously retained certain usage and access rights to that spring. When the remaining property was sold, those rights were transfered to the new owner. There’s not much the state can likely legally due, or they’ll wind up in court and most likely lose. In other words, just because the spring is on public property now, it doesn’t mean the state ever owned the “rights” to the spring.
If they revoke the permits(unless there’s some sort of violation), or restrict access to the spring, it’s equivalent to taking someone’s property. Which falls into the area of eminent domain, which, while legal, is something I am VERY, VERY against.
So, to summarize, Nestle should have the rights to pump from that spring, since they legally bought those rights(not from the state). The state should’t be giving them tax cuts though. And when the permit expires they shouldn’t renew it.
FYI, they don’t get to bottle all the water they want, it’s restricted to 1.4million gallons/day, which is less than 5% of it’s daily output.
April 13, 2008 at 12:58 AM
Also, while 1.4 million gallons sounds like a lot, it is just barely over what it would take to fill 2 olympic size swimming pools. I would rather see that water being used by suckers who are willing to pay for bottled water but actually DRINK it, as opposed to seeing it used for people to wash their cars, water their lawns, fill their pools, …
April 13, 2008 at 10:23 AM
There is only one solution -
Drainage! Drainage, Eli! Drained dry, you boy! If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE! I drink it up!
April 15, 2008 at 10:41 AM
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April 27, 2008 at 9:01 PM
More roadraging cops:
http://www.news4jax.com/news/15997096/detail.html
April 28, 2008 at 8:28 PM
I’m so glad to see that There Will Be Blood quote has caught on. It really stuck with me too.
July 8, 2008 at 1:42 AM
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