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Obama sips water in Flint, tells residents it is safe
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Posted on 05/04/2016 1:44:53 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
I’m surprised he didn’t try to turn it into wine.
To: Sub-Driver
Was that actual water from Flint?
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posted on
05/04/2016 2:32:24 PM PDT
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Innovative
("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
05/04/2016 2:39:05 PM PDT
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Iron Munro
(Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory. (Recep Erdogan))
How can anyone tell if Obama is affected ?
To: Sub-Driver
let the moron drink it for two years...
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posted on
05/04/2016 3:18:55 PM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: wideminded
Because the old standard for lead levels in children was 10 micrograms per deciliter. The new standard is 5 micrograms per deciliter, and the preferred standard is zero micrograms per gallon.
There is more sources of lead in the environment than just the drinking water. The number one source was lead gasoline use, which was only fully banned in the United States in 1995.
Hence the steep decline in children's lead levels.
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05/04/2016 4:12:57 PM PDT
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Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Yo-Yo
There is more sources of lead in the environment than just the drinking water. The number one source was lead gasoline use, which was only fully banned in the United States in 1995. It seems very strange that if leaded gasoline was fully banned in 1995, that it could be blamed for raising lead levels in children who were not yet born.
In fact I looked at some other graphs online and it looks like blood levels of lead due to gasoline started declining long before the year 2000. So the graph you posted earlier would appear to show that there was something else going on in Flint.
To: wideminded
Here's a chart for national levels, which generally follows the Mother Jones produced Flint chart:
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05/04/2016 5:47:16 PM PDT
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Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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