Posted on 12/19/2006 9:50:31 AM PST by Alex Murphy
"The Left encourages "diversity" because they know full well it pits groups against one another, fomenting a situation they can exploit for votes and dollars."
That's an entirely different claim. At least it's not false on its face. If that's what you meant to say, get rid of the false claim you're using for your current sig and replace it with this one.
Is it OK if I send this to my water company?!
Regards
Right on! No pipes or water treatment plants either! There is water everywhere for everyone if only the corporations and governments would let Mother Earth be!
Free for all. What a dope.
Me thinks they have been drinking more than just the bottled water..
People bottle water because there is a market for it. If people do not like the taste or chemicals in municipal water they can reject it in favor of bottled water. For people with well water, drinking bottled water may not only be a matter of taste but of health.
For people without a clean water supply bottled water can literally be a life saver. Especially for children and the elderly. Many foreign countries do not have clean water and lack sewage processing plants or even septic tanks. Diaharrea is a major killer of 3rd world children. So bottled water is not the evil culprit of theiving capitalists but a vital tool in the fight against infant mortality. Sure a free clean source of water is the ideal but that takes a lot of money and time.
My wife hates drinking water, so she drinks the flavored water stuff. I then recycle the bottles as target practice on the gun range.
I think most of us understand there's no need to start drinking from bottles just because the nuns are against it.
Most of us also understand it's not good to smoke even if the Lefties are against it.
That doesn't mean we can't ridicule them for their arguments (or their attacks, in the case of the Lefties).
Ohhhhhhh... how right you are!
Have you been watching Penn & Teller?
I'd agree that it may not make economic sense in some circumstances, but price will determine that. I won't pay 50 cents a bottle for water in the house, since I can just use my sinktop carbon filter to get the chlorine taste and sediment out. But we keep bottled water at the office (along with sodas, etc) to give to clients rather than send them down the hall to bathroom for water (or to the water cooler that doesn't work).
Since the national motto translates as "out of many, one," I think I'll keep the tag for awhile. The point is not to focus on what makes us different, but our similarities as Americans. This is what has been forgotten over the past quarter century or so, and we see the results quite clearly.
Capitalism recognizes one sort of diversity that has actual value: Specialization. We can all be good at different things, and trade our services.
Otherwise, diversity has aescetic purposes. We don't all like Pink Floyd. Some of us prefer Barry Manilow (gag). Some of us like Ann Coulter, others prefer a somewhat more buxom brunette. So, diversity does have value in some regards, but has little or no marginal value in other regards (an Italian fireman versus an Irish one, for example).
I prefer to drink the treated sewage of ____________. Then I send the untreated sewage on down the creek into the drinking water of Tulsa.
True. I'm in favor of a country where we can all be as different as we want, as long as we realize we are -- whatever our differences -- Americans. It's that last part the Left would like to discourage.
True. I'm in favor of a country where we can all be as different as we want, as long as we realize we are -- whatever our differences -- Americans. It's that last part the Left would like to discourage.
See, for example, some of us like the diversity that double-posting affords!
LOL! I too cherish my right to double- and even triple- post.
That's a wonderful point, wonderfully expressed and I agree with you 100%
Peace :-)
Can't stop admiring that post.
Rare to find something that makes such a good point so well and in such a pithy post.
Heartening. I mean that sincerely.
These people are sentimentalist pagans.
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