Hi, Carl.
CT> MN> CT> MN> efficient and inexpensive way
CT> MN> CT> MN> to clean water that Nature has been using for thousands
CT> MN> CT> MN> of millenia.  Run it through a swamp.
CT> How far would you have to go to find a swamp if you lived in New
CT> York City? 
Are you kidding?  Judging from the way those New Yawkers brag about it,
they have potholes in their city streets you could put swamps in.
CT> MN> Oh, no, not in a swamp.  That's surface water.  What's
CT> MN> important is that it be running water.  That way it will be
CT> MN> naturally filtered by passing through soil and humus and
CT> MN> naturally purified by bacterial action.
CT> Isn't there a saturation point?  I would think that after a while,
CT> you're basically running sewage across sewage.
Can't say; I haven't looked into how it works.  I wouldn't think there
would be, though, unless you overloaded it with too much input.  The
bacteria that feed on wastes in swamps break the stuff down into other
stuff, so eventually there isn't anything left of the original stuff
execpt fat bacteria and methane gas.
CT> MN> Whole Language program.  The scrofulous, pin-head dufus who
CT> MN> came up with that one should have his brain recycled.  Sure as
CT> MN> Hell ain't using it himself.
CT> Lot of that going around.
Far too much of it.  Ordinarily, I couldn't see how the elected
parasites would fall for something like that, but in this case I do.
Gubmint officials tend to think of themselves as experts; as if they
actually know what they are doing.  Along comes jerk who pretends he
knows as much as they do and gives them a snowjob.  They fall for it
hook, line, and sinker, thereby proving Colin Powell's adage: Don't be
fooled by experts, they often possess more data than judgement.
CT> MN> Anyway, the school has just launched a literacy drive cum fund
CT> MN> raiser a la Read-A-Thon.
CT> We've had that here for quite a while now.  My oldest son did it in
CT> sixth grade, and he's 20 now.  He still doesn't like to read, unless
CT> it's on a computer screen, but he knows how.
The wave of the future.  Keep kids illiterate until they are in grade
five, but expect them all to be expert web surfers.
What the hell good is it to have all the information in the world at
your fingertips if you can't read the stuff?
CT> MN> Now the gubmint is in the process of cutting necessary
CT> MN> expenditures so they can continue to line their own pockets
CT> MN> and pension funds and there is no money for Education.
CT> Same here.  They're hot to ask what everyone else is doing, but
CT> extremely reluctant to look in their own closets.  Ever wonder why
CT> that is? 
  Don't have to.  It's the same old story.  Billions for defense
(of our indefensible position) but not a penny in tribute (to the
public we are supposed to serve).
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