It must be heartening to the people of Britain that bombs dropped on Afghans have had the Royal Stamp Of Approval.
"My Mum would be proud of me." (Not)
Prince Harry Calls in Air Strikes
Anyway…he’s having fun.
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Do you think that the bombs say “By Appointment to Her Majesty the Queen”?
Sell Water – Market Place – March 2008.
I have often said that there is no reason why we shouldn’t sell to anyone willing to pay for the surplus water from the Great Lakes.
Why not? Set up a large purification plant on the St. Lawrence river a mile or two inland from where the “fresh” water meets the salt water and pump the treated water into whatever — tankers or distribution pipes. Maybe the surplus from Lake Winnipeg could be directed into the Great Lakes system as well. Any of the rivers pouring surplus fresh water into Hudson Bay could be redirected into the Great Lakes. Also, the U.S. needs to construct many huge reservoir lakes so when there is surplus it can be stored there, ready for use when needed. All fresh water originates in the oceans, doesn’t it? Hurricanes pass over the oceans, pick up the water then drops in on the land less most of the heavier elements. The important aspect, as I see it, is to stop using all these bodies of water as open sewers and do all we can to keep them as clean as possible after we are done with it. I live on the shore of Lake Huron and have seen the quality of water in this lake deteriorate over the 65 years I have come to this area of Kincardine, Ont. Regulations against all sources of pollutants flowing into the Great Lakes need to be strictly enforced by all adjoing jurisdiations. Mel Lyons, Kincardine, Ont. Canada.
Sell Water – Market Place – March 2008.
I have often said that there is no reason why we shouldn’t sell to anyone willing to pay for the surplus water from the Great Lakes.
Why not? Set up a large purification plant on the St. Lawrence river a mile or two inland from where the “fresh” water meets the salt water and pump the treated water into whatever — tankers or distribution pipes. Maybe the surplus from Lake Winnipeg could be directed into the Great Lakes system as well. Any of the rivers pouring surplus fresh water into Hudson Bay could be redirected into the Great Lakes. Also, the U.S. needs to construct many huge reservoir lakes so when there is surplus it can be stored there, ready for use when needed. All fresh water originates in the oceans, doesn’t it? Hurricanes pass over the oceans, pick up the water then drops in on the land less most of the heavier elements. The important aspect, as I see it, is to stop using all these bodies of water as open sewers and do all we can to keep them as clean as possible after we are done with it. I live on the shore of Lake Huron and have seen the quality of water in this lake deteriorate over the 65 years I have come to this area of Kincardine, Ont. Regulations against all sources of pollutants flowing into the Great Lakes need to be strictly enforced by all adjoing jurisdiations. Mel Lyons, Kincardine, Ont. Canada.
dear mel,
I realize that you’re commenting on my Marketplace Magazine column and I appreciate it.
I read your comment quite carefully. The most serious problem we face with respect to your idea is that we no longer have “surplus” water in the Great Lakes System.
Jim
Well, although he’s a sad product of intense and privileged breeding at least he’s doing what his similarly-blighted and often mad predecessors did in British history ….
Can’t say the same for the Clintons or Bushes. Or Huckabees or Romneys.
Their pampered brats are old enough to sign up. I think it is the least they can offer when they lead a nation into war
Except…. he snuck in as a non-royal ordinary soldier. And was yanked out as soon as his cover was blown by some nasty “foreign media”….
Harry Wales, indeed.
That’s posturing. Did his staff reckon bombing Afghans would look good on prince-boy’s royal resume?
Mel — what happens to the milk in the carton in your fridge whenever you take a glass out of it? Does it ever refill? Or are you eventually faced with an empty carton?
Water from the Great Lakes needs to be used within the Great Lakes watershed. We take it, temporarily, but when we’re done with it, it returns to the Lakes… either by design, or at least by gravity (that is, it finds its way from our lawns to the rivers that feed the Lakes in the first place). Whatever water we send beyond that watershed is net water that is not returned… unless you imagine that somehow, sending Great Lakes water down the Mississippi or onto putting greens in Las Vegas are somehow automatically going to result in immediate and direct increased rainfall over the Great Lakes basin to make up for the deficit.
You idea is suicide. It’s like offering to share your blood with a fat man rather than insisting he diet sensibly. Once those people get hooked on Great Lakes water and their lifestyle expands to depend on it, we will not be able to restrict their access. EVER. The levels of the Lakes will drop, shipping will be affected, and our way of life and standard of living will suffer. Consider that the mighty Colorado River, which carved the Grand Canyon itself, no longer reaches the Pacific Ocean. It is swallowed up in its entirety. The Great Lakes are indeed “great”. But they are not infinite.
My feeling is that some lifestyle changes will soon be in order.