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		The Obama Administration is threatening states who voted against him by using their water supply against them, claims someone who just watched Dr. Strangelove and thought it was a documentary (wnd.com)		34
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Diogenes		2012-05-15 10:50:38 AM

I thought the states were bad for looking for federal aid, even in the case of natural disasters. Have I been misinformed?

You can have your water when you can pay for it.

And as long as I'm at it -- it's your own fault for deciding to live in landlocked desert states.

Marcus Aurelius		2012-05-15 11:00:30 AM

Red states get enough subsidies with giving them our precious drinking fluids.

Mr. Coffee Nerves		2012-05-15 11:21:32 AM

Public water supplies? Sounds like soshulism to me. Put on those well-digging gloves and praise the Free Market when the company down the street pumps their sewage into your aquifer.

theknuckler_33		2012-05-15 11:22:36 AM

Seems legit.

qorkfiend		2012-05-15 11:26:08 AM

It's not the government's job to make sure its citizens have access to clean drinking water. Let the free market decide.

Diogenes		2012-05-15 11:27:32 AM

Water isn't in the Constitution.

Epoch_Zero		2012-05-15 11:29:00 AM

Well of course - Obama is for water fluoridation. Everybody knows that's a communist plot.

MindStalker		2012-05-15 11:40:19 AM

Midwest states have been fighting over water for a long time. Midwest desert states in general don't vote for Obama.
Thus anything Obama does in regards to this water fight will be seen as taking sides politically.

aearra		2012-05-15 11:41:04 AM

world nut daily? who cares?

monoski		2012-05-15 11:43:56 AM

Meanwhile people are turning a blind-eye to the privatization of water supplies and the large corporations who are taking a stake in your water future.

whither_apophis		2012-05-15 11:45:50 AM

In before Sam Kinison reference

qorkfiend		2012-05-15 11:48:03 AM

monoski: Meanwhile people are turning a blind-eye to the privatization of water supplies and the large corporations who are taking a stake in your water future.

We all know how that ends; Daniel Craig saves everyone.

RobertBruce		2012-05-15 12:03:02 PM

Can't be long before California invades Michigan!

jbc		2012-05-15 12:15:39 PM

aearra: world nut daily? who cares?

The moderpators.

KatjaMouse		2012-05-15 12:18:36 PM

Diogenes: And as long as I'm at it -- it's your own fault for deciding to live in landlocked desert states.

It's their fault for living like they live in coastal states. It's disgusting how much water gets wasted out there, how many lush green lawns there are. You'd think that these people would have heard of water conservation.

Oh, wait... "conserve". Sounds like hippie talk.

violentsalvation		2012-05-15 12:23:15 PM

The water thing with Tombstone is just bureaucratic bullshiat.

"No, you can't take machinery up to fix your pipes because you will destroy the national forest"

"But the forest fire and later flooding already destroyed the national forest and now it really the only good time to take machinery in there"

"Rules are rules."

astro716		2012-05-15 12:43:25 PM

If I were Obama, I would totally deny them my essence.

Corporate Self		2012-05-15 12:45:00 PM

violentsalvation: The water thing with Tombstone is just bureaucratic bullshiat.

"No, you can't take machinery up to fix your pipes because you will destroy the national forest"

"But the forest fire and later flooding already destroyed the national forest and now it really the only good time to take machinery in there"

"Rules are rules."

Being Arizonian, I'm sure you can bootstrap yourself some water. Why should the rest of us care about a bunch of backward hating desert dwellers?

Foundling		2012-05-15 12:45:23 PM

Threw your kids out for being gay?

Live without drinkable water.

See what it feels like to be denied the basics.

whither_apophis		2012-05-15 12:55:42 PM

violentsalvation: The water thing with Tombstone is just bureaucratic bullshiat.

"No, you can't take machinery up to fix your pipes because you will destroy the national forest"

"But the forest fire and later flooding already destroyed the national forest and now it really the only good time to take machinery in there"

"Rules are rules."

Don't know the details of the case but if it is a national forest, then the rules are the timber company's.

/at least that's the case in the PNW

DeaH		2012-05-15 01:27:18 PM

It wasn't that long ago that Georgia was eying the Great Lakes as a fresh water supply source. The at the time governor, Granholm, said that the south had pillaged enough of Michigan's jobs, and she would call out the National Guard before she gave them a drop of water.

Maybe people and jobs should move back to where the water is?

regindyn		2012-05-15 01:27:22 PM

On the right, by Mychal Massie: "Arrest the black supremacists or free the white ones".

Go there for some real WND gold!

offmymeds		2012-05-15 01:57:57 PM

We've been experiencing drought conditions here in New Mexico for several decades. It has nothing to do with Obama, the feds or any other conspiracy dreamed up by a fevered imagination. More likely has to do with climate change, if anything. Go back on your meds, Bob. You'll thank me for it.

Empty Matchbook		2012-05-15 02:30:23 PM

Guess you can't get blood from a stone or water from a bootstrap...

violentsalvation		2012-05-15 04:40:02 PM

Corporate Self: violentsalvation: The water thing with Tombstone is just bureaucratic bullshiat.

"No, you can't take machinery up to fix your pipes because you will destroy the national forest"

"But the forest fire and later flooding already destroyed the national forest and now it really the only good time to take machinery in there"

"Rules are rules."

Being Arizonian, I'm sure you can bootstrap yourself some water. Why should the rest of us care about a bunch of backward hating desert dwellers?

I have two wells and I don't live in Tombstone. So....

And why should you care? Seriously, butt out. Tombstone wants to restore their 130-year-old water lines which take water from mountains in Arizona to a town in Arizona. They aren't asking for money, and they own the water rights.

whither_apophis: violentsalvation: The water thing with Tombstone is just bureaucratic bullshiat.

"No, you can't take machinery up to fix your pipes because you will destroy the national forest"

"But the forest fire and later flooding already destroyed the national forest and now it really the only good time to take machinery in there"

"Rules are rules."

Don't know the details of the case but if it is a national forest, then the rules are the timber company's.

/at least that's the case in the PNW

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intelligent comment below		2012-05-15 04:40:36 PM

You mean nonstop growth with no real planning in desert cities causes water shortages? SHOCKING revelation, thank you WND.

whither_apophis		2012-05-15 05:35:19 PM

violentsalvation: Corporate Self: violentsalvation: The water thing with Tombstone is just bureaucratic bullshiat.

"No, you can't take machinery up to fix your pipes because you will destroy the national forest"

"But the forest fire and later flooding already destroyed the national forest and now it really the only good time to take machinery in there"

"Rules are rules."

Being Arizonian, I'm sure you can bootstrap yourself some water. Why should the rest of us care about a bunch of backward hating desert dwellers?

I have two wells and I don't live in Tombstone. So....

And why should you care? Seriously, butt out. Tombstone wants to restore their 130-year-old water lines which take water from mountains in Arizona to a town in Arizona. They aren't asking for money, and they own the water rights.

whither_apophis: violentsalvation: The water thing with Tombstone is just bureaucratic bullshiat.

"No, you can't take machinery up to fix your pipes because you will destroy the national forest"

"But the forest fire and later flooding already destroyed the national forest and now it really the only good time to take machinery in there"

"Rules are rules."

Don't know the details of the case but if it is a national forest, then the rules are the timber company's.

/at least that's the case in the PNW

Link

Thanks, did some more googling, looks like two of them are in designated wilderness areas, and Tombstone got some authorization for equipment. Now it looks like they want to do more but won't file the paperwork to explain their goals. And they managed to p.o. a guest ranch.

/going to see why two wells were closed for arsenic.

chachi88		2012-05-15 07:03:18 PM

I first became aware of this during the physical act of making love.

/POE

Selena Luna		2012-05-15 07:47:36 PM

intelligent comment below: You mean nonstop growth with no real planning in desert cities causes water shortages? SHOCKING revelation, thank you WND.

Tombstone does not have non-stop growth. I'm pretty liberal, but you could at least read something. I'm not saying whether they're right or wrong, because I don't know all the details, but Tombstone has something like 480 people. Ganado has more than that.

intelligent comment below		2012-05-15 08:05:32 PM

Selena Luna: Tombstone does not have non-stop growth. I'm pretty liberal, but you could at least read something. I'm not saying whether they're right or wrong, because I don't know all the details, but Tombstone has something like 480 people. Ganado has more than that.

Probably because most of the water is being diverted elsewhere, to those booming population areas. Just as I said.

Selena Luna		2012-05-15 08:45:07 PM

From what I've read, that's not the case either. Phoenix and points south and west of their use the Colorado River. Use? I mean rape. Tombstone uses another water source. I think that they use a sort of lake from a nearby forest area.

violentsalvation		2012-05-16 03:05:53 AM

Selena Luna: From what I've read, that's not the case either. Phoenix and points south and west of their use the Colorado River. Use? I mean rape. Tombstone uses another water source. I think that they use a sort of lake from a nearby forest area.

The whole Tombstone battle for their water really has nothing to do with the Obama administration, as the crazy link would like to suggest. But also Tombstone and their water really have nothing to do do with any of the other large municipalities that rely on the Colorado River. And also what little water we have around here doesn't go to the huge poorly planned cities.

So you are right and thank you for reading up. We aren't all hateful idiot bigots in this state.

Selena Luna		2012-05-16 01:02:32 PM

violentsalvation: Selena Luna: From what I've read, that's not the case either. Phoenix and points south and west of their use the Colorado River. Use? I mean rape. Tombstone uses another water source. I think that they use a sort of lake from a nearby forest area.

The whole Tombstone battle for their water really has nothing to do with the Obama administration, as the crazy link would like to suggest. But also Tombstone and their water really have nothing to do do with any of the other large municipalities that rely on the Colorado River. And also what little water we have around here doesn't go to the huge poorly planned cities.

So you are right and thank you for reading up. We aren't all hateful idiot bigots in this state.

I know. I live here too and I'm about as liberal as they come.