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Post by sparty on Jul 29, 2024 18:43:47 GMT -8
Lol! I said compared to Japan three years ago. Do you get out much? Order, organization, planning…these are what Japan excels at. Few countries come close. But wow, France put on a helluva show! Taking it out of the stadium allowed the city to display her beauty. The e, coli in the river Seine was impressive. |
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Post by irimi on Jul 29, 2024 20:10:55 GMT -8
Order, organization, planning…these are what Japan excels at. Few countries come close. But wow, France put on a helluva show! Taking it out of the stadium allowed the city to display her beauty. The e, coli in the river Seine was impressive. We Americans have little room to talk when it comes to rivers. 🎵 Burn on, big river, burn on. 🎵 |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Jul 29, 2024 20:51:31 GMT -8
Poor Jade was sick and did poorly, although she still edged out Chiles on the Vault. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Jul 29, 2024 22:23:57 GMT -8
The e, coli in the river Seine was impressive. We Americans have little room to talk when it comes to rivers. 🎵 Burn on, big river, burn on. 🎵 The Seine has more than 10 times as much E. coli than the Cuyahoga the last three days. They just stocked the Cuyahoga with steelhead this year for the first time ever. And you can swim along Lake Erie or in Berea. The Cuyahoga Fire was 55 years ago, and the pictures that you see are from the 1952 fire, because the 1969 fire was intentionally overblown to drown out (pun unintended) the Chappaquiddick Scandal (apparently successfully). 55 years later, though, and the Cuyahoga is relatively clean. The Seine, though, is still awful despite the French dumping $1.55 billion to clean up the River in preparation for the Olympics. More work to be done in the United States to be sure, but there are much worse places environmentally. |
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Post by irimi on Jul 30, 2024 4:50:20 GMT -8
We Americans have little room to talk when it comes to rivers. 🎵 Burn on, big river, burn on. 🎵 The Seine has more than 10 times as much E. coli than the Cuyahoga the last three days. They just stocked the Cuyahoga with steelhead this year for the first time ever. And you can swim along Lake Erie or in Berea. The Cuyahoga Fire was 55 years ago, and the pictures that you see are from the 1952 fire, because the 1969 fire was intentionally overblown to drown out (pun unintended) the Chappaquiddick Scandal (apparently successfully). 55 years later, though, and the Cuyahoga is relatively clean. The Seine, though, is still awful despite the French dumping $1.55 billion to clean up the River in preparation for the Olympics. More work to be done in the United States to be sure, but there are much worse places environmentally. Human nature, eh? We rarely do things because it is the right thing to do, especially when money and bureaucracy is involved. A little embarrassment goes a long way. Perhaps this embarrassment will be what the French need to take pollution seriously, just as a burning river was needed to prompt Americans to care. |
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Post by EmeraldEmpire on Jul 30, 2024 20:12:00 GMT -8
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Post by bvrbooster on Jul 30, 2024 22:18:40 GMT -8
We Americans have little room to talk when it comes to rivers. 🎵 Burn on, big river, burn on. 🎵 The Seine has more than 10 times as much E. coli than the Cuyahoga the last three days. They just stocked the Cuyahoga with steelhead this year for the first time ever. And you can swim along Lake Erie or in Berea. The Cuyahoga Fire was 55 years ago, and the pictures that you see are from the 1952 fire, because the 1969 fire was intentionally overblown to drown out (pun unintended) the Chappaquiddick Scandal (apparently successfully). 55 years later, though, and the Cuyahoga is relatively clean. The Seine, though, is still awful despite the French dumping $1.55 billion to clean up the River in preparation for the Olympics. More work to be done in the United States to be sure, but there are much worse places environmentally. The 13th, and last, time the Cuyahoga caught fire was on June 22, 1969; the Ted Kennedy incident at Chappaquiddick was on July 18 or 19, sometime around midnight, of that same year - 4 weeks after the river caught fire. I was 23 then, and remember the coverage of both quite clearly. Chappaquiddick dominated the news cycle for several days. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Jul 30, 2024 23:19:42 GMT -8
The Seine has more than 10 times as much E. coli than the Cuyahoga the last three days. They just stocked the Cuyahoga with steelhead this year for the first time ever. And you can swim along Lake Erie or in Berea. The Cuyahoga Fire was 55 years ago, and the pictures that you see are from the 1952 fire, because the 1969 fire was intentionally overblown to drown out (pun unintended) the Chappaquiddick Scandal (apparently successfully). 55 years later, though, and the Cuyahoga is relatively clean. The Seine, though, is still awful despite the French dumping $1.55 billion to clean up the River in preparation for the Olympics. More work to be done in the United States to be sure, but there are much worse places environmentally. The 13th, and last, time the Cuyahoga caught fire was on June 22, 1969; the Ted Kennedy incident at Chappaquiddick was on July 18 or 19, sometime around midnight, of that same year - 4 weeks after the river caught fire. I was 23 then, and remember the coverage of both quite clearly. Chappaquiddick dominated the news cycle for several days. The Time Magazine article, though, with the 1952 pictures was after Chappaquiddick, and it seemed to bury Chappaquiddick and refocus the news on the relatively benign (compared to 1952) 1969 Cuyahoga Fire. The House's version of National Environmental Policy Act passed the House the next month. It took the House and Senate exactly three months to agree on the final combined Act, but it passed both houses on December 23, 1969. President Richard M. Nixon signed it into law eight days later, the very first bill that Nixon signed into law in the 70s. |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jul 31, 2024 6:50:32 GMT -8
Uh, something else happened right around that time in 1969 that was somewhat important and might have dominated the headlines. Something about a guy named Armstrong or something ...
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Post by spudbeaver on Jul 31, 2024 9:06:15 GMT -8
Stretch Armstrong was invented??
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Post by fishwrapper on Jul 31, 2024 10:19:59 GMT -8
Stretch Armstrong was invented?? No, that was in our nation's bicentennial year. |
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Post by irimi on Jul 31, 2024 10:37:22 GMT -8
Uh, something else happened right around that time in 1969 that was somewhat important and might have dominated the headlines. Something about a guy named Armstrong or something ... He won the Tour de France for the first time? |
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Post by TheGlove on Jul 31, 2024 12:58:43 GMT -8
Uh, something else happened right around that time in 1969 that was somewhat important and might have dominated the headlines. Something about a guy named Armstrong or something ... FAKE NEWS! The lunar landing was faked! Right wilky? It was faked to cover up Chappquidick!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Post by beavaristotle on Jul 31, 2024 13:13:05 GMT -8
Uh, something else happened right around that time in 1969 that was somewhat important and might have dominated the headlines. Something about a guy named Armstrong or something ... FAKE NEWS! The lunar landing was faked! Right wilky? It was faked to cover up Chappquidick!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!! Chappquidick ? Let’s not drive off that bridge till we get to it |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Jul 31, 2024 14:59:34 GMT -8
FAKE NEWS! The lunar landing was faked! Right wilky? It was faked to cover up Chappquidick!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!! Chappquidick ? Let’s not drive off that bridge till we get to it The whole topic would be more humorous, if poor Mary Jo had not suffocated to death inside that car. |
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