Andy, I certainly hope that you have a solar panel which captures energy from mother nature to power your computer, otherwise we may need to build another power plant in your neighborhood to keep your e-mails coming in to the group. Actually, considering the length of your ranting diatribe, it make take 2 of those murderous power plants.
Paul Lambie Lowry Hill Andy Driscoll wrote: Hi Elizabeth, you may want to suggest that the runners bring some tanked > oxygen with them. The air in the Mpls downtown area is looking -to the ey= e- > to be a thick yellow smog. Scorecard.org's stats contend that Hennepin > County is in the top twenty dirty counties in the nation. If any have > breathing difficulties, some athletes are asthmatic but use meds before > events to control symptoms, they really need to be aware of this. St Paul > looks somewhat better- My husband, Dave, does aerial photography and > usually brings me back photos to back the site facts. Many times this glo= p > affects what he has to photograph and many times the shoot has to be > scheduled around the air clarity conditions. Read this carefully, Friends. This is the air our MPCA and present and past state and local governments have allowed to go the way of Pittsburgh and Toledo and Camden. We've spent so many years patting ourselves on the back for our Upper Midwest purity, so many years accepting the big money that polluters feed our politicians that we may never breathe freely again - without medical attention. And still they want to build more power plants. And still the State of Minnesota, its Pollution Control Agency and local governments refuse to sto= p the polluters from killing us. And still they plop down refineries in the middle of our neighborhoods and refuse to close them when they so clearly threaten our lives. Overly dramatic? I submit that it is not. This air we breathe is slowly but surely destroying our innards, feeding ou= r lungs the asthma, emphysema, cancer and asbestosis - among other illnesses = - killing us slowly with their corruption of the air and politicians. And what is their mantra for doing nothing? Nothing to stop this? Jobs. Always jobs. This chant that business and government sing, that word that has allowed big labor and big business and politicians to turn their backs on the health of their own workers and on the very livability of our communities =AD those jobs they couldn't care less about otherwise =AD is without exaggeration - murdering people as they walk and work and sleep. We are long past time when the palpable pollution these agencies and truste= d officials choose to ignore must be addressed as a crisis of massive proportions. Feeling overwhelmed? As we all must be. As I write this, the sun is out, th= e sky blue-ish. It's a deception and a day that can urge us to postpone the hard work of reversing the entire system of life-sustaining air quality control. St. Paul, Minneapolis, Hennepin and Ramsey Counties and the State of Minnesota must be pushed to the brink =AD quickly. Stop the killing. Andy Driscoll Saint Paul __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
