Product placement and merchandise is the new (or not so new) way of recouping the massive costs of creating movies and Television...but it's only when it so obvious to me that it gets on my nerve. Please, at least have the decency to plant products in my subconscious!!
I was surprised that more of them didn't identify themselves as Libertarians. Though I'm not sure they are social liberals as much as Libertarians. Perhaps the Tea Party people are just republicans who don't like spending their republican leaders have been doing. It's one thing to claim to be a fiscal conservative, but many republican officials don't actually practice what they preach.
Dear Dorje:
Thank you for your comment. Happy to oblige your request for scientific studies of sewage sludge that confirm its toxins and bacteriological hazards. Here is a link to an article in SourceWatch with copies of key studies: [https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Scientific_Studies_of_Sewage_Sludge| link to sludge science page].
Here are descriptions of just three of the several studies documented in this SourceWatch article:
* [[Erik Stokstad]]. [http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2009/01/22-03.html The Dirt on Sewage Sludge]. Science Magazine (AAAS), January 22, 2009
<blockquote>Many of the 145 chemicals tested for were current nationwide. Biosolids from all of the 74 large treatment plants surveyed had same 27 metals, but only zinc, molybdenum, and nickel surpassed standards for application to fields. Almost all of the 11 flame retardants on the list were there in every sample.</blockquote>
* [[EPA]]. [http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/biosolids/tnsss-overview.html#results Targeted National Sewage Sludge Survey Report]. Targeted National Sewage Sludge Survey, EPA-822-R-08-014, 7 (January 2009)
<blockquote>The results of this survey indicate that "27 metals were found in virtually every [[biosolids]] sample". Four of six semivolatile organics and [[polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons]] were found in at least 72 samples. "All off the [[flame retardants]] except one [(BDE-138)] were essentially found in every sample; [BDE-138] was found in 54 out of 84 samples".</blockquote>
* [[Rebecca Renner]]. [http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es803520c EPA finds record PFOS, PFOA levels in Alabama grazing fields]. Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/es803520c
<blockquote>This study focuses on the investigation of agricultural soil near [[Decatur]], Alabama., Scientists with the [[EPA]], [[USDA]], and [[FDA]] are investigating if perfluorinated chemicals have entered the human food chain and contaminated meat. They suspect that "[[PFOA]] and [[PFOS]], treated municipal [[sewage sludge]], or [[biosolids]], were applied to some 5000 acres of agricultural land". </blockquote>
Food turns into poop and poop turns back into food. Circle of life. Like I learned back in my USDA consulting days, a cow in a field both eats and fertilizes about an acre. You get waste management problems when you herd them into feed lots. Then you have to recover the waste in pits and lagoons, then spread it on the fields with "honey wagons."
SFPUC's plan is just doing the same thing with people, since we have herded ourselves into urban feed lots. Until I read about some scienctific tests for toxins or bacteria in sludge, I think they're doing exactly the right thing, closing the circle.
B for the consumer protections portion. I like Elizabeth Warren from watching her with Bill Moyers, so if she is happy about the bill's consumer protections, that makes me happy.
B for the portion to end the casino. I read about Brooksley Born in stories at a wiki and she is an amazing person. I am glad to know she is satisfied.
F for not getting the assignment finished. Glass Stegall is needed to the protect the taxpayers. Tim Geithner's happiness is understandable. What is an audit of the Federal reserve and how does it help us knowing what we are doing?
Product placement and merchandise is the new (or not so new) way of recouping the massive costs of creating movies and Television...but it's only when it so obvious to me that it gets on my nerve. Please, at least have the decency to plant products in my subconscious!!
I was surprised that more of them didn't identify themselves as Libertarians. Though I'm not sure they are social liberals as much as Libertarians. Perhaps the Tea Party people are just republicans who don't like spending their republican leaders have been doing. It's one thing to claim to be a fiscal conservative, but many republican officials don't actually practice what they preach.
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