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- inactive, on 04/27/2008, -2/+109I'm scared to live in Canada. We have a huge amount of oil, fresh water, uncut forests, and unmined minerals, and a military you could push over with a stick to guard it all.
- llama5492, on 04/27/2008, -9/+69Cheney: Mr. President, we're out of water sir!
Bush: So let them drink Kool-Aid. - thelastcivilian, on 04/27/2008, -5/+63Stay away Yankees! We're getting ready to fight!
Canada, as a nation, has already mobilized 80% of its population to within 100 miles of the border with the United States. - aimhelix, on 04/27/2008, -2/+57I have an idea, let's melt icebergs!
- jmpeagle, on 04/27/2008, -6/+55interesting......the unrest between the quebecois and the rest on Canada could degenerate into civil war. The U.S. must be prepared to keep the peace by sending in 250,000 peacekeepers to quell the violence and secure the resources.
- rileyhallwood, on 04/27/2008, -0/+48its all tactical, we give people a guilty concience for attacking us, its practically a cheap shot.
- FizzanoMatrix, on 04/27/2008, -5/+47I'll be headin out Californee way.
- ConfirmedCynic, on 04/27/2008, -0/+31Maybe those states should start living within their means, by imposing water conversation methods? Instead of looking to pillage their neighbors and waste their water too?
- tbhurst, on 04/27/2008, -2/+31You know what they say about the west? Whiskey is for drinkin' and water is for fightin' about.
- stack3r, on 04/27/2008, -1/+28Stop softdrink manufacture have 3/4 of your water back and a healthier population.
- allowners, on 04/27/2008, -6/+31There's a reason why that land "out west" in the US was / is so cheap.
- bakegreg, on 04/27/2008, -0/+24Water is about the only thing we have left in Michigan...
- cipher64, on 04/27/2008, -2/+26It's just my feeling or is the world really headed towards bad times no matter how you look at it?
- DonSlice, on 04/27/2008, -2/+25"Michigan: The Last Bastion of Civilization" just doesn't have a nice ring to it.
- synaesthesia, on 04/27/2008, -0/+23Yes, a situation involving the desperate scarcity and rarity of water is exactly like a movie wherein the entire earth was overrun with water.
- kh99, on 04/27/2008, -1/+21Don't worry, eh? We'll stay oot.
- FatLoser, on 04/27/2008, -2/+18"Detroit" just doesn't have a nice ring to it.
- synaesthesia, on 04/27/2008, -1/+17Just like early 2003 Iraq.
- kylere, on 04/27/2008, -3/+19I welcome the new parched earth, I live in Michigan and when water hits $117 a barrel we will be living like Dubai :-)
- rileyhallwood, on 04/27/2008, -2/+18maybe thirty years ago. quebec won't do *****, they're all talk.
- cheezintern, on 04/27/2008, -4/+19Better hope we (the U.S.) don't find any terrorists or evil doers, or we'll be rolling through with our tanks in no time to bring freedom.
- prometheanspark, on 04/28/2008, -0/+15The thing is that at least in California, more than half of the water goes to growing oranges, tomatoes and other fruits in the central valleys, which are basically a desert during the summers. The farmers that irrigates these crops pay about 1/10 of 1% of what urban water users pay for water, based on 'contracts' for water that can have terms beyond 50 years. Some contracts have such low prices that the farmers that have them turn around and sell their contracted water at a profit to someone else. Since the contracts gurantee water to the farmers, in drought years the rest of us are left with what's left after the contract water is taken out and the price can be changed at will by the water authority. Pretty much since there's a monopoly the water utility charges us as much as they think we're willing to pay.
The best way to ensure water security in the west is to end the practice of granting such long termed water contracts, and instead grant them with 1-5 year terms, or simply bill farmers for water at the spot price as they take the water from the canals. We should be getting our fruit from high rainfall areas of central America instead because those regions are better suited to that industry. The deserts can replace the economic loss of agriculture with solar energy and perhaps everyone can be happy and have enough water at the same time.
As long as we're still farming in the desert, there is no water shortage. Just a make-believe one to justify price increases for the water utility companies. - SemiSarcastic, on 04/27/2008, -1/+16Digg: where optimism and pragmatism goes to die.
- vw2005, on 04/27/2008, -3/+15desalinsation.... dudes and dudettes.
It'll become cheap/profitable to do so .... if it's not already right now. - bradsh, on 04/27/2008, -0/+12The idea is going from a state resource to a national resource, not international to national. People without water want to open up our precious great lakes so they can get their greedy paws on our mercury poisoned water. For whatever reason.
- dancercotillion, on 04/27/2008, -0/+11No, this will not be like Waterworld. This will be more Tank Girl.
I'd be killed for my body's water by Malcolm McDowell anyday. - Louis11, on 04/27/2008, -3/+14*Eyes Canada*
Suddenly America's hat isn't looking so lame. - boomernet, on 04/28/2008, -7/+18fortunately attacking Canada would result in the US losing support from the UK, Australia, and many other European nations they currently rely upon. Plus there's way too many white people. The US only attacks brown people, or white people really, really far away.
- urgeigh, on 04/27/2008, -0/+10I guess that's at least one positive aspect of living in Michigan. Kind of puts things in perspective, we might have the highest unemployment and one of the worst economies in the country but hey, at least I won't be dying of dehydration any time soon.
- soundman7718, on 04/27/2008, -3/+13Just how ahead? Is it "way ahead", or "one step" ahead...I'm confused.
- urgeigh, on 04/27/2008, -2/+12I don't know why people are digging you down, that's funny right there!
- soundman7718, on 04/27/2008, -1/+11I had something like this years ago in my backyard titled the exact same thing...it involved super soakers.
- Justice101, on 04/28/2008, -0/+10Absolutely, they should conserve water better, and start setting up desalinization plants.
- sponeil, on 04/28/2008, -0/+9@ohmahgawd, have you seen this one?
Arabian Sea (SatireWire.com) — Canadian television reported Friday that a Canadian warship in the Arabian Sea had seized a tanker suspected of smuggling oil from Iraq, leading many to suspect that the report was a hoax.
"You're kidding, right? Canada has a warship?" asked U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "Like for war?
"Does Canada know?" he added.
"Nobody was more stunned than we were," said Kali Omari, first mate of the seized vessel. "We saw this frigate steaming toward us, and we were worried, but then we saw the maple leaf on the flag, and we thought, 'Oh, Canadians. What the hell do they want?'" - noahhoward, on 04/27/2008, -1/+10Depends on point of view, if you look at it like a collective us, then yeah there's gong to be trouble. From a personal point of view, things will be a lot less crowded and people will be a lot less stupid. Survival of the fittest will finally be back behind the helm.
- bjornski, on 04/27/2008, -1/+10Because they've already used their own as sewers and to water their golf courses.
Plus absolutely piss-poor land management and planning. - arcusMae, on 04/27/2008, -0/+9I totally agree. If they want to come and get my water then they should come and live here. Otherwise stay there and adapt.
- LupeFiasco, on 04/28/2008, -0/+8And American's don't have accents?
- AirRaven, on 04/27/2008, -4/+12...=D
Cleverly done. - SitPoMk, on 04/27/2008, -7/+15They're way ahead of you
- bjornski, on 04/27/2008, -1/+9Yeah. Popular Science and Popular Mechanics have become "the suck" when it comes to anything factual.
- OrangeCrush, on 04/28/2008, -0/+8Only if you look at it from the perspective of "let's sit on our asses and do nothing to mitigate or prevent future problems." There's plenty of water on this planet, it's just a matter of getting it purified and delivered where it's needed. Rather than starting wars, we can invest in infrastructure--pipelines and water treatment plants--maybe even replace a few crumbling bridges and roadways while we're at it. It'll be good for the economy, create jobs, help out the ailing construction industry, and nobody has to get shot at for it.
- revarien, on 04/28/2008, -1/+9We damn well better not have a 'water war'... 70% of the earth's surface is covered with it. Lrn2distillation
- SeekerDarksteel, on 04/28/2008, -1/+9People have been declaring the world is heading towards bad times every day of every year for the past ever.
- lengau, on 04/27/2008, -3/+10Riiiight... Because they have so much water...
- inactive, on 04/28/2008, -0/+7lol
There was a long running joke in Alberta that WES (West Edmonton Mall) had more submarines than the Canadian military. It was true for a while too. And the subs used in WES were for an amusement park! - michlibrarian, on 04/27/2008, -4/+11What appalling arrogance that an international water source could be "nationalized."
- Rodalli, on 04/28/2008, -2/+9I heard they got internet out there.
- briguymich, on 04/27/2008, -1/+8I guess that is the trade off. Live somewhere beautiful, and warm, but with no resources to sustain a population. Or deal with snow and cloudy days and don't die from lack of water.
- IAmTheGuy, on 04/28/2008, -0/+7The fact that you have mobilized 80% of your population to the border is actually a good thing for us Yanks because I hear there's not a locked door in the country. We'll just march in while you're sleeping and take over.
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