"Environmental hysteria"
An amazing number of people singed this petition to ban water 
Talk about people acting like sheep....
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Should we ban water?
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Also, Ed, Drowning is the second-leading cause of injury-related death among children under the age of 15. 19% of drowning deaths involving children occur in public pools with certified lifeguards present.
Should we outlaw letting children go swimming? After all, how many times have you heard the line "If it saves just one child's life" when a person or group are grinding an ax about something?
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We should just regulate swimming to the point where everybody just gives up trying to figure out which hours of what days it is legal to go into how many inches of water in the swimming pool while supervised by n lifeguards, n^2 lifeguard supervisors and n^3 social workers. Drowning deaths will decrease and the government can go on ad nauseum about how it has solved yet another of life's ills.
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Just the words "sign this petition" moves some to get out their pens. (or add their names to email petitions>
Reminds me of my too-often-told true story about someone who took out a classified ad saying only, "Send $1 to P.O. Box ---". and some people did.
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fulfilled their missions or run out of useful work to do. These will need to be listed and properly studied first. Do not put our congress in charge of this as they need to be on the chopping block too.
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From Wikipedia...............
Dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO) is a scientific name for water that is relatively unknown to most of the public, used in hoaxes that illustrate how the lack of scientific knowledge and an exaggerated analysis can lead to misplaced fears. "Di" meaning two, and "Mono" meaning single, describes how water is made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom (H2O).
The hoax involves listing strictly negative effects of water, such as rosion or drowning, attributing them to "dihydrogen monoxide", and then asking individuals to help control the seemingly dangerous substance.
It was apparently created by Eric Lechner, Lars Norpchen and Matthew Kaufman, housemates while attending UC Santra Cruz in 1989, revised by Craig Jackson in 1994, and brought to widespread public attention in 1997 when Nathan Zohner, a 14-year-old student, gathered petitions to ban "DHMO" as the basis of his science project, titled "How Gullible Are We?"
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It looks like this 14 year old student provided the perfect tool to every politican and fringe group out there. They're gullible....They need not have any understanding of your cause if you can play on their emotions with excitement...They're gullible.....They'll take your exaggerations as fact. They're gullible....go get 'em.
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... it says that a city in Orange County came close to falling for the hoax.
http://www.snopes.com/science/dhmo.asp
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Don't forget to visit dhmo.org to get all the latest facts on this toxic substance
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