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As Kermit the frog used to sing, it isn’t easy being green. In a short article from the San Francisco Chronicle it seems the city’s push to have low flow toilets installed has caused some unintended consequences.

San_Francisco’s big push for low-flow toilets has turned into a multimillion-dollar plumbing stink. Skimping on toilet water has resulted in more sludge backing up inside the sewer pipes, said Tyrone Jue, spokesman for the city Public Utilities Commission. That has created a rotten-egg stench near AT&T Park and elsewhere, especially during the dry summer months.

The city has already spent $100 million over the past five years to upgrade its sewer system and sewage plants, in part to combat the odor problem.

Now officials are stocking up on a $14 million, three-year supply of highly concentrated sodium hypochlorite – better known as bleach – to act as an odor eater and to disinfect the city’s treated water before it’s dumped into the bay. It will also be used to sanitize drinking water.

That translates into 8.5 million pounds of bleach either being poured down city drains or into the drinking water supply every year.

Not everybody thinks it’s a good idea.

A “Don’t Bleach Our Bay” alert has just gone out from eco-blogger Adam Lowry who argues the city would be much better off using a disinfectant like hydrogen peroxide – or better yet, a solution that would naturally break down the bacteria.

As for whether the supposedly environmentally friendly, low-flow toilets are worth the trouble? Well, according to Jue, they have helped trim San Francisco’s annual water consumption by about 20 million gallons.

Union supporters have been picketing in front of the Georgia capitol building for the last few days in support of their Union comrades in Wisconsin.  This weekend they were joined by the Georgia Tea Party in a counter demonstration.  The Tea Party supporters were across the street from the Union supporters.  Sunday, one of the Union thugs crossed the street and waded into the Tea Party folks and started throwing them around.

If you believe the main stream media, (then you are not in touch with reality) the Tea Parties are potentially violent.  In this clip you can see that the unions are in fact the violent ones!

Would you say this guy is Overclocking his machine, just a bit??

Overclocking??

The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the traveler will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves.

No one produced anything.

No one earned anything…

However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how a “stimulus package” works.

The government of Egypt has now not only shut down the social networking websites, they have shut down the Internet.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/the-internet-goes-dark-in-egypt/613?tag=nl.e539

The Egyptian government is obviously wants to restrict communications between the leaders of the unrest in the country and prevent any news or information from getting out of the country.  That way the official government story is the only story that gets out to the rest of the world.  Restricting communications among the dissidents is a way to help suppress the unrest and potential revolution.

I’m not sure who is behind the demonstrations.  Some say it is Muslim extremists who want Egypt to become a Islamic Republic, some say it is people who want a true democracy in Egypt.   Either way, the government is doing everything it can to suppress the rioters ability to communicate.

This is the same power that your President wants here in America. I’m guessing for exactly the same reason.