[Sure wish I’d thought of that, though *g*]

[The NPR outlets like to say they have no control over NPR central’s program content, but in fact the stations are essentially the whole of “customer base” for NPR’s news programs.

Every year all the stations go play with NPR central, hold talks, express views. ANd ever since the wingers got Tomlinson (?sp) IIRC in, the news radio content’s drifted ever rightward.

NPR sets member stations’ fees for programs (like ME or ATC) according to station memberships. The biggest stations pay most.

The biggest stations - which include almost all of NPR’s “flagship” stations - are in markets so big that almost all have other smaller stations that also carry ME and ATC. Who cares?

The only market tool progressive listeners have is (in area with big stations and other choices) withhold donations to the major NPR station. Tell them the donations come again when they use their market power to demand ending the Village/Rethug crap.

At the same time, sendthe donation to the smaller public radio outlets - and Pacifica.]

Desalination, as it’s practiced today, is largely a distillation method–so the separation is a thermodynamic process, rather than a reaction-based process. That means that there probably isn’t anything being added to the water that wasn’t already there to begin with.

In principle, you could use this process to produce salt by evaporating the water from the brine. However, the major issue with desalination–in addition to what to do with the brine–is that it produces water through the consumption of significant amounts of energy (which is required for distillation).

The Lompas are furious because they blame government, not nature, for the death of their trees. And Janet Lompa tells her four children that “the politicians gave it all to the fish” when they ask why there’s no water.

A perfect smear, hitting the judiciary, democrats at all levels of government, and the fucking Sierra Club. Who needs Fox when you have NPR?