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This meme is 2 hours old. Since then, at least 350 folks have signed the WV petition, which we DO appreciate! However, in the previous ten days, the petition did gather less than 500 signatures. It took three days for the Bieber petition to cross 100k, which means that the White House will respond to it at some point in the near future.
Send your friends, your family, and your neighbors to this link:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/investigate-mismanagement-wv-water-disaster-state-and-county-officials-well-wv-american-water/m9S1TDRC
Thanks. ~Karen
Share it, steal it, whatever.
Priorities, people...
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/investigate-mismanagement-wv-water-disaster-state-and-county-officials-well-wv-american-water/m9S1TDRC
I just signed.
Cha
(297,651 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)Everybody's gone to Disneyland, Cha. None of this should be happening in America, but that 47% seem to be hypnotized and/or brainwashed and the rest of us are on a treadmill. I will sign now and tell 10 people to do the same. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Now the regulators need to do their jobs.
Cha
(297,651 posts)Cha
(297,651 posts)DireStrike
(6,452 posts)Yeah, Obama has no idea about the WV thing, that's the ticket.
If petitions are not used seriously, they will be treated as a joke. petitions.whitehouse.gov is nothing more than a PR tool.
Cha
(297,651 posts)handmade34
(22,757 posts)yes, another WTF U.S. America
Cha
(297,651 posts)celebritytainment overload!
THANKS, handmade!
randome
(34,845 posts)Thanks for the public service. I just signed. (The WV petition, not the JB one.)
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]
Cha
(297,651 posts)Here's to JB getting his life together and West Virginia getting their Elk River cleaned up and this never happening again. I can dream, can't I?
spanone
(135,873 posts)We're doomed.. I blame the US mediawhore$!
mahalo, spanone!
spanone
(135,873 posts)OldEurope
(1,273 posts)Cha
(297,651 posts)Signing.
Thanks Cha!
Cha
(297,651 posts)she~
ladyVet
(1,587 posts)I'd bet not much.
On the other hand, Justin Bieber is a threat to all that is pure and holy in America. Yuck yuck.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)butterfly77
(17,609 posts)it is New York or unless it interferes with sports because we all know that sports are the most important things and New York is more important than the others..
CFLDem
(2,083 posts)How serious this Bieber infestation of the entire nation is.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Signed for WV
Journeyman
(15,038 posts)then what was all the effort for back in '72 to get the Clean Water Act passed?
At least if Justin Bieber is deported, he may stay deported.
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)corporate toads to head em. Most of the damage was done under *'s administration.
Journeyman
(15,038 posts)Fuck the gutting and claims of "austerity" and pointing at BushCo -- the government should be leading this effort, not waiting for a silly petition with less than a fraction of a minuscule percentage of people demanding action.
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)Multinationals watching multinationals. They're loving it.
Cha
(297,651 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)I can't say that I'm surprised by this. Plus, probably not many people know (or care) how they would be affected by toxic chemicals being dumped into WV's water. Not everyone is that politically-savvy.
GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)Thanks for the heads-up. I didn't even know about until you pointed it out.
Cha
(297,651 posts)Thanks for signing!
Justin Bieber only does so much harm.
Cha
(297,651 posts)offline and it only had one Rec(me) and no replies. I just got on and I was surprised!
It was 5:37am EST though.
Thanks
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.
RichGirl
(4,119 posts)Cha
(297,651 posts)I thought.. he's a citizen here unlike Justin B.
Besides, Canada called and they don't want their idiot back.
TBF
(32,090 posts)thank you for keeping your eye on the ball. Will sign right now (for the water - not the Beiber).
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,194 posts)to throw Justin Bieber into the Elk River. (If cat hair can be used to soak up oil spills, I figure his bouffant should soak up something.)
Cha
(297,651 posts)gets resolution on Clean Water in their Elk River Water Supply, Buns!!
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)I was
Cha
(297,651 posts)Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Cha
(297,651 posts)I saw it!
Elk River, West Virginia
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I do not give a fuck about Bieber.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)it's priorities plus publicity. I didn't know about this petition till now, unlike Bieber's which has been in the MSM news for days.
Cha
(297,651 posts)this JB stuff was on DU and I saw this Graphic and petition on FB.. I thought I better get it the heck over here!!
Thanks! LE
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)We need to do a better job at informing them of the importance of social activism with regard to the environment...and politics!!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Cha
(297,651 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)Cha
(297,651 posts)getting up there!
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Just don't make me stand up for that. Cause, you know...MTV and all that!
Cha
(297,651 posts)Elk River, West Virginia
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Cha
(297,651 posts)mike_c
(36,281 posts)Thanks for the link.
Cha
(297,651 posts)that's where I shared it too..
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Cha
(297,651 posts)Cleaning up the sewage in the Elk River, West Virginia?
uppityperson
(115,679 posts)Cha
(297,651 posts)respond in a civil way before I alerted on it.
And, I was just about to post a Thank you to MIRT! Are you part of that Team, uppity?
uppityperson
(115,679 posts)Response to Cha (Reply #65)
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In_The_Wind
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Cha
(297,651 posts)to clean up the Elk River and work on not having this happen again that brings out ?
In The Wind Adorable graphic.
greatlaurel
(2,004 posts)Signed the petition. The spill in West Virginia is a really big deal that has not gotten nearly the media attention needed.
Cha
(297,651 posts)It's a huge deal and this petition is just one more way we can garner attention for it!
ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)Let me be very clear here. There is only a limited amount of stuff that the EPA can do when a State government is taken over by whack-a-doodles voted into their office by their constituents, who then oppose everything they do.
The Bieber thing is clearly not serious and it shows that the internet is still largely not taken seriously. But frankly, part of the problem I see with many members of my own party is that they try very hard to keep Republicans from suffering the consequences of their own votes. Which leads people into thinking that voting for Republicans is perfectly fine.
There is a point where, no matter how compassionate you are, you just have to let people wallow in their own decision making. If you don't, they'll never learn.
Tough love for GOP voters. It's a hard lesson that must be taught.
- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)concerning the WV spill. I will sign yours. One condition...Do not send Bieber back to Canada...we don't want him...nor Teddy boy.
Cha
(297,651 posts)hope JB gets his life straightened out and he can go where he wants.
And, we get our country's waters cleaned up!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Cha
(297,651 posts)when I signed. Hopeful.
Cha
(297,651 posts)The more attention the better!
W.J. McCabe
(74 posts)Home of the ignorant. Land of the short-sighted.
Cha
(297,651 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Cha
(297,651 posts)great white snark
(2,646 posts)Kudos to you Cha!
Cha
(297,651 posts)Snark!
Are you kidding!
Brigid
(17,621 posts)And more signatures. C'mon, DU! Still need thousands more!