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kjoy Wrote: Jul 19, 2012 12:39 PM

What infuriates me is that a very small percentage of our population is loud and vocal enough to even get anyone to think about tearing down the dam at hetch hetchy. Would someone like to explain to me how San Francisco plans to get their water. The dams in Tuolumne County don't hold enough water to replace the water in Hetch Hetchy. Second question, what about the habitat that currently resides in and around these bridges and damns. These areas are not void of fish, frogs, insects, deer, rabbits, birds. Destruction of this current habitat is OK so a river can run free? We are not talking about freeing elephants and tigers from zoos. It's WATER people!!!

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Blowing Up History

In the Arabic media, there are reports that Muslim clerics -- energized by the sudden emergence of Egypt's new president, Muhammad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood -- are now agitating to demolish the Egyptian pyramids. According to agitated imams, the Pharaohs' monuments represent "symbols of paganism" from Egypt's pre-Islamic past and therefore must vanish.

Don't dismiss such insanity so easily. Mali Islamists are currently destroying the centuries-old mausoleums of Sufi-Muslim saints in the city of Timbuktu, the historic site of early Islamic scholarship and jurisprudence. But perhaps the most recent regrettable Islamist attack on the past was the Taliban's 2001 dynamiting...

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