They should put a flint slab down for her tap on and watch the sparks fly!

a Keith Flint homage?

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Keith Flint, vocalist for the British band The Prodigy, has died at age 49. The group confirmed that Flint allegedly died by suicide.

RIP

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Keith Flint, vocalist for the British band The Prodigy, has died at age 49. The group confirmed that Flint allegedly died by suicide.

RIP

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Keith Flint, vocalist for the British band The Prodigy, has died at age 49. The group confirmed that Flint allegedly died by suicide.

RIP

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Keith Flint, vocalist for the British band The Prodigy, has died at age 49. The group confirmed that Flint allegedly died by suicide.

RIP

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Keith Flint, vocalist for the British band The Prodigy, has died at age 49. The group confirmed that Flint allegedly died by suicide.

RIP

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Keith Flint, vocalist for the British band The Prodigy, has died at age 49. The group confirmed that Flint allegedly died by suicide.

RIP

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Keith Flint, vocalist for the British band The Prodigy, has died at age 49. The group confirmed that Flint allegedly died by suicide.

RIP

Man is from Flint, Michigan. I think the simple explanation is that all that lead in the water has made him a super-powerful mutant.

The origins of the flint water is conservatism.Electing people to run your government who openly declare their hatred for government.Electing people to work with and oversee unions who openly declare their hatred of unions. Electing people to run your government based solely on their hatred of gay marriage. We can't drink the water, but those evil gay people can't get married ! Yeehaa!

12M for clean water does not seem much.
If there is no money for water they EM should have said so and turn the water off. As suck as that is at least there would not be this poisoning of its people.

But why is the flint river so bad in the first place? Auto industry? Where are the EPA regulators and local government for the last 50 years?

I grew up in Pittsburgh PA, Steel town USA. Our city and rivers were in terrible shape and the local / state / EPA regulations made the rivers clean again. I

Vote as you like, but I think you missed the important point being made (agreed, made excessively poorly, even disingenuously by Cenk) that this was an intentional squandering of the perfect time to remove the offending, illegal portions of the law, and leaving them in may (I'm no legal scholar, but often if one part is invalid, the entire document is invalid) invalidate the whole thing and require another re-write, taking more time, money, and effort, all of which are in short supply.

Is it a BIG deal, no...at least I hope not. There's always the possibility that they'll actually try to use it again to prosecute homosexuals, forcing them to 'prove' they aren't sodomites in court (an impossibility, btw) or go to prison or at best be forced to publicly re-address and re-litigate it over and over as they appeal up to the supreme court, destroying them professionally and financially, as has been done many times in the past.
Please do note that most 'homosexual behavior' has been illegal in the South in the past, and those laws have been repeatedly used to destroy people's lives and families, often based on false accusations, and despite their unconstitutionality and immorality. Leaving those laws on the books, even when they've been deemed unenforceable, leaves many people in a legal limbo. They can never feel safe in their own state and there's the reality that every time a new public official is elected they have to wonder if they'll have to fight this fight once again. Many times states have decided to enforce unconstitutional laws, and while in the end they were struck down, those they are applied against in the mean time are often destroyed.
Also, because they can't successfully prosecute someone for this unconstitutional law doesn't mean they can't use it to 'out' them, or investigate them until they find something they can prosecute, as has also happened in the past.
...But I don't think Cenk tried to make any of those points, he was just pointing out this blatant hypocrisy, which is representative of Republicans spending their exceedingly limited legislating time, effort, and money doing ridiculous, illegal, meaningless things, but completely fail at doing anything helpful, meaningful, or even legal like removing the offensive, unconstitutional part of the law when you're already re-writing and re-voting on a law, or maybe finding a way to get Flint non-poisoned water, or finding a way to put those responsible for poisoning an entire community (whether by negligence or out of greed) in prison, and it's representative of their complete hypocrisy about the party platform, which is conveniently completely forgotten when 'out of control government intrusion' is on their side.
I do completely admit he could have been far clearer about what really happened rather than imply they wrote this in as an amendment, bad Cenk.

Dean Baker drops some MMT over at Truthout:

We Poisoned Kids in Flint to Keep Their Parents From Having Jobs