> where is this guy’s mind?Such cautious objectivity. So discreet. Such refined decorum. Never before such circumlocution.> given the stage prop behind him.It was a political event. The Chosen One, Blessed Be He, Hillary, Richardson, were about to speak. The US National Anthem was being played.> where is this guy’s mind?He was (is?) one pissed off, angry … trying to embarrass, insult, humiliate the US.I’ve got three more JPGs where he is bowing down to the heads of each of Saudi Arabia, Japan, and France.But, apparently heavily due to the MSM, he got into office. Just why, and how, the MSM did that I don’t know. But, I now, essentially refuse to pay attention to the MSM.

.You look at this picture and you honestly wonder —where is this guy’s mind? It is particularly jarring given the stage prop behind him.JLM.

> You live in a rural or city dwelling?Rural.Low TDS and RO are fine with me, for when my startup makes more progress.For now, it’s clear that my well water is saturated with calcium carbonate with little or no iron or manganese.Mostly I drink distilled water or diet soda and not the well water. Yes, my ice for the soda pop comes from the well water. The only serious issue I have left with the well water is the hot water coil, and I covered how I handle that, about once a quarter, not a biggie.

This time I can make it shorter than you did: You’re talking about wealth creation, e.g., jobs. BHO, the chosen one, blessed be he, is talking about wealth ‘redistribution’. Proof: Remember what he said early in his first run for POTUS: “Spread the wealth around.”.You’re talking about the country. You seem to want the POTUS to be interested in the country. Maybe as if he were a patriot of the country. Okay, since we need to understand and don’t like to remember ugly things, I attach Exhibit 1:Is the situation more clear now?

You live in a rural or city dwelling? yep RO is a good thing, even if you have potable city water. if you did a TDS analysis on the water, you’ll find it’s full of minerals. Some people like their water with a low TDS.

Hardness? My well water is saturated with calcium carbonate. To ‘soften’ it, the usual way is to wash some resins in sodium chloride, and then the hard water has sodium carbonate instead of calcium carbonate. Sodium carbonate works better with soap and doesn’t leave scale but adds sodium to your diet and is murder on the copper pipes and their soldered joints. So, I just leave the calcium carbonate.Once we had iron in the water, but there was a simple little system based on potassium permanganate that got rid of the iron. We bought the potassium permanganate about a gallon at a time. My understanding is that can make some big bang fireworks with potassium permanganate, but I want to keep all my fingers and eyes and never tried.In my house now, if I want to keep down the calcium I ingest, I just buy distilled water, about $0.77 a gallon, likely cheaper than I can make it with a table top electric distiller. Yes, later I could be talked into a reverse osmosis system.Yes, the calcium carbonate makes scale in the hot water pipes, at least where the water gets heated. Why? Because calcium carbonate has the strange property that it is more soluble in cold water than in hot water so that a cold, saturated solution from the well, heated, will cause calcium carbonate (limestone) to precipitate out as ‘scale’. But my hot water coil is lined with Teflon, and the scale does not easily stick. So the Teflon occasionally releases some little flakes of scale which do occasionally clog the valves on the faucets. So, just turn the faucet off and back on, and the scale gets crushed and flows through — I never see it.Yes, eventually the hot water coil gets plugged up with scale. So, get out an electric drill, a good ‘drill pump’, some lengths of garden hose, and a bucket and play with the various valves and faucets have installed before and after the hot water coil, have a bucket with fresh water that the pump draws from and the return flows to, turn on the pump, get the water flowing through the coil, and then add to the bucket about 6 ounces of muriatic acid, that is, about 20% HCl, let the solution circulate, be ready for bubbles of CO2 (oh what ever am I doing to the pure, pristine, precious, delicate, sensitive, fragile, 100% all-natural environment — clearly we need a regulation that I capture and sequester the CO2 since gumment is far too small already!), dump the bucket into the back yard, put fresh water into the bucket, flush with the fresh water with some baking soda, restore the valves, flush the system into the kitchen sink, and have rapidly running hot water again! About once each three months. Not a biggie. Get the muriatic acid in a gallon jug at a hardware store. Get the baking soda in a big bag at Sam’s Club. So, let’s see:CaCO3 + 2HCL –> CaCl2 + CO2 + H20Ah, high school/college chemistry!Great! Keep the city water police OUT of my house!For a few months after 9/11, the stores were reluctant to sell muriatic acid and ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Wonder what they did about the potassium permanganate? Gee, let’s outlaw matches, knives, box cutters, can openers, volt meters, soldering irons, hack saws, etc. and just shut the country down. 🙁

> Makes no sense.Not all city water is from the muddy Mississippi.In NYC, apparently nearly all the water is from reservoirs north of the city. As I recall, basically the city just filters the water, adds some chlorine, and pumps it. Not a biggie. And, don’t want to run two distribution systems.I have a well, and I just get a filter, about 2″ in diameter, 1′ foot long, with a 1/2″ hole down the middle, some kind of foam or yarn wound, and with ratings by micron size. Work’s great. Not a biggie.

That is my point.