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September 12, 2014 11:42 PM UTC
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Fracking Literally Makes People Sick, New Study Finds
Anastasia Pantsios
A new study provided more ammunition for what public health experts and environmental activists have been saying since fracking became widespread in the last half decade: chemicals used in the natural gas drilling process can be hazardous to health.
The study “Proximity to Natural Gas Wells and Reported Health Status: Results of a Household Survey in Washington County, Pennsylvania,” published yesterday in Environmental Health Perspectives, found that people who live near fracking sites have more health problems than those who don’t.
The Yale-based research team that produced the study looked at families in southwestern Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale region who use ground-fed water wells. Surveying 492 individuals in 180 households, researchers found a significantly greater number of skin and respiratory problems among those who lived within one kilometer of a natural gas well than those who lived two kilometers away.
http://ecowatch.com/2014/09/11/fracking-pennsylvania-people-sick/
Obama – incompetence on steroids
Not only did Obama bungle a rescue attempt by dithering and not making a decision to move on intel until it was cold, it appears they tried to stop the family.
"Obama administration officials repeatedly threatened the family of murdered journalist James Foley that they might face criminal charges for supporting terrorism if they paid ransom to the ISIS killers who ultimately beheaded their son, his mother and brother said this week.
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She [Diane Foley, James Foley's mother] said the warnings over the summer came primarily from a highly decorated military officer serving on the White House’s National Security Council staff, which five outraged current and former officials with direct knowledge of the Foley case also recounted to ABC News in recent weeks."
http://abcnews.go.com/International/government-threatened-foley-family-ransom-payments-mother-slain/story?id=25453963
^^ Need a spreadsheet to track troll-turd-drop's position…Please Note: Today it SUPPORTS paying ransom to terrorists.
Exactly – remember all of AC's profound links against the Bergdahl exchange? Like the politicians he supports he is very proficient at lies and deception.
I believe 'proficient' is not the correct term. Prolific perhaps. Like an explosive BM is prolific.
Latest Dem Misstep-Landrieu in Louisiana taxpayer funded campaign flights
Republicans file a complaint with the FEC. Landrieu commissions her own investigations and reports $33,700 in campaign flights were charged to her Senate (taxpayer-funded) account. She was behind already and this is not going to help.
Walsh in Montana-plagarism; Braley in Iowa making fun of Iowa farmers; Begich in Alaska using a false Willie Horton ad, whatever happened to the Dem machine vetting candidates?
You have already lost 3 seats and it will only take 3 more to flip the Senate. Dems are behind in Arkansas and there is no margin or error for more self-inflicted wounds. Keep 'em coming.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/mary_landrieu_internal_investi.html
You seem to forget the gop cluster in Kansas, or that latest polls have Nunn leading in Georgia, or Grimes tied in Kentucky. Also don't forget Ernst in Iowa wanting to privitize SS and now look at the lost cause Con man cory is here. Sam Wang says it best : http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/democrats-seventy-per-cent-chance-retaining-control-senate
DC, Time to sober up.
Nunn up? Try down by 10.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2014/InsiderAdvantage_GA_0914.pdf
Grimes tied? Try down by 8.
http://newscms.nbcnews.com/sites/newscms/files/maristkentuckysept2014.pdf
Happy happy, joy joy.
Hey Dumbass, its not just looking at one singular poll. That's the whole point you WIF.
Dumbass, he said latest polls. Those are the latest polls.
My poll on Nunn is the same date as yours dumbass and it shows Nunn leading. So stick with your losing polls.
You really don't understand how it works, huh? You REALLY are that effing stupid. I am no longer sure of the 'willfully' part.
Jimmy Carter's grandson looking good in the governor race as well.
Depends on which poll you use you worthless troll. How come you don't have the guts to talk about the gop cluster in Kansas? http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/12/1329392/-GA-Sen-Gov-Landmark-Polling-Has-Nunn-D-Leading-Perdue-R-46-43-Carter-D-Leads-Deal-R-47-44
You mean the state where the Dem candidate was doing so poorly that he tried to drop out?
Where the "independant" candidate said if elected he will caucus with the majority which would be the Republicans?
That state?
The state where the gop governor, senator and secretary of state will lose to two Democrats and an independent, who will caucus with the Dems since they will not lose the majority. Get your facts straight before posting fool.
Again worthless troll depends on the poll : http://www.kentucky.com/2014/09/10/3422668/as-public-polls-show-mcconnell.html Weren't you also the fool that proclaimed a trend for gardner when that ONE poll showed him leading? Now Udall is expanding his lead in the latest polls – what happened to your trend FOOL.
…and on to the next bunch of bullshit, after the last one and the one prior and the one before that…etc. etc. etc. were eviscerated, because if you have no self-respect or integrity, that's what a troll-turd-droplet does.
ESAD, love,
-Twitty
Wang vs everyone else. I will go with everyone else.
No one cares what you think.
He is still waiting for that romney landslide.
Wang is the only one who got all the Senate races correct in 2010 and 2012.
You'll all get crickets from Piss Ant Which should be seen as a blessing. Piss Ant is a waste of space. I plan to resist replying to him by not reading his posts anymore. Please note this is a reply to denverco. Why should we bother, denverco? His rightie bros agree with him and he's not convincing anyone else so screw him. Let him talk to the hand as they used to say way back in the earlier 2000s.
Good points.
I know it's hard!
Begich using a “false Willie Horton” ad? So when a dirt bag like Lee Atwater does it, it’s elevated debate? When a Dem does it, it’s sleaze and desperation? I would think you folks would be flattered. Imitation is the sincerest form….
$500
Rs do not win a Senate majority.
neutral 3rd part on this site holds the wager.
The 'home' page shows there are only two comments in the open thread, and refuses to let me log on if I click the normal log on link. If I click the log on link, ignoring that it did not allow me to log on, and then click the number '2' indicating there are only two comments, I log onto the open thread, can comment, and can read there are 12 comments, presumably now 13 with this one.
Thanks for reporting this, it could be related to the caching engine recently installed by our tech people. We are alerting them now. The way this works, if we're relaying this correctly is readers who are not logged in see a cached static page–which is supposed to be updated to within a few seconds at all times. The lag you report indicates a problem.
One trick we have found if the login prompt is glitchy is to simply hit refresh after your apparent failed login. This often fixes the glitch and leaves you properly logged in. This remains on our list of glitches for the tech help to address as well.
Now it's late morning. The recent comments is fine. Log in is fine. Still get blank screen with no message or thinking when I try to go to "My Comments". Just an FYI update.
my "my comments" comments are fine. (Sorry for the Colbert logic.)
BC: I suspect you have so many comments that the search and/or display hangs.
Didn't have that problem before. Wonder if Davie still has it?
Yup — comments appear to be gone. Blank page and no indication that it is hanging while attempting to load 🙁
This is happening, but apparently not to everyone. We are investigating. The My Comments page was one of several hand-coded workarounds from the Soapblox conversion team that, sorry to say, may not have been done that well. But we'll get it fixed ASAP.
Both BC and I got the "Account suspended" message that Sunday. That might be a clue…
I got that, too, on Sunday. "comments" viewability is inconsistent – Sometimes I can see the latest ones, sometimes not.
Reloading or clicking on "home" on the site menu doesn't always work, either to load latest comments.
In other news, I discovered that I can access diary- making at coloradopols from wordpress directly, and I get more category choices per diary.
Makes this nerd's heart go pit a pat.
Actually I don't think I got "account suspended". I just couldn't get on.
Mine's okay. Just reporting in.
"My Comments" are still white as the driven snow . . .
For me "recent comments" functioning just fine. Still drawing a blank on "my comments".
Hear that from Davie and Colpols, Zap? It's not just a problem unique to me and my big mouth.
Another day with nothing but blinding white when I try to check "My Comments".
Site's less glitchy than a couple of days ago.
Somebody wanted to know reactions to BWB and ConMan hanging out with Ready:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chris-murphy-cory-gardner-sandy-hook-truther-event
AC can still stand up and defend their right to stay stupid.
Still no disavowals from Gardner and BWB that I've seen so that's a tacit statement that they're OK with Ready in spite of his toxic tinfoil hat views or consider them to be no big deal. No disavowals from Piss Ant or Modster either.
Even a Denver Post editorial, with the editorial page editor being the conservative Vincent Carroll (probably considered a RINO by GOTPers since he's not batshit crazy) called his view "warped", quotes Ready as saying that there is "still a question about whether it really happened" and called for voters not to vote for Ready, whether or not they feel they can support Pace, because "someone who entertains such disturbing notions has no place in a position of authority".
Note that Plunkett isn't listed on the the editorial board. He's the political news editor and I believe this still hasn't appeared as news. Wonder why?
The bottom line is that you get more objective views from the editorial page editor than from the political news editor……..
New glitch. Had a little trouble with front page log in but easy to get around. Now the only way I can open a diary thread is by clicking on a recent comment on that thread. Can't open a diary by clicking anywhere on it. It's like glitch whack-a-mole these days. Or Forrest Gump's box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.
I can't tell what comments are new.
They show up as flesh tone against a white background for old comments for me. Not for you?
Today they do. Yesterday they didn't.
This is just priceless. Couldn't resist a light change of subject. Remember Sanford? Well he's still keeping it classy. You have to wonder how he ever got any woman to like him in the first place. Former wife and former mistress would probably both like to see him hit that Appalachian trail for real and get lost for good.
And the GOP ladies are probably rolling their eyes and saying "isn't that just like a man", and continue to vote for him.
Not that you'd know from any American media coverage, including our all football all the time Post sports page, but it's been a great FIBA Worldcup Basketball Championship. We just won the gold medal and the talking heads can't say enough about Denver's own Kenneth Faried. It was supposed to be between us and Spain with the rest of the world playing for bronze but underdog France, without Tony Parker, upset Spain and went on to win the bronze against Lithuania.
France's win shut Spain out of medal contention altogether. Serbia, after getting totally creamed by a USA team pretty much devoid of the very biggest stars, took the silver. Our guys played like a real team, not a collection of individuals looking for personal stats, and everybody gave lots of the credit for that to the Manimal for his infectious, play hard every second energy and for bringing the team together. For any progressives out there who don't know WTF I'm talking about, he's also a very nice young man who loves his two moms and came out early in support of equal marriage rights. So he should be your kind of guy even aside from basketball.
FIBA is great fun because the periods are a little shorter, it goes fast with hardly any prima donna dramatics but is extremely high level. Almost every team has familiar faces because so manyof our international NBA players play for their home countries so there are faves to root for in every game, not just the ones the USA is in. Also it comes just in time to rescue me from going completely bonkers with withdrawal after the long months of no basketball.
I loved it that France took bronze because I love Boris Diaw and it was nice to see recently traded away young French Nugget Evan Fournier doing well and getting a medal. But I'm completely disgusted with the lack of coverage. Especially with the Rockies in the toilet, you'd think they could spare a little space for the US FIBA team. If for nothing else, just to have something good to write about. Try it next time. There used to be a few NBA fans hanging out here. Hope there still are one or two.
Somebody explain the American public to me. The GOP has a disapproval rating much higher than Obama's or Dems yet Rs and Dems are running neck and neck in generic congressional choice polls and Dems will be lucky to hang to the Senate. It's like people aren't listening to themselves. But then these are the same people who poll in favor of what's in ACA but poll against ACA anyway. The same people who poll for expanded background checks but vote to oust the people who passed it. Go figure.
I dunno, BC. I think it might be easier to explain "string theory", which is quite beyond my ken..
BC, it's a testament to the effectiveness, yet ultimate futility, of right wing talking points. Recently, I keep running into people who hate "The Common Core" educational standards, but like the rationale behind Common Core.
Common Core happens to be the latest Fox News/Drudge Report/ Crazy Uncle liberal boogeyman. You can pretty much get a standing ovation in any conservative audience by snarling, "We must never allow the Common Core in our schools!"
Yet very few of the snarlers have ever actually read a Common Core (CC) educational standard, much less every standard for every grade level. What they hate is
a) the Federal component of it – that states adopting CC are agreeing to a national standard that each state measures up to,
b) the high stakes testing aspect, which is IMHO, legitimate – high common standards are OK, closing high poverty schools for not meeting them is not.
c) the content- "sciency" proven empirical science, not religiously-based dogma, history from viewpoints other than the "winners", writing which demands evidence instead of lazy assertions, etc.
d) I'd have to say that the rollout of CC has been insensitive – some of the math involves new methods of basic arithmetic and computation, which are supposed to be easier to retain for people who have trouble with arithmetic. Folks resist change, especially change imposed on them.
So anyway, conservatives hate "Common Core" with a passion, can't name any specific component of it (except maybe the arithmetic), but like all of the other individual aspects of it : evidence based outcomes so that graduates are prepared for college and career, competitiveness with foreign curricula, etc.
Usually, the mantra of "Local Control! No Common Core" means that the school wants to have none of the changes I've outlined above. Yet they would like graduates to be prepared, and would like to be competitive with foreign students. They just have no idea how to get there, and are deeply suspicious of educational experts who do claim to know.