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October 01, 2014 06:22 AM UTC

Wednesday Open Thread

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"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."

–Rebecca West

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  2.  

    An interesting read…

     

    Exxon fracking report responds to shareholders

    Associated Press

    By JONATHAN FAHEY 13 hours ago

     

    Exxon Mobil issued a report Tuesday that acknowledges the environmental risks of hydraulic fracturing but also defends the practice as being better for the environment than other types of energy production and generation.

     

    This is my favorite comment in the article….

    The report also cites studies from the National Energy Technology Laboratory that show water use from unconventional drilling in a favorable light. In one study, oil and gas development was shown to use less water than agriculture.

    I am not sure this is relevant, as I believe (someone correct me if I am wrong) EVERYTHING uses less water than agriculture…

    sheesh…

  3. Wendy Davis nails Abbot in the Texas Gov. debate.

    Love this line regarding education spending, but it can apply to almost anything: 

    "You cannot accomplish that goal without making the appropriate investment."

    Could even be used by Udall if he were running for something rather than against Gardner. Maybe some pride in the family name will kick in after Nov……..

    1. She was great on the ACA expansion, marriage equality, and reproductive freedom as well.  She could be a more dynamic speaker, but well delivered overall.

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    Frac Sand Rush Threatens American Towns, Advocates Warn

     

    Victoria Trinko hasn't opened the windows of her Wisconsin home in two years — for fear of the dust clouds billowing from a frac sand mine a half-mile away.

    "This blowing of silica sand has not abated since the inception of the mine in 2011," Trinko, a farmer and the town clerk for Cooks Valley, Wisconsin, said during a media call on Thursday highlighting an industry proliferating alongside horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Frac sand is an essential ingredient in the process of natural gas drilling.

     

    It isn't just those who live next to oil and gas wells that are paying a price for the profits of Charlie and Dave, Exxon/Mobil and the rest of the Oily Boys..

    The industry is concentrated in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Rising demand, however, threatens to expand frac sand mining into New York, Massachusetts and 10 other states, according to a report released Thursday by the Civil Society Institute's Boston Action Research, a human rights advocacy group, in partnership with the nonprofit Environmental Working Group and other environmental health advocates.

    On top of the burgeoning rush for natural gas, the appetite for frac sand has been inflated by the recent discovery that using more sand per well increases fracking yields. An energy consulting firm estimated that fracking companies will blast nearly 95 billion pounds of frac sand into wells this year — an increase of almost 30 percent over last year, exceeding predictions. The number of frac mines have more than doubled in the last decade, with Wisconsin and Minnesota now hosting a total of 164 active facilities, according to the advocacy report.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/30/frac-sand-mining-boom-risks_n_5902022.html?

     

  5. Charlie Pierce has a very biting but nonetheless spot-on piece in Esquire:

    The great failing of the Democratic party over the past three-and-a-half decades has been the party's failure to take political advantage of the obvious prion disease that has afflicted the Republican party since it first ate all the monkey-brains in the mid-1970's.

    1. Amen. Saw that article too. It's because they can't get over being more scared of being called pinkos than anything or anyone else on the planet.  It's so 1980s. Like linebacker shoulder pads on skinny women in power suits. With big hair.

    1. Yeah, it was absolutely chilling that dangerous, armed  people were allowed to get so close to our President and his family. Incompetence has no gender.

      I just hope there  isn't really some wider conspiracy underway to bring about Obama's assassination  by neglecting security protocols.

    2. This particular woman's answers were just awful. She conveyed zero awareness of there even being a serious problem and zero zeal in dedicating herself to doing anything much about it.  Her performance was pathetic. I think congress members, including women , were appalled by her responses as an individual, regardless of gender. Knowing nothing else about her but the way she presented herself in these hearings it's hard to imagine how she ever got promoted to such a senior position in the first place. If she's indicative of the present culture of the secret service, which seem to be  in the news for one negative reason after another these days, then maybe they need to dismantle the whole damn thing and start over.

    2. You know they actually could have found some real black, or tattooed (lots) or maybe even Prius driving (must be a few) Republicans, just like they could find actual Colorado peaks for their Colorado candidates' lit. Colorado is certainly not short of peaks. It just doesn't seem to occur to them that there is any particular value in being authentic in anything. It's like they spread so much bull so routinely it's their natural default.

  10. The Denver Post put out an editorial endorsing Irv Halter over Stillborn.  They cite his most recent brain fart re:  mass military resignations as the last straw.   

    1. Plunkett in on the "news" side.  Vincent Carroll is on the Editorial side.  Looks like Carroll has finally realized how far today's GOP has fallen.

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