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Fracking and earthquakes in Oklahoma…lawsuits and liability will probably do more to curtail "unconventional drilling" than protests and regulation.
The science is pretty solid that there is a relationship between fracking and earthquakes. It stands to reason that shooting sand and fluids at high pressures into deep cracks under the earth. The linked article mentions the series of earthquakes felt in the Denver area from 1961 to 1963, after the Rocky Mtn Arsenal tried disposing of its waste in the same way.
Colorado is geologically pretty stable, at least on a humanly perceivable time scale. What wants to move, has pretty much moved. But if you start deliberately trying to cause instability, it seems possible to do so.
I have great faith in the power of the legal system, plus the economics of lower oil prices, becoming powerful forces against hydraulic fracturing.
Now if we can just keep them away from the super volcano under Yellowstone Park….
The fact that the vast majority of the fracked wells are operating at a loss unless oil hits $100 a barrel again will curtail fracking more than anything else. Good ol' Saudis trying to hold on to their monopoly and thus driving the frackers out of the business.
I'm sure, somehow, some way, it's Obama's fault.
I blame the Supreme Court for taking God out of our schools. The birch is getting even.
I blame the Supreme Court for taking God out of our schools. The bitch is getting even.
Yeah, because he's the one kissing up to the Saudis. Or was that Bush II? Now they're wanting to run Bush III because the US isn't quite completely destroyed. Oy.
We were unable to keep them away from the Rulison nuclear blast zone, but that was at a time when natural gas prices were high. It mostly depends on who is doing the drilling and how much money is at stake…
Right now there isn't much pressure from the "drill, baby, drill" crowd, but as the Koch brothers continue to fill the Senate (and every other legislative body in the country) with their hand-picked acolytes, there will be ever more relaxing of protections and safeguards for humans on the surface of planet earth.
Charlie and Dave are hell bent on changing the world to a genuine paradise for those with millions of dollars and a living hell for the rest of us. Human needs and well being are unimportant to Charlie and Dave (except, of course, themselves and their families and friends). Similarly, the mouthpieces and water carriers they have trained and placed in our government (Cory Gardner is a perfect example), have a similar disdain for the "rest of us".
There is one important truth we must expose to the American people….
To be a Republican leader in this day and age is to be corrupt, dishonest, and uncaring about the lives of your fellow man. Those are now minimum requirements for Republican candidates…
Unfortunately that's not an exaggeration.
Another republican governor expands medicaid under Obamacare ww.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/27/indiana-medicaid-expansion_n_6555414.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/27/indiana-medicaid-expansion_n_6555414.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
better link
Eggsellent.
I visited Senator Bennet's office in Alamosa yesterday and was told if we want our voices to be heard, we need to call or e-mail the Senator's office (offices?) with our messages.
Per the conversation, if the Senator hears, for example, mostly 'pro-KXL' verbage, he's going to vote that way. However, if our anti-KXL calls outnumber the pro-KXL calls, then he won't support KXL.*
[*IMO, there are two chances of that – slim and none. 🙁 ]
Contact info: Alamosa – 719-587-0096; Washington, D.C. – 202-224-5852
(I couldn't find an e-mail link, so here's his webpage:
http://www.bennet.senate.gov
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I also left a hand-written note for Congressman Tipton (his rep wasn't in the office) saying – among other things – he was not for the middle- and lower-class people.
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In one of my college classes the professor asked, "What would a reasonable person do?"
'Nuff said…for now.
Would hope the office could have passed along your message. That's kinda why they're their, no? But the bigger question is whose voices does Bennet really hear – us schmucks who live out in the sticks and have no $8,000 checks written up or those fancy ppl in their Guccis and Armanis that come knocking every day?
One Armani is worth several thousand e-mails at today's corporatist exchange rates . . .
Zappatero: I trust the lady in the office, but whether the Senator actually listens to his constituents, I don't have a lot of hope for that. 🙁
(What I could do with an $8K check…or several of 'em!)
Zappatero
Proof that Conservative Billionaires can be just as dumass and any of us:
First, Rubio will never be president of anything and probably should've stayed a City Councilman in Miami.
Second, was Cory there?
Third to Tea Partiers: That's the Ritz-Carlton in Rancho Mirage in Cali on Frank Sinatra Drive – that's 10x more elitist than you can imagine and you're following these guys in the voting booth?
of course Cory was there and Pols reported it……….
Presidential Clown Car occupant and Conservative Leader Ben Carson says judges who don't rule as you like should be impeached. If that doesn't say "democracy!" I don't know what does.
Ben Carson also says he'd oppose ACA even if it works. No friend of democracy. No friend of middle and lower income Americans.
American Academy of Pediatrics Shifts Position on Marijuana
In 2012 Coloradans, by an overwhelming margin, voted to be the 'tip of the spear' in ending Prohibition; today, our leadership is making significant contributions to the lives of ordinary Americans facing extraordinary challenges. Being the first unit of government in the world to legalize cannabis has been no ordinary undertaking; the legal challenges are nearly as daunting as the human ignorance about this plant. It has taken an incredible dose of grit at all levels; if this was easy someone else would have done it long ago.
The 'Great Social Experiment' isn't ENDING Prohibition, the 'Great (failed) Social Experiment WAS Prohibition; a colossal failure under any metric for which it could be measured.
It's long past time to #endthisfaileddrugwar. If you're looking for examples of failed 'American exceptionalism' you'd have to look no further than this trillion-dollar blunder; the mass incarceration of young men of color, "The New Jim Crow", the unbridled seizure of property by law enforcement under the 'Equitable Sharing Program' or the proliferation of Mexican cartels.
Conversely, we are surrounded by inspiring examples of 'American exceptionalism': people in this industry that can now operate outside of the shadows of society; catalysts that are forcing a national conversation. Colorado abounds with these special souls who are 'making a difference'…you know who you are; you're what authentic leadership looks like.
"Illegitimis non carborundum"
Eighteen Congressmen (including Congressman Polis) ask the White House to administratively delist cannabis from Schedule |.
Michael: thanks for the "inspiration." Right now, listening to the late 1960s song, "Acapulco Gold," by the long gone Denver band The Rainy Daze. C.H.B.
I believe that Congress must act in order to delist Cannibis from Schedule I – it's part of past Congressional action.
That's part of the argument made in the letter by the Congressman to the White House: this is something the President and the AG have the power to do without Congress. (although, it would be subject to reversal in future administrations if done this way).
A huge win for Hawaii today, thanks almost exclusively to the tenacity of David's mom, State Representative Cynthia Thielen. After months of fighting with the local DEA office, the permit to import industrial hemp seeds to the University of Hawaii for research purposes – as made lawful with the passage of the 2014 Farm Bill (thank you, Congressman Polis) – was made official.
Now, I'd like you all to take a good look at the header to the permit: it calls out this authorization as an import license of a dangerous drug. If there is any one thing today we could point to as an indicator of a broken government, it's the scheduling of cannabis on Schedule 1 of the CSA. We, the most powerful nation on Earth, can, with a straight face. call industrial hemp a dangerous drug? It's time to fix this decades-old idiocy. Stat. (and for a real chuckle, I attached this picture to a Tweet earlier today and Twitter promptly scrubbed the picture from the tweet).
Good on you, Michael, Rep. Thielen, and the University of Hawaii! We've seen how a saner cannabis policy in Colorado has created jobs, and lowered crime and incarceration rates, and how legalization across the country is starving the Mexican drug cartels. One would think that making it harder for gangsters to do business would be a no-brainer.
Opening a space for more hemp research has to be a good thing.
We're winning the war but we're far from the top of the hill. I had the opportunity to see the back-and-forth emails between the DEA and UH in this process. You could have concluded we were attempting to export enriched uranium to a hostile, foreign government – not trying to import a small sack of harmless seed for a benign plant given to us by Mother Nature.
The Chinese have a proverb, "The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” We are a long way from 'enlightened' in this utterly failed, 'War on Drugs'…it's becoming utterly laughable as far as cannabis is concerned.
I saw this and thought of you, Mike and all the great work you're doing to change this stupid classification of cannabis and hemp.
a new low for the gop https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10952411_909370065763044_7531188841085653002_n.jpg?oh=99a6ae3dde069b4487eb8a19d27e2fad&oe=556A67A6&__gda__=1432081868_99f60d7ac438b08eaa8f76db74ca4411
Once more, the GOP mask slips…
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tracy-pyles-virginia-black-reporter-boy
Open mouth, insert paw, chew.
Gabby Hayes lives!
That's a bad comparison (Gabby Hayes). When the bad guys showed up, Gabby always could shoot straight.
In the South that has a very clear & demeaning intent. In Hawaii however it's commonly used in a positive manner. Very common statement is "local boy made good" which among other places I saw at the entrance to a museum exhibit about General Shinseiki. And over here my daughters, in their 20s and 30s, refer to their male friends as boys – although in that case it may be reflecting the immaturity they see in them 🙂
Songify SOTU, because…..