Two years ago the shale oil fracking industry was on top of the world.
Oil was expensive and the frackers were riding a decade-long boom. The United States have surpassed Saudi Arabia in oil production for the first time in half a century.
The only party-poopers were environmentalists, who complained about poisoned ground water and earthquakes, but no one was going to let them stand in the way of progress.
PREFACE
This is part 2 of my multi-part (lol) Series of Essay's on Climate Change. Again, this was originally published at TOS, but I have cut the up original, edited it and have changed some things a bit editorially (broadened vocabulary, less expletives). I'm just being upfront about it's "content" differences with the original at TOS.
I guess all portents indicated my first essay upon returning from a bout of sickness would concern some death. The Lady Chablis died. Alexis Arquette.
But we're left to believe those were from natural causes. Chablis died after a month in a hospital fighting pneumonia. Alexis was in a coma at Cedars Sinai for four days before passing while listening to David Bowie's Starman.
When Hillary Clinton spoke to the mega-donors (her preferred audience), she suggested dumping nearly 30 million people into a basket – undeniably a trash basket – due to their misfortunes, ignorance and vulnerabilities. So Donald Trump would deport 11 million and Hillary would put 30 million into a virtual trash can.
From POLITICO
"I've signed this subpoena. We want all the 302s....and you are hereby served," Chaffetz said.
"Since when did Congress have to go through FOIA to obtain 302s?" Gowdy asked.
Tourniquet says:
i'm probably
going to get a lot of hate for this.
but in what world are women a minority? at best, you're talking about portions of percentages per person. (woo, alliteration)
ed: there are .02% more men than women on the planet in countries with a population greater than 200k.
Today, I received an e-mail from MoveOn.org asking me to donate five dollars in order to fund a new commercial attacking Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The commercial would focus on the prospect of Trump getting his hands on America's nuclear weapons. As the e-mail stated:
Donald Trump's climbing in the polls.1 It's time to go nuclear. (In a way.)
MoveOn made an important discovery in the course of our intensive research this summer: A key bloc of swing voters appears to be most strongly persuaded to vote against Trump when confronted with the threat of his finger on the nuclear button.2
As part of this research effort, our Video Lab made an ad, ran the video online to show it to voters in swing states, and teamed up with researchers at the Analyst Institute to study its effectiveness—and the results blew us away.
In our controlled study, men over the age of 30 who watched our video about Trump's finger on the nuclear button were seven percentage points more likely to support Clinton over Trump, compared to those who didn't watch the ad.
Given his at times erratic behavior, concerns over Trump getting the bomb are understandable. However, the people at Move On failed to consider the issue of their own candidate getting the bomb, which is arguably concerning in its own right.
My Gut Reaction: Somehow, I don't think someone who threatens to annihilate Iran is a safe option for the presidency, either.
More below the fold...
All states have now decided the ballot status of the Green Party's Jill Stein for president of the United States.
Rhode Island, the last state to decide, will allow Stein on the ballot. This gives her direct access to 44 state ballots, plus Washington D.C. These account for access to 480 total electoral college votes. It takes 270 votes to win the presidency outright.
