State Sen. Anthony D. Galluccio has failed random alcohol tests - blaming his toothpaste - while on home confinement less than a week after pleading guilty to a hit-and-run crash in Cambridge.
A judge could rule as early as tomorrow if the Cambridge Democrat should be sent to jail for violating terms of his sentencing.
Galluccio pleaded guilty Friday to an Oct. 4 hit-and-run accident that injured two people, including a 13-year-old boy.
He vowed to stay off booze, but the Herald has learned he failed random alcohol tests given at his home.
Galluccio admitted today in a statement he failed Breathalyzer tests blowing "low level positive reads over the course of an hour."
He blamed the positive readings on his choice of toothpaste.
"After discussing it with a physician, we have determined that is the result of my using two toothpastes - Colgate Total Whitening and Sensodyne Toothpaste, both of which contain sorbitol," Galluccio added. "While I knew that mouthwash or cold medicine would set the machine off, it did not occur to me that toothpaste would."
Bloody nonsense. Sorbitol is a humectant, in other words it keeps the toothpaste from drying out by holding onto the water in the toothpaste formula. Sorbitol is used in children's toothpastes as well as adult toothpastes, and the FDA would never permit anything mind-altering to be added to an over-the-counter product for children. Now if it were mouthwash, that would be another story -- many are quite high in alcohol, and are a favourite of closet alcoholics. I'm quite, quite certain Mr. Galluccio's physician does not have the training to have an opinion on the matter -- he would have been better off calling the 800-number to find the answer... or asking a convenient pharmacist. As the pharmacists like to say, "Doctors know diseases; pharmacists know medicines."
I'd bet big money the Colgate-Palmolive and Sensodyne companies will have statements out no later than Boxing Day explaining there is no risk of alcohol absorption from their products. Perhaps to be followed by a similar statement from the FDA in due course. This is exactly the kind of thing they have in-house lawyers and science staffs to handle.
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State Sen. Anthony D. Galluccio
Favorite toothpaste: Colgate Total Whitening and Sensodyne Toothpaste
Favorite Mouthwash: The Glenlivet 12 Year Single Malt Scotch Whisky 750ml bottle.
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There is a persistent urban legend that certain mints and candies can make someone test positive on a breathalyzer because of the "sugar alcohols" (like sorbitol) in the products. There is absolutely no proof that any of them can make your BAC reading higher no matter how much you consume.*
All his attorney is doing is giving this BS a novel twist. If he or she can convince one scientifically illiterate and gullible person (either a judge or a juror), Mr G walks.
* - Scarfing down large quantities, though, could give you the runs. While that is disgusting, that also would not affect a breathalyzer.....
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Sorbitol has been used in toothpastes and many other products as a humectant for at least thirty years that I'm aware of, and no doubt many more than that. Were there an issue with it causing false readings on breathalyzer tests, the evidence would have shown up long ago, ie an awful lot of upright citizens would be walking around drunk... which would be hard to miss.
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Ummm, what toothpaste, my toothpaste comes intermixed with Scope mouthwash, and yes it's alcoholic, I've heard of (Desperate) alcoholics drinking Scope when Booze isn't available.
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Don't forget Geritol. Or Vitameatavegamin.
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My solution... Gumitol! PULL ALL OF HIS TEETH in one extended setting without benefit of anesthesia!
As someone that had to get dentures, and had 15 teeth extracted at on go during my final extraction and fitting, it ain't no fun even with anesthesia.
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what toothpaste, my toothpaste comes intermixed with Scope mouthwash,
I'm quite certain the manufacturer didn't add enough Scope to trigger a breathalyzer, Redneck Jim. Had they added that much, the extra fluid would have overloaded the binders, causing the paste to glop out of the tube instead of forming a nice round ribbon on your toothbrush. The manufacturer would never send out a toothpaste that misbehaved, and the FDA would never allow an alcohol level high enough to be detectable on the breath following brushing. I spent an interesting couple of years dealing with all that, in a previous stage of life.
Jimmy Carter: Hey, Now That My Grandson is Running for Congress in a Distirct That Has a Relatively Large Jewish Population, I Just Wanted To Say Sorry for All the Reflexive Anti-Semitism and Jew-Baiting I've Done for the Past 60 Years
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Question the source. When was the last time Jimmuh Kahtuh told the truth?
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I feel so much better about him now that he has issued such a sincere apology. In the same vein, I would be honored to recite the Mourner's Kaddish for him when the day comes.
But there's one common Christmas practice not on the First Family's schedule: a visit to Christmas Eve church services. Church, in fact, has been a surprisingly tough issue for the Obamas. They resigned their membership with Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in 2008 after Obama renounced the church's controversial former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. And while the First Family intended to find a local church to attend when they moved to Washington, concerns about crowds and displacing regular worshippers has prevented them from finding a new religious home during their first year here.
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From the article:
The longer that debate drags, the further Obama drops in the polls, which is why this move only makes sense if the White House sees weeks more futility in the health-care overhaul debate. Even liberal commentators like the Seattle Times editorial board want Democrats to shelve ObamaCare and start paying attention to the fact that unemployment has spun out of control on their watch. Deficits are even more wild, as Obamas OMB Director Peter Orszag was forced to acknowledge when he admitted that he had underestimated deficits over the next ten years by 22%, or $2,200,000,000,000. <- Two trillion
At this rate, Zero's Zogby poll numbers will be 22% (as estimated by Augush) and the unemployment rate will be 14.7% not counting the discouraged workers who have dropped out of the job market.
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So you bust your ass to get it passed by Christmas and the Lord Protector can't get around to it until February? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....Stop you're killing me!
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This regime is atrocious. One of the things that has me concerned are the number of off-hand comments in various places that broach the subject of revolution.
Note: these are not fanatical militia types or anything other than normal people that mention in passing that the behavior of the Zero claque is such that revolution is not totally out of the picture. This is said in such an off-hand manner..............................
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I think that's it. I also think they believe that they can turn the PR situation around given some time.
Get past Christmas and the Super Bowl, they're thinking.
Get Bambi to do a real stemwinder at the State of the Union, they're thinking.
Let winter settle in and diminish the response of the Tea Party types, they're thinking.
Let fatigue set in amongst the protesters, they're thinking.
Let the whole thing look like a fait accompli, they're thinking.
Get Rahm in there to twist some recalcitrant arms and to shut Stupak up. Come up with some more weasel words on the abortion issue. Bribe a few representatives with public money -- if Senators can cash in, why not Congresscritters?
Distract the rubes with a new stimulus plan. Maybe get a terrorist trial going. Climate change didn't work and cap-n-tax is a no-go but they can come up with something else.
I bet that's Axelrod's plan.
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There will be an election for a new Senator in January. This health care thing must be messing up the prospects of the democrat.
A retired Florida couple would appear an unlikely source to have given $83,000 in campaign donations over a five-year period to members of Congress from all over the country.
Both in their 80s, they lived in a $118,000 Daytona Beach house they didn't own; they each voted only twice since 1992; and they seemed to lack the financial means to make the contributions.
Yet, both were listed as having given dozens of donations to lawmakers, nearly half of which went to members of the House Appropriations Committee - legislators who were especially important to their then-son-in-law, superlobbyist Paul Magliocchetti, who owned the house in which they lived.
Mr. Magliocchetti is now the focus of a federal investigation into whether he made illegal campaign contributions by reimbursing people, or "straw donors," who made contributions in their names to his favored candidates - helping the lobbyist avoid federal limits on his personal donations.
In addition to the elderly couple, The Washington Times has identified several other campaign contributors related to or associated with Mr. Magliocchetti who also do not appear to have had the financial means to make the donations listed in their names or who gave to candidates to whom they normally would not be expected to contribute.
Mr. Magliocchetti is a one-time congressional staffer who worked with Rep. John P. Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, on the powerful House Appropriations defense subcommittee in the 1980s. He built his company, the PMA Group, into one of the 10 top-grossing lobbying firms in Washington before it imploded after federal agents raided it and his home in November 2008.
The firm made more than $16.4 million in lobbying income in 2007, according to Senate records, and was the go-to lobbyist for contractors who wanted earmarks - especially from the defense appropriations subcommittee, which Mr. Murtha heads.
Earmarks are taxpayer funds that lawmakers specifically set aside for favored contractors and projects in annual spending bills. For 2008, PMA obtained $300 million in defense appropriations earmarks for its clients, according to an analysis by Congressional Quarterly and Taxpayers for Common Sense, a watchdog group.
A review by The Times of federal campaign-disclosure records shows that Mr. Magliocchetti returned the favor to his friends in Congress by serving as a major campaign donor and fundraiser.
As a group, Mr. Magliocchetti, his family, his employees and his business associates were among the largest donors to key members of the defense subcommittee - including Mr. Murtha and Democratic Reps. James P. Moran of Virginia and Peter J. Visclosky of Indiana, pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into their coffers. All three members have denied any wrongdoing.
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Michael Castle is a member of an endangered species in the U.S. Congress: He's a moderate Republican. He's also a key figure in next year's election.
Castle is running to fill the Senate seat for Delaware formerly held by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and his likely Democratic foe is Biden's son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden.
Castle, a member of the House of Representatives since 1993, is seen as among the Republicans' best bets to end the Democrats' 60-vote super-majority in the 100-member Senate.
Sixty votes lets Democrats pass legislation without Republican support in that chamber, including a landmark overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system.
"Castle's Senate race promises to be one of the most watched next year," said Jennifer Duffy of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. "The stakes are high on a number of levels."
The contest unfolds as conservative activists take on Republican moderates like Castle, fueling an internal ideological battle that has pushed the party farther to the right and made it tougher to find common ground with Democrats in Congress.
But these conservatives aren't expected to tangle much, if at all, with Castle in the November 2010 election.
That's because the popular nine-term lawmaker -- who as tiny Delaware's only U.S. representative is elected statewide -- and former two-term governor is seen as the only Republican able to beat Biden in the predominately Democratic state.
CONSERVATIVES 'YIELD TO THE WORLD AS IT IS'
"Folks on the right, and frankly I'm one of them in terms of voting record, have to yield to the world as it is and not necessarily how they wish it would be," said Senator John Cornyn, who as chairman of the Senate Republican campaign committee recruited Castle to run.
"The world as it is in Delaware is that if Mike Castle didn't run, Beau Biden would be the next senator from Delaware," said Cornyn.
Still, Castle said he expects to draw "some heat" from
conservative activists, like he did at town-hall meetings this year.
At one meeting, he was called a "traitor" for being one of eight House Republicans to back a Democratic bill to fight climate change.
At an another, he was booed for defending President Barack Obama against a conspiracy theory pushed by fringe groups that the Democratic president is not a U.S. citizen.
"There have been times that they have been less than happy with me," said Castle. "And they don't forget."
Castle said Republicans need to be less strident and more tolerant of different points of view if they expect to win back control of Congress and the White House.
"You can't be a majority party unless you are accommodating of that," Castle said. "Democrats have done a better job at that than we have."
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Well crap, the last thing we need in either the Senate or the House is another RINO (Republican in Name Only), just when we thought we got rid of Arlen Spector, this guys wants to torment us for six years.
While I pine anxiously for the mid term elections and the bloodbath that will occur, I do not look longingly toward seeing a bunch of sissies with no spine or principle running as Republicans. Crap, we need some ideological consistency here...as well as...some guts to vote for the general good instead of a bridge in every back yard (pork). Cap and trade will render millions of americans homeless and unemployed as the cost of energy will drive jobs to third world countries with cheap labor and cheap power. I have enough trouble paying the upside down mortgage on my house now because of the machinations of Barney Frank and Jamey Gorelick, without having to worry about my utility bills going up a 1000 percent.
Can we find a hard core, no cap and trade, no healthcare confiscation, fiscal conservative, who will run against this sissy in the primaries?
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Sure you could find a Tom Coburn look-alike to run for the seat, but he'd be sure to lose. This is Delaware we're talking about. If Castle turns out to be the 51st trunk, I'll think he's a good one, at least in voting for committee chairmanships.
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Good point, now if we can get him to vote the way we want.
As long as we can spike the left's cannons in the next election.
I think the big rush to get all of this legislation passed is because the Democrats know they are going to get clobbered in the next election and none of this stuff would get passed in 2011...
Any guarantee that a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats (why don't they just call themselves Republicans) can unravel the Stimulus (Porkulus) and the Healthcare reform if they get control of both houses?
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It was probably a whistleblower that released files from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA)? If so then the information is admissible in court and we will get greater detail on the greatest deception in history.
Phil Jones, former Director of the CRU knew the potential damage and legal implications of the file's content. Jones told the police the files were from CRU, and claimed a crime was committed. Ludicrously, he said the information had no value because it was criminally obtained.
Why an Insider?
Major clues suggest the leaks were from an insider. A few emails were sent to a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reporter Paul Hudson on October 12, weeks before full release. This indicates someone trying to draw attention, but Hudson did nothing. He knew of the wrath and reach of Michael Mann. As a CRU member noted on October 26 2003, Anyway, there's going to be a lot of noise on this one, and knowing Mann's very thin skin I am afraid he will react strongly, unless he has learned (as I hope he has) from the past...." He didn't as his later reactions showed.
An October 11 2009 email from Narasimha Rao to Stephen Schneider says, "You may be aware of this already. Paul Hudson, BBC's reporter on climate change, on Friday wrote that there's been no warming since 1998, and that pacific oscillations will force cooling for the next 20-30 years." Mann became aware and on the 12th wrote, "extremely disappointing to see something like this appear on BBC. Its (sic) particularly odd, since climate is usually Richard Black's beat at BBC (and he does a great job). From what I can tell, this guy was formerly a weather person at the Met Office. We may do something about this on RealClimate, but meanwhile it might be appropriate for the Met Office to have a say about this, I might ask Richard Black what's up here?" This is Mann at his nasty bullying best.
When Hudson did nothing the person(s) released the entire file to the world. Hudson's failure was disappointing because he had credibility as a BBC weather presenter and former Met Office employee. The Copenhagen conference was probably the concern because the files showed the scientific basis for climate policies was falsified.
Knowledge and Access to the University Computer System
Whoever released the files knew which were significant and had access to the UEA computer system.
Canadian network engineer Lance Levsen after detailed analysis showed convincingly the source was someone within the university. He concluded, "For the hacker to have collected all of this information s/he would have required extraordinary capabilities...to crack an Administrative file server to get to the emails and crack numerous workstations, desktops, and servers to get the documents."
Strong Candidate
There are several internal candidates including Keith Briffa. Emails show his conflicts within the group. On October 5th 2009 Wigley wrote to Jones, It is distressing to read that American Stinker item. But Keith does seem to have got himself into a mess. As I pointed out in emails, Yamal is insignificant.......I presume they went thru papers to see if Yamal was cited, a pretty foolproof method if you ask me. Perhaps these things can be explained clearly and concisely--but I am not sure Keith is able to do this as he is too close to the issue and probably quite pissed of (sic). I think Keith needs to be very, very careful in how he handles this. I'd be willing to check over anything he puts together. Jones forwarded the email to Briffa.
Briffa's dislike of Mann goes back a long way. On 17th June 2002 Briffa wrote to Dr Edward Cook about a letter involving Esper and Michael Mann, "I have just read this lettter - and I think it is crap. I am sick to death of Mann stating his reconstruction represents the tropical area just because it contains a few (poorly temperature representative) tropical series. He is just as capable of regressing these data again any other "target" series, such as the increasing trend of self-opinionated verbage (sic) he has produced over the last few years, and ... (better say no more)"Cook responds; "We both know the probable flaws in Mike's recon (reconstruction), particularly as it relates to the tropical stuff.... It is puzzling to me that a guy as bright as Mike would be so unwilling to evaluate his own work a bit more objectively."
On 22nd September 1999 Briffa again confronted Mann in a long email that included the comment, "I believe that the recent warmth was probably matched about 1000 years ago." Treasonous words for Mann's hockey stick paper that claimed no medieval warm period existed. Mann appeared to back off. He wrote, "Walked into this hornet's nest this morning! Keith and Phil have both raised some very good points." In reality he puts Briffa down again. "SO(sic) I think we're in the position to say/resolve somewhat more than, frankly, than Keith does, about the temperature history of the past millennium. And the issues I've spelled out all have to be dealt with in the chapter." One cynical comment from Mann says, "And I certainly don't want to abuse my lead authorship by advocating my own work." It's a classic example of Mann's dishonesty, because he abused it in the IPCC 2001 Science Report and Summary for Policy Makers.
Wigley didn't help. Here is the first part of a belittling email from Wigley to Briffa on 10 January 2006. Thanx for this. Interesting. However, I do not think your response is very good. Further, there are grammatical and text errors, and (shocking!!) you have spelled McKitrick wrong. This is a sure way to piss them off. Typical of Wigley's patronizing way of talking to wayward CRU members.
Conflict continued as Briffa expressed his concern. Mann made some overtures, but on April 29th 2007 Briffa responded, "I found myself questioning the whole process and being often frustrated at the formulaic way things had to be done--often wasting time and going down dead ends. I really thank you for taking the time to say these kind words. I tried hard to balance the needs of the science and the IPCC, which were not always the same." What damning commentary about what the CRU and the IPCC were doing?
Briffa may have worked with the Information Officer at the University who was under pressure for Freedom of Information (FOI) requests. In September we learned Briffa was ill. Did this give him time to think about what was happening? Maybe, but his treatment by Mann and the sinking ship was an impetus. Whatever the answer any reading of the emails show they were anything but normal correspondence between colleagues.
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I've heard elsewhere that Briffa was the leaker. Briffa may not be a very good scientist, but he does appear to be an honest scientist.
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Science is irrelevant, what's important is serving The Cause. The Cause requires global warming as a justification to impoverish the West and squander the money on third world dictators.
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The bigger issue is the arrogance of science and the arrogance of those who believe that man is all powerful and in control. The same logic that goes into denial of the existence of a higher power go into this nonsense that man can have a significant impact on the climate.
The climate change guys have blamed cow flatulence, dog poop and lawnmowers for global warming. Now we find out they have "queered" the numbers with some very questionable weighting of data and adding and subtracting of mean temperatures from the bottom and top of the scale.
Whether you believe in creation or evolution, the fact remains that the earth has gone through a number of cycles of warming and cooling over its history, many of them well before man was in significant numbers.
That volcano in the Philipines, when it blows, will spew more carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, particulates and crap into the atmosphere than every coal fire, automobile, lawnmower or cow fart since the history of man.
You can shut down every factory, every power plant and take every car off the road and ban fossil fuels and the climate will still change one way or another, up or down.
Everyone of the serious computer models that address climate change shows that the end result of a warming cycle is an ice age. You melt enough ice cap, the ocean currents (which are convection currents) will cease to work and the open oceans at the poles will pump huge quantities of water into the atmosphere, that combination, leads to a global cooling cycle and an ice age.
I think whoever did this should get ALL of the Nobel prizes...even literature and economics because the end result is that all of this climate change crap will be wars and famine and vast starvations of huge quantities of people...as well as the end of civilization as we know it because the industrialized state cannot sustain itself under the caps that these crazy treaties will impose, well not if you consider nuclear power...but wait isn't nuclear power off the table here in the US?
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So can we suggest that Al Gore's trinket be taken away and given to the whistleblower?
Energy: An oil company wants to invest its profits in clean-burning American natural gas. A Hungarian billionaire and a "green" politician want to stop it. This is the real Climate-gate scandal.
While the greenies of the world united in Copenhagen to talk about the weather, emitting a Third World-country-size chunk of greenhouse gases to gather there, the world's largest oil company, Exxon Mobil, was doing something about it.
On Dec. 14, Exxon agreed to buy XTO Energy, a natural gas firm, in a deal valued at $41 billion. XTO is one of the leaders in something called "fracking" technology, in which water, sand and additives are pumped into the ground to unlock trillions of feet of natural gas previously thought to be unobtainable.
This is what energy companies really do with their profits. They find more energy, then sell it to you.
While the technique is not new, the technology exploiting it is.
XTO has helped develop new technologies that let it drill a single well 9,000 feet and then bore horizontally through shale formations to unlock the natural gas trapped in the porous rock. The rock is fractured and the gas is pushed into accessible pockets whence it can be extracted with a minimal surface footprint.
Because of these new technologies, it is estimated that the U.S. sits on 83% more recoverable natural gas than was thought in 1990.
The Barnett Shale rock formations of Texas and Louisiana, the Bakken Shale formation in Montana and North Dakota, and the Marcellus Shale formation running through New York and Pennsylvania and other states may hold as much as 2,000 trillion cubic feet of this clean-burning, domestically produced fuel.
We are the Saudi Arabia of shale.
At current use, we have an estimated 90-year supply, if we are allowed to get at it.
Slam dunk? Hardly. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., one of the sponsors of the job- and economy-killing Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill and no fan of domestic energy, wants to hold hearings on the alleged environmental dangers of the new technology.
Soros owns a major stake in a company called InterOil, a company that has discovered a large natural gas field in Papua, New Guinea, with which American shale resources would compete.
Soros would rather have us import his liquefied natural gas than develop our own. His allies in the media, the environmental movement and the Democratic caucus are all too eager to exploit public fears to do it.
Roger Willis owns a hydraulic fracturing company in the Pennsylvania town of Meadville. He says thousands of frack jobs have been done in rock formations above and below the Marcellus Shale in New York state with no aquifer damage.
"This 60-year-old technique has been responsible for 7 billion barrels of oil and 600 trillion cubic feet of natural gas," according to Sen. James Inhofe, ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee. "In hydraulic fracturing's 60-year history, there has not been a single documented case of contamination."
Whether some are trying to hide the decline in global temperatures or the abundance of clean-burning domestic natural gas, it's a scandal. If we're serious about both carbon emissions and energy independence, let's stop this nonsense and get the fracking gas.
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has not been a single documented case of contamination."
I don't believe that statement. If it is actually true, then the truth lies in the 'documented' modifier - perhaps cases have been settled without admission of guilt somehow.
I do know we work very hard to avoid contamination, whether due to fracking or other processes, and I do know that contamination does sometimes happen anyway. Still, it's rare, and (especially with gas) not all that big a disaster.
(We had an underground blowout offshore of Mobile some years ago and charged a shallow sand (possibly connected with an aquifer) with a lot of natural gas; we then drilled a bunch of wells into that shallow sand and produced the gas before it could get to any water wells.)
The oil industry has been more forthcoming with information than either the EPA or the climate goons.
The goons essentially shut down a major oil field off Santa Barbara claiming oil spills, pointing at the blobs of tar washing up on Santa Barbara beaches...it worked. The stinker is that the local Native American tribes used tar to caulk their canoes HUNDREDS of years before drilling began, the tar is reduced oil that has seeped out of the fractured strata underwater (the oil is very very shallow and the rock is busted up because of EARTHQUAKES). We have methane leaking out of the ground in West LA and sidewalks catch on fire.
It is interesting that Yahoo reprinted an article about the ten cities with the best drinking water and four of them are in Texas and two of them are in areas with lots of drilling. They've been using Fracking, steam and high pressure water to wring oil out of the local chalk and limestone strata in west and central Texas for over sixty years...how can you have clean drinking water if this technique is a pollutant.
Some people just want to obstruct and bash. The Oil companies spend more money on exploration and technology as a percentage of their gross revenue than any industry out there...and their profits, in the eight percent range, are lower than you neighborhood mechanic.
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Soros is looking after self-interests (another way of saying bottom-feeder"). He had never had the best interests of the U.S. at heart.
As an aside what does "contamination" mean in this article? What are the implications?
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I think contamination, according to the environazis, means making a profit, living in a house rather than a cave, having in door plumbing and driving a car...how do they reconcile the supposed environmental damage that bovine and equine flatulence has on the ozone layer with their implied advocacy of "natural" means of transportation...won't that make the animal rights groups angry? Okay let's be vegans...but eating lentils and beans will make you very...uh...gassy...so what does humanoid flatulence do to the ozone layer.
See its a never ending shell game. Solve one environmental complaint and another group spins it in another direction...conflicting goals, standards and vision. Let's see, we can't use fossil fuels, but nuclear is off the table, we can't drive cars but we can't ride horseback since we are either exploiting Mr. Ed or he's damaging the ozone layer. If we eat meat we are barbarians, if we are vegans we die of protein depletion and malnutrition...and we damage the ozone layer. So we live in caves, since we can't cut down trees to build homes..makes the tree people angry...and since we live in caves, we can't go to Los Angeles or even to Pomona to work so we disintegrate into a bunch of cave dwelling hunter gatherers again...wait did you say "hunters"?
These clowns are communists, damage the system, destroy the system...start a big brother approach to government and then screw the environmentalists as "useful idiots".
I just love the left, they are so self righteous and so self satisfying. They ask us to make sacrifices to save the environment...so they can go to conferences and make a small group of their financiers rich. We wind up living in hovels and they go to Copenhagen and eat caviar...don't tell PETA where caviar comes from
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Nice digs. Where does a community organizer get this kind of money? What's the place in Chicago worth? Bill Ayers home doesn't appear too shabby either.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Michael Castle is a member of an endangered species in the U.S. Congress: He's a moderate Republican. He's also a key figure in next year's election.
It was probably a whistleblower that released files from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA)? If so then the information is admissible in court and we will get greater detail on the greatest deception in history.
