Getting Fracked in PA

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Thursday March 01, 2012 · 8:04 AM PST

2012/03/01 · 08:04

It appears our PA DEP is doing its usual incompetent job. Of course incompetence is what is required and encouraged under the administration of Governor Corbett. The hydraulic fracturing (Fracking) in the mountains of Pennsylvania could possibly end up being one of the larger environmental disasters in Pennsylvania's history. And the Pennsylvania DEP is doing nothing to protect the environment. By their actions it appears that there job is actually to protect the perpetrators not the victims.

The DEP will do what it takes to make sure as much fracking is done as quickly as possible with the least amount of oversight possible. Including almost no review of drilling permits.

Pennsylvania environmental regulators say they spend as little as 35 minutes reviewing each of the thousands of applications for natural gas well permits they get each year from drillers who want to tap the state’s vast Marcellus Shale reserves.

And now including lying to residents who may have had their wells polluted by nearby drilling

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Should Fracking be

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Should Fracking be

banned

25 votes

allowed with limits with careful oversight

7 votes

allowed without limit with little oversight

0 votes

Renters vs Homeowners

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Sunday February 22, 2009 · 4:50 PM PST

2009/02/22 · 16:50

I've been seeing a lot of fur fly here over Obama's homeowner 'bailout'. It seems many of the people who rent their abodes are extraordinarily upset that the, obviously irresponsible people, who chose to buy their homes may be getting government help. Their thought seems to be; "Why should we help these homeowners with our tax money when they are the ones who caused this mess with continual buying of homes, which pushed the prices up, which meant I couldn't afford to buy a home. And now now you want to use my money to keep home prices up so I still won't be able to afford to buy a home. I want the prices to crash so I can buy a home and all of you, who bought during the bubble, or just in the wrong area, can suck on lemons cause now I wanna get mine."

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Thursday October 16, 2008 · 9:59 AM PDT

2008/10/16 · 09:59

"Joe the Plumber" liar or idiot?

Now I know many people will say I'm being harsh. Or that my title is being deliberately antagonistic. You ~~might be~~ are right. I am just so tired of the right-wing bullshit. And while the media might be willing to 'believe' that Joe Wurzelbacher is an undecided voter who just wants some information. It doesn't take much more than 30 seconds of information gathering to realize that is a crock.

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How do you deal with idiots like JtP

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How do you deal with idiots like JtP

I don't know I never met any.

17 votes

Pull out my hair.

17 votes

I used to pull out my hair until I ran out of it.

30 votes

Yell into my pillow when I get home.

39 votes

Make a donation to Obama or other progressive candidate.

172 votes

Did the above but now I'm broke because I live in Cental PA (Pennsabama)

13 votes

Why I think we need Edwards the #1,258,244th Edition

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Sunday December 30, 2007 · 3:50 AM PST

2007/12/30 · 03:50

First Let me say. I'm voting for the Democratic Party's
nominee. I don't care if its Obama, Clinton, Biden, Gravel, or
JarJar Binks. Any Democrat, at this point, is better than anyone in
the Republican field.

Second, I also think many people here need to take chill pill.
Your candidate is not Aslan here to beat the cold-hearted Republican witch and the other guys candidate isn't Darth Vader's even more evil cousin. I think the Democratic candidates are good people and almost anyone would make a good President.

So why am I writing this if I think Obama or Clinton would make a good President? If the great number of undecideds..alright stop your damn laughing...If the two undecided Kossacks, and any others interested, would like to follow me below I will tell you.

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How hard will we need to fight to get good healthcare, alternative energy, and global warming legislation passed?

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How hard will we need to fight to get good healthcare, alternative energy, and global warming legislation passed?

Not at all, it's practically done now.

0 votes

Maybe a little for show.

0 votes

Some, but in the end Republicans and corporations will care about something other than their greed.

0 votes

A great deal, but all the candidates are willing to fight. But no use preparing for a fight until its here.

1 vote

It is gonna be the 'Rumble in the Jungle' and if you are not preparing for it now you have already lost.

41 votes

Future Teacher's Career Ruined by "Drunken Pirate".

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Sunday April 29, 2007 · 3:09 PM PDT

2007/04/29 · 15:09

Four years of college, tens of thousands of dollars, and a large amount of hard work and determination were ruined by these two words, "drunken pirate".

Stacy Snyder was a 25-year-old mother of two trying to make a better life for herself and her children by becoming a teacher. She was studying at Millersville University, a state university in Pennsylvania, when she posted a picture of herself, on her MySpace page, at a Halloween party drinking from a Mr. Goodbar cup while wearing a pirate hat. The caption underneath the picture said "Drunken pirate". The day before she was to graduate Stacy was told she would not receive her degree in education or receive her teaching certificate because of this caption.

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What else should prevent someone from teaching?

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What else should prevent someone from teaching?

Pretending to moon someone

27 votes

Giving someone the finger behind your hand

46 votes

Flash while wearing a bra.

61 votes

Looking stoned.

164 votes

Smiling for the camera.

640 votes

Wingnut Michael Reagan says Dean "Ought To Be Hung for Treason"

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Wednesday December 07, 2005 · 12:57 AM PST

2005/12/07 · 00:57

The wingnuts just keep getting Wingnuttier. Michael Reagan, son of former President Reagan, stated that Howard Dean ought to be "hung for treason" for his comments that we can't win in Iraq.

Its good to see the Rethuglicans elevating the discourse as usual. I believe it was Bush quoting Voltaire that said "I disapprove of what you say, and I will threaten you with death if you use your right to say it."

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Getting Fracked in PA

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Why I think we need Edwards the #1,258,244th Edition

Future Teacher's Career Ruined by "Drunken Pirate".

Wingnut Michael Reagan says Dean "Ought To Be Hung for Treason"