OkieMon's Comments (269)

“Unfortunately, we don't have Albert any more. I definately don't think the current crop of scientists are up to Albert's standards. BTW, most of the scientific community didn't buy the Theory of Relativity at the time that Albert first introduced it.

I don't trust Dems or Repubs either.”

“If only all the money spent towards maintaining our military defense industry was spent towards environmental defense, the world would be a brighter place.”

“Evil oil companies providing me with a way to drive my car. Shame on them for providing that to me when I want to purchase it.”

“You got it.

"Fracking" (the extraction companies prefer "Fracing" still pronounced "fraking") is
an environmental nightmare.

Fracking uses massive amounts of water, and contaminates the ground water.

Outlaw Fracking.”

“Yes there is an Upstate beyond the NYC Watershed!

We drink water too, and we will also be breathing the fouled and toxic air that gas companies vent directly during production. Are we going to risk ruining the Catskills for the sake of gas profits mostly for large gas corporations and a few land owners (mostly absentee in our area)?

Yes, there will no doubt be an initial local economic boom in our area from drilling, God knows we need one. But what about down the road after the gas companies have turned our beautiful pristine area into an industrialized zone ? Would you buy a vacation or retirement home near a gas field?

For a much closer look at what the impacts will be, see "Hancock and the Macellus Shale", a report prepared by the the Columbia University Urban Design Research Seminar. The report focuses on the environmental, social and economic impacts of natural gas drilling using The Town of Hancock, NY for visioning what those impacts will be.

Copies may be obtained from The Open Space Institute by calling 212-290-8200, emailing your name and address to: osiny.org@osiny.org, or down loading it at:
http://www.osiny.org/custom/HancockAndTheMarcellusShale.pdf

For more on air pollution associated with gas drilling see:

www.edf.org/documents/9235_Barnett_Shale_Report.pdf

Oh yes, then there's also the small problem of the potential of the toxic chemical laden drilling waste water ( millions of gallons per well) being radioactiv­e....”

“Thanks, OkieMon: I'm sorry if I wasn't clear but fracking affects both upstate and the water supplies downstream-- a lose-lose for all.

Thanks!

Alison”

“I am a republican and I say great idea. This makes sense.”

“that is actually a good idea, hopefully Rep. Weiner wll take it into consideration.

allow 50+ to opt out of their employer's private plan however still be required to pay the medicare tax, use the deduction to fund medicare along with employer matching funds now going to the insurance company, I wouldn't have a private insurance co-pay deductable either.”

“Actually, it was French physicist A. E. Becquerel who was responsible for identifying the photovoltaic effect which drives solar panel to electric power conversion, but you are entirely right about Ronnie's backward posture.
Because Jimmy Carter had the sense to have them installed, the luddite Reagan felt compelled to have them removed, an attitude which continues to this day among his admirers.”

“Natural gas is not a clean energy. CO2!”

“So a violation of the 1991 Gulf War truce and all the arms control agreements it embodied, including UN resolutions 687 and 689, and the 15 subsequent UN resolutions designed to enforce them didn't bother you? The last of these, UN Security Council Resolution 1441, was itself a war ultimatum to Saddam giving him “one final opportunity” to disarm – or else. The ultimatum expired on December 7, 2002, and America went to war three months later, was not enough for you? You needed the UN and Bush to "dither" some more? Maybe like we are doing on Iraq and North Korea? Hindsight maybe 20/20 on this but while it was happening, more agreed than not. Don't revise history and think your smart with your smug comments.”

“AMEN, AMEN, AMEN. TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU”

“"mcveigh frequented OKC gun shows and somebody there fingered the murrah building for him"

Information which could have been garnered any number of ways. That it may have been gathered at a gun show is completely meaningless.”

“Incorrect. It has the word "regulated" in it. It refers to a militia, not to firearms. It means prepared and function, not regulations as in written laws.”

“WTF are you smoking??”

“The OKC bombing was done with a rental truck, fertilizer, and fuel oil. None of which came from a gun show.”

“Yep, the people who push tort reform never need to provide any evidence that it actually lowers premiums, even though it's in place in several states. The evidence all goes the other way, as you say, yet the media never seems to challenge this myth about lawsuits driving up premiums. Can we get some facts up in this beotch?”