I sent this story to Wendy Davis's campaign. Her challenger is a tort law denier in spite of being a successful tort claimant. If ever a tort case is a slam dunk, this ought to be. One dad had a radiation badge that spiked and beeped when their water well was filling in the middle of the night.

Not just "no" but oh hell no. Obama isn't doing anything even remotely close to enough. He never should have allowed it here. He should have long ago secured the southern border. He should have sent medical supplies and equipment there. He should have centralized authority via CDC. He should have stopped all flights to West African nations. He should have appointed, oh I don't know, someone who actually knows something about emergency medical management or infection diseases or even medical logistics or medical administration to head this up rather than some putz insider investment lawyer maybe. And as for picking a political party to blame...I couldn't begin to care less about parties; both are owned by the same corporate interests, however, Obama is supposed to be the one "in charge". So anyone who gets sick or anyone who dies in this country because of Ebola, the blame can be laid squarely at the feet of ole "hope and change" himself.

The think is mr ford I am old enough to remember we where going yo burn to death because of the massive hole in the ozone. Then they where going to spray insulation on the whole article circle because we where going to freeze to death. Then the whole tree ring theory that started all this turned out to wrong. They fudged the data. Then a well respected man like Al Gore lied to me by telling me by now the oceans would rise by now and New York would be under water. The whole movie Gasland has been proven wrong. What puzzles me the most is there is no debate at all on this.

Look the world has changed temps and CO 2 levels for hundreds of millions of years. There will always be climate change. I just don't believe everyone is telling the truth on either side of this. They can't tell me if it is going to rain tomorrow but they know how high the ocean is going to be in ten years. I don't know.

Fracking activities polluted Alberta’s groundwater: ERCB
Cecilia Jamasmie | December 21, 2012

http://www.mining.com/fracking-activities-polluted-albertas-groundwater-...
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Canadian authorities: Fracking operation contaminated groundwater

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/amall/canadian_authorities_leaked_fr.html
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Alberta Expert Says Fracking Contamination Will Get Worse!

http://www.albertasurfacerights.com/articles/?id=1463
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Fracking’s greatest risk is water contamination: leaked report

http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/05/01/frackings-greatest-risk-is-water-cont...
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Canada’s fractured view of fracking

http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/4971/Canadas-fractured-view-of-fracking...

Here in Canada we have been fracking for for over 70 years. Not once has there ever been ANY water contaminated. I makes me wonder how they do it there. Either they are doing it wrong or someone is lying about the the leaks. From what I understand water is less then 100 feet below surface and most oil and gas is over a 1000 ft deep. How the frack does it happen.

If you notice Thom said "contaminated water MAY have". So they are shutting down 11 wells because "MAY HAVE" nice to see they are taking no chances but the truth is the problem probaly isn't from fracking. I think it is dangerous to keep crying wolf. I am starting to be a non believer myself. After all Al Gore told me the ocean would be two inches higher by now. New York is supposed to be under water. The fact is nothing has changed. We have spent billions on all of this and CO2 levels have not dropped at all. I wonder if all that money was spent on healthcare how many more people would be alive today.

It is so crazy, we get to a health issue that either should, or should not, (pick one) be of concern to ALL Americans, and the first thing the GOP thinks of is how they can use this event to get at President Obama. They make me sick! I feel like going to every place where there are a perponderance of Repubs and asking them why, specifically, they vote Republican. Nine out of ten won't have an answer, most will just do it because they are too lazy to think for themselves. (Remember, the average IQ is 100!)

“All calls for the left to revitalize itself so it can become a formidable force in US politics will fail if it does not take seriously the educative nature of politics.”- Henry A. Giroux

“The Big Picture” program just keeps getting better and better. Tonight’s show “10/16/14: Rick Scott’s ‘Fangate’ Derails Debate” is outstanding! I cancelled my Comcast Cable TV account five year ago because of the poor uncritical reporting by the corporate media and especially Faux News. I couldn’t stand the idea I was supporting such a program with my subscription fee.

I appreciate the critical analysis of current events with key arguments countering Neoliberal and Free Market ideology. In this particular show the topics were about how our privatized healthcare system is dealing with the recent Ebola cases with an interview of National Nurses United Union spokeswoman, Deborah Burger; an interview with an alternative economist Stephanie Kelton of The University of Missouri about the current market instability; an interview with “The Nation’s” Sharon Lerner concerning an epidemic of brain cancer in Florida; and the “Daily Take” about media propaganda misdirection during this coming election.

I have to say the “Daily Take” commentary consistently hits it out of the park with excellent critical analysis. I am so glad to see such a moral, progressive, and educational political program that promotes “critical public pedagogy.” Critical theorist, Henry A. Giroux, wrote the following about the importance of critical thinking and democracy.

…any rethinking of the political can only be comprehended as part of a radical break from liberalism and formalistic politics if there is to be any move toward a genuine democracy in which matters of equality, power and justice are central to what can be called a radical democratic politics. Such a task necessitates a politics and pedagogy that not only expand critical awareness and promote critical modes of inquiry but also sustain public connections and promote strategies and organizations that create not simply ruptures, such as massive demonstrations, but real changes that are systemic and long standing. If such a politics is to make any difference, it must be worldly; that is, it must incorporate a critical public pedagogy and an understanding of cultural politics that not only contemplates social problems but also addresses the conditions for revitalized forms of democratic political exchange and enables new forms of agency, power and collective struggle. The collapse of the United States into neoliberal authoritarianism signals not simply a crisis of politics and democracy, but a crisis of ideas, values and agency itself. Hence, calling for a revival of the educative nature of politics is more than simply a call to find ways to change consciousness; it is first and foremost an attempt to understand that education is at the center of a struggle over what kinds of agency will be created in the interest of legitimating the present and producing a particular kind of future. This is an imminently educative, moral and political task, and it is only through such a recognition that initial steps can be taken to challenge the powerful ideological and affective spaces through which neoliberalism produces the desires, identities and values that bind people to its forms of predatory governance. Beyond Orwellian Nightmares and Neoliberal Authoritarianism by Henry A. Giroux.

The companies doing the fracking don't want to contaminate water supplies that are underground but they consider it a risk worth taking for the money they can get from the fracked wells. I don't know how they justify doing this when they know there is now a list of places where peoples underground resivoirs of water have been rendered unusable due to fracking. Contaminating aquafers is not OK. Doing something which may contaminate aquafers is not OK, so fracking needs to be stopped. If fracking is banned and we have a shortage of natural gas, then so be it. We will find other ways to heat like with wind, solar and hydro electric power, the kind of power that does not emit carbon. We need the kind of power that does not lead to the extinction of mankind, not the kind that does. There are those who think we are crying wolf, but do you know what happened to the boy who cried wolf?

While the contamination of the aquifers is beyond nightmarish, so few ever mention how the fracking throughout the west for nigh onto a decade could possibly be connected directly to the droughts? When an average of 5 million gallons of fresh water is used with every drilling (not just every well, every drilling), and there have been tens of thousands of wells drilled (many multiply) how can one not make the connection? Also as more than half the water used for fracking remains underground (and yes seeping and contaminating at times), that means that the water is REMOVED from the rain cycle. The specious arguments made that agriculture and recreation use great amounts of water as well has only to be countered with the point that the water used for agriculture and recreation is not removed from the rain cycle in any significant way. Millions upon billions of gallons of water removed from the rain cycle by fracking must be exacerbating the droughts, if not, as I contend, causative of droughts.

I think it is largely a question of willful blindness. I have seen lots of comments lately about California and water or the lack thereof. Californians are scared, rightly so. But the entire nation should be scared because California is the biggest supplier of produce to the nation and if that goes, what will we eat? However, I have seen way too many comments that flatly state that there is no fracking in California! Seriously! People who live there, even! How can such willful ignorance be changed?

People have said for decades "this is the most important election of our lifetime".

We fought facism, communism, things that affected man's freedom.

Now we are faced with nothing less than the survival of mankind.

You sign off with the warning that "Democracy is not a spectator sport".

I have been sending out a tweet each day asking people who they will vote for, i.e.;

"Will you vote for those who shut down government? #Qday"

"Will you vote for those who voted over 50 times to repeal health care reform? #Qday"

"Will you vote for those who led the least productive Congress in history? #Qday"

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Each time a person doesn't vote, a millionaire thanks you.