So I hear they’re debating health care in the Supreme Court…
photo of a “free” market offered, affordable plan for everyone…
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The law also gives the industry the power to seize private property for any part of a drilling operation. On page 65, it states, “a corporation empowered to transport, sell or store natural gas or manufactured gas in the Commonwealth may appropriate an interest in real property” for “injection, storage and removal” of hydrocarbons. However, it does not require the industry to notify any town government of leases it has acquired or of a future interest in using any property—for say, a pipeline or processing facility. Neither homeowners nor other businessmen seeking to develop property are protected if the gas industry intends to use their land.
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The law also prevents heath professionals from discussing medical impacts. On page 99, it requires oil and gas companies to tell medical professionals what chemicals are used in drilling fluids—but only after they sign “a statement of need and a confidentiality agreement.” However those details—the chemicals in drilling fluid and medical significance—it states a page later, are secret and “shall not be a public record.
Fracking Democracy: Why Pennsylvania’s Act 13 May Be the Nation’s Worst Corporate Giveaway
1. Sorry, Pennsylvania, but you’re fucked.
2. How, exactly, can you be a politician in favor of this and not realize you are truly fucking your constituents who you, allegedly, serve? How is it not painfully obvious to all who might say something (ANY other politician, the news, the law/courts, their own fucking consciences if there is such a thing) that by signing something like this you’ve obviously been bought by these companies?
3. If you’re the sort of asshole who defends this sort of thing (“Jobs! It’ll create jobs!” I can hear such shitheels saying already), like whoever that dumbfuck was arguing with OneFootInTheGrave over this sort of thing, you can go take a long walk into a fracking hole and disappear forever.
Newt Gingrich, who hopes to be the GOP nominee, and is also crazy. (via wilwheaton)
This is actually the most purely Presidential thing Newt Gingrich has said. He really comes off as an American President saying something like that. A regular Andrew Jackson or Barack Obama. Who the fuck cares about the law when you’re the leader of the “free world”? Thus it’s always been so.
The friend of my enemy is my enemy, right? »
Everyone made a big stink over GoDaddy supporting (and helping write?) the hideous SOPA. At the very least, though, GoDaddy has a hand in the internet and we shouldn’t be all that surprised that a shitty organization that tends to make shitty (by way of disgustingly sexist) commercials (among other sins) wanted to pull some shady shit in exchange for extra cash and influence on the frontier that they’re already in. People feel like their new boycott of GoDaddy has been effective. I’d debate that point… Have you seen the list of assholes throwing support behind the bill though? Especially monetarily? Check it out. Some highlights:
- Bud Selig - I write “Selig” though on the list it says “Major League Baseball”. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised the “office of the comish” wants a lockdown on copyright and it’s Organizational more than personal but really I think we should take any chance to shame this figurehead in particular, the owner’s owner. When it comes to the capos of various sports organizations, David Stern might be the most dictatorial dickwipe, but Selig owns a team in ADDITION to being Mr. MLB. So fuck him.
- Nike and Adidas - YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A SHOE, WOULD YOU?
- Dow Chemical - now what in the hell stake does a manufacturing interest like Dow Chemical have in Online “Piracy”?? What I think this comes down to is that Dow, being the legendary evil that they are, figure they need to support every bad bill there is just to stay in character.
- Big Labor - Oh I’m sorry, liberals, but here’s where it gets harsh… fuck Big Labor. I’m actually surprised to not find the SEIU on this list (especially after they tried to hijack Occupy DC and make it a “Support Obama” bullshit thing), but it’s got some other “usual suspects of greasing the machine that fucks their members” like the Screen Actors Guild, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the overarching AFL-CIO, and even the fucking International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Shit.
- Some really weird ones - Just what in the fuck does Online “Piracy” have to do with firefighting or contact lenses? ( the International Association of Firefighters and 1-800Contacts both appear on the list)
