Farewell to Andy Williams.

Andy WIlliams singing "Moon River". Thank you Andy, for sharing your beautiful voice with us. You will be sorely missed x (1927-2012)

It is a great song. Love it.

Songwriters: DOZIER, LAMONT HERBERT / HOLLAND, BRIAN / HOLLAND, EDDIE

Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style some day
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way

Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend
My huckleberry friend, moon river, and me

(moon river, wider than a mile)

(I'm crossin' you in style some day)
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way

Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after that same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend
My huckleberry friend, moon river, and me

The Football Commissioner needs to be fired.

The fans, the players and the team of the Green Bay Packers suffered unnecessarily over this damaging decision by part time referees.

By JUDY BATTISTA

Published: September 25, 2012

...To that end, (click here) Goodell has risked lawsuits over his tough punishments for a bounty scandal; he has suspended or otherwise disciplined some of the N.F.L.’s most popular players; and he brokered the deal that ended the long, bitter lockout of the league’s players last year....

Seriously, this is ridiculous. There is so much hype about instant replays and all kinds of electronic enhancements, to allow this call to stand is a gross injustice to everyone. If the commissioners authority and judgement has to be called into question, then it has to be.

There does not have to be retribution against part time referees, either. The strike should have been settled. This is a failure of the administration of these teams and the league. The owners and the commission allowed referees on the field who were not ready to assume this responsibility. It is not their fault they rose to the occasion to carry on the game. They actually crossed picket lines to do it. So, it isn't their problem, it is the commissioner's problem. I think the entire circumstance needs to be investigated, conclusions reached and appropriate action taken. It isn't the refs that were the problem. It is the commissioner standing behind an obvious bad call that is the problem and the fact he and the owners allowed less qualified officiating in the first place rather than settling the strike.

The electorate issues are not about winning. The media has it "W"rong.

The attack on minorities in this election ACROSS the country by Republican Governors is the issue. This is about Americans, legitimate minority voters, being removed from the ability to vote in 2012.

This is not the first time the Republican Party has STACKED THE DECK in recent history against minority votes. In 2000, an entire election was decided in Florida because of CORRUPTION targeting minority voters.

Americans vote. End of discussion. They vote WITHOUT barriers to their balloting. The day there are profound issues in impersonation and voter fraud THEN the entire country can take action against it. And I might add, the country doesn't sincerely know what EFFECTIVE action to take because it hasn't happened yet and we don't know the source of such fraud. 

There is NO research or PROOF anywhere to pin point the problem. The Republicans are stacking the deck based on Identity Theft Rhetoric. The fact of the matter is there is no way of knowing if Voter ID will even stop ALL forms of fraud. What the Republicans ARE doing is DEFRAUDING elections, not debunking identity theft.

The number of Americans that simply vote is a minority of the adults eligible. 

The Republicans are stacking the deck, just that simple. In the year 2012 we are seeing some of the worst non-violent bigotry this nation has ever witnessed.

The Republican Governors across the country are corrupt in their directives. They are corrupt in most of their dealings when it comes to civil rights, the rights of collective bargaining and education.

The TILT in all these areas and more is palpable. The Republican Party is a corrupt party and now they are blatant bigots.

Americans are being deprived of their rights and in no way can it be tolerated. 

The Republicans USE the electorate to achieve wins in the USA, that is not what this is about. This is about hard fought for rights stated in laws that have stood as the remedy to racism. This is about nullifying laws that have stood for decades of time and trampling the sacrifices of past generations. 

This isn't about winning, it is about justice.

Sep 26, 2012

Poll: Obama grows lead in Ohio and Florida  (click here)

...Obama leads Republican Mitt Romney by ten points -- 53%-43% -- in Ohio, according to the Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News survey.

Obama's lead is nine points in Florida, 53%-44%.

The president also leads Romney by 12 points in Pennsylvania, a state the Democrats have carried in five straight presidential elections....

The Florida Secretary of State is non-compliant with The Electronic Signature Act of 1996.

AND, where voters pay to mail their ballots in it is a Poll Tax.

Florida voters will have long ballots to complete on Election day (click here)

Published: September 11, 2012 

By STEVE BOUSQUET — Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau

TALLAHASSEE -- Brace yourselves, Florida voters: The election ballot you'll see this fall is longer than ever.

It's so long that voters will have to fill out multiple sheets with races on both sides, then feed those multiple pages through ballot scanners, one page at a time.

It's a pocketbook issue, too: Some people who vote by mail will have to dig deeper and pay at least 65 cents postage and up to $1.50 to return their multi-page ballots in heavier envelopes....

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2012/09/11/4194723/florida-voters-will-have-long.html#storylink=cpy

The Electronic Signature Act of 1996 contains a section on Paperwork Reduction.

i. Paperwork Reduction Act (click here)
During the 1992 legislative session, chapter 282, Florida Statutes,
was amended by the passage of the Information Resources
Management and Paperwork Reduction Act.28 The Act placed special
emphasis on reducing the government’s paperwork burden.29 The
amendments called for the specific reduction of paperwork associated
with the collection and dissemination of government information
to and from individuals, small businesses, educational institutions,
state agencies, and local governments....

The ballots in question add length to the ballot for no valid reason. If citizens want to receive more information about the ballot and want to read all the provisions there needs to be an ONLINE site for them to go to and read the ballot in full length before balloting. The Florida long ballots are ILLEGAL !

It is more than common practice in the USA for local governments to MAIL ballots to voters for review before voting. Voters can be carrying these ballots with them to the polling place to expedite casting their ballot.

In the case of Florida, the Paperwork Reduction Act of the Electronic Signature Act stipulates clearly there needs to be far less paperwork in any government accounting and/or document while using online resources, INCLUDING THOSE IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES, to comply with this law.

The lengthy ballot is a violation of this Florida Statue, hence they are illegal. They need to be discarded and reprinted with sufficient information as to where the specific referendum issues can be found. The elections boards have to prepare paper ballots and mail them to their voters for preparation of this very lengthy ballot this season. The ballot itself should only contain a very brief summary of the referendum issue and a clearly indicated place to register the vote!

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2012/09/11/4194723/florida-voters-will-have-long.html#storylink=cp

It is time to take to the streets. Demonstrations until election day and the Supreme Court afterwards.

Romney is consenting to rigging the elections.

A voter casts her ballot in a predominantly Latino neighborhood of Los Angeles in 2008 (AFP/Getty Images/File, David Mcnew)

I have never witnessed such wide spread bigotry before in the USA. There is no proof of voter fraud that would ever support such an action. This is pure unadulterated racism.

Americans are being removed from the voter roles on the basis of racism. The Republicans should do it for White Men as well. If the Hispanic Community is removed from their rightful place to vote, the idea of The Dream Act disappears and the young people now protected by President Obama's Executive Order will fall victim again in two years.

There is no doubt in my mind, this is blatant racism with an agenda of hatred.

Hispanic voters may be disenfranchised by voting laws (click here)

By Elections Editor

POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

UPDATED: SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 10:00 AM MDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New voting laws in 23 of the 50 states could keep more than 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens from registering and voting, a new study said on Sunday, a number so large it could affect the outcome of the November 6 election.

The Latino community accounts for more than 10 percent of eligible voters nationally. But the share in some states is high enough that keeping Hispanic voters away from the polls could shift some hard-fought states from support for Democratic President Barack Obama and help his Republican rival, Mitt Romney.

The new laws include purges of people suspected of not being citizens in 16 states that unfairly target Latinos, the civil rights group Advancement Project said in the study to be formally released on Monday.

Laws in effect in one state and pending in two others require proof of citizenship for voter registration. That imposes onerous and sometimes expensive documentation requirements on voters, especially targeting naturalized American citizens, many of whom are Latino, the liberal group said....

Like I said, Unions want their members to be the best of the best, not the best of the worst.

Packers-Seahawks: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker backs 'realrefs' (click here for video)

By Michael Muskal

September 25, 2012, 3:49 p.m.

...After the state's Green Bay Packers had a victory snatched from their outstretched mitts by an outrage-inducing call on Monday, the current governor and one of his erstwhile opponents in the fight over collective bargaining found common ground, agreeing that it was time for the NFL to end its labor morass and bring back the real umpires.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who successfully pushed the anti-union bills through the Legislature, threw the red flag onto the political field, challenging the referees’ decision that gave the Seattle Seahawks the victory....

Human trafficking are human rights violations and it happens in the USA.

Brittany Phillips (left) was taken in and eventually adopted by Ruth Buckels of Story City after Phillips was rescued from human traffickers in Chicago. Phillips, now 20, was recruited into prostitution at age 15 in Eastern Iowa. She now speaks about her experiences in an effort to bring awareness to the problem.

Trafficking victim hails awareness (click here)

Recruited into prostitution in East Iowa at the age of 15

25 September 2012 

Her words, “I saw many things a 15-year-old girl shouldn’t see,” provide an unconventionally-wise commentary on the true story of her experience as a victim of human trafficking.

“I saw lots of drug addicts, people walking around with guns,” Brittany Phillips, now 20, wrote in an email to The Gazette in which she shared her story and agreed to have her name be used. “I was dropped off with (another girl) at a crack house where we slept on a floor in a house infested with roaches.”

Phillips, at age 14, was taken from her mom’s home in Des Moines, where she was sexually abused by her mom’s boyfriend, and placed in a treatment facility in Iowa City. She ran away with a friend and ended up in Cedar Rapids, where she encountered a series of men who repeatedly tried to sell or trade her for sex....

Go ahead, try to educate that !

Be sure and get the parents involved, too.

Romney has a very mixed message on education of our children.

The idea funding can be linked to the student is populous and won't work. A school system cannot be a student of one and expect to deliver a quality education. School systems operate as democracies do with collective interests in our Brain Trust, good to excellent outcomes and a joint effort through common treasuries to achieve what ONE cannot do alone.

His vision is wrong. It is wayward in that it seeks to incentive our collective classrooms with a traditional understanding, while decentralizing funding for our schools destroying delivery of higher qualities of education.

The USA has never turned out CLONES of an ideal in any educational paradigm. So to believe demolishing our system by dividing up funding to whatever idea parents and students have as ideal is nonsense.

There are plenty of private schools of varying themes across this country. My oldest son attended a private school. It was his choice. We did not receive a subsidy from the public educational system to send him there. It was the decision of the family to allow him his dream come true. My youngest son liked being at home, although he missed his older brother at times, and he attended the public school where he received attention to his needs and received a very good education.

The idea students are connected to funding individually is only hurting our brain trust and not improving it. The quality of our education has to come through reform that works, not destroying the classroom into individual paradigm of ideals that will never serve the best interest of the student or their country.

Romney loves talking down at the Poor. He states it is the parents that are the problem to the failure of schools. He believes, although not stated, that poor people are stupid people. Not in all cases. If anything I can look at him and his peers and the failure of their businesses, the chronic bailouts and the loss of American jobs to outsourcing to know who the real failures are. If he is going to open up a paradigm whereby the 'educational system' 'treats' the parent; that means counseling has to occur. That is what Social Services are for. The parents do not need classes to be parents.

In the USA, after over forty years of Republican policies, parents have to hold down two to three jobs to support their children. That is especially true in the Southern USA. The reason is low wages and long work hours. Those dynamics remove parents availability to their children. It is wrong. Building a strong Middle Class of good wages is the only way children will have parents AVAILABLE to help with the homework. If a child is overwhelmed by school because he / she assists with their younger sibling or spends most of their young years raising themselves with the 'image' of their parents wishes in their heart, that child will not succeed in a way that is meaningful to their future.

The answer to failing schools also lies in understanding the failing Middle Class, the loss of good paying jobs and QUALITY OF HOMELIFE as a means to an economy we all understand and value. Romney's ideas remove the quality of education, the quality of life in the Middle Class and assign government interventionism with adults as a means of improving children's performance. It is ideological, removed from reality and unattainable.

President Obama's words today are very bold at the United Nations.

The words he is using in regard to women and daughters can be very dangerous territory to diplomatic relations. They can easily be misinterpreted to give false meaning. Sometimes it is in the translation as well.

If I can be as so bold as he to allow slight insight to the canyons of difference Secretary Clinton faces everyday in her missions.

Women are a commodity in some nations. The meaning of their 'person' / 'their body' carries different meaning for different people, hence, different nations. 

One of the most extreme differences occurs with in the Islamic faiths. Sunnis and Shi'ites are not simply ethnic divides they are very, very profound religious divides. To akin it to something the average American can understand: To ask a Sunni to accept the Islamic value system of a Shi'ite is a violation of their foundation precepts. It would be like asking the Catholic Pope to accept nuns as priests.

There are hierarchies of 'paths' to godliness. Clerics and Imams and Ayatollahs have to have a genetic path to Mohammad. They cannot be ordained in the way a common person can be ordained as a Catholic priest. 

In the Sunni faith it is only the male children of the genetic path to Mohammad given validity to become clerics, etc. In the Shi'ite faith any child, male or female, are valid paths to Mohammad, yet, their holy men are men only and not women at all. It is the genetic path that is different between the two Islamic faiths.

When President Obama states women must have equality, it can easily be interpreted as an endorsement of the Shi'ite faith over the Sunni faith. 

Why?

Because these nations do not separate religion from governance. So, to state women need equality even as girls to education, is to say to a Sunni Muslim their daughters are the correct path to all that is great with Mohammad. To govern is to be right with god in many instances. So, it is very tricky. 

Today, at the United Nations, President Obama is seeking to break down barriers for the values we hold dear in the USA. To allow a new ability to value women and girls. Not to threaten faith in any way but to see the god given potential in their female children. To provide for greater dignity of women within their societies and end the deep misunderstanding of faithful purpose of women and their bodies in relation to their abilities to serve and govern. He is asking nations to expand the potential of their brain trusts to include all their citizens regardless of gender. 

His speech is huge. Let's hope all leaders at the United Nations today are up to the challenge.

Secretary Clinton has her hands full, but, I have never known her to ignore a chance to commune with women of any nation to bring home the message they are valuable and she cares about them.

Romney is too dangerous.

Nations exert their authority over their people in a variety of ways. The entire of the world is not about capitalism. What Romney is talking about in his speech are human rights abuses of people trying to support their families.

I resist to continue to use China as an example, but, its internal structure is very different than the USA. Their national policies do not necessarily filter down to the individual citizen across the entire of China. We know for a fact local authorities and provincial authorities impose power over Chinese citizens inconsistent with their national policies. Hence the real challenge of China to impose a single currency on their people. Literally, to change their currency to the international currency of China would send provinces into disarray with worsening poverty. The internal currency in China is not valued the same as their international currency. China is a very complicated picture, but, their leaders have come a long way in a relatively short period of time when the USA began relations under Nixon.

Capitalism is not the answer for every country. So many countries have very rudimentary economies existing in subsistence. There are African nations watching their people scratch out an existence after land has been divided due to inheritance into parcels far to small to support the family living on it.

When the USA takes a policy of imposing capitalism on a nation it is a hostile act to many economies which are not prepared for it. The USA currency is a strong currency regardless of its competition with the Euro, but, to ask other nations to impose capitalism as a way to improve their circumstances is not the way it needs to occur. In Afghanistan alone, we are witnessing wide spread corruption. When the USA people demand the USA military stop the drug economy in Afghanistan, the reply has been, "They have no other economy but their drug economy."

We have had a presence in Afghanistan for over a decade. The USA cannot impose the will of its economy on those of other nations. It is a hostile act. We did it in Iraq under Bush and he had to fly USA dollar bills into the country on cargo planes in order for there to be a currency the USA could recognize. It is hideous. We will not impose war on countries in order to achieve a Damned Economic Outcome ANYMORE!!

If Romney wants to talk about improving the lives of people in foreign nations he needs to talk about human rights abuses and not economic vitality.

California, Illinois, New York and Texas (alphabetical order)

Governing is not a beauty contest, but, with Trump involved the GOP believes it is!

These states are viewed as the ones that will determine the majority in the Congress. Personally, I don't believe any Congressional seat is a guarantee considering their very poor rating these day.

...About 30 congressional seats (click here)  in those four megastates are up for grabs, according to Sabato's Crystal Ball, the website of University of Virginia government professor Larry J. Sabato. These "orphan states" could well hold the balance of power in the House, where Democrats must pick up 25 seats to replace John Boehner as speaker with Nancy Pelosi....

The Congress has been a real problem since 2010. What does that say about the GOP? They simply aren't ready to govern in a time in this nation's history when there is so much to decide. Placing Republicans back in any majority is a mistake. It happened in 2010 and the USA's credit rating was downgraded. Congress can't get anything done with Republicans constantly fighting. They fight between themselves and their Democratic peers and they fight the President. They are horrible.

One of the statements the political Right Wing likes to dangle as their mandate in any election whether it was a mandate of not, "Elections have consequences." Really? Let me get this right. Elections only have consequences when they are the Republican consequences for the nation, like wars, imploding economies and corporate welfare.

Half truths and deception.

I don't know where he gets the idea China is a cheater. Perhaps, China learned from too many Bushs and that might be the issue, but, China is a sovereign nation. It has a large population which is harnessed to produce goods. I have no doubt China believes the best defense is a strong economic offense globally. I am sure much of what China does is strategic. 

But, in all honesty, the 25% increase in China's manufacturing is due to the fact their cranes are at every shipping port in the world. 

The fact of the matter is China is struggling. It has an inflation problem and it is finally realizing the export business is not endless if it means depriving working people in other countries good paying jobs. Mr. Romney is way off base in his allegations in this political ad of which he approves.

It is not outrageous to say China and Wall Street, including Romney with his big box stores, are learning the hard way, because, they are.

China's Economy is Rebalancing as Export Growth Slows - Report (click here)

By Prabha Natarajan

China's manufacturing activity continues to slowdown, but services and retail industries are picking up the slack, notes an advance summary of quarterly survey of economic activity.

In an early summary of the China Beige Book's third quarter report, the authors see the "rebalancing" as a positive sign of the country's vast economy.

The China Beige Book is a private publication modeled after the U.S. Federal Reserve's outlook with the same name, and it began publication with the first quarter of this year.

"Monetary stimulus is revealing its limitations," said Craig Charney, director of research and polling at CBB International, the publisher of the book.

He noted that while companies had access to cheap capital, few of them sought or planned to seek these loans. Bankers say there was 50% greater reporting availability, but borrowing fell 9 points to 34%, according to the report....

Chinese businessmen are so worried about their export slow down they are seeking to invest in businesses in manufacturing in the USA to increase employment. Some may see that as adverse, but, they are allowed to and they are only allowed to in measured ways that do not threaten the nation's security. If we can return manufacturing to the USA in measurable ways, there is nothing wrong with that completely. I don't like the idea of profits from American manufacturing going to China, but, in a struggling global economy some Chinese oligarchs are taking an interest in righting the ship.

The Chinese investors still have to pay American taxes as well. Last time I looked.

I like to think of the Chinese as ambitious and not war like. Their economy requires good relationships with other nations otherwise it will implode.

The Chinese are only beginning to develop a consumer base within their own borders. These things take time. They just do. Sometimes it is even generational. India is the same way. The sooner their own economies are stronger and somewhat self-reliant because of their massive number of consumers, the better off the entire global market will be.

Chinese people purchasing Chinese goods will absorb the glut of exports they now covet. The Chinese have to develop the markets for their own products within their borders and BALANCE their exports. They have to. Ultimately, it is their ability to have consumers that buy Chinese as well as imports that will balance the global manufacturing markets.

When one considers there are well over a billion people in China and India it is easy to see how adding all those adult consumers to import and export on a global basis will balance the Chinese export markets. The Chinese won't have as many exports to send as their own citizens increase their quality of life. I do believe the Chinese government, for the problems they still have, want to have better quality of life for their people. India as well.

The problem now with China's set back is the fact manufacturing has gone completely in one direction, literally crashing their market places outside their borders. American businessmen are not the people China should be trusting the most. And I don't blame them for maintaining their currency where it is either. It is the 'market share' for their goods that have to be balanced on a global basis. Then the Chinese monetary system can be better addressed. They also need to decide on ONE currency for China. They currently use two separate systems.

American business types go to China for cheap labor. Cheap labor will not improve the quality of life of their citizens. China has to allow their factory workers to increase their 'income per hour.' It has to be. The internal consumer markets have to be developed in these countries in order for the global economy, of which they thrive on, to recover. Manufacturing has to return to Europe and North America in order for China to achieve a recovery. South America as well for that matter. I am quite confident Argentina would love to have a manufacturing sector with global reach.

The USA consumer has to have a job to purchase goods. So, do the Chinese people. The USA has to recover its manufacturing in order for the global economy to rebound. Like it or not, the Chinese have to admit that greedy Wall Street CEOs have hurt their markets in the face of this new dimension.

So, Mitt has it wrong. He is comparing apples and oranges in this ad with no clear solutions. China has to realize all the legal cases at the WTO and otherwise with the Obama Administration will, in the long term, assist China to balance their economy with stronger viability for the USA and China. Strong economies in both countries as well as India and Europe and African nations is the best way to secure the future of peace and prosperity.

Mitt Romney continues to pick and chose facts to build a case for his election. Manipulating the truth to the American electorate is not the way to win them over. Of course, I suppose, 47% of the American people are too much of a bother to think about having a brain in their head if they can't see it his way. So, pandering to stupidity might work for a minority of American voters, but, not for the majority.

Sorry Ann had such a terrible experience. There are shades in the aircraft, that might be the confusing part.

When he made the gaff about he was standing next to Ann. I think some of the odd stuff that went on was a continuation of his inability to relate to women. I am confident they feel very comfortable with each other, but, he is one of those guys that simply hasn't got the skills to relate well to women. This was one of those times. 

Marriage is about partnership and equality, but, I think the Romney's have had a very traditional Mormon marriage. I think this is a demonstration of that. 

At the age of 65 people are asking, where are Mitt's billions? US?

For real now. 

Where does anyone believe his billions are? We know he put some in custody of his wife while he was Governor. I am sure every member of his family has nothing to worry about in the future.

Or.

He isn't all that good at what he does.

To the right is a page from Michael Jackson's Family Trust.

Okay?

Most families of means have a trust rather than an inheritance.

I would expect Romney to have the larger part of his monies in a place that would not impose a legal standard against reporting as a candidate.

He knows his wealth is a political liability. It doesn't have to be, but, it is because of his character issues. Those character issues he has are self imposed. They are there to be discovered.

"Morning Papers" - It's Origins (click here)

The Rooster
"Okeydoke"

"Good Night, Moon."

The Waxing Gibbous

8.8 days old from New Moon

64.5% lit

The picture can be found at Space.com (click here)

Very different picture. I was wondering where the best light came from for this picture; "Moon Light" or "Earth Light"

Earth is known to reflect light from the sun on the moon, too.

A waxing gibbous moon appears high in the east at sunset. It’s more than half-lighted, but less than full. (click here for "Understanding the Waxing Gibbous.")

This is where I give my advise.

Hydraulic Fracturing was made legal in every way, including the allowance of polluting air and water, by the Cheney Energy Task Force which began its planning two weeks after Bush / Cheney took office.

If this never occurred the process of hydraulic fracturing would be illegal.

Got that?

Hydraulic fracturing before Bush / Cheney was illegal. It pollutes air and water.

Don't believe me when I state it was illegal. Look at this.


...Fracturing can be traced to the 1980s, (click here) when liquid (and later, solidified) nitroglycein was used to stimulate shallow, hard rock wells in Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Although extremely hazardous, and often used illegally, NG was spectacularly successful for oil well “shooting.” The object of shooting a well was to break up, or rubblize, the oil-bearing formation to increase both initial flow and ultimate recovery of oil....


The petroleum industry has conducted itself illegally most of its existence, but, it managed to make itself an intricate part of any economy on the globe so they do operate above the law. They operate with any good excuse for them to do so. As a result, people die on a regular basis in this industry. Now, they have given themselves permission to be above reproach with propagandized advertisements permeating the airwaves.

The most touching of the propaganda was when the elder Pickens stated he was heavily interested in building wind and solar as the best energy for the USA. Today, he simply states, 'It isn't workable." It isn't workable for his profit margin, it never was, but, lying is as good as gold to the petroleum bosses.

Hydraulic fracturing is extremely dangerous. It dissolves bedrock. Got that part? It dissolves bedrock. Now you know if there are chemicals injected into the ground down a deep hole passing through aquifers the is contamination taking place. There just is. The real test of the immorality of the petroleum industry is to ask state governments to consider the standards they measure potable water. See, if the standards for potable water are workable for the petroleum industry they might be able to proceed without their profits being effected.

PPM. Parts per million. If one looks at the earliest standards in the nation's history and how those standards were refined to the best allowable for human consumption and inhalation; then the true standards will be known.

The fact is hydraulic fracturing is adverse to the integrity of land (seismic activity, clean water, healthy livestock (they drink water) and crops (irrigated water) and clean air. Not clear air, clean air. Natural gas is odorless and colorless when coming up from the deep wells. The odor of natural gas is added after the gas is captured. 

Much of the activity of the petroleum industry relies on concrete. If fills in holes were the drills have punched trough and the space between metal casings. Concrete is the do all and end all of the petroleum industry.

If you accept the premise the industry knows they are causing real damage to all I mentioned above and is being told to end their drilling where it can be proven there is seismic activity. Even in Texas. Then it is only a short time before the industry will increase tax deductible expenses by pouring concrete into deep waste water wells where the seismic activity occurs and call it FIXED. FOREVER FIXED.

That would be a lie. Poured concrete, no matter what it is mixed with will never stand up to the pressure that deep in the ground, nor will it be a lasting fix. Quite the contrary. The chemicals in the well will dissolve the concrete.

Concrete is no substitute for stable rock formations formed on Earth. No substitute at all.

To the right is 'limestone chalk.' (click here)

Most all types of limestone are listed on Moh's Scale of Hardness (the geological scale - click here) as between 3 and 4. Diamonds are a ten.

There is no way the petroleum industry should ever be allowed by any government at any level to mystify those with the idea concrete will stabilize all seismic activity. 

It is a lie!

The petroleum industry knows they have no leg to stand on when it comes to using concrete.

To the left is the process to produce the Geolyte Based Spent Catalyst.

Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering (ICBEE), 2010 2nd International Conference on (click here)

The petroleum industry is destroying our land. They know they are the most toxic industry on Earth given the extent its reach continues in global economies. They know they need to do better, but, it might cost money to do better.

Environmental friendly concrete using waste from petroleum industry (click here)

 ...In this project Geolite Based Spent Catalyst (GBSC) is used to replace cement by some amount in concrete. GBSC is the waste product from petroleum industry....

...Long term strength say at the age of 112 days strength was measured and results are encouraging. Initially the strength are slightly less but long term strength say after 90 days, strength is very nearer to the strength of pilot mix concrete....

34 of the the 53 earthquakes in California on September 22, 2012 were in Southern California.

By Southern California (click here) I mean between latitudes North 34 degrees, 32 minutes and 48.572 seconds and 47.0 North degrees

All Earthquakes in California-Nevada Map Area (click here)

I believe the center of the state of California is about 37 North degrees, so that is what I called South. I suppose one can divide it until thirds, but, I did not because I have never heard the description Central California. The geological locations are am familiar with are Northern California (made popular by the Beach Boys) and Southern California.

September 22, 2012 is a random day after the Earthquake Swarm in August. Just that simple. Nothing particularly notable about that day. When one clicks on the link "All Earthquakes in California and Nevada Map Area" it is easily discerned how many quakes are occurring daily in this area of the USA. The quakes I counted could also involve the Nevada border as well.

No Rocky Mountains there.

Earthquake in Brawley, Southern California, Moderate 5.3 magnitude

California earthquake swarm expected to last for days (click here for video from LA Times)

August 27, 2012

The Southern California earthquake swarm produced hundreds of temblors Sunday, and experts said it could last for several more days.

"Obviously, all this activity is related or interconnected, but it doesn't really follow the typical main shock, aftershock activity," said Rob Graves, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological survey.

Such earthquake storms are not unprecedented or unusual in that region. The most recent, Graves said, also centered near Brawley, was in 2005, when the area was shaken by hundreds of earthquakes, the largest measuring magnitude 5.1. A previous swarm in 1981 reached a magnitude of 5.8....