DOE Approves Second Fracked Gas LNG Export Terminal
The announcement comes in the aftermath of an April DeSmogBlog investigation revealing that recently confirmed Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz—a former member of the Board of Directors of ICF International—has a binder full of conflicts of interest in any decision the DOE makes to export the U.S. shale gas bounty.
Please, and thanks.
Just at present it seems much too little too late. (I am in a moderately foul mood after having accomplished nothing today.)
(Source: earhatsrcool)
Well that explains Bush…
wow! where is that from?
Harlem knows what’s up. :) I walk past a mural with this gem regularly and thought I’d share.
Judge Criticizes ‘High Error Rate’ of New York Police Stops
Observing that only about 12 percent of police stops resulted in an arrest or summons, Judge Scheindlin, who is hearing the case without a jury, focused her remarks on Monday on the other 88 percent of stops, in which the police did not find evidence of criminality after a stop. She characterized that as “a high error rate” and remarked to a lawyer representing the city, “You reasonably suspect something and you’re wrong 90 percent of the time.”
Most of the time I am pretty content as I am, kinda sorta. I hate having no insurance (even as I am pretty healthy) and not much hope of getting any or… well lots of things. The cute little no Koch app is cute, except I don’t have a cell phone, let alone a smart phone and I will never have one (well I might someday). I really don’t miss TV or movies (I am seriously out of the culture loop and that gets to me sometimes), not only do I not have the money for them I don’t have the time. I think/fear my computer is reaching the edge if its ability to deal with all the blasted updates every website is engaging in, and I am not sure how I will cope with that.
I would like to have a nice new piece of clothing — or even one from a thrift shop — the best dressed woman I know in town, gets all her clothes from the crop of local thrift shops — but even that isn’t going to happen.
I hate the stress getting help to have cataract surgery is — such an amazing plethora of anxiety dreams. Maybe after I have cataract surgery and can see, everything will be less daunting, maybe not.
Sunshine, coffee and a bit of quilting might help.
For tonight I will edit (without pay) the paper of a student I tutor, try to quilt, take a bit of a walk and then try to read a book I wish was large print.
Maeghan Hadley, of One Day Ranch pet rescue, checks over a kitten pulled from under the rubble of a mobile home destroyed by Sunday’s tornado in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park, near Shawnee, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. (Sue Ogrocki / AP)
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Stories to Watch: 5/21/13. Not surprisingly, the tornado that leveled Moore, Oklahoma has been categorized as an EF5 — the worst possible. In a case of amazingly good timing, a woman finds her dog safe and sound in the tornado debris — during an interview with a CBS reporter. It’s a heartwarming moment amid the heartbreaking horror. Steve Benen takes a look at a statement by Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe and concludes that he’s probably not as willing to take his own voters hostage to budget cuts as Tom Coburn is. Still, the possibility that Oklahomans have been duped into electing two such monsters is alarming. And somewhat related to that “monster” link: I plan on adding Charlie Pierce to the superfeed. Not immediately, but when I get around to it. It’s a little bit of a process. The NRA has a bit of an incoherence problem. After arguing that guns don’t kill people, movies kill people, the organization’s magazine publishes a listicle of the top ten “Coolest Gun Movies.” An appeals court permanently blocks Arizona’s restrictive abortion law. Republicans pass these laws to invite court challenges, with the hope of overturning Roe v. Wade. Tt turned out to be an expensive waste of everyone’s time that these things always are. What they do manage to do is prove that GOP ideological claims are bullshit. Throwing money at doomed quests to overturn Roe isn’t fiscal conservatism and forcing women to give birth against their will for the short time the laws stand isn’t a triumph of liberty and small, limited government. Immigration reform takes a step forward. The victory comes at a shameful cost, however. Finally, check out Wolf Blitzer’s awkward TV moment. [photo by David McKenna]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/de684d893af65d14a0a0b5c2487f43d0/tumblr_mn6ebtPTnj1qfengno1_500.jpg)
Stories to Watch: 5/21/13.
Not surprisingly, the tornado that leveled Moore, Oklahoma has been categorized as an EF5 — the worst possible.
In a case of amazingly good timing, a woman finds her dog safe and sound in the tornado debris — during an interview with a CBS reporter. It’s a heartwarming moment amid the heartbreaking horror.
Steve Benen takes a look at a statement by Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe and concludes that he’s probably not as willing to take his own voters hostage to budget cuts as Tom Coburn is. Still, the possibility that Oklahomans have been duped into electing two such monsters is alarming.
And somewhat related to that “monster” link: I plan on adding Charlie Pierce to the superfeed. Not immediately, but when I get around to it. It’s a little bit of a process.
The NRA has a bit of an incoherence problem. After arguing that guns don’t kill people, movies kill people, the organization’s magazine publishes a listicle of the top ten “Coolest Gun Movies.”
An appeals court permanently blocks Arizona’s restrictive abortion law. Republicans pass these laws to invite court challenges, with the hope of overturning Roe v. Wade. Tt turned out to be an expensive waste of everyone’s time that these things always are. What they do manage to do is prove that GOP ideological claims are bullshit. Throwing money at doomed quests to overturn Roe isn’t fiscal conservatism and forcing women to give birth against their will for the short time the laws stand isn’t a triumph of liberty and small, limited government.
Immigration reform takes a step forward. The victory comes at a shameful cost, however.
Finally, check out Wolf Blitzer’s awkward TV moment.
[photo by David McKenna]
Flicker is now too messy to even look at. (Actually maybe it is pretty to look at but too chaotic and very very very slow.) I mean I enjoy looking at the tumblr monthly archive occasionally, but I would not want to live there.
The font is too tiny to read until at least after my cataract surgery. (If I make it big enough to read the page is not usable.)
I am sure that bodes really well.
(Reblogged from indigorock)
