Wednesday "News on the Run"

Good Morning Mountaindale...said in my best Robin Williams voice.

Was outside just a bit ago, and wish I had taken my camera out with me. Saw the most beautiful male Cardinal up in the branches of one of the birch trees out behind my apartment. Was a stunning treat with which to start the day.

Big news of the day from my perspective...Time's person of the year is the "protester". Tipping my hat to protesters around the world, saluting all those in the "Occupy Movement". Nice to see that Time got it right this year.

Republicans muscle tax cut bill through House knowing it is dead on arrival in the Senate...nice try Boehner, but hitching the pipe line to the deal IS DIRTY POLITICS. When I think of you, why does SCUMBAG come to mind? How about acting on behalf of the people, rather than acting on behalf of Big Business and the Republican Party.

Rep. Terry: Boehner will link pipeline bill to jobless insurance, payroll tax bill

By Ben Geman - 12/02/11 11:00 AM ET

House GOP leaders plan to attach legislation to speed up approval of the controversial Keystone XL oil sands pipeline to a broader package that extends unemployment insurance and payroll tax cuts, a Republican lawmaker said.

No texting or cell phone calls while driving...sounds good in theory, but HOLD THE PHONE, and read the fine print. Seems there is an exemption to this newly proposed bill. You could talk on a cell phone that is actually INSTALLED INTO YOUR CAR. Isn't that convenient. We'll outlaw hand held cell phones, even with a Bluetooth, but if spend more money, get another line that is permanently hitched to the car, you can talk while driving. GM and Ford MUST LOVE THIS EXEMPTION.

After ten years America's troops are coming home from Iraq, and it turns out WE WERE DUPED. When the question is asked, "Was the sacrifice worth it?" the answer has to be a very resounding NO. Thousands of our troops dead, tens of thousands more injured, a price tag into the trillions, and all we accomplished was replacing one dictator with another one.

Friday News On The Run...EPA Says FRACKING Contaminated Water Supply

It's a beautiful day outside here in DOWNTOWN Mountaindale, all the empty storefronts decorated in Holiday Cheer as shoppers get in their cars and drive some place else to put presents under the tree. I just got back from picking up a few baking supplies in Rockhill, and so wish we had some of those services here in our little hamlet...a convenience store for that half gallon of milk would be such a welcome addition, but for right now would settle for an ATM machine, or a nice quaint coffee and danish shop where I could pick up a morning paper and say hello to those who happen in. Lets get to the news.

Friday "News on the Run"

Do hope that the NYDEC and Governor Cuomo are following the news today...seems that the US EPA is making it official...FRACKING CHEMICALS found in aquifer out in Wyoming! Sure that the Cabot's, Chesapeake Energy and Exxon's of this world are rushing too refute the evidence, but just as those opposed to fracking have been trying to say, allowing Hydraulic Fracturing of the Marcellus Shale here in New York will poison are fresh water supplies, and MAKE US SICK.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said for the first time it found chemicals used in extracting natural gas through hydraulic fracturing in a drinking-water aquifer in west-central Wyoming.

Samples taken from two deep water-monitoring wells near a gas field in Pavillion, Wyoming, showed synthetic chemicals such as glycols and alcohols “consistent with gas production and hydraulic-fracturing fluids,” the agency said today in an e- mailed statement.

In a DUH moment...76 percent of American voters say incumbents do not deserve to be re-elected in 2012. A big 10-4 on that Gallop survey, but sadly most voters though feeling that way will think their own CONGRESSMAN or SENATOR is doing a bang up job. Come on folks, lets make 2012 the year of anyone but a Republican or Democrat. Anyone think I should throw my hat in the ring? LOL

Will Great Britain TRASH American economy and stock market, bringing on the first Great Depression of the 21st Century...I mean we are already in a Great Recession. Follow this crisis on Twitter

In what can only be considered unfair dangerous Republican politics as usual, Boehner is trying to tie the environmentally dangerous Keystone XL oil pipeline to the must be passed proposal to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. Maybe he should spend less time in the tanning booth, stop playing so much golf, and get in touch WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.