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Apparently the squeaky wheel does get the grease, and a big congratulations to Mayor Shirley Kemp (women- they get shit done) for getting the SWN people to come to town council where we could all yell at them, because they are erecting a 360 degree sound barrier.

That doesn’t solve all the other problems we will eventually have with fracking, but at least we will be able to sleep.

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  1. 1.

    Brachiator

    because they are erecting a 360 degree sound barrier.

    Is that a dome?

    More seriously, I hope everything works out.

  8. 8.

    Spanky

    Am I the only one that reads “fracking” and remembers* that the original “Battlestar Galactica” used “frack” as substitute for “fuck”?

    * = or misremembering

  11. 11.

    Another Scott

    Excellent.

    Along these lines, Twitter:

    Khorasan Tom @TomHeartsTanks

    Sometimes when I’m having a bad day I just remember that Minnesota has refused to return a captured confederate traitor flag despite repeated demands from Virginia over the last 156 years. Based on the ancient law of “Fuck You”.

    8:48 AM – 6 Sep 2019

    Yeah!

    (via commiegirl1 on Twitter)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  12. 12.

    Duane

    You’ll be able to sleep provided you don’t think about all the other problems they cause. Good job getting their attention though. Now they know not to screw with you.

  13. 13.

    J R in WV

    Better to get them to stop work from 10 pm until 7 am, or other hours as defined by the mayor. The wall won’t do squat, as sound can go right over it. Plus, as you mentioned, the actual fracking will be noisy as hell, when they finish drilling the horizontal shafts and are ready to break up the rock structures under your town.

    Best of luck, though!!

  15. 15.

    stinger

    Good work, Mr. Cole. The aerial view you posted kind of broke my heart — it looked like the top of the mountain had been removed, which it may have been in an earlier resource extraction operation.

  16. 16.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    maybe some day people will notice, even care!

    Natasha Bertrand @ NatashaBertrand
    BREAKING: House Oversight is investigating whether US military expenditures have been propping up Trump Turnberry. A peculiar refueling stop in Glasgow by a US Air Force crew, who stayed overnight at the resort—there & back—tipped them off. Our exclusive:

    crews are using a British-owned airport for refueling, and staying at Turnberry. There’s a US air force base in England.

    One crew member was so struck by the choice of hotel — markedly different than the Marriotts and Hiltons the 176th maintenance squadron is used to — that he texted someone close to him and told him about the stay, sending a photo and noting that the crew’s per diem allowance wasn’t enough to cover food and drinks at the ritzy resort.

    ETA:

    David Frum @ davidfrum
    It’s 34 miles from Prestwick Airport to Trump Turnberry. Google counts 120 hotels witin near vicinity of Prestwick

  24. 24.

    RSA

    @Spanky:

    “Battlestar Galactica” used “frack” as substitute for “fuck”?

    What the frell are you talking about? … Oh, yeah, I do remember!

  27. 27.

    NotMax

    Is Mexico paying for this wall?

    :)

    Now watch – the outside of the barrier will turn out to be blindingly reflective.

  28. 28.

    Amir Khalid

    @CaseyL:
    I don’t remember “frak” from the original BSG with Lorne Greene, Richatd Hatch and, um, whatsisname. Surely you mean the new one?

  31. 31.

    Jay

    Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke in Arkansas today. There were so many RSVP's for the event that they had to move it from a library to an arena.More people showed up to see her than showed up at all but one Trump rally this year.In Arkansas. ?— Alex Schiller (@alexdschiller) September 4, 2019

  32. 32.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Jay: I don’t know how Alex Schiller is, but I hope Debra Massing or Bette Middler retweet that so that The Beast will see it.

  33. 33.

    Jay

    @Amir Khalid:

    Nope, frak was in the OG Battlestar as well. It was a way of using “swearwords” while avoiding the Censors. Serenity and Firefly paid homage to it by having characters curse in Mandarin.

  35. 35.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    The inquiry is part of a broader, previously unreported probe into U.S. military expenditures at and around the Trump property in Scotland. According to a letter the panel sent to the Pentagon in June, the military has spent $11 million on fuel at the Prestwick Airport — the closest airport to Trump Turnberry — since October 2017,

    so… this started on St Mattis’ watch?

    ETA: I’m trying to imagine how far down the chain of command trump had to reach to get to refueling planes and getting hotel vouchers to the crews

  40. 40.

    Chetan Murthy

    @NotMax:

    Or as we called it at the time, “Battlestar Gacraptica.”

    I was always fond of Mad Magazine’s soubriquet: “Battlestar Garlictica”.

  42. 42.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @HRA:

    Moscow Mitch does not like having the funds for a school in Kentucky taken for the wall/fence being called “Moscow Mitch.”

    Please don’t call Moscow Mitch “Moscow Mitch” again.

  44. 44.

    Jay

    Talking about Ben Shapiro,….

    3) Bunch of larvae-dicked non-entities who’ve never made a woman laugh, cum or miss them. Go mewl about same-sex bathrooms and stay away from the creative people. None of you have friends your own age ‘cuz everyone can smell a narc.— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) September 5, 2019

  45. 45.

    Aleta

    Dan Sobien @pres_nwseo
    Let me assure you the hard working employees of the NWS had nothing to do with the utterly disgusting and disingenuous tweet sent out by NOAA management tonight #NOAA

    James Franklin @FranklinJamesL
    Concerning NOAA’s statement this afternoon throwing WFO Birmingham under the bus…I thought Birmingham’s statement Sunday morning that Alabama would see no impacts from Dorian was spot-on and an appropriate response to the President’s misleading tweet that morning.
    * 
NHC’s WSP product serves as guidance to forecasters, and it showed only a very small likelihood of tropical-storm-force winds in the state, and essentially zero chance of hurricane-force winds. The risk of significant impacts in Alabama by that time was virtually nil.

    * Based on my experience as an NHC forecaster, I saw no meteorological justification on Sunday for the President to add Alabama to the list of states that would “most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated”.

    * Lastly, It’s the job of forecasters to interpret the numerical guidance available to them, not to echo it back out verbatim. I’m surprised and disappointed that NOAA’s statement today seems to not recognize the value its forecasters add to NWS products and services every day.
    * You all did the right thing. Take heart, @NWSBirmingham



    David Titley @dwtitley
    Perhaps the darkest day ever for @noaa leadership. Don’t know how they will ever look their workforce in the eye again. Moral cowardice.

    Joan Anzelmo @JoanAnzelmo
    
It’s the political appointees not the career leadership at NOAA


    March for Science #ClimateStrike @NOAA
    
Enough is enough. We, the science community, must take action.
    * Please join us on strike on September 20:
    * #ClimateStrike #ScienceStrike

  47. 47.

    Chetan Murthy

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Please don’t call Moscow Mitch “Moscow Mitch” again.

    I won’t be doing it. Instead, my bright red “Just Say Nyet to Moscow Mitch” t-shirt will do the talking for me.

  53. 53.

    HRA

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    LOL I have a collection of other words I could call him and hesitate in fear of having my deceased family members making a visit. :)
    The fraking nerve of this low life man.

  58. 58.

    Mary G

    Hoped it’d be about Trump, no such luck:

    How an elite university research center concealed its relationship with a sex offender—documents show MIT Media Lab accepted donations directed by Jeffrey Epstein far in excess of what the university has admitted to, and worked to cover it up: https://t.co/KTdYdCbZ6u— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) September 7, 2019

  59. 59.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Preet Bharara @ PreetBharara
    Allegations of Gov officials sending business to Trump:

    1. Trump to host G7 at his Doral resort

    2. Pence stayed at Trump resort 181 miles from Dublin

    3. Military planes refueled at Trump Scotland resort

    4. Bill Barr to host Xmas party at Trump Hotel

    House: Scorch the earth

    Bharara has been skeptical of impeachment, I believe

    this really is shocking, and the Pentagon in stiffing Congress in their inquiries

  60. 60.

    Ken

    BG also had “feldercarb.” I don’t think they ever said that it hit the fan, but it was used in equivalent phrases.

  61. 61.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Facts Do Matter @ WilDonnelly
    It also wasn’t a one-off stop. No one knows yet how many US military flights were diverted to Prestwick, but a C-17 Hurcules has a fuel capacity of 28,000 gallons. Jet fuel is currently around $2.00 per gallon. So $11,000,000 in fuel is enough to fill a C-17 about 196 times.

    so… 196 flights, how many people on a crew ? We’re probably looking at several hundred rooms rented over the course of two years, by our tax dollars, at trump’s failing resort

  62. 62.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Ted Lieu @ tedlieu
    Dear Secretary of Defense @EsperDoD: This smells like corruption.

    Can you explain to the American people why US military personnel apparently went out of their way to fly to a @realDonaldTrump resort?

  63. 63.

    HRA

    @Chetan Murthy:
    I would except for the fact of many other other relatives swear they had been “visited”. So I play it safe and who knows when this pressure of what we (my vast family members (far and near) are living under daily will release me from the fear. It is getting close.

  64. 64.

    dmsilev

    @Mary G:

    In September, 2014, Ito wrote to Epstein soliciting a cash infusion to fund a certain researcher, asking, “Could you re-up/top-off with another $100K so we can extend his contract another year?” Epstein replied, “yes.” Forwarding the response to a member of his staff, Ito wrote, “Make sure this gets accounted for as anonymous.” Peter Cohen, the M.I.T. Media Lab’s Director of Development and Strategy at the time, reiterated, “Jeffrey money, needs to be anonymous. Thanks.”

    Yeah, that’s not good.

    (Also, for those not fluent in University Bureaucracy, ‘Development’ means ‘Raising Money From Rich People’.)

  65. 65.

    randy khan

    @Aleta:

    David Titley @dwtitley
    Perhaps the darkest day ever for @noaa leadership. Don’t know how they will ever look their workforce in the eye again. Moral cowardice.

    Joan Anzelmo @JoanAnzelmo
    
It’s the political appointees not the career leadership at NOAA


    NOAA does not have a permanent administrator (and in fact has not had one since January 2017). It’s being run by an acting administrator who’s an assistant secretary of Commerce and a political appointee, although I’m pretty sure the NOAA job is a political appointment, too, albeit usually someone who actually is knowledgeable about what NOAA does.

    My guess is that the statement was dictated at the Department of Commerce level. It may not even have touched anyone actually at NOAA.

  66. 66.

    Aleta

    These public servants and members of the military who serve the country and members of the administration and appointees who’ve enabled or joined the corruption the last two years. And people like Mattis who won’t speak out because (it seems to be implied) he has a higher code of conduct he must follow. You don’t suddenly lose your sense of ethical responsibility because of one situation you find yourself in, do you? They’ve been making these kinds of decisions in some form before Trump came along, haven’t they. No mercy for Pentagon officials or anyone in the chain of operations, military and non, who were ‘just following orders.’ They were already accustomed to looking the other way and shutting up.

  67. 67.

    dmsilev

    @randy khan: Almost cries out for some oversight hearings by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Let’s find out who wrote that release, and what communication from the White House preceded it.

  68. 68.

    Mary G

    Am I dreaming or was there an Adam post a couple of minutes ago?

    I tried to post this:

    Late night breaking news: "House panel to take formal steps on impeachment probe next week." @mkraju is live on @CNN now…— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 7, 2019

    I said they’d do it this fall.

  70. 70.

    TS (the original)

    @Aleta: There has to be a reckoning when a new president is elected in 2020 (If a fair election even happens). Who in the military would authorise crew to stop in Scotland & stay at a trump hotel? I just cannot believe the crew would decide that for themselves – and who would they complain to if they disagree with the order?

  71. 71.

    Cheryl Rofer

    Congratulations on getting something done, John. Now you all just have to follow up and make sure they actually build the barrier.

    In other news, Ronan Farrow has another article on Jeffrey Epstein, this time about his contributions to the MIT Media Lab and how hard Joi Ito worked to keep Epstein’s name from showing up as a donor or facilitator of donations from others. I am looking forward to when Farrow investigates Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico. There was an article in the Santa Fe New Mexican this week about shady dealings in leases for the land around the ranch to assure Epstein’s privacy.

  72. 72.

    Aleta

    @randy khan
    T’s nominee to head NOAA Barry Myers (former CEO of AcuWeater) is still waiting for confirmation, because of opposition due to his conflicts of interest and other sleaze like stock profits. The GOP Senate is still trying to get him through. (If I remember, one of the main opponents to confirmation was a Dem Fla Senator who lost in 2018 election.)

  73. 73.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @TS (the original): I just cannot believe the crew would decide that for themselves – and who would they complain to if they disagree with the order?

    Rick Wilson (ex-DOD) said that military personnel are not supposed to stay at civilian hotels unless it’s “mission essential”

  74. 74.

    SRW1

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    … sending a photo and noting that the crew’s per diem allowance wasn’t enough to cover food and drinks at the ritzy resort.

    So the spouses of the military guys/girls had to pack them some sandwiches for the flights? I mean surviving on the courtesy candy mighta been tough.

  75. 75.

    HRA

    John, I am very glad the mayor decided to get relief for you and the town residence from this terrible noise. I hope more can be done if this is not enough in the near future.

  76. 76.

    lgerard

    @TS (the original):

    Who in the military would authorise crew to stop in Scotland & stay at a trump hotel? I just cannot believe the crew would decide that for themselves – and who would they complain to if they disagree with the order?

    Staying in the hotel seems a secondary issue here. The real scandal is the diversion of military flights to a bankrupt airport in an effort to convince the Scottish government to keep it open. It seems that this airport is essential to trump’s business and if it closed he would have a giant problem.

  77. 77.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @lgerard:

    David Frum @ davidfrum
    There is always, always, always a tweet
    Donald J. Trump @ realDonaldTrump
    “Donald Trump pledges to make Prestwick Airport ‘really successful’”

    November, 2014

  81. 81.

    Another Scott

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Not to be “that guy”, but…

    The C-17 is a big jet cargo plane. The “Globemaster”.

    The Hercules is a big propell[e]r plane. The C-130.

    It’s really sloppy to mix them up.

    That said, we have known for ages that Donnie would steal everything not nailed down if he thought he could get away with it. I’m glad this information is coming out about Pence’s staying at his resort, Donnie trying to skim away Pentagon money, etc., is coming out.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  82. 82.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Spanky: @CaseyL: : Misremembering – it was BG 2.0

    @Jay: As usual, the Knucklehead of the Frozen North is full of shit. Icy shit. ICBM.

    And even if by some odd chance you happen to be correct for one very rare moment, you are still Full Of Shit, Knuck.

  85. 85.

    TriassicSands

    With any luck, John, you’ll be able to use your kitchen sink faucet as a blowtorch. Ah, the hidden perks of fracking.

  86. 86.

    Central Planning

    @Another Scott:

    The C-130.

    I once saw a C-130 take off from our local airport. It was gigantic. I could hear the hum of the propellers from my car, and that massive plane looked like it would fall out of the sky because it seemed to be hardly moving during takeoff. It was amazing.

    2 weekends ago our airport also hosted an airshow. I was picking up a rental while some fighter jet was doing acrobatics around the airport. The jet engines vibrated my insides which was awesome. I can only imagine that being terrifying if it was flying overhead during a war.

  88. 88.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @EthylEster:

    This thread is dead as a doornail; maybe repost this on a newer thread.

    I happen to be reading only because I’m trying to get caught up on a bunch of old threads.

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