and it is not going to be pretty.

One story out of many.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/denton-texas-92yearold-partiallysighted-woman-arrested-by-police-at-site-of-antifracking-protest-10327007.html

“The media has emphasised my age," said 92-year-old, partially-sighted Violet Palmer. "But my emphasis is that I have been robbed - and so have 15,000 people – robbed of our vote.”

Mrs Palmer this week found herself in a situation she had never been in before, arrested and driven away by uniformed officers after she protested outside the gates of a Texas fracking site. She had been sitting there in a rocking chair

She and her son Theron were among demonstrators gathered at the gates of a site operated by Colorado-based Vantage Energy. Her son, 64, was eventually charged with trespass and blocking a highway, while she was released without charge. She said officers treated her with courtesy.

Meanwhile, we await the news of another explosion.

does lead the nation in the manufacturing of STUPID

The pretense that stupidity is predicated on the location of imaginary borders seems rather... well, stupid also.

I had you figured for a smug resident of northern California or Cape Cod. Blue coastal states are where most of the brain-dead Texas bashing seems to come from, here on DU. FYI, there are fracking operations going on all over the country; better start tailoring some put-downs for places like Pennsylvania and North Dakota.

What recourse does the city have when the state and its oil barons both tag team to run a train on them? I feel bad for that town.

The last things that those bastards want to see spreading around their
state are intelligence and democracy.

Given how long the government & chemical companies have delayed payments
for the poisoning of servicemen by a known toxin (Agent Orange), don't expect
any of your current residents to live long enough to claim compensation for this
particular illegal & immoral act.