Keith Sketchley writes:
Today the US State Department reported ‘no major environmental objections to the proposed $7 billion Keystone pipeline’. I wonder what Obamas and Kerrys reasons for further delay will be now?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline cleared a major hurdle toward approval Friday, a serious blow to environmentalists’ hopes that President Barack Obama will block the controversial project running more than 1,000 miles from Canada through the heart of the U.S.
The State Department reported no major environmental objections to the proposed $7 billion pipeline, which has become a symbol of the political debate over climate change.
Let’s use some logic (such is indeed rare or non-existent in the brain of most left-wingers; truly a mental disorder is operating).
Is a spill of major proportions more likely from the Keystone pipeline, or from a 60-year old Liberian tanker holding a couple million barrels of oil coming from Venezuela or Saudi Arabia?
Of course, NOTHING compares to the inconvenience of a three lane highway merging into a two-lane highway. This is the horror of all heinous horrors!
What a maroon…
Canada is the 6th largest oil producer in the world, and the largest foreign supplier of oil to the USA.
The Obama / Keystone XL Pipeline debacle sends a clear message to Canada:
“Develop all-Canadian oil export routes to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and do so ASAP.”
Despite our long friendship, Canada can no longer count on the USA as a dependable energy partner.
By catering to enviro-extremists, Obama has damaged our relationship.
Strategically, he has ensured that the USA will lose guaranteed access to its largest foreign supplier of oil.
For the record, I have lived in New York and Houston and am a friend of the USA.
Regards to all, and enjoy the SuperBowl!
Jim vs Ed for dumbest posts of the day. Jim: why would we ship oil to US Gulf Coast refineries to ship to China (which is against US law anyway) when we can just ship crude directly to China (its called the Pacific Ocean). Ed: love your acceptance of Obamanomics…billions of dollars of private investment in strategic resource development produces 30 jobs…billions of fiat funded dollars to repaving roads, green energy, etc. saves the US economy.
I think Canada should raise the stakes here and if KXL doesn’t get approved now we negotiate a currency swap with China for our future oil/coal/etc. exports (like Australia and other resource producers have done)…screw the petrodollar!
Allan M. lets not forget reversing the East-West pipeline so we can feed our refineries with Canadian crude.
P.S. one more visit from that clown John Kerry and I am voting for shutting down the current Keystone pipeline (/sarc off)
pat says:
February 1, 2014 at 5:20 am
“the sooner everyone understands CAGW is not a partisan thing, the better we will be able to defeat the scam.”
I agree it isn’t 100% partisan, but if you vote for a democrat in the upcoming midterms or in the next presidential, probably at least a 90% chance he will vote and push to continue the scam.
Good news about the pipeline. Now, since Hansen say’s if it gets built it’s “game over”, shouldn’t that mean they should just shut up about CAGW and resign to die in a Venus like world… to just enjoy what little time mankind will have left? Game over should mean GAME OVER, but somehow I just know they will just keep protesting and coming up with new “game over ifs…” because it really isn’t about the climate at all.
“Steve in Seattle says:
February 1, 2014 at 1:11 am
Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
Seems as though the left of liberal married females most always have a hyphenated last name(s).”
Odd…Seems to be a feminista thing.??? I too recogize that trend…if a trend.
“Speaking of ecos, here in WA state a similar delay tactic is in play, by the watermelons, a governor ordered ‘comprehensive’ study to determine the risk of coal trains passing through WA. The state department of ecology ( thank you Dixie ) is living in the limelight of the local green emotions – science and actualities have nothing to do with this dog and pony show. You can submit all the current climate science and/or solar physics you want, it will not be considered. On the other hand, a person can move to the head of the line of experts IF its a ‘she’ and her written page of comments drip with the emotions of how the future of her children and their pet goldfish will be imperiled by these menacing trains, carrying death.”
Yep, ok to have the oil refineries in Anacortes and Cherry Point, et al, but woe to those with coal trains passing. And the eco threats against the Trans-Alta evil coal burning power plant, whence the oil money pours into the WA state greener coalitioners to with relentless vigor lobby the state legislature into forcing a planet saving conversion to natural gas. Say to me oh planet saving greeners how natural gas is greener than coal? The hypocricy is rampant on every turn.
Then the pipeline. Tell me again how many greeners have a garage with a petrolem burning vehical parked?…and use toilet paper??? Poor tree…only to see its last moment to a view we shall not describe. Ecos sit on a wooden chair at a wooden table and nibble down greener greens. The hypocricy… One should prepare for the “happy hopy change.”
@Bill Illis 4:17am,
Says it all.
The idiocy of Obama and the American eco-loons, will be a longterm benefit to Canada’s bottom line.
Currently McMurray Oil is technically stranded and buyers get a 30 to 50 dollar per barrel discount/subsidy.
End result the lack of transport alternatives costs Canada and benefits American buyers.
Thanks to President Obama, canadians can see the risk of having only one trade route.
I suspect the east and west pipelines will now be built as they are clearly defined(By Obama’s inaction) as in our national interest.
For even tho Obama will be gone in another3 years, canadians now know that any kind of ideologue can be elected president, if they have sufficient financial backing and presstitute support.
Nationalization of foreign pipelines may not be an absurd fear.
Of course it is possible we canadians will elect The Shiny Phoney, in 2015 and join you in wallowing in a delusional redistributive heaven.
Perhaps we need to ban from politics any who have never done real work,nor produced any thing of value.
A tax on do-gooders are necessary for the survival of civilization?
Mr. Ed says: “The Household Employment Survey unemployment rate showed a decline of three tenths to 6.7%. ”
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
Of course, the federal government relies on the sheeple to just blindly follow. Are you a “sheeple” Mr. Ed?
The flaws in the official unemployment rate are well-known: It counts people only if they’ve actively looked for work in the past month. People who’ve given up on getting a job, even temporarily, are considered to be out of the labor force.
In the past few years, the unemployment rate has come down in large part because of movements OUT of the labor force. Since the recession began, the number of people who ARE NOT in the labor force has increased by 12.6 million to 91.8 million.
Now Mr. Ed. Please do your self a favor. READ. 🙂
Hi dear Janice. Thank you, my friend from the ether 🙂 And – this is indeed very good news. I need to read up on this post… but first, I’m off to a meeting.
Mario
“… climate,” said Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, the
NRDC’sChina’s internationalprogrampropaganda director. “That is absolutely not inourChina’s national interest.”{Yup, Jimbo, you are correct: China is very interested. Thanks for more great info.!}
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HI, MAC! Thanks!
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@ur momisugly Brian H. — thank you for more info. re: Mt. Washington on Vancouver Island which does exist, lol.
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@ur momisugly Allan MacRae (2:48am today) — Hi, O Friend! And I am a friend of True Canada!
re: “I remain perplexed by Obama’s Keystone decision, which appears to be very much against the national interests of the USA. … Am I missing something here?”
Yes. Barack HUSSEIN’s words and deeds prove that he is “very much against the national interests of the USA.” Thus, it is only logical. Disgusting, but not perplexing, unfortunately.
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Thank you, Andrew Harding, for responding! Glad you all had such a lovely holiday. Oh, yes, I remember the one time I flew to Hawaii — it seemed to take for-ever (out of Sea-Tac). The people there are, for the most part, VERY friendly. I, too, love that not-a-single-sound-of-humanity silence. I can get to it by hiking up the lower part of Mt. Baker. Every so often, I stop and just “listen” to the silence. Even though I grew up in the countryside, there is still occasional road traffic, or a small plane, or our wonderful U. S. Navy’s “sound of freedom” – GO, NAVY!. Take care and I hope that your happy memories give you an enduring joy that far outweighs the “back to the ol’ grindstone” feeling. Oh, and btw: Is Rogers, Booksellers, of Newcastle Upon Tyne still in business? C. S. Lewis was always recommending them in his collected letters that I enjoy reading over and over.
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@ur momisugly Mario Lento: Received. #(:))
Here’s the morning news:
Keystone opponents vow civil disobedience, vigils starting Monday
Published February 01, 2014
FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/01/keystone-opponents-vow-civil-disobedience-vigils-starting-monday/?intcmp=HPBucket
Unfortunately, there are still two other hurdles to be cleared before KXL is approved: objections from John Holdren, the so-called “science” (recte “witchcraft”) adviser to der Fuehrer, and John Podesta, his chief of staff (of George Soros fame) whose objective is to do away entirely with energy in any form.
Since there is no question that der Fuehrer would only approve the KXL over his own desperate personal objections to it, under pressure from the rest of the world, the influence of these two mollusks cannot be counted out, as to tipping him against approving it. The fact that they would be delivering a gratuitous slap in the face to our best and most valuable ally, Canada, will not deter the two gastropods from nixing it. Reason does not rule here.
DirkH says:
February 1, 2014 at 5:51 am
Steve from Rockwood says:
February 1, 2014 at 5:15 am
“Other than Obamacare and the green energy revolution (i.e. subsidizing solar and wind projects) what has this President really done that is memorable?”
Creating more public debt than all other presidents combined? His term is not over yet; he’s got a good change of making it.
http://politicalderby.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/us-debt-graph-2020.jpg
That was odd – got my blockquotes reversed. Please read the above comment as follows: Dirk’s comment is in plain type, my own in the blockquote. Sheesh. Out of practice.
Ed_B says: @ur momisugly February 1, 2014 at 6:34 am
“Creating more public debt than all other presidents combined?”
The republicans did that by tanking the economy prior to BO taking over….
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Sorry Ed that is a legacy of Clinton. I can not stand the Bushes but Clinton set-up the current economic mess.
CLINTON AND TRADE TREATIES:
Clinton pushed the ratification of WTO, NAFTA, the entry of China into the WTO.
According to Johmn Williams the job loss for 2007 to 2011 is 6.5 million as I showed in the other chart. The reason is because the tariffs for each country were set and could not be increased thanks to World Trade Organization agreements. This means it was no longer a gamble to build a plant overseas because Congress could not INCREASE the tariffs to prevent job loss.
And China’s WTO Violations Threaten [an additional] 1.6 Million … American jobs in the auto industry, according to the Alliance for American Manufacturing…. (Jan 31, 2012)
[b]Clinton KNEW US jobs would be exported and made sure the blame would not fall on him.[/b]
Also of interest, no sooner than Bush entered the White House the Banker Owned News Media started screaming RECESSION!
CLINTON AND FARMING
The WTO Agreement on Ag and the “Freedom to Fail” 1996 Farm bill that bankrupted American farmers and farmers overseas allowing the Ag Cartels to move in and grab power over the world food supply were both written under Clinton by Cargil VP Dan Amstutz (I am hoping he is roasting in Hades.)
As an example NAFTA:
Rothschild cashes in by Investing in Farmland
Credit Suisse: The Hunt for Land Has Already Started
CLINTON AND BANKS
Clinton’s signed the laws that repealed the McFadden Act of 1927, the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 and the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 lead to the Formation of Mega Banks. He is also responsible for the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 that was responsible for marginal mortgage loans doomed to fail and the unregulated CDSs used to insure the banks against foreclosure.
The Federal Reserve Act was signed into law by a Democrat on 1913.
The US public was against the resulting Bank Bailouts but we got them anyway and then got the additional shaft from the Obama’s Mortgage Modification Program. Families on the edge were lured into the modification program, their mortgage payments lowered and then a year or so later the banks tell them the do not “Qualify” and hand them a HUGE bill due in 30 days consisting of all the money shaved off the year’s morgage payments, penalties AND LAWYERS FEES. If you manage to scrape the money together you hit Act II. The bank refuses to hand you a bill. It took us hiring a lawyer and a six months of dancing to get the !&%$ bank to actually name the amount needed to pay to keep us out of foreclosure!!!
The US public was against the resulting Bank Bailouts but we got them anyway. The Fed refused to allow Congress (Ron Paul) to see where the money went When the Fed finally answered the question several year later, it turns out it went to the EU to bailout THEIR BANKS! Wall Street Journal: The Federal Reserve’s Covert Bailout of Europe
Americans then got the additional shaft from the Obama’s Mortgage Modification Program. Families on the edge were lured into the modification program, their mortgage payments lowered and then a year or so later the banks tell them the do not “Qualify” and hand them a HUGE bill due in 30 days consisting of all the money shaved off the year’s morgage payments, penalties AND LAWYERS FEES. If you manage to scrape the money together you hit Act II. The bank refuses to hand you a bill. It took us hiring a lawyer and a six months dance to get the *&^$! bank to actually name the amount needed to pay to keep us out of foreclosure!!!
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There was no law to back-up Obama’s loan modification plans so the banks could determine whether or not to foreclose and collect not only the house but the taxpayer funded credit default swap insurance and you can bet your boots the more credit default swaps on you mortgage the more the bank WANTED to foreclose. It PAID to make risky loans. Obama’s mortgage modification program was a colossal failure, with hardly any principal modifications occurring. But the banks won big as marginal loans were forced into foreclosures that would otherwise not have occurred.
Obama’s Mortgage Modification Program A Colossal Flop
If you want to bash Republicans than bash Bush for the Patriot Act (that Obama and his Democratic Congress left intact) or Reagan and his Corporate Raiders and Leveraged Buyouts that took the accumulated assets of companies with NO DEBT and transferred the wealth to raiders and banks while wiping out the corporation or leaving it so heavily in debt that salaries had to be cut.
_Jim says: @ur momisugly February 1, 2014 at 7:20 am
Thanks _Jim for those pointers. I will read them later this week when I am not working. (I work weekends)
“I can not stand the Bushes but Clinton set-up the current economic mess.”
Well, hold your nose and get ready for “Bride of Clinton”, soon in a theater near you.
CD (@ur momisuglyCD153) says: @ur momisugly February 1, 2014 at 7:35 am
Obama is between a rock and a hard place here. The objections to approving the pipeline are fading away with each report that green lights the project (along with other arguments). Yet, he is beholden to the green movement and lobby who mostly and vehemently oppose the project….
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As kenin says @ur momisugly February 1, 2014 at 7:22 am “…. I see most are still falling into this trap of left vs right…”
It does not matter whether it is the the ‘Controlled Opposition” aka the Republicans or the Democrats. The guy on the street gets raped then trampled. We have no money therefore we have no power. It is just that simple.
Read: America’s Ruling Class
Also read E. M. Smith’s “Evil Socialism” vs “Evil Capitalism” which explains why big corporations love socialism. (At least their version of socialism) Dwayne Andreas of Archer Daniels Midland Co. is one example. and Maurice Strong’s Molten Metal Technology Inc. is another.
And as I said before Warren Buffet, Obama’s good buddy who controls Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire Hathaway owns GEICO, BNSF, Lubrizol, Dairy Queen, Fruit of the Loom, Helzberg Diamonds and NetJets, owns half of Heinz and an undisclosed percentage of Mars, Incorporated and has significant minority holdings in American Express, The Coca-Cola Company, Wells Fargo, and IBM. Berkshire Hathaway just bought Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad.
Because the US Supreme Court just ruled a Corporation is a ‘Person’ EACH of those entities can donate a $123,200* overall biennial limit: of $48,600 to all candidates and $74,600 to all PACs and parties. That means Buffet can see that up to $985,600 per year or more can be donated to a political party. Thats a nice chunk of change.
As Top Senate Democrat: Dick Durbin’s confessed
Mike says: @ur momisugly February 1, 2014 at 9:09 am
….P.S. one more visit from that clown John Kerry and I am voting for shutting down the current Keystone pipeline….
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Why don’t you just take Kerry on a tour of a nice DEEP tar pit and leave him there. IMAGE Do the world a favor.
Bill Parsons says: @ur momisugly February 1, 2014 at 2:43 pm
….. but it was more than just peacetime that yielded three decades (til Carter, say?) of halcyon stability and growth afterwards. I really wonder if we have what it takes to repeat that performance…..
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In a word NO!
At the time, after WWII we had an intact country while Europe, Japan and other countries had been bombed into rubble. We also did not have all the regulations Federal regulations have lowered real GDP growth by 2% per year since 1949 and made America 72% poorer
The time, manpower and money spent on regulations does zero to increase the actual wealth of a nation. it is a net negative to the point where over regulation and a burdensome bureaucracy can literally kill a country. Keystone is of course a glaring example.
That should make people sit up and tale notice but most never see the information.
Here is another study:
Hey, I didn’t say that.
I may have posted a note saying the extended Keystone pipeline was now flowing oil to the Gulf refineries, having been extended from Cushing. (IOW, tar sands oil is now flowing by pipeline through the US.)
The one needing approval is the shortcut well to the north, and perhaps enlargement. (I gather, but could be wrong, that a big part of the State Department’s rational is the “lesser of two evils” of pipeline than rail transport.)
Or are there two Keith Sketchleys? (Possible, it’s not a rare last name, but I’ve not heard of one before.)
Oh! thanks Mac the Knife, yes I did report on the lack of snow on the mid-wet coast, where Mount Washington is.
Bill Parsons says: @ur momisugly February 1, 2014 at 4:31 pm
…Well, hold your nose and get ready for “Bride of Clinton”, soon in a theater near you.
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I am hoping that Benghazi comes back and takes a huge chunk out of her rear end. Some of the more entertaining skuttlebutt was Benghazi was supposed to be a choreographed kidnapping to make Obama look like a hero when he rode in on his horse to save the day but it went wrong because the Marines did not stand down as instructed and the Arabs thought they had been double crossed. link
Hey, Keith Sketchley! Thanks for saying THAT. I wouldn’t have thought there were two in the world… .
Thanks for showing up to let us know. A little mystery (partially) solved.
Gail,
WRT federal regulation… thank goodness they meticulously “study” an issue before they regulate it.
The earth-shattering revelation of this report:
In other words, this 11-volume tome apparently just clears the way for a lot more expensive waffling by the Obama government. If ever approved, we must breathlessly await the regulation and its concomitant costs.
Regards.