"The Border Patrol announced they will toughen policies. Duh, it's an election year and the Spectator in Chief wants to score points without actually doing anything."
"The idea of politicians wearing uniforms like NASCAR drivers do - so we could identify their corporate sponsors - was a great one! Haha!"
"The GOP forced Obama's hand on the pipeline. Obama knew he was going to make a bad decision, that is why he wanted to delay until after he gets voted out to screw it up."
"What a great President we have! With one stroke of the pen (denying the pipeline from Canada) he has raised our gas prices at the pump, increased our dependence on the Middle Eastern countries for oil, denied jobs to many thousands of Americans and hurt the environment with Canada now proceeding to ship crude oil to China, who could care less about carbon emissions. By the way I'm a moderate Republican who voted for Obama in the last election and likely would have voted for him again."
"If our local public school teachers want to engender respect from both student and parent, they could start by getting rid of the body piercings and cool it with the tattoos. Ironed pants and shirts for the men and ‘modest' outfits for the women would go a long way to gain some authority in the classroom. Teachers should stop trying to ‘blend in' and try to ‘stand out' from the student body. Get respect the old-fashioned way: Earn it."
"Perhaps Newt Gingrich has a simple and straight-forward solution to the furor now brewing over his moral values and his abysmal history with marriage. Neuter Newt! Can't you just hear Drew Carey ending The Price is Right each day saying ‘Don't forget to have both your pets and candidates spayed or neutered.' Where one U might not be enough, a double U just might do the trick! "
"So a little of Mitt ‘Iowa Landslide' Romney's straight-as-an-arrow luster is starting to rub off in the last couple of days. His ‘Iowa Landslide' turned out to be a Rick Santorum ‘Tsunami' with Rick winning by all of 34 votes. Then we find out that Mitt has stashed millions and millions of his estimated $250-$350 million fortune in of all places, the Cayman Islands away from IRA scrutiny. His old firm has some 150 or so ‘Cayman Funds' churning away millions in interest. With Romney's tax-deductible tithing gifts in the tens of millions to his church, much of it in fast-food company (they hate the anti-Illegal alien hiring provisions of Russell Pearce's SB 1070 Law) stock, no wonder Mitt only pays 15 percent taxes. We should all be so lucky."
"The movie and music industries are demanding a new law holding ISPs accountable for online piracy. Why should ISPs be required to spend money and time to supervise everything that comes across their networks to make sure the movie/music industry doesn't miss a dime in profit? Is the movie/music industry going to hire people/lawyers/programmers to make sure no customers stiff the ISPs? I don't think so. Laws already exist to protect music/movie industry from pirates. But they have to catch the bad guys themselves. That means THEY have to spend the money to catch them. No - they want someone else to pay to make sure they don't lose money."
truth posted at 3:18 pm on Sun, Jan 22, 2012.
Are people so uninformed to make comments that are printed in the vent? On the Keystone Pipe line the U.S. has become a major exporter of gas and other fules estimated in 2011 1000 million barrels have been exported, the Keystone project was never expected to supply the need of Americans, but to be shipped to Asia or the highest bidder. It has been reported so many time in the last few years that more has been accomplished to remove illegals from the U.S. than the previous president ever accomplished. I dare, no I double dare anyone to provide proof of their claims or will they continue to support ideas with out facts, business as usual.
Dale Whiting posted at 7:12 pm on Sun, Jan 22, 2012.
truth and Forth Venter:
"truth" may be onto something here. The austensible problem with the Keystone was that it traversed the [can't spell the name] acquafer extending from Kansas south into Texas. Clean water is a resource we cannot live without. So the logical thing to do is move the right of way east. OR
Every wonder why all of that Canadian Tar Sand is being converted to a messy liquid and then piped to Houston for refining? That uses a lot of water which has no value in Houston! And sure there are refineries there. But didn't we have a nationwide refinery capacity problem recently? And aren't many of our refineries getting a bit old? Surely we could refine that goo at new refineries in Canada and pipe the finished product south, south to maybe Chicago and from there east and west taking the pressure off of the rest of our supplies.
Or, perhaps truth is right. It's going to Houston so that it can be refined there and exported. It's hard to export from Chicago.
wdgnas posted at 7:40 am on Mon, Jan 23, 2012.
repeat a lie enough times and it becomes the truth.
aldous huxley once said "ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad".
from the az republic--Project supporters say U.S. rejection of the pipeline would not stop it from being built. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said Canada is serious about building a pipeline to its West Coast, where oil could be shipped to Asian markets.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2012/01/18/20120118obama-to-reject-fast-track-of-keystone-pipeline.html#ixzz1k6OtqfDL
Dale Whiting posted at 8:33 am on Mon, Jan 23, 2012.
wdgnas,
Who is lying and what is the lie they repeat? Some say the President rejects the keystone pipeline for reasons other than environmental concerns. Is that the lie? Some say that there is no future risk that a leak in the pipeline could harm the acquafer. Is that the lie? That TrnansCanada will build a pipeline to Vancoover appears to parallel "truth's" assertion that Canada wants to develop this resource. Surely no one is lying about that. Is it a lie to speculate that Canada does not want to do the refining anywhere near that resource? Speculation is speculation, not mistatement of fact. Where refining creates permanent jobs, ought not we be asking why this gooey miss is not to be refined near its source?
One statement from the article you cite does make an interesting point. Where the project was rejected because there had not been sufficient time to vet it's potential environmental impacts we read:
"Alex Pourbaix, TransCanada's president for energy and oil pipelines, said last week that the company soon will have a new route through Nebraska "that everyone agrees on."
Is this the lie? By stating that it will propose a new route that environmentalists agree is not a potential threat to precious Kansas ground water stores, TransCanada virtually admits that it could have chosen a less risky route. And it also admits that rejecting the chosen route without giving time to vet it has merit. Or is that also a lie?
Come on here, "wdgnas" be specific!
Dale Whiting posted at 8:42 am on Mon, Jan 23, 2012.
P.S.
I'll now speak some obvious truths! The US now imports 60% of the crude oil we consume. Fears that 20% of the world's supply of crude oil could become disrupted if hostilities break out in the Strait of Hormuz appears to be behind the increase in oil prices to $110 per barrell. The US certainly could use more oil from Canada and Canada could benefit from selling us crude oil. But piping the mixture of crude oil and water mixed into it [for extracting that oil requires superheating it with steam] raises a simple question. Why not refind the crude in Canada, keep the water for recycling tar sand extraction and send the refined products south, not to Houston where it would be refined and then sent back, but to where ever Houston would be sending it? Unless of course they would be sending it overseas!
There is something rotten in Denmark! Apparently Denmark it a new suburb of Houston!
jstack6 posted at 9:17 am on Mon, Jan 23, 2012.
Dale, I agree. The US imports way too much OIL and burns it in inefficient gas cars that are only 20% efficient. that means 80% is lost in heat, friction and pollution.
Only an electric vehicle can use diverse fuels to make the electricity, it's avaiable at every socket and the cars are over 80% efficient. Even when they brake and go downhill they can regenerate and recharge instead of waering out brake pads with dust and more heat from friction.
It's a big problem and there are now more choices.
truth posted at 10:13 am on Mon, Jan 23, 2012.
The answer to our energy problem could be in geothermal made hydrogen, Iceland runs on hydrogen energy with little cost to manufacture so can Americas, a clean source of energy with little pollution. If we can get it by the oil companies and the U.S controled congress by the oil companies.Has anyone noticed how the oil companies control our news media with their constant paid advertising on how good the oil companies are for our country.
wdgnas posted at 7:56 am on Tue, Jan 24, 2012.
dale: the lie--with Canada now proceeding to ship crude oil to China.
anyone that believes the oil is going to stay in the u.s is a FOOL. The oil that would be refined was ALWAYS meant to be sold to the asian markets, noted in the article.
why do you think the other end of the pipeline was ending in houston, a port city?
Unless of course they would be sending it overseas!--you finally are getting the picture...
it would be much more cost effective to build the refineries next to the tar sands in alberta. i guess i took the statement "out of context".
Accuracy posted at 11:27 am on Tue, Jan 24, 2012.
As the 2012 election heats up, President Barack Obama will by-pass the growing U.S. shale oil production, pipelines, as well as Gulf of Mexico crude oil development, in his State of the Union address today before a joint session of Congress. He'll focus on clean energy instead.
In his speech, he’ll defend his record for fairness for the middle-class, and also lay out a blueprint for bolstering the economy, which will focus on manufacturing and education.