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The Obama administration is unlikely to make a decision on the Canada-to-Nebraska Keystone XL pipeline until late this year as it painstakingly weighs the project's impact on the environment and on energy security, a U.S. official and analysts said on Friday. Anything worth doing is worth doing painstakingly, arduously, agonizingly, painfully slowly. The decision may not be made until November, December or even early 2014, said a U.S. official, as President Barack Obama will not rush the process, which still has a number of stages to work through. One of those stages has not even begun yet and will run for months. Death by slow torture.
Backers of the pipeline say the project would boost North American energy security and provide thousands of construction jobs. Opponents argue that it would lead to higher releases of greenhouse gases. If the opponents would only stop breathing, the world would be a better place.
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But most of their legislation has to be passed so quickly nobody even has a chance to read it.
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He's too buisy right now ducking an dodging the Bengazi accuzations, he has no time to really work.
"Swivel Hips" they're calling him.(Obama)
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Prol'ly a red line got crossed somewhere so he's taking a Real. Hard. Look at everything. Especially since he can't do a lot about the oil coming out of the private Bakken play
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The Canadians should announce that they're just going with the pipeline to BC for shipment to China. It'll still burn someplace in the world. Just no jobs in the lower 48. If Bumbles calls just do what Putin did, put him on hold for a couple of hours before politely telling him to go recycle his own crap for energy.
Another day, another US city on the brink of insolvency. This time it's Detroit, whose recently appointed emergency financial manager Kevyn Orr said may run out of cash next month and must cut costs such as long-term debt and retiree obligations. According to Bloomberg, "Orrs report says the cost of $9.4 billion in bond, pension and other long-term liabilities is sapping the ability to provide such basic services as public safety and transportation. He listed cutting debt principal, retiree benefits and jobs among options he may take. No one should underestimate the severity of the financial crisis, He called his report "a sobering wake-up call about the dire financial straits the city of Detroit faces."
Funny, the above bolded sentence, because we have long since crossed into a stage where absolutely everyone is underestimating the severity of the financial crisis, which incidentally is long over if one listens to the broader media. As for Detroit, may we suggest the same medicine that the "expert economists" prescribe for every other instance of overlevered insolvency: just issue more debt. Surely with worthless Greek bonds soaring, there must be some Japanese investment funds that can't wait to buy up all that paper on nothing but promises of untold riches courtesy of the endless carry trade that apparently can do no wrong.
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"Another day, another US City on the brink of bankruptcy. This times its Detroit ..."
Once again, Boyz, wid feeling - AGAIN-N-N-N???
Yet another reason why the US = POTUS Bammer Admin may NOT be able to intervene + defend its overseas allies despite what the various Mutual/Collective Security Treaty(s) say???
Its not even Year 2015-2020 yet, + US Debt is already nearing US$17.1 Trilyuhn which IIRC wasn't supposed to be reached until circa 2017-2018.
Remember, China desires Guam + Hawaii + 1/2 of CONUS-NORAM - IOW, THE US LOSING ROUGHLY ONE-HALF OF THE PACIFIC IS JUST FOR STARTERS.
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of news hounds and editors for The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual news hounds, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls.
In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown, but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.
In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Inaction Jackson Holder ... aka Mister Fast and Furious... on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.
"There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The News Agency that Dare Not be Named and its news hounds. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP's newsgathering operations and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know," Pruitt said.
The government would not say why it sought the records. Officials have previously said in public testimony that the U.S. attorney in Washington is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have provided information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot. The story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaeda plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.
[BLOG.AL] Acting state Democratic Party Chairwoman Nancy Worley lowered her head and slowly shook it side to side when summing up the financial condition of her once powerful party.
"We're broke, broke, broke," Worley told the party's Executive Board in a special called meeting Frida.
How broke is broke? Worley didn't sugar coat the answer.
"This is my 18th day as chair and thirty minutes after I took over on April 22nd the landlord of the building where our party headquarters are came in and said he wanted us out, that the rent was overdue and was always overdue," said Worley.
Next came the water company with a message, said Worley: pay up by the next day or we're cutting off the water. Next came the same warning from Alabama Power. Next came news from banks that party credit cards had been maxed out and were now cancelled.
"I didn't even know where the checkbook was, not that it would have made much difference," said Worley.
Worley said she dealt with each demand for back payments the same way.
"I begged them to give me a few more days, that I had just taken over the job and needed a little time" said Worley. "I have never done that much begging in my life."
Last week's board meeting was the first since former Democratic Party Chairman Mark Kennedy announced that he was stepping down following a public fight with Reed and Worley over the party's budget and control.
Shortly after resigning, Kennedy announced he was forming a new organization to be called the Alabama Democratic Majority and that he would lead it in an effort to reshape and energize the party.
The Alabama Democratic Majority came in for heated criticism at the board meeting by not just Worley but by Joe Reed, the party's long time vice chairman and chairman of the party's black wing, the Alabama Democratic Conference.
Worley said in addition to the financial chaos there are equipment, supplies and art work missing from party headquarters. Worley charged that a quick review has shown that Kennedy and the party staff he took with him appear to have taken data including information on over 2.8 million voters and to have cut off bank drafts from donors to the party and diverted them to Kennedy's new organization.
Among the alleged missing equipment are laptops, cell phones and printing paper. Worley said she personally observed a car parked at the back rear of party headquarters over the weekend of April 20th and saw equipment and art work and printer paper lined along the back wall.
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Good, good, good.
Donor money is all going to Colorado to support the inbred hillbillies voting for gun control.
* SALON > GOP FACING EXTINCTION ON IMMIGRATION REFORMS.
Not unlike 50,000 Iranian rockets-missles to the Paleos, whats a mere 11-57.oMilyuhn illegal immigrants + foreign workers aka "Undocumented/
Unofficial Democrats" + Soon-to-be-Global OWG, Domestic Welfare-Nanny Staters to the post-2015 "borderless" + "Anti-sovereign" US???
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Among the alleged missing equipment are laptops, cell phones and printing paper. Worley said she personally observed a car parked at the back rear of party headquarters over the weekend of April 20th and saw equipment and art work and printer paper lined along the back wall.
I'd check with your creditors about those items...
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...and to have cut off bank drafts from donors to the party and diverted them to Kennedy's new organization.
I strongly suspect that there are very serious legal issues involved in that one. Then again, it appears a normal modus operandi for Donks to do with public monies as well. Put it down to inner party vs outer party squabbling.
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I wouldn't be so fast to throw the "progressive hellhole" label at Alabama .Might lead me to think you didn't know what the hell you're talkin' about!
...who is not going to be remembered as Speaker in the same way as John Quincy Adams or even Tip O'Neill...
is facing mounting pressure to create a special or select committee to investigate the Benghazi terror attacks in which four Americans were killed.
The House resolution to form a special committee now has at least 139 co-sponsors who are putting Boehner in the difficult position of leading efforts to get the White House to release emails on Benghazi-gate but not agreeing to the demands of many rank-and-file Republicans.
139 members: I'm guessing all Pubs. That means a majority of the majority party. That would ordinarily prompt a Speaker to do something...
The resolution is sponsored by Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf who suggested to Boehner in a forceful, four-page letter Thursday that the Obama administration perhaps failed to adequately prevent the deaths of the Americans killed and injured in the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, and that not appointing the committee could make the Republican-led House complicit in that failure.
An ABC News story said the CIAs explanation of the Benghazi events changed 12 different times before being made public.
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said five days after the attacks, while making the rounds on the Sunday talk shows, that the strikes appeared to be spontaneous and sparked by protests elsewhere in the Middle East about an anti-Islamic video. However, references to Islamic militants and terror attacks in the original CIA reports were scrubbed from Rices final talk points.
Wolf said that after the ABC News report the number of co-sponsors increased to 144, about 60 percent of the House Republican Caucus.
If you dont use the subpoena power, people will not come in and testify, because if youre 50 years old and youre a federal employee, you have two kids, maybe two college tuitions, you have a mortgage on your house in Arlington County, youre not going to risk your career, Wolf told conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt on Friday.
He also said somebody from the Armed Services Committee should be included on the panel because the Defense Department is involved in the Benghazi matter. And the Intelligence Committee should be included because the CIA and the office of the Director of National Intelligence are also involved.
Boehner on Thursday again declined to commit to appointing a committee, saying he has confidence in the committees already holding investigations.
You get the sense that the Speaker would like all this to go away...
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because if you're 50 years old and you're a federal employee, you have two kids, maybe two college tuitions, you have a mortgage on your house in Arlington County, you're not going to risk your career," Wolf told conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt on Friday.
Er, huh, does this mean that folks over the age of 50 have a difficult time changing careers, and that age discrimination really does exist ?
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One problem is that when "select commitee" is used, the follow-on is always "Watergate".
Another problem is that select commitees are bipartisan. What made the select commitee on Watergate work was that senior Republicans were on board. Given the performance of Democrat members at last week's hearings, at this point it's a recipe for gridlock and eventual failure.
Personally, at this point I'd rather let the existing commitees do their work and let the press coverage continue to build momentum.
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"If you don't use the subpoena power, people will not come in and testify, because if you're 50 years old and you're a federal employee, you have two kids, maybe two college tuitions, you have a mortgage on your house in Arlington County, you're not going to risk your career," Wolf told conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt on Friday.
There is an Office of Special Council whose job is to protect whistleblowers and protect the merit system. What Wolf is saying is that there are people who are afraid nonetheless, that when they tell the truth they will be punished by the Obama admin. This doesn't surprise me but I wish Wolk had been explicit in saying that.
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it means these bureacrats value their material things more than they do their oath to uhold and defend the constitutiton. Show some courage - those folks in Beghazi gave the last full measure of devotion, putting you rmaterial wealth at risk is peanuts compared to that.
Of course that is a rhetorical question, Besoeker. The key to post-age-50 employment is to be able to set up your own business, built upon your experience and expertise, but of course the Administration is doing its utmost to make that impossible too.
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IT looks like it is going to be a fun summer in Washington DC
I wish I was back at the Pentagon and could start the rumor control network.
Taken with Benghazi, Soldyra, and a few other things, like the forgeries in the candidate petitions and we could have a really nasty food fight up on the Hill before Labor Day.
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"On Sunday, a government official said the report will note that IRS officials told investigators that no one outside the IRS was involved in developing the criteria the agency now acknowledges were flawed."
The Donks will recite this over and over. However, the finding doesn't really say anything since, 'developing the criteria' is a highly technical task. What is important is if someone outside the IRS gave direction or encouragement, say in the form of 'you know what could really get you a big bonus..;".
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How many times have we heard the term.... "eliminating tax loopholes for the rich and well connected"? Let us now see how often we hear the phrase in the future.
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Latest from ABC News this morning was that they obtained an advance copy of the IG report saying the practice goes back to three years, and not to 2011.
Also that, when asked to comment, the President said he was "concerned".
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This scandal just proves that Obama and company view the GIVERNMENT as America and not the people who go to work everyday to pay for the GIVERNMENT.
Just last week Obama told college graduates not to believe that tyranny is the government. Really?
Obama and his gang from chicago truly believe people who are patriots and constitutionalist are the enemy of the GIVERNMENT.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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The decision may not be made until November, December or even early 2014, said a U.S. official, as President Barack Obama will not rush the process, which still has a number of stages to work through. One of those stages has not even begun yet and will run for months.
