Get out your paper towels now!
Mayflower was a neighborhood...a community ...before TAR SANDS filled the ground, the environment, the homes.....
Think you're immune?
TAR SANDS is exempt from CLEAN UP thanks to Bush/Cheney...ya voted for them right?
Ya wanna re-think your vote?
States' Rights? How'd that go fur ya?
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Pierce | George Will Loves Him Some Keystone XL Pipeline
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Somebody once mistook George Effing Will as a smart person. This is a mistake for which the rest of us have been paying for going on four decades now."
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Somebody once mistook George Effing Will as a smart person. This is a mistake for which the rest of us have been paying for going on four decades now."
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Would that Will had experienced "creative destruction" long ago about 1979. Alas, his job does appear to be permanent. And, in this context, he's talking about the strippers again, anyway.
To oppose the pipeline is to favor more oil being transported by trains, which have significant carbon footprints, and accidents. To do this in the name of environmental fastidiousness is hilarious. The United States has more than 2 million miles of natural gas pipelines and approximately 175,000 miles of pipelines carrying hazardous liquids, yet we are exhorted to be frightened about 1,179 miles of Keystone?
Well, yes. And if you would like to know the reasons why, I might suggest talking to the folks in Mayflower, Arkansas, or the people who live along the shores of Lake Michigan in Whiting, Indiana, or the people who live in and around the areas affected by the 12 spills from pipelines owned and operated by TransCanada, the Canadian corporation proposing to build the Keystone XL death-funnel. Concern for these people is, I guess, infantile, however.
(We should also pause for a moment to recall Will's angst at the Supreme Court's decision on eminent domain in Kelo v. New London. Will moaned in print: Those on the receiving end of the life-shattering power that the court has validated will almost always be individuals of modest means. So this liberal decision -- it augments government power to aggrandize itself by bulldozing individuals' interests -- favors muscular economic battalions at the expense of society's little platoons, such as homeowners and the neighborhoods they comprise. The rights of homeowners in Connecticut are different from the rights of landowners in Nebraska. That's just intellectual, that's what it is, especially when you have a number of no-show gigs in oil-sodden wingnut welfare institutions to augment your income and to explain your position on issues to you.)
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