Posted on 12/16/2011 5:14:39 AM PST by suspects
Ready for your Massachusetts IQ test? Which sounds smarter to you:
A) Building a pipeline to bring oil from Canada, or B) Continuing to import oil from terror-sponsoring nations like Saudi Arabia.
A) Killing jobs in the middle of a recession, or B) Putting 20,000 blue-collar American workers to work.
Running for U.S. Senate as, A) The candidate in favor of American jobs and energy independence, or B) As the candidate who opposes them.
If you picked A on all of the above, congratulations. You’re smarter than a Harvard professor! And her supporters.
Yesterday afternoon, while you were at the job you are ever more thankful to have, Liz Warren’s political allies were marching around Sen. Scott Brown’s office, protesting the Keystone pipeline project. Keystone would bring millions of barrels of oil from our friend and ally Canada, oil we would no longer have to buy from Arab sheiks or South American thugs.
Keystone would also create “20,000 direct high-wage jobs,” according to Thomas Pyle of the Institute for Energy Research, and “an additional $5.2 billion in property tax revenue and thousands of indirect jobs relating to the project.”
So why do Liz’s kids oppose it? Because, they claim, getting our oil from Canada means “Massachusetts can expect higher rates of climate disasters.”
Really? As opposed to getting the same amount of oil from Venezuela or the UAE? Not to be mean-spirited, but how dumb is that?
Oh, and as to their claim that alleged “global warming” is leading to more disasters in Massachusetts — sorry. As Dr. William Gray, America’s leading expert on hurricanes, has repeatedly noted, “global [hurricane] activity has shown a distinct decrease over the last 20 years when CO2 amounts were increasing.”
Yes, it’s true that 2011 has been the costliest year on record...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Ummm...I get A, B, A. Does that make me smarter than a Boston Herald columnist?
These people are Luddites plain and simple. They should go live in communes somewhere in the back of beyond and leave us alone. Being liberals however, they have to make everyone else miserable too.
I also noticed that.
Someone should have proof read that a few times.
Many professors know so much that they don’t understand anything.
This is a trickie one.
Those 20,000 blue-collar jobs are Union jobs. I'm not entirely convinced that would be a good thing.
After six weeks. Liz’s office finally responded to Holly Robauchard’s e-mail about the Boeing Plant in NC. Liz’s spokesperson said the candidate HAS NO POSITION on it.
I’m getting a bit tired of liberal arts dunces who couldn’t make a light bulb light (given the bulb, batteries, and wires) having the title of “professor” whilst engineers/physicists/chemists/mathematics faculty are also called professors.
There is a big, BIG diff between the intellectual abilities of the two groups, and it’s time for some sort of name change for the first group to more adequately express their lack of mental abilities and to avoid debauching the honored title of professor.
Not Luddites, nor even Saboteurs —who as poor people who were being thrown out of worker by machinery, but “green Acres” types, such as the British landowners who opposed the Industrial Revolution because it brought middle-class merchants and industrialists to power. They want America to accept a graceful decline like Holland in the 18th Century. They are more likely to get Venice, which has been sinking into the sea for centuries.
Believe it or not, union workers can be reasonable. In the oil industry, if they cost too much, they get pushed out of a job. The bookkeeper types in upper management are more likely to featherbed.
No war for oil.
Fine.
So where is the oil we supposedly went to war over? What’s that? We won the war but forgot to bring home all that oil?
Sheesh.
Perhaps. But their Leaders cannot.
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