Only reason Texas doesn’t fall into the Gulf of Mexico is because Oklahoma sucks.
(I’m an Okie and still think that joke is funny)
“Dec 19, 2014 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday that construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to transport crude oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast would only nominally benefit American consumers and workers in perhaps his strongest comments on the Canada-to-U.S. pipeline to date.
“There is very little impact - nominal impact - on U.S. gas prices, what the average American consumer cares about,” Obama told reporters during an end-of-year press conference.
Obama picked apart some of the most common arguments of its proponents: that it would create jobs, lower domestic gasoline prices and bolster the U.S. economy.
“There has been this tendency to really hype this thing as some magic formula to what ails the U.S. economy,” Obama said.”..................
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/19/usa-keystone-obama-idUSL1N0U31W220141219
Dec 23, 2014 - “Man-made global warming is saving the Earth from “another ice age,” White House Science Advisor Eric Holdren says in a new video promoting man-made global warming theory:
“We know beyond any reasonable doubt that humans are the main cause of the warming of the earth’s climate that has been measured over the past few decades. The warming is unequivocal.
“While the climate of the earth has changed over the millennia as a result of natural factors – principally changes in the tilt and orientation of the earth’s axis and rotation, and in the shape of its orbit around the sun – those changes occur far too gradually to have noticeable effects over a period of mere decades. In their current phases, moreover, they would be gradually cooling the earth – taking us to another ice age – if they weren’t being more than offset by human-caused warming.” [end]
Gift 1:A true economic stimulus. The drop in oil prices from over $100 a barrel to less than $60 a barrel constitutes the economic benefit that keeps on giving......And yet the undertone of even some dimwits on Faux News think the sky is falling because of cheap energy.
The truth is THEIR (oil investment) sky is falling. If you want to find out where the greed is just listen to their comments on oil prices.
Whatever else one might think of her, Sarah Palin was clearly right on this one (a pretty easy thing to be right about.)
JR would be proud !
Merry Christmas To All and Prayers for all to Hvae A Blessed New Year
Never ceases to amaze me when I am driving around Houston these days and I notice how many “foreign” license plates there are on the vehicles, at all times during the year, not just holidays....
And by “foreign” IO mean other states in our Union...;-)
I still get tickled about how many are coming from the highest taxed state, and for the record, I welcome them...
I guess I can somewhat give a pass to the ones that are stamped “D.F.” or “Nuevo Leon”... Only for a short stay...
Still working on my prejudices I suppose...
We will see how all this reflects in the voting trends of course over the next few election cycles though... You might be inclined to believe a shift in “liberal” leaning voting trends, and that has some merit...
But I think it’ll be balanced out by the folks moving here because they do so because of those tax sucking trends in their previous digs....