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Posted on 01/20/2015 5:05:12 PM PST by Repeal 16-17
Your comments regarding the State of the Union Address.
I couldn’t leave my kids with strangers
Luckily Grandma lives in our town
When they were little I paid her to watch them
DID ANY OF Y’ALL SEE HARRY REID AROUND...”
Reid was not there. I saw a picture of him yesterday and his face is bad. The fall broke bones in his face - his right eye is bandaged with the bandage going down from the eye, covering part of that side of his face. Can’t stand the guy, but he must have had severe pain when those facial bones broke. Don’t wish that on anyone.
I disagree with your statement. I grew up in the east Texas oilfield and as a child I climbed on oil derricks. My father worked for Sun Oil Company from his twenties until he retired many years later. He was in charge of laying large oil pipes and the laying and care of the lines was what he did all those working years and there were crews of men needed for sustaining those pipe lines all those years. The job was unending.
In my adult life I owned Transco stock. They have oil lines going from the processing plants in the Houston ship channel area and down to Texas City where really huge pipelines ran from there up to the east coast. Those lines send heating oil and other oil products up to the east coast. I've seen on a chart the many lines there are going north. Those lines have to be maintained and it takes a large number of workers all along that line. Office workers are also required to generate records, reports, payroll, legal records/reports, etc..
Just because you don't physically see activity, it is happening. It will be the same for this new pipeline. The oil will go to the big plants in the Houston ship channel and Texas City to be refined into various products. Those plants are full of specialized workers and plenty of office people are also needed. Even if the oil products are shipped overseas, it takes our people to get the oil refined to be shipped.
If one needs a job and that pipeline is built, get a job laying the line or working in an office dealing with the laying and care of the line, or go to Texas and get a job in one of those many processing companies on our coast that will refine that oil.
It was oil pipelines that kept my father employed all his life and it was that oil money paid to my father that paid for my college. My mother sewed all my clothes until I graduated high school and was going to college. They took me to Dallas to Sanger Harris Department store and told me to buy any clothes I wanted to take to college. It was Sun Oil stock money that bought those clothes for me, the first store bought clothes I ever had.
“Have to disagree with you, FRiend. It depends on the woman. I have a thick mane (well below the shoulders) of curly spirals, and I’m over 45. I get compliments all the time.”
I am 81 and have “sexy” long blond hair, well below my shoulders, just like you. I was in a SASS shoe store and the clerk said, “Don’t let anyone cut your hair.” Let’s keep our “sexy” long blond hair.
Thanks for that link, combat_boots. Sad, but interesting...
SOTU live thread ping
The Keystone XL Pipeline project is 'owned by TransCanada, a Canadian corporation' that builds, maintains, and owns oil and gas pipelines, power plants, and natural gas storage facilities IN NORTH AMERICA......BTW TransCanada 'already 'owns" the Keystone Pipeline. Further the only reason Canada went this way was because their own people 'voted down' the initial plans of putting it in their own country'.
"The project will create no more than 2,500-4,650 "temporary" direct construction jobs for two years,according to TransCanada’s own data supplied to the State Department,"................... estimate of the number of "permanent" jobs that could be created by work on the pipeline to be about 50 to 100.
All predictions for spinoff jobs, as you mentioned, rely on factors like the price of oil, energy innovation, politics, and the overall health of the economy. Furloughs happened to many when the oil price went down. and again....Trans Canada will employ their own people FIRST, who move from site to site throughout the states, then 'private contractors' and employment agencies to hire the "temporary workers"...good for about two years.
so what?
it ibusiness that makes the world go round
Yes! Women (well, conservative women) look better than ever these days; we take care of ourselves. There's no reason for us to adopt a matronly cut.
My sister-in-law went for an appointment with a new hair stylist. SIL is 47, gorgeous, with masses of shampoo-commercial blond tresses. First thing, the stylist told her, "You need to cut this mess off."
This mess.
She walked right out.
Gone over your head I think.
sorry ladies...like I posted JMHO...
as for Queer Nor, she more than likely has a daily hairdresser doing her hair...just like Michelle O. has her wigs done for her each time she plops one on.
Joni Ernst is very attractive, and handles it well.
again I repeat...Just My Honest Opinion..short hair on older women is more attractive.
again JMHO...
Jill Biden’s stringy, long blond hair looks trashy..
and Hillary improved her appearance with a hair cut as well.. and during the Clinton years I always admired her hair, even though I couldn’t stand either one of the Clinton’s.
Have you looked at Google on the Kalamazoo River spill in 2010? It was a break in a 6’ diameter pipe carrying tar sands oil for Enbridge. Was not discovered for 24 hours, and they have already spent $1 billion and it still is not completely clean. Also dozens have lost their lovely homes along the river. I think it created 300 jobs, yeah!! Also, nobody has heard about a mile of pipeline that blew up in the Chinese city of Qingdao killing 62 people in November of 2013. This was just before Biden’s trip to China and it was kept very hush, hush. Instead China changed their sea borders and there was a big media stink involving Japanese and South Korean anger over this change.
Other bad things I have heard a few weeks ago is that Canada is being given eminent domain over American land owners, and the pipeline owners will NOT have to pay into a fund that all the other oil guys do to help pay for accidents and remediation. Does not sound like FR oriented ideals, rather RHINO and Wall Street ideals.
Well that’s how Im seeing it from what I’ve investigated so far.....
It just doesn’t appear to be all that the political guys are making it out to be....in fact if what I’m seeing it’s doing nothing for us and could be bad in the long run.
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‘s not just the job thing both parties are calling about it....it’s much more than that and I’m not at all comfortable with what I’m finding out.
Glad you’ve looked into it to....we need to be right about this.
See my Comment #1094 for other concerns about the pipeline(s). Yes, they did want to build to the Pacific, but there was a lot of opposition, so yes, it is slated for overseas markets, not ours.
Looking at the chart it appears the University study was for a lot fewer jobs even than the US govt. study which was lower that the TransCanada estimates which have also shrunk over time (too much sunlight on those figures?).
Remarkabe that Canadians wouldn’t do it themselves on their land.
Troublesome to me that the only thing we’re getting from this pipeline deal is responsibility if anything goes wrong...we have to clean it up...so it’s a huge WIN WIN for Canada....and nothing at all long term for the US.
Though Perry’s gearing up his ports of course...he REALLY wants this to go thru.
A billion dollars already spent and still not cleaned up...THIS is what we'll be paying for Canada under the terms of their deal...we pay for cleanup ..not them. Not to mention the class action suites...southwestern Michigan agreed to pay about $6.8 million to settle a class-action lawsuit on this spill....plus $2.2 million to residents and land owners of properties ...those who lived within 200 feet of the river will split a total payment of $250,000etc etc etc
and more....... including more than $551 million on response personnel and equipment and $227 million on environmental consultants.
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