KEYSTONE KOPS KISS

Wow, the number of jobs projected to be attributed to the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline just keeps growing and growing. Last year the proponents talked of 10,000 jobs. Today in the U.S. House Rep. Pete Sessions claimed that the pipeline would create 42,000 jobs. That's 42,000. I guess if we wait another year to start construction we will create 100,000 jobs. I wrote about this earlier this year. 

http://edward-truth.blogspot.com/2014/01/keystone-xl-pipeline.html

If you want to know the true figure of created jobs click the link.

For all of you that are tired of hearing about the job producing pipeline that the Republicans think can save the country with a lot of  jobs, read the following critique :

http://www.livescience.com/38735-putting-keystone-pipeline-job-numbers-in-context.html

The construction of Keystone XL, which would generate 3,950 person-years of work according to the U.S. Department of State, has a job creation potential on par with building a shopping mall or the campus renovations the University of Oregon announced last week.
Moreover, after it's built, Keystone XL will only employ between 35 and 50 people — and some of those positions will be filled in Canada. That's a small fraction of the long-term employment benefits one could expect from a shopping mall.

While the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline is not a national jobs creator, it would be a significant new source of climate pollution, adding 1.2 billion metric tons of carbon pollution to the atmosphere over its estimated lifespan. For that reason it fails the President's climate test and should be rejected.

Facts are really hard to disprove because they are, you guessed it, FACTS

ED

ALABAMA ASS AND ACRIMONY

Today on C-Span during the "Washington Journal" segment, a Republican woman named Michelle from Birmingham, Alabama concluded her remarks about people getting "Obamacare for free" by stating that " because the President is black he has no content of character ! "

The moderator did not gasp as I did, but proceeded on to the next caller. Great restraint showed she !

I am speechless, simply speechless,

ED

A COMEDY OF TERRORS

Before the recent midterm election the airways were regurgitating the tired meme that President Obama had mishandled or underestimated the dire consequences of ISIS/ISIL and EBOLA. While I agree that the public face of those crises was not presented well, the actual processes of containment are precise and effective in the case of ISIS/ISIL and in the case of the Ebola crisis the main problem is fear itself.

Now only four days after the election and the right-wing fearmongers have moved on. They have decided to monger fear about the terrible scourge of immigration. Using the euphemism of "waving a red flag in front of a bull" they are warning the President not to take executive action on immigration because they want to come up with a plan in congress. "Let congressional action take its course" they say. 

Well hear me out ----- THEY HAVE BEEN SAYING THAT FOR 6 1/2 YEARS !

Now Boehner, Barrasso, McConnell and Cornyn INC. are hitting the airways lamenting that the President "just doesn't get it."

The President DOES get it. The proposal to fix the status of the "dreamers" was a part of his campaign in 2008 and has been a priority of his administration ever since.

Now comes the rejuvenated right-wing delusionists claiming an election mandate against OBAMA'S policies when the reality is that Republicans got only 15.5% of the registered voters to agree with them.

Of course the apathy of the electorate was appalling, but so too was the success of the Republican 

redistricting circus and the vile voter suppression across the nation.

This entire governing by revenge thing makes me tired ---

ED

POST PARTISAN DEPRESSION

I was all set this morning to collect my observations of the Tuesday election and start pontificating, when I stumbled across a full six page spread about the new JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL in The Columbus Dispatch.

Touted to be the greatest, most advanced, most technologically capable cancer hospital in the world, it does have one anomaly noteworthy to expose.

Despite the fact that this is the year 2014, despite the fact that the hospital was designed by architects and engineers with the complete and constant collaboration of the top Physicians, Physicists, Psychiatrists and Scientists in the WORLD, and cost $750 MILLION, 

THE NEW JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL HAS NO THIRTEENTH FLOOR ! 

The stated reason is -- a reflection of the "UNLUCKINESS" often associated with the number.

Please save us from the superstitious ignoramus bureaucrat that made this decision.

How can I possibly trust my cancers to people that believe in superstition and luck ?

I did not make this up, read it and weep.

ED

FEMALE WARRIORS FRIGHTEN ISIS/ISIL

A rifle company of 260 female fighters is prepared to enter the fight against the terrorist army known as   ISIS or ISIL. The Kurdish warriors present a whole new ironic pulse to the battle. While the terrorists degrade, rape & murder women as a matter of policy, they are fearful of the female Kurdish warriors. 

Why you may ask. They fear that being killed by a female will prevent them from going to paradise. That in turn prevents them from enjoying their 76 virgins. Oh the irony !

I did not make this up, look it up !

ED

THE NEXT REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE

Enough said ?

REP. JOHN MICA JOINS WILLIAM SHATNER & CAPT. OBVIOUS

At the hearing regarding the recent lapses in security involving the Secret Service, Rep. John Mica (R-Fla), actually held up an ADT sign and asked the Director of the Secret Service " have you heard of these guys?" You simply must watch the video to appreciate the base, common, down to earth reasoning of our leaders ! I actually was watching C-Span at the time of this gem. Now I share it with you.

http://youtu.be/ZDNjEOe45OQ