The XL Keystone Pipeline is a huge boondoggle that comes out of Canada. Apparently, the Canadian firm, TransCanada, along with some American energy partners sum up their business mantra in one chant, "Let the Americans pay for it!"
Our State Department has been on a fool's errand writing up a study on the impact on America's environment, concluding it would not be a problem, in order to act like they are satisfying the environment folks. As usual, everyone rivets their focus upon the distraction, taking their eye off the obvious.
Now progressives are unhappy with her. Why? Because of her strong ties to the $7 billion XL Pipeline project to deliver filthy oil tar sands clear across America to the Texas oil refineries. That mega-project tunnels under a precious underground aquifer - the only fresh water source for up to half of the entire country.
Turns out Amb. Rice owns a huge amount of stock in TransCanada Corp. - up to $600,000. She also has millions of dollars of stock in other energy companies that invest in oil tar sands like Royal Dutch Shell and Suncor.
Then there are the investments in the Canadian banks that provide loans for these energy company projects. Think someone has a vested interest in making her Sec. of State?
The Social Poets: Billionaire Koch Brothers Send Attack Lobbyists to Stop Energy Legislation: "From Denny: The famous Koch Brothers, who love to meddle in the very same government they claim should not basically exist, are now flexing their financial muscles again. They are demanding legislators lose the proposed energy legislation for natural gas subsidies to help wean America off oil.
Of course, Koch Industries, based out of Kansas, primarily has interests in oil, refining and pipelines as well as chemicals and consumer products like toilet paper (Angel Soft) and paper towels (Brawny). These are the same numb nuts that want to burrow an oil sands pipeline straight up through America to Canada from Houston.
Did I mention they want to dig said crazy pipeline under the only fresh drinking water, an underground glacier, for the entire Midwest population? Oh, and they claim 'it's perfectly safe and nothing will go wrong.' Uh, huh, and that's what BP told us here in Louisiana about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill clean up."
From Denny: This funny cartoonist. Dave Blazek, makes us laugh in his "Loose Parts" corner of the funny world. Take a peek inside this guy's mind.
Those new spending habits of the sprayed cockroaches that left your house and moved uptown:
Hmmm... it's a cultural perspective among cannibals:
The new modern military:
Beware of Literalist Dining:
The insecure bank robbers...
Sometimes "going green" has its consequences...
Have you ever wondered about some of those weirdest musical instruments? Like what were they thinking?
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The Social Poets: Funny Friday Lite: Colbert Addresses The Politically Tone Deaf: "So, today Colbert talks about one of our five senses: hearing. Did I mention that I've dedicated this funny video to all the tone deaf politicians currently occupying the halls of Congress? Don't get too comfortable, guys, you are about to lose your jobs."
From Denny: Which is funnier? The lemur chewing too big a portion in their mouth or the skittish talk show host who wants hazard pay for a chummy lemur trying to leap up onto her shoulder? Of course, the camera just zooms in on the wad-chewing lemur who acts like it's no big deal. Then the camera warps out to zoom in on the jittery host after she dumps the offending lemur onto the show crew as their problem. Read that as, "Get this creepy animal thing off my set!"
Next up on this segment is the hornbill, a strange looking bird that appears to be wearing a kind of futuristic helmet - or a calcified banana. He then decides to start with the pooping and the peeing as soon as the hosts begin to talk but the handler takes it in stride. You would think the bird had let out a huge smelly fart by the way the hosts ran in the other direction. The hosts get really creeped out when the sweet bird decides to feed his handler some food. The hornbill must know its almost Valentine's Day.
They bring out a very alert exotic looking African cat with some wild looking ears and then some baby Golfer tortoises. These animals are all suffering from vanishing habitats.
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