#4
I am looking forward to the next victory lap when gas prices temporarily dip. All the inane victory laps have turned our politics into a short bus version of NASCAR. I just watch for the crashes.
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[IsraelTimes] Derrick Evans of West Virginia declares candidacy 2 years after storming the Capitol, says he chose announcement date ’because it’s an important anniversary in US history’.
Two years to the day after storming the US Capitol, a former West Virginia state politician who served prison time for his role in the riot said Friday that he hopes to return to the scene of his crime as an elected official.
Derrick Evans, who livestreamed himself on Facebook cheering on what he described as a "revolution" at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, announced he will run for a US House seat in 2024.
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[FoxNews] The Biden administration published a congressionally mandated report highlighting the positive economic benefits the Keystone XL Pipeline would have had if President Biden didn't revoke its federal permits.
The report, which the Department of Energy (DOE) completed in late December without any public announcement, says the Keystone XL project would have created between 16,149 and 59,000 jobs and would have had a positive economic impact of between $3.4-9.6 billion, citing various studies. A previous report from the federal government published in 2014 determined 3,900 direct jobs and 21,050 total jobs would be created during construction which was expected to take two years.
But immediately after taking office in January 2021, Biden canceled the pipeline's permits, effectively shutting the project down.
"The Biden administration finally owned up to what we have known all along — killing the Keystone XL Pipeline cost good-paying jobs, hurt Montana’s economy and was the first step in the Biden administration’s war on oil and gas production in the United States," Sen. Steve Daines. R-Mont., said Thursday in a statement. "Unfortunately, the administration continues to pursue energy production anywhere but the United States."
"These policies may appeal to the woke left but hurt Montana’s working families," he continued. "I’ll keep fighting back against Biden’s anti-energy agenda and supporting Montana energy projects and jobs."
The DOE was forced to issue the report after Daines and Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, successfully inserted a bill mandating the report into the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Biden signed into law in November 2021. The agency was required to publish the report within 90 days of the bill's passage but ultimately waited more than a year before releasing it.
In a statement Thursday, the DOE noted that the project would have had minimal permanent job impacts, but didn't mention the thousands of jobs that were estimated during the construction of the pipeline.
"The U.S. Department of Energy released a report evaluating existing analysis on economic and job effects of the XL portion of Keystone pipeline," the DOE told Fox News Digital. "It concluded there were limited job impacts, with approximately 50 permanent jobs estimated to have been created were the pipeline operational."
Biden's decision to cancel the pipeline has received widespread criticism from Republican lawmakers and energy industry representatives who have argued it would have helped keep gas prices down and ensure energy security.
Keystone XL had been slated to be completed early this year and transport an additional 830,000 barrels of crude oil from Canada to the U.S. through an existing pipeline network, according to its operator, TC Energy.
The project labor agreement that TC Energy signed in August 2020 with four labor unions promised the pipeline would create 42,000 American jobs and provide $2 billion in total wages.
TC Energy ultimately gave up on the project in June 2021 as a result of Biden's decision. Last year, a federal judge tossed a legal challenge from nearly two dozen states asking the court to reinstate the pipeline's permits.
"The Department of Energy finally admitted to the worst-kept secret about the Keystone Pipeline: President Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline sacrificed thousands of American jobs," Risch said Thursday.
"To make matters worse, his decision moved the U.S. further away from energy independence and lower gas prices at a time when inflation and gas prices are drastically impacting Americans’ pocketbooks," he added.
"The president must turn to American-made energy and jobs rather than dictators and despots to fix the energy crisis he created on his first day in office."
The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
#1
The price of keeping the green fanatics and fantasists happy.
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#2
Didn't that warm feeling in the greenies' pants contribute to gerbil worming?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/07/2023 11:16 Comments ||
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#3
It was not news, in part, because we all knew what the results would be.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
01/07/2023 11:31 Comments ||
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#4
Not to mention doubling my SDG&E bill.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/07/2023 12:04 Comments ||
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#5
Where are our Reparations?
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/07/2023 12:12 Comments ||
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#6
Canceling Keystone XL was the catalyst for rocketing oil prices that cost the USA and hundreds of billions (world - $trillions) in squandered energy costs and triggered the recession we all are still in. The rocketing energy prices also gave confidence to Putin that Russia had enough money and energy blackmail potential to invade Ukraine w/o much western opposition.
Christmas hiring surges then layoffs in January. Usually the numbers are given as seasonally adjusted, but they were ugly, so the Biden admin released raw figures w/o context. January 2023 employment numbers will be ugly either way.
[Daily Caller] Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky told Fox News host Tucker Carlson Friday that Rep. Kevin McCarthy would appoint him to sit on a "Church Committee" charged with investigating potential federal government abuses and vowed to bring "forward" any "illegal or unconstitutional" findings.
"A lot of this is going to play out down in the SCIF [Secure Compartmented Information Facility]," Massie told Carlson. "You are going to have to trust the people that are put on this committee, and I’ll tell you what, if there’s something fishy going on, I’ll come out of the SCIF and tell you, but a lot of it will be behind closed doors, it will be classified information. If we find anything illegal or unconstitutional, we will bring it forward." (RELATED: Tucker Carlson Reveals Two Things McCarthy Should Do To Win Speaker’s Gavel)
McCarthy made progress during two ballots for speaker Friday, winning over 15 conservatives who previously voted for other candidates. McCarthy reportedly agreed to proposals from the House Freedom Caucus, including reducing the threshold for a "motion to vacate" to a single member of the House of Representatives.
The House is expected to reconvene late Friday evening.
#3
Well, the Church Committee was a senate committee (not that it makes much difference) The main issue here is it will get as much attention from the media as the last non-white mass shooter did.
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#4
It is the DC Swamp.
The votes will continue to build as McCarthy negotiates appointments and Pork barrel spending deals with hold out House members.
Posted by: Frank G ||
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#7
Start investigating where the spoor is most fresh (6 Jan 2021), then move backwards, time permitting, to the 'Bay of Pigs' fiasco and the Kennedy assassination. A very 'deep dive' into Oswald should be mandatory.
A good budget will be essential. Well vetted paid sources will likewise be essential, as will paid senior investigators. Yes, use their sources and methods against the crooked bastids.
For starters and a focused perspective, I recommend a nightly reading of Time Weiner's 'Legacy of Ashes, The History of the CIA.'
Nequaquam lapidem intentatum
(Leave no stone unturned)
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#10
Holding the hearings in the SCIF destroys any confidence I have in this process. The only reason to hold the hearings there is to keep Democrat secrets secret and cover their asses.
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#11
National security would be best served by airing all this dirty laundry in a fresh breeze with full sunshine. But they don't care about national security, they only care about covering their own butts.
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#12
A good budget will be essential. Well vetted paid sources will likewise be essential, as will paid senior investigators. Yes, use their sources and methods against the crooked bastids.
For starters and a focused perspective, I recommend a nightly reading of Time Weiner's 'Legacy of Ashes, The History of the CIA.'
Nequaquam lapidem intentatum
(Leave no stone unturned)
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I am supposed to meet with Massie in the near future regarding some potential Judiciary Committee concerns. While talking business, I planned to push a narrative focusing on preventing future lawfare debacles, so the Church Committee appointment is an happy opportunity.
I agree with your comments, but I don't think paid sources will be necessary. However, as you pointed out, the sources used will have to be well vetted. As will the investigators, especially the investigators. Many solid investigators with strong counter corruption backgrounds still exist and would salivate at the chance to clean up their professions.
With a Legit Media, THIS would be the story...like if BadOrangeMan was still Preznit. But again, that would require a Legit Media. Learn to Coal, Bitches [JustTheNews] El Paso has born the brunt of the migrant influx, with caravans arriving at the city en masse.
The West Texas town of El Paso is scrambling to dismantle the expansive migrant camps that have covered the town as President Joe Biden is slated to visit the town to survey the situation at the southern border.
The city has become host to many migrants, with tents and supplies strewn about the streets. El Paso police and Border Patrol agents have cleared out several of these camps and moved the migrants out of eyesight, four law enforcement officials told the Washington Examiner.
The Examiner's sources indicated that the migrants' activities had begun to make life more difficult for the residents of the time, who had pushed officials to address the issue.
"The [townspeople] that experienced it on a daily basis were fed up and they made it known," one source told the Examiner. "Crime was getting bad and many residents were complaining. Some migrants even took over private parking lots and were charging for people to use them for parking."
Biden announced earlier this week that he would make the trip, nearly two years after he had taken office. In that timeframe, roughly 4 million illegal migrants have entered the U.S. with a record 2.4 million entering in fiscal year 2022 alone. The Biden administration has made several rollbacks of Trump-era migration policies designed to stem the tide of illegal migration, but has repeatedly insisted that the border is not open.
El Paso has born the brunt of the migrant influx, with caravans arriving at the city en masse. In mid-December one such caravan of 1,000 migrants on 20 busses made their way into the city
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#2
Can't allow Joe to be offended by the stinky presence of all the illegals that he's allowed in for freebies. He knows they're future Dem voters so he holds his nose and nods yes.
[Blaze] Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) claimed that reparations for slavery could have cut COVID-19 infection and transmission rates among African-Americans "and the population at large."
On "The News & Why It Matters," BlazeTV hosts Sara Gonzales, Stu Burguiere, and Pat Gray asked, "Are any issues safe from being labeled 'racist' by the left?'
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#8
Racist, Stupid, Corrupt and an Asshole much Sheila?
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#9
The real problem in America is you can be a total fool and get reelected if you represent the right district. Maxine Waters is the same. We really need term limits to take out the trash and prevent permanent political realms.
#10
She Trump tried to stop the Covid flights from China, he was called racist. Maybe the answer was to pay reparations to China but I thought that was what we are actually doing.
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#11
Wasn't there a Cow purge for belching and farting? How did his beast escape?
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/07/2023 20:26 Comments ||
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Happens in places we don't give a shit about.
[FoxNews] The Biden administration is proposing tougher standards for a deadly air pollutant, saying that reducing soot from tailpipes, smokestacks and wildfires could prevent thousands of premature deaths a year.
A proposal released Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency would set maximum levels of 9 to 10 micrograms of fine particle pollution per cubic meter of air, down from 12 micrograms set a decade ago under the Obama administration. The standard for particle pollution, more commonly known as soot, was left unchanged by then-President Donald Trump, who overrode a scientific recommendation for a lower standard in his final days in office.
Environmental and public health groups that have been pushing for a stronger standard were disappointed, saying the EPA proposal does not go far enough to limit emissions of what is broadly called "fine particulate matter," the tiny bits of soot we breathe in unseen from tailpipes, wildfires, factory and power plant smokestacks and other sources.
In a development that could lead to an even lower standard, the EPA said Friday it also would take comments on a range of ideas submitted by a scientific advisory committee, including a proposal that would lower the maximum standard for soot to 8 micrograms. A microgram is one-millionth of a gram.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan said the proposal to strengthen the national ambient air quality standards for fine particle pollution would help prevent serious health problems, including asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature death that disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. Those populations include children, older adults and those with heart and lung conditions as well as low-income and minority communities throughout the United States.
"This administration is committed to working to ensure that all people, regardless of the color of their skin, the community they live in or the money in their pocket, have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink and the opportunity to lead a healthy life,'' Regan said at a news conference. "At EPA, we are working every single day to create cleaner and healthier communities for all and have been doing so for over 50 years.''
#7
Remember this when they say there is no uni-party. This is a first cousin to what they did in California with gay marriage. Put it on the ballot. No go, so do it again. Even worse outcome so what's a socialist to do? Why sue without mercy, sir!
Keep running the same game until you can threaten and buy off the opposition without serious consideration of any other option. 'You children can have oatmeal OR mush, and like it.'
It pains me to agree with P2K and Besoeker as I have always enjoyed and respected their views and style. But things are as they are and not always as we would wish them to be.
#8
I think God made an effort to save McCarthy, a man uniquely unsuited to leadership above a Cub Scout den from this challenge. I believe he is guaranteed to fail in historic fashion. Chamberlain comes to mind. The process may have been like a foundry bringing out gold in him, but I don’t think that is the case. He will not last the two years. America is not going to stand for the status quo. We are mad. Shenanigans by him will increase the anger by a factor of 10. If he does it soon enough every GOP rep will have a MAGA primary opponent.
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#9
I'm wondering why a different republican was not nominated for the speaker role?
#13
Concessions:
Border Security a Priority
72 Hours to Study a Bill
Term limit Vote
Freedom Caucus Members on Committees
End COVID Emergency Funding and Mandates
Stop Increasing The Debt Ceiling
I thank Rep Gaetz for pushing the above for a week.
#14
I was unhappy with McCarthy as speaker but I do love the concession list. There is also one more that wasn't listed. A single member back demand a revote if McCarthy breaks his promise on that list.
#15
At a certain point I plan to contact my rep to tell him that I am very disappointed that he supported MCCarthy and to let him know that when McCarthy betrays us, I will support his most viable primary challenger.
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#16
Concession: House of Reps Church Committee style investigation of intel agencies. Add DoJ too.
[FoxNews] An Idaho farmer leading the charge against a potential wind farm project said Thursday the plan will leave locals in the lurch and cause irreversible damage to prime grazing land and scenery.
Dean Dimond, with the group Stop Lava Ridge, told "Jesse Watters Primetime" ranchers, the regional hunting industry and the local aquifer will feel the effects of having dozens of windmills spring up.
"The ranchers that have cows that have ran out on [the land] for generations, it's just going to be devastating, especially during the construction period, so it's just not going to be good for the whole valley," he said.
Dimond said he has not been personally consulted about the project, but other landowners who have grazing allotments on the desert lands have been, with underwhelming results.
"My friends… have been approached and offered just pennies of what it would actually cost them to move off of the desert," he said. "And it will destroy the desert, so they'll never be able to come back on [it] again like they are now."
Dimond said he has not talked with a single Idahoan who supports the project, adding the community is further upset that the energy the windmills will produce would reportedly be shipped to California instead of benefiting the local area.
"We're one of the reddest states in the nation, and they're shipping it all over to California. Maybe a little bit will stay in Nevada."
While there is a possibility Idaho utilities could submit bids for the energy, Dimond said because the chief bidder would be California, which is home to a much costlier grid, Idaho interests would likely be easily outbid.
"That's one thing that they're finding out here in Idaho is, you know, ranching is a way of life for us: farming, ranching and living out here, and we don't do it for the money," he said.
"I mean, we all do it to make a living. Don't get me wrong that way. But we're not out here to become billionaires and rich. It's a way of life, and so when they start coming in and throwing their billions-of-dollars numbers around and stuff, it just kind of turns us off."
Host Jesse Watters reported the Biden administration is eyeing the Lava Ridge project, which he said would lead to the construction of hundreds of turbines over 75,000 acres of government land.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[FoxNews] The Biden administration published a congressionally mandated report highlighting the positive economic benefits the 
[Daily Caller] Republican Rep. 
[Blaze] Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) claimed that reparations for slavery could have cut COVID-19 infection and transmission rates among African-Americans "and the population at large."
[FoxNews] An 
