Did Big Environment Pick The Wrong Side?

Be careful what you wish for…

Buffett’s Burlington Northern Among Winners From Keystone Denial – Bloomberg.

Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC is among U.S. and Canadian railroads that stand to benefit from the Obama administration’s decision to reject TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s Keystone XL oil pipeline permit.

With modest expansion, railroads can handle all new oil produced in western Canada through 2030, according to an analysis of the Keystone proposal by the U.S. State Department.

A pickup truck collided with a moving train at a crossing outside of Oxbow Sunday evening, derailing 22 cars.

Twenty-two railcars ended up in a field on Sunday night, after a 20-year-old man from Manor slammed his red pickup truck into a moving train near Oxbow.

Light crude oil leaked from six of the cars, with Canadian Pacific (CP) officials and environmental crews on scene throughout Monday to assess the damage and start the cleanup.

The accident happened at an uncontrolled rural train crossing near Highway 18, about 265 kilometres southeast of Regina, at 11 p.m.

 

Grim Milestone

Dereliction of duty…

1,000 Days Without a Budget: Facts on the Senate’s Failure.

Tuesday, January 24, will mark the 1,000th day since the U.S. Senate has passed a budget—an egregious dereliction of duty on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D–NV) watch. By enacting continuing resolution upon continuing resolution (short-term measures to keep the government running, spending money at the current rate), the Senate has taken a pass on leading, all to the detriment of the poor and middle class.

Gives A Whole New Meaning To The Term Limousine Liberal

Environmentalism and the Leisure Class.

This week President Obama handed down what may prove to be one of the most fateful decisions of his entire administration when he rejected the plan to build the Keystone XL Pipeline carrying oil from the tar sands of Canada to the refineries of Houston. The decision did not win him one new vote but was crucial in protecting his environmental flank. The movie stars and Sierra Club contributors were getting restless and had drawn the line in the sand.

 

 

Straight From The Pages Of “Atlas Shrugged”

Remember the original title of the book was “The Strike”. As usual Kate says it best – I wish I owned all the oil companies in the world. I’d go on TV tomorrow to announce my retirement;

Dems propose ‘Reasonable Profits Board’ to regulate oil company profits – The Hill’s Floor Action.

Six House Democrats, led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), want to set up a “Reasonable Profits Board” to control gas profits.

The Democrats, worried about higher gas prices, want to set up a board that would apply a “windfall profit tax” as high as 100 percent on the sale of oil and gas, according to their legislation. The bill provides no specific guidance for how the board would determine what constitutes a reasonable profit.

Why Minimum and Consecutive Sentences Are Necessary

Life is cheap in Canada, for now…

Regina man left in persistent vegetative state.

At 22 years of age, a formerly healthy Regina man was left in a vegetative state — unable to communicate, walk or feed himself — for the remainder of his life.

 

Serial Killers Benefit From Police Incompetence

The responsibility for this should start with successive Justice Ministers and move on down from there. Failure begins at the top…

Pickton failings compared to Bernardo | News Talk 980 CJME.

The same systemic problems that allowed notorious sex killer Paul Bernardo to rape and murder women in Ontario in the late 1980s and early 1990s contributed to the failure of the Vancouver police and RCMP to catch serial killer Robert Pickton, a public inquiry heard Monday.

The time for private health care has arrived

Actually it is long overdue…

The time for private health care has arrived.

Canada, Cuba and North Korea remain the only countries in the world to make private funding for medically necessary services essentially illegal.

Early NDP Buyers Remorse In Quebec

The first of many…

Sun News : NDP MP crosses floor to join Grits.

Quebec NDP MP Lise St-Denis announced Tuesday she’s crossing the floor to the Liberals.

The MP for Saint-Maurice – Champlain – a riding that makes up part of former prime minister Jean Chretien’s old riding – said she broke with the New Democrats over a number of policies, including its stance on the Libya mission, which they wanted to end early.

She said she couldn’t spend the next three years listening to policies she didn’t believe in.

Related: Quebec pundits predict NDP plummet without Mulcair at helm

Gun Control Leads To Confiscation

Legislation by bureaucrat…

RCMP to confiscate more guns before registry ends.

With the firearms registry on death’s door, the RCMP are using what little time remains to reclassify and seize certain scary-looking guns from Canadian firearms owners.

Among the guns being seized is a small-calibre varmint rifle called the Armi Jager AP80. Like many non-restricted rifles, it is semi-automatic and fires the .22-calibre bullet, the smallest and weakest used in any long gun.

The AP80 has been singled out because it looks too much like the infamous AK-47 assault rifle, although it shares no parts or technical similarities with that infamous battle rifle.

Another Day Another Righteous Shooting

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NC boy, 14, shoots intruder and saves sister – 14 News, WFIE, Evansville, Henderson, Owensboro.

In Henderson, North Carolina, a 14-year-old boy defended his home with a shotgun.

The boy’s sister, who was hiding in a closet, called 911 first. Then, the boy also called 911, after he fired two shots.

Deputies found 19-year old Michael Henderson dead on the front lawn.

The 14-year-old isn’t expected to be charged, due to North Carolina law regarding intruders.

Another man is facing multiple charges in the case, including breaking and entering.