there have been plenty of PROTESTS AGAINST THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE. protesting is part of the human condition and i love a good protest but there is one thing i don't like, celebrity led protests. i always think of steely dan, the show business kids are making movies of themselves and they don't give a fuck about anybody else. so if the protestors manage to delay keystone again will the dirty oil be shut in?
fuck no, the spice must flow and instead of shipping by pipeline the dirty oil will be SHIPPED BY RAIL. yes, the amount of oil being shipped by rail is skyrocketing and i don't want to piss in anyone's cornflakes but shipping by rail is harder on the enviroment than shipping by pipeline. the length of trains being used to ship oil etc is also increasing. trains are now 12,000 FEET LONG! that's over 2 fucking miles long. it takes a lot of diesel to pull these trains and yes, occasionally trains do derail. so the question is, what is more destructive to the enviroment. trains or pipelines? and guess who's about the biggest investor in trains, obumble's new best friend, warren buffet.
if you doubt that shipping by rail is more dangerous than by pipeline, even the association of american railroads concedes that shipping by rail is 2 to 3 time more likely to have an accident than by pipeline, other studies state the likelihood of a rail accident is up to 34 times higher by RAIL THAN BY PIPELINE.
i'm watching all this with more than a passing interest. my best friend, who happens to be a little crazy, shorted several thousand shares of cp rail at $77 last summer. not only has the share price rocketed up to $120, he also has to pay the dividend. i suspect he shorted more shares along the way and yes he has had a lot of margin calls along the way but he's a big boy and he knew the risks. so it goes.
i'm pro enviroment, but anti celebrity. if carl sagan was leading the charge against the pipeline i'd jump on the bandwagon but i'll keep away from the show business kids. too bad carl was so selfish and went and croaked.
i love you sons of bitches.
65 comments:
"......i'm pro enviroment, but anti celebrity. if carl sagan was leading the charge against the pipeline i'd jump on the bandwagon......"
Carl Sagan was a celebrity.
You self-negate.
Perhaps you are not, as was he, made of "Star Stuff"?
"......my best friend, who happens to be a little crazy, shorted several thousand shares of cp rail at $77 last summer. not only has the share price rocketed up to $120, he also has to pay the dividend. i suspect he shorted more shares along the way and yes he has had a lot of margin calls along the way but he's a big boy and he knew the risks......."
Oh dear!
Big boy indeed.
Suggest to him he might want to 'run' any future investments by the pro - aka The Tutor?
How does an oil pipeline hurt the environment? You just bury it in the ground like a pipeline for water. Or are they against digging up any more oil because it's a fossil fuel?
Your friend does sound crazy - only hedge funds short shares and they're investing other people's money. I'm pretty sure Warren Buffet doesn't.
jez - yeah but sagan was a scientist and presumably knew what he was talking about. i'm prepared to listen to scientists.
my friend also has some winners, he wouldn't be able to lose money on railroads if he wasn't making it somewhere else. the whole reason he started shorting cp rail was he hates that "fucking american hunter harrison"
gb - the oil will be mined/extracted regardless of whether it makes it to market through keystone, rail or an east/west pipeline.
my buddy has made money shorting other companies and like we say, it's our kids inheritances that are taking the hit and what have they done for us lately?
billy pilgrim said,
"......i'm prepared to listen to scientists......."
Even Christian Scientists?
"....the whole reason he started shorting cp rail was he hates that "fucking american hunter harrison"......"
You know your friend is an idiot, right?
The primary environmental impact is from extraction and consumption, not transport unless there is an accident.
I'd have to agree that the pipeline is a better solution, given that Canada is willing to bear the external costs of strip mining and processing that nasty tar sand.
Perhaps you Canucks are thinking that the benefits of global warming (especially relative to most of the rest of the world) are well worth turning thousands of square miles into toxic bogs of death and misery.
when the rights of a foreign country over rule the rights of land owners..it's wrong.
the thing that will stop the oil/tar sands industry is economics. it costs a lot of money to process the shit and the "upgraders" are always breaking down. cost overruns are huge.
if the price of oil falls enough, the tar/oil sands will be mothballed.
actually, the tailing ponds for the tar sands are quite good. it's the energy used to process the goop that is the killer. lots of water too!
your "clean coal" is a bigger enviromental hazard. and of course "fracking" is fucking up a lot more ground water than any pipeline.
js - i'm assuming that you mean foreign company not country. transcanada is a public corporation and i'm guessing that a large percentage of the company is owned by americans.
thimscool keened,
"........Perhaps you Canucks are thinking that the benefits of global warming (especially relative to most of the rest of the world) are well worth turning thousands of square miles into toxic bogs of death and misery.........."
Firstly, they are thousands of square kilometers of toxic bogs of death and misery, not square miles. And secondly, the death and misery of which you speak stops at the Manitoba/Ontario border leaving we in the east - Real Canada - pristine and pampered.
The global warming is good though.
It should be minus 20 degrees C here, right now, but instead it's 0 degrees C.
Who'd argue with that?
yes, i watched nova's earth from space last night and marveled at all the satellites monitoring our temperatures.
too bad the i'm on the king's shit list, his spirit connections could probably shed some light on all this stuff.
should i offer an apology to the king?
Herr Professor is looking for suggestions for specific types of Science Fiction reading.
I suggested the Spirits Doings archive.
Apologise to the King of Banal for me too, will ya.
yeah, it seems a little odd that herr professor is asking the peanut gallery for suggestions.
apologising to the king is like a cialis commercial, i have to wait until the time is right. he's a very sensitive spirit.
Apologies won't work. Only banning Leslie and all of her sock puppets will bring back the king.
how about if i declare march to be spirit history month?
Pipeline is better, but geothermal energy or safe-nuc like they have in Europe is best!
thimscool bootlicked,
"......Only banning Leslie and all of her sock puppets will bring back the king......."
If by "sock puppets" you mean, and include, me, all I can say is:
Some puppet!
Some sock!
galt - excellent point on the geothermal. i wish the others were as informed as you.
aquarian - have you read in the balance or did you see the in the balance category on jeopardy?
The Tutor instructs me concerning the content of what I pixellate here.
I am normally blissfully unaware of what I post.
Your lack of capitals was responsible for causing me much consternation, however, as I tried to decode the meaning of your question. It made sense only when I was fortunate enough to capitalise, "In The Balance" and then Bing it.
To answer your question, "No, I have not read it. And I am/was not aware that "Jeopardy" has/had an "In The Balance" category."
i'm getting tired of being turtledove's ambassador.
fuck it, i resign.
In an ill-conceived gambit which went totally awry, I once engaged Leslie in a conversation concerning topics within her very under-class interests in a particular version of sportsball thingies.
I'm still paying the price.
Thinking that I actually care, Leslie has taken to filling our conversations with news of all things Football. I grunt appreciatingly and riposte with the occasional "Oh dear". Once I even mumbled something about "the importance of protecting the quarterback in the pocket", a phrase I'd read on a web-site somewhere.
This is the down-side of faking it too well: incessant mind-numbing drivel.
Though I've found strong opinions, however uninformed, can be helpful.
"C'mon! Roger Goodell is the best thing to happen to football in "The City That Care Forgot."
she's got a real mean streak in her. i wouldn't engage her in a conversation with a ten foot pole.
Fuck off, ALTF!
You previously told me you've spent many an evening on your knees at Raymond James Stadium.
And football season is over and I haven't mentioned it since you called Drew Brees a twerp!
Pilgrim~ your comment box is filled with lying lunatics.
Oh wait. I did mention football to the tutor's hot niece with the big rack. If that what's bugging you, jealous old twat?
REAL Football season is still on everywhere else in the world.
I was on my knees at Ray Jay, yes, but you, little missy, were on your elbows!
I am only 17 days older than you, Leslie.
Like Americans care about the rest of the world.
17 days? Really? Then you better change your name to Scorpios Love to Fuck, if it's not already taken.
yeah, lots of lunatics but not one fucking king thanks to you.
Most Americans are not wholly convinced there is a world outside their borders.
"Scorpios Love to Fuck-up" is more apropos, and I think it's taken. I'm Aquarian, not by birth, but by countenance.
I think you just renamed him.
Pho King. It looks classier in Vietnamese.
Truth be told, pilgrim. You, and you alone, are the reason the King of Banal has abdicated to marry "the woman I love" and screw off.
I called him a buffoon and stated that "we" only allow him to comment here because he entertains us - a dancing fool as it were. You did not counter my assertion in a following comment. I reckon your silence was read by him to mean you were in agreement with me.
You broke his heart, ya bastard!
Pilgrim straight up called him a pussy!
That's what did it!
This is the REAL me.
The correct astrological sign me!
The fact my avatar is the same as ALT-F's is purely coincidental.
No it's not!
Sock puppet!
the king also loves to fuck.
i guess the question is who would be giving whom the mercy fuck?
and the second question is did i get my whos and whoms straight?
Also Pilgrim~ your comment box was done and dusted until the Loves to Fucks and I showed up today.
We are your true friends. Not BBC.
somewhere in the united states to kids are learning sock puppets 101.
No he does NOT love to fuck. He likes to share spirit while a fucking bitch looks him in the eye while fondling their cock.
Sheeeeeesh, you people are so lost without me!
and the old prick turned frump against me.
Sock Puppet?
Some sock!
Some puppet!
The "Loves to Fucks"!
I adore that!
Is Frump in Colorado? P-Frump, I mean...not Doc Teri.
If so, he's taken a liking to my blog. Probably even smoked a bowl or two while perusing.
Nevermind. I will ask him in Big Hole.
Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris families are in Colorado.
Perhaps it's them?
is gender reassignment still the leading guess for frump's big announcement?
Not really. I think they're deciding whether or not to switch to 2% milk.
He's fucking nuts, that guy.
I'm with Leslie. Though I think the big decision involves a switch from AstroGlide to KY Jelly for their, he and the Mrs, morning constitutional. Both have the potential to be beneficial - like he said.
Or perhaps whether they get a "Peeing Putto" for the garden or change the colour of their bedroom to an almost imperceptibly lighter shade of teal.
Oh shiiiiiiiit! Somebody dissed lawn art!
We'll be going now, me and The Socks.
he lost his place in line at the rosewater foundation.
too bad, i was hoping to cure him of the urge to kill wild animals that meant him no harm.
Leslie said,
".....We'll be going now, me and The Socks......"
It's uncanny how The Satanic One can predict my movements.
Innit?
billy pilgrim errored,
".....wild animals that meant him no harm....."
All wild animals mean us harm! They compete for our precious natural resources.
If we would have continued to club baby seals we would still be enjoying a plentiful and inexpensive supply of cod.
Fortunately our eminently prescient ancestors understood it was necessary to eradicate the Bison herds so that we, today, could enjoy wheat and other grains that Leslie can't eat 'cause she's a fucking mutant Neanderthal!
Jealous!
So Jealz!
i think frump's sweet on you ladies but considers me to be his intellectual inferior.
i'll have to regroup and lick my wounds. i might need eliot's support to get through this.
You but not BBC? How is that possible?
Big hunting blog post coming tomorrow! Yay me!
BBC is Herr Professor's best and dearest Internet friend.
Is it not obvious pilgrim?
someone ought to tell frump that bbc wouldn't make a pimple on my arse.
Yins is a right contradictory kinda guy, pilgrim.
You lament the absence of the King of Banal in one breath, and then in the very next, engage in derogatory rhetoric which would get you summarily deleted at Herr Professor's.
A complex man you are!
I reckon you might see The King of Banal later today/tonight. It's "Old-Toothless-Sucklers On The Government Teat Day" here in Pembroke, Canada, so I figure the Yankee Gubmint sends out its cheques at the same time.
The Eagles in Monkeyville!
BBC will be his old, cranky and drunk self in no time!
i wonder if your being chummy with the frump will make the king jealous. the frump may suffer the same fate i did.
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