en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/675501 Comments by Alan_F http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2012/02/15/obamas-rejection-of-the-keystone-pipeline-a-gift-for-republicans-in-2012/#IDComment293184411 The pipeline isn't under Canadian control within America's borders. That's just a fact. It has to meet American safety standards and practices which have been improved each year. Your own Water Quality Act hasn't been nearly so quick to respond. You want something to wet the bed over, try looking there first. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:24:39 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2012/02/15/obamas-rejection-of-the-keystone-pipeline-a-gift-for-republicans-in-2012/#IDComment293184411 http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2012/02/15/obamas-rejection-of-the-keystone-pipeline-a-gift-for-republicans-in-2012/#IDComment293177874 Again you are using Enbridge's bad as an example of TransCanada Pipeline's future bad in spite of their own long history being available to peruse. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:13:05 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2012/02/15/obamas-rejection-of-the-keystone-pipeline-a-gift-for-republicans-in-2012/#IDComment293177874 http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2012/02/15/obamas-rejection-of-the-keystone-pipeline-a-gift-for-republicans-in-2012/#IDComment293175805 TransCanada Pipeline Corp isn't Enbridge. Wikipedia is biased left so don't take my word for anything, read it yourself. As for the Chinese, who said anything about environmentalism? They're the one's who desperately want what you appear not to and have shown up with a whopping great pile of your American currency to do business with. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:09:48 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2012/02/15/obamas-rejection-of-the-keystone-pipeline-a-gift-for-republicans-in-2012/#IDComment293175805 http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2012/02/15/obamas-rejection-of-the-keystone-pipeline-a-gift-for-republicans-in-2012/#IDComment293152953 It's not a movie here in Canada as the Greenies HAVE bombed pipelines. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:32:14 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2012/02/15/obamas-rejection-of-the-keystone-pipeline-a-gift-for-republicans-in-2012/#IDComment293152953 http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2012/02/15/obamas-rejection-of-the-keystone-pipeline-a-gift-for-republicans-in-2012/#IDComment293151811 More oil has been spilled with ships, trucks and trains than by pipeline, period. The Chinese are more than happy to make up the difference and in fact are dancing over their new Canadian LNG deals. A friend of mine is over there right now working on logistics and streamlining the management systems and has been there for a month already. This has only hurt America. As for unsafe industry, you then MUST have been in the vanguard to prevent Obama's solar debacle from setting up shop in unique desert ecosystems and nutting them completely but I can't see such on your Intense Debate history. Gunrunner must have had you coming off the rails in regard to UNSAFE ventures too, no? Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:29:59 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2012/02/15/obamas-rejection-of-the-keystone-pipeline-a-gift-for-republicans-in-2012/#IDComment293151811 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/02/15/why-does-j-b-pritzker-aipac-patron-and-pro-israel-democrat-fund-anti-israel-media-matters/#IDComment293099731 ...being anti-Mexico isn't being anti-Mexican. There, fixed the analogy for you... so your point was? Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:05:33 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/02/15/why-does-j-b-pritzker-aipac-patron-and-pro-israel-democrat-fund-anti-israel-media-matters/#IDComment293099731 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/02/15/why-does-j-b-pritzker-aipac-patron-and-pro-israel-democrat-fund-anti-israel-media-matters/#IDComment293095493 Bingo. Once they've developed a taste for Cool-aide, even diabetes won't stop em from taking a sip. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:58:48 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/02/15/why-does-j-b-pritzker-aipac-patron-and-pro-israel-democrat-fund-anti-israel-media-matters/#IDComment293095493 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9STPS0G0&show_article=1#IDComment293088398 When they can't even cut $500 million from their current deficit spending, they're expected to repay hundreds of billions added to debt they've already shown themselves unable to repay? Back to university for me because this new Euro-math escapes me. The welfare state experiment on steroids has to fail utterly in order for its proponents to get the message, time to pay off those credit cards maxed on that perpetual vacation the Greeks took from the 50's on. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:47:28 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9STPS0G0&show_article=1#IDComment293088398 http://tv.breitbart.com/snl-clint-eastwood-half-time-chrysler-ad/#IDComment291348931 I think they do every show as SNL, like much of American TV these days, is seen as a failed IQ test by the rest of the planet. Sure you have a few like "Person of Interest", "Blue Bloods" or "Breakout Kings" that shine but for every one of those there's another round of doctors copulating, lawyers copulating, police copulating, firemen copulating, celebritards copulating, politicians copulating... Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:32:10 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/snl-clint-eastwood-half-time-chrysler-ad/#IDComment291348931 http://tv.breitbart.com/snl-clint-eastwood-half-time-chrysler-ad/#IDComment291342328 I disagree! A pvssy is useful. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:23:26 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/snl-clint-eastwood-half-time-chrysler-ad/#IDComment291342328 http://tv.breitbart.com/snl-clint-eastwood-half-time-chrysler-ad/#IDComment291340817 Maybe he's a good enough actor to have fooled himself into believing such bull crap? Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:21:23 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/snl-clint-eastwood-half-time-chrysler-ad/#IDComment291340817 http://tv.breitbart.com/snl-clint-eastwood-half-time-chrysler-ad/#IDComment291339454 +1 here. It hasn't been remotely funny since "more cow bell". Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:19:46 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/snl-clint-eastwood-half-time-chrysler-ad/#IDComment291339454 http://tv.breitbart.com/obama-we-are-through-with-you-palin-roasts-president-at-cpac/#IDComment290912162 In 1992, the regulator of Fannie Mae was critically weakened by the actions of Congressional Representative Barney Frank. The agency was required to get its budget approved by Congress, while agencies that regulated banks set their own budgets. That gave congressional allies an easy way to exert pressure. In the late 1990's, under the direction of the Clinton Administration's relaxing of lending standards, Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines allowed subprime borrowers to obtain loans. In 1995, President Clinton's administration revised Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulation, which allowed mortgage lenders like Countrywide not to mitigate loan risk with savings deposits as do traditional banks, using the new subprime authorization, which is known the secondary mortgage market. The revisions allowed securitization of CRA loans containing subprime mortgages, which were first started by Bear Sterns in 1997. The number of CRA mortgage loans increased 39 percent between 1993 and 1998, while other loans increased only 17 percent. Other rule changes gave Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac extraordinary leverage, allowing them to hold just 2.5% of capital to back their investments, as opposed to 10% for banks. Easy to find and there's lots more of it out there. Barney is 7 years deep into this by 1999. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:04:13 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/obama-we-are-through-with-you-palin-roasts-president-at-cpac/#IDComment290912162 http://tv.breitbart.com/obama-we-are-through-with-you-palin-roasts-president-at-cpac/#IDComment290900156 Clueless. Capitalism and capital markets made possible a viable method of storing value and using it. At its simplest, what good is it to repair roofs all summer and fall if only to require maintaining a barn full of animals received in trade? There wouldn't have been a fraction of the progress we have enjoyed if not for having methods of storing wealth in a portable fashion and having that stored wealth's value recognized by others elsewhere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:49:28 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/obama-we-are-through-with-you-palin-roasts-president-at-cpac/#IDComment290900156 http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2012/02/11/fast-and-furious-rep-darrell-issa-blinks-no-contempt-charges-for-holder/#IDComment290839769 Hey that was their pitch and as I said, it isn't anything sellable to any officers with experience and the ATF, DEA and JD are full of experienced officers. As for what good it does to know the routes throughout Mexico, if you know where a thing travelled through then you also know who was looking the other way as it passed. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:09:07 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2012/02/11/fast-and-furious-rep-darrell-issa-blinks-no-contempt-charges-for-holder/#IDComment290839769 http://tv.breitbart.com/breitbart-reports-rips-occupy-on-huckabee/#IDComment290610438 They used the spoken word "union" without correction from either interviewer or the interviewee. How is this unclear? Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:35:56 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/breitbart-reports-rips-occupy-on-huckabee/#IDComment290610438 http://tv.breitbart.com/obama-we-are-through-with-you-palin-roasts-president-at-cpac/#IDComment290602132 Well said. Obama had openly shown to all his true face in that forgotten fly-by done by the statue of liberty, without warning, for the sake of his getting a photo for his wall. America's ME president. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:20:24 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/obama-we-are-through-with-you-palin-roasts-president-at-cpac/#IDComment290602132 http://tv.breitbart.com/theyre-using-insurance-for-communism-ann-couter-rocks-cpac/#IDComment290592873 I think this goes much further and into the realm of legislating corporate policy into step with worker's demands which this case clearly does. It's simply another unionist policy. Put enough seemingly innocuous legislation on the book and soon what you were never able to accomplish openly comes to fruition in the shade. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:03:21 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/theyre-using-insurance-for-communism-ann-couter-rocks-cpac/#IDComment290592873 http://tv.breitbart.com/george-soros-romney-will-do-new-stimulus-as-president-just-like-obama/#IDComment290585743 Correct there. I openly like Newt for what he does best which is argue a point but he's gone off the rails with this presidential bid's rhetoric. The only thing that scares Soros is a president who actually knows the game in which he himself plays. In point of fact Romney has just as many oars in the water as Warren Buffet and yet good old Warren is lauded for being wealthy in spite of being America's premier vulture capitalist by the majority of Americans whereas Romney is being vilified for it. Also I'd ask why Obama wielding Warren Buffet's name to defend himself drew bugger all for fire towards Warren Buffet's business practices yet Romney citing his own historically verified abilities was seen as vile even by America's conservatives? Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:50:31 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/george-soros-romney-will-do-new-stimulus-as-president-just-like-obama/#IDComment290585743 http://tv.breitbart.com/theyre-using-insurance-for-communism-ann-couter-rocks-cpac/#IDComment290574553 Win by KO. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:31:12 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/theyre-using-insurance-for-communism-ann-couter-rocks-cpac/#IDComment290574553