Obama Lied, Keystone Supporters Sighed

Yesterday's news today - Obama misunderestimated the likely employment around the Keystone pipeline. Here are the WaPo and Politifact:

Obama said the Keystone XL pipeline might produce about 2,000 jobs during construction, based on the most reliable estimates. The White House provided no supporting evidence and the administration’s own State Department predicted that while the pipeline would produce few permanent jobs, the construction process itself would create nearly twice as many jobs as the president said.

We rate the statement False.

 

 

Comments

[Txantimedia]

Big deal. He lies all the time. Is this supposed to be newsworthy? ;-)

[sbwaters]

No news here. News is something we need to know to plan a better future, but we already knew this.

It is, however, news to libs and progs.

[narciso]

In Blind squirrel news, barro fils, dings Krugman, it happens as often as Halley's comet.

[PaulL]

Regardless of the exact number, it pales in comparison to the 5 million green jobs Obama created.

[Txantimedia]

sbw, oh yee of too much faith....

[henry]

Meanwhile the WSJ has an article highlighting several new LNG pipelines in Canada to send energy to Asia.

[NK]

The Left has a problem with Arithmatic and numbers in general-- Look at the NYT-- bought the Boston Globe Company for $1.1B sold it for $70MILLION. Oh and did we mention the operating losses during ownership which no doubt were bigger than a net $70M. Remember that the next time the NYT talks 'economics.'

[NK]

Well the loose in the loafers blind squirrel finds a nut: http://www.newsmax.com/Newswidget/lindsey-graham-benghazi-embassies/2013/08/04/id/518587?promo_code=12390-1&utm_source=12390PJ_Media&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1

[narciso]

Facepalm with an old one, 'run away, run away' the advice to the Black Knight, that is not the lesson,

[narciso]

So this kerfluffle about 'Johnny Football' shirly they can't be serious;

[narciso]

There is the obligatory AP 'The Tea Party, is Dead' or at least pining, no context of the IRS attack provided.

[4JackisBack!2 (On His iPhone)]

From my professional experience a line like Keystone will provide about 4 to 5 thousand direct manual (craft) jobs thru its construction schedule and over 400 non-manual in the field. The you have all the indirect jobs which are substantial. Unlike a power plant or refinery the economic impact will leave a much longer and expansive footprint. Lots of community's will benefit.

[Extraneus]

DEA going NSA?

The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to “recreate” the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant’s Constitutional right to a fair trial.

This whole privacy issue is ripe for a libertarian conservative. Lots of younger voters would be interested in the issue.

[Thomas Collins]

Obama probably meant he could only justify 2000 new bureaucrats to monitor Keystone. One the other hand, he could justify tens of thousands of new bureaucrats to get a new Cabinet level Department of Windmills, Solar Panels, Bicycles and Reusable Toilet Paper For Gaia up and going.

[rse]

Every expense is justifiable unless it is in the Department of Defense and then it must be gutted in the name of the sequester.

He does mean to fundamentally transform America. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/digital-promise-and-21st-century-skills-as-the-long-sought-rapid-change-of-minds-for-the-future/ is today's post noting just how important this WH considers both ed policy and especially transitioning everyone to an ICT focus and 21st century skills.

Yesterday I was reviewing the changes in science ed and what is being federally pushed as Ed for Climate Change and included in a 2010 workshop was a commissioned paper on how to see climate change to faith-based groups so they will pressure their members accordingly.

[rse]

Sell, not see.

[bull-whip cracker]

"This whole privacy issue is ripe for a libertarian conservative"

Good morning. Did you sleep well?

The security services are the copy-cats. DEA has been using the same tactics since, well, forever.

"Become a CI, or else"

[bull-whip cracker]

"“Members of Congress were not really aware … about what these programs were being used for, the extent to which they were being used,” Amash told “Fox News Sunday. “He’s a whistle-blower. He told us what we need to know.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/04/republican-rep-amash-snowden-whistleblower-told-us-what-need-to-know/#ixzz2b6Td2CeQ

Well, the fact is they didn't care until the poll numbershifted.

[narciso]

But it doesn't work, I'm fairly confident that Russia doesn't go for this 'mind arson' folderall.

[Janet --- -... .- -- .- ... ..- -.-. -.- ...]

You can't even make this stuff up....

"Sporting bright blue pants, a bullhorn and an Ecuadorean flag, Weiner repeatedly shouted, “Que viva Ecuador!” to the crowd as he energetically ran down Northern Boulevard in Queens with his loyal interns following."

Good Lord.

[MarkO]

Is this remake of "Bananas?"

[NK]

Bananas?-- Do they dig up Howard Cosell to reprise his cameo?

[Marlene]

TransCanada Corp. announced a $12B proposed pipeline to be built between Alberta and St. John,NB. Irving Oil then announced it will build a $300M marine terminal in St. John. The pipeline will loop just over the border of northernmost Maine,thru NB. Stephen Harper said the jobs created are the #1 priority. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a *leader* who believed in creating jobs?

[NK]

Speaking of Blind Squirrels: ObummerCare in going after rich white guys lighting cigars with $100 bills mainly hits Public Union workers with the "Cadillac Tax"--- Robert Reich outraged: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/nyregion/health-care-law-raises-pressure-on-public-employees-unions.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp

[NK]

Marlene-- If the USA had Stephen Harper as POTUS these past 5 years, the USA would have a BOOMING energy and strong manufacturing economy, with lower food and fuel prices for consumers-- and of course no ObummerCare skrewing the job market. It's criminal that we are stuck with OCHOOMER.

[bull-whip cracker]

If for nothing else you have to give Wiener some credit for persistence .
He's watched conservatives refrain from hiding their warts since decorating them is so much fun, and doubling down on the stupid is seen as smart.

He's oblivious to the concept of shame.

[NK]

..just like our JOM trolls.

[jimmyk]

"Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a *leader* who believed in creating jobs?"

Nitpicking, but I'd like the GOP to steer away from the "creating jobs" mentality in favor shrinking government and getting out of the way of private sector job creation.

[Account Deleted]

Marlene,

Those are just temporary jobs. It's not at all the same as lifetime employment at Solyndra or the security of having a public teaching position in Chicago. The President is only interested in real jobs, offering the lifetime security of pay and benefits which can only be found by working in a large metropolitan area such as Detroit.

[Rob Crawford]

If for nothing else you have to give Wiener some credit for persistence . He's watched conservatives refrain from hiding their warts since decorating them is so much fun, and doubling down on the stupid is seen as smart.

Dana, does it ever concern you that your opinions have so little to do with reality?

[NK]

BTW-- the Wiener Photo?

He's a lunatic, I mean medically a lunatic. he should be remanded to Bellevue for intensive medication and chemical shock therapy.

HildaBeast clearly saw the risk he poses to her: she's had Huma confined like some sort of Victorian out of wedlock birth mother.

[Marlene]

RickB,Harper has to be diplomatic in refuting Obama,but he must be thinking,what a doofus!

[fdcol63]

"The President is only interested in real jobs ..."

Yeah, and those 20-hour per week, $15/hr burger-flipping jobs at McD's. LOL

[Old Lurker]

what Jimmy said at 10:34...

[fdcol63]

And if anyone else wondered why Huma would marry a Jew like Weiner, here's a possible answer:

Walid Shoebat tells us why Huma Abedin, daughter of a Muslim Brotherhood member, would marry Anthony Weiner, a Jew

http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/07/04/walid-shoebat-tells-us-why-huma-abedin-daughter-of-a-muslim-brotherhood-member-would-marry-anthony-weiner-a-jew/

[Dave (in MA)]

Look at the NYT-- bought the Boston Globe Company for $1.1B sold it for $70MILLION. Oh and did we mention the operating losses during ownership which no doubt were bigger than a net $70M. Remember that the next time the NYT talks 'economics.'

The best part? The Times is still stuck with $110M in pension liabilities. Also fun is the story that 3 parties claim to have outbid John Henry for the white elephant, but you have to be a Globe subscriber in order to read it.

[Janet --- -... .- -- .- ... ..- -.-. -.- ...]

what Jimmy said at 10:34...

ditto

[Thomas Collins]

"Bellevue"

NK, do you really want to subject the fine denizens of Bellevue to Weiner? That might push them over the edge.

[Annoying Old Guy]

NK, Dave;

It gets better. The deal also included some properties that the NY Times paid another $300M for, so the initial price was $1.4B, turned in to a $40M loss. Smart economics.

"In fact, the sale also includes The Worcester Telegram & Gazette, for which the Times paid an additional $295 million 14 years ago"

[NK]

ThomasC-- fair point. ISOLATE THE WEINER!!

[NK]

AOG/DAVE--

it gets better better better!!!! (i.e. worse worse worse for the Sulberger Pref. Shareholders) -- the losses were huge --$1.4B all in?-- AND the stuff was purchased originally in 1993 in one of those phony baloney 90s 'stock purchases'. OH BABY-- Pinch is edging closer to bankrupting the family!!

[NK]

ThomasC/Dave-- what's Hohn Henry's politics? sane, or just another Billionaire Brahman Lefty?

[James D.]

Here's a question to which we all know the answer, but I'll ask anyway.

Since Zero is lying about this, and even his press lapdogs admit he's lying, and his supporters know he's lying...

Why doesn't Boehner, or McConnell, or even Rand Paul or Ted Cruz, call him out directly? I mean, get to a microphone and say "The President is a goddamn liar."

If nothing else, saying it so directly might shock a few people, wouldn't it?

[NK]

Pinch's Losses-- make that $1.5B (including the Legacy Pension obligations), PLUS the OPERATING LOSSES the past 20 years!!

[Thomas Collins]

http://www.newsmeat.com/sports_political_donations/John_W_Henry.php

NK, it looks from his campaign contributions that he supports those with the accepted opinions of the oligarchy.

[Danube on iPad]

Shoebat? The guy's name is Shoebat?

[fdcol63]

Kinda rhymes with "Cluebat", doesn't it? LOL

[Bailey]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23541341

“One of the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings was in possession of right-wing American literature in the run-up to the attack, BBC Panorama has learnt.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev subscribed to publications espousing white supremacy and government conspiracy theories.”

[pagar]

"Since Zero is lying about this, and even his press lapdogs admit he's lying, and his supporters know he's lying..."

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/08/05/u-s-directing-agents-to-cover-up-program-used-to-investigate-americans/

It looks like the entire Obama regime is lying about almost every thing.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-05/deas-cover-program-revealed-more-troubling-pervasive-nsa-surveillance

[Danube of Thought]

Sigherd?

[pagar]

Extraneus, I think I doubled on your 09:32 link. Just didn't check far enough back. IMO, it's a good link.

[GMax]

Yeah the story of the business acumen of the NYT keeps growing as we peel the onion back. Its not $1.1 B as reported above, but approx. $1.5 B as noted above. Apparently Pinch could not resist popping off in the press about what a coup he had pulled off at the time of acquisition too. Tee HEE.

The Red Sox owner apparently valued the real estate involved in the acquisition at $70 MM according to a couple sources, so he got the papers for free, which about what they are likely worth.

[NK]

GMAX-- the papers were worth $0...... SO LONG AS Pinch ate the $100M+ pension obligations. Which Pinch agreed to as he knows full well they'll get washed away in a Chap 11 filing. The music will stop for the Dancing Chips soon...very soon... very soon indeed.

[matt]

So which movie is Weiner channeling? Bananas? The In Laws? Moon over Parador?

And what do the Israelis and other more sensible intelligence services say about the possible AQ attack? Our human intel is worthless these days, so we listen to traffic and have to decode and translate and interpret.

Oh yeah.....The White House burned the British agent inside AQAP....all the while witch hunting throughout the CIA and DoD.

And from the media and experts.....crickets....

[Sue]

Doesn't closing our embassies signal a win for AQ?

[NK]

Matt@12:21 fantastic post, three great central/south american political spoofs-- Moon Over Parador!! that had completely left my consciousness, Dreyfuss was useless of course, but Raul julia was sublime... I miss Raul J;

Sue@12:23: Yes, it is...a big one.

[Extraneus]

They're on the run, Sue.

[Bailey]

"Doesn't closing our embassies signal a win for AQ?"

Yes. Leaving the embassy open in Benghazi; also a win for AQ.

[NK]

Yes AQ is racking up big wins in Benghazi, and now in closing embassies. ALL AQ WINS.
(PLUS Obummer forcing Egypt to include MB in the government.)

Common element? Obummer is a F#%^KING incompetent Muppet and Anti-American shill for the worldwide Caliphate!!

[Account Deleted]

"SO LONG AS Pinch ate the $100M+ pension obligations."

If ZIRP continues, the $100M+ could become $200M+ rather quickly. Should Henry decide to shut down the Globe quickly (the correct business decision), the NYT would be obliged to book the entire liability, quickening the pace towards the oncoming BK from a trot to a gallop.

The prognosis for a bad case of progressive rot remains terminal.

[Bailey]

" Obummer is a F#%^KING incompetent Muppet and Anti-American shill for the worldwide Caliphate!!"

Whoa. Imagine your pique if he'd been POTUS on 9/11.

I don't think the bonding is as intimate with the Saud as GWB, but they are Muslims, however I think Obama is Shia, so they can't be close.

[GMax]

The prognosis for a bad case of progressive rot remains terminal.

Rick, you are so cruel. A bunch inumerate prog trolls just had their whole week ruined. They thought there were still plenty of checks in the checkbook, they follow the Keith Ellison philosophy to the letter, "There is still plenty of money, its just not in the government." DOH

[NK]

Obummer is not close with the House of saud... quite the contrary he supports the MB who want to do the ful Mussolini on the saudi Royals.

And obviously, the POTUS for 8 years prior to 9/11 was FAR, FAR more responsible for the nightmare-- no response to AQ East Africa bombings, or the Cole, or the 93 WTC bombing and allowing AQ to grow unchecked in AfPak, tying the hands of the FBI-CIA inside the USA. All of those led to 9/11, not the POTUS stuck with the result.

[GMax]

At least Zero's policy of "no conditions" on talks with the Iranians has has been fruitful! LOL

[NK]

RickB-- IMO those pensions will never be paid-- they get Chap. 11ed when Pinch files. The Journos will have a real live Les Mis at 8th avenue and 41st street, they'll be singing .... "One more day to kill the Pinch.... one more day to burn it down..." I'll bring a lawn chair an adult beverages and watch.

[Mandy Rice Davies]

A dead, stuffed, baby Kangaroo in his luggage?

[Extraneus]

RNC issues ultimatum to NBC and CNN: If you want to air GOP debates in 2016, cancel your Hillary movies

A ploy to back out of some lib-moderated debates without doing so on principle?

[GMax]

IMO those pensions will never be paid

How in the world will Tom Friedman ever be able to afford that mansion without a pension to fall back on?

[NK]

Gmax--his wife (who owns the Bethesda manse) will relegate Tom to a small room in the Northeast wing, have his food slid under the door, while she diddles with the pool boys.

[rich@gmu]

he'll manage. his wife is rich and the Chinese can always use a good stenographer.

[NK]

Ext@12:53-- that can't be it, that's way above the IQ level of the Stupid Party.

[Dave (in MA)]

Help, I'm being repressed. (TP)

[Bailey]

Has anyone discovered the sect Obama belongs to?

Wahab, Shia, Takfiri Salafist, Sufi or what?

[GMax]

He acts more like a Ba'hai from where I sit...

[NK]

The MB and Obummer are not primarily religiously dogmatic, they are about political power. MB wants Islamist worldwide Manifest Destiny (except in China-- too many Chinese, Serbia-- manaical serbs and russia-- too many nukes and Vlad would use them)
Obummer wants Ammerica to fail and no longer be a world power-- so MB and Obummer's goals overlap, even though Obummer has no religious convictions.... other than in Obummer.

[Mandy Rice Davies]

Silly, idle gossip, NK. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk

[NK]

OT-- CNBC is paying a bit of attention-- the "Rich" have gone Galt: http://www.cnbc.com/id/47445683

[NK]

Gossip?-- au contraire-- that is the inevitable inference from Obummer's own conduct. To conclude otherwise would mean he is mentally challenged , with a cool room IQ or less...hey wait!!!

[matt]

One of the very strange twists in the Egyptian narrative now is the sheer lunacy and hatred of the United States, and especially Obama. All sorts of wild accusations of US intervention and support of the MB.

Many Egyptians are fixated on the US as the source of their problems. Great job, Mr. President! Another victory for reset!

[NK]

Matt-- the Egyptian people have it right... Obummer is in league with the MB... in Egypt and world-wide

[Account Deleted]

NK,

I don't find "The New York Times Newspaper Guild" (which appears in the 10K) to be covered by the PBGC. The NYT shows a pension and benefit liability of over $900 million and ZIRP puts them in the position of catching knives falling from a great height.

The press Jacobins need to get their Committee of Public Safety formed and schedule an appointment with Mr. Sulzberger at the earliest opportunity if they wish to maintain access to the more flavorful bits of the corpse of the New York Times.

[Dave (in MA)]

The MLB suspensions are out. One token Italian-American among all the White Hispanics.

[Thomas Collins]

Matt, my only hope for US/Egyptian relations is that military to military relations are still good. Sun Tzu Obama has accomplished the trifecta of angering the Egyptian military, those Egyptians with secular leanings, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Add al-Sisi to the world leaders who can't believe what a doofus is currently POTUS.

[Mandy Rice Davies]

@1:01 The Thuggee: viciously strangled victims with anything handy from power cords to spaghetti. I said they were vicious, not smart.

[NK]

RickB-- oh.... IMO... ALL NYT pensioners get the sharp end of the Kabob Knife, the Globe, and the NYT guilds -- all of them. You don't think Uncle Carlos 'invested' in the NYT with any intention of ever paying penny one of those pensions?

[jimmyk]

A ploy to back out of some lib-moderated debates without doing so on principle?

The RNC threat only pertains to primary debates. That seems like Cleavon Little's threat in "Blazing Saddles." The real problem is the debates between the D and R nominees. It would be nice if the RNC made a statement right now cataloging the sins of past "moderators," most notably Crowley, and staked out a position now of demanding veto power over any moderator.

[Captain Hate]

Could Snowden get more intelligence people killed or compromised than Ear Leader's big mouthed toadies have?

[Mandy Rice Davies]

I want what the Egyptians want;
To beat he shit out of Anderson Cooper.

[jimmyk]

One token Italian-American

Dave, if you mean Cervelli, he's actually Venezuelan. There's not even a white Hispanic among them as far as I can tell. MLB is obviously anti non-white Hispanic.

[boris]

Sigherd?

Googled it, apparently there is "Sigherd Lord of Numerwald".

Probably doesn't rhyme with "Lied" though.

[jimmyk]

Actually, Cervelli looks like a white Hispanic:

[Account Deleted]

CH,

How do we score the AQ/MB supporters kinetically detweeted through their use of hand held self targeting devices? Is "Arab Spring" just an iteration of the progressive genocide project? Did Google and FaceBook join in the Arab Spring push on the same basis as a prog offering a Dead Black Baby bounty to Planned Parenthood?

It would be hilarious if Schmidt and Zuckerberg picked up genocidaire credentials for their work on Arab Spring and the Mahometans are certainly a fertile audience for the proposition.

[Account Deleted]

CH,

How do we score the AQ/MB supporters kinetically detweeted through their use of hand held self targeting devices? Is "Arab Spring" just an iteration of the progressive genocide project? Did Google and FaceBook join in the Arab Spring push on the same basis as a prog offering a Dead Black Baby bounty to Planned Parenthood?

It would be hilarious if Schmidt and Zuckerberg picked up genocidaire credentials for their work on Arab Spring and the Mahometans are certainly a fertile audience for the proposition.

[Dave (in MA)]

jimmyk, my bad. I saw "Italo-" in his profile and quit reading.

[Captain Hate]

Zuckerberg: The new improved Sanger

[Captain Hate]

Tammy Bruce is suggesting that the embassy shut downs while Gaylord Focker will still embark to the historically black vacation area of Martha's Vineyard, is a chance to rehab Susan 'At the Movies' Rice's security credentials. I know it's shocking to think of a donk playing political games with security matters.

[NK]

Rehabbing Rice? isn't the best way to do that, is to lock away Rice and direct the fawning Media Allies to publish glowing reports of Rice's competence? Surely, if you have her actually do something, it is fraught with danger of disater and chaos.

[NK]

Rice: What did the Peronist cronies say about the Rainbow Tour? "Raise the flags and fix a parade.... some kind of welcome home triumph is required.!"

[Another Bob]

@Rick Ballard | August 05, 2013 at 02:02 PM:

You've used this "kinetically detweeted through their use of hand held self targeting devices" sort of reference several times.

Does this mean what I think it means? Was there a link to such as story somewhere?

[NK]

OT-- I have to break out my daughter's old Field Hockey stick and keep the Coyotes away from my Border Collies: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52678216/ns/local_news-new_york_ny/