From the Pages of "Atlas Shrugged"! Buffett's Burlington Northern RR Among Pipeline Cancellation Winners

It is as if Ayn Rand was sitting in on this Whitehouse crony meeting.

"From the first catch-phrases flung at a child to the last, it is like a series of shocks to freeze his motor, to undercut the power of his consciousness. 'Don't ask so many questions, children should be seen and not heard!'–'Who are you to think? It's so, because I say so!'–'Don't argue, obey!'–'Don't try to understand, believe!'–'Don't rebel, adjust!–'Don't stand out, belong!'–'Don't struggle, compromise!'–'Your heart is more important than your mind!'–'Who are you to know? Your parents know best!'–'Who are you to know? Society knows best!'–'Who are you to know? The bureaucrats know best!'–'Who are you to object? All values are relative!'–'Who are you to want to escape a thug's bullet? That's only a personal prejudice!'"

-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part 3, Ch. 6

Buffett's Burlington Northern Among Pipeline Winners | Full Page

This report was curiously missing from the Bloomberg site after initial posting.

Jim Efstathiou Jr., ©2012 Bloomberg News

Monday, January 23, 2012

Jan. 23 (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.'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.

"Whatever people bring to us, we're ready to haul," Krista York-Wooley, a spokeswoman for Burlington Northern, a unit of Buffett's Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said in an interview. If Keystone XL "doesn't happen, we're here to haul."

The State Department denied TransCanada a permit on Jan. 18, saying there was not enough time to study the proposal by Feb. 21, a deadline Congress imposed on President Barack Obama. Calgary-based TransCanada has said it intends to re-apply with a route that avoids an environmentally sensitive region of Nebraska, something the Obama administration encouraged.

The rail option, though costlier, would lessen the environmental impact, such as a loss of wetlands and agricultural productivity, compared to the pipeline, according to the State Department analysis. Greenhouse gas emissions, however, would be worse. [Note: This last paragraph is all utter nonsense since the entire region is already crisscrossed with petroleum and related pipelines! m/r]

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/01/23/bloomberg_articlesLY20WE6K50Z001-LY9YF.DTL&ao=all#ixzz1kPdmNk5f

I bought a gun, but...In the cities where you need to carry a gun the most

There was always an unspoken dirty secret underlying gun control in cities. The politics of hand gun ownership and the right to bear arms in the more populated cities in the US relates to the party-in-charge that has over-regulated and ruined these places. The laws are now fully designed to protect the criminals and ironically the gun laws, from the beginning, were race based. Initially these laws, especially New York's Sullivan Act, were an attempted to keep guns out of the hands of the criminal elements, namely the Italians, Jews, Chinese, Spanish and Blacks.

Today the racial element is reversed. Liberal, and well protected, city politicians make it nearly impossible for law abiding citizens to have their own private forms of personal protection. The whole charade is couched in there bald faced lies about citizens are too unreliable to protect themselves and thus too dangerous. They can only be protected through their polical control and authority.

The reality is, their authority is nascent protection of the lives of the racial minorities who tend to make up the majority percentage of the violent criminal element in these cities. The perception is if these political 'leaders' don't protect these criminal elements, then they will lose votes from their 'community' constituencies who are represented by the same minority racial groups.

The sinister underlying motives have always been essentially the same, it is just that the protected minority has shifted. ♘

MILLER: I bought a gun, but... - Washington Times

By Emily Miller 1-23-12

After days of calls, emails, tweets, comments and posts, I finally bought the exact gun I wanted, the two-tone version of the Sig Sauer P229 9mm. I’m so excited to shoot my new purchase, but in the nation’s capital, it's not that simple. Buying a gun doesn’t mean you get to have the gun.

Washington, D.C. has a list of firearms that are eligible to be registered. The make, model and even the color (two-tone) of the gun I wanted was on the list, but I had a bear of a time finding one with a D.C.-legal 10-round magazine. The standard version has a 13-round capacity.

I called Sig Sauer’s customer service number to ask for help finding a dealer who had the model I wanted in the lower-capacity magazine.

The agent, Andy, said that he could not help me find a dealer. I asked if the the P229 was made with the 10-round magazine or could be switched out to it. He said, no.

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Unlearned Lessons of Daniel Pearl’s Murder, the “willful blindness” of many in the West to the Islamic roots of the perpetrators’

The Unlearned Lessons of Daniel Pearl’s Murder | FrontPage Magazine

By Bruce Thornton On January 24, 2012

Ten years ago this week, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan, after he had been lured into what he thought was an interview with Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani about the links between al Qaeda and the “shoe bomber” Richard Reid. The shadowy Pakistani group that kidnapped Pearl accused him of being a spy for the CIA, and made several demands, including the release of Pakistani detainees from Guantanamo. Nine days later, Pearl was murdered and beheaded, and on February 21, a video was released called “The Slaughter of the Spy-Journalist, the Jew Daniel Pearl.” The footage showed Pearl’s “confession” and brutal decapitation, interspersed with images of dead Muslims, George Bush shaking hands with Ariel Sharon, and Palestinians allegedly killed by Israeli Defense Forces, including 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura, whose death was later exposed as a Palestinian fabrication. Later, captured 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would brag to interrogators that he personally had beheaded Pearl. As for his abductor, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, though tried and condemned to death, still lives in a Pakistani jail cell, from which according to some reports he has planned other terrorist attacks.

The killing of Pearl concentrated much of what Andrew McCarthy calls the “willful blindness” of many in the West to the Islamic roots of the perpetrators’ violence. At the time, most of the media mainly decried Pearl’s death because he was a reporter. Worse yet were the comments that scolded the terrorists for not understanding that American journalists are neutral observers whose impartiality could help them get their story out. As a New York Times editorial put it,

“The terrible irony of Mr. Pearl’s murder is that he and other independent journalists have been trying to present a detailed and informed portrait of the mindset, motives and grievances of the Islamic fundamentalists in the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 and the war in Afghanistan. That work will continue despite the killing, but the kidnappers have only undermined their cause by their acts.”

The professional corruption of the mainstream-media was revealed in this statement, with its claims that journalists are objective (mostly false) and have no loyalties to their own country and people (mostly true), and that the murderers had a legitimate “cause” and “grievances” (moral idiocy and cowardice).

Most commentary also ignored the Koranic-inspired anti-Semitism ...

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Let us hope the rest of America's voters do the same in November

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Is ‘Saul Alinsky Portrait’ Hanging In White House?

If not it hangs in his conscious political mental process.

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GESTAPO USA - Rand Paul on TSA detainment: ‘I was barked at: ‘Do not leave the cubicle!”

Rand Paul on TSA detainment: ‘I was barked at: ‘Do not leave the cubicle!” | The Daily Caller

Our first guess was Teresa Heinz let him have it. John Kerry Breaks Nose

Our second guess was the Massachusetts Tax Cops caught up with the Mass. Senator for his 'delinquent yacht' he docks in Rhode Island to avoid Mass. Yacht Taxes.

John Kerry Breaks Nose Playing Hockey « CBS Boston

BOSTON (CBS) – Senator John Kerry surprised a few people at the Boston Bruins Stanley Cup ceremony at the White House Monday afternoon.

He had two black eyes and a swollen nose.

His spokeswoman Whitney Smith told WBZ-TV Kerry broke his nose playing ice hockey recently.

In Islam, she is to blame!

Lara Logan: Life is not about dwelling on the bad - NY Daily News

Sunday, January 22 2012,BY RICHARD HUFF /

Lara Logan is back on the air, she’s got nine stories in the works at “60 Minutes” and a new show set to launch — but she still battles the demons of a horrific gang sexual assault, even sometimes while she puts her young daughter to bed.

“People don’t really know that much about (posttraumatic stress disorder),” she told the Daily News. “There’s something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I’m not.

“It doesn’t go away,” she said. “It’s not something I keep track of. It’s not predictable like that. But it happens more than I’d like.”

Last Feb. 11, while covering the Egyptian uprisings in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Logan was surrounded by an angry mob of men and ripped away from her CBS crew. She was viciously stripped and suffered a “brutal and sustained” sexual assault.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/lara-logan-life-dwelling-bad-article-1.1009501#ixzz1kJeCPySQ

As out of touch and idiotic as "The View" let us hope these phonies are Wrong!

The AP sucks up to Obama also. Whinfrey's support is plain racial and the white liberal support is delusory "racial guilt."

Whinfrey praised Obama, but without any supporting evidence to back up the praise, since there is none.

News from The Associated Press

Jan 22, 2012

Oprah confident Obama will win re-election

JAIPUR, India (AP) -- Oprah Winfrey says she is confident that President Barack Obama will win another four-year term in this year's U.S. election.

The talk show host was addressing a literary festival Sunday in the northwestern Indian town of Jaipur.

Winfrey praised Obama's handling of the presidency. She said his next four years would be even more successful, with people able to get back to work.

Winfrey backed Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign in her first-ever political endorsement.

Atheism is a personal conviction not to be proselytized

Facebook is infantile and is hardly a place for deep personal conviction. A facebook Atheist page is a group think form of an infantile cry for attention. Of course facebook itself is an infantile cry for attention. On the other hand, Mohammedanism is the ultimate group think as a dangerous murder cult with the same goals as Stalinism and Nazism.

So why does the US fund Muslim governments that have their long knives out for any infidel, atheist or otherwise?

The Most Dangerous Place to be an Atheist | FrontPage Magazine

By Daniel Greenfield On January 23, 2012

Alexander Aan was just another bureaucrat holding down a desk at the Department of Planning until his Facebook Atheism page came to the notice of Indonesian authorities in Obama’s old stomping grounds. Now Aan is facing a five year jail sentence for using social media to spread the message that Allah does not exist.

Alexander is being charged with “defiling” Islam by using passages from the Koran to challenge the Islamic religion. And while the State Department and the media routinely go on the attack against any manifestation of what they call “Islamophobia,” it isn’t likely that they will be rushing to Aan’s defense. This isn’t exactly the first time that atheists have run afoul of the Islamic codes under which the Muslim world operates.

Two years ago, the Palestinian Authority arrested Waleed Hasayin on similar charges of blaspheming against Islam on Facebook. Waleed Hasayin had written that, “Muhammad was no different than barbaric thugs who slaughtered, robbed and raped women” and that “Islam has legitimized slavery, reinforced the gap between social classes and allowed stealing from the infidels, taking women in captivity during wars and sexual abuse of women slaves.”

For these and other truthful statements, he was arrested and his family demanded that he be sentenced to life in prison. He has since written a letter of apology in hopes of being released.

The regimes imprisoning Aan and Hasayin are funded by the United States. Indonesia is on the list of the top twenty countries benefiting from USAID funding and the Palestinian Authority, including its security forces and prisons, is mostly subsidized by American taxpayers. The arrests were accompanied by mob protests and violence reflecting populist Muslim hostility toward non-Muslims.

Underlying these individual incidents is a legal code that goes to the very definition of what it means to be a citizen of a Muslim country. Muslim countries recognize a limited set of legal religions. Non-Muslims who are members of legal religions have fewer rights and run the usual risks that come with being a minority group. Non-Muslims who are not members of official religions do not. This includes Muslim sects that the Islamic system does not recognize as legitimate. It includes Muslims who wish to convert to another religion, and it includes atheists who are not a recognized religious group.

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