KXL pipeline

Go to your church and leave the rest of us and our laws out of it.

1st Amendment.

I'm against bigotry. The Christians are it's number one practitioners in America. They seek to impose that on everyone. It's the Borg with a crucifix.

F*#k that. No cults and the human misery, ignorance, and discrimination that they cause, thanks.

When Christians start acting Christ-like and keep their cult out of public policy, I'll be fine with them.

Live and let live.

I wonder if you would say that about Muslims? Do you know how many provisions we have in place to 'accommodate' their religious beliefs? Do you know how far we have bent over for THAT religion?

It becomes a problem when the Federal gov't start telling Christians how they are to act, and how they have to practice their healthcare.

Wouldn't you call that contrary to the 1st Amendment?

where it would have run for hours before being discovered.

I'm against bigotry. The Christians are it's number one practitioners in America. They seek to impose that on everyone. It's the Borg with a crucifix.

I oppose bigotry wrapped in any cloak, religious or otherwise. Muslims in America are not actively advocating in any measurable way for repressive laws based on cult doctrine. Christians are. That, and reread the 1st sentence: "In America". We don't have many Muslims in America, and I'm not nearly as familiar with that religion as practiced here as I am with Christianity - of which I am very familiar, having been raised one, etc.

The seconds sentence is pure Newspeak. Christianity seeks to prevent 6% or so of the American population from marrying the person they love. There is zero imposition when a gay couple in Seattle gets married to a Baptist Church in Mobile. Zero. And there is no law, existing or proposed, that forces any church to marry anyone with its walls. That is a strawman.

But hospitals and businesses aren't churches. They serve the general public, and, in the case of hospitals, are very often the only entity in a region that provides critical services. They are therefore appropriately subject to a variety of laws - including anti-discrimination laws. Just as Denny's must serve African Americans, so must Hobby Lobby sell model trains to gay people and hospitals provide all the services required by the ACA. That is the promise of the 14th Amendment. To enable religions to cherry pick the laws they want to adhere to would be a gross violation of the 1st Amendment's Establishment Clause, given that all such businesses maintain numerous relationships (grants, taxes, regulations, contracts) with the Federal Government.

WASHINGTON — More crude oil was spilled in U.S. rail incidents last year than was spilled in the nearly four decades since the federal government began collecting data on such spills, an analysis of the data shows.

Including major derailments in Alabama and North Dakota, more than 1.15 million gallons of crude oil was spilled from rail cars in 2013, according to data from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

By comparison, from 1975 to 2012, U.S. railroads spilled a combined 800,000 gallons of crude oil. The spike underscores new concerns about the safety of such shipments as rail has become the preferred mode for oil producers amid a North American energy boom.

The federal data does not include incidents in Canada where oil spilled from trains. Canadian authorities estimate that more than 1.5 million gallons of crude oil spilled in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, on July 6, when a runaway train derailed and exploded, killing 47 people. The cargo originated in North Dakota.

Nearly 750,000 gallons of crude oil spilled from a train on Nov. 8 near Aliceville, Ala. The train also originated in North Dakota and caught fire after it derailed in a swampy area. No one was injured or killed.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration doesn’t yet have spill data from a Dec. 30 derailment near Casselton, N.D. But the National Transportation Safety Board, which is the lead investigator in that incident, estimates that more than 400,000 gallons of crude oil were spilled there. Though no one was injured or killed, the intense fire forced most of Casselton’s 2,400 residents to evacuate in subzero temperatures

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/01/20/215143/more-oil-spilled-from-trains-in.html#storylink=cpy

The Koch Bros stole oil from the Osage Indians in Oklahoma. They are thieves. Most of us would be in prison if we stole but on a macro scale it's forgivable in this country by the powers that be. Obama has actually prosecuted less white collar crime than dubya did.

“The government had already decided to sell out, regardless of what they thought they could get . . . because it was a political decision,” said Jerome Hinkle, a senior planner in the Department of Energy’s Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves. That office, known as NPOSR, was the DOE office in charge of Elk Hills; it continues to manage other properties originally set up to ensure naval fuel supplies. “Given the narrow conditions of the way the auction was conducted, yes, Oxy paid a fair price,” Hinkle said of the deal. “But given its replacement value and what the government could have gotten [the public didn’t necessarily get a good deal].”