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Making Heads Explode

He acts like he is America. But America didn’t like Dick Cheney. – Maureen Dowd


“I didn’t change. The world changed”
– Henninger interview of Dick Cheney

Ready to promote the release of his new autobiography, former Vice President Darth Cheney is deeply unapologetic over his time spent in serving in the Bush White House and can still give a rat’s ass about popularity over making the hard, adult decisions and doing the right thing:

“It’s important to have people at the helm who are prepared to be unpopular.”

Politics

Say What? August 31, 2011 Edition [Reader Post]

Al Gore: “We need to have an American spring, you know, the Arab spring. The non-violent part of it isn’t finished yet, but we need to have an American spring. A kind of an American Tahrir Square. Non-violent change where people from the grassroots get involved again. Not the, you know, not in the Tea Party style.” Just not real grass roots; just not grass roots movements that disagree with him.

Economy / Energy / Environment / Oil / Politics

The Keystone XL Pipeline and Canadian Oil Sands or Politics Make Strange Bedfellows [Reader Post]

Despite environmentalist protests, President Obama is about ready to approve the “jobs creating” Keystone XL pipeline. TransCanada Corporation, the project owner, estimates that 20,000 jobs can be created from the pipeline itself over the two-year project development period. There are other jobs associated with development of the resource in Canada that have economic impacts on U.S. employment. So, with that in mind, let’s look at the Keystone XL pipeline, and at Canadian oil sands.