Earth to Houston: abort the Frackpipe!

"The Canadian prime minister has already said to the American president, if you don't want to build this pipeline to bring – create 20,000 American jobs and bring oil through the United Statesto the largest refinery complex in the world, Houston, I want to put it straight west in Canada toVancouver and ship the oil direct to China," Gingrich said at the debate.

"You'll lose the jobs, you'll lose the throughput, you'll lose 30 or 40 years of work in Houston."

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And think of all the jobs "created" from the environmental damage this will allow!

Think of all the private prisons that will swell with middle class Americans that protest this for eternity!

Think of poor, poor Houston. Corporate Welfare knows no boundaries.

A State Department analysis of the Keystone plan pegged the job gains as far fewer than 20,000. The report estimated that "The construction work force would consist of approximately 5,000 to 6,000 workers, including Keystone employees, contractor employees, and construction and environmental inspection staff."

get off the Frackpipe!

"Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, questioned whether some people classified as poor or low-income actually suffer material hardship. He said that while safety-net programs have helped many Americans, they have gone too far. He said some people described as poor live in decent-size homes, drive cars and own wide-screen TVs.

"There's no doubt the recession has thrown a lot of people out of work and incomes have fallen," Rector said. "As we come out of recession, it will be important that these programs promote self-sufficiency rather than dependence and encourage people to look for work."

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"About 97.3 million Americans fall into a low-income category, commonly defined as those earning between 100 and 199 percent of the poverty level, based on a new supplemental measure by the Census Bureau that is designed to provide a fuller picture of poverty.

Together with the 49.1 million who fall below the poverty line and are counted as poor, they number 146.4 million, or 48 percent of the U.S. population. That's up by 4 million from 2009"

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One hundred million hungry wide screen TVs, starved for the power to tune IN, turn ON, and drop addiction to oil.

Get off the Frackpipe!

millions of workers strike in the U.K.

• Department for Education figures suggest 62% of England's 21,476 state schools were closed, with another 14% partly shut
• In Scotland just 33 of the 2,700 state schools were open, according to local authority body Cosla. In Wales, more than 1,500 out of 1,776 schools shut. In Northern Ireland, about two-thirds of the 1,200 schools closed
• On Wednesday evening, London Ambulance Service formally requested help from police to answer 999 calls, and has urged people only to call if life is at risk; South East Coast Ambulance Service has said it is only responding to "life-threatening emergencies"
• NHS managers say a little under 7,000 of approximately 30,000 routine operations have been cancelled or postponedacross the UK as well as tens of thousands of appointments
• BBC News Channel's chief political correspondent Norman Smithtweeted: "(Health Secretary) Andrew Lansley says patients who have ops cancelled today will still be seen within 18-week limit."
• In Northern Ireland, no bus or train services are operating
• Plane arrivals and take-offs at Britain's two biggest airports - Heathrow and Gatwick - are said to be largely unaffected with only a few cancellations of in-bound transatlantic flights to Heathrow
• The Local Government Association said about a third of England and Wales council staff were not in work, equating to about 670,000 out of 2.1 million. About 250,000 public sector workers are on strike in Scotland while 170,000 workers in Wales are taking action
• Just 14 job centres out of more than 900 across the UK have closed, according to the Cabinet Office
• Twenty-one people were arrested after an office in London's West End was targeted at about 15:50 GMT by a group of protesters believed to be from the Occupy London anti-capitalist campaign group

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police use of pepper spray on fleeing non-violent protestors on a Portland sidewalk

their answer struck forward

being soft and weak where they wish us not

predicting flaws that make virtue

pale opalescence

having frequented busy usurpations in progress

having been given indignities

while asking for help

i consider why our softness is less than theirs,

why their weakness is greater when they are us?

fraught, indelibly

writ in egg on chicken

as vets return to reruns from all wars

feather their lost nests

in limbs gathered, hunted

coveted magic ball answers,

dumb assholes.

their answer

not only objects

it strikes forward.

the size of the ponder

quack mire easy assembly,

easily attained with blind duck

drunk cold duck duck blinks

now it is on federal lands.

used

to be

long mired by the elk in a fen

richly endowed

with his story of layered crud slop,

among coy

caged fish in a shrunk plaza

the size of the ponder

means a lot to the ideas there to grow,

without scope

nor moneykey trials

sum assembly required

working on change is a panhandler's fool's gold

when change is the currency we breathe

not elk breath

but crown victoria's subject of admiration

here to catch the falling leaves

embedded is as embedded does,

foot-rot mythosophy

don't stand out when you crate your stand

on their slipbox,

sum

assembly

re

-mired

black maria

order prevails in paralytic charm

we each get a turn to mein nothing

noodling messages like air guitar patriots

mainly for manly form

dressed in garbled garb of tarped autonomy

here i hear our dissonance departing

it is called a beat

gumshoes, or gaul lashes

fertile riotry

even order is confused

when non-charmed volks

drive paddy wagons

mein street

consensus forged

behind closed whores

now is that good business practice?

open mein street

the elk decrees liberty

contiguous, contagious

unadulterated and

wholed, hearty and not yet hale

though i lean

toward jeffersonian

anti-slavery hyperbole

dicta anathema

push me to dare you to push me

i'm a new man made old

your sorry story sold well

well deep dryness in a heart made of aquifer ghosts

libido frond shade

it ain't a tussle

castles need dragons or their parapets

sob obsolete

replete with tugs

pulling incredulity

either fertile, or sterile

procedure emanates

false dicta permeates

cuz, well, that's what dicta does

cardboard jewelry

collusion assembles regular- like,

transformenters hyphenated

background chatter squirrel massage

the park is yucky to the eye

the disreputable folks are folked up

the elk wears cardboard jewelry

shitty hall

poems are technological anathemas, cast either

from or to two toos

echoing reverberations of endorsement,

also concurring in a general disassembly

that rectitude is verbotten

sounds nasty, is nasty (but tasty

if you are shitty hall