for some odd reason i could not get on the forum last night...
What Annoyed You Today? (3 Viewers)
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Long time employee and friend's father passed away Sunday....been ill for sometime.
Old Wizard
2nd Lieutenant
fubar57
General
Dead link Wizard.
Geo
Geo
at6
1st Sergeant
Some dirty bastard decided to steal my pick up truck at midnight. I heard the sound of the truck being over revved and by the time I got out the door he was a block and a half away. He left another stolen car in front of my house. If I could I would slowly kill the S. O. B!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Prop 47 has only increased crime in Crapifornia.
That really sucks man...
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
It sure does.
Fed up with losing Internet connection every ten minutes or so, for the past three days.
Fed up with losing Internet connection every ten minutes or so, for the past three days.
Old Wizard
2nd Lieutenant
Here's what was on that link.
Here's a little fact that should send Hollywood eco-warriors and climate justice activists into a righteous rage: Over the last five years, the United States has added the equivalent of nearly 14 Keystone XL pipelines to its pipeline network.
You read that right. Fourteen. According to the Association of Oil Pipe Lines (AOPL), the US has built roughly 19,200 kilometres of new pipelines since 2010, or almost 14 times the length of TransCanada's 1,400-km Keystone XL project. The additional capacity brings the total pipeline mileage in the continental United States to more than 106,000 kilometres, which means the Keystone XL proposes to add a whopping 1.3% of additional capacity.
So where, you may ask, was the hysteria and inflated rhetoric over this mass expansion of the American pipeline network? NASA scientist James Hansen famously claimed building Keystone would be "game over for the planet."
Where were he and his morally superior celebrity peers the last five years when America's evil energy empires built enough pipeline to stretch from New York to Los Angeles five times over? Where were the bankrolled and coordinated public relations campaigns to stop these projects? Where were the protests outside of the White House?
The answer, it would seem, lies in who bankrolls them. According to exhaustive research by author Vivian Krause, a total of $75 million has found its way into the coffers of environmental activist groups that oppose Canadian energy exports for the express purpose of demonizing Canadian oil along with anything proposing to move it.
Krause's research shows American mega charities like the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Sea Change Foundation and Tides Foundation have pumped dozens of one-time payments to organizations opposing anything that seeks to move Canadian energy, from Keystone XL and Northern Gateway to Energy East and Line 9.
The payment cover letters Krause obtained tell the story of Canada in the crosshairs:
• Keepers of the Athabasca Watershed Society received $50,000 for "development and implementation of an InSitu campaign; continued work on pipelines; and participation in other Alberta events and campaigns."
• The Natural Resources Defence Council received $150,000 for "policy analysis and advice; for education of policy makers; for organizing opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline and tar sands expansion generally."
• Environmental Defence got $212,500 for "outreach and education on the Line 9 and Energy East pipelines; ongoing promotion of Tar Sands Reality Check; and leading government relations work in Ottawa."
The campaign against Canada has, unfortunately, worked. President Barack Obama has used Keystone to shape his environmental legacy, rejecting the project and claiming it would contribute to rendering "large parts of the Earth from being not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes."
Meanwhile, Obama has pledged $18 billion to build a pipeline in Kenya that mirrors all the stumbling blocks his administration has cited against Keystone. It moves oil for export, it incentivizes more production, and poses risks to an environmentally sensitive region.
And if this global double standard wasn't enough, our own politicians seem to have fallen victim to the anti-Canadian foreign influence. There's simply no other way to explain Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre, mere weeks after approving an 8-billion-litre raw sewage dump into the St. Lawrence River, rejecting the Energy East pipeline on the basis of negative environmental impact.
This concerted smear campaign against Canadian energy is now at the point that it doesn't need the foreign money. When we can't even agree on how move oil across our own country, why would any other country consider moving it across theirs?
If we continue down this road, degrading our own industry and giving its opponents an even bigger stick to whack us with, we're only hurting ourselves. Our children will inherit an industry that is reviled even within our own borders while our competitors reap the rewards.
Here's a little fact that should send Hollywood eco-warriors and climate justice activists into a righteous rage: Over the last five years, the United States has added the equivalent of nearly 14 Keystone XL pipelines to its pipeline network.
You read that right. Fourteen. According to the Association of Oil Pipe Lines (AOPL), the US has built roughly 19,200 kilometres of new pipelines since 2010, or almost 14 times the length of TransCanada's 1,400-km Keystone XL project. The additional capacity brings the total pipeline mileage in the continental United States to more than 106,000 kilometres, which means the Keystone XL proposes to add a whopping 1.3% of additional capacity.
So where, you may ask, was the hysteria and inflated rhetoric over this mass expansion of the American pipeline network? NASA scientist James Hansen famously claimed building Keystone would be "game over for the planet."
Where were he and his morally superior celebrity peers the last five years when America's evil energy empires built enough pipeline to stretch from New York to Los Angeles five times over? Where were the bankrolled and coordinated public relations campaigns to stop these projects? Where were the protests outside of the White House?
The answer, it would seem, lies in who bankrolls them. According to exhaustive research by author Vivian Krause, a total of $75 million has found its way into the coffers of environmental activist groups that oppose Canadian energy exports for the express purpose of demonizing Canadian oil along with anything proposing to move it.
Krause's research shows American mega charities like the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Sea Change Foundation and Tides Foundation have pumped dozens of one-time payments to organizations opposing anything that seeks to move Canadian energy, from Keystone XL and Northern Gateway to Energy East and Line 9.
The payment cover letters Krause obtained tell the story of Canada in the crosshairs:
• Keepers of the Athabasca Watershed Society received $50,000 for "development and implementation of an InSitu campaign; continued work on pipelines; and participation in other Alberta events and campaigns."
• The Natural Resources Defence Council received $150,000 for "policy analysis and advice; for education of policy makers; for organizing opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline and tar sands expansion generally."
• Environmental Defence got $212,500 for "outreach and education on the Line 9 and Energy East pipelines; ongoing promotion of Tar Sands Reality Check; and leading government relations work in Ottawa."
The campaign against Canada has, unfortunately, worked. President Barack Obama has used Keystone to shape his environmental legacy, rejecting the project and claiming it would contribute to rendering "large parts of the Earth from being not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes."
Meanwhile, Obama has pledged $18 billion to build a pipeline in Kenya that mirrors all the stumbling blocks his administration has cited against Keystone. It moves oil for export, it incentivizes more production, and poses risks to an environmentally sensitive region.
And if this global double standard wasn't enough, our own politicians seem to have fallen victim to the anti-Canadian foreign influence. There's simply no other way to explain Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre, mere weeks after approving an 8-billion-litre raw sewage dump into the St. Lawrence River, rejecting the Energy East pipeline on the basis of negative environmental impact.
This concerted smear campaign against Canadian energy is now at the point that it doesn't need the foreign money. When we can't even agree on how move oil across our own country, why would any other country consider moving it across theirs?
If we continue down this road, degrading our own industry and giving its opponents an even bigger stick to whack us with, we're only hurting ourselves. Our children will inherit an industry that is reviled even within our own borders while our competitors reap the rewards.
at6
1st Sergeant
People put too much value on what Hollywood poop masters have to say. Celebrities suck and I value their opinons about as much as I do the stains on used toilet paper.
stains on used TP....
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
'Tear Here' strips that don't !!
This week, I've had a packet of 'Hob Nob' biscuits where the 'Tear Here' strip ripped open the whole packet, scattering 'Hob Nobs' all over the place, a pack of 'Weetabix' breakfast serial which could defy the attentions of a thermic lance, and a plastic tub of Paracetamol, where the plastic 'tear' tab around the circumference snapped after 'opening' a few millimeters, resulting in me having to use a junior hacksaw to open the bl**dy tub!!
There's been a few others too - can't anybody make things which work as intended these days ??!!
Oh, and I nearly forgot - a loaf of 'Toastie' bread which must have had a Nomex coating, cos the effing stuff refused to even look slightly tanned after minutes under the grill !!
This week, I've had a packet of 'Hob Nob' biscuits where the 'Tear Here' strip ripped open the whole packet, scattering 'Hob Nobs' all over the place, a pack of 'Weetabix' breakfast serial which could defy the attentions of a thermic lance, and a plastic tub of Paracetamol, where the plastic 'tear' tab around the circumference snapped after 'opening' a few millimeters, resulting in me having to use a junior hacksaw to open the bl**dy tub!!
There's been a few others too - can't anybody make things which work as intended these days ??!!
Oh, and I nearly forgot - a loaf of 'Toastie' bread which must have had a Nomex coating, cos the effing stuff refused to even look slightly tanned after minutes under the grill !!
Having a rather bad trot there Terry.....
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Yep. Let's hope there's no problem with the toilet paper when i come to open the pack ....................
T Bolt
Colonel
Having to work on Saturday
Old Wizard
2nd Lieutenant
Ran into a pack of toilet rolls that had the plies misaligned by half a square. What a pain to use! 
Weekends are too short....
at6
1st Sergeant
Especially if it causes you to give yourself a prostate exam.Ran into a pack of toilet rolls that had the plies misaligned by half a square. What a pain to use!
Coffee machine not working at work...
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Nearly got snotted on a pedestrian crossing - again !
Lights were on red for traffic, I was halfway across, on my mobility scooter, and a car approaching from my left (driven by a woman - again!) went straight through, with the woman driver not even batting an eyelid.
If I hadn't stopped, she would have flattened me - stupid, blind, day-dreaming waste of rations. So she committed three moving traffic offences - failing to stop at a red 'Stop' light, driving without due care and attention and, as the crossing was occupied, dangerous driving. And she was probably travelling in excess of the 30 mph speed limit too.
Lights were on red for traffic, I was halfway across, on my mobility scooter, and a car approaching from my left (driven by a woman - again!) went straight through, with the woman driver not even batting an eyelid.
If I hadn't stopped, she would have flattened me - stupid, blind, day-dreaming waste of rations. So she committed three moving traffic offences - failing to stop at a red 'Stop' light, driving without due care and attention and, as the crossing was occupied, dangerous driving. And she was probably travelling in excess of the 30 mph speed limit too.
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Almost two years clean and sober then a )#(*$#)@&$)#&)(@!#* Girl Scout came by with those friggen cookies!!!!
1 Box of Thin Mints down, 4 to go.
1 Box of Thin Mints down, 4 to go.
