Obama Puts Dakota Pipeline on Hold, Angering Republicans

Posted On 05 Dec 2016

According to the Obama administration and the media, the decision to deny the builders of the Dakota Access pipeline a government permit was made by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. But, as House Speaker Paul Ryan knows all too well, this was a decision made by the president himself.

On Twitter, Ryan said Obama’s decision to put the pipeline on hold represented “big government decision-making at its worst.” Ryan continued, saying he was looking “forward to putting this anti-energy presidency behind us.”

So say we all.

The company behind the pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners, said in a statement that the administration’s decision was rooted in politics. They characterized the move as “just the latest in a series of overt and transparent political actions by an administration which has abandoned the rule of law in favor of currying favor with a narrow and extreme political constituency.”

Yep, that’s our boy Obama, all right.

The pipeline garnered national attention when members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe began protesting construction, telling the federal government that the project put their water sources at risk. As the presidential election wound down, the protests revved up. Supporters from all over the country, including groups of U.S. veterans, joined the Native Americans in a standoff with police that lasted months.

The decision is not final; Army spokespeople say it is a temporary measure meant to give both sides some options.

“Although we have had continuing discussion and exchanges of new information with the Standing Rock Sioux and Dakota Access, it’s clear that there’s more work to do,” said Assistant Secretary for Civil Works Jo-Ellen Darcy. “The best way to complete that work responsibly and expeditiously is to explore alternate routes for the pipeline crossing.”

Because this isn’t officially emanating from the White House, it won’t be immediately easy for President Trump to overturn the decision. And considering how volatile the protests could get, it’s not necessarily clear if that would be a wise move to begin with.

On the other hand, this sets a dangerous precedent. The protesters at Standing Rock used violence and destruction to fight this battle before ludicrously gaining national sympathy when police turned the water cannons on them. And now, their illegitimate tactics have been legitimized. This is how movements of peaceful protest turn into movements of eco-terrorism. America’s energy interests are increasingly at the mercy of the lunatic fringe, and THAT is a trend that Trump can put an end to.

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gotabgood

I have to admit I dislike those who Trump as offered or appointed jobs at WH. BUT THIS…???
Is a welcomed shock… Maybe he will be president for all after all.
Former Vice
President Al Gore, a leading voice in the fight against climate change,
and Donald Trump, who at one point called it a hoax, met on Monday in
what Gore called a “productive” session.
- rocky49
  
  Climate change is a hoax perpetrated by Al and Clinton to make them richer and NOTHING MORE. Tell us how Obama is for Climate change, But approved drilling in the Arctic?? How he allowed Fracking and Drilling here in the US. As for the meeting whom was the Author or perhaps what news media presented it??
  - Granny Filec
    
    OUR HISTORY BOOKS AND NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HAVE DISCOVERED THERE HAS BEEN CLIMATE CHANGE FOR A MILLION YEARS………THAT IS WHY THEY FOUND MAMMOTH & DINOSAUR BONES FROZEN WITH FOOD IN THEIR MOUTHS……THE GRAND CANYON WAS ONCE UNDER WATER……….ALONG WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD…………ISLANDS HAVE POPPED UP IN THE OCEANS………ACCORDING TO HISTORY & OTHER FACTS……….
    
    NAT’L GEOGRAPHIC & ONLINE SOURCES ARE TELLING US THAT LOUISIANA IS LOSING PROPERTY THRU EROSION AS IS FLORIDA…….NOW OUR WATERS ARE BECOMING POLLUTED THRU POPULATION EXPLOSION……..FRACKING SHOULD BE ELIMINATED, AND BIG FINES IMPOSED ON THOSE THAT DO IT…….STATES (MICHIGAN IS ONE) ARE NOT RENEWING THEIR UNDERGROUND PIPES THAT ARE ANTIQUATED THRU YEARS OF USAGE……RESULTS ARE LINES BREAKING & FLOODING……..ROADS ARE COLLAPSING AND ENGULFING HOMES & AUTOMOBILES AROUND THE WORLD AND RIGHT HERE IN THE USA……..
    
    THRU GOVERNMENT NEGLIGENCE AND REFUSING TO UPDATE OUR SYSTEMS, WE WILL NO DOUBT NEED ANOTHER ARK………..
- Earle Goodwin
  
  Yes Global warming is a hoax….the earth is on is orbit and now is beginning it’s extreme distance from the Sun…we are entering a phase that occurs every 11 thousand years. Rotation around the Sun is NOT a perfect circle, but an ellipsoid around the Sun. We are now entering that phase….
MAHB001

Make 0bama own his decisions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qEmGf3Hpg8
- Granny Filec
  
  THAT PICTURE JUST MADE ME THROW UP…………….THE ONLY THING THAT BO WILL OWN UP TO IS THINKING HE WAS A GOOD CIC………WHICH IS EXACTLY WRONG……….HE IS THE WORST DICTATOR THAT EVER SAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE WITH A HUGE EGOTISTICAL BRAIN………
MAHB001

I am so disappointed in Ryan for not impeaching that anti American incompetent big government communist.
- markypolo
  
  Obama could never be “impeached”. First, there are too many worthless, lazy, lying, thieving democrats in the congress. And second, he is a Nigr. The Republicans fear the word raaaaaaaaacist like the bubonic plague.
  - Cookie Vranish
    
    markypolo, you are so right and it is a shame. This PC BS must end. The blacks have had 50 years of given advantages. That is enough. Some blacks have done well, but most have not. A choice of their own.
    - Mary Babb
      
      Hater
      - RICHARD
        
        BS, most blacks don’t want to work! They would rather sell drugs, steal and collect food stamps. Alot of blacks also live off of welfare woman. So you see,Cookie Vranish
        is not a hater, he is merely telling the truth.
      - Granny Filec
        
        YES YOU DEFINITELY ARE……..AND I SEE YOU ARE EGOTISTICAL JUST LIKE THE WITCH HILLARY……..
      - rog363
        
        Mary, as a veteran who has served with many of color, I knew as they also knew that if worse came to worse they, as would I, would do everything we were trained to do to protect each other. These were great military men and when we got out of the service we all understood the hardships we had not only faced but were in the process of facing as civilians. We all knew there were people like you out there Mary, people who use the word HATER instead of looking at the big picture. I have to more or less agree with Cookie because I know many, many Blacks who have worked very hard to get where they are now and we all understood that as the first black president Obama should have and could have done so much for not just the blacks of America but also the whites, but we all have come to understand, almost to late, that he had his own agenda and his bible that he seemed to use more then any other president was, in fact, Saul Alinskis Rules For Radicals.. It seems to not only me, but to many blacks I have known over the years, that he pushed our race relations back to what it was like 40 or 50 years ago.
      - usathoughts
        
        I am a bloodied Vietnam Vetern. Negroes from the cities were of more danger to us than the Vietcong. Those Negroes from the rural South were stand up men. No absolutes intended.
        
        The Democrat Party has done more to harm the Negroes than anyone I can think of. This began in earnest with LBJ who in Texas was a well know racist.
        
        Any Negro Leader in the Democrat Party is a traitor to his race.
      - Granny Filec
        
        yes you are………….
      - Mr Ed
        
        Ok Mary Blabb,I’ll make it short as to not tax your brain.GET A LIFE!
      - Mary Babb
        
        You get a life if the pipeline goes through it will cause more and more in different places our water is in dangerous if fact our life is i danger you know and i know sooner or later the pipeline will break and the indians water will be poison you are so uneducated about the oil leaks remember our ocean people got killed and the oil was gushing in the oceans for months dont be so stupid think of our country
      - BHR
        
        You better get you facts straight. Moving oil by train is a lot more dangerous than by pipeline. If the pipeline does not go in, the railroad will move the oil and there will be a lot more spoils.
      - Mary Babb
        
        I had rather take a chance on rail delivery than poison our water that is very precious to us now and the future i hope you check how oil will ruin our water i remember about 12 years ago the head of our environmental protector said water was going to be most precious than ever in the future you had better check it out just look at the oil spills and will take years and years if ever the ocean spill was devastating to our ocean and the la.spill it will never end untill the oil is gone.thanks for your comment
      - BHR
        
        There are ten times more oil spills by trains than by pipe lines. When you only use a bicycle to get around and use no oil, keep telling us,we need to stop oil drilling. You liberals are all hypocrites.
      - BHR
        
        If you drive a car, stop being a Hippocrates. How do you think food is delivered to stores and all other products are delivered, by truck. If you wear clothes made of nylon or rayon, you are wearing an oil product. Without oil, the world would not work.
      - Mary Babb
        
        we have enough oil to take care of us we dont need any more dirty oil obama has open more oil than any other president our gas prices are great but you watch now that trump the dump will be in charge watch our gas prices go up
      - BHR
        
        Obama did not open up more areas for drilling. Most of the areas that opened up were on private land. Obama closed,most of the gulf, much of the Atlantic coast, areas off California and areas in Alaska.
        We had more drilling while Obama was president, because oil company’s used private lands and state lands. Fracking is why we have a good supply of oil, but we still import oil. You must really be a Trump hater to say he will raise gas prices. He said all through his campaign, he would promote fracking, open up more federal lands to drilling, to make us totally indepedent. He also wants to export oil, to help cut the trade deficit, which set records for losses for America.
        You are a typical liberal, facts never get in your way. Look up where the oil came from under Obama and all the lands he closed.
        Also, Trump wants to have America expand its other green areas of energy. Maybe you did not know this but the oil company’s own most of the green energy and natural gas.
      - WHATCHU Talkin’boutWillis
        
        WHATCHU Talkin’boutWillis
        markypolo • seconds ago
        
        GREAT Point , David Duke, a Don Trump neo Fascism supporter & MILITARIST BOOB ! ! !
        
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    - Dennis B Anderson
      
      I remember when Helen Ready was burning her bra, and the beginning of Equal Opportunity Employment.I dont know how many blacks were hired when I wasnt. I build houses / weld / paint cars/ semi tractor, Crane operator, backhoe,and anything else that walks or crawls I have done it, and done it well. I got tired of being told dont call us well call you. So I have built 2 houses since last january, and rented them. HA-HA-HA. I have been semi retired for the last 20 years I dont need my SSI, or my AFL – CIO pension. It was because I lived through this lie I was forced to do things by myself. I got tired of making other people wealthy on my sweat. I sand blasted & painted ships at Crosby & Overton, Dillingham Ship Repair, FMC Corporation. I would work my backside off and would be told to hurry up. I often had black men in the mix who stood around half f–ked up and the white hat stupivisors wouldnt say a word to them. Smoking cigarettes around flamable situations. Ive walked off more than one job. A black guy who was sand blast pot tender wasnt watching his board. My cut out switch wouldnt work and I nearly died getting away from steel shot coming at me 2500 PSI.I was 100 ft down in the bowels of this ship and climbed out. There was the black pot tender smoking a cigarette.I called him on it by knocking him down.A supervisor came by so I told him what this punk had done to me. My sand blat hose was blowing a hole in the bottom of that ship.
      The supervisor told me to go get my nozzle, and I told him FU go get it yourself I quit. I was coughing up dirt for months. Still they did nothing this black man was to stoned to see the damn board I was flashing no more sand. My dead mans switch wouldnt work. Like you said there are some good black people who get it. For whatever reason most are lost.
      - Doris Simonis
        
        The same thing happens at ALL government offices. I quit the IRS for the same reasons. We had to meet production in order to stay. If we didn’t meet production we were fired. Yes the government CAN fire. We had managers that let the minority hires do nothing, not get fired, drew their paychecks for only one reason. RETALIATION. If a black was told to get to work, their car, belonging to their boss, would get damaged or they were met after work to a crowd that would inflict bodily harm to them. Consequently the boss’s would let them off. Not so the whites or men. The minority has had enough time to DO a job and they should no longer get special treatment. It’s over. Even the, what I call older generation, minorities that do their job, and there are many, are tired of covering for the young do nothing employee’s.
      - Granny Filec
        
        Amen…………you forgot about the hateful liberals that are un-intelligent, stand in the welfare line, and think the USA owes them something…….BABB being one of those that hates the USA and wanted a liar, killer, muslim, money hungry, egotistical HC in the WH…….
      - Mr Ed
        
        I’ve been sandblasting for the last 2 years until an accident caused me to break my back.I know where your coming from.Never had a dead man switch malfunction like yours did though.Mine would just stop working.As for your last sentence.They’re not lost,they just don’t care.Why should they,
        They know they’ll be taken care of one way or another.
      - WHATCHU Talkin’boutWillis
        
        WHATCHU Talkin’boutWillis
        markypolo • seconds ago
        
        GREAT Point , David Duke, a Don Trump neo Fascism supporter & MILITARIST BOOB ! ! !
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    - IMSweetOlBob
      
      Don’t stop there if you want a level playing field. The challenge should be the same for everyone. No more gimmies, no more quoptas, no more favors for ANYONE ! That includes, especially includes, islamics / muslims ! They are trying to “victim” themselves into the place of blacks in America. Today, I believe the only “victims” are those who choose to be or choose to appear so.
      - Mr Ed
        
        And talk about muslims,their pay should be docked for all their time spent praying while on the clock.If not make them work longer to make up for it.Make them punch on and off the clock every time so as to keep an accurate time of their freeloading!
  - MAHB001
    
    I believe it actually goes deeper than that. I believe many Republicans are secretly progressive in nature. I call them elites.
    
    Elite Democrats = Elite Republicans = Elite MEDIA = Communists.
    
    The Elites have changed our government from of the people, by the people and for the people, to of the elites, by the elites, and for the CONTROL of the people.
    
    That is communism.
    - Granny Filec
      
      THANK THE LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP…………
    - markypolo
      
      You are very right there MAHB001. Washington, DC changes a politician. For the WORSE!
      DC actually means “District of Corruption”.
      - MAHB001
        
        I have seen that phrase somewhere else, was it you?
        
        I love it… District of Corruption.
        
        Term limits, because we only let people get exposed to so much radiation, we must limit our politicians time in the District of Corruption….
      - markypolo
        
        You got me curious so I “googled” it. Here is what I come up with:
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuq6Jp-8R7g&list=PLY8YaWsf279l30HKDZBFHzRtHD94ubZyC
        Enjoy my friend!
      - MAHB001
        
        Excellent, must get this movie.
  - Mary Babb
    
    What a lie markypolo you know how radical trump is and you voted for that women hater pig rapist you will find out look who he has in his cabinet kkk lover but i guess you are one also call any body nigr is a very stupid person that proves who you are a hater you dont wont this country to get a head you will be sorry another war putin is playing him like a drum haters dont get very far in life
    - Granny Filec
      
      LIBERALS ARE THE RADICALS……….THE KKK ARE THE DEMORATS IDEA, THAT HAD THE SOUTHERN RACISTS START ANOTHER KKK, AFTER IT WAS HALTED FROM ANOTHER CENTURY…….HILLARY INVITES THE GRAND DRAGON TO HER DINNER PARTIES AND THEY DONATED TO HER CAMPAIGN……..WHENEVER SHE SEES THAT GRAND DRAGON HE GETS HER HUGS AND KISSES……
      
      SO YOU MARY BABB ARE THE RADICAL LIBERAL THAT WAS ONE OF THE CLINTON’S SHEEP…….HILLARY WAS A RACIST AND CALLED HER BLACK COOK EVERYTHING THAT COMES FROM A FILTHY MOUTH……JUST LIKE YOURS…..YOU ARE A USA HATER FOR WANTING A CORRUPT, DESTRUCTIVE, EGOTISTICAL, MONEY GRABBING WITCH LIKE HILLARY TO RULE AND DESTROY THE USA……..
      - Angelo Campanella
        
        Don’t look for any smarts from the democratic party for several months. They are in shock from loosing all over the place. It’s not even funny any more. Ignore them. Instead, enjoy Trump’s Renaissance!
      - Mark Brickey
        
        1st, Granny, if you’re going to “chat” esp with me, STOP YELLING. That’s rude, insulting & sophomoricly childish.
        We conservatives are just as concerned with water, air & land as you tree huggers, but we look at reality not heads in the clouds. We don’t wish to allow you fools to turn our beautiful USA into a whimping, whiney 3rd world country w/o energy sources, industry, and life.
        I spend as much time as about anyone in the woods, prairies around me, taking my students on field trips about the natural surroundings around them, opening their eyes making sure they see positive ways to impact what’s around them. I also enjoy mushrooming, gathering nuts & herbs and dining on fine venison, rabbit, squirrel that I’ve harvested.
        These companies are to be trusted FAR more than any government, any government agency, etc. because ANY Big Brother is looking out for an agenda not the welfare of the populace or betterment of mankind. Hell, look at the way they handled their own mess with the abandoned gold mine last year! Look at the way they abandon properties & manage their millions of acres of lands, Yeah, there IS no management since they don’t give a damn except to say they own it & control it.
        ANY for-profit company is going to build something that lasts & requires minimal maintenance over ANY gov’t- sanctioned entity. They’re into the project for profit which can’t be made if the project isn’t working.
      - Granny Filec
        
        CAPS ARE NOT YELLING………ONE MAN STARTED IT BY TELLING ANOTHER THAT HE WAS MAD & YELLING………IF I WERE A SHEEP, I WOULD LISTEN TO OTHERS THAT NEVER LOOKED THAT UP………IF I WAS RUDE AND YELLING, YOU WOULD HAVE RECOGNIZED THE USE OF FOUL LANGUAGE AND TELLING YOU TO GO FIND A TREE TO URINATE ON………
      - Mark Brickey
        
        Granny, you are flat wrong AND a fool. It’s been recognized for years that the way to YELL online is to CAPITALIZE so maybe you can go crawl in you dark hole & come out again when someone knocks!
      - Granny Filec
        
        YOU are just another liberal sheep that follows the unintelligent……..YOU are the one that crawls in a dark hole just like the rest of the snakes that are allowed to roam the earth…….you are without a doubt a male chauvinist porko and figlio di puttana
      - Mark Brickey
        
        Sweetie, you are a total blind fool. I’m basically on the right of Limbaugh!
      - RICHARD
        
        who cares?
      - Mark Brickey
        
        Who asked YOU?!?
      - WHATCHU Talkin’boutWillis
        
        And tell me who the FU*K Are YOU ASSHOLE ? ? ? ?
      - Mark Brickey
        
        Obviously, a LOT more intelligent & classy than you, since I can sting together a sentence of more than 3 words without vulgar vocabulary!
      - WHATCHU Talkin’boutWillis
        
        Huh? Seriously OLD Fossil DIK?
        
        Show me some money IDIOT ! ! !
      - Mark Brickey
        
        First, my fossil is not in discussion, neither on display. I keep it nice & safe where I don’t step all over it in total obvious bliss as do certain proven fools.
        Then, What money are you talking about? There’s no mention in any response to you about financials…
        Finally, you must really be a total snowflake, total looser since you blather & salivate this nonsensical vulgar diatribe all over the place WHILE you hide behind some illegible sophomoric moniker!
      - WHATCHU Talkin’boutWillis
        
        http://www.foe.org/projects/climate-and-energy/tar-sands/keystone-xl-pipeline
        
        This Koch Brothers WEALTH Enhancement project would do the WORST environmental damage known to mankind fool..
        
        Tell me other wise CRETIN TEA Party Fop…
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdLIerfXuZ4
      - Cletus B Neckbeard✓MAGAnetic
        
        https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2014/06/06/koch-brothers-donate-25-million-to-united-negro-college-fund/?utm_term=.42b7723cf68e
      - WHATCHU Talkin’boutWillis
        
        Geez CLEATS, The Hill blocked me for anti Trump neo Fascism statements PAL.
        
        Can you believe that Shiite?
      - Cletus B Neckbeard✓MAGAnetic
        
        No, I can’t. I’ve lost as many as twenty or so a day to The Shill.
      - WHATCHU Talkin’boutWillis
        
        I am COMPLETELY Blocked. This little TEA Party Hill moderator said “This was my last warning”…
        
        That was my only warning about “uncivil discussion & secession”…
      - Cletus B Neckbeard✓MAGAnetic
        
        I’m a little surprised at that. I though you were one of their pets.
      - WHATCHU Talkin’boutWillis
        
        NOT anymore Cleats… TEA Party world really is about neo Fascism, you do know that , right?
      - Laura Evans
        
        “TEA Party world really is about neo Fascism”
        
        Could only be said by a blithering idiot who has no clue what Fascism is.
        
        The Tea Party embraces the same political ideology that founded this country and was expressed by the Founding Fathers.
      - Laura Evans
        
        “TEA Party world really is about neo Fascism,”
        
        You are utterly nuts, there is nothing about the Tea Party that is in any way like Fascism.
      - DarkGoldenMan
        
        You should be blocked, you’re mental.
      - WHATCHU Talkin’boutWillis
        
        WHY lunatic?
        
        You’re damn smart right FOOL?
        
        Tell my why I should be blocked…
      - WHATCHU Talkin’boutWillis
        
        WOW , CLeats PAL & long time buddy, the HILL just blocked me for being “uncivil”…
        
        What do you think about 1st Amendment rights , Jurist Clarence Thomas aka CLEATS????
      - thereasonableman
        
        Dear Granny- are you off your meds or just ignorant? And who is the Grand Dragon anyway?
      - Doris Simonis
        
        The leader of the KKK. Get our a history book and learn from it.
      - AL
        
        Yes I pray that every time the demoKKKrats burn a cross it falls on them
      - thereasonableman
        
        I know what it is, I want to know who it is.
      - shamu9
        
        Hey Reason, If’n you don’t know WHAT the “Grand Dragon” Is Get Off the Blog!!
    - MARK
      
      Mary Babb, this is Hillary defended of rapist long time ago and laughed in face of young victim ! This is shame but you like it !
      - Granny Filec
        
        Yes and that victim was 12 years old, raped and put in a coma for 5 days…….
        
        Thanks to the HC pig……the rapist walked out of the courtroom with the pig, and they laughed in the 12 yr. olds face…….The HC PIG has been corrupt and evil for the last 4 decades……….
      - Mark Brickey
        
        see sweetheart? People will actually listen & pretend that what you say matters to them if you don’t YELL at them!!!
      - RICHARD
        
        SHUT UP CRY BABY
    - Dennis B Anderson
      
      Wow what side of the crystal ball did you wake up on.?Where did you get the information that Trump was affiliated with the KKK. Alot of people that are american citizens voted for Trump in order to save this country. Sorry Obama couldnt let enough people out of prison. No matter they voted twice just like his dream act.male children in their mid 20s from south of the border. Wasnt that nice of them to take part in our National elections., and still Hilly lost to someone who doesnt talk out of both sides of his face. Boy that Hilly she something isnt she?? To be able to change her mind in mid sentence its a skill she has nurtured into the fine art of deception.! Honey you have got to get away from AM news.Trump has no dealing with Russia but? Juliene & Ethel Rosenburg back in 1955 gave to Stalin plans for the atomic bomb. Our country hung the both of them by the neck until dead. in 1957! The only real dealings Hillary had was brokering uranium to Putin when she was SOS! The deal was the soviets get 22% of whatever uranium we dig up? The deal was so sweet some people in Russia contributed to Bill & Hillys Foundation. Whats 20 million or so between people who could light up our night sky? Our government didnt even stop Hillarys campaign with this news. Whats a couple of mega tons of nuclear warheads dropped on New York – New York anyway. Yeah Hilly the lil devil she pocketed some real change on that deal. Our inner working of our government didnt know anything about it because she used her private home grown computer in the bathroom. You liberals are to stupid to live.! Always remember not to look up with your mouth open in a rain shower you will drown. I understand there is Valery Jarrett, Huma Abedin who is family to the muslim brotherhood in Iran. She is the enemy that should have been denied clearence? The muslims in high places in Obamas administration are numerable. Lets see what Trump can do with real americans. Oh that woman thing personally I have had women
      come after me with stories because I didnt pay any attention to them. Delussions of grandure kind of thing? Why go out for hamburgers when a man has filet minion at home. Well Im happy to announce to you libtards who think the rest of us owe you a living your way of assisted living is dead. No more food stamps youre going to have to go back to work for a living. Trump is running all the illegals out of country so there will be a job for you! If you dont work you dont eat. The lot of you are thinking on these lines its why you voted Hilly! We will leave you in the dirt where you belong good ridence.Maybe you want to get a head start with your friends and beat the rush back into Mexico? Watch yourself its a republican trap. When they get you through the border inspection
      whatever shape youre in they will sell you as body parts.
      - Mr Ed
        
        Love it Dennis,could not have said it better!
      - WHATCHU Talkin’boutWillis
        
        WHATCHU Talkin’boutWillis = = =>>> Horse’s ASS => Mr Ed • a minute ago
        
        GREAT Point , David Duke, a Don Trump neo Fascism supporter & MILITARIST BOOB ! ! !
    - Granny Filec
      
      You mean like the HC pig……….that goes with her hubby to sex island………..or the HC that hugs and kisses the KKK Grand Dragon and invites him for dinner & parties………OR HC that accepted the KKK campaign donation……….The pig that helped kill the 4 in Benghazi, or that same pig sending guns & ammo to the Iranian mooslums that are killing our military……you are right she is a pig…….
      - IMSweetOlBob
        
        Right, Granny !
        But Pigs is beautiful.
        Hitlery is ugly, with a capital UG !
      - Mark Brickey
        
        Granny, now that you’ve stopped YELLING, your notes are a lot more cypherable & making good points!
    - Mr Ed
      
      Seriously?Woman hater-how many is he putting in his cabinet?Pig rapist-bring forth one pig he has raped!KKK lover-names please,you evidently know more than even the lefts news media.I look forward to your rebuttal!
    - markypolo
      
      “radical”? Oh, you mean when someone doesn’t agree with your Left-Wing liberal point of view?
      Bill Clinton is a “woman hater”. He referred to Monica Lewinsky as “that woman” on National TV after she sucked on his cock in the Oval Office. Yeah, that shows real respect for women. But you stupid fuk democrats wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped you in the face.
      FYI: It was the REPUBLICANS that freed the negro from slavery. Not the slave loving Democrats.
      - Mary Babb
        
        We are not talking about families affair we are talking about life’s grow up and quit thinking trump is your savior trust me you will find out he has already turned his back on all of you when we go down guess what you will more than us.
      - markypolo
        
        Get a JOB. idiot.
        Oh better yet start YOUR own business, then perhaps you would learn what it is like to actually WORK for a living.
        I’ve owned 3 businesses in 35 years. It’s picnic having to deal with thieving governments and idiots like YOU.
      - Mary Babb
        
        You idiot i work i am a nurse so you have business i bet you pay them the lowest salary you can i have my home payed for not in debt so i am not a freeloader i make my own living and i did this with out any help from a man i am thinking about the unfortunate people that are in need of help that did not have the privilege of affording a education or work for pennies so i see you are a hater of needy people have some compassion for god sake
      - markypolo
        
        Hey idiot, my father was killed in the Military service when I was just 18 months old. So I grew up poor too. But I got an education and started my own business. Worked my ass off to help ‘support’ other people’s kids and some of their lazy ass parents. No sorry, I don’t believe in charity. Here is a ‘funny’ thing for you to ponder: In countries with NO food stamps and welfare ( Thailand/ China), most people WORK! SHOCKER.
        If you feel so strongly about those “poor” people, YOU help them!! Don’t go VOTING for more taxes just to force others to help you with your GUILT complex. Yes, this is just what all you worthless democrat fcks do. After your taxes get too high from your voting, you all run out to live in a Republican run state with lower taxes. Then you start all over with your filthy liberal voting policies( Oregon, Washington State, Colorado, New Mexico, just to name 4).
        Just what is it about 20 Trillion dollar National debt that you democrats love??? Obamacare is anything but “reasonable”, millions of Americas are paying the ‘tax’ instead of getting screwed on overpriced/undervalued health care.
        TRUMP will bring more jobs than that worthless lying pos you voted for ( Obama/Clinton).
        Democrats don’t believe in WORKING for themselves. They prefer living off the Labors of others. That is why the WORKING American voted for TRUMP.
        And NO, I don’t have ‘compassion’ for lazy and stupid people. Not going to happen.
  - Wayne
    
    And that’s the black-and-white of it !
  - Sybil C. Eberhart
    
    markypolo,Don’t appear ignorant by falling into the trap of name-calling. I am black, conservative, and Republican. Remember, members of the Republican Party, freed the slaves. Stereotyping drives division. Blacks are not the enemies. Whites or other ethnic races are not the enemies. Obama and the democrats’ hard leftist socialist agenda are the enemies. Obama’s uses all of his democrat minions as tools to divide and conquer us. When we all come together as Americans who love God, love our country, love our neighbors as Jesus loves us, and hold our elected officials accountable, we will win and conquer the aforementioned enemies of our Republic.
    - Granny Filec
      
      What you say is true, however there are times when we fail to point out that all blacks are not like the BLM or the rioters that were burning, looting, killing and trying to destroy their cities……..or killing police, and are the first to complain when a policeman kills a black person……So please, have patience and understand we do not talk about the good blacks and their intelligence…….because of the irritation that the above NOT GOOD blacks are doing to this USA……..
    - markypolo
      
      It is true, I do “generalize”, but that doesn’t make me ignorant. And forgive ,me if I sound ‘racist’. It is just that I believe ALL americans should be judged by their merits, NOT color of skin. In todays america, black people and other ‘minorities’ are given special treatment over the working white person ( affirmative action policies). This is just plain wrong and retarded.
      Thank you for being an intelligent person.
  - WHATCHU Talkin’boutWillis
    
    GREAT Point , David Duke, a Don Trump neo Fascism supporter & MILITARIST BOOB ! ! !
  - Larry Velasco
    
    Just say it markypolo. He is a PUNK ASS NIGGER. If the word Nigger was in the dictionary, Barry’s UGLY face would be right next to it. Blacks aren’t the only N-words in this world. Just happens that Assbama fits the word PERFECTLY.
- SouthernPatriot
  
  So, Obama is using his phone again? Thank God we do not have much longer with the Community Organizer-in-Chief, and Fascist-in-Chief in the People’s House. Trump will approve the large pipeline from Canada to Beaumont/Houston area, so I would think he will approve this one, maybe with a little modification of the last few miles.
  
  Pipelines are so much more efficient and safe than any other method of transportation of oil or natural gas.
  - MAHB001
    
    The left uses environmentalists and their issues to illegally cease the countries natural resources.
    
    In communist Societies, the people work for the State. Only after these communists have ceased control and can profit from the natural resources will the allow things like this pipeline to go through.
    
    It is a way for them to stop capitalism in action.
    - thereasonableman
      
      Buy a dictionary! The word you are looking for is “seize.” Capitalism in action wants to export US oil and natural gas for profit rather than see the US energy independent. The world government you fear is already in the board rooms of international corporations and business entities-the TRump Organization for one.
      - MAHB001
        
        Thank you with the help on my words. If you guys didn’t point them out to me, I would not be able to correct them.
        
        I am dyslexic and lazy.
        
        Without spell checkers most of what I write is illegible. If it gets by the spell checkers, I am happy. One interesting thing that I have found about doing all this writing, which I have avoided my entire life, is that I have not associated the words I use with the pictures in my mind.
        
        To the glee and utter enjoyment of those on the left, and to my utter embarrassment, this laziness has allowed me to make other mistakes, like plane/plain, wait/weight,
        
        I fail to see how handing our natural resources over to 0bama and a Communist Government makes us energy independent. Quite the opposite, we import instead of using our own resources, Your comment makes no sense.
        
        I realize the world government is already dealing with the big businesses both inside and outside of the United States. Rest assured, conservative Republicans understand that crony Capitalism is just another form of Communism. We are watching our politicians now. Very closely, I might add.
        
        What worries me is that our counterparts on the left, and I am talking about the people of the Democrat party, just don’t seem to get it. Or they don’t care.
        
        So which is it, do you not understand that crony capitalism is communism, or is it that you just don’t care and want to live in a communist state?
      - thereasonableman
        
        You apparently missed the point. Energy independence means being the last man standing when the mid east and other reserves are depleted. Only then do we need to tap domestic sources, instead of now selling them to the highest (foreign) bidder for corporate profit.
      - MAHB001
        
        Thank you for clarifying your point. Energy Independence does not mean being the last man standing to me. It means being independent and free of the chains associated with depending on outside oil for our energy needs. We are no where near energy independent.
        
        We are a capitalist society, that is what made us great and strong. Capitalism is second only to our faith in God, and Family. Freedom to make yourself great with your own ideas and resources is a fundamentally unique liberty we have in the United States. The laws and regulations that our Big Government is placing on our society is striping us of those freedoms.
        
        I do not think that Barack 0bama and our politicians in the district of
        corruption have your view on energy independence either. I believe our
        politicians are using things like this to seize natural resources from the people. Politicians will use the good intentions of the environmentalists that do not want these resources to be tapped at all to stop the public for accessing these natural resources. BUT the instant they need more money, and politicians always need more money, they will not hesitate to tap those resources under their control to line their own pockets and keep the power within their control. Just what do you think Russia, and all the other oil countries are doing? Do you think the people of Saudi Arabia are equally receiving the money generated from the oil under Saudi Arabia, or Qatar?
        
        God gave man dominance over the Earth and its wildlife, commanding us to be good stewards. He did not give those natural resources to the United States Government and the politicians that control it. He gave it to the PEOPLE, not the governments. .
      - Granny Filec
        
        Evidently you knew what he was talking about…….without your spelling course……
      - shamu9
        
        “Sieze ‘THIS’ Honkus”! “Blazin’ Saddles quote!
  - Granny Filec
    
    Is that why the spillage of pipe lines have contaminated many acres of farm land……….which cannot be planted for at least a decade……….
- daveveselenak
  
  Should have happened in his first term with the cry-baby, pink ribbon wearing Boehner and the turkey necked “Bitch” McConnell so don’t look for “Cry’n Ryan” for any back-bone! This Muslim-Marxist jihadist is one evil bastard, I guess they are all afraid of it!
  - MAHB001
    
    Things are changing in the District of Corruption.
    
    The elites have been put on notice. But we must stay diligent.
- Larry Velasco
  
  Me too. He, should be HUNG by his Pencil Neck. He is a PUNK ASS NEGRO THUG N BITCH. Someone should KICK his PUNK SHINNY ASS.
Rod Carveth

MAHB001 — Beyond the fact that you have to have actual GROUNDS for impeachment, you do realize that it takes 2/3 vote in the Senate to convict a president of impeachment, right? Where were those 67 votes going to come from?

BTW, isn’t it prudent for the pipeline to be moved to 1) avoid polluting a major water source and 2) avoid going through sacred Native American lands?

Finally, the only people hurt were the protestors, including one woman who is likely to lose her arm.
- MAHB001
  
  There are plenty of grounds for impeachement. Lying to the American people would be at the top of my list.
  Nixon was the first President to be caught lying to the American People while in office, Nixon resigned rather than be impeached.
  Clinton was the second President to be caught lying while in office, Clinton survived an impeachment.
  0bama was the third to be caught lying TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE while in office…. Nothing happened to him.
  
  What is so egregious about the Democrats lies is that they are self serving and designed to push their ideological communist agenda forward. With Communists the agenda and party goes above the people.
  
  A majority of the people think the United States is going in the wrong direction… This is one perfect example.
  
  It is unacceptable for politicians to lie. If they are caught lying to the American people, they need to be removed from office, and stripped of their golden parachutes. Something akin to a dishonorable discharge from service.
  - Rod Carveth
    
    MAHB001 — Making a charge that President Obama lied is not the same as providing evidence that he lied. Also, in providing such evidence, would it rise to the level of being a “high crime or misdemeanor? Finally, how exactly could you convict President Obama given that you would need 67 votes in the Senate to do so?
    - MAHB001
      
      Rod,
      
      If you have not been shown enough evidence that 0bama lied about 0bamacare, not that he was just wrong, but he actually lied on purpose, then you need to find different sources for your news.
      
      Bilking the American People out of billions if not Trillions of dollars and tricking them into socialized medicine is in my mind a high crime. PERIOD….
      
      If you have not been shown enough evidence that 0bama lied about Benghazi to Gold Family members about the deaths of their loved ones, then once again you head is purposefully buried very deep into sand or something…
      
      How about smuggling a cash ransom payment into Iran? The 0bama administration told family members of hostages that if they did the same, they would be prosecuted.
      
      Here are more reasons to impeach 0bama.
      
      https://www.petition2congress.com/9248/51-reasons-to-impeach-obama
      
      “If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you are absolutely right.”
      
      —-Henry Ford
      
      Conservatives are damned if we do, and damned if we don’t when it comes to 0bama. It is time that we do something. 0bama should not be above the law.
    - Michael Dennewitz
      
      Clearly another liberal.. BLOCKED!
      ????
    - SouthernPatriot
      
      I would add almost daily violations of the U.S. Constitution that he swore to “uphold and defend” namely the provisions of the U.S. Immigration laws, and Separation of Powers Act. On both, Obama has lost in federal court and has been slapped down by SCOTUS. So, there is grounds. Also, on legislation, such as Obamacare, Obama is not given any authority to amend the legislation without Congressional approval (actually only Congress can amend it, the President can sign it), so Obama is once again in violation of the Separation of Powers Act. Only problem: Congress does not want to go down in history as impeaching the first “black” (actually “mixed race”) POTUS. The R’s just don’t have the testicular fortitude to do this.
      - Granny Filec
        
        CARVETH HAS PROVEN HE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A RUMP KISSING LIBERAL….
        
        HE THINKS HE HAS A BRAIN………lol……….HE HAS PROVEN HOW INEPT HE IS BY HIS COMMENTS……..
        
        “THE PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT AND ALL CIVIL OFFICERS OF THE USA, CAN BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE FOR, AND CONVICTION OF TREASON, BRIBERY OR OTHER HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS….
        
        ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION AND WE THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE A CLAIM TO THOSE CRIMES BO HAS COMMITTED, AND HAVE THOSE ACTS OF ABOVE CARRIED OUT BY FORCING THOSE SENATORS TO BEGIN IMPEACHMENT & DOING SO BY THE BILL OF RIGHTS…….
    - craig
      
      PROVING!!?? Ole barry the SOCIALIST LIAR IN CHIEF LIES every day!! All u have to have r Ears n a Brain!!
    - Granny Filec
      
      FIRING SQUAD……….
- Mark Brickey
  
  Rodie boy, get your head out of the sand & actually CHECK your facts! This project has been in design for years, the original & shortest plans were scrapped after MANY discussions & negotiations with both environmental & aboriginal groups. It would almost literally take some major artillery and/or engineering to damage this thing and with all the alarm systems & cameras it’s pretty well fool-proof. Remember, this is being built by a for-profit company NOT the government so they WANT the thing to work! If it breaks, they loose money so they don’t want it to fail!
  Also, EVERY aboriginal & environmental group were welcomed & invited to the design discussions for this as,again, the company wanted to do it right the 1st time.
  By the way, guess who WINS if this pipeline is built? ALL of us including every one of those trying to protest. Not only cheaper AMERICAN fuel, but good jobs both short & long-term.
  Guess who LOOSES if it’s not built? Yep ALL of us….
  - Granny Filec
    
    WHO GIVES A HOOT HOW MANY YEARS IT HAS BEEN IN THE DESIGN…..THEY ALSO HAD TO REROUTE A FEW TIMES, WHICH IS WHAT THEY CAN DO NOW…….
    
    THOSE PIPELINE BOYS HAVE ALSO HAD TOO MANY PIPELINE BREAKS AND SPILLS ON FARM LAND WHICH DID CONTAMINATE IT……AND CANNOT BE USED FOR FARMING……THAT IS WHY STATES & GOVERNMENT HAVE STEPPED IN TO TAKE LAND AWAY FROM FARMERS THAT OBJECTED TO IT COMING THRU THEIR PROPERTY….
    
    BY THE WAY INDIANS ARE NOT A ABORIGINAL GROUP…..AFRICANS ARE….TOO BAD YOU SHOWED YOUR IGNORANCE IN SO MANY SENTENCES……TYPICAL “ADD” LIBERAL…..
Morton99

What was denied, is a shortcut through Indian land that was not permitted by the owners (a Sioux tribe) but was granted an exception by a government department. There is nothing to stop the pipe from rerouting around the Indian land.
I find it very strange that conservatives would side with Big Government over stealing the property of citizens.
- craig
  
  They r being PAID!!
  - Morton99
    
    Yeah right …. do us all a favor and stop making things up without a crap of real evidence. Its called FAKE NEWS.
- John H. Kohlenberg
  
  I was a pipefitter welder. All it would take is four 90 degree pipe fittings and a few extra lengths of pipe to change the coarse and go around the Indians playground. Screw the Indians. They don’t think like normal people and only think of themselves. This is why they are all on reservations. You can’t deal with them.
  - Granny Filec
    
    SCREW YOU GERMAN JEWISH IDIOTS………..WE NOW HAVE THE MILITARY HELPING THEM AND HOPEFULLY YOU WILL BE THERE TO GET YOUR LEAD POISONING……WITH THAT PIPE THAT IS STUCK UP YOUR REAR…………
    
    HOPING THAT YOU AND YOUR ILK ARE STUCK IN A CONTAMINATION CAMP, WITH RAZOR WIRE ENCLOSURES…….
- TexasTeddy
  
  This is the most sensible comment on this page. Thanks, Morton99.
  - Granny Filec
    
    MORTON IS A LIBERAL MORON………..
    - TexasTeddy
      
      Really? How do you know that?
SouthernPatriot

Obama–the Fascist-in-Chief rules by his phone and pen. Trump has done more in the last month to make America better, than Obama has done in years, maybe in his whole 8 years.

Trump wlll reverse the order of Obama. He will open America to exploration and extraction of our natural resources, end the “war on coal” and put Americans back to work by reducing regulations and laws which stifle production and business.
markypolo

Democrats are all liars, thieves, crooks and murderers ( Clintons). Period.
- danielzevetchin
  
  To put all Democrats in that category shows that you are a moronic fool. Grow up, Period. The same to Katona, that man knows ASSHOLES.
  - AL
    
    Most demoKKKrat voters have a IQ lower than their body temp
    - IMSweetOlBob
      
      AL:
      I would say “lower than their shoe size”. But we both would be right.
  - Granny Filec
    
    AT LEAST KATONA KNOWS THAT THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT ARE FILLED WITH A$$HOLES, AND THEY ARE AS CORRUPT AS GERMANY WHEN ADOLPH HIT THE SCENE…
    
    OBAMA & HILLARY BEING CORRUPT AND USING THE ALINSKY METHOD FROM DAY ONE…THEY LEARNED HOW TO MANIPULATE THE LIBERALS THAT FOLLOWED THEM LIKE SHEEP…..
  - Mr Rollo
    
    Communist you.
  - markypolo
    
    I was in my own business for 30 years, never met an honest Democrat nor an intelligent one. I retired early at 51 just to escape working with them. If my comment offends you, then go fck yourself and not one of my fellow Republicans. Please.
- Mary Babb
  
  Marky you are making your self as a kkk and your poor followers are as dumb as you
  - robert sanders
    
    BABB BABY, GET A REAL LIFE.
  - Granny Filec
    
    DEMORATS ARE THE KKK……….HILLARY EVEN HAS THE GRAND DRAGON TO HER HOME FOR DINNER & PARTIES……THE DEMS ARE THE ONES THAT PERSUADED THE SOUTH TO START THE KKK, AS IT HAD BEEN DEFUNCT FOR A CENTURY……BETTER YOU LIBERALS START READING HISTORY AND GET SOME FACTS INSTEAD OF MAKING UP YOUR OWN LIES LIKE THE LYING WITCH …….HILLARY……
  - Mr Rollo
    
    Communist.
  - MAHB001
    
    Wrong again Mary.
  - Granny Filec
    
    Ohhhhh you mean the KKK that supported HC in her campaign……..the KKK that are invited to the Clinton home for dinners and parties………?
  - markypolo
    
    The KKK were all members of the Democratic Party. I am a Republican. Educate your stupid azz.
- shamu9
  
  “Klintstones, Meet th’ Klintstones They’re the Modern Kommie Family, From the Town of “Little Rock” They’re a Page from ‘ Racis’ History”!!
  - markypolo
    
    Ok, just read your comment. Thanks for the LAUGH!
kotoc

If the pipeline would help the U.S. economy, namely the lessening of oil prices (i.e. lessening our need for imported oil), wouldn’t that be a good thing? Sacred Indian grounds… aren’t there ways around that area so it’s not such a sensitive issue? I’m bewildered as to the reason Obama would go against the U.S. trying to be independent from foreign oil. Okay, so it helps fund those Muslim countries, that much is certain… but only the very wealthy ones who hold all the land where oil is drilled. The rest of the countries’ people are still in poverty. If you look at the “big picture”, we, the people of the U.S., would come out ahead. I hope our newly elected President will be able to get around Obama’s executive orders and set things right for America.
- J.B.Jacobs
  
  The way I understand it the pipeline does not even go across any Indian property. They have no legal right to stop the pipeline. They claim they are protesting because the pipeline route in crossing a river they say will pollute the water if it has a leak. I read that the pipeline is completed on both side of the river, and all it need is to be connected together. It is over 90% completed. If they have to reroute the line to satisfy the tribe, let them pay for it out of the government funds they are getting.
  - Granny Filec
    
    WHOSE F-IN LAND WAS IT BEFORE YOUR ANCESTORS AND THE GOVERNMENT STOLE IT AWAY FROM THE INDIANS…………THEY KILLED THEM AND OFFERED THE REMAINDER OF INDIANS BEADS AND BLANKETS…….JUST BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT CAME IN AND SAID I OWN THIS NOW……….DOES NOT MAKE IT SO……..
    
    INDIAN LAND IS IN THE LINE OF THE PIPELINE, AND THEY WANTED IT STOPPED SO IT DID NOT ENTER THEIR LAND……..WISH YOU “ADD” LIBERALS WOULD UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT THE SHAFTING GOVERNMENT…………..AND THEIR ATTEMPT TO LINE THEIR POCKETS WITH $$$$………….
    - J.B.Jacobs
      
      Why don’t you give all land you own, if you own any back to the Indians.and move to another country. It could start a revolution. This government you talk about was probably some of your ancesters. Do you still have your blanket? The pipeline is all on private land and all the owners agreed to the pipeline, so no laws have been broken except by the protesters..
      - Granny Filec
        
        MY ANCESTORS SHOULD HAVE KILLED YOUR ANCESTORS THE MINUTE THEY STEPPED OFF THE MAYFLOWER………..THEN WE WOULD OWN YOUR LAND AND YOU WOULD NOT BE HERE……….THAT WOULD BE A PLUS FOR THE USA….
      - J.B.Jacobs
        
        My great grandmother was Cherokee. She didn’t have a filthy mouth like you have though. I guess it was because she didn’t hate the white people like you do. I feel sorry for you. We are here to stay so get used to it or get out.
      - Granny Filec
        
        HOW WOULD YOU KNOW, AM QUITE SURE YOU DO NOT SPEAK CHEROKEE, AND I DOUBT VERY MUCH IF THAT WAS SO……..THE DEMEANOR OF THE CHEROKEE IS NOT WHAT YOU HAVE PAINTED OR IMAGINED…….IF SHE WAS A GREAT GRANDMOTHER, SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN TOO OLD, TO EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE…….AND RARELY DID INDIANS LIVE PAST 60…….SO YOU ARE AS BIG A LIAR AS HILLIWITCH……AND YOUR KIDS PROBABLY HAVE FILTHY MOUTHS AFTER LIVING WITH YOU…….
      - J.B.Jacobs
        
        My great grandmother was 93 when she passed away. I never heard a filthy word out of her or my grandmother or my parents. My kids never uttered a filthy word that I ever heard. You are a filthy mouthed old squaw that sets around and feels like everybody owes you something because of something that happened 550 years ago. You’re pitiful. I don’t owe you anything and neither does anyone else. I don’t have to use filthy language, I can communicate just fine without it. You apparently can’t. You seem to have a problem understanding plain English, so I wont waste my time trying to make you understand. Nobody owes you anything. Merry Christmas
      - Granny Filec
        
        Then she was not a full blooded Indian……if any Indian at all…….but liberals lie as much as hildabeast …….so she probably came over on the mayflower…….
      - J.B.Jacobs
        
        It’s obvious you know nothing about the Cherokees, or any Indian tribe for that matter. Let me tell you a little about the Cherokees Most of them lived in western N.C. in the Smoky Mtns. In 1838 the were moved to Okla. in a place now call Kaw Country and a town of Ponca City. I lived there 10 years. Grew up 10 mies w. of the Cherokee Reservation in NC. The Cherokees were not ordinary Indians. Learned how to farm from the settlers and owned plantations worked by African slaves. also had gristmill, sawmills, and blacksmith shops. When they were moved to Okla in 1838. they were paid $5 million for the properties in NC and land in Indian Territory in Okla. There were 17,000 Cherokees at that time, 4000 died on the Trail of Tears.When they opened the Cherokee Strip in 1893 in Okla. They were moved to Anadarka, Okla. where the western band of the Cherokees now live. They sold their land at Ponca City for $1.40-$2.50 an acre and given land at Anadarka. When we left Okla. in 1989, the chief of the western band was Brenda Mankiller. I don’t know who is now. I still have a daughter living in Broken Arrow, Okla and grandchildren in several towns along with Aunts, uncles and cousins. It’s time you excepted reality. The Mayflower landed over 500 years ago. This is 2016. It’s a different world and a different country than it was then.
      - Granny Filec
        
        BOY YOU HAD TO GO TO SOME FACT FINDING PLACE FOR THAT INFO……ITS TOO WELL THOUGHT OUT……..LOOKED UP YOUR NAME ONLINE FROM THE CHEROKEE REGISTRY…….YOU WERE NOT LISTED………IF YOU WERE PART OF IT, YOUR NAME WOULD BE ON IT AS A LIVING CHEROKEE DESCENDANT…..
        
        THE TRAIL OF TEARS HAPPENED IN 1830, WHICH MEANS YOU HAD TO SEARCH FOR ANY INFO, AND THAT INFO WAS REQUIRED READING IN THE OKLA. SCHOOL SYSTEM………
        
        MANKILLER WAS FROM TAHLEQUAH, OKLA. (ADAIR COUNTY) WHERE MY MOTHER WAS BORN & RAISED…….MY MOTHER IS IN THE CHEROKEE REGISTRY AS WAS HER PARENTS, AND HER GRANDPARENTS…….TAHLEQUAH IS THE HOME OF THE CHEROKEE NATION……WHERE WE FISHED IN LAKE TENKILLER……
        
        BY THE WAY…..WHAT DID INDIANS DO FOR HIGH FEVERS?……WHERE DID THEY OBTAIN THEIR JUICES FOR GETTING REMEDIES FOR DIFFERENT AILMENTS?
      - J.B.Jacobs
        
        I apologize for some of the things I said. I really didn’t think you were Indian. You are right, we are not on the Cherokee rolls. My grandmother told me that her father was white and would not let them put the kids on the rolls because they would have to go the the Indian schools, and he wanted them to go to the white schools. We never lived on the reservation. A lot of the Cherokees here don’t. I’m 86 years old, born in 1930. I have seen a lot of changes in this country and not all for the better. I’m hoping Trump can do what he wasts to do, but it’s going to be hard if he doesn’t get the help he needs. Hope you have a merry Christmas.
- craig
  
  SHRED ALL of Socialist LYIN Barry’s PC CRAP!! TRUMP WILL make America Great Again!!
- Granny Filec
  
  REGARDING THE PIPELINE?……….DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH, BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT THE GOVERNMENT STOLE THE LAND FROM THE INDIANS……..
- Granny Filec
  
  I HATE BO………BUT………HE STOPPED THE PIPELINE (THAT COULD BE REROUTED) BECAUSE OF THE INDIANS AND THEIR RIGHT TO PROTEST ABOUT THE PIPELINE THAT HAS BEEN CONTAMINATING USA SOIL SINCE THE BEGINNING OF IT IN 2010.
  - kotoc
    
    Just out of curiosity, how has the pipeline “been contaminating U.S. soil since the beginning of it in 2010” if it hasn’t been built yet? As I understand it, the pipeline is still under debate because of conservationists… not Indians. The Native Americans are concerned about their “sacred” land. Okay, maybe ALL U.S. land is sacred. Maybe we should be dependent on foreign oil and be grateful for it. Is that right? And yes, they have a right to protest… but if the government is reacting to the voices of a few, why have they turned a deaf ear to the voices of MANY?? For example, the rights of Christians throughout the entire country? Your argument isn’t going to hold water where the U.S. economy is concerned.
    - Granny Filec
      
      THE PIPELINE WAS STARTED ON THE CANADIAN SIDE, THE PERMIT WAS PULLED AND THEY STARTED CONNECTING THE CANADIAN PART TO ALASKA……THEY ACTUALLY STARTED LAYING THE PIPE ON TOP OF THE GROUND IN SWANTON, NEBRASKA IN 2009 TO START CONNECTING..
      
      Three phases of the project are in operation. They are:
      
      The Keystone Pipeline (Phase I), delivering oil from Hardisty, Alberta, over 3,456 kilometres (2,147 mi) to the junction at Steele City, Nebraska, and on to Wood River Refinery in Roxana, Illinois, and Patoka Oil Terminal Hub (tank farm) north of Patoka, Illinois, completed in June 2010.[3]…..which started in 2008……..
      
      The Keystone-Cushing extension (Phase II), running 468 kilometres (291 mi) from Steele City to storage and distribution facilities (tank farm) at Cushing, Oklahoma,[4] completed in February 2011.[5]…which started in late 2009……..
      
      The Gulf Coast Extension (Phase III), running 784 kilometres (487 mi) from Cushing to refineries at Port Arthur, Texas was completed in January 2014,[6][7] and a lateral pipeline to refineries at Houston, Texas and a terminal will be completed mid-2016, going online the following year.[8]
Richard Bagenstose

buffet and soros will lose billions , that is who is behind it
- Granny Filec
  
  ITS BEEN KNOW FOR A LONG TIME THAT ALL THE GAS/OIL COMPANIES HAVE LINED THE POLITICIANS POCKETS FOR THEM TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY…….ON MANY DEALS……..
  
  DOES ANYONE REMEMBER WHEN THEY USE TO FILL OUR USA GAS/OIL IN BARRELS, PUT THEM ON BARGES, AND PRETEND THEY CAME FROM THE ASIAN PROVIDER……….JUST SO THEY COULD CHARGE MORE PER GALLON AT THE PUMP……????????
  
  POLITICIANS KNEW THIS AND PLAYED THE GAME………….
- RICHARD
  
  GOOD, soros is another who needs to die!
joe katona

ASSHOLE GAY OBAMA NEEDS TO B DEAD !!!!
- AL
  
  or life in the jail
  - Granny Filec
    
    JOE IS CORRECT……….WHY SHOULD WE THE TAX PAYERS HAVE TO PAY ANY MORE TO SUPPORT HIM IN PRISON………
- RICHARD
  
  O is the most hated man in the world now that Castro is dead
joe katona

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- Granny Filec
  
  I JUST LOST MY BREAKFAST……..PLEASE DON’T POST THOSE PRIMATES PICTURES ANYMORE….
joe katona

PICS OF OUR GAY MUSLIM PRESIDENT..
Cookie Vranish

Well, we have been through at least four years of this crap. Totally due to our horrible Republican congress that could do something about it. First, we had the drunken Bohner and now we have the two faced Paul Ryan. Until these things are changed, all we can do is hope President Trump does the right thing and I think he will.
AL

I say smash ever car owned by a protester for they are just to STUPID TO DRIVE ANYTHING.
- Granny Filec
  
  HURRAH FOR THE PROTESTERS………..IF THOSE IDIOTS SMASH ANY OF YOUR CARS, THAT WOULD BE A REASON TO PUT THEM ALL IN HOSPITALS….CAR SMASHERS ARE TOO STUPID TO BE ABLE TO WALK AWAY WITHOUT GIVING THEM THEIR JUST DUES…….
TPS12

Oh the gop is angry, sorry your a bunch of do nothing establishment politicians that have done nothing for a long time especially the last 8 years. I only hope come each of your up coming elections people remember and replace you with fresh, honest and truthful candidates. Even now that Trump has won you fools allow the dems/libs and msm to push their agenda while sitting there silent. I say establishment gop take a hike.
hopealda

The article is very misleading and biased against the out-going president. Obama made the right decision. By putting this situation on hold, he is being very magnanimous. He wants the new president to do whatever he wants with the situation. It is Obama’s way of saying, I have done my part as president, we have a new one elected; and it is now “his show”/”his cards to play”. So, I’d say, well done (concerning this situation) Mr. Obama!
Granny Filec

IF and I say “IF”, BO did stop the pipeline………..Its the first good thing he has done in 8 years….
Sgt. York

This is his last hurrah to America. He is a liberal communist JOB killer and country killer as this was his original plan from day one. He can not leave office or this country soon enough. Some say he is going to Cali-forna but that’s not far enough as bingo before we know it he will run for the liberal communist Governorship and that’s when we sell that state of disunion to the Mexicans for cash money and a big big wall around the whole state. Wall first then money.
Ellen Thrasher

I am a Patriot, Environmentalist, and a Trump supporter, but I am very upset that the Republicans are angry about stopping the pipeline! Thousands of Native Americans are counting on keeping their sacred lands pristine, their water clean and without pollution. That is their only source of water.
As we know, there has NEVER been a pipeline, oil tanker, drilling site that didn’t have leakage and polution of some kind.
I realize that Trump is an invester in the pipeline company or the oil company, but he has got to look at the future of the Native Americans lands and water. History has shown that these people have suffered at the hands of others, we have got to respect their wishes and divert the pipeline away from their lakes and aquifers !
I voted for Trump, have been a supporter from the start, knowing full well we would have to educate him on the Environment, animal rights, Climate change and the planet .
- Granny Filec
  
  “While TransCanada estimates that the Keystone XL will have 11 significant spills (more than 50 barrels of crude oil) over 50 years, a more realistic assessment is 91 significant spills over the pipeline’s operational lifetime. TransCanada arbitrarily and improperly adjusted spill factors to produce an estimate of one major spill on the 1,673 mi (2,692 km) of pipeline about every five years, but federal data on the actual incidence of spills on comparable pipelines indicate a more likely average of almost two major spills per year. (The existing Keystone I pipeline has had one major spill and 11 smaller spills in its first year of operation.)”
  
  “Analysis of the time needed to shut down the pipeline shows that response to a leak at a river crossing could conservatively take more than ten times longer than the 11 minutes and 30 seconds that TransCanada assumes. (After the June 2010 spill of more than 800,000 US gallons (3,000,000 L) of crude oil into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River, an Enbridge tar sands pipeline – a 30-inch (760 mm) pipe compared to the 36-inch (910 mm) Keystone XL – was not completely shut down for 12 hours.)”
  
  “Realistic calculations yield worst-case spill estimates of more than 180,000 barrels (7,600,000 US gal; 29,000,000 L) in the Nebraska Sandhills above the Ogallala Aquifer, more than 160,000 barrels (6,700,000 US gal; 25,000,000 L) of crude oil at the Yellowstone River crossings, more than 140,000 barrels (5,900,000 US gal; 22,000,000 L) at the Platte River crossing and more than 120,000 barrels (5,000,000 US gal; 19,000,000 L) at the Missouri River crossing.”
  
  “Contaminants from a release at the Missouri or Yellowstone River crossing would enter Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota where they would adversely affect drinking water intakes, aquatic wildlife, and recreation. Contaminants from a spill at the Platte River crossing would travel downstream unabated into the Missouri River for several hundred miles affecting drinking water intakes for hundreds of thousands of people (e.g., Lincoln, NE; Omaha, NE; Nebraska City, NE; St. Joseph, MO; Kansas City, MO) as well as aquatic habitats and recreational activities. In addition, other constituents from the spill would pose serious risks to humans and to aquatic species in the river.”
  
  “The worst-case site for such a spill is in the Sandhills region of Nebraska. The Sandhills are ancient sand dunes that have been stabilized by grasses. Because of their very permeable geology, nearly 100 percent of the annual rainfall infiltrates to a very shallow aquifer, often less than 20 feet below the surface. This aquifer is the well-known Ogallala Aquifer that is one of the most productive and important aquifers in the world.”[81]
AxeWound

If only I had a dollar for every stupid thing Obama did in the past 8 years
- Granny Filec
  
  STOPPING THE PIPELINE WAS NOT ONE OF THEM.
CUZIN ERN

The reason he can’t say terrorists due to the fact he is their band leader!
george briar

ah come on the stupid fool only has a few more weeks to do some more damage to this country. just be glad the idiot was hell bent on playing golf and taking vacations most of the time and not concentrating on ruining this country until now when his time is almost up, and like everyone else I too can’t wait until this dysfunctional family is gone. Trump will correct most of the stupid stuff bath house Barry did but it will take time and crooked Hillary just like the moron Al Gore will spend the rest of her days counting votes.
Angelo Campanella

Obama is turning nasty in a temper tantrum over the Keystone pipeline. Just a last-minute spite-dig.
Just ignore the schmuck.
- Granny Filec
  
  REROUTE THE DARN PIPELINE……….THEY HAVE DONE IT BEFORE………….LET THE INDIANS HAVE THAT LAND………AFTER ALL THE IDIOT GOVERNMENT STOLE THE REST OF THE USA INDIAN LAND………
george briar

It’s actually Soros that doesn’t want the pipeline as he holds lots of stock in the railroads that now move the oil. And the community organizer is just his boy toy that he commands and controls and almost had a perfect set with Hillary expecting to be next sort of his Ken and Barbie set for him to play with. Trump needs to investigate this crazy old fool or send him to the Russians that would love to have him.
george briar

By getting rid of the Bush’s, the Clintons and the Obama’s Trump is already making America great again. He will build that wall and he will also keep out the nasty Muslims that are insane.
fordfool

I betcha the “Presidential-Commemmorative Plates ” will be used as clay-pigeons before he’s OUT !!! The poor Dems…they just cant accepts that most of us don’t accept THEM ~~
Dan

More EO by fiat. The legacy left by this cultural Marxist will be quickly undone. (since most of it was unconstitutional any way)
My country

Ryan has and is Obamas right hand man . I can’t remember one time he and Congress / Senate denied Obama anything he wanted at our expense . That’s why there was no change !Ryan is for TPP trade open borders and amnesty ! Why they elected him again over Congress is stupidity at its best . That being said I hope that they will not get by taking the Native Americans land . The democrats are the ones who are responsible for taking the land and breaking the treaties . We need the oil but not at their expense! It is time to give them full citizenship without taking their land ! Look up Andrew Jackson! If he wasn’t making more black slaves he was killing Indians and creating the KKK!
- tCotUS
  
  Ryan’s a piece of S*** in Wis & still a piece of S*** in DC. Trump needs to drain the turd swamp.
- Granny Filec
  
  INDIANS ALREADY HAVE FULL CITIZENSHIP…….THEY WERE BORN HERE…….UNLIKE THE ILLEGAL MEXICANS AND MUSLIMS THAT CAUSE HAVOC AND NOW THINK THEY OWN MEXAFORNIA, AND SOME OTHER STATES……..
RsGoat

Only one story on this mentions that the Engineer’s meet with tribes and people along the path of pipe line long before reaching this point and while many offers were made to these people, this tribe in particular they never accepted the meeting to talk over issues in advance. All of these issues could have been discussed then, worked out, why are we dealing with this now?
- Granny Filec
  
  THE FARMERS MET WITH THEM……VOICED THEIR DESIRES, AND IT WAS LIKE VOICES IN THE WIND……..THE ENGINEER’S HAD NO INTENTION OF REROUTING OR CARING ABOUT WHAT ANYONE WANTED……..
James Frazier

I have said it before and I will say it again-The Skunk in Our House will try every day to do something to hurt this country as he hates America.
- tCotUS
  
  Agreed James….
  - Granny Filec
    
    ANOTHER PERSON THAT DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THE FARMERS OR THE LAND OR THE INDIANS………….TOO BAD YOU ARE JUST ANOTHER EGOTISTICAL HILLARY FANATIC……
- Granny Filec
  
  BEST THING HE EVER DID………..STOPPED THE PIPELINE…….LET THOSE MOTHERS REROUTE THEIR PIPELINE…….
  - James Frazier
    
    What a dumbass statement. They have bent over backwards to get the Indians approval (if you read what has really happened during the course of this project you would know what the hell you are talking about) and the Indians are just trying to get more money. And The Skunk in Our House is just trying to screw over the American people again.
    - Granny Filec
      
      IS THAT WHY THE FARMERS COMPLAINED ABOUT THEM COMING THRU THEIR LANDS AND “NOTHING” WAS EVER DONE……..WHERE THE LEAKS OCCURRED ON THESE FARMER’S LANDS……….NOTHING CAN GROW…..
      
      THE 5 INDIAN NATIONS CAME TOGETHER AND COMPLAINED, THEY IGNORED THEM…….IT SEEMS THEY ONLY LISTEN WHEN IT SUITS THE STATES OR THE GOVERNMENT……..HENCE THE INDIANS STOOD THEIR GROUND……..NOW EVERYONE IS LISTENING………
      
      LET THEM REROUTE THE PIPELINE…….IT WAS DONE BEFORE …….
      - James Frazier
        
        Have you seen a map showing where all of the pipelines run through this country? Have you ever seen one built? Folks farm and ranch on top of them with no problem. These Indians and The Skunk are just be assholes.
      - Granny Filec
        
        YOU ARE FULL OF BS………..SEE WHAT THE FARMERS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE PIPELINE AND THEIR CONTAMINATED LAND THAT CANNOT BE PLANTED…
        
        THE ALASKA PIPELINE LEAKED AND SPILLED 784,000 GALLONS INTO THE SNOW & ICE COVERED TUNDRA………THE ANIMALS & BIRDS WERE CAUGHT IN IT……..
        
        BUT ITS PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT DON’T CARE ABOUT ANYONE ELSE BUT YOURSELF………YOU ARE NOT BETTER THAN BO OR HC……
Rodijah Peters

This article states that the protestors “used violence”, as if they are responsible for the atrocities committed by militarized police. I would like to see evidence of protesters being violent against police. I can accept that there may have been a few individuals who freaked out under pressure and lost their cool, but this has been a nonviolent protest from the get-go. Stop belittling the rights of these Indigenous Americans, whose land we stole, whose children we stole, who we poisoned and pillaged to near extinction. Any true American knows the nobility and integrity of the Indian nations. We must support them and not be swayed by the bias of articles such as this.
- Granny Filec
  
  AMEN……….THE GOVERNMENT GIVETH THE LAND TO INDIANS AND THE OIL COMPANIES AND INDIVIDUAL STATES FIGURE THEY CAN TAKETH AWAY…….ALL BECAUSE THAT OIL COMPANY THINKS THEY CAN BUY COOPERATION……..
kassa1

Obama should be arrested tried and given the firing squad bar military for his endangering the American people in many ways including treason.
Deskjet

Republicans have been in control of Congress for 8 yes that’s eight years and have done nothing but CRY!!! CRY!!! CRY!! they have never accomplished anything that’s nothing,zero, nothing WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN WAITING FOR!!!!
Mark Claxton

It is private property is it not.I would not like being rolled over by the government either. Go around !
IMSweetOlBob

Our little pencil necked, muslim president has done just about the last favor he could do for the Arabic, oil producing nations.
He will do anything he can to stifle any Western oil producing. We could out produce, out sell, and out profit the Sand Barons for centuries, according to all new exploration efforts. Obama wants to protect his fellow muslims at the expense of America.
I pray that President Trump will be able to rescind most of Obama’s stumbling blocks to America’s energy independence.
- Granny Filec
  
  “While TransCanada estimates that the Keystone XL will have 11 significant spills (more than 50 barrels of crude oil) over 50 years, a more realistic assessment is 91 significant spills over the pipeline’s operational lifetime. TransCanada arbitrarily and improperly adjusted spill factors to produce an estimate of one major spill on the 1,673 mi (2,692 km) of pipeline about every five years, but federal data on the actual incidence of spills on comparable pipelines indicate a more likely average of almost two major spills per year. (The existing Keystone I pipeline has had one major spill and 11 smaller spills in its first year of operation.)”
  
  “Analysis of the time needed to shut down the pipeline shows that response to a leak at a river crossing could conservatively take more than ten times longer than the 11 minutes and 30 seconds that TransCanada assumes. (After the June 2010 spill of more than 800,000 US gallons (3,000,000 L) of crude oil into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River, an Enbridge tar sands pipeline – a 30-inch (760 mm) pipe compared to the 36-inch (910 mm) Keystone XL – was not completely shut down for 12 hours.)”
  
  “Realistic calculations yield worst-case spill estimates of more than 180,000 barrels (7,600,000 US gal; 29,000,000 L) in the Nebraska Sandhills above the Ogallala Aquifer, more than 160,000 barrels (6,700,000 US gal; 25,000,000 L) of crude oil at the Yellowstone River crossings, more than 140,000 barrels (5,900,000 US gal; 22,000,000 L) at the Platte River crossing and more than 120,000 barrels (5,000,000 US gal; 19,000,000 L) at the Missouri River crossing.”
  
  “Contaminants from a release at the Missouri or Yellowstone River crossing would enter Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota where they would adversely affect drinking water intakes, aquatic wildlife, and recreation. Contaminants from a spill at the Platte River crossing would travel downstream unabated into the Missouri River for several hundred miles affecting drinking water intakes for hundreds of thousands of people (e.g., Lincoln, NE; Omaha, NE; Nebraska City, NE; St. Joseph, MO; Kansas City, MO) as well as aquatic habitats and recreational activities. In addition, other constituents from the spill would pose serious risks to humans and to aquatic species in the river.”
  
  “The worst-case site for such a spill is in the Sandhills region of Nebraska. The Sandhills are ancient sand dunes that have been stabilized by grasses. Because of their very permeable geology, nearly 100 percent of the annual rainfall infiltrates to a very shallow aquifer, often less than 20 feet below the surface. This aquifer is the well-known Ogallala Aquifer that is one of the most productive and important aquifers in the world.”[81]
  - IMSweetOlBob
    
    Granny :
    I was comparing the Keystone to the Alaska pipeline, which, to my knowledge, has had almost no spills or eco-damage. Of course, the figures you quote have never been widely published. You give a horrific picture of the future of the pipeline.
    Which raises all kinds of questions about everything from construction to routing.
    It, the pipeline, may not be the blessing everyone considers it to be.
    Hoever, I still can’t help but believe that Obama’s first concern is still the Arabs. He has used the “Green” crap as a means of transferring contributions and as a “cats paw” and I can’t bring myself to believe that he is concerned with the ecology of the United States or its people now. Hes lies in his sleep !
    - Granny Filec
      
      IF YOU HAVE READ THE PART “91 SPILLS DURING THE PIPELINE’S BEGINNING”, YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN THAT PART OF THE SPILLS, HERE IN THE USA
      
      ALASKA SPILLS:……..
      ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A bubbling sound helped workers pinpoint a leak in a pipeline that allowed thousands of gallons of crude oil to spill onto the frozen tundra in Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay. There are 798,000 gallons unaccounted for…..
      
      State, federal and oil company officials said the total amount of oil spilled is still not known, but they discounted claims by an oil industry critic that the spill was much larger than BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. is saying.
      
      HOWEVER, YOU CAN GOOGLE IT AND GET THE SAME STORY……YOU SEEM TO HAVE A CLOSED MIND TO TRUTHS ……THE PIPELINE IDIOTS ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE GIVEN A HORRIFIC PICTURE OF THE CONTAMINATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE USA AND THE PIPELINE…….
      - IMSweetOlBob
        
        Granny:
        Right ! We shouldn’t allow the contamination of our important aquifers.
        But on the other hand, I am not about to allow a bunch of regressive tree huggers claim moral high ground and stop every oil exploration in the nation.
        I don’t think any will factually deny that our little muslim president is acting in the interest of his Arab commanders.
        And somehow,none of the truth seeps through our media.
        We have to be very careful of eco-damage, but we do not have to agree with the nuts of the Sierra clan stopping everything in favor of going back to pre Davy Crockett living.
      - Granny Filec
        
        THE ONLY TREE HUGGERS ARE THE LIBERALS, THE SLIME, THE UNEDUCATED, AND CARE ABOUT NOTHING BUT THEMSELVES……
        
        INDIANS ARE NOT TERRORISTS……….MOOSLUMS ARE…..
        
        YOU ONLY CARE ABOUT YOURSELF AND NOT ANYONE ELSE THAT HAVE HAD THEIR WELLS CONTAMINATED BY THE PIPELINE……THE FARMERS ARE NECESSARY IN OUR LIVES AND THE WATER THEY PUT ON OUR FOOD CANNOT BE CONTAMINATED……..
        
        YOU ARE AN EGOTISTICAL FOOL………
      - IMSweetOlBob
        
        “PIPELINE IDIOTS” … which ones ? Pro or Con ?
        My closed mind is about Obama, not about this pipeline or oil spills.
        I agree that the Olglala Aquifier must be protected.
        If great spills are a true danger, another route must be found. We’ve got too many forks in one dish, feeding too many people. There are “IDIOTS” on both sides.
TOM P O’DONNELL

OBAMA THE STAND DOWN EXECUTIVE MURDERER OF 4 MEN IN BENGHAZI IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN ANTI AMERICAN HISTORY. GIVEN TO US BY WHITE COMMUNISTS. TRUMP IS JUST IN TIME. IF YOU HAVE LOVED ONES IN THE DEMOCRAT COMMUNIST PARTY GET THEM OUT. DO AN INTERVENTION.
WhiteFalcon

Ovomit is only going to be there a few more days and then he will be moving. I wonder if he will try to steal everything in the White House like Hillary Clinton did? At any rate, he will be G O N E!!! Then we can begin to heal and become America again.
- Granny Filec
  
  ALSO THE PIPELINE REROUTED AWAY FROM LANDS GIVEN TO THE INDIANS BY THE SWEET SWEET GOVERNMENT…………
Jane Davison

Anti energy president? I don’t think so. Obama did the right thing by telling the fossil fuel industry to go to hell. He wants to explore renewable energy. We can do this and hopefully run our homes and business. Paul Ryan is another supporter of pollution which will effect our health as well as safety
Jane Davison

More thoughts lets impeach Trump
- Granny Filec
  
  YOU THAT VOTED FOR BO, AND THEN HC THAT HATE BLACKS, MAKES YOU SOUND LIKE A FEMALE THAT HAS “ADD”……..YOU DON’T CARE THAT BOTH OF THEM HATE THE USA, AND ARE OUT TO DESTROY IT………ALL BECAUSE YOU LOVE THE MUSLIMS….& THEIR TERRORIST/KILLING ACTIVIITIES……………
Nellie McConnell

Citizens and government needs to know who owns the oil that’s going to be piped across OUR COUNTRY. Is this oil from Canada? Who owns the oil company? Who is getting the jobs? Who is going to get job as security? If the pipeline is attacked by TERRORS, how is this going to affect the water supply. Who is going to benefit from the oil? I am thinking CHINA!?!? Obama wasn’t in China his health! What happened to the MONEY Obama gave Brazil to off shore drill and we would buy the oil. China is getting that oil. Is that money in Obama’s off shore ACCOUNT? For 8 years Obama has run our government over Congress and our Republican did nothing. Thank God for TRUMP.
The Indians don’t get the government hand out that the illegals and refugees GET. I haven’t seen any nice apartments or schools or supporting Indian culture and native language.
- Granny Filec
  
  While the project was originally developed as a partnership between TransCanada Corporation and ConocoPhillips, TransCanada is now the sole owner of the Keystone Pipeline System, as TransCanada received regulatory approval on August 12, 2009 to purchase ConocoPhillips’ interest.[18]
  
  Certain parties who have agreed to make volume commitments to the Keystone expansion to have the option to acquire up to a combined 15% equity ownership.[17] One such company is Valero Energy Corporation.[19], pockets have been filled in DC for cooperation……
  - Granny Filec
    
    “While TransCanada estimates that the Keystone XL will have 11 significant spills (more than 50 barrels of crude oil) over 50 years, a more realistic assessment is 91 significant spills over the pipeline’s operational lifetime. TransCanada arbitrarily and improperly adjusted spill factors to produce an estimate of one major spill on the 1,673 mi (2,692 km) of pipeline about every five years, but federal data on the actual incidence of spills on comparable pipelines indicate a more likely average of almost two major spills per year. (The existing Keystone I pipeline has had one major spill and 11 smaller spills in its first year of operation.)”
    
    “Analysis of the time needed to shut down the pipeline shows that response to a leak at a river crossing could conservatively take more than ten times longer than the 11 minutes and 30 seconds that TransCanada assumes. (After the June 2010 spill of more than 800,000 US gallons (3,000,000 L) of crude oil into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River, an Enbridge tar sands pipeline – a 30-inch (760 mm) pipe compared to the 36-inch (910 mm) Keystone XL – was not completely shut down for 12 hours.)”
    
    “Realistic calculations yield worst-case spill estimates of more than 180,000 barrels (7,600,000 US gal; 29,000,000 L) in the Nebraska Sandhills above the Ogallala Aquifer, more than 160,000 barrels (6,700,000 US gal; 25,000,000 L) of crude oil at the Yellowstone River crossings, more than 140,000 barrels (5,900,000 US gal; 22,000,000 L) at the Platte River crossing and more than 120,000 barrels (5,000,000 US gal; 19,000,000 L) at the Missouri River crossing.”
    
    “Contaminants from a release at the Missouri or Yellowstone River crossing would enter Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota where they would adversely affect drinking water intakes, aquatic wildlife, and recreation. Contaminants from a spill at the Platte River crossing would travel downstream unabated into the Missouri River for several hundred miles affecting drinking water intakes for hundreds of thousands of people (e.g., Lincoln, NE; Omaha, NE; Nebraska City, NE; St. Joseph, MO; Kansas City, MO) as well as aquatic habitats and recreational activities. In addition, other constituents from the spill would pose serious risks to humans and to aquatic species in the river.”
    
    “The worst-case site for such a spill is in the Sandhills region of Nebraska. The Sandhills are ancient sand dunes that have been stabilized by grasses. Because of their very permeable geology, nearly 100 percent of the annual rainfall infiltrates to a very shallow aquifer, often less than 20 feet below the surface. This aquifer is the well-known Ogallala Aquifer that is one of the most productive and important aquifers in the world.”[81]
denniscerasoli

My question is,are the interests of the Indians being ignored,are their water sources being contaminated or are they not.Their ancestral burial grounds reason enough to bypass the pipeline? It wouldn’t be the first time that burial grounds have been moved and even though treaties have been signed, do the Indians actually own the land they live on or is the Federal Government the true landlord.The reality is that the pipeline itself doesn’t touch the Reservation and they have indeed gone around it,i am not sure if this is true.
- Granny Filec
  
  PIPELINES THAT HAVE GONE THRU FARM LANDS HAVE DEVELOPED LEAKS AND CONTAMINATED THE PROPERTY AND SOME WELLS……..THE INDIANS HAVE SEEN THIS HAPPEN AND THEY DO NOT WANT ANY LEAKS ON THEIR LAND OR EVEN ADJACENT LANDS WHICH COULD CONTAMINATE THE WELLS……..EVEN MILES AWAY……
  
  INJECTION WELLS HAVE CONTAMINATED WELLS EVEN 20 MILES AWAY AND STILL THE GOVERNMENT HAS DONE NOTHING……
  
  I AM NOT SAYING THAT WE DO NOT NEED THE PIPELINE, BUT THEY SHOULD HONOR THE REQUESTS OF INDIAN TRIBES TO STAY OFF LAND THAT IS NEAR/CLOSE/OR ON THAT LAND THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS “SO KIND IN GIVING THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE”……….
  - denniscerasoli
    
    I don’t know very much about it until just recently with all the protesting and i would think it should have been addressed before they laid the first pipe.
    - Granny Filec
      
      IT WAS ADDRESSED BY MANY FARMERS THAT HAD NO IDEA THEY WERE GOING TO COME THRU THEIR PROPERTY………THEY COMPLAINED TO THE STATE AND THE GOVERNMENT……..NOTHING WAS DONE………THE INDIANS FINALLY DECIDED THAT UNTIL SOMEONE TRIED TO STOP IT WOULD ANYTHING BECOME “ADDRESSED”..
      - denniscerasoli
        
        I see,i’m with the Indians on this one.
WhiteFalcon

Those demonstrators should now just go home and have a nice Christmas and forget the whole thing for a while. They can take up their cause after Trump is inaugurated on Jan. 20th.
- Granny Filec
  
  OF COURSE……..LET THE PIPE LINES POLLUTE THE LAND/WELLS THRU LEAKS………YOU DON’T CARE AS LONG AS YOU CAN ZIP AROUND IN YOUR TRUCK……
Walter Flatt

OBAMA WILL DO ANYTHING HE CAN TO HURT AMERICA AND THE SENATE AND HOUSE HAD BETTER WAKE UP.

OBAMA HAS GIVEN BILLIONS OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO THE BELOW. THIS COULD BE THE MOST IMPORTANT READ IN YOUR LIFETIME. KOREAN WAR VET 51/53. A CHRISTIAN & REG. DEM.

BELOW IS WHAT HILLARY, OBAMA, AND BOTH PARTIES HAS HELP THE LAST 8 YEARS. ENOUGH OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS HAVE BEEN GIVEN AWAY TO FIX OUR INFRASTRUCTURE, AND MORE.

PUBLIC LAW @414, CHAPTER 2, SECTION 212 WAS PASSED IN 1952 BARRING ALL MUSLIMS, NOW ENFORCE IT.

READ THEIR BIBLE. THE QURAN AND GOOGLE, THE NEW CLINTON CHRONICLES AND LISTEN TO ALL. ITS ABOUT TEEN AGE SEX, RUNNING DOPE OUT OF MEXICO, DOPE & SEX PARTIES, MONEY LAUNDREY, EVEN MURDER.

JEFFERSON 200 YEARS AGO FOUGHT A WAR AGAINST ISLAM 200 YEARS AGO AND WE ARE STILL AT WAR WITH THEM.

PEOPLE KILED IN CALIFORNIA, TENNESSEE, COLO. FLA. & TEXAS HOW MANY MORE BEFORE WE START DESTROYING THEIR MOSQUES, PICKING THEM UP AND SHIPPING THEM OUT OF THIS COUNTRY?

I BELIEVE THAT HILARY, OBAMA, KERRY, SORRUS AND THE BIASED MEDIA HAS SET US UP FOR A TRY AT A MUSLIM TAKEOVER. RISE UP AMERICA, THEY HAVE BROUGHT THE WAR TO US NOW.

BELOW IS WHAT THE PEACEFUL MUSLIMS HAVE DONE TO THE USA, NOT CONSIDERING THE WORLD. THEY ARE OUT TO TAKE OVER. IS OUR PRESENT ADMINSTRATION, ALONG WITH HILLIARY, KERRY, OBAMA WITH THE BACKING OF SOROS AND THE BIASED NEWS MEDIA, TRYING TO DESTROY AMERICA?

In 2013, the Boston Marathon Bombing resulted in 4 Innocent people, (including a child) being killed and 264 people injured by Muslim males.

16. TENN, FLA, COLO, CALIF, TEXAS, AND A LOT OF OTHER PLACES THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED OR ATTACKED THIS YEAR IN THE USA THAT THE BIASED NEWS MEDI WILL NOT REPORT.

15. In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded by – you guessed it – a Muslim male. (Plus two other American journalists who were just recently beheaded ).

14. In 2002, the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against Muslim males.

13. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by Muslim men, women and children. Shootin, blowing themselves up, knives, etc. they are out to kill all who will not convert to them.

12. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim males.

11. In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by Muslim males.

10. In 1988, PanAm Flight 103 was bombed by Muslim males.

9. In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by Muslim males.

8. In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70-year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by Muslim males.

7. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by Muslim males.

6. During the 1980 ‘s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim males.

5. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim males.

4. In 1973, a PanAm 707 was destroyed in Rome, with 33 people killed, when it was attacked with grenades by Muslim males.

3. In 1972, a PanAm 747 was hijacked and eventually diverted to Cairo where a fuse was lit on final approach. Shortly after landing it was blown up by Muslim males.

2. In 1972, at the Munich Olympics, Israeli athletes were kidnapped and massacred by Muslim males.

1. In 1968, Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a Muslim male. 47 years since 1968 and this just keeps going on and on. These events are actual events from history. THEY REALLY HAPPENED AND IS STILL GOING ON TODAY TRUMPS RIGHT AGAIN.

Islam is a terrorist way of saying we are going to kill you infidels.
barack Hussein Obama cannot say Islamic terrorism
as he is a traitors to America.
We Can’t Seem To Pinpoint The Problem
The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim
The Beltway Snipers were Muslims
The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim
The underwear Bomber was a Muslim
The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims
The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims
The Bali Nightclub Bombers were Muslims
The London Subway Bombers were Muslims
The Moscow Theater Attackers were Muslims
The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims
The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims
The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims
The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims
The Beirut U.S. Embassy bombers were Muslims
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Muslims
The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims
The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims
The Kenyan US, Embassy Bombers were Muslims
The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims
The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims
The Besian Russian School Attackers were Muslims
The first World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims
The Bombay & Mumbai India Attackers were Muslims
The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims
The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were Muslims

******** So, What are their Major Organizations? **********
Islamic Jihad : AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
ISIS: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Qaeda: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Taliban: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Hamas: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Hezbollah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Boko Haram: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Nusra: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Abu Sayyaf: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Badr: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Muslim Brotherhood: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Lashkar-e-Taiba: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Palestine Liberation Front: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Ansaru: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Jemaah Islamiyah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Abdullah Azzam Brigades: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

THE IDIOTS IN WASHING CANNOT SEEM TO FIGURE IT OUT. I SAY THE PRESENT ADMINSTRATION DOES NOT WANT TO. THEY GAVE OBAMA A BLANK CHECK BOOK AND SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
- Granny Filec
  
  WHAT HAS THAT GOT TO DO WITH THE PIPELINE……….LAND OWNERS (FARMERS/INDIANS) ARE WORRIED DUE TO OTHER PIPELINE LEAKS AND THE CONTAMINATION OF LAND & WELLS…….TOO MUCH LAND HAS BEEN CONTAMINATED THRU LEAKS WHICH IS NOT FEASIBLE FOR PLANTING ANYTHING…….SO WHAT YOU WANT IS FUEL AND DON’T CARE WHETHER THE LAND IS CONTAMINATED FOR PLANTING……….
AL

Send him back to KENYA were he was born They need another muzzie pres
Jo K

The United States has the largest network of energy pipelines in the world, with more than 2.4 million miles of pipe. The network of crude oil pipelines in the U.S. is extensive. There are approximately 72,000 miles of crude oil lines in the U.S. that connect regional markets. Why oh why, do we need anymore?
Jane Davison

Granny, Trump is REALLY bad. He wants walls and some of that stuff. I do not favor a wall between Mexcio. Trump will destroy energy by polluting and a few other things. The only thin he will do that is right is destroy ISIS
george briar

Trump is a man that loves a challenge and loves to be told you can’t do that as he loves to prove them wrong. If this pipe line really is an answer to better energy and independence from middle east oil and if it makes sense you can bet Trump will make it happen safely, correctly, under time and under budget. It’s who he is and not what he is that will get it done. Muslim Barry is just protecting the Muslim oil from the middle east we now purchase. We are in fact their number one customer. If we have our own oil we don’t need theirs. And of course along with the pipe line there is the old cry of drill baby drill something else Obama stopped by not issuing permits. Muslim Barry will be gone soon and we will have a real President in the oval office an office that has been vacant for 8 years.
Clarice

This makes no sense. Changing location of the pipeline crossing as suggested here, would make no difference in water quality in case of accident. Water moves and pollutants flow with it. There are already numerous other utility conduits that have already been installed for years beneath this river with no history of problems.
This has simply been one more clever, damaging environmental political stunt using the Indians and built on historic public compassion. Trump’s biggest problem once in office will not be dealing with foreign countries such as China and Russia, but extremist environmental propaganda in combination with the United Nations determination to retain the Climate Change/Global Warming hoax to fund their operations through so-called carbon exchange.
RsGoat

We get that our out going President didn’t like the program and he is planning on being a thorn in the side of our next President, Where President George Bush had the class to step aside for his replacement this one has already staked his territory out to play childish games as he is doing righ up to the end of his term. The time is coming to hand over the riens of power to the next one and not muddy the water’s with balloney stories.
All of the issues with cyber security could have been worked on during his watch because there was already an awareness of the possibilities but even fighing the media imbalance one was chosen by more people in more States then the other.

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