45 Replies to “Not Waiting For The Asteroid”

  3. I was sure that the posted tweet was one of Kate’s quips, a Twitter version of one of her satirical “Let me rewrite that headline for you” posts.
    Apparently it’s not.

  4. It;s Celebrity Playhouse! – touching stories of the “little people”, as portrayed by rich Hollywood stars…

  5. Jane Tabor lost any credibility long past…
    This Mark Ruffalo seems to lack any credentials whatsoever to comment on energy matters…
    I watched the clip about his remarks on frakking. He made preposterous claims of harm but then declared there has been no research…
    Logically if there has been no research there is no basis for his claims.
    Then there is the disturbing smurk on his face which telegraphs that he is deliberately lying. He reminds me of a kid who has been caught breaking a window….
    Yeah I know that isn’t scientific but this guy’s opinions have no scientific basis either…
    But then a failed politician and a fruitfly geneticist are considered climate experts…why not this fool….he is from Hollyweird after all.

  7. The guy’s actually a good actor. I try not to pay attention to entertainers, off stage. They tend to be a bit hysterical. Really, could a normal person pretend like that? They have a very weak grip on reality. The XL pipeline will get built. End of discussion. I remember when the Alaska Pipeline went through the same process. A good number of concessions were made, but it got built.

  8. Sadly EBD that tweet is the real thing.
    Off topic question: I am seeing this post dated Nov 7, 2011 @ 12:08 AM. Have you moved to Ontario or have I somehow been swallowed into some kind of Saskatchewan ‘time change’ vortex?

  9. puddin n pie writes: “get gone to Halifax Jane!”
    Noooo! What have we ever done to you?
    Unfortunately, Ms Taber will fit in perfectly with the South End Halifax elite.

  10. Hell who would want cost effective readily available energy? Certainly not empty headed insulated Hollywierd elites or their media fart catchers.

  12. If the USA doesn t want the pipeline no big deal,just build a few refineries in Alberta and provide some jobs there instead of in Texas.Then build the damned pipeline to the west coast,somewhere north of Vancouver.You can be pretty sure that China,Japan, or India would be glad to have a secure source of energy outside of the middle east.I will never understand why we are shipping crude out of the country to be refined someplace else when we can use those refining jobs right here.What the hell is wrong with the government of this country and the government of Alberta too.

  13. Funny you should mention REFINERIES. I recently wrote a letter to the PM wondering WHY we are building a pipeline to TEXAS so they can refine our oil and then sell it back to us at world market prices. Why not build the refinery(ies) HERE in Canada and sell gas TO the US? Seems like a no-brainer to me. Jobs forever VS jobs for a few months while the construction is still in Canada. Then all we have to do is BUY our oil back as gas. Clever that!
    Two days later I received a long note thanking me for my concerns and assuring me that the pipeline will be built with the utmost regard for the ecological integrity of the lands it will be passing through and that as much of the energy used to build the pipeline will be “green” and that various species of prairie wildlife will be safe.
    It would be nice if they READ our letters now and then. I guess our “rulers’ just assume we’re all retards more interested in the mating tranquility of the speckled burrowing prairie owl than revenues or jobs for all those unlucky vermin who don’t happen to have been born on either coast or the centre of the known galaxy – Toronto.

  14. **Then build the damned pipeline to the west coast,somewhere north of Vancouver.**
    Can’t see any protest there. No siree.

  15. I was contemplating today why American actors seem to be involved so deeply in politics, particularly when they lack the education and experience to add anything meaningful to the debate.
    At first blush, one would think they are using their “star status” to gain attention. Fans enjoy the entertainment services they provide, and lavish attention and praise on them for whatever they say.
    On a deeper level, as actors they deliver lines and perform actions in scenes written by leftist Hollywood writers. The situations are contrived, and thus they will always be successful or at least elicit our sympathy. They are only smart, strong, and brave because their characters were written to be that way.
    But the truth is that actors command people’s attention on political issues because stage and screen require us to SUSPEND DISBELIEF on a regular basis. As an audience, we are willing co-conspirators in this farce. As magicians understand, the audience is fooled because they WANT to be fooled.
    Actors are experts at assisting us in suspending disbelief. We pay them millions of dollars to permit us to lie to ourselves.
    Millions of Americans do not want to face reality, so they elect politicians who pander to false hopes and empty promises. Dictatorships arise when there is a critical mass of people for whom reality is SO BAD, they will sell their freedoms cheaply to the first person who offers them hope for something better.
    When things really aren’t that bad, then people have to be made to FEEL bad or FEAR that things will get worse. In the US, only about four percent of the population needs to be convinced to shift power. Luckily, our government still has sufficient checks and balances and separation of powers to prevent radical changes.

  16. But what does Kim Kardashian think about the pipeline? That’s what we really need to know!

  18. We pump the crude to Texas because it’s easier to do that than build a dozen pipelines for a dozen different products.
    We pay world price for gasoline when we buy it from our OWN refineries.
    Beides, refineries are operated by union labour; the fewer of them in the country, the better.

  19. I’ve never seen a thread on this subject where someone didn’t roll out the old, “refine it here” chesnut. Really, does anyone believe that if that was a practical option, the big bad oil companies wouldn’t be moving in that direction? It makes less sense to refine crude here rather than export it to Texas because:
    1. There is excess refinery capacity for bitumen already available on the Gulf Coast and there is a market for all the bitumen Alberta will be able to deliver in the next few years;
    2. The lag time for building a major refinery in Alberta, including three or four years to fight off the environmentalists, would be six or seven years;
    3. Completion of the oilsands plants already under construction will double bitumen production. If the product has nowhere to go, billions of dollars worth of material and human effort will have been wasted and the ONLY current bright spot in the Canadian economy will collapse in a flood of debt;
    4. The local market for refined products in western Canada is tiny compared to the southern US. To move all that gasoline, diesel, lubricants, precursors for plastic etc. to markets in eastern Canada or the US Midwest would require pipelines, fleets of trucks, and thousands of rail cars. If Keystone XL frightens people, I wonder how they’d like to live beside a pipeline carrying raw gasoline?
    As an option, I think that Gateway is a non-starter, but not only because the Indians and environmentalists will fight it every step of the way – long after a new U.S. government would probably approve Keystone XL. Actually, in the specific instance of Gateway, the “we hate everything” contingent have a legitimate point. They aren’t the only people with misgivings about heavy tanker traffic in the Inside Passage. Why couldn’t the pipeline follow an existing pipe right-of-way to the Vancouver area and a terminal be built somewhere that is already f–ked up. Roberts Bank?

  20. Having now spent over a year watching maybe 20 minutes of DVD’s every 2-3 weeks and no broadcast TV whatever I find that I’m far more acutely aware of how manipulated people are by the MSM.
    People can’t seem to formulate their own opinion any more and I find that the more TV news people watch, the more fearful they are. Given the propensity to TV news to focus on the sensational this isn’t surprising.
    Actors are the last people who should have anything to say on public policy unless they have made a special study of the topic they’re commenting on. Actors are fundamentally meatware machines that are programmed to utter dialog not of their own creation and to generate concurrent facial and body movements which give the illusion to the viewer that the actor is experiencing emotions to match their verbal output. Given that there is a TOTUS as POTUS it appears that superficiality reigns in the US now. BO is playing the part of POTUS and has the reasoning skills of a brain damaged aardvark.
    A large fraction of the population seems to be fanatically preoccupied with the minutiae of actors personal lives as well as confusing the imaginary role they play with their actual intellectual capabilities. Very few actors seem to engage in logical thought which is not surprising as their primary mode of functioning is in the simulated emotion realm. Most of the causes that actors support are based on their personal uninformed feelings about a topic rather than a logical examination of the facts related to their cause.
    EnvironMentalism seems to be a favorite fad of actors who would likely be completely unable to fend for themselves if taken out of their city environment and placed in a true wilderness situation. Hypocrisy means nothing to these self-absorbed non-thinkers who are quite happy to fly in a private jet from one tropical location to another preaching the need for the population to drastically cut their use of oil “for the planet”. The best analogy would be a coked-up Charlie Sheen being appointed to lead the DEA.

  21. Ok, hands up for everyone that had to google/bing this moron’s name to find out who he was.
    And what is this about Taber in Halifax? Is she moving here or something?

  22. You know that in Hollywood they are all worried about what Jane Taber will have to say about their next movie.

  23. So appropriate to hear Tabloid Jane get all twittery over some Hollywood twit’s opinion far removed from reality.

  24. Zog, the problem with Vancouver is that there’s already too much congestion in the harbour of ships waiting for docking space. A terminal in that area would only add to the congestion and create further shipping delays.

  26. But Jane, you wizard, have you asked Lady Gaga what it thinks about this pipeline? Jane Taber, and Hollywood actors, as essential to any debate as ketchup on apple pie.

  27. Yes, Atlantic Jim, Taber is taking on the role of Atlantic Bureau Chief for the G&M. She’ll no doubt become a fixture at the Halifax Farmers’ Market.

  29. Penn, Garoffalo, Ruffalo, Serandon, Robbins, Bladwin et al are great at delivering their lines well rehearsed. Get a camera in front of them in a situation where they have to give it off the top of their pinny heads and all they can do is hammer and stammer.
    No wonder they love Obozzo. He sounds exactly like they do when someone has stolen the teleprompter.

  32. Ruffalo will be playing Bruce Banner (ie. The Incredible Hulk ) in next years Avengers movie.
    A guy that turns in a raging “green” monster bent on destruction? Good casting!

  33. I wonder how many of them including Jane DON’T USE OIL IN ANYTHING?
    If the oilsands was located in Quebec, Taber would be in her best behaviour.

  34. DAVYYZ….and who will BUILD those refineries? It’s not up to the government to build them.
    There are three words….only three….that need to be mentioned in regard to security of supply for the US and the need for the pipeline. Those three words are
    “Straits of Hormuz”.

  35. Jane Taber is only looking for attention which she got, but feeling proud of displaying her ignorance on national telvision speaks volumns to the degree of ‘any’ knowledge pertaining to her work.
    As bloggers, and other canadians view such ignorance it tells them to take her seriously with a ‘grain of salt’
    For your infomation Jane- Alberta oilsands is not call ‘tarsands.’
    By the way Jane ‘what about your liberal lover-boy Dalton McGuinty who is sucking up to eco nuts fanatics driving his own citizens down the tubes?
    What about Quebec’s huge debt as well as Ontario’s both of which are call ‘have-not’ provinces? Why not spend your energy on them instead of finding ways to destroy our economy uh?
    It is getting rather boring listening to empty heads like you who know ‘NOTHING NOTHING about our country.

  36. Good observations Loki
    1. People are not thinking for themselves. I was at a dinner party recently and opined about the Norwegian efforts (planned or otherwise) to brand their nation as the most caring and altruistic in the world while having a history or acting otherwise. Rather than debate the merits of a conclusion drawn from observations of their efforts (starting with the Post WWII repositioning of the support for Nazism, and the reliance on North Sea Oil money while being pro green and their whale harvesting while supporting WWF initiatives etc,) the listeners asked, “Where did you get this from?” It was as if people are not supposed to develop independent thoughts. Ideas are only be meaningful if someone in the MSM or some esteemed researcher at a University researched them and wrote a book explaing them.
    2. The MSM exists by using fear and loathing to peddle their advertising. Hence the long gun registry. Be in fear of being killed by a long gun so restrict access. Hence the harm reduction initiatives. Loath those who believe in self responsibility and community responsibility for dealing with drug addictions etc. Only enabling the drug addiction through the non judgemental and caring provision of love and a safe place to shoot up will reduce crime and death associated with it (sarc), hence the free needles programs.
    3. The MSM provides a continuous feed of celebrity activity reporting as a substitute for news reporting. It is cheaper and becomes a self fulfilling loop. How else do you get “reality” show stars becoming celebrities? There’s too much time to fill on the tube and in the papers and magazines and given that people are not thinking for themselves anymore, this fits fills the modern role of bread and circuses. We should be aware of the business model that Turner, Mudoch and the networks are working under. It is turning us into an unthinking, brain dead society at risk of collapse.

  37. Posted by: Roseberry at November 7, 2011 8:34 AM
    Ahhh crap. With three universities in a population of around 350,000 we already have more than our fair share of nut jobs here. The 5000 sailors, soldiers and airmen here are at our limit of ability to counter fools.
    Well at least Jesse Ventura decided to move to Mexico and not Canada like most of the nut jobs threaten to.

  38. For 5 years of Conservative minority Jane Taber, Craig Oliver and “Barney” Fife weekly invented a crisis that would bring down the government. In the last campaign they could not believe that the Conservatives were immune from manufactured crises. Do people who have been out of touch for 5 years normally moved to Halifax?

  40. DAVYYZ: I have a question why are you writing a letter to the PM concerning a natural resource? The PM for the fact the pipeline crossing at the boarder, but the resource belongs to Albertians, not Canadians.
    One problems is that it is easier to attack the supply side of the equation rather than the demand side. No one wants some dumb actor telling them get ride of the car and only run their AC on even numbered days when its over 110. Yet we tolerate the same dumb actors telling the people that supply us the energy we demand that they not supply it.
    I’m still banking on Keystone passing, but Gateway to the west coast needs to get moving forward. We all know we’re overly dependent on the US as a customer in everything we do, but then drag our feet when it comes to accelerating exports elsewhere, if only the Chinese wanted to buy minivans rather than oil/gas/coal/grain then we’d see movement on this.

  41. never mind the Kardasians… what does Kim Kardasians big ass think? I’m sure Kim’s ass shares the same intellectual capacity as Mark Ruffulos brain. Perhaps more. So come on Jane, you journalistic genius you, lets get some real expert analysis on the XL Pipeline from Kims gigantic bum.

  42. @8:42 – e tu, Elaine?
    Actors are actually the last people who should be allowed to have opinions becuse they tend to be crazy. And stars, in which category I guess we have to include whatsisname up at the top, live a completely artificial existence on a far away planet and are all raving narcissists who have no concept of how reality functions. I find it all very puzzling.
    If I run into Jane Taber I won’t recognize her so it’s all good.

  43. Mark Ruffalo is going to ruin “The Avengers”.
    If he can’t even do his part in a movie, how the hell is he going to master a nuanced discussion on a chief resource?

  45. I thought his name was Mark Buffalo,and that he was an aboriginal activist. Once again,I am wrong. He is less.
    Loki,I concur with your post of 3:22 a.m.
    My television went down suddenly on the anniversary of Elvis’s death(Aug 16th}. I only picked up another last weekend. Throughout that time,I relied on the internet for information,yet remained more informed than most on events.
    Television is an important medium,but it contains a large percentage of pap. Unfortunately most viewers don’t possess the necessary filters.

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