As I said in a recent piece on my website, the U.S. has gone full banana, as in banana republic. The government now decides who wins, while the rest of us lose. If you have the stomach for entomology, you can study our politics to try to ascertain who is up and who is down, much like "Kremlinologists" use to do with the Soviet Union. That is where we are headed.

I seriously doubt that King Barack is blocking the pipeline because of Buffett. The latter is just smart enough to figure out that Dear Leader won't cross his green buddies. Dear Leader brought the Oracle of Omaha in early in his first term in a show of "getting the best economic ideas." The Oracle no doubt realized he was being "played" and hasn't been much involved since.

It's not about Buffett or the Greenies, it is Obama bowing down to the UN and their plans for Agenda 21. They want all forms of private transportation gone, better to control us all. Herd us into urban apartments with no parking lots. They don't even want tractors, some UN idiot suggested a return to oxen - when was the last time you saw one of those? Obama swore he would stop the pipeline during his first term, people did not pay attention. His one world plan was always at the front, doing as his puppet maters required. People had better start taking UN Agenda 21 seriously, they are. It will change every aspect of our lives, from where we are allowed to live, to how we get about, to what we can or cannot eat, to the number of children each is allowed. Check out www.americanpolicy.org for resources.

Love the comment "But hey, if it saves the life of just one child, it will be worth it, or some such nonsense."

Every decision is a value calculation and trade-off. One of the best vocalizations of this was from Milton Friedman when he spoke about the Ford Pinto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPqdRqacp...

The decision to veto the building permits for the Keystone pipeline was a decision calculated on one thing and one thing only: political power. Despots will always vote for control over freedom. Tyrants will always oppose the free market and the ability of the individual to seek their own best interest. Of that, history is replete with tragic examples.

One of the more telling indicators, however is that this tyrant, this despot was not only voted into power once but twice. That tells me that not enough Americans care about their freedom to stay informed on the issues and defend their right to pursue their own self-interest. That to me is a terrifying thought and all I can hope is that we wake up and right the ship before it hits the iceberg looming so present in our path.

Meanwhile these Bakken field trains seem to have a propensity to go boom. Part of it is, I'm sure, the composition of Bakken Crude... but I also wonder... what's the insurance payoff for those trains not reaching their destination? Not saying there's a nefarious angle to this, but... hmmm... makes ya wonder, doesn't it?

Of course... there is a LOT of Bakken Crude Tanks going via rail through California... through cities in the central valley (where the tracks run THROUGH the center of the towns)... wonder what the insurance payout would be to the shipper (to indemnify their damages) should one of these trains take out a small town? Hmmm...

Aren't you really talking about the Minnesota disaster, and how the freight cars were initially diverted to a soybean-growing cooperative?