Looks like the pipe people gotta come up with more bucks! Don't they understand how the game is played? And yes! Politics is stranger than fiction.

Why do Christians want their religious beliefs turned into legislation? Because one gives up one's questioning mind, at least a large part of it, in order to accept the beliefs of religion, whichever one it happens to be, and the beliefs have to be proved true however the believers can, to take away the chance the beliefs could be questioned, that the believers could be wrong. It's just one of the effects of unrestrained and unexamined hubris.

Wow. Looks like anyone switching to an electric car will be switching from an oil burner to a coal burner. On the plus side, if coal cars derail, they don't catch fire.

I Let's not forget that Huckabee's denomination and his religious beliefs are based strictly upon the Bible. There's no sense of Tradition, a teaching authority or "deposit of Faith" or a set of long-developed and well-honed documents which happen to be based on Scripture and, of course, some of the earliest documents forumlated by the "Founding Fathers" of Christianity, the original Patriarchs, the bishops and prominent other doctors. This gives Huckabee some cover to say just about anything he wants, wrap himself in Old Glory and take it from there. It's a flimsy cover, however. Because while he clings to the Bible, and supposedly the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, as his "authority" to make these sweeping religious pronouncements -- he overlooks the history behind them and the fact that while the original Founders were appealing to God, they were not doing so as an organized body, but as individuals seeking His guidance in their efforts to come together and form a logical defense of their arguments against the Crown. The governor is too much alike far too many of today's self-described "constituitonal originalist" conservatives who keep forgetting that we 're not living in the time of tri-cornered hats, frock coats and documents written on goat or some other animal-skin like documents. Time to move on and recognize we in a new century. And I'm writing this from the perspective a Catholic and as everybody knows, this is a Protestant nation founded to keep Catholicism in its place; or so as our past forefathers of the 17th and 18th centuries would liked to have made it permanently so. Anybody want to go back that far? In case our "originalist" friends get a little too heady, kindly remind them that slavery was protected by their heroes beliefs. Time for the governor to reassess how far back he wants to go to make his point ... without forgetting what John Adams, a very devout Congregationalist, wrote in his statement to the Barbary Pirates. Question is, whould Huckabee be willing to risk losing hostages to ISIS based on his long-stated hostility towards Islam and favoritism towards Judaism and Christianity?

Quote chuckle8:stecoop1 -- That perspective thing does not make much sense to me. Are you suggesting we shouldn't fight against legislation to make rail travel safer for oil because we could be blown to bits by an LNG tanker?

How are you getting that from anything I wrote???

I am saying that ALL transport of hazardous material by rail needs to be made safer, not just oil; there are materials FAR MORE dangerous than crude oil being transported by rail. Legislation that focuses only on oil transport is extremely blind and narrow. I liken it to regulating aspirin while people are dying from heroin abuse.

Huckabee and Bachmann apparently don't do their homework by studying information about their beliefs. They have to know about the following. This is what they believe in or do they? The revised King James version of the bible that was re-written by Cyrus Scofield for the Oxford Press and published in 1908 - 1920. Scofield supposedly was a minister whose character sounds to me like one of a "snake oil salesman". This guy was a criminal who had been jailed. He had two wives who divorced him for cruelty. He was hired by the Rothschilds who paid him to re-write this bible and include in it that Jews were the "chosen people" and that the "Armageddon" would occur in Israel where the "rapture" would happen and all followers would be ascended into heaven for an eternity magnificence. It is the first time ever that the word "Jew" ever appeared in any bible. The list of Scofield inclusions is endless but some of it include many things about women's behavior and hence the attack on women's rights spearheaded by Republicans at the behest of their Evangelical constituents. It is my understanding that this book was distributed to all Evangelical heads of church in 1920 who then distributed it to their followers and used and referred to it as Gospel without ever questioning any re-written part of it. The Government knows all about this I'm surprised they have allowed this fable - myth to continue for all the years that they have.

I agree with you Dane. Both are yes. I was disapointed with both, Jon Stewart, and David Letterman. Nether showed Bernie the respect he deserves...!

It was great listening to Senator Sanders again today. He is an oxymoron, a politician who cares. I am greatly inspired by President Obama's candidacy and worked hard for his election. I plan to do the same for Senator Sanders. While I understood that President Obama could probably not fulfill all of his campaign promises, he has come extremely with absolutely no thanks from the republicans. So much so, something with the gravitas of the TPP threatens to undermine a lot of what President Obama means to progressives. There is no such mysterious with Senator Sanders. I am reassured and comforted by Senator Sanders past accomplishments and his deeply moving sincerity.

That said, there is no doubt that the so called liberal media, typified by the Sunday morning political talk shows, has done everything possible to avoid having Senators Sanders as a topic, let alone a guest.

I feel that it is not a coincidence that the "bomb trains" are getting to be more frequent and given more media attention after the XL Pipeline was denied.

It could be possible they are being manipulated to explode on purpose in retaliation.

Alice would you rather freeze in the dark? By the it isn't Canadians building the LNG plant in your hood. Good luck with your fight against it though. I like it when people stand up for what they believe in.

Willie your right, I will say it. It makes much more sense to ship energy through pipelines, doing it by rail it much more dangerous. Time to approve Keystone.

Thom, I wonder about your obsession with oil being hauled by trains, given that trains are hauling far more dangerous cargo every day; for example chlorine gas, and liquified natural gas (LNG), and even spent nuclear fuel rods from nuclear power plants. Of those three, LNG terrifies me the most; I live less than 3 miles from some very busy CSX tracks; if an LNG tanker were to explode on those tracks, my home is within range of the resulting fireball.

I agree that the railroads, and the shippers who use the railroads, need to do more, much more, to make the transport of hazordous materials safer, but a little perspective is in order.

Personally, if a train has to derail, I would rather it be an oil train than an LNG or chlorine train. Of course, I'd rather trains didn't derail at all.

The oil industry will see this blog and say "I told you so!" They can argue that " This is why we need more pipe lines."