Huge Story For Railroad Buffs: Kansas City Southern To Build New Rail Yard Coupled To Houston's New Ethane Cracker -- June 8, 2015

BizJournal is reporting:

Kansas City Southern will build a new rail yard connected to a multibillion-dollar chemical facility in Louisiana.

On Monday, the Kansas City-based railway company announced it reached an agreement with Sasol Chemicals USA LLC for the construction and long-term lease of a storage-in-transit rail yard to support the Houston-based company's new ethane cracker and derivative project in Lake Charles, LA.

Kansas City Southern Railway Co. also will replace and expand its existing rail car classification yard in Mossville, LA.

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For Those Keeping Score At Home

Baltimore CBS Local is reporting:

Four children are among the victims of violence that’s surging across much of Baltimore.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is holding a crime walk Monday evening.

The number of killings this month has already surpassed what we saw last month, which was record setting. The mayor says she is here to listen. A number of residents say they want action.

The violence keeps surging across Baltimore with shooting after shooting, including a daylight gunfight and a body found near Curtis Bay Elementary School that closed it for the day.

A city councilman says the number of children shot is up from three this time last year to 22–a staggering 600 percent increase.

There were 42 homicides in Baltimore last month, making it the city's deadliest in more than 40 years. It appears the Baltimore mayor, bless her, is still giving thugs a bit of space to kill.

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Listening To His Core Constituency

A year ago I would have voiced my irritation that President Obama would actually admit he had no strategy for Iraq, ISIS, or the Mideast. Invariably I would receive e-mail from Obama supporters telling me it was better to have no strategy than Bush's strategy.

So, now I just keep my mouth shut and watch.

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Rolling Their Eyes And Crossing Their Fingers

Between now and the end of the month we are going to see a lot of stories on how ObamaCare will be eviscerated if the Supreme Court decision is based on law, and not politics. The stories are being published as a last-ditch attempt to influence the court. As an example, the lead story in today's Los Angeles Times says the world will come to an end as we know it if the court rules "against" ObamaCare. I will let you in on a secret. Promise not to tell anyone.  The court has already decided. It's a 6-3 decision. All they are doing now is dotting the i's and crossing the t's. Or are they rolling their eyes and crossing their fingers that riots don't break out?

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Demographics

For the archives. I can't post it publicly because it's too sensitive and too politically incorrect, but the Balkanization of the United States will result in the following ethnic groups becoming the elite 1% in the following geographic areas in 2025:

• eastern seaboard from NYC to Florida (except for the Carolinas and Georgia): Jewish
• north Texas: Sharia
• Detroit: Sharia
• northern California (San Francisco area): Asian
• southern California (Los Angeles): Hispanic