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HiMyNameIsJayAgainHamilton Nolan
11/21/14 9:47am
Her politics aside, she just doesn't seem very smart.
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  Aya H. UascaHiMyNameIsJayAgain
  11/21/14 10:02am
  As someone who was too young to care back when Noonan was considered wise, I find myself wondering...has she always been this vacuous and word-salad-ish, or have the Obama years atrophied her brain?
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  HiMyNameIsJayAgainAya H. Uasca
  11/21/14 10:04am
  Her column reads like an extended-length reply you would find in the comments section of a local newspaper.
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ohnoyoudiintHamilton Nolan
11/21/14 9:46am

If it is done right, the people who build the pipeline could be pressed to take on young men—skill-less, aimless—and get them learning, as part of a crew, how things are built and what it is to be a man who builds them.

And then when the pipeline is done we'll fire them and take away their benefits and bitch when they go get coverage under the Affordable Care Act!
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  TheLastConformistohnoyoudiint
  11/21/14 9:50am
  But they'll be real men by then, able to pay for health care with their own bootstraps, or something!
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  dj-dericohnoyoudiint
  11/21/14 10:05am
  staunch reader here (daily print version, but I do recycle!) - I read the Journal for the business articles. The editorial section is mostly glossed over as they keep retching up the same anti-Obama rhetoric, day after day. And dear Peggy, she should've been put out to pasture years ago.
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VictorianModestyHamilton Nolan
11/21/14 9:57am
WTF?!!

Uh, NO. You do NOT hire unskilled aimless young men to work on an expensive and complex engineering project. You get men and WOMEN with degrees in engineering , technical experience and construction to work on an oil pipeline, people who have prior experience with environmental permitting and work with excavation equipment in the soil profile. You don't hire local unskilled drop outs without life goals to do this kind of work. That's akin to getting " skill-less, aimless young men " to do heart surgery. And FYI, you know all those evil 'environmental regulations' that the Republican rails against? Yeah. Hiring skilled technicians with degrees, experience and technical experience to do the job are a HUGE part of meeting environmental regulations. BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE DOING!!!!!!!
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  Cristobal JuntaVictorianModesty
  11/21/14 10:06am
  Look at you being all silly and trying to apply logic to the quasi-random verbal excretions of a drunk idiot.
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  TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)VictorianModesty
  11/21/14 10:13am
  So what you're saying is, if it weren't for Democrats' onerous business regulations, companies like this could hire unskilled aimless young men and provide them with the structure and guidance they need? Clearly any flaws in Peggy's plan are the Democrats' fault, not hers. It's totally not because she lives in Cloud Cuckoo Land.
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MK12Hamilton Nolan
11/21/14 9:47am
All those supposed shiftless men that she's talking about are already up in North Dakota working in the oil fields. The only difference between the Bakken jobs and the Keystone pipeline jobs is that the Bakken's aren't temporary.
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  reddeerrunMK12
  11/21/14 10:02am
  Those temporary jobs always lure folks out of permanent ones only to find the ones they left were filled.
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  sigmaoctansMK12
  11/21/14 10:31am
  The Bakken jobs are absolutely temporary. Its happened before. North Dakota already had an oil boom in the 1970s, and when prices crashed in 1981, everybody left, a lot of North Dakota towns were plunged into debt.
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blameitonthecroutons goodbye tourHamilton Nolan
11/21/14 10:03am
After publishing yet another article calling for the halcyon days of Jelly Beans Reagan, Peggy Noonan pushed back into her chair and sighed contently. "I've done it again, Ronny." She looks over at the jar on her desk filled with a viscous fluid and what seems to be a growing fetus. "We'll be together soon." She kisses the glass, breathes heavily, and draws a heart with the steam.
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  misseleneousblameitonthecroutons goodbye tour
  11/21/14 10:11am
  I would read this fanfic.
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  RobNYCblameitonthecroutons goodbye tour
  11/21/14 11:50am
  I'd like to option this for a film.
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RussianistHamilton Nolan
11/21/14 9:54am
Most staunch Republican readers of the WSJ are moneyCons who understand that the op-ed pages are sort of a test lab for generating talking points for the rubes in the party base. They're assessed there before they're dumbed down(!) for other outlets like Fox.

This one is quite special, though. It's like she wrote it after having brunch with Maureen Dowd.
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  leighRussianist
  11/21/14 11:42am
  and Thomas Friedman
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SrynersonHamilton Nolan
11/21/14 9:54am
I'm pretty sure that when Noonan sits down to write her columns she is actively trying to troll Gawker at this point.
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Secret Hobo SpicesHamilton Nolan
11/21/14 9:50am
And after a day of building, we will descend on the local towns to have our fill of meat and women.
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foolpumpHamilton Nolan
11/21/14 9:49am
Heck, Peggy, those aimless young men could just as well learn to be men by re-building America's crumbling infrastructure as contributing to global warming and oil dependence, doncha think?? What good does the oil do if the roads are falling apart and bridges are collapsing??
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TheDataHamilton Nolan
11/21/14 9:49am
It's so weird how Peggy Noonan would be so staunchly against a large-format national infrastructure project that actually had a positive impact.
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