Erik Prince is probably guilty of multiple murders Link
"Our country needs this oil, there is no question about that. We have to produce this oil at home unless we want to be completely reliant. Sen. Mary Landrieu (R-LA), Link
She's right. We have no choice but to drill offshore because al Qaeda owns the sun and the wind and the geo-thermals under Wyoming
Tell you what, mofos, when dead people are left to rot in the sun because of the incompetence of the federal government, when corpses are floating in the streets, when the President passively ignores the pleas of the governors of Gulf Coast states, when entire neighborhoods have been physically destroyed, when the federal government strands tens of thousands of people without food or water, when the federal government starts to blame the local governments, when the President praises the work of a failed, incompetent bureaucrat while a major city rots, then you can say that this is Barack Obama's "Katrina." Keep reading here.
Even if they did employ your husband for 18 years!
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Oil Spill To Hit Florida Keys: Will Hit Loop Current Within 24 Hours
I'm getting angrier and sadder as this disaster spreads.
To think that, but for a shut-off valve that BP was too fucking cheap to install, it will be covered in oil is utterly depressing.
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Is it true that there is violence in Arizona now due to Mexican drug wars and that illegal aliens have jobs? Kelly thinks so.
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The Advocate has learned the real name of the elusive Geo/Lucien, but the kid is still not talking. 
Here is as clear an example you'll ever find of simple-minded false patriotism versus intelligent true pride and understanding of being part of a great nation.
Eric Cantor:
What the President said in that speech [in Cairo] was that he hoped to return to the days when we had a partnership with the Muslim world. That America 20, 30 years ago enjoyed some type of good relationship that now has gone awry. I don't see it that way. I don't see that somehow we need apologize for anything that America has done. Are we a perfect nation? By no means. Are we better than any[one] else because of the exceptional nature of who we are? Yes.
Barack Obama:
"I think that we have a core set of values that are enshrined in our Constitution, in our body of law, in our democratic practices, in our belief in free speech and equality, that, though imperfect, are exceptional." But he added, "the fact that I am very proud of my country and I think that we've got a whole lot to offer the world does not lessen my interest in recognizing the value and wonderful qualities of other countries, or recognizing that we're not always going to be right, or that other people may have good ideas, or that in order for us to work collectively, all parties have to compromise and that includes us."
Only a dimwit unable to understand true greatness would ever make the claim that America has no need to ever apologize for anything it has ever done. While this type of talk appeals to the lowest and crudest intellects in the population, it is the very essence of the Ugly American. And it is this type of belief, that one is better than anyone else, which leads to anti-American sentiment and a loss of respect around the world - both of which weaken the country's power and influence. The eight years of Bush rule, when foreign policy was directed from a neocon perspective, is a clear testament to this.
The President has it right on this one. His brand of American exceptionalism does not exclude respect for other nations, their democratic rule of law or their culture. It understands that American compromise on some key issues, contrary to what Republicans choose to believe, strengthens the country and leads to a more secure world.
Eric Cantor is a jerk…and no one likes or respects a jerk. His Dick Cheney brand of patriotism is old school and while it might get you applause from your base, its real effect is to weaken a great nation.
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WH spokesman's huge brass ones crush Faux "reporter"
Robert Gibbs comes right out in a press conference and says that the lying liars of Fux Nooze wouldn't report on the truth if it came up and bit them in the ass --
Fox's Wendell Goler asked a question using the "some people say" formulation to claim that the BP oil spill is President Obama's Katrina, clearly hoping to put Robert Gibbs on the defensive. Gibbs wasn't having any of it:
GOLER: It wasn't just Fox calling this your Katrina. {No, it was Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, the Daily Standard... - Ed.}
GIBBS: No, but Fox had the very special and unique interview with Michael Brown —who, for those weren't let in on the big secret, Mr. Brown — FEMA director Brown under Katrina — intimated on Fox — and it wasn't, I will editorially say, appear to be pushed back on real hard — that this spill was leaked on purpose in order for us to walk back our environmental and drilling decisions, and that the leak that we did on purpose got out of control and now is too big to contain. So, suffice to say —
GOLER: What is Mr. Brown's attribution?
GIBBS: I can only wish that the network that you work for asked that prior to interviewing him yesterday.
GOLER: The reporters in here asked that. So I'm asking you —
GIBBS: You should call headquarters, my friend, and ask for somebody who makes the decisions to put people like that — because I've got to tell you Wendall, I'm not entirely sure a factual answer that I might give to any one of your questions is going to change the notion that your network put out the former FEMA director to make an accusation that the well had been purposefully set off in order to change an offshore drilling decision.
New York terrorist score card
Obama: 1 for 1
Readers ask what is the scorecard when Slick Willy is included?
Clenis: 1 for 1
AWOL 0 for 2
Obama: 1 for 1
So to review: when presidents that have no business ties to Osama bin Laden are profiled they have a 100% arrest rate when New York terrorist bombing incidents are examined.
In the months before BP's Deepwater Horizon rig sank in a ball of fire in the Gulf of Mexico, the company had four close calls on pipelines and facilities it operates in Alaska, according to a letter from two congressmen obtained by ProPublica [2].In that letter, dated Jan. 14, 2010, Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Bart Stupak, D-Mich., noted that the company's efforts to cut costs could imperil safety at BP facilities.
Between September 2008 and November 2009, three BP gas and oil pipelines on Alaska's North Slope ruptured or clogged, leading to a risk of explosions, the letter said. A potentially cataclysmic explosion was also avoided at a BP gas compressor plant, where a key piece of equipment designed to prevent the buildup of gas failed to operate, and the backup equipment intended to warn workers was not properly installed.
Surprised I have not heard this on ABC, NBC, CBS or other networks. Probably because their serious journalists are busy successfully churning Drudge bait. In the beltway media- inconsequential tone deaf behavior that translate into easily promoted gotcha moments with anonymous internal sources infighting are far more important than causes, blame, and solutions. Because there is important and useful, and then there is SEXY.
But things will be better once we have a Republican congress!
Fun fact:Remember the Exxon Valdez spill? BP was the company that was responsible for being prepared for oil spills in Alaska. BP cheaped out and they had neither the equipment nor the crews that they told everyone that they had. Because being ready for emergencies is expensive.
Before the Exxon Valdez grounding, BP's Alyeska group claimed it had these full-time, oil spill response crews. Alyeska had hired Alaskan natives, trained them to drop from helicopters into the freezing water and set booms in case of emergency. Alyeska also certified in writing that a containment barge with equipment was within five hours sailing of any point in the Prince William Sound. Alyeska also told the state and federal government it had plenty of boom and equipment cached on Bligh Island.
But it was all a lie. On that March night in 1989 when the Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef in the Prince William Sound, the BP group had, in fact, not a lick of boom there. And Alyeska had fired the natives who had manned the full-time response teams, replacing them with phantom crews, lists of untrained employees with no idea how to control a spill. And that containment barge at the ready was, in fact, laid up in a drydock in Cordova, locked under ice, 12 hours away.
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Negative Capability: http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2010/05/negative-capability.html
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Distance yourself from teh gay!
In the past 24 hours FRC has received calls regarding Dr. George Rekers and his connection with the Family Research Council. After reviewing the historical records we did verify that Dr. Rekers was a member of the original Family Research Council board prior to its merger with Focus on the Family in 1987.
Reports have been circulating regarding Dr. Rekers relationship with a male prostitute. FRC has had no contact with Dr. Rekers or knowledge of his activities in over a decade so FRC can provide no further insight into these allegations.
While we are extremely disappointed when any Christian leader engages in the very activities that they "preach" against, it is not surprising. The Scriptures clearly teach the fallen nature of all people. We each have a choice to act upon that nature or accept the forgiveness offered by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and do our best to ensure our actions, both public and private match our professed positions.
Dr. Reker's "professed position" appears to be on his knees and sometimes his elbows.
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Teabaggers Are Just 2% of American Population
America's most exciting political movement (according to newspapers that are all going out of business) is the Tea Party! Never before has this nation seen such "energy" (fat white people in lawn chairs) or "passion" (racist, misspelled signs). From snowbilly grifter Sarah Palin to chocolate-sucking giant-baby serial-divorcer has-been Newt Gingrich, it seems all the Republican fringe figures who can't actually stay in office want a piece of the Teabagger Phenomenon. Well, there are not that many pieces to go around. Do not mistake the obesity of a particular teabagger for lots of individual teabaggers.
A shocking new obvious Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that Teabaggers make up "about 2 percent of the total population." But they are "supported" by 27% of voters! So that's enough to at least, uh, split the Republican vote.
Some 14 percent of Americans say the tea party is most in sync with their values, nearly matching the 15 percentage-point drop-off for the GOP over the past five months.
Meanwhile, just as many voters identify with Democrats today as in November 2008. Washington Post
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They hate us for our freedoms
GOP, Taliban, what's the difference?
John McInsane, who fought and was held prisoner by totalitarian commies: senile, pandering douchewipe, or palin-American?
Bonus: he's joined by his repulsive laptoy, insufferable quisling Joe Lieberman.
Flashback:
Chris Matthews to Michael ('Obama purposely blew up the oil well') Brown: "You're insane."
So are you for having this worthless piece of shi* on your show, Chris.
"President Obama's approval rating, buoyed by improved perceptions of his handling of the economy, stands at 51 percent in a new CBS News/New York Times poll. "
But not just because the desperately-needed consumer financial protection act is likely to be the first sacrifice.
Because President Obama is likely to pass on the best opportunity in more than 70 years to force real transparency and accountability on the Federal Reserve.
And thus fail to reveal to the public trillions of taxpayer dollars the Fed handed to private banks in secret subsidies.
John Nichols in The Nation explains:
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Is it wrong to feel schadenfreude over this?
Defense contractors have long been thought recessionproof. The economy may suck everywhere else, but there are certain people in the mid-Atlantic who never go wanting. Defense contractors go to the mid-Atlantic for the same reason Willie Sutton robbed banks - that's where the money is. That is how it has been my entire life, and I won't take anyone seriously who talks about deficit reduction until they put the Pentagon budget on the table and commit a serious act of liposuction and reduce it by 20% just for starters.
Well, the excesses of the Bush years and the inherent, innate, insatiable greed of the military industrial complex are even catching up to the biggest pigs at the trough.
Hey, guess what all you Colonels and Captains who walked through the revolving door into jobs with Boeing and Lockhead and Raytheon (oh, my!) Y'all aren't immune, no matter what you thought when you resigned your commissions - and if you walked after fifteen to cash in in the 'private sector' then I am laughing at you. You are just as vulnerable to the vagaries of the market, where the dividends paid to shareholders reign supreme.
Especially hard hit are going to be manufacturers of track and wheeled vehicles. New materiel won't be needed because of the large number of vehicles coming back from Iraq.
I had a lot of misgivings about Robert Gates when he stepped into the SecDef post in late 2006. But what started as "despise the man but respect the talent" has become just "respect." He is not who I would have picked, and I would have been wrong. He has provided the leadership that is allowing us to get the hell out of there, and he has proven willing to talk boldly about cutting the Pentagon's budget.
That is something I have never seen in my lifetime, and all by itself that is worth the price of admission.
