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The United States has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and "several thousand" more retired warheads awaiting the junk pile, the Pentagon said Monday in an unprecedented accounting of a secretive arsenal born in the Cold War and now shrinking rapidly.
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Iranian President Mahmoud "I'm-a-nutjob" is in New York City. He spoke at the U.N. today. He arrived in New York on Saturday night; he rented an S.U.V. and parked it in Times Square.- Jay Leno, who never was funny and is even less so now.
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Who is this idiot? Why is he there? He can't even listen. He doesn't conduct a decent conversation. He runs over everyone else's words with a landslide of diarrhea. I saw him on Friday, stomping around the stage like a posturing rooster, calling Paul Krugman a political hack. Paul Krugman's a political hack? Surely they put make-up on Mr. Small Mouth. Doesn't he look in the mirror? That's where he'd see what a political hack looks like.- Actor Donald Sutherland commenting on MSNBC's pundit Joe Scarborough
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What the hell can possibly be the reason for delaying this? "The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed the nation's first federal rules for the disposal of contaminant-laden ash from coal-fired power plants, but delayed a decision for at least three months on whether coal ash should be regulated as a hazardous substance. ... The ash contains the contaminated remains of coal, including mercury, arsenic, cadmium and other substances that can cause cancer and other illnesses. The EPA's testing has shown that without protections, these contaminants can find their way into drinking water supplies. ... Only if the EPA declares coal ash is hazardous will it be able to enforce tougher rules nationwide. The other option would let EPA set standards, but the federal agency wouldn't have oversight or enforcement power."
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A quarter of a million gallons per day
Offshore drilling, a safe way to get the oil and gas we need, or so said the Oil Slut, until they yanked the commercials.
In a closed-door briefing for members of Congress, a senior BP executive conceded Tuesday that the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico could conceivably spill as much as 60,000 barrels a day of oil, more than 10 times the estimate of the current flow.
There are allegations out there that BP drilled several thousands of feet deeper than their drilling permit allowed. The BP Oil Spill is damaging the shit out of the states around the Gulf of Mexico and, if the wind shifts, the oil will enter the Gulf Stream and Florida's new motto will be "Come to Florida and Smell Our Oily Beaches".
In the meantime, the people who are promoting the fictional idea of "clean coal" are running their ads, ignoring the long-established truth that when it comes to despoiling the air and water, nothing beats coal.
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In the meantime, the people who are promoting the fictional idea of "clean coal" are running their ads, ignoring the long-established truth that when it comes to despoiling the air and water, nothing beats coal.
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Worst case scenario for oil gusher: Spill up and down the entire east coast, and the entire Gulf of Mexico, until the oil reservoir empties itself out.
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What is the best treatment for emotionally disturbed students?
Why strap a back pack on them that zaps them whenever they disturb one of the counselors. Just like your dogs Invisible Fence, the pack will juice them good when they step out of line.
Who designs a backpack like this? And more importantly, who purchases them and then straps them on children?
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Digby: ... If these ... are the smartest people in the world and the only ones who can save us, we are in much deeper trouble than we know.
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Apparently, having your luggage lifted is a lot like hiking the Appalachian Trail, only with members of the same sex.
The stench of hypocrisy
"He only lifted my luggage!"
George Alan Rekers and James Dobson founded the Family Research Council, an organization that can be counted upon to fulminate daily about homosexuality. Goodness me, I'm sure all that altruistic pondering came in rather handy on George's recent jaunt about Europe with a just-legal, male prostitute. Alas, yet one more public scold's professed disgust for all things homosexual stops just short of being actual disgust for homo sex. Let us pray! Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with "rent boy"
Rekers is a member of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), an organization that claims to "cure" gay people, and is the author of Shaping Your Child's Sexual Identity. I haven't read the book but I'm guessing it encourages parents to believe that they can shape their children's sexual identities. Which, of course, they can't. Rekers is also a member of the American College of Pediatrics, a fake pediatricians organization formed by religious conservatives to counter the reality-based American Academy of Pediatrics (which opposes "curing" gay people, argues for more support for gay youth, and backs gay marriage and adoptions by gay couples).
You see, Mr. Rekers is a leading proponent of banning gay adoption, claiming that children of gay couples "living with a practicing homosexual in the adoptive home," are especially "vulnerable to psychological damage and an increasing inability to adapt."
"The active principle in these children's stress is the fact that their welfare comes in dead last in the homosexual lifestyle – it is oriented toward grooming them for traumatic early sexualization and exploitation by adults."
That is, you know, until you need an assistant with a smooth, sweet, tight ass for your European vacation.
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Really, it was the least they could do. Literally. "Facing election-year pressure to keep a lid on their salaries, lawmakers in Congress have agreed quietly not to increase their pay next year. ... As a result, most members of Congress next year will receive $174,000 in 2011 under legislation awaiting President Barack Obama's signature, the same amount they're getting this year."
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In case you haven't already started mixing your morning bloody mary, here's some inspiration:
The chemicals BP is now relying on to break up the steady flow of leaking oil from deep below the Gulf of Mexico could create a new set of environmental problems.
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The exact makeup of the dispersants is kept secret under competitive trade laws, but a worker safety sheet for one product, called Corexit, says it includes 2-butoxyethanol, a compound associated with headaches, vomiting and reproductive problems at high doses.
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Last week, they wanted to deport American citizens. This week, they want to pick and choose which Americans deserve rights under the law.
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Mark Sanford's forbidden love wasn't a crime
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The South Koreans are openly talking about retaliating against North Korea for the sinking of the RKS Cheonan.
Or the North could just rip open the border fence and do a Mariel Boatlift type of influx into the South. It could get very interesting.
Defense Minister Kim Tae-yung on Sunday threatened North Korea with retaliation if it is found to have been behind the sinking of the Navy corvette Cheonan on March 26. "Retaliation -- whatever form it takes -- must be done," Kim said on KBS TV. The possibility of a vicious cycle of retaliation "must clearly be considered," he said.It is not too off the mark to state that the North Koreans are batshit crazy. I also suspect that in any sort of military exchange, North Korea has less to lose. A conflict won't do any good to the South's economy, while the North is about as poor as they can get. The North Korean Army could fire off a bunch of shells from their emplaced artillery and wreak havoc in Seoul, which is within artillery range.
Or the North could just rip open the border fence and do a Mariel Boatlift type of influx into the South. It could get very interesting.
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And now it can be told that the Carebear was responsible for the Times Square attempted bombing
Wingnuttia has its panties in a bunch again, but this time they are accusing Citizen of Kenya, Language-of-the-Koran-speaking, Closet-Muslim, socialist, magic-negro overlord, re-education camp counselor, and Nobel laureate President Carebear of being the cause of the failed bombing:
The NYPD was "dead beat," said Michael Scheuer [to Brian Kilmead on Fox & Friends]. "A pro [and] the bomb goes off and everybody would be blaming the NYPD for having failed."
But it's not the fault of the NYPD, according to Sheuer. "The fault lies with the federal government. A federal government that has its head in the sand, has for the last 20 years and has not been square with the American people."
Kilmeade then gave Scheuer the chance to connect the failed bombing to Obama's foreign policy. "The speech in Cairo, it was supposed to begin the healing process that George Bush caused so much damage. We're supposed to be on a new era and a new page. Have we turned a page? Has anyone acknowledged? Has anything gotten any better?" asked Kilmeade.
"No, Mr. Obama has made things much, much worse because he promised the Muslim world things that he will never do. He recognized that our relationship with the Israelis was a problem. He's never going to change that," answered Scheuer.
"He accepted the courtesy and even hugged Hosni Mubarak who is one of the most brutal dictators in the Muslim world," Scheuer continued.
"He bowed to the Saudi King when he was out there in Saudi Arabia — showing his subservience," he concluded.
I can only add one rebuttal to this diatribe:
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Traitor Joe upset that Faisal Shahzad was read his Miranda rights
Comical Republican (+Lieberman) Anti-Constitution Quote Machine Going Full Speed
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