Go Big or Go Home, Hillary

HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT 2012!

(((((MURPHY))))…. Hillary is NOT their shit Carpet…. Freaking slobs….. I hope she keeps her head held high and calmly says. ” Hey Dems… Go Fuck Yourselves”…. did I just say that? Big Pink is right on…. Great to see you Murphy…. And, of course you are sooooooooooooo Right!!!!

BillieJo… If you are around… Just wanted to say… Hey, and I have missed you on the blog… Hope you are healthy,happy and doing well…. Oh, and HPBoston…. Wishing you the very best too!!! Two of my most Favorite Gals….

UppityWoman
You got that right!

A Bill proposed by the despots in Congress would give the despot in the White House sweeping powers to police or shut down the web for reasons of National Security, or more likely, if he just doesn’t want anybody to see what’s really going on. Perhaps he can amend his paranoid bill and include shutting down all TV channels except for MSNBC. No sense of letting that pesky Constitution get in the way of Chavez’s Barack’s fragile ego.

More here:
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/sneaky-weekend-news%e2%84%a2-6/

Casper Cat

BillieJo… If you are around… Just wanted to say… Hey, and I have missed you on the blog… Hope you are healthy,happy and doing well…. Oh, and HPBoston…. Wishing you the very best too!!! Two of my most Favorite Gals….

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I’m around now and then Caspie, miss and love you too.
Love that Hillary is up thread again and that Murphy is on fire and leading the band. Never fear, I am usually just around the corner and keeping my eyes on my friends here at the PAC. Hope all is well with you too. Still waiting for Hillary and totally in a rage about the Fraud and the Gulf. I think Barry knows the smoke and mirrors are no longer keeping his kool-aid fans in check and they can’t deny what a great leader is working in the State Department.
Go Hillary, go!

I still have my PUMA – Hillary for 2012 on my car in obot land, and people don’t know how to handle it. Never a bad comment, so far.

Barack Obama, could run me, myself and I as his V.P. and I still would NOT vote for that ………

When a sitting President has to rely on the power of a VP candidate in order to win a second term… that’s the first clue that he’s a complete and utter mega fail. Then again, we have too many clues that this is the case with the inexperienced egoic Odillweed.

Hillary R Clinton, Eleanor Roosevelt, my Nonna, Mother Theresa, Gandhi, Buddha, Jesus Christ, Bette Midler, on OsoIncompetent’s ticket wouldn’t make me vote for that sacka…

DWP – great minds think alike, fools seldom differ ?

Zee #202 Downstairs
omg…just in to my ebox. I am going to throw up. Read it and weep:
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That is a heartbreaking report. I cried. I also felt sick with the feeling that we have all passed into a scene from a sci-fi movie and can’t get back out.

With my morning coffee threatening to come back up, it is hard to actually thank you for posting it, but thank you I definitely do.

We all need to be aware of what is happening there.

it’s the methane , stupid .

http://beforeitsnews.com/news/81/405/Gulf_oil_full_of_methane,_adding_new_concerns.html

My encounter with a B0bot last year
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/portrait-of-a-b0bot-by-a-gardener/

After reading the article at the Big Pink- I have to wonder jsut how desperate the bots are – Biden as Sec State? Are they completely off their rockers? Joe the drunk as Sec State? Kill me now!

motherearth
It is “them” just blowing smoke, they are trying to change the subject. Passing more bad laws and dismembering the constitution, I know, I know Bushgeorge led the way. The Way over the top O’Thugs are worse than sand in your suit!
I see they have kept us so afraid of “our” incompetent government we are in constant gaping terror!!

Hillary knows, she knows…..she is our light at the end of the tunnel. She will make the right choice.
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One thing I like to do that makes me feel better is to go to
https://contribute.hillarycampaign2008.com/form.html?sc=2544
when I have some extra cash in my pocket and donate $20.12 to clear “the debt”

Theamericanway has been working tirelessly on the FECK obama files. The campaign has shown no recent filings and the next quarterly report is due out mid July. MUR6142 is far from over.

Delle on It’s 3am | 06.18.10 at 7:45 am # 142

“Who Told Obama That Drilling Was ‘Absolutely Safe’?”

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Who-told-Obama-drilling-is-_absolutely-safe__-96603724.html

Texas Tigress today – # 21 & # 24 – “It’s the methane, stupid”

Video from article Texas Tigress posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMEr4FctWAM&feature=player_embedded#

Here’s the link Delle was referencing…it’s heartwrenching…BP burning sea turtles and ending rescue attempts…

http://www.seaturtles.org/article.php?id=1660

and these same people want to boycott arizona

http://www.10news.com/news/23941674/detail.html?hpt=T2

Maybe he’ll as Oprah to run with him

Zee 06.19.10 at 10:09 am:

I read Delle’s link, Zee.

What struck me about Delle’s and Texas Tigress links is the scope of what has become of us – the width and depth of utter disregard for life, itself in our quest “to live” – from the beginning of life (from pelican eggs, hatch-lings, adults birds and the environment that sustains them – to the families, children and the environment that sustains them)

…it’s interesting that we all seem to be questioning “what the fuck have we done in the name of maximizing the potential of civilization?”

I suddenly feel like one in an entire civilization of “creature comfort” sociopaths.”

Where do you get this “we stuff?
When something is positive it’s “men”, when it’s a complete and utter catastrophe it’s inclusive of women.

Take sexual intercourse as an example, generally speaking, men go for immediate gratification, while women are thinking about long term consequences. This seems to play out in most aspects of life.
Aside from the fact that males are socialized to base their level of success on money and power. Not a winning combination from my point if view.

Typos and stuff… Blogging from my phone

As Oil Spews in the Gulf

Pool Reports: Obama at Baseball Game June 18, 2010
http://thepage.time.com/pool-reports-obama-at-baseball-game-june-18-2010/

DancesWithPumas 06.19.10 at 11:41 am

“Where do you get this we stuff?”

…cosmetics counters?
…hair and nail salons?
…luxury models of success?
…slave labor, fashion-related industries?

This is one issue that I REFUSE to give a pass to women on Environmental and Human Exploitation in the name of looking and feeling good as being male-gender driven.

We have fully participated in all of that bullsh!t.

…oh, and .20 cent hands making a 400.00 I-pod, luxury cruises dumping human waste into my sushi… and… and…and…

…gay and lesbian hairdressers and fashion-designer icons, orientation-correct, gay and lesbian cruises, and Sushi in the Castro, I might add.

We of the small tribe do not buy stuff we are SOLD stuff.
Like insurance, crammed down our throats and told it is good for us, the world, the pulsing of the universe.

Ahh I do feel guilty about some of my relitives……..

HP Boston: # 57 “Ahh I do feel guilty about some of my relitives…”

lol:

Here’s some of what I did with my “guilt”:

For more than 10 years…

- I do not buy “new” apparel – I buy from a thrift store that supports a woman’s shelter and provides direct assistance to families and individuals only and/or trade clothes with friends who always wanted a twin just like me

- I have a used computer, bought from a small, family-owned computer recycling company that buys “obsolete”, corporate equipment – built to upgrade for years, until the latest comes out on the market –

- I no longer identify with being an extension of electronic gadgets – I use a basic model, mobile phone – to make phone calls only – I see no added value in taking pictures of me talking on the phone

- I’ve had cable for three, too many, months – which turned me into an entertained moron and product whore in less than a week

- There’s more, like, “I can’t stand Walmart, because it smells and feels like I’m in industrialized China”

… but I won’t bore you with all of the details of all of my “eccentricities”… because, detoxification is hell and I haven’t known who I am for years

Yup me too…no “smart” phone…can barely use the track phone I have.

No cable TV, too many ststions with total crap. Why PAY for that! ..only internet service.

Hate Walmart, it does stink…gives me a headache!

Sorry can not wear “otherpeoples” clothes…to short, to wide, to fussy.

Oh shit I admit I color my hair, my bad.

AND I have a new (08) Honda my Scout bought me….only the 2nd new car in my whole life. Long, long, life!

Swannie 06.19.10 at 2:10 pm :

You know, Swannie, once one makes up their mind to unhook from the propaganda of “progress” – it’s surprising what little it takes and how many options there are.

A couple I know, with a double-sized lot, agreed to designate one-third of their back yard for a co-op garden. I found a large tree trimming company that recycles all of its bark mulch and gives it away for free – which is perfect for mixing into a compost and tilling into the garden.

Bartering services and co-oping foods, dining, tools, vehicles, etc., is also an interesting way to share assets and find solutions to life “life-ing”.

Ooo, HP, me too! A decadent women’s only party— cocktails, snacks and (wbd will be happy to hear) a clothing exchange! I’m taking darling clothes I was saving for the day I lost weight (snort!) and I’m sure I won’t fit in any of the clothes anyone else is bringing…so I will console myself with snacks.

But not the pulled pork sliders I was planning to bring….the brat dog STOLE the pork. A first for him, and he was so proud. Well, since he’s had his choice dinner I won’t feel guilty leaving him tonight!!!

Standard US cowboy mentality, I should’ve said!

HP – after 35 years of blond highlights – my hair has been color FREE for two years and the gray looks better than the highlights, I think!

I love it, actually!

I also DO love recycled jeans – the older I get, the more that worn-well look turns me on! Also, we have a store here called “Clotheshorse Anonymous” – from Bob Mackie to Donna Karan at thrift-store prices! It’s like, someone using the retail value of the merchandise first and leaving the spoils for the “small people” – like me and my “relitives” – lol!

Zee #66

I don’t think you are correct about Bush. I heard on several news reports that Bush waived The Jones Act the very day after Hurricane Katrina hit.

Maybe he wasn’t cooperative in other ways, but as far as international help being let in, he didn’t try to stop them.
He welcomed their help.

Zee 06.19.10 at 3:21 pm:

Yep, the blowers are noisy – time is money in the lawn-care business and I guess it is easier to some than raking.

Funny that you say that about “raking.” Personally, I find raking therapeutic; putting the trimmings in those big, petroleum-based, plastic bags is what I hate. Plastic, plastic, plastic everywhere overwhelms me at times.

“However, I would gladly barter…”

Ask around, Zee. You may be surprised how many people are willing or are already doing it, in some capacity.

DancesWithPumas # 72:

Wow! 50 years? That must have been strange, Dances. Besides “unreal,” how was it?

Zee 06.19.10 at 3:12 pm

“Ooo, HP, me too! A decadent women’s only party—cocktails, snacks and (wbd will be happy to hear) a clothing exchange! I’m taking darling clothes I was saving for the day I lost weight (snort!) and I’m sure I won’t fit in any of the clothes anyone else is bringing…so I will console myself with snacks.”

Darn! Not those “darling clothes I was saving for the day I lost weight”?

Pooh… guess I need to let a few of those go myself, Zee. I’ve lost some weight – just not down to that “darling clothes” size – that size I’m certain I’ll never see again… wahhhhhh!

Have a great time at the party, HP and Zee!

I’m glad you got to spent some time out – doing something fun – and not in some institutional setting.
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what are you implying…?
I know what you mean. And yes, my aund looks so much like my mother. Her daughter, my cousin, is the one I had brunch with a few weeks ago. She gave my a print-out of our Greek lineage, and tons of photos, including one of my great grandfather, the house my maternal grandmother was born in, and the family land and mountain (potential Puma community?) Goat herding and vineyards ‘r us.

Oh, yes, in Greece. Just north of Olympia.

LoL! Nice of you

On Craigs list, there is a section for BARTER:
This is for San Diego…Its in the “For Sale” tab
http://sandiego.craigslist.org/bar/

I am so cheap, I have been winding rubber bands around
my flip flops so I don’t have to throw them out.. They
keep popping out of the toe attachement ! I hate that
we are such a wasteful society. I am always fishing out
“stuff” from our trash bins cos the other half keep tossing
in stuff when I’m not looking. OK, maybe I’m extreme.

There are reports of tar balls are washing up in Florida in Panama City. Isn’t that farther east than Pensacola?

http://www.simpleliving.net

Community Forum:
http://www.simpleliving.net/community/

I can’t take it any more! Just received a call from a guy I went out with for a couple of years when I was 14 and 15!
All these people from my distant past coming out of teh wood work makes me wonder if it’s about tying up loose ends right before I die or something.
Surreal.

Swannie:

That is a beautiful song. I’m sure you’ve heard “There is a Light”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWuU51IspAc&feature=related

Oystermen suing BP over use of Corexit

http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Louisiana_Oystermen_Sue_over_Use_of_Toxic_Dispersant_in_Gulf_100618

‘The oystermen say the dumping of more than one million gallons of dispersant into the ocean will permanently alter the seabed and food chain in the gulf. They add that the chemical was utilized “in an attempt to lessen the financial burden of BP and to lessen the public reaction to the oil spill by forcing the oil to the bottom of the Gulf and thereby obviating the need for shoreline cleanup.”

From wikipedia:
Nossis was an ancient Greek woman epigrammist and poet, c. 300 BCE, who lived in Locri. Her epigrams were inspired by Sappho.

and
Nossis of Locri

Earthly Muse

Nossis of Locri, in Southern Italy, lived around 300 B.C. Twelve of her epigrams survive.

She indicates, in her epigrams, that she followed Sappho and wrote love poetry. Meleager substantiates this claim when he refers to her as a “sweet-scented iris of Nossis that he wove into his ‘garland.’”

Her epigrams show aspects of a womanly world. One poem is a dedication of a cloak at the temple of Hera to the north of her homeland of Locri, in which Nossis mentions her mother and grandmother. Another poem is a dedication from an hetaera to Aphrodite. Three other epigrams describe portraits of women. Another poem is about Artemis assisting in childbirth.

Two other poems deal with men. One is an epitaph for a writer of phylax, a type of burlesque drama. The other honors dead Locrian fighters.
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_nossis.htm

Okay. I’ll stop now.

Dances: A few years back I started get a lot of phone calls from people who I hadn’t been in contact with for 20 or 30 years. I thought maybe I too was on my way out. I’m still here, though, and feeling fine. So don’t worry. I still peek in here from time to time and haven’t touched a cigarette since we all quit in August. I still feel like grabbing cigarettes out of people’s hands when I am at the bus stop, though.

#102
well done with your video!!

Candice when is your primary??

Headclunker 87

yes, PC is farther east than Pcola.

invalidresponse#103
Thank you, Our Primary is August 3, 2010.

Headclunker #108

yes, I understand that, problem is that it is leaking out under all that water pressure as we speak, and that is with well head exerting almost no pressure to restrict the flow of oil… in order for this guys plan to work… or any other plan to work for that matter, a new blow out preventer must be put in place, blow out preventors restrict the flow of gas and oil… increasing the pressure to the floor of the gulf..

yes, my point exactly path of least resistance will not be through the pipe.. it might very well be through the cracks..

invalidresponse:

Did you see the links at the bottom of that page? Here’s one:

Mainstream Media Confirms BP and Feds Knew About Cracks In Gulf Seafloor Since February
Posted by Alexander Higgins – June 19, 2010

“The question of whether or not there are cracks on the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico surrounding the BP Gulf Oil Spill is no longer a matter of debate.

A report filed with the MMS by BP reveals that BP first encounter cracks in the Seafloor as far back as February revealing that BP and the Federal Government have known about the cracks in the Gulf Seafloor since February.”

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/06/19/mainstream-media-confirms-bp-feds-cracks-gulf-seafloor-february/

Murphy,

What if the little girls are already in such a negative, life-altering situation, because the mother is in a “psychological parenting crisis” herself?

Young children will rarely, if ever, outwardly indicate their need to escape a harmful parent(s), and will cling to them no matter what, even in extreme cases of abuse. Likewise, a harmful parent(s) generally are the last to recognize or admit their need to separate from their children – especially if their “attachment” to their children involves some underlying emotional and/or psychological disorder or inordinately inappropriate parenting behaviors.

Murphy, if you could see it from the highest perspective possible – and you were her and they were your children – what would you want for your children? What adjustments would you need to make for your children’ and your highest good? What would have to happen, in order for you and your children to have the best opportunity to achieve your highest good?

Whatever the situation, it sounds to me, from your concerns, that both the children and mother need some urgent help.

At Cosmic Bingo (a real trip!!) with co-workers.

I don’t know what you mean by “unorthodox” Murphy, but I fo trust your intuition.
Without knowing, I can’t give an opinion. You took action. You were either right or wrong. But better to have called than to risk the girls. I’m imagining the authorities will figure it out?

When Tony Hayward was questioned, he told congress that the underwater oil field still holds 94 to 97 percent of its oil:

http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0617/BP-oil-disaster-How-much-oil-is-left

It could take years before it is empty.

And today’s tabloids
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/tabloids-tonys-yacht-but-not-obamas-golf-ballgame/

ActBlue records indicate that Candice Britton has 7 supporters and $1,045 in contributions. Maybe we could up that number of supporters with small donations. I think we all know what it is like to pinch pennies, but increasing the number of people helping her need not be expensive.

Happy birthday, Dances!

On the other side, the errant Obama cheerleaders are not getting a better welcome than ours
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/through-the-looking-glass-rw-welcomes-koolaid-awakees/

BP Math

200 feet divided by a hundred feet equals 50 days.

Very interesting : http://bp.concerts.com/gom/audio/kent_wells_tech_update_18062010.htm

Does this sound to you like they are planning to kill the well?

The press actually asked about the relief well being 200 feet from the main one and they did not get an answer that made sense.

They are planning on a capacity of 80,000 barrels per day. That is 3.36 million gallons per day. BP is claiming that it is for the purpose of redundancy, but I wonder if that is just a better estimate of what is going on. And that says nothing about the natural gas.

Also from that Washington Post article is detailed how the Bush administration used a PR stunt to repeat lies so that people would think we used the help offered from foreign countries:

snip
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As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide.

Titled “Echo-Chamber Message” — a public relations term for talking points designed to be repeated again and again — the Sept. 7, 2005, directive was unmistakable: Assure the scores of countries that had pledged or donated aid at the height of the disaster that their largesse had provided Americans “practical help and moral support” and “highlight the concrete benefits hurricane victims are receiving.”

Many of the U.S. diplomats who received the message, however, were beginning to witness a more embarrassing reality. *************They knew the U.S. government was turning down many allies’ offers of manpower, supplies and expertise worth untold millions of dollars. **************

Eventually the United States also would fail to collect most of the unprecedented outpouring of international cash assistance for Katrina’s victims.

D. is making me come in off the street and hang up my “THE END IS NEAR” sign to go to the lake and barbecue today .. I guess it’s ok since I live in the sticks and no one actually drives down my street unless they are in a tractor or moving cattle and most are Pentecostal or Southern Baptists who’s very existence scares the shit out of me ..
Have a great day !

Have a great day, TT!!! Did you see my post above where my dog ate the pulled pork barbecue I meant to take to a party? It was North Carolina style (tangy vinegar-based sauce, for PUMAs not in the know) and one benefit was it made the hound’s breath smell really good! hmmmmmmmm….

#94 murphy (and dances)

It could be the moon, we are heading into an eclipse on the 26th, even tho it’s a partial.

Apparently, there will be a full lunar eclipse this year at winter solstice!

Speaking of which…Happy Summer Solstice!!!

Wow, dances! Happy birthday—- a cusp baby. Gemini/Cancer…and at the summer solstice, too!

PS , Zee I make a bunch ahead of time and put it in old ketchup bottles – works great

omg, I hate to follow a barbecue post with such a stomach-churning link, but the Washington Post’s Sally Quinn is GUSHING over the “GREAT” idea that after her nonstop work around the world as Secretary of State, Hillary should switch with Biden and immediately begin campaigning for Oloserfraudbama!!!! As freaking if!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/17/AR2010061703463.html

Zee #142

I left this comment at Huffy, awaiting “approval”

Joe Biden is not the problem here. Obama is incompetent and corrupt. And if you do not understand that he has been busy giving away all Americans financial resources to the banksters and giving our healthcare away to the insurance companies instead of taking care of the business of the American People, then you need to go check the big hole in the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

Hillary Clinton for President in 2012!
2016 is too late.

Comments anyone???

Bill Clinton aims to help Democrats retain Congress
Bill “The Comeback Kid” Clinton is trying to help fellow Democrats rebound from poor public opinion ratings and retain control of the U.S. Congress in November 2 elections.

Reuters | Politics | Natural Disasters | June 20, 2010

“The former president helped Senator Blanche Lincoln overcome anti-incumbent fervor and win a bruising Democratic primary in their home state of Arkansas on June 8.

Last month, Clinton provided a hand in snuffing out Republican hopes of picking up a seat in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania by stumping for Mark Critz, the Democrat who went on to win the race.

“A lot of people still like Bill Clinton, particularly Democrats,” said Quinnipiac University pollster Peter Brown. “They remember the Clinton years as prosperous and relatively peaceful.”

A Democratic Party aide said scores of House and Senate candidates have requested help from Clinton, who left office in 2001 with the U.S. enjoying record budget surpluses that have since become record deficits.”

The story here…

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65J0Y020100620

BP Evaded Regulation:
House committee scolds Coast Guard for lax inspection of Deepwater Horizon
June 17, 2010|By Kim Geiger and Tom Hamburger, Tribune Washington Bureau
Reporting from Washington — Members of the House transportation committee castigated the Coast Guard on Thursday for being insufficiently aggressive in tracking and inspecting foreign oil drill vessels such as the Deepwater Horizon, which exploded April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 crewmen and causing the worst spill in U.S. history.

Under harsh questioning, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Kevin Cook said the Deepwater Horizon, registered to the tiny Republic of the Marshall Islands, operated under a different command structure than would have been permitted for a similar vessel operating under the U.S. flag.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/17/nation/la-na-oil-inspections-20100618

Happy Birthday, Dances!

“Getting old ain’t for sissies… Bette Davis”

“If you survive long enough, you’re revered-rather like an old building… Katherine Hepburn”

“Inside every older person is a younger person – wondering what the hell happened… Cora Harvey Armstrong”

“The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down… Eliott”

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age… Margaret Mead”

“We are always the same age inside. — Gertrude Stein”

“Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these…. Susan B. Anthony”

“One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them… Virginia Woolf ”

“Lead me not into temptation; I can find it myself…. Unknown”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvl1vdCPHsg

#145 wbd
My comment is FORGET IT, Bill. And Hillary step up?-Don’t count on it.
I’m scared to death for my country and it’s not because of Bush-it’s the Obamination and his minions.
Mark Adams What Took So Long?
http://tinyurl.com/2793wm9
Anyway…If methane blows and Florida goes under, at least we still have Puerto Rico.

#151-Not trying to be flip about Florida-I’m just freaking out here! Neeeed to get away.

Happy Birthday, Dances, listen to wbd!

how Obama plans to redistribute the wealth …

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Fannie-Mae-owns-patent-on-residential-_cap-and-trade_-exchange-91532109.html

Barbara Hollingsworth: Fannie Mae owns patent on residential ‘cap and trade’ exchange
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Local Opinion Editor
April 20, 2010

When he wasn’t busy helping create a $127 billion mess for taxpayers to clean up, former Fannie Mae Chief Executive Officer Franklin Raines, two of his top underlings and select individuals in the “green” movement were inventing a patented system to trade residential carbon credits.

………………..

The patent, which covers both the “cap” and “trade” parts of Obama’s top domestic energy initiation, gives Fannie Mae proprietary control over an automated trading system that pools and sells credits for hard-to-quantify residential carbon reduction efforts (such as solar panels and high-efficiency appliances) to companies and utilities that don’t meet emission reduction targets. Depending on where the Environmental Protection Agency sets arbitrary CO2 standards, that could be every company in America.
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So Fannie Mae, a quasi-governmental entity whose congressionally mandated mission is to make housing more affordable, has been a behind-the-scenes participant in a carbon trading scheme that would do just the opposite.

In January, Europol announced that up to 90 percent of the volume in the European Union’s own carbon-trading market was fraudulent, costing EU members $5 billion during the previous 18 months. That would be just the tip of the iceberg if the Congress were to make a similar mistake.

But if it does, thanks to Raines and his fellow “inventors,” Fannie Mae will be laughing all the way to the (bailed-out) bank.

normapapuma 06.20.10 at 12:45 pm :

Wow! Thanks Norma for the video on Puerto Rico! Why not here??? Because, they have an effective leader in their “governance”…

…the rest of us have Obamacrap and a Congress that knows exactly how to manage that democratic majority by building on a republican platform…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4eo9D8_iuk&feature=related

And, then there’s the Obot-O-Crat-Craps that just can’t get enough of Obama and all of those broken promises!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbNxZAcJMCU

Good review on the PB well:

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/06/14/bp-well-bore-integrity-nelson-statements/

#145 wbd

Why, yes….I have a comment! I think Bill wants to ensure Hillary has a Dem majority to work with when she RUNS FOR PRESIDENT in 2012!

normapapuma 151

thanks a lot.

If Florida goes under, I’ll be on my dad’s boat, I s’pose.

Zee 162

thanks for the belly laugh.

Dragonfly,

I am on the south east coast of Florida.

But I live like a believer.

looks like Daily Kos (which I haven’t visited since the primary, but I thought what the heck) has pulled its story on the fissures in the Gulf’s ocean floor.

There is a former BP Project Control Supervisor on C-Span testifying about all kinds of abuses in engineering design and documentation.

More regarding Bill Clinton….I do believe he lives like a believer, too….he knows far too many Dems will stab him (and Hillary, and Dem beliefs) in the back, but there are some issues where you know from the get-go the Republicans will send back to the stone ages. (Hopefully that will change…for instance, in Illinois, a Republican has switched to an independent and is running, and many more women are running as Republicans.)

Unless you just want to hand our women in the military coat-hangers, you will care enough to REBUILD the Dem party:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/us/politics/11abort.html?ref=politics

The fight to allow gay and bisexual people to serve openly in the military is already drawing political blood in Washington, but tucked into the same 852-page Pentagon policy bill as the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” is a little-noticed amendment that takes on another emotionally charged issue: making abortion easier for military women in war zones…

Current law bans abortions in most cases at military facilities, even if women pay themselves, meaning they must go outside to private hospitals and clinics — an impossibility for many of the estimated 100,000 American servicewomen in foreign countries, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The result, the advocates say, is that military women serving overseas do not have the same access to basic health care that other American women do…

The amendment, sponsored by Senator Roland W. Burris, Democrat of Illinois, passed 15 to 12, and advocates say they are cautiously optimistic about its chances in the full Senate this summer…

…an unwanted pregnancy in a war zone is a professional as well as a personal crisis for a woman. With no access to safe abortions outside the base, regulations require that a woman be flown home within two weeks of the time she finds out she’s pregnant, a particular stigma for unmarried women that ends any future career advancement.

“The military doesn’t forgive you,” said one unmarried former Marine who tried to self-abort when she got pregnant in Iraq in 2006. “You’re never going to get promoted again.” The Marine, who asked that her name not be used, said she ended up in a military hospital in Iraq with severe bleeding…

Shortly after President Bill Clinton took office in 1993, he signed a memorandum allowing abortions at military facilities if they were paid for with private money. But by 1996 the Republican-controlled Congress had instituted the current blanket ban on abortions at military facilities…

They repeat, repeat, repeat lies until they become “common knowledge.”

The truth they leak out maybe once or twice, completely MISSED by a population struggling to survive, and then later, when it’s time to deal with the consequences, they can claim to have already covered that and say, “old news.”

Zee 06.20.10 at 3:58 pm:

“claim to have already covered that and say, “old news.””

Zee – absolutely! They can also then claim “they wer completely transparent”.

It’s “crazy-making” with intent to disorient, diminish and discredit the “public’s perception” of their “managers” and “the system” they operate.

Happy, Happier, Happiest of Birthday’s Dances.

Dragonfly,

I am on the coast about 5 feet above sea level.

Here is one desperate POS. I hope she stopmps his a$$ Tuesday. http://dailycaller.com/2010/06/18/nikki-haleys-opponent-gets-religion-in-final-days-of-south-carolina-gubernatorial-run-off/

#178 wbd

I once had a news anchor from Boston run back to me (after the 2004 election) once the cameras moved on and ask me, was I accusing him of being part of a conspiracy.

I explained to him he was part of an echo chamber.

It bothers me in every industry…how coworkers get all defensive and band together “against” the pesky uninformed client or customer.

What happened to “the customer is always right?” Looking out for the little guy? Providing a service.

I don’t care what I’m contracted to do…if I agreed to do it, I do it. If I’m hawking some product or service, I spend my time imparting the benefits to the customer. Hell, to me, is languishing around with coworkers bitching about the work or the customers or my private life. When I worked in a frame shop, at a bare minimum wage, I did so because I loved it. If a bride tried to apologize to me for being so picky about framing her wedding picture, I explained to her that there were 57 shades of white matting for a reason!

Journalism is a calling, and they ought to be on their knees for the privilege of questioning authority…not on their knees TO the authorities.

#180 invalidresponse

jaw completely dropped

video – Dr. Bill Deagle’s analysis of the problems with the Gulf disaster . 10 min. but it goes fast..
Gas , Climate , steam created waves ..

http://beforeitsnews.com/news/82/080/URGENT_BP_Spill_-_Volcanic_Tsunami_And_Poison_Gas_Alert_video.html

OK Texas Tigress, you got me. I just went and bought a pair of gas masks on Amazon.com for me and my daughter. But what do we do for the cat?

TT – Yes I did.

Happy Birthday, Dance. Love you.

Thank you very much for the birthday wishes! I had a great birthday weekend! Thanks again.

DWP – OMG…. when I saw that on CNN, I thought it was just a condom for the female when the male is too lazy or doesn’t want one. THis really has teeth !!
It is too wonderful!! Hee hee, think of all the fun girls can have.. Hap P Birthday !

Lots and lots and lots of sharks near shores trying to escape oil .
http://beforeitsnews.com/news/82/617/Lots_of_sharks,_lots_of_oil_seen_off_Bon_Secour_with_video.html

Louisiana residents getting sick , BP spraying Corexit at night onshore (out of their approved radius ) to sink the oil rather than have it photographed ..

“Dean Blanchard, the shrimp distributor, said he suspects that BP has been using dispersants within the Barataria Bay, far outside the approved radius for its use.

“We have skimmer boats reporting oil in the bay, then being told to move ten miles out and hold position overnight,” Blanchard said. “When they come back, the oil is gone. They do it at night because they’re not cleared to use dispersant so far onshore.”

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jun2010/bphe-j21.shtml

oh, since this guy is a local Boston-area clueless narcissist who used to be a teacher but got famous waxing eloquent against Bush, I had to share his Obot-awakening. Note especially how he has to work in some WILDLY inaccurate praise of Zero, as an excuse as to why all the Hopium addicts voted for him, even as he notes his fellow Obots are….drugged. This jerkoff is one of the honchos who banned everyone who spoke up against the OMessiah over at Democratic Underground:

http://www.truth-out.org/enough-crap60452

…Now, a year and a half later, We The People have become stuck in the mud as matters continue to go badly and dangerously wrong. Too many of the Bush-era policies we railed against are still in effect, with a few extra twists of the knife (escalation in Afghanistan, pre-Deepwater approval of more offshore oil drilling, etc.) that are putting us even deeper into a hole. Where is the action? Where are the voices raised in a roaring chorus of “No”?

Obama is a narcotic, my friend said, and that has a lot to do with it. Too many people think things are better now, despite all evidence to the contrary, because Bush is gone and this wildly intelligent, grand-speaking new president is in office. We are not necessarily asleep, but we are on the nod, watching the world burn around us without lifting a finger because, well, things are better now. Right?

Dances, happy to hear you had a great Birthday weekend!

sistermoon3 06.21.10 at 8:55 am

Absolutly no freaking surprise! The Drillbabydrills has been pulling this crap for YEARS!!!

#209 explain

HP BOSTON
In late 2007 Palin succeeded in raising the tax on oil companies from 22.5 to 25% of net profits. Alaska also added a clause increasing the tax for each dollar oil goes above $52 a barrel – essentially, a windfall profits tax.

Palin also killed a deal struck between Exxon Mobil, BP, and ConocoPhillips and Alaska’s previous governor to build a natural gas pipeline across the state and into Canada.
Analysts said corruption tainted that deal.

Palin renegotiated a new deal with a Canadian company, TransCanada, to build the $26 billion pipeline, which analysts say – if completed – is better financially for the state.
Palin also instituted the ARA Aaskan Risk Assessment http://www.dec.state.ak.us/spar/ipp/ara/

The goal of the ARA is to reduce the number and severity of future spills and provide recommendations on mitigation measures to reduce future spills.

Also since we now know that BP can manipulate GOOGLE , rest assured other manipulation is happening . I just googled PALIN Oil regulation and what came up for two pages was Palin oil lies , articles written by Democrats and supporters of this admin , just giving you a heads up ..An article i found that explained what Palin had done to regulate oil industries DISAPPEARED the second time I googled ..

http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/48722102_alaska_alaska_governor_palin_calls_comprehensive_assessment_alaska_s_oil_and_gas_infrastruc

Alaska Governor Palin Calls for Comprehensive Assessment of Alaska’s Oil and Gas Infrastructure

#216 exactly DELLE .. the depth of collusion is beyond breathtaking and stunning !

#203 TT

Thanks for that report, TT. Infuriating, and par for the course.

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20100621/OPINION03/6210302/1007/OPINION

this is what real leadership looks like or at least acts like

http://eartheasy.com/article_lawn_reduce.htm
REDUCE the SIZE of your lawn and save lots of money on water!

Dances ..The amount of control this administration wants to impose on this country is stunning …

Control is the only way a narcissist can engineer the reflection of the way he sees himself, no?

link for above….

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/05/01

I turned on MSNBC in frustration a couple days ago and they had a guy named Simmons on who is with an Oceanic organization. He says the only way to stop the oil leak is to set off a nuclear bomb on top of it and melt the area to seal it off. He says the relief wells have zero chance of working. Has anyone else seen this nut and who is he? If there is no chance of stopping the leak, that would explain why Obama refuses to get near it in any real sort of way. If he knows everything will fail, he will want to keep his distance.

A C‑SPAN crew recently traveled to Plaquemines Parish in Belle Chasse, Louisiana to hear from Parish President Billy Nungesser as he briefed New Orleans officials at the Parish Base Operations Center on the latest Gulf Coast cleanup efforts. Listen to him talk about local efforts being blocked by BP and the Coast Guard and he even has some disturbing words to say about the pelican/bird rescue efforts:
http://c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/06/20/HP/A/34464/Plaquemines+Parish+President+Billy+Nungesser+on+Gulf+Coast+Cleanup+Efforts.aspx

#213 Swannie
Lunch break and just in time to read your link. I really get so frustrated at how people who care about the environment do not give Palin credit for her work on energy in Alaska. The oil companies submitted the safety plans for Alaska offshore oil drilling instead of making new ones for the Gulf and the MMS never freakin noticed? She brought this up over a week ago on Greta’s show. GRRRR. bbl

Dances – please delete # 200 – I apologize to everyone.

I think the question was answered 5 weeks ago – because many at BP and our energy management agencies knew the facts. They already knew what would take time for the rest of us to comprehend and accept:

This wasn’t ever a matter of putting out the fire and restoring the place. There was a readily-available paper trail and under the documented circumstances, keeping the already damaged well from blowing failed and once it did fail, the damage was going to be irreparable.

We had the Bush-Cheney-Halliburton taking us to war for oil and now we know what a big company, like BP, will even do to get it – persons, countries and oceans are completely dispensable. That’s the price of oil.

It’s US that needs to divorce ourselves from the murderers. If we don’t, in 10 years the gulf region will have more oil rigs than people.

Perhaps a movement to demand that the 20 billion dollars be used as a down-payment toward “rebuilding the Gulf” – and putting those destroyed, Gulf-resident fishing industries and businesses – into a massive, alternative energy, wind farm?

Since they have destroyed the Gulf – instead of allowing oil companies to exploit it as a “Dead Zone” and keep us dependent on oil – why not turn it into a massive monument of alternative energy?

That’s the only real change and real hope for the future of the gulf – and the rest of us – that I can see.

Or this is what we and our planet will continue to face…

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html

NormaPapuma – It seems that the male species think women who are capable,strong,bright and also good looking are incapable of being a power in a man’s world… as in Sarah Palin in her past involvement in the oil industry. They would love to tie some apron strings and send them off to the kitchen. We have to fight these idiots every day, every way, regardless of what our political parties are – even in our own personal circles. I don’t believe in supporting women ONLY if they “belong” to “our” party. Bunch of bullshit, childish clique mentality if women who claim to support Womens rights do that. In my not so humble opinion. I really enjoy watching Sarah Palin, it seems she has a lot to say if folks don’t ask her stupid questions.

By the way, I live in Columbus Ohio and Obama’s visit here was kind of pathetic. The road improvement project is actally pretty small and Obama’s speech was pretty much drivel. He then left immediately. Not very impressive.

#237 Freddiebrown
…Sarah Palin, it seems she has a lot to say if folks don’t ask her stupid questions.
_ _ _ _
It’s amazing how ignorant people think they can hold a candle to her.
I think we will, however, benefit from her insights, starting with these elections in November!

#234 I would put palin’s knowledge up against obama’s any day over obama’s. I actually would go so far as to say, he jones act would have been dismissed day one of the oil spill had she been the vp, we would have had help from all the countries and maybe just maybe the impact would have been less devastating, but since i am not an expert on oil, as i am not sure, but i doubt you are either, i would ask someone who had actually worked with the oil companies through the years like palin, than the snake oil man in wh

Okay sistermoon I’ll drink to that!

btw, I loved the rant , please don’t delete it

I fully understand that these issues with the oil wells predated Sarah Palin , but it seems to me SHE was ACTUALLY doing something about it. But the LIE continues, she is stupid , she is _____ fill in the blank with any derogatory comment from any obot . Doesn’t ANYONE think this is more political distraction to prevent people from looking at the actual facts?
I personally wish she would be more specific when she talks about her history with the oil companies in Alaska . But ANYONE who presents facts that show the fool in office for what he is , which is grossly incompetent , gets the same or worse treatment from the administration .

They ain’t never gona give up bashing Sarah and Hillary. NEVER! They are weak, sick, frightned boys.

President Barack Obama, the road to nowhere. If ya don’t know where ya going his road wil get you there. NOWHERE!

“You think I’m exaggerating; you think these fatherhood types just want to cultivate nice, nurturing daddies, à la Sweden. But they don’t.” ~Violet from her article.
http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/2010/06/21/obama-to-launch-national-patriarchy-initiative/
http://www.reclusiveleftist.com

In case you haven’t been checking in lately, Cinie’s back
http://cinie.wordpress.com/

#222 dances….yep, we have to be proactive….

#255 Dances

OMFG. Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does.

I need more than a righteous rant, I need a nuclear one.

P.S. Ans, sometimes I made poor choices simply because I was being completely selfish, self-seeking and self-centered – and I avoided adding that for the same reasons…

WBD snap out of it…well see now you are not with us. We CAN NOT recover now either. You feel what we all feel WBD…you speak for me. I can not begin to express my rage.

WBD snap out of it…well see now you are not with us. We CAN NOT recover now either….

Explain that a bit more, HP???

wbd
timing… I was writing my last comment while you were posting yours.

an we start a Matriarchal, re-birthing initiative?
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Ooooh, I love it!!
I want Murphy to raise me.

I feel badly because there are so many good men out there…
not nearly enough, but still…

DancesWithPumas 06.21.10 at 3:56 pm

“can we start a Matriarchal, re-birthing initiative?
—————
“Ooooh, I love it!!
I want Murphy to raise me.”
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ooooh… I just feel a little tingle of sibling rivalry going up BOTH legs…

oh, speaking of the matriarchy….a shout-out to Murphy…please repost your child naming concept…I was trying to remember it recently…

HP: I think I was starting to sound like an overwhelmed fatalist – when I clicked on Dances link to Violets Sock’s post on “Obama’s Patriarchal Initiative”

Cause = Patriarchy

Result = Obama over Hillary, Pedophile Priests over children, British Petroleum over humanity, “Female genital cutting” over a girl’s right to even grow her own genitals… on and on and on…

Sudden awakening…

“Zee # 259 to Dances #222… “yep, we have to be proactive…”

…resulting in major head exploding, yell at self…

“SNAP OUT OF IT! DON’T GET DOWN! GET EVEN!”

In my younger days, I used to drink, smoke, swear and chase men on a regular basis. Then I had to quit drinking because I am too crazy, even sober. They I had to quit chasing men because I got married. Then I had to quit smoking because I got pregnant. Then I had to quit swearing because I had kids. I try to live right, work hard and enjoy my life.

But as of late I have had an overwhelming urge to use obscenities when talking about BP. I saw a video clip of the board members walking out of some kind of hearing, lead by Tony Hayward and ever since, I have had an overwhelming urge to call them all BP Rat Fuckers. So, as to not offend readers here, I plan to refer to them as BPRF. Just so you know what I mean.

yup big bad words make me feel powerful and ungirllike unladylike and I like it!

I got it HP – thanks!

…and Headclunker – “BPRF” is a very good acronym for BP! I’ll join you in its use – because when it comes to BP, every time I think about them, it’s definitely X-rated.

gojoyknocks 06.21.10 at 5:14 pm:

ROTFLMAO!!!

HP…Need a place to stay?

Your summer invasion Gojoy…the cruise ships!

What a great story Gojoy. Would be great to have a beach reunion… You must stay the night this time if we have one..we can share a room, okay?
When I stop to see you, it will be great if you steer us to the best lobster rolls in town.
My husband and I had wanted to do the coast by ship this summer…so I am doing it alone.
My kids want to know what I will do for the stop over at Bar Harbor. I said I was going for the JOY!

my beautiful river is still beautiful

Dances – the Violet Socks post is excellent. I am not surprised that Ohmygod is introducing this idea.

I have my own similar experience. The father is sure the dragonflies are deeply damaged by his absence from the home. He would have preferred custody to paying child support, which he deeply resents since he married me for my money-making potential, and he dumps the dragonflies on their grandmother or his girlfriends at every opportunity. but he is an expert on child psychology, mind you, while I am a dumbass.

the ex will be psyched about this development, and he’s a Republican.

Why hasn’t BO suspended the Jones Act, here?

Why Won’t Obama Waive the Jones Act?
By Robert Bluey

Five years ago, in the midst of another crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, the Bush administration waived the Jones Act, easing the way for foreign vessels to move in U.S. waters and between ports. The decision came with the administration under duress for its handling of Hurricane Katrina.

Today the Obama administration faces a different set of challenges with the Gulf oil spill cleanup.

But unlike his predecessor, President Obama has declined to suspend the law, even temporarily.
Obama’s decision has turned into a public relations headache for an administration already reeling from its oversight of the oil spill. European allies, longtime opponents of the Jones Act, have asserted they were turned away when making offers of assistance. The State Department acknowledges it has had 21 aid offers from 17 countries.

Critics in both parties are now seizing on the issue to question the administration’s competence. It took center stage at a House subcommittee hearing Thursday.

Some critics have suggested that Obama is protecting the pocketbooks of his union allies by keeping foreign vessels at bay. But several Jones Act experts told me that makes little sense because unions have minimal influence in the Gulf. Foreign competition, therefore, would do little to hurt their bottom line.

In addition, the Seafarers International Union, while supporters of the Jones Act, maintained good relations with the Bush administration. In 2000, the union donated $3,544 to candidate George W. Bush and nothing to Democrat Al Gore. Bush benefited with a $2,000 donation in 2004, while Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) received nothing. The union didn’t donate any money to candidate Obama in 2008.

So why won’t the Obama administration simply issue a blanket waiver, just as the Bush administration did in 2005? It would end the controversy and quiet a growing chorus of critics.

The administration defends its stance by citing a well-established waiver process for foreign vessels. In short, a request to U.S. Customs and Border Protection prompts an inquiry to the Maritime Administration, which leads to a search of the U.S. fleet. If an American ship can provide the same services, the request is denied. Otherwise, the foreign vessel gets a waiver.

That process differs from a blanket waiver — the tactic used by then-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff in 2005 after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The Bush administration justified the move by citing a need to transport oil and gasoline in the Gulf region.

Jones Act expert Charlie Papavizas said the 2005 Katrina waiver, which lasted from Sept. 1 to Sept. 19, was used primarily to move cargo between ports, but it didn’t result in any new foreign ships in the region. “Twenty days is not enough time to reposition and do anything useful,” he said.
Mark Ruge, who works with the Maritime Cabotage Task Force, was even blunter: “After the fact, if you look at Katrina and ask, ‘What was the advantage to the United States of America by blanket waiving the Jones Act?’ The answer is nothing came of that — nothing that couldn’t have been accomplished with the usual process. It was just one more thing you could say you did.”

The Obama administration’s critics think otherwise and show no signs of relenting.

Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.) pressed the president on the Jones Act during a recent face-to-face meeting. LeMieux said the action would signal America’s allies that their help is wanted. Given the dire situation in the Gulf, what’s the harm?

Two other members from Florida, Reps. Corrine Brown (D) and John Mica (R), said their state is suffering while skimmers sit idle. At a hearing on Thursday, Brown held up photos of vessels in Mexico and Norway, asking, “What is the process for the state to take advantage of skimmers from other countries?”

Mica trained his criticism on Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for failing to mobilize the entire American fleet. “U.S.-flag vessels have the capacity to bolster the current oil skimming and removal taking place in the Gulf of Mexico,” he said. “Over the last couple of weeks, we have seen oil products wash up on the shores of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida while vessels, which could have been pressed into service, sit idle. This is unacceptable.”

With the spill cleanup reaching its 63rd day, is it too late for a Jones Act waiver to have an impact? LeMiuex believes there’s still time for foreign vessels to help near the coast, given the uncertainty about how long the cleanup will last. He’s disappointed it has taken the administration so long to act.

This, of course, is the primary criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of the spill. While the president says he “will not settle for inaction,” his failure to waive the Jones Act — even if for the sole purpose of sending a message to our allies — suggests he’s not doing everything he can.

Robert B. Bluey directs the Center for Media and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/06/21/robert-bluey-gulf-spill-katrina-jones-act-waive-obama/

I have my first of 3 or more Campaign YouTube videos up for viewing. Feel free to put the link every place you can. I need all the help I can get! If the link does not work please go to YouTube and search for CandiceBritton
Thank you very much,
Candice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZifJ_pAiIDs

DWP – they could have done a dozen other things, even profited from it but not tortured her to death. It is amazing that people like these, walk the earth. I hope these folks get tossed around in jail and assulted to the max. How could people know that and not report it is also too crazy for words.

Headclunker 06.21.10 at 9:13 pm # 297

Thank you for informing us. Other countries are trying to come to our aid!

Is there something we can do to pressure him to change course on this before it is too late?

Murphy? Pumas?

Dragonfly 06.21.10 at 7:12 pm

“I have my own similar experience. The father is sure the dragonflies are deeply damaged by his absence from the home….

…and he dumps the dragonflies on their grandmother or his girlfriends at every opportunity. but he is an expert on child psychology, mind you, while I am a dumbass.

…the ex will be psyched about this development, and he’s a Republican”

It’s kind of sad to think that so many males are still trying to arouse themselves and impress “the little women” by circle-jerking to “Who’s your daddy?” Most of the women I come across don’t really give a shit, anymore.

(((Dragonfly!)))

Murphy…Same drop?

POLL
‘ Do you think President Obama should play golf and engage in other “fun” activities while the oil spill continues?”

Surprisingly , the results (so far ) are YES !(55 to 43 ) WTF ?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/21/politics/main6604100.shtml

TT #309

From comments I have read on other blogs, people think that when obama is playing golf he can’t do any harm. They’d prefer to see him playing than making more mischief in the WH.

Sounds logical to me.

Headclunker, thanks for all the psi explanations…I wish those criminally reckless would go to jail.

((dragonfly)) — I read a similar comment over at Reclusive Leftist regarding the men who try to get custody of the kids, for the sole purpose of not having to fork over child support payments…and then dump the kids with grandma or girlfriend. (this from someone who worked at a law firm and saw many such cases)

There are a ton of interesting angles over that story…Violet did get one small detail wrong: it was Don Eberly, not Wade Horn, who founded that NFI group. Eberly is one of those “drown gummint in the bath tub” types from the Bush era and they all…including Zerobama….seem to think replacing government with citizen volunteers and faith-based initiatives is the answer.

Calling NYS….I was looking for that tabloid headline about “Obama’s gay bath house secret” and couldn’t find it online… I saw it in the grocery store and was looking for the image online. Do you know which paper I saw that in? I can’t remember which tabloid!

I thought it was hilarious because there’s an obviously doctored photo of Zero pursing his lips to look “gay.” In reality, Zero purses his lips ALL the time when he’s annoyed, but it crinkles his face. The doctored photo was too smooth, with almost Zoolander level purse-age.

Maybe it’s not so funny as I remember it, but I thought it would be a brief diversion here, and I have to run and can’t keep looking….apparently the gay bath house rumor is a huge topic because there are way too many current discussions of this rumor to locate the tabloid via google search!

It’s no biggie…I can always get the paper’s name next time I hit the store…but if you know which paper, thanks in advance!

Mullahs order breasts cut off of female mannequins:

http://weaselzippers.us/2010/06/22/iran-mullahs-order-breasts-cut-off-female-mannequins/

Thanks, Delle….and, omg. I thought it was bad enough how the American puritans fear the nipple, but what next in iran? If real breasts cause earthquakes, what do mannequin breasts cause? Heatwaves? Well, I guess breasts really must be un-Islamic because for sure they cause mass-stupidity in the Mohammed Cult.

I know, it’s a distraction, and immaterial compared to the problems we’re facing, but I wonder if the Rahm-Obama bath house stories are the reason we’re hearing that Rahm will be leaving the White House?

Cinie is back with a vengeance… in fine form!

http://cinie.wordpress.com/

:::snips::::

We’re being governed by a bunch of vengeful, incompetent, juvenile idiots. The whole lot of ‘em suck germ-filled hairballs. There’s just nothing I can see that they control that’s going right. And, even worse, none of it makes a lick of sense….For millions of Americans like me… it’s personal. Life and death personal.

We’re at war. More than one. We’re not sure why. THERE’S A BIG FUCKING HOLE IN THE OCEAN FLOOR SHOOTING OSSIFIED DINOSAUR GUTS INTO THE WATER AND POISONING THE ENVIRONMENT. There are no jobs. We wake up everyday to news testifying to that fact.

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ya gotta wonder if this whole “Rahm go bye-bye” stuff might be in any way related to what might come out of the ongoing Rod Blagojevich corruption trial he was subpoenaed for. Hillary, on the other hand, hasn’t said much of anything. Apparently, it’s her policy not to address surprise backstabbing pronouncements she hears about in the press first.
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It is only fitting that the Brother From Another Planet be appointed and anointed, selected rather than elected! HE IS THE ONE!

So what if a few piddling days down the road there are no jobs, good or otherwise, to be had, and the sick are losing their COBRA benefits and their bright shiny new healthcare reforms are way far far away by a few years? Who cares if the oceans are slowing because SOMEBODY BLEW A BIG FREAKING HOLE IN ITS FOOR THAT’S BEEN SPEWING OSSIFIED DINOSAUR GUTS INTO IT NON-STOP FOR TWO MONTHS? Yeah, sure, there are a couple of ongoing wars, but c’mon, why quibble, huh? Yea, verily these things are true, but, it’s not his fault! You, you, you, and, you are to blame, because you don’t really, really, really, truly believe.

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I’m just one of the “small people” negatively affected by one or more of Big Brother’s policies, but I can’t help but believe that at least some of our current problems could be minimized if we just had some grownups in charge of something.

Anything.

Because, the reality is, they’re killing us here.

…And the press is not one damned bit better. They’re so stupid, they’re actually trying to tell us that it’s the pictures of the oil “spill“/snark, that might doom the ObiWon, not his woefully inadequate response to the ecological disaster, itself. That, and Linsay Lohan’s mom didn’t get her free ice cream.

We are so screwed.

Yea, headlines say”Obama Furious!” I love it! Heat him up on all sides, maybe he’ll have a nervous breakdown.

Plus, just saw where, Federal judge in New Orleans, Louisiana, blocks six-month federal moratorium on deepwater drilling in Gulf.

vwade 06.22.10 at 12:56 pm
A nervous breakdown, now that would be interesting to watch.

Is Rolling Stone noted for exaggerating comments or did these military guys actually say this stuff?

Please forgive me for I have sinned….

Interviewed an older woman yesterday who relocated from DC.
She sounded great on the phone, had great references and wrote well.
Mind you the last 3 great looking gals (blonde gals) had quite negative references from their last job.

So this older woman drove up and I met her at the drive…and…. she has
Obama DID IT ! sticker on her rear window and she is black. Long story short,
she has a great personality and we went out on a limb and hired her. Now we have to get rid of buttons on my bag, and tell the mailman, no more Obama bashing within ear shot. Sheeet !!

Judge Martin Feldman now rules for Big Oil – just like he ruled for Big Insurance Companies during Katrina

(Check out Judge Martin Feldman’s Federal Financial Disclosure Form. Gee – where have I heard “Transocean”?)

http://www.judicialwatch.org/jfd/Feldman_Martin_L_C/2008.pdf

I don’t have time to post all of the links to this Judge’s history – including and some would call them “racist bent” – but, Feldman is definitely Big Business – a Reagan appointee – need I say more?

P.S. Check this ou Judge Feldman was appointed to a 7 year term on the FISA Court in May 2010. “The FISA Court reviews and approves government applications for counterintelligence surveillance and physical search under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.”:

Judge Martin L.C. Feldman Named to the FISA Court
May 3rd, 2010 by Steven Aftergood

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2010/05/judge_feldman.html

BigCat, we have to watch our ravings/rantings and save it for after hours.
I have to take off my “Keep the Change” badge that Asian4Hillary sent me…maybe I don’t. But I am looking forward to a much more senior woman who is not always job hopping or checking their cell. She seems to have old school ethics and doesn’t believe in taking handouts. I fervently hope she does not try to say nice things about the Messiah in our presence. I can hold my tongue but my husband,,, not likely.

PS She’s part of teh problem, not the solution. She’s one of the reasons we’re in the mess we are. How brifght can she be if she supports the saka in the WH? Didn’t you say that your business and others are having a hard time thanks to the freak and the other freaks who voted for him?
You own that employee nothing… don’t freakin’ hide who you are… let her hide who she is.

I have a magnetic dart board hanging on a wall in my office. The bullseye is the obama logo.

Delle 06.22.10 at 2:26 pm
Obama loves the magazine cover of him walking on water.
He wants a signed copy of it to hang in the White House:
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In the fourth frame obama isnt walking on water, he goes down into the water. I would think that cover would be insulting to a man of such an overblown ego. Then, again, he’s been downplaying the magnificent gufts and talents he played up during the primaries. Just recently he said he wasn’t superman, etc., and the press seemingly has been trying to get US citizens to lower their expectations of him.
So, who really knows where he’s coming from re: the magazine cover?

with dead fish lying on top of the oil and fisherman in their boats mumbling, “Messiah my Ass!”

vwade 06.22.10 at 2:38 pm

“They should put out a new cover of him walking on oil!”

Actually, we’re all the ones drowning in the oil – while he stands on our shoulders and acts concerned over the tiniest tar ball he can safely point to.

“They should put out a new cover of him walking on oil!”

Yup and lighting up a cigarette!
=======================

CLASSIC!

You noticed that in the 4th frame of the magazine cover, the lights from heaven are no longer shining on him. Is this like his subtle alibi ? Like it’s saying: look folks, I don’t walk on water all the time… see ? I fall in like everyone else.. That’s probably why he turns this into a positive thing for him.
That guy is like a chameleon snake.

“I wonder when Michelle is gonna tell the girls about FGM?”

When she figures out that it isn’t the acronym for FGMmmm???

Come on, I don’t want to be stupid, what’s FGM? Female genocide????

Thanks, I’m red in the face, but at least I was close.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/22/AR2010062200813.html?hpid%3Dtopnews⊂=AR

Oh, so the Post is reporting that fraudbama is furious and throwing midnight fits calling on all of his staff and calling the general to the mat and is going to fire him…but hey, when fratboys pour beer on the image of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and pose as if groping her, it’s a-ok.

Got it.

Next time you may want to include in your ad:

“If you voted for Obama you need not apply – we have too many unemployed applicants because of you.”

WBD 356
Great idea!! And, bumper sickers too!! I vote that you create the stickers–the best I can come up with is “ohhhhbummer”

Gen. Stanley McChrystal has submitted his resignation, Time magazine’s Joe Klein told CNN, citing an unnamed source

I wonder what the general will say once he’s retired?

ROFLMAO!!! Whoa – check out the new rules at *ahem* the dimocraticunderground. Too freakin’ funny! WTH??

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×8603151#8603635

excerpt:
{ } Inappropriate attacks against Democrats
– Insults against prominent Democrats, such as “Fuck Obama.”
– Name-calling against prominent Democrats. Calling Barack Obama “Barry” or some other name.
– Repeating Republican partisan attacks against Democrats.
– Broadly suggesting that there is no difference between Barack Obama and George W. Bush, or that there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans. (Arguing that specific policies are the same would be permitted.)
– Suggesting that President Obama has perpetrated a “con job” or “fraud,” or similarly over-the-top assertions of bad faith.
– Advocating voting against Democrats, or in favor of third-party or GOP candidates.
– Broad-brush smears against Democrats generally. Broad expressions of contempt toward Democrats generally.

Because a fly always lands ON SHIT, not in it!

http://www.antemedius.com/category/tags/viking-poseidon-rov1

This is a link to the video of oil seeping out from a crack in the ocean floor. Viking Poseidon ROV 1 captured this on June 13. Viking Poseidon ROV 1 is black now on bp’s site and on the Gulf clean up site. I’ve tried a few times – have they turned off Viking’s camera?

Nearly ten days later, I would like to know if the oil continues to seep as it does at 30 seconds into the video at this link.

As Headclunker says, I’m living like a believer.

hi Sheila7!

#364 dances

“If you can’t guarantee your behavior after having drinks, I consider you to be an alcoholic.”

Um, actually, the opposite is more likely to be true.

But, be that as it may, I agree that the comments weren’t even attributed to the general! And, while the drinking of his team may be no excuse, I’m still pissed that it’s ok for fraudbama’s drunken team to do MORE than make comments about the Secretary of State! But go as far as post demeaning pictures disrespecting her online!

They not only still have their jobs in the White House, but were recently so drunk they were carousing in DC *shirtless* like the no-count fratboys they are!

#366 Swannie!!!!!!

omg!! Too disgusting but so appropriate.

Note that his lips are….pursed. They are very frequently pursed these days. Barry is peeeeeeeved.

I think the fly is a sign he’s dead meat (politically, I mean that politically any lurking SS!).

VWADE wins!

That picture should definitely be the subject of a caption contest!!!

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/69hKNw/www.theoildrum.com/node/6522/r:t

I hope this link works – an interesting blog I came across. This page should have a screen shot sans footnotes of the blistering letter from Waxman and Stupak to Hayward.

Has anyone else received two or more email today from Boxer’s campaign and DSCC drumming on Palin (“The Axis of Palin”) and collecting money to attack her?
Gee whiz, for such a moronic ineffectual woman, the Dems sure are running scared. She isn’t even running for office.
Misogynist sexist flacid wimpiod freak ODems.

DWP,

I know – the fear factor for Palin is incredible. And the vast majority of the people do not consider her qualified. She is not running – when will the Dems get it?

It’s such a fear mongoring misogynistic tactic – well, maybe the Dems were this worked up about W but at least he was a genuine threat.

30 minutes till the polls close for the runoff election in SC….I think we’ll see Nikki Haley pull it off this time!

We need to make sure that California voters know the facts. So today we’re launching a new online advertising campaign — to get a new web video about Palin and Fiorina out all across California — but it will cost thousands of dollars to buy these online ads. Can you help?

Snippet from the email from the DSCC

http://www.reuters.com/article/idAFN2020003220100620?rpc=44

sorry if this is repost.

if you check out the oil drum blog, look for comments by dougr. He explained in depth his conclusions based on the facts we have in a June 13 comment. In comments to that thread, people referenced the Viking Poseidon ROV 1, (now black) as being on pause according to the commenters just after a screen shot captured the oily cloud you can see in the viking poseidon youtube.

Who was it that said all politics is local?
Read a post on Hillbuzz which stated that the individual was going to write their Senator saying I can see November.
Why not write every local politician up for anything with the same sentiment. Ten thousand emails to a sitting Senator might be blown off but a hundred to a local mayoral candidate with a promise of I will walk door to door explaining what cap and trade will mean to your grocery bill and then saying your democratic candidate needs to take stand on this.

#384 headclunker….

thanks, I enjoyed that article, and especially liked his use of the term “gender apartheid” to condemn the Muslim world. Then I went to see who else was using it, and ended up on a blog by Saudiwoman, who is detailing some of the horrors saudi women have to put up with…

Senator Bill Nelson:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/06/14/bp-well-bore-integrity-nelson-statements/

thanks Headclunker – it took me forever as my computer has been freezing.

Nikki Haley won!!!

Haley wins SC runoff for governor

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Nikki Haley, an Indian-American woman, won the Republican nomination for governor and Tim Scott, a black lawmaker, grabbed a commanding lead in his bid for the GOP nod for a House seat in South Carolina primary runoffs Tuesday, a measure of racial progress in the Deep South and the GOP.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gfZ5MBVqCWljWzDTEedwMory1DjQD9GGL7700
———————-

GO WOMEN!!!

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/06/liberal-insurgent-elaine-marshall-wins-democratic-senate-nomination-in-nc/1?loc=interstitialskip
Another victory. I voted for her today . Ozero endorsed the man running against her. The polling place was almost empty, 3 poll workers only one other voter and zero campaign workers. Not good.

Cape Hatteras #401

The Obozo kiss of death for her opponent.

He needs to go play more golf.

Thumbs up for Nikki Haley !
Obama = Kiss of Death !

Things are not going well for BOey. He has locked up the senate and is losing the congress, now he is fighting the judiciary and is trying to strong arm the O&G industry.

And the military pissed on him too. Boo hoo.

TT
*clink*

lol ! TBH I am so lame I lived here for a year before I even realized it’s a dry county ! I didn’t even know there were such places !

Hillary Clinton Smiles During Obama’s Comment On McChrystal

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/06/22/hillary_clinton_smiles_during_obamas_comment_on_mcchrystal.html

Dragonfly – re: BP and cameras:

They appear to do most of the work at night – and switch the lives shots now from night to night (it appears to me.)

Last night, most of the activity was on Boa Deep C Camera 1. I observed them appearing to attempt attaching a large cap or pipe to the main leak point. For about 15 secs the flow was drastically reduced – less than it’s ever been since this started. Then, the robotic arm started shaking and twisting it – I thought for a better fitting at first, but it finally disconnected it and shortly thereafter that Boa C 2 camera went blank.

Tonight, it’s been camera Enterprise ROV 1.

they are checking a huge pipe. It appears to be disconnected from wherever it belongs. They are hoisting the pipe upward and bringing the joint sections in for a close-up to the camera. It looks cracked all around the joint connection (to me). In fact, as they are going to more section joints, it looks like several joints are damaged (to me).

I don’t have snapshot on this computer! Now the pipe is gone.

BOA C ROV 2 camera is flashing on and off to some mechanical room on a ship – with a big hole in the floor – it looks like – like where a winch might be – the camera is flashing “Not Recording”

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/incident_response/STAGING/local_assets/html/Boa_Deep_C_ROV_2.html

How can anyone defend a president that is more familiar with his golf caddy than the General in command of the War in Afghanistan?

wontbackdown:

Yes, noticed that too. Even Woman’s Day magazine July issue “just 25% believe he’ll get re-elected in 2012″.

He wrote! he really, really wrote me! Obama lurvs my money!
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/obama-writes-me-show-me-one-stride/

Oops! This fits your OP: Rasmussen – Hillary beats all other candidates, from bth parties
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/rassmusen-voters-say-hillary-more-qualified-to-be-potus-than-anyone/

#401 Cape Hatteras, thanks!!!!!!!

GREAT news, I’m ecstatic!

GO WOMEN!

“Guaranteed Misbehavior” = Truth in advertising

TT! I kept checking over my shoulder as I waded upstream to catch up.

You’re always sneaking up behind me..!

Is this possible? Local residents say that after several heavy rains in the a last couple of days- rain coming in off the gulf – oil is everywhere and nothing like this has ever happened before.

I don’t know what to make of it – but the videos are disturbing, if it IS somehow related to the spill – perhaps blowing rains can carry oil off the slicks from the gulf inland?

http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/report-i-went-out-following-a-very-heavy-rain-here-and-there-was-oil-all-over-the-place-video

CISU – Commander In Screw-Ups – to hold rose-garden announcement on McCrystal – coming up at 1:30 EST:

I say he’s gone.

http://cspan.org/Watch/Media/2010/06/23/HP/R/34557/President+to+address+McChrystal+situation+at+130pm.aspx

McChrystal is out. Petraeus is in.

Yep, it’s Petraeus?

“Hold ourselves accountable to the standards… of democracy…”

Two people working on the Gulf spill have died:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/23/people-involved-gulf-oil-spill-cleanup-died-coast-guard-reports/

Oil is gushing out!

vwade 06.23.10 at 12:54 pm :

Obama acts like he made the decision – actually, McCrystal made the decision months ago and made a conscious, strategic decision to announce it through the Rolling Stone, who probably thought that they were setting him up for “The One”.

McCrytal never apologized for “what” was said, just how it was delivered – publicly. It was through Obama’s own kool-aid machine, media channel – which wasn’t really all that dumb of McCrystal, after-all, when you think about.

Espionage is ugly and McCrsytal sent that message to his troops, imo.

wbd,

I wasn’t able to open that link to the oil in rain….

Zee 06.23.10 at 1:20 pm

wbd,

I wasn’t able to open that link to the oil in rain….

ZEE: ‘Can’t get link to work”

Wow! Interesting? I checked the link after I posted it here and it worked fine. I’ve posted it at several places – wonder if it’s getting more bandwidth pull than it can handle on that site? It’s a Florida based, local site.

Let me see if I can find it on youtube – I think it was posted on youtube, as well.

ZEE:

Here is one of them on youtube, posed today, but there are two more that are equally as compelling from the same guy showing the evidence of it all around that street and neighborhood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3kcVmipPPE