Pledging allegiance to BP 23 May 2010
Posted by marisacat in 2010 Mid Terms, 2012 Re Election, Culture of Death, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Lie Down Fall Down Dems, The Battle for New Orleans, WAR!.trackback
Workers hired by BP rake up globs of oil that have come ashore on the beaches near Port Fourchon and Grand Isle in southern Louisiana. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times / May 22, 2010)
People / Politico:
[B]ut just after placing responsibility on BP, Gibbs, who had a heated exchange Friday with journalists who asked about perceived government passivity, turned to his other flank to defend the aggressiveness of the administration’s response:
“We were activated [what is the Obama administration? A secret cell? -- Mcat] the moment that this oil rig exploded. This has been on the president’s agenda ever since that happened. And we have mobilized every aspect that we possibly can in our government.
“There have been calls to every sector of our government to ask for help. That’s what we’ve done. My frustration was with the notion and the premise that — that we had sat by and done nothing, which I think is certainly not true,” Gibbs said.
As for Allen, he suggested on CNN that the federal government doesn’t have the wherewithal to manage the underwater oil leak without the equipment and expertise of BP.
“They have the eyes and ears that are down there. They are necessarily the modality by which this is going to get solved,” Allen said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
He added that he had “Tony Hayward’s personal cell phone number — if I have a problem, I call him.” …snip…
They are phoning it in, Thad Allen to Hayward, Gibbs and the administration to “every sector of our government”.
Hard to think how it can get more passive or more awkwardly explained.
Lie down and die and get it over with. This long death rattle is boring.
Pictures of the oil hitting the beaches, marshes, estuaries and cane fields are hard to look at… what we see now, just beginning, will arrive with every wave, every tide for a long time.
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Did anybody watch the “Lost” finale? Thoughts? Or maybe we should wait til tomorrow for those who haven’t seen it yet…
there seems to be an at least two hour run-up to the actual show here. Sort of defeats the purpose, I think.
It might be on by now…………………..
no comment for those on the West Coast who don’t want spoilers.
Have I ever mentioned Treme? David’s Simon’s [The Wire] new show on HBO about NO post Katrina?
Wow… the man puts together great writers, great ensembles, and has great vision for the shows. There is nothing like a serial that is not only so well put together, but touches on so many local issues in a poignant manner.
They’re all up on the HBO in Demand – if you have access… This might even turn out to be better than The Wire [and hey, LEster Freeman and Bunk play key roles].
Madman just sent me an email about tonight’s episode… (I have to wait for the series to be on Netflix… )
I love the interplay between all of the musicians.
Despite Obama’s Moratorium, Drilling Projects Move Ahead
Surprise!
The Great Shame: America’s Pathetic Response to the Gulf Catastrophe
Right. Good luck with that. And Send Money Now!!
i do notice some hillaryites ”seizing the moment”………….. as if marie antoine and louis would be better. gah
A bad awful terrible piece at CNN, old numbers .. gah endless… but way down at the end is this…
And I think it is the truth. As Obby looks blankly into space. With the wretches, Salazar, Janet Nap, Lisa Jackson, Landry, Thad Allen etc., lined up behind him.
Salazar is WAY too close to the extraction industries to do anything else other than believe them and their statements of good intentions. He’s been their lapdog for so very long …
yeah very bad choice. Very close iirc to that Norton woman, etc.
And even that dog Thomas Friedman said Obby’s energy people, like Chu, are, for all intents and purposes, in witness protection. Hiding.
Fuck them all.
Pretty good piece in the Times-Picayune/Nola.com…
PATHETIC…. and we all know where the various NGs are…….. the fucking wars. That was always one of the scenarios, something big, bigger than Katrina, would hit…….. and the NGs and the Reserves would be face down in the sand. Halfway round the world.
And BP is doing so well?
And this… geesh.
This is the close. Shorter version: THERE IS NO HOPE WITH THIS CREW.
I saw Bob Dudley (again!) on CNN with Candy Crowley yesterday reacting to a clip of Markey(?) saying that BP shouldn’t be trusted respond with “those words hurt” (big pout).
Yeh well, Fuck Obama and his New York Jewish Gangsters running the Criminal Division of the DOJ.
AIG Executives Won’t Face Criminal Charges, Lawyers Say
It pays to hire well, top to bottom, inside out.
oh let me snicker… and match the tops to the bottoms. For maximum leverage.
Obby is too close to the Financial Services $$$… as are BillHill BidenJill and so on.
Wasn’t going to happen…
Wonder when there will be a battle cry, IF there will be a battle cry: You saved teh banks but you won’t save the coastal region of 1 – 4 states.
We shall see.
I saw the most ludicrous comment this week over the firing of Blair, (fuck him too , DB, who cares , toady, piece of shit) – but the comment was from some GOP Sen saying Blair’s firing was evidence Ho-Ho HOLder had seized control of the US Intel community.
Hank Greenberg must be laughing his ass off. Hand in glove with The Rubinater and GS , AIG wrote a trillion and a half in bogus CDS for the mortgage market alone. (Hey we have no money now! Thanks for the 1/4 T! ) Which GS further derived..By what factorial, still, no one’s said yet!
And (USA!) pundits are gloating over EU squabbling over where?to?now? Israel may need more housing the way this is going.
….but the comment was from some GOP Sen saying Blair’s firing was evidence Ho-Ho HOLder had seized control of the US Intel community.
oh i saw that… think it was kit bond or inhofe
Prepare to ride at dawn! Rocket launchers at the ready!
As Greece goes, there goes Spain: IMF raises fresh concerns about the Spanish economy
Below the Radar: HUD Is Trying to Privatize and Mortgage Off All of America’s Public Housing
Fact Sheet on Public Housing and New Legislation for Privatization
oh I am sure there is confusion ‘cuz I just read this… (ben Smith links to and quotes some fucking loon at Yglesias site)
YIKES. What accomplishment(s)? Esp compared to the NEW DEAL?
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/
most of the work Congress and President Obama have done over the past sixteen months, especially when — as David Leonhardt noted in yesterday’s New York Times — it’s been a burst of activity [why, just look at BP] that“rivals any other since the New Deal in scope or ambition.”
well, I’ll say this, it’s certainly been a burst of activity …. and I guess looking at it, Leonhardt did use the word ”rivals,” versus, compares with….
Somebody’s ” liveblogging” the oilspill webcam. And let me repeat, beats liveblogging Obama.
BTW the eruption looks like it’s completely out of control.
snips I saw of it this am, it did look much thicker and … somehow MORE of it than last week.
Oh noes… they are talking of “trying” another “containment dome”.
We must be the laughingstock of the world.
Lindorff in CPunch:
Jesus… can you imagine a gusher up there, nothing and nobody near by?
I posted a few days a go a snip that Shell I think it was, is moving right along for drilling in the Arctic. A ruling by the 9th circuit here in SF did not even consider issues raised from the Gulf “spill”.
Credit Obby if Jindal comes out of this smelling like a Southern Republican Rose…
The report from Tapper also has a pic of Obby, PHONING IT IN.
Obbie Poll Ratings at RCP
Gallup’s leg hump, that tachycardic “All Respondent” pooch of a poll ….. has flatlined over by the RCP sofa.
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Tho Still used at RCP in padding Obbie’s mix, ( RCP is R lean, go fig) Gallup was always good for +10 or so to countermand less than flattering RV and LV modeled polls on Ob…. Gallup now has him at 48% approval. Rasmussen has him at – 11 in the over under.
Hide him. Might work.
Michael Wolff/Newser has a post that m a y b e Dow 14,000 and Unemployment at 6% can save Obby…….. but nothing else.
MW is not stupid politically, either.
I ahve no idea… I DO know most all polls lie, esp Gallup, whose job is to maintain Status Quo. At all costs.
S o m e t i m e s, I see a Pew poll I find a little interesting, just becuase they poll widely and constantly (which they all do I realise)… but other than that, I think polling is part of “chatter”.
Priest Accused Of Abusing Boy, Turning Home Into ‘Erotic Dungeon’ Surrenders To Police
First Posted: 05-24-10 04:07 PM | Updated: 05-24-10 04:29
(AP) SAO PAULO – A Polish priest accused of sexually abusing a former altar boy in Rio de Janeiro and turning his parish home into an “erotic dungeon” has surrendered and is now in police custody, a public safety official said Saturday.
State prosecutors have accused Marcin Michael Strachanowski of handcuffing the 16-year-old former altar boy to a bed three years ago in the parish house where the priest lived and threatening to kill the youth if he spoke of the abuse.
Strachanowski arrived at a police station Friday night, said a spokesman for Rio’s state public security department. He spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with departmental policy. Images published in Brazilian newspapers showed Strachanowski being driven away in a police car.
The 44-year-old priest was suspended from duties after the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro learned that a judge had issued an order Thursday for his arrest.
Suspended. What scum, the Catholic Church.
Who play it both ways. “We are not the Courts” …(flip) “different standard”…(flop flip)” we will honor the Courts” (flip flop) “bu bu but still a different standard”..(flop flip) ….”suspended” …..FLOP.
Thus it comes full criminal creep circle :
If the CC weren’t these people,
they w w w would push them right out.
Can’t they SUSPEND him from the ceiling? With piano wire?
I could support that.
Hmm. Labor AND Energy Efficient. I like it.
Seein as how they have the garrote or similar appliance available right there in the Dungeon/Rectory. And using the Church would cut down – Oops! ~ not the Display! ~ but on gas gobbling hearse costs. You’re always a step ahead, Mcat!
less work than tar and feathering, quartering and drawing.
this is a rabid and feral church. fully. We are long past, way beyond mere pedophilia. Way past some sexual frenzy… And think of all the people who have nto come forth.
I don’t think it’s even criminally insane. It’s evil.
IMO. ..and whoever noticed it back in the day got it right : the existence of Evil , human evil precisely, regardless of the assorted Abrahamic/ cloven footed mythical origins, and otherwise preposterous assumptions cum Deity ascriptions that have plagued mankind since….
It’s like that CC Cardinal who said “Satan” was in the Vatican.
Bullshit. Too Evil.
The statement as well : Evil, a deflection.
Just hearing a clip of Obby saying he will be “tireless” in working to save the Gulf.
We are jsut a rollingjoke. Nothing else.
Schneier at the airport
That is a scream.. as are the two comments…
pretty funny.
Oh Yeah
Comments from Sky Truth … the “new angle” shot has been around today, on news programs…
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… and KGO is going ot have an hour at 8PM on
“Well, whine, what else COULD Obby DO?”
Double whine.
what could Obby Do??
Invoke the Monroe Doctrine?
It’s turned out so…
I am hearing that 17, count ‘em! 17 countries have offered help but we hve said no, we have everything we need.
Aw shit! I had not noticed! Where are they, those brilliant engneering minds… and the equipment to save us here… where are they hiding???!!!
What Disney Princesses teach girls
I think they all sing. Something about singing for your supper… or, to get to the other end of th cartoon moooovie.
Who’s the Fuckin President?
Certainly not that poseur with his nose stuck up in the air faking gravitas at West Point last week.
Does it matter? No.
Maybe Petraeus can just pencil Ob the fuck off, too.
Obama is utterly superfluous. Pretty clear we’re getting an answer as to what happens as Empire falls, (shame . would’ve been nice to skip the whole hegemony thing) but pretty clear the shape of things to come when the money’s toast following a couple centuries of marauding and these last exceptional decades of weasels and willies, the dilettantes and political twinkies in tow…
What can Obama DO?!??
What else –
Ladies and Gentlemen, let’s hear it again for ….the GOONS!
I think for economy of everything, the R should just run Petraeus in 2012.
Get it over with.
just lovely, never mind about legality, and I guess NYT can’t even be bothered with touching on the subject:
….General Petraeus’s September order is focused on intelligence gathering — by American troops, foreign businesspeople, academics or others — to identify militants and provide “persistent situational awareness,” while forging ties to local indigenous groups.
the NYT can’t can’t even be bothered with touching on the subject – diane
Ya gotta love WaPo tho. Crickets thus far…
Who now must have a full time Big Brother consultant onboard…
Their current slate of offers. Followed by, I swear, a less than one sentence parenthetical grunt/ free association in translation each.
I can prlly hang on to the end…
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Kentucky caveman
Robinson: Rand Paul can’t hide from his loopy beliefs on civil rights and environmental disasters.
(Rand: Caver.)
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Obama endorses deal on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’.
(Sure he does, Obama, Stand Up Bear, Castro Raver.)
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Exasperation as spill continues
Administration faces growing questions about whether it should be taking more control from BP.
(Exasperation, Spill, oops – HONEY – Milk ~ CAREful.)
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China craves brand recognition
( China Fat, Need Factory Made Diet, Kirstie Alley.)
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Congress gives itself leeway
CAPITOL ASSETS | Rep. Moran’s investments illustrate permissive rules lawmakers enjoy.
(Local Living Section)
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Don’t fear turmoil in the market
COLUMN | Watching markets move is a great spectator sport, but don’t fixate or panic. Save.
Allan Sloan
* Asian stocks slide on renewed Europe fears
* IMF presses Spain for labor overhaul, budget cuts
* Bill brings new powers, new pressures for Fed
(You Gotta Be Big Bro Desperate Kiddin Me)
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Protecting elderly from swindlers
Man pleads guilty to wiping out the savings of a Md. couple, part of a growing trend police say.
(Trust trust TRUST in Bank, GIVE To Bank, WORSHIP BANK, RUN TO THE BANK- LOL …..ETC)
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the NYT can’t can’t even be bothered with touching on the subject – diane
Ya gotta love WaPo tho. Crickets thus far…
callers to a pro Israel pro war host (on KGO) are loving the Petraeus plan… they see it as a smaller, tougher war.
Go figure. But everything has gone so well up to now, why should things not go well.
Speaking of “Blairs,” ya gotta love it, is that you Tony?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CLEAN_TECH_BLAIR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-05-24-15-21-16>Blair to advise Silicon Valley group on climate
“He’s going to help us in many areas that techie nerds like us here in Silicon Valley don’t understand and tend to underestimate the importance of,” Khosla said….
I’ll bet he is…….I think everyone should add liar and war criminal to their resumes in Cali, maybe that’s the problem with so many that aren’t working, worthless resumes.
sorry, meant to post as a new comment (and fucked up the link)
not sure i know how to fix the link…………………….
corrected link (I used “>” instead of an = sign after “href,” sorry):
Blair to advise Silicon Valley group on climate
don’t worry about it.. thanks for fixing it…
oh yeah, certainlly that too, guess that’s why it’s named the Washington Post.
I just thought NYT’s lack of commentary/Q&A on that last paragraph in the article, regarding using foreign businesspeople, academics or others for intelligence services was off the hook.
ugh.. there is an engineer calling in to KGO… there is almost no way to reduce the pressure it has to just wear itself out, the ‘top kill’ has little to no chance of working (he described the several parts of the procedure)… there is over a billion gallons of oil beneath the surface, and will blow, gush, whatever for at minimum a year (even with a relief well drilled alng side, even with a relief well drilled on either side)… AND he reminds there is no “rig” anymore top side.
The whole thing may gush for 10 years.
Aftr the Eastern Seabord, ti heads for Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland and the Arctic.
It can despoil much of the world.
Cheery no?
Another engineer said that BP likely needed several rigs over this field, to deflect the enormous pressure. Sounds like it is an enormous field.
An oceanographic analogue to ELE and near extinction level events.
An undersea analogue, however placcid or flatt the sea floor terrain,
As if someone got the bright idea to strip mine Vesuvius, the Soufriere Hills or Krakatoa.
Ain’t it great?!? Lancing Mother Earth skin! ( the sea floor)
Whatever happens we can burn it!
One the words I really like is clawback. Besides liquidating BP, wiping out all its shareholders, all bonuses of upper management for the las tn years should be clawed back. This is a crime against humanity.
What a dismal prognosis.
yes I like “clawback” too…
I’d prefer an English word of the Animal Planet variety that means – however it’s spelled that encapsulates
OMG!Pounce!MAUL!Throaty Lion Devouring Carcass Sound!
Chomp ‘n Chew.
Easy for you to say.
LOL, this is the first time I’ve seen or heard the word “clawback”. Cool. I like it.
ugh… up thread I posted some comments from Sky Truth thread… that indicated a lot seems to have gone wong down at the riser, at the “leak”, down on the sea bed floor.
Naked Capitalism has more. I even read corrente (who he links back to) earlier…but honestly my brain is breaking down. I can’t take in any longer how big this is.
Comments at Business Insider/Clusterstock mntion that when BP saw how bad it was, they adusted the under water cam.
I bet they did…
If i manage to get a new thread up, will move this link (to Naked Cap.) forward…
from the thread at Naked Capitialsim… it seems there is no “live” cam stream. Much of it is undated… and what is dated, the most recent date they are finding is 5/16. (or, 16/05….apparently they date dd/mm/yy on what stream there is)
So, clueless in our own country.
Man made, courtesy of the Capitalists.
Elicited for profit, an oceanic ELE or near extinction level event.
Let’s sell shares!
And we were worried about asteroids and volcanoes…
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