Welcome to BP Reality TV! 26 May 2010
Posted by marisacat in 2010 Mid Terms, 2012 Re Election, Culture of Death, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, The Battle for New Orleans, WAR!.trackback
“We’ll take a decision within the course of today,” Hayward said.more by Tony Hayward – 33 minutes ago – Washington Post
We’ll be your EmCee for months and months… stick with us, we promise a show!
Marvel as we try things never done before! Watch us ignore Obby!!
I find it interesting Obby, who looked peevish here last night, arranged a Friday drop in before the “Top Kill”, which may take 48 hours to be completed (either way!) is even tried. Perhaps there were assurances and a higher measure for success than is indicated to us, mere taxpayers and peons.
Because Obby is not courageous nor, as I see it, all that much interested.
But we are all on tenterhooks!, especially the turtles, the oysters, the fish, the dolphins, the shellfish, the manatees, the pelicans, the terns… and let’s not forget those valiant folks (we are all just ”folks” now, “citizen” is forgotten) of the Gulf.
Meanwhile, I see a headline, Lisa Jackson, late of NJ that clean and pure place, is, in her capacity as EPA head, “praying”.
Well, we KNOW she is on her knees. What she is actually doing……….
Can this all get more rank? I doubt it.
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Geesh even Aravosis says the deal being brokered, which can still fail between House and Senate, is too big a compromise AND will do nothing in the short term about discharges.
Americablog http://www.americablog.com/ links to this at the Advocate for an analysis…
AND the “heckler” here in SF was one fo the co founders of GetEqual, the new group that arranged for the protests at the WH gate last month.
Obby friend to all, and useless as hell.
Translation? Isn’t that the point of this repeal idea?
And didn’t he tell his supporters to “make him” live up to his campaign promises – which is exactly what that protester was doing? Bloody arrogance.
Just watch – either it won’t get out of committee or the senate will punt it and then Obamalama can say he tried. Sure – just as hard as he “tried” to get the PO.
yup… moiv has always said the catch words for his administration will be ……………..
But he TRIIIIIED!!
Carville let his voice begin to break while he was on GMA, ABC this am. I think he is reaching a point he may say Obby doesn’t know / have any idea how to use the power of the Pretzelness.
I am not sold on the bathos, but whatever makes it hard for Obby, works for me!
Cost for security for the G8 & G20 summits coming up in Canada: damn near $1 billion
Just imagine how many people that could house and feed…
The fuckers should just stay home and tele-conference.
That does it! Anarchy is learly cheaper.
I am convinced these conflabs are little more than booty call, anyway.
Well I can say that SF is totally snarled today and yesterday wth Ob in town…
Whta fucking mess. No flying over the city, except fr scheduled take off nd landing at SFO and OAK… the traffic on the GG BRidge is snarled, his helis await to take him ot the East Bay, where despite workers being told to stay home, he will address “the workers” getting a green facotry (Solarynda, think it is) ready to be up and working…
And so on.
About 30 or 40 motorcycle cops with his entrouage… hmm it might be 50… they just keep coming.
I’m sure that $535 M DOE (Department of Energy) loan guarantee to Solyndra (apparently the first company to be offered one from DOE), was aided by the fact that management chose to swim with the sharks. If they have good intent, I sure hope it doesn’t end up with the classic Sly Con Valley outing of the original Engineers, as VC “Angels,” and Attorneys chum for more Sharks.
….The joint book-running managers of the proposed offering will be Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated….
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…. Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as exclusive financial advisor to Solyndra in connection with this loan guarantee application. ….
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….as VC “Angels,” and Attorneys chum for more Sharks.
And yes, generally, the very same Atturneys who the stunned Engineers hired to protect them.
The San Jose Mercury (pre Dean Singleton), did an excellent series on those betrayals during the Fall of 1999 (plus or minus a year?).
“heh” …..Sonsini had a day devoted to him, think I have a hardcopy floating around here somewhere, which I’ll be able to use as fuel, when only the handful are allowed to ward off the freeze (or heat, as the case may be).
Is that Sonsini of Wilson, Sonsini?
Is that Sonsini of Wilson, Sonsini?
yup
(there’s a single yup floating on the tubes somewhere, which you can now delete when it shows up hon)
found it floating in Spam…
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yeah I took note of that huge chunk fo money as well. I think the whole thing was, optically at least, a bad pick…. the place is **under construction**, looks like a prison… AND all the construction workers at the site were told to stay home iwthout pay.
He gave his speech to a select group of company dignitaries and officials. Etc.
There was a rumor, even the news channels were reporting it, that his heli would just hop over to the old NUMMI plant, it is almost right next to the Solyndra plant, but in the end he did not.
He gave his speech to a select group of company dignitaries and officials. Etc.
Sounds like that invite only (I believe), incredibly expensive $Green Tech to do that Boxer held at Google about 6 months or so ago.
They have all been like that… Dems grabbed onto ”Green” – and green washing – a few years ago, as a side show, then it got bigger. Al Gore would be the biggest piggyest poster boy for all that.
Oh?…oh noesy! not OUR DEAR GOD AL
(can’t I pleeeease borrow some Huffy Post FONTs here for OUR DEAR GOD AL)
really…………….
He’s very blithe when asked about his own personal footprint. I just caught PBS happily showing him down at the Panetta Institute, a week ago, for a big Greeniw Conflab. he jsut says they buy carbon offsets.
AND he is EVEN MORE blithe when asked about being in partnership with a big local VC
and so on.
Oh damn…where are my manners? …how could I forget the Hooover Institute ….cradled in between those two major arteries, as it is?????????????
Like the raspberry jam that holds the Vanilla (for the most part (on the surface veneer at least)) layers of the cake together, and sees to those DOD (Department of Defense) contributions.
And Al couldn’t help himself proclaiming to be a part of all that DOD inspired technology (while the rumor of a ‘stupid’ government was spread, and believed, High and Wide), ….he likely was.
oopsers …..
Oh damn…where are my manners? ….
was meant to be an after meditation on:
”…… a big local VC…”
yup, ….with Powell in the neighboring ‘cubicle’ …….
sorry for the confusion.
…… a big local VC…
yup, ….with Powell in the neighboring ‘cubicle’ when they both need be physically ‘present’ ……..(no worries, here…please,…… they both bike or take the bus ! ….and Sonsini a neighboring, parallel, major artery away, …. off of the interstate mostly travelled by the made ‘folks,’ Interstate 280.
I’ve never understood why protesters waste the time and energy going out there just to get arrested. Just do a head fake, say it’s gonna be the biggest thing since Seattle, then stay home and eat Cheetos.
Tapper:
So fwagile.
Our version of NY 1 out here, a sort of SF 4…. says that ‘Top Kill” is now on hold.
Maybe it always was…….. who the hell knows.
via HuffPo – who DIDN”T break out the HUGE FONT for the
(kidnapper/rapist priest w dungeon in …brazil.. squeek)
SENATOR NELSON: IF BP DOESN’T STOP LEAK TODAY, OBAMA MUST TAKE OVER
Seems to me, a failure of “Top Kill” – (the linguistic expectations alone) will fuck up BP’s stock like a tire iron to face and head….brutal.
Not that time won’t do the same.. So they’re gonna need to put a bow on this re-gift quick.
Oh BP is going to get ‘Obbie stepping in”, he’s theirs afterall, such a JOKE: They’ll still run things AND have their out in court over contributory negligence while Obbie gets to play dom in the media again for a time…As grousing Blue Dogs like Astrohole – Nelson – get to go all “Houston, We got a Treehugger”.
“Houston, We got a Treehugger”.
well, that made me laugh…
I don’t see BP doing “Top Kill” today at all, tho …………. who knows.
I cheerfully admit I got a huge kcik out of Carville (yes Snake head!) on ABC this am… and our local ABC news is playing it at the 11 am check-in.
ooops no, Business Insider says Top Kill has begun!
They have the live stream
Top Kill has a Live Stream…
Let’s see folks, Blotter acid or sugar cubes tonight?
Best I could do, BP of UK orig, Ob denuded politically arriving a bit late on the well dressed green… scene, just a bit of wordplay around Nelson and shillage on the spillage, a gratuitous metaphor apropos of nothing ….thus, congruent.
LMAO — > the Nelson pic on HuffPo FP,
Labelled BILL NELSON – huge ..
Working the easel, pointer in hand ,the close up of Nelson in
” ‘splainin it to us” mode couldn’t be more creepy…
wanna be astronaut.
I swear that man is an alien.
Whew… Marcy! Think I have mentioned Marcy Winograd before, making her third run against Jane Harmon. Waxman has sent letters to the faithful in Santa Monica and the wider district that Harmon represents saying that Marcy, who is Jewish, is bad for Israel……
via BenSmith who links back to Goldberg
Yes! The Donk! Standing up for the right Loyalty Oath!
MRKA!
Standard exceptionalist Identity politics clusterfuck aside, not bad Marcy… for a ..
DONK.
I don’t recall that Marcy has ever gone that far…. I don’t mean in private conversation or even remarks at some gathering during the primaries she has entered against Harmon… but like here, in an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg.
Agreed. And it all is more teapot than tempest …As any of these candidates..who, if seated, do pledge oaths…required and ritual…of office, of allegiance, defenders of Constitution, etc..
And she is no Avigdor whose oaths are floated as mandated for citizens. I see the whole wretched game as this kind of invocation.
Followed by cutting the MIC and Israel their checks.
But Marcy is another waffler
JG: What special interests is she {Harmon} in the pocket of?
MW: Wall Street, weapons manufacturers, Israel. Not Israel, but AIPAC, because it’s not necessarily the same.
JG: Did you support the original invasion?
MW: I had deep misgivings about it because it didn’t address the root causes of the problem.
JG: What are the root causes?
MW: Most of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and were angry at the proliferation of U.S. bases and forces in Saudi Arabia, so I think there’s a great degree of pushback over the presence of U.S. troops all over the world. We have bases in three-quarters of the countries of the world. Rather than being an occupier, we should reassess our role and become a global partner.
Aside from the quick finger point to the Saudis , she offers “deep misgivings” about an invasion – psst Marcy – necessarily involving “troop presence” – when she defines the problem as such. A waffler. And her asterisk on Israel / AIPAC is laughable.
Then of course, there’s the whole Pwog / Donk duality.
You people done ruined me.
I went from hawking Gore /Lieberman ……to this.
I’ve said before she always caves… I do note she seems more open to going farther. I am guessing the Waxman letter pissed her off in some way.
Well 14 of the 19 were Saudis.. and S Arabia gets all kinds of freebies and passes from America. it gets odiferous and old.
Most idfiotic thing to invade Afghanistan, to rerubble the rubble under the guise of 9/11…
etc.
so on…
and
and…
I’ll save that one for the next time she posts at dkos.
yeah I have no interest in loyalty oaths, but i am sick to fucking death of duals… not just dual US Israel… I was just reminded of it all again when the fucking right wing Catholic Polish pretzel died in that plane. So many people living here in SF and the Bay Area, Catholic Poles, flew home to vote for him, then right back here, to live.
then they all wept for the cameras when he died in the crashed plane.
Sound like my new neighborhood… Even the kids are native Polish speakers…
All I can say is it’s a good thing the Irish never went all
bongbong and gunrunny for the old sod.
well now we have the wilted Celtic Tiger for all the effort$$$ Irish Americans (indiividually adn using the government as a front) put in there…
we build such crafty illusions. here there everywhere.
I just want Grandma’s money back.
I’d settle for getting Grannie back……….
I worked with people in Phila and NYC who were regular contributors to the IRA. St Paddy’s day was such a big deal to them – they’d congregate with all the political marchers, get stinking drunk, etc.
I hate the English too, but sending money to terrorists to blow people up in a place you don’t set foot in is a bit much.
oh San Francisco was a support city during the troubles, battles.. etc. No question. From the churches to the bars.
Never could stand St Patty’s Day… just too awful.
I have to say that if I lived in her district, I might vote for Marcy, if not just to put Jane out of office.
HR1955, actually, was the “Treason” so many politicians are using as their psychopathic reason to destroy citizens with, in my book………
She came closer this year in the vote count at the Cal Democratic convention than ever before, iirc what I read, John Burton (the embodiment of sleeze) used some procedural motion ot knock her out. I think they felt a chill wind.
that’s the only way to do it, keep coming back for more, and even then it’s pretty unlikely. Good on her for trying, I guess. Frankly, that party would rather destroy itself than reform.
Yeah I am not saying it is anything other than fruitless… plus over the years, very evident at least some of these slow cavers, do it for the attention.
eh.
‘Millions’ of Frogs Force Closure of Highway in Greece
Coming up –
Goldman Sachs to unveil Apocalypse Futures in trading portfolio..
Obamalama’s fundraising speech:
“No one is more upset than me.” (about the BP spill)
“People weren’t paying attention to me when I said change is hard.”
Now, who does that sound like…?
“It’s hard werk.”
“No one suffers more than the president and I.” (Iraq war)
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And, of course, Obamalama was so “upset” that he went on to crack a few jokes…
Again, sound familiar?
Senate Republicans Seek Special Prosecutor for Sestak Job Claim
Popcorn!
Sestak admitted he was offered a job by the admin but wouldn’t say what it was.
mcat – since you mentioned storing bottled water…I thought this would interest you:
oh yes You have to replace it roughly every year…. which I do try to do, use it up somehow or other and buy new….
Ha hahahahah… Yesterday the Obama-ites said that shutting the Solyndra plant to the construction workers was the idea of Solyndra… but the construction site manager – a company – says it was a Secret Service decision.
Gah.
GOOD LUCK, with the riser in the Gulf too.
Hmmmm, so it will be finished late Friday afternoon on a holiday weekend … interesting timing.
the day Obby is doing a wheels down, on his way to Chicago………………………….
like everything else, it feels managed to death.
The kitties are hot… fortunately, my brother is coming to town this weekend with his car and is willing to cart me to Home Depot to get an AC and other various and sundries…
oh kitties hate being hot…… one of the few things you can do for them is wash their toe pads with cool water…
Or in fact bathe them… they can cool off in a sudsy bath then walk around and air dry…
Kitty baths are fun – if they cooperate.
In the forecast here: possible snow on Friday.
Yup.
And no, I haven’t actually planted my garden yet.
I lucked out on a petite sweetness, that while she doesn’t trust anyone, and is able to mimic a doberman at a barely discernable, low, low volume, rumbling grrrrrrrrrrrrrr, …….loves that water bath…….
you’d likely love her, Marisa………
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oh she sounds wonderful! Is she a mix of some sort?
well, …. Missy thing never said, hon ( ;0) ) if I had to guess, I might say some siamese, a whole lot of feral regality …and a sweet reminder of childhood kitties I loved thoroughly, even hummed to, to entice from out from under that porch, and avoid being scratched the shit out of,….. black and white she is, ……. on the surface…… with that wonderful, almost hairless thang goin on, about the ears, where she, of course, adores being scritched,………
at her core, undescribable …….
Really.
oh I thought you meant she was a dog… I see she is a cat……..
well, not sure what she considers herself anymore, though, in appearance, she looks exactly like a beautiful, petite, harmless cat (who delights, and is none too shy in, ….. in rubbing up against legs, and particularly, feeetsies),…..despite the Freddy Kruger claws, ….. which she has quite the talent with ……
I have to beg people to admire her from a distance, ….while she’s never bit anyone, she packs a rather mean claw.
Being on the first floor, the floor actually stays cool… just the air [and it's cooler in here than outside].
my socks are off too just to get the cool from the floor…
Do you have a ceiling light wehre you could install a ceiling fan? I find those very helpful.. standing fans too… Little clip on fans as well.
yeah… renter… already dumped too much money into previous landlords property…
oh I understand that… I did nto think ceiling fans were a big investment tho…
btw… amid the turmoil, I’m recording the first album by my new project, The Sometime Boys. It’s a mix of piedmont blues, americana, nick drake and jazz pop. All acoustic, except for one guitar solo [on a jazz box]. Very excited. I think this is some of the best stuff I’ve done.
oh I look forward to it!
Me too – sounds interesting.
Holy crap – heat wave in Pakistan. One place was 53C.
I think you can cook an egg in your navel when it’s that hot.
soap bars melt.
How about drones?
No Matter! The whole Winograd Harman Waxman Triangle!
Every Pwogwessive Democratic Jew in the Blogosphere is in this diary!
Major P. R. blowout at White House. Should Emanuel go?
LOL. ( Noting Obbie adrift with BP)
And this , if true, and while it lasts , is DELISH. Just DELISH.
Which IS TRUE!
Oh Snicker Snax Lord of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob!
Rahm’s there ALL WEEK.. And the Bar Mitzvah?
Haaretz reports talk of doin it at The WESTERN WALL.
So – LMAO – don’t blame RAHM for OB’s fucked up Political Bungling!
Rahm’s IN ISRAEL!
why are people whupset? Or is this the “Israelis fed Rahm shellfish” story?
Gah… so I hafta to go read the diary?
I need pain meds. (for the diary)
Western wall… well when Superman went to the WW there was a contingent of what can only be called State Thugs clearing the way for him (and his wheelchair and wif and son). Think what they will do for Rahm, son of a
TerristFreedom Fighter for the State of Israel.Etc.
Different bickering, but Google clued , I missed that, the Ben Smith.. on the shellfish…the gush reiterated by Benny boy from from the restaurant is copious…
….and the comments there are quite amusing as well…
tho another guy called out Ben on (and with)..the homoeroticism..
Why not? What the hell- we are so stuck anyways.
At least the Congress Critters can get a nice quiet shower on
the Hill thru next week without worrying about Rahm’s naked ass goin all
cock swashbuckley on them.
What a relief! Some real tangible support for the Pretzel:
Kerry backs president on handling of Gulf spill – Boston Globe
What to order first? Funeral lillies or masses of popcorn?
New…
LINK
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