Sent by Gawd… 30 May 2010
Posted by marisacat in 2008 Election, 2010 Mid Terms, 2012 Re Election, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, San Francisco, The Battle for New Orleans.trackback
Obama visits the oil spill
Obama - June 3 2008 – Xcel Center – St Paul MN:
I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people…
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…
This was the moment — this was the time — when we came together to remake this great nation…
A few months later, La Nan, at a three tier fundraiser here in SF in August 2008, intro’d Obama as “sent to us by God”.
The party has three card monte down… with incense and the holy happy wafer… what’s not to like?
Snicker.
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Here is a very sad read. If someone who has lived and worked on the Gulf for decades, in the oil industry and in Civil Rights work and writing/ reporting, cannot sort out what is going on… I sure will not be able to……..
[J]indal and Nungesser have been arguing that barrier berms would stop oil from reaching more marshland. And their arguments make obvious sense under the circumstances.
The danger in the dredging plan, argues Dr. Murphy, is that the dredged material would be drawn from polluted shipping channels and washed ashore during the volatile hurricane season coming soon. The oil will not be stopped, yet the toxic damage will be multiplied.
There is money involved, of course. And already by Thursday evening Nungesser was on CNN demanding more.
The CNN media campaign this week has the shocking effects that we remember from oil wars past. And the effects are especially felt among those of us who like Louisiana Congressman Charlie Melancon find it difficult not to cry at the sight of our dying Gulf. And there is no doubt that our shock is being played like a football on its way to one goal line or the other. …snip…
The close:
[T]hey say the first stage of grief is denial, and I don’t want to believe that any of this is happening. What Congressman Melancon did in public yesterday, we have been doing in our homes this week all along the Gulf Coast. You cannot love the Gulf Coast, witness this shocking trauma, and control your tears at the same time.
But now on top of it all we have to watch out for the ways that our tears are being maneuvered into contracting strategies that may have no other uses beyond profiteering. I’m not convinced that there are worse things than a raw oil slick, not even if they are barrier berms or 6-mile plumes of noxious crap. But if it is the best thing for all God’s creatures on the Gulf Coast to just stand aside and accept the sacrifice that oil slicks bring once they are imminent, then it’s time we started moving from Denial to Acceptance at some improbable speed.
ugh I just realised (moving slowly here) that it is possible that “nuking” the Gulf leak may enter the campaigns. I mean fractious stupid dumb political arguments and food tossing fights…
I don’t think I can take it…
hmm I meant to include a piece that Greg Moses posted at C-Punch a week ago…
Thanks Marisa! What a great piece, loved this paragraph:
”A boot heel on the neck of BP? Is this how Democrats have come to brag about what real power feels like? The US Navy has a fleet of nuclear submarines that can erase all human life from the planet in 90 seconds or less but only BP can be trusted to lead the world when the water gets that deep? And even in this emergency the only thing that Constitutional authorities know how to do is look for some neck to stand on? No wonder even the birds have had enough of this nonsense. If it’s necks that count for power these days, I can tell you, even the birds are ready to go.”
[bolding mine]
Have a good day everyone.
love this
I saw a report on this… the farmer and his mother are a hoot. And I have to say, Trump walks around like he owns Scotland.
I hope the protestors win…
BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Safety Risks Almost a Year Ago
A diversion: Crop circle season arrives with a mathematical message
Yes, We Can Push Out BP
direct link to the story about the the 17 countries that offered assistance.
CAP also has a piece up calling on Obby to replace BP.
I am guessing he will… Business Insider said he would as well. I would say he’ll do it in a bid to save his pretzelency. etc.
too little, too late … so much damage has already been done.
yeah I agree… he replaces them now, punditry land will try to rally things for him, but between he and Salazar and Janet Nap and Thad Allen and Carol Browner………….
They have literally made no sense. They’ve acted like they are the household help for BP… which would be just doing their job.
What a fucking farce.
She’s begging. And it ain’t pretty…. kind of a mediocre effort.
And the other thing, once again Obby proved he cannot go out there unscripted (the presser, it could hardly have been worse). A caller last night to KGO pulled up the old playbook, he needs to take a half hour of prime time, speak to the American people frm the Oval office.
I think it is too late for that… Nobody, except his die hards, cares what he says… and won’t give him a half hour any more…
Frank Rich,
Theatergoer, Gravitasnik, Rounder, Toady… is so concerned the EcoDisaster on President Corporate Suckling Suck’s watch might even be so bad as to affect His Specialness’ ……..reputation:
Shorter Frank Rich:
BwahamObama! Waaaa! What about BUSH!??
Poor Frank, morally adrift in goo,
{Blood, Oil, AND listing plum retainership at the NYT}
a drowning yet loyal 3rd Way cabin boy more concerned now about the capsizing of “the principal mission” of the Obllamacy:
Making White Liberals feel good about their dissolution.
Talk about Sacrifice.
Making White Liberals feel good about their dissolution.
What I see and saw in the election process, a lot of white liberals thought Obby was their personal Pullman Porter. Making the way all smooth, smiling, there when you needed him, etc. Reassuring them of their position in the scheme of things…………….
Didn’t turn out that way tho. Mainly because this is not some simple train ride.
Great analogy.
Definitley sold at its core as the archetypal helpful AA. To which they layered on so much into the mythmaking, so much…the Christchild, abandoned Blessed, revealed to the Wise, the Peacemaker, Martin, but Gawd it got unwieldy , as all religion does, especially as they cut across the grain, Ob as Insurgent, malcom in earlier days, no Malcom towards the end, no JFK, no, no, – Rreagan — Reagan! etc…
I enjoyed the spectacle, seeing the Clintons floundering with baggage the price for their retention. NTIM , Obbie was the insiders hedge, the PTB had to know Hill and Bill’s ratings problems, that they’d have a time of it. And while his Pullman Brand marketing (ignore campaign jets bankrolled for 2 years ) was certainly for domestic consumption in a country whose elites killed its own rail networks even after THAT trackwork was indigenous people massacred, then granted, subsidized, market bubbled, stock frauded or otherwise stolen and built into infrastructure’s fair and square existence, I think the PTB marketeers also anticipated his helpful services keeping discerning overseas ticketholders on the train, usually tolerant sorts actually accustomed to semi-reliable service, be it in actual rail passage and debt service alike. I imagine the soothing “anti War” massage given as boiling market engine approached bubble blowout time prolly bought US based market manipulators some time in making their exits (junk asset allocations) during the 2 year primary run-up..
“We’ll square up next stop, okay?
Isn’t our new man wonderful?” etc.
yeah best maintained best serviced Amtrak in the nation is the car train from DC to S Florida… so they can take it down to the corporate paid for condos.
Well we do have that commuter stretch ,
ya know- for the workin Joes of Wilmington.
On board Gaza’s Freedom Flotilla
Flotilla passengers don life vests
Palestine ,
host to the cancer that is Israel, Promised Land of Loons and Goons.
I wonder how this year’s 10 grand of my money is doing over there.
Is it in helicopter gunships? One of the prisons? A checkpoint? New appliances in a Jewish West Bank home? Maybe I can use the frig as ours is toast . Maybe the Palestinians could get a shelf for cold storage too, I mean, other than the morgue. Not that I’m entitled, as my money could be brutalising or killing people elsewhere. I just wish they’d let me know. Bulldozing in East Jerusalem? Picking up the catering tab for a think tank conference luncheon? Like those that precipitated the banning of Norman Finkelstein from Israel for ten years and most recently refused admittance to Chomsky?
De Nile………………….. big time. Can these guys dig a deeper dirtier hole for themselves?
I think we have no clue what is coming…
I couldn’t help it , I had to peep in again with Frank Rich.
I now feel like had an encounter with Frank, well, at least what HE looks like all man titty oiled in mere lace waistbanded thong and Nancy Sinatra boots in a room devoid of all furniture save the butt boosting slice of cheese wheel shag cushion on the floor.
Jeezis.
RELAX, Frank. SOMEONE will man the plug.
Halting~ly?? and inarticulate~ly???
Much ly?? However ya like it, Frank:
Wait for it-
Frank:
“We read Frank Rich so you don’t have to”
From my perspective that means, “you read Frank Rich so I don’t have to.”
Hayward said Sunday the oil is on the water’s surface, and that BP’s sampling showed “no evidence” of oil in the water column.
After limited confessional acknowledgment, Perpetrator flees.
They are prolly gonna get the proverbial stock shit beaten out of them till they can announce some accord over cleanup costs..
Which Obbie will have to do with the GOP. Which if that doesn’t finish him off, reality will. A Dead Gulf, in all its impact, economically certainly, and beyond, especially so as the oil disaster migrates. Florida. Oil Prices. Tourism. Coastal Real Estate well beyond Gulf shores.
What card does Obbie have left , politically, that might rally the rubes? Millions of Jobs hopping out of a hat?
Another domestic attack?
More War?
Driving more of late, I notice NPR is in full State Propaganda mode. They had some UMiss Marine Science Prof , a third rate bullshit artist saying the ocean is well suited to devour this. Spoke of methane eating micro-orgs. He Spared the listening audience the micro-org proliferation and bio toxin releasing death peaking out in THEIR life cycle in the food chain. He must have his PhD in Anthropomorphizing, too, saying that
What I see is this: All hands on deck.
As massive State Sponsored Disinformation Campaign …
proceeds full scream ahead.
well except dolphin are washing up dead. I have managed to spare myself the pictures … but it is happening.
This is the awash in OilCo and Mil Money douchebag telling the happy Dolphin and fish story…
DR. Vernon Asper
And the UMiss Department of Marine Science unabashedly touts their funding ….SCAM..
And Lordy, He’s prolly a Fundy too . A Messiah College undergrad in the 70′s. Messiah College has spent a whole lot of money tweaking its image from the 1970′s, when it was a bona fide Christhaven Weirdo Warehouse. Started as a Bibble College in 1909, they were the joint that hosted the cozy 2008 Faith in Public Life Pretzel debates where all candidates came and knelt. Monica Goodling , the DOJ purging Christbride went there, though in the 80′s.
A bit different now, I’m told, but not much. It was outright creepy in the 70′s. My then SO’s sister had dated a guy who went there. We took a road trip from Philly on a Friday and planned to stay all weekend. We got there, a bit of visual shock, starched khakis, white oxford, Brill Creme on top of biz cut. 1970′s. Said he was concerned the Catholic Church and their schools were too liberal. Fortunately after two years this was the weekend Horny Harriet , my girlfriend’s sis decided she had enough. They broke up cuz he wouldn’t fuck her, *school rules and all. No, no, a Christian man was fine, she said, but when on to tell him she was looking for a man with a penis. LOL. We were back in Philly Saturday Night.
Marine researcher at UGA is keeping a blog of the water sampling being dne on the plumes.
Just a few blog entries so far, one very sweet and gentle one of entering an area of clear crystaline blue water dn being joined by a pod of dolphins who surfed and leaped about in a display.
Oh Fer Fuck’s Sake.
Sorry to be so dumbfounded still.
But it really is sweeping, co-opting all . Obbie was a given at the outset.
But pretty clear the PTB are drawn and running the table, from activist groups and academics on the take , with the microphone supplied by the complicit media. Obbie is going to get mauled till he gives them a cap, and by that I hardly mean an engineering solution. Without a cap on their damages he’s their whipping boy. They are going to flood the airwaves with minimizers and /or experts on the shoulda woulda coulda. With a cap on their damages, he’s the electorate’s and Freebie Ironic Pass Rich here, the GOP’s, too. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving Tool.
Night ).
Maryland Police Again Threaten Citizens With Arrest for Filming Them in Public
Nina Totenburg is calling Gulf Oil Spill a “natural disaster”.
Uh, no it is not.
Aren’t these people appalling.
A line up of apologists: Krauthammer! Evan Thomas, Nina Totenburg… (Inside Washington on PBS)
Mark Shields hung back on the slobbery commiseration with Obby.
Geesh.
ugh.. it got worse.. Evan Thomas said Obby and Crew are feeling ”burned”. They believed BP when they assured them, ”it was under control, it would be taken care of”.
Oh Bullshit, big time. If Oby and Crew did not seek their own counsel on what they were facing (and if they did not they give a flying hoo hoo about their poltical asses) then, I don’t even know what to say.
When a criminal atty, or in fact almost any kind of atty, takes on a new client, even with the client’s cash in hand, the first thing they do is investigate their own client, professionally. Forensic accounting, private eye, clean dirt, dirty dirt.
My guess, the WH did not want to be bothered. For some reason they still believe Obby is related to Midas.
Except he is not.
(I see Carole Browner wore her best fake bespoke pin stripe suit)
Several casualties in clash between Gaza aid flotilla, Israel Navy
“clash”? How about “in attack by Israeli navy”
unconfirmed reports of 2 dead, several wounded
twitter feed about what’s happening
RT @JamalDajani: 1000′s of Turks waving Palestinian & Turkish flags march towards #Israel consulate in Istanbul #flotilla
With any luck they’ll burn it the fuck down.
Article says 10 dead. Ready the whitewash. No really, they attacked us!
These war criminals are psychopaths.
no humanitarian crisis… must be why the convoy has “thousands” of wheelchairs…
wheelchairs: WMD material, obviously
oh you know… they were electric… could siphon off the electricity and use it to launch missiles.
The Sydney Herald has more.
Australian ABC Online is now saying 16 dead…
As Israel makes murder on aid workers and a relief ship..
Up pops a piece in the London Sunday Times, reporting on another Flotilla..
I think Rahm should stay and fight. Crazy Fuckin Jews.
Who knows what goes on in the House of Mirrors they build.
Or even if the nuke sub deploy story is true.
Selling BP? Buying BP? Oil Futures long? Oil Futures short? Who knows.
One thing is true, they just made murder on relief workers aboard an aid ship flying a Nato signatory’s flag. No, I don’t expect anything whatsoever in the form of sanctions coming from the US , the West at large , or the UN. That injustice said, I hope they’re destroyed.
Way past time, the Amerocentric folly (and hypocrisy) of hoping they’ll “behave” and come to terms with those they brutalize, habitually, systemically, and on every American shlub’s dime like me…Fuck em.
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We’re getting ready for this huge push in AfPak. The luster is off President Magic Pony. While Sellers can’t PAY suckers to take BP’s credit default swaps…Leave it to the homicidal paranoiacs,
the nutbar Israelis, to step into the breach. Welp. Good thing we have BIDEN managing “the drawdown” which as of last week, was “going to proceed” “as scheduled” in Iraq “this Summer”. Barring unforeseen circumstances, mind you.
Can things get anymore fucked up???? I think so.
Is Rahm still over there? Remember when Biden was there and more settlements were announced? I know Netanyahu is in Canada right now but it seems like he just delights in giving Obama et al the finger at every opportunity while raking in the billions in aid and comments about how the US is Israel’s BFF.
Let’s hope Turkey goes ballistic over this. And I believe there was a member of the Swiss parliament on one of those flotilla boats as well. This will be a true international incident. Not that Israel cares…
I saw a report on the BBC that Israel is claiming it was responding to “live fire” from the boats. Oh really? Got proof? And that there was an 18-month old baby on board as well. That must have been one of the provocateurs.
baby wore a bandolier…
Is Rahm still over there?
I dunno. I certainly hope so at the wrong place at the right time.
surely he was with the IDF who repelled down to the boats from the helicopters…
I know Netanyahu is in Canada right now but it seems like he just delights in giving Obama et al the finger at every opportunity while raking in the billions in aid and comments about how the US is Israel’s BFF…. - catnip
BiBi’s finger is Obama’s tongue.
And Ob seems to dig the fisting.
i m laughing so hard I am coughing… !! thank you…
LA Times:
and …
The IDF has video of their crew warning off the boats (shown on BBC) but they don’t seem to have their own video of their boarding. No need to wonder why…
Now they’re saying they were attacked with axes. Ramping it up with every hour. Next it’ll be nukes.
baby wore a nuke packed bandolier!
I see CNN (US) is finally covering this from Turkey.
Their headline: “Breaking news: IDF Boards Gaza Boats”
Wrong – on so many levels.
I see the Georgetown Tattler (WaPo)
has reliably turned yet again into an IDF PNAC press op
So fucking SCROOOOOOD.
Australia says a reporter fo theirs and a photog, also theirs, are “missing”, not in communication, from the flotilla… and both had sat phones. The last they transmitted was that Zodiacs were approaching…
I se I still had the link open
Netanyahu needs to get a grip on reality. Here he is pushing a demilitarized Palestine as his idea for a “peace” process when his murdering thugs would continue to have free reign?
And speaking of assholes, the 2 BBC anchors I’ve seen interview the spokesperson from the Free Gaza movement calling in from Cyprus have been nothing but pro-Israel shills. The last one even called her “naive”.
Brave New world… UK Telegraph goes with footage from Al Jazeera… and Turkish TV…
Apparently Israel has gone on the “highest state of alert”.
People who have lived on the widespread cash economy along the Gulf… are out of luck, no documentaton of income thru IRS, no loss of income can be filed with BP.
Watch the gulf wither… I say it is a plan…
gnu
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