Day 32 13 June 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
Oil washes ashore at Grand Isle Louisiana from the sunken BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig — Soaked in oil, a seabird lies dead in the surf on Elmer’s Island, Louisiana, May 21, 2010. Oil began washing up on the beaches and marshes of Southern Louisiana after the explosion of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig a month ago. [UPI/A.J. Sisco]
well.. that was Day 32, May 21. diane posted this UPI gallery.
I notice cute little references being slipped into reports, one notably in the Paper of Record, the NYT, that soon it will be better, the relief wells will do the job.
I posted this in the last thread, but the whole read is very sobering. Unless of course some fool thinks that 2 months of what we have had somehow leads to a HAPPY CONCLUSION.
And I wish he would stop diagnosing the nation (we’ve been touched, touched!, we won’t be the same again!). He’s not any good at it. His comments on congress are just hilarious. They too have suffered enormously, as has he! The weight, the greatest weight of all time, that they have borne! Is not to be borne without re-election!!
Not even he can believe that extruded scheisse. Or, maybe he does. Who the hell knows.
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Madman posted this at the end of the last thread:
There can be no transformative leader in a paralyzed government
The Leader …[the only one allowed, by the ruling class, to be a leader ...d.] merely the sum of the system’s broken parts.
sounds right to me.
Oh I don’t know… a tad aggressive, wouldn’t you say?
Any medals awarded yet, I wonder?
medals awarded, and ‘giggles’ galore ….sounds like ……, from the
real, WORLD CUP 2010 ……
youtube removed the “We Con” video….gee wonder why.
I cannot believe I am watching the Tony awards. Esp as I have a slew of DVDs here…
… and it is so bad, it is unbelievable. Myabe it is the car wreck aspect.
Oh, so THIS is why we’ve had a bug up our ass about Afghanistan:
U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan
It all becomes clear.
Yeah, they “stumbled across” this stuff, accidentally, while they were doing some work establishing the American Empire. Ha ha.
Just blithe spirits gamboling about the war zone. One of them fell down and Eureka! A major find of extensive mineral wealth!
who knew!!
Now, instead of pulling the troops out, they’ll just be enlisted as voluntary miners for the next decade or so.
I like the conceit that nobody involved with the Afghan Geologic Survey had managed to figure this out before the bearers of the light of civilization appeared in 2004.
The sad thing is that the vast majority of the population is going to believe this bullshit.
Hey there, Marisa…remember me? (On DKos years ago, you knew me as SlackerInc) Just happened across a couple comments of yours from a 2006 blog entry about Chuck Schumer. Even then, you were greeted in a “long time no see” way by another commenter, and you noted that you had been banned by DKos. So…what was that all about?
I called out an operative. One who worked in Shumer’s NYC office. Seems operative boys are tender in their nether regions.
Huh, that’s quite a coincidence.
I had always liked Schumer until yesterday. I got super pissed off at though when I read that he had celebrated Blanche Lincoln’s victory over both Wall St. and the unions (and this led, indirectly, to that old blog entry). I didn’t think it was a good idea for labour to spend all that money primarying her, but at the same time it’s not even smart politics on Schumer’s part to diss labour that way. Their money and organising muscle will be sorely needed in November.
Good luck to them all.
Good luck to whom all, exactly? Sorry, having trouble parsing your meaning here–seems a tad opaque.
I was referring to any and all mentioned in your comment.
Politico “44″:
From the Gibbs statement.
after all, that’s how we cover up our crimes … don’t the Israeli’s deserve the same opportunity?
Brothers in arms.
hmm
Via Mike Allen Playbook
Neatly forgetting than less than a week ago Suttles promised (an Arpege moment!) the flow would be a “trickle” by the time Obby made his way back to the Gulf.
Where and why does the admin find reason to be “encouraged”.
Nice to see the Admin leaks keep Mike Allen out of the bathhouses.
(Oh c’mon that’s funny.I mean, fuck, the last thing I’d wanna see is Mike Allen as one of the four dudes, as IOZ puts it,
watching from across the room.) LOL
Yeah nobody has mentioned today that the ”promise” last week was the horrible live stream would show a “trickle” for the Foundling’s return to the Gulf.
Tho Tapper did do a segment on ABC of ‘what they said’ vs ‘what is’. I did not catch it all, tho…
Near-Record 49% Say Democratic Party “Too Liberal”
lol…compared to what?
Too liberal for my shirt!…
Makes as much sense as anything…
I’m too sexy for a poll, too sexy for a poll, so sexy.
Dismaying:
BP engineer called doomed rig a ‘nightmare well’
These people aren’t only callous and incompetent, they’re really really really REALLY STUPID to put stuff like that in an email.
that is a very interesting report… thanks for posting that… Also if BP ignored the best advice of Halliburton on the cement and of Schlumberger, as the report seems to indicate… I say the noose tightens on BP
The Florida Keys are trying to self organise ahead of the oil and finding they are up agaisnt BP. And the CG and in some cases their own city officials (they discovered a closed and secret meeting between those groups).
TIME
I would love to see a shut down of US 1
seriously, what can they do w/ oil dispersed at depth?
I don’t know.
Oil wants to come to the surface, and so does air, so it makes sense that air bubbles could be used to “steer” oil upwards. Why not give it a shot? Anything is worth a try at this point.
BP is focusing all their resources and ingenuity on asscovering and nothing on solving the actual immediate problem.
I agree… sometimes it pays to listen.
I certainly admit that over and over, masses of people are offering up quasi solutions that have been discarded or discredited over the years… If BP and the CG and the government really wanted to help, it would be not be hard to ensure that articles covering the most frequently offered solutions appear in the mass media.
But they don’t.
THis guy at least has an idea.
But the ptb don’t even wnat to expend a few thousand toward the Keys’ work in early preparation. I esp loved the story of a crew of 13 women {knives in their teeth!) kayaking into the mangroves and clearing out refuse and whatever else, in preparation for simplified oil cleaning.
Wow, where’d you see that story?
When I was growing up, during the Cold War, there were a lot of these “American ingenuity”/”individuals fighting against an overpowering threat” stories in the media – in Readers’ Digest etc. – but now, the predominant theme in such news/infotainment stories is crippling fear and powerlessness. I guess our system has become the evil empire and needs to control us through fear.
The movie “The Russians Are Coming” keeps popping up in my consciousness while reading about these people defending themselves against the spill and the BP powers-that-be – wasn’t there a scene at the end in which an international crisis is averted when the sub is escorted away by a flotilla of American fishing boats and pleasure craft? Power to the People!
It was in the TIME mag story on the Keys, linked up a few comments…… if they kayaked in as it said, I suspect it’s true.
OK thanks, I missed those links.
People’s revolt! Bring it on!!! Long overdue. I hope that the ghost of Hemingway protects these Key West folks and guides them to do what’s right because of the principle of the thing.
Is Obama on crack?
I just saw a clip of him on KO saying the beaches would be the easiest thing to clean up and that they’ll basically be back to normal in a couple of years.
ORLY?
In some areas of LA where it obviously hit first, it is 8 and 9 inches deep… with more to come. Not sheen, not oil, but thick gooey batter. That then dries in the sun.
I’d say maybe with repeated cleanings and long term attention you can get something “presentable” but…
I noticed he also delcared gulf fish and shrimp OK to eat. WIth around 40% of the Gulf closed to fishing.
I thought he looked like an idiot… and I see more and more articles pushing the brilliant as a light bulb lighting up idea that maybe he is not so smart. He and his crew are utterly deaf to politics on the hoof.
I think the Democratic party’s long roll out of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner has failed.
I can’t find his beach quotes in any of the news stories I’ve read so far. Good little WH stenographers – the lot of them. Oh – but they noted that Obama said his seafood lunch was “delicious”.
I thought I caught his beach quotes on CBS… I know i heard it somewhere before here…
Like I said, I saw the clips on MSNBC but I can’t find them in any written story.
I heard them on NPR coming home, too.
The accepted term for the “batter”, I’ve gathered from news reports, is “mousse”. Elegant, wouldn’t you say? I wonder what kind of wine would go with it.
… some barely chilled red, perhaps. A soft mouthy white… Or a froth of champagne.
I had been making jokes that Obby would soon say something about Louisiana Vinaigrette… but Mousse a la Gulf… there we have it.
Blessing or blasphemy?
AIPAC… of course anything qualifies as a “important step forward”. Just like beaches get cleaned by snapping fingers and twirling around… etc.
Yes let’s all rise up and work very very hard that Israel not be ISOLATED.
More proof that partisanship kills brain cells – kossacks defending NC’s Etheridge who assaulted a guy on camera and then later apologized. But, no – IOKIYAD.
You have to wonder just how stupid the party is… they leapt to defend him… AND early reports carefully omitted his party.
God, how can you read this stuff, catnip – I tried and couldn’t get through more than a few exchanges. It’s so damned depressing – such time and energy devoted to ridiculous mindless bickering. And it goes on hour after hour, day after day, month after month, etc.
Actually, a pretty good description of Hell.
It reinforces my belief that there are a lot of people out there who have a very narrow grasp of reality.
from an interview w/ Bruce Sterling, a science fiction writer whose books I’ve enjoyed:
snip:
Financiers live in small, panicky urban cloisters, severely detached from the rest of mankind. They are living today in rich-guy ghetto cults.
That is the truth… the most frantic conspiracists, conspiracy mongers, panics and fears with little basis or a self-made basis (which is worse!) are the extreme wealthy.
yup …
This is what can happen if you protest peacefully against Israel in America:
I am in awe of that woman.
pwned – as the kids say.
Wasn’t that great?
AND IF if the billions we send to Israel isn’t bad enough,
7 million a day as noted by that fine citizen,
thanks to the shills for Israel running the DoJ,
{Lanny Breuer served coffee by figurehead Holder,}
WE CONTINUE TO PAY for those FBI knocks meant as political disruption, intimidation, and recruiting for the same ….here.
I loved how she turned and asked the FBI man and woman THEIR political views, that as taxpayers and a matter of human decency they might be interested in JOINING THE PROTESTS.
* the taxpayer point is most effective .
Afterall, We, the Lumpen, disordered in this most imperfect Union,
LOVE money. Which is why the books are so effectively cooked on “aid” to Israel. So intrinsically enmeshed with Oil Baronies and Banksterism, we’re fighting the NeoCons wars for it.
God of Stuff forbid people get clued to the costs in terms of the War footing, the banking, the Big Brother Security State. Not that it make a difference wrt to deciderrrrs. They can print money, hand out more ride tickets. For a time. But there is so little recognition just how devalued our Way of Strife is anymore. Good luck governing it, tho.
Keep those kiddies in the gated communities, too. And make sure you allot housing for the shaved head security types who’ll need to be sleeping in the bedroom and lounging poolside when you want to screw. And make sure THEY’RE happy – always -
that they don’t ever want to venture out to a farm with the family on a day off, say, maybe to pick strawberries when neither they nor the strawberries can get past the checkpoints anymore….
There will not be enough gated communities to hold all these crooks.
Duke has had a research vessel down there, on a 10 day mission thru tomorrow… to test for methane gas…which, caveat: based on BP numbers, is 40% of the “spill”.
Truly we are blessed.
I’ll bet BP is negotiating with the WH to reduce its criminal liability in exchange for setting up that escrow account. That’s how Obama deals- compromise by giving away the farm and then believe you’re working from a position of strength. Oh – and then tell everybody you had to do it because you’re Looking Forward™.
Yeah something like that is going on. And BP I think really wants to pay out their dividend… it is a high one, no wonder pensioners and others invest in BP. What a pyramid game!
Business Insider reported the other day that Brit stakeholder are cutting back on BP but US stakeholders have greatly upped their stake. A couple of hedge funds sunk quite a bit into BP…
Too rich for my weak brain.
From the article I linked to in the comment below:
I hadn’t heard about that and I don’t think that’s a legally viable request. They seem to be grasping at straws trying to make it look like they’re getting tough.
When Ob brought that up, I thouht it was an easy thing for BP to refuse to do.
Obama, always spliting the baby.
Double murderer set to be last American killed by firing squad
Double murder, eh?
So they’re going to merely shoot him?
AND with so many methods…em…. Available?
Why, Bless little Utah’s Big Weirdo Ranch Heart.
I’m surprised they don’t shoot him AND give him a lethal injection.
I mean, ~ To Save Jobs™.
‘course, the gratuitous shot on The Magic Underpants State, and the admiring nod due on Maher’s latest… is more appropos of Obbie,
who is whining on (this time) (again now with the whining) -
about cuts in Public Sector jobs in the States.
Yep, Good Luck Governing It.
. For Gawd of Getting One’s Final Reward’s sake!
Think of the contractual Physicians in the Prison Industrial Complex!
The abomination of state killing ~by other means~ must stop!
Pretty much covers it all, I think.
Soem blowback:
All this garbage is about “people trying to make money”. Why else would the terrorists pick a target with the name “World Trade Center”?
Nu…
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