Could it possibly look angrier? 29 June 2010
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, The Battle for New Orleans.trackback
Oil clouds the surface of Barataria Bay near Port Sulpher, Louisiana [Sean Gardner/Getty Images]
Or more like a bloom of cancer?
I don’t know that anyone has the heart for it… but I left the gallery of 20 photos at the Guardian at a section of several images of Barataria Bay and Bay Jimmy in Louisiana… and they are so very sad.
The battle, what there was of it, was lost. Has been lost. Is being lost…
I had almost not opened the gallery, feeling it might be national propaganda for BP, even at a quasi left media resource…
At the same time I am looking at the pictures of bits of soaked boom and masses of oil, deep thick sludge and tiny hoses, etc… film of Haley Barbour is on my TV, saying he has to be ”honest” (!) there is not enough boom, nor skimmers, for all that is “headed north”.
Of course, “north” is where he been, for weeks. Whether Dallas, DC, Central Park (yes, with the missus), other points N.. at R fundraisers for his supposed run for pretzel.
I say he is just dropping in on the national bag men.
Biden and Mabus, the former MS gov who is Ob’s part time Czar for the oil, are on the coast today. Not that it matters much, full or part-time, I read yesterday Durbin wants Ob to appoint a WH Czar for the Chinese carp that are invading the Great Lakes.
More toadies. With titles. And collection plates.
Line them all up, with Haley, and punch their lights out.
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Douglas Brinkley, who has played straight man, biographer, ally and apologist to many a dissemblin’ pol, meanwhile always burnishing his Good Boy image in and around the South (and on cable), comes right out and says it… in this Politico article that reeks of the “gone and let it go but for the word games” report:
Read more:
PeopleMagHipparchia who lives on the Gulf coast and posts at corrente, has said from the morning following Ob’s Speech to the Sheeple on the itty bitty problem of the oil, that his device of promising some return to the long gone past, some ultimate restoration of mangrove, wetlands and marshes, etc., was a way to avoid much fo the present issues.
BINGO.
Maybe Obby and Dougie can just get a room, and play off camera.
Surprise!
Energy Breakthru! NO Energy!
Battered spouse syndrome.
did Kerry concede his willingness to compromise from France, like he did back in ’04?
from France
oh I had forgottn that!! And it was so special
I heard a clip on the radio on my way home … thought for some reason they were playing a replay of the hundreds of other times he’s been willing to cave without a fight.
Being a gigolo is such hard work he has no energy left, I guess.
When I read that Teresa had demanded a Catholic annullment for his first marriage, despite its years and two daughters… welllllll….
he, of course, eagerly conceded …
So… what is Markos? A member of the rabid “pollsters’ study set”? Insufficiently shaved around his Adam’s apple?
snicker.
Hilarious! kossacks live and die by those polls.
Here is the Ben Smith version. It really is hilarious, esp as Dkos has been Baby Pollster Central from the get go.
Now, don’t go laughing TOO HARD.
Word is in my agency that the Dems are not passing a budget before the election, as they don’t want to face the wrath of extending/not extending the Bush tax cuts.
.. afraid of being labeled! When ti is already too late!!
Bob Herbert: off the reservation.
It took him this long to figure that out?
Bammy was so Bob’s guy… took a long while. And, I will take a flyer that Bob is back on board pretty soon…
A brave Toronto protester upset over a REAL outrage.
G20 police used imaginary law to jail harass demonstrators and jailed protestors in dangerous and abusive “detention center”
Human rights abuse inquiries – coming soon.
Lots of drama outside my office as the workday ended today: Package found inside federal courthouse not a threat, police say
about five blocks square of downtown Milwaukee was cordoned off at the beginning of rush hour …
oh like here a few weeks ago… unnattended package in Union Sq… our downtown ”park”, which appeared in The Conversation (for a visual of the area)… and blocks, major arteries in every direction.. and major department stores were shut down. Shoppers LOCKED in… etc., for hours.
And it was ………………… nothing.
I think they cleared it up in about 2 1/2 to 3 hours.
MarketWatch:
Money Is Not Real
oops, that all should have been blockquoted.
got it…
Taibbi: Lara Logan, You Suck
damn, should have included the next paragraph, to add some perspective on how fucked up our militaristic empires priorities are:
The Pentagon’s PR staff is nearly as big as the whole fucking STATE DEPARTMENT? Is that right?
Jeebus H Xrist on a pointy stick.
oh but Gates scaled back the Pentagon budget!! Be kind! I think he trimmed all of 10 billion off…
Be nice.
Poor Lara… such a little war monger she volunteered to be. Craven.
oh yum yum… I see Tiny Revolution has built on the current stories on Ms Lara…
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And here is a comment from that piece:
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Oh on Markos the Boychick and Adam and the other Jewish guys trying to screw Ali out of his money so the Atkins brothers or Nate can get the coin while it lasts…
They better hope this guy Del Ali blinks and settles.
A case in point from a box car blog, Blue Jersey.
There was countless rolling of other similar turd quality polling by Markos on DK, and by his Admins. People that MAMZ, (he of The Skill Of A Third Rate Lawyer Who Consequently Does a Decent Job at OOPS Establishing Ostensible Agency ) People that MAMZ says “represent” dailykos.
We could go back through all those posts leading up to Corzine and Coakley getting walloped where FrontPager after FrontPager said the “Polls are all over the place” . “Polls vary.” “Yawn.” “Not even going to bother going into it”
But Wouldn’t it be great if the real story of the Blog Boyos was told? Exposing ALL their interests – especially the sub-consultancies for campaign work to prime consultants and thus not showing up on FEC reporting? The fundraising scam of ActBlue while touting cooked polls? The inflated site stats and auto-refresh angle to scam page views and beat advertisers? It would be nice to see Markos explain to a civil jury how that’s any different from his initial forray looking for dot.com gold in the gay porno biz. Not that it matters, right?
“Cept that Markos has cast his lot in with the Jeebus humping Donks who’ll throw him under the bus .
Welp. Seems to me if the other guy has phone bills,
Markos and his Sir Nerdlington blogger gang are fucked.
The statistical anomaly shit isn’t going to fly.
With Political Polling? In the U Fuckin S ?
Afterall, you guys heard didn’t ya?
Gore won FLORIDA! Right? Right?
Can we get an Amen for the Gay Porno dude and his
Stock Touting Bud screaming Impropriety?
[ Notice: No Gay Porno Was Harmed in the Making of that Joke]
Who now want to join the Ohio Voter Fraud suit too!
TJWT! They really do!
They can have Joe Trippi as ALL the character witnesses.
Etc.
I’m out. While, I might add – having entirely too much fun…
hmm and while i was at Tiny Revolution, an excellent post on how stories of debt are being used to strangle us…
Yup.
And presto no chango! Here is Megan McCardle, one of the dreariest writers on earth to promote the fallacy…
Business Insider (link below) carries her stuff from The Atalntic at the moment…
She reminds me of children I avoided in nursery school….
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“WAY better”. Yes Megan. Way way way, way way way…. and then some more, way way… better.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/#ixzz0sKJWl0Fq
scariest thing about it … NO ONE Is being given a chance to really make a counter argument.
moiv sent me this… and must say it SUMS UP THE DEMOCRATS:
Any guesses, take a flyer in the dark!, where the TRUE sentiments of the fuckwit Dems are?
hmm?
Maybe this is a job for the Catholic gay immigrant, that one: SULLY.
Oh… who and what does this SOUND LIKE? Of course it took Mabus over TWO WEEKS just to get to the Gulf.
Times-Picayune, NOLA.com
The thead is momentarily cheering… with renaming Ob, “President Oshitto” (several used that — must be catching on in the oil soaked Gulf) and use of “maggot mouth” for Mabus.
One poster recalls when Mabus was governor, there was a slogan of “Save us from Mabus”.
Derision must be rising, the engneers,oil industry, various workers, lawyers and assorted others at The Oil Drum, rising talk of hauling off with offing the ptb. Nor is the place a monolith FOR the industry, at all. Heated back and forth over the moratorium case before Judge Feldman, very heated back and forth over the Jones Act and whether or not it is hindering response to the clean up, boats, skimmers and tankers made abroad, etc.
Reminders in threads that some scoundrel bankers and assorted others were pulled from their offices on the 1870s and hung.
Yum.
lambert at corrente coins (or, I think it’s original with him) “unterbussen”.
In this case, the nearly two million on the unemployment rolls that Obby, with control of WH, Senate and House, just threw …yup, off the rolls and UNDER THE BUS.
They should say hello to his white granny, while there.
Lambert could also coin “scheisskopf”, since he also calls him a shithead.
If you’ve got concern about the unemployed, you’ll help them directly with unemployment benefits and welfare programs, not pissant $15 billion “job creation bills”.
We have up to 8 million people in this economy who are flat out not going to be employed for a very long while. They either worked in real estate related industries, where jobs aren’t coming back because the bubble isn’t coming back, or had their job due to the excessive consumption rates due to the bubble, which as I mentioned a second ago is not coming back.
Krugman is worried too, but even he feels that somehow more goverment spending to create jobs is going to save us.
Hey shithead. What people can use is money to pay the bills.
Yeah the job creation is a joke… people need bridge money, however it gets to them.
scheissekopf is a good one… works for me.
And Krugman was all about “We got to give $700 billion to the banks or they won’t make loans.” Not to mention the $100s of billions in backdoor bailouts to have the Treasury, the Fed, AIG, Fannie and Freddie buy all their worthless crap.
From the Fed data on lending Q1’10: Commercial and Industrial Loans, -20.2% annual rate, consumer loans, -16.7% annual rate, real estate loans -9.7% annual rate. Negative lending growth by banks has accelerated since TARP.
So much money wasted on these assholes, and yet the shitheads don’t learn. It sickens.
And as Alex drives the oil… no hope of a washing or flushing with the side squalls of this hurricane/trop storm… the people in the Gulf wait. Some getting 10 c on the dollar, some 30 c on the dollar from BP… a very few finally after 9 weeks getting 70 – 90% of their initial claims.
There is a very depressing article at MoJo which has better reporting on this than I expected, that the cash fro renting/using boats in the clean up is very restricted, as is per day pay for hands on deck, not anywhere near what they got for fishing. AND they MUST submit to urine tests for drugs to be considered for clean up work.
Too tough. And too cruel. Too nasty, esp coming from the killer.
Dean Baker: Is advice from the IMF better than from a drunk on the street?
Econ 101: Monetizing the debt has no inflationary effects when you’re already in a deflationary environment.
“Large-scale central bank purchases of government debt will not create inflation in a context of massive unemployment and excess capacity. This is not a point we have to debate. Japan’s central bank has bought an amount of government debt roughly equal to its GDP, yet it remains far more concerned about deflation than inflation. While we could hope to do better on the stimulus front than Japan, inflation is simply not a problem it faces now or even on the distant horizon.”
It’s very depressing.
… and an embedded link of whales swimming in the “danger zone”.
More from the link to the gulf blog at Mississippi Press:
Let’s see, at $7.45 each, the 14.973 million unemployed will require a $222 million stimulus bill (we’ll get them two kringles, just to make sure they’re happy.)
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — The rap on President Barack Obama is that he doesn’t show enough emotion. But on Wednesday, a pastry made him happy.
En route to a town hall event on the economy, Obama made a surprise detour to O&H Danish Bakery, purveyor of a delicacy called a kringle — a large round flat pastry with a hole in the middle.
Obama walked in with his jacket off and sleeves rolled up and shook hands with the dozen patrons in the store. He sampled a pecan kringle, proclaimed it ”outstanding” and added: ”It makes you happy.”
He ordered one pecan and one cherry. A saleswoman recommended the cheese as well, so he said, ”Let’s get a third!” He insisted on paying full price — $7.45 each.
There you go! Let’s just buy everyone a fucking Kringle.
I am sure he felt he did a lot. Graced them with his personal kringle-ness.
I do have to put in a good word for the kringle … they are pretty yummy.
I don’t know what kringles are? What are they?
they’re a flaky pastry, traditional thing from Denmark. They’re kind of a weird hybid of a danish and a pop tart, only formed into a big ring (usually, though some shops will sell smaller ones that are rectangular). There are some decent pictures of them at This bakery’s website
One of the ladies in a department I used to work in when I first moved here used to bring awesome kringles in on Fridays for the team.
At Yahoo I sw a pic of Our Leader munching on his kringle…. like always he looked bored. Back in the primaries and the GE he did this sort of ‘drop in amongst the locals’ really badly too.
Biden was much more fun when he was here for Russ’ fundraiser the other day, exchanging words with a manager of a local custard shop who demanded that Biden cut his taxes.
I was interested to see after that EFFORT on Biden’s part he could barely animate himself down on the Gulf.
These people have so checked out of the rented room
Over. Finis.
I’m starting to think that life would be a helluva lot less stressful if I were a sociopath….
Oh, and fuck Obama and his 7 dollar pastries! Get this: i screwed myself out of the auto-extension of my UI benefits by….wait for it…working part time too much. My account ran dry on the 6th of June…missed the auto-extension deadline of May 29 by a week!
*sigh* One of my best friends brought over some extra food that she got with her WIC coupons….’course I don’t qualify ’cause I am not pregnant and don’t have kids under the age of 5. I’d propably make “too much” in any case….
Well, we still have a roof and each other — boy the elder’s summer starts in earnest today (he had to go to summer school), and boy the younger is just cute!
ONWARD!
Hope everyone is well (as can be)! 8)
Get this: i screwed myself out of the auto-extension of my UI benefits by….wait for it…working part time too much.
the whole thing gets very tricky… I doubt anyone can figure it out.. esp with no help…
Frankly I am amazed that Texas participates in the WIC program.
Oh, the state has no problem administering social programs that are 100% federally funded! heh
The WIC program is actually very robust, but the eligibility requirements leave a lot of needy people out….I never really understood the whole “kids under 5″ thing, like what on their 6th birthday you can stop feeding them?! I suppose it has to do with them being old enough to go to school, but if you can get a job with school hour schedule that pays enough to take care of business, I’ve never heard of it. It is a horrible catch-22 with kids — when I heard that Sharron Angle interview, I wanted to reach through my TV and throttle her.
they purposely make the rules hard to navigate … fuckers.
Well, it wasn’t hard to understand, it’s just that I knew it would last forever, so when these part time jobs came up, I had to take them….I should have not, but my sense of ethics just doesn’t work that way….like I said, like would be a whole lot easier if I were a sociopath!
Ah, well, things could be worse, and, at least for the time being, they aren’t!
Would NOT, NOT last forever….
Also, if you turn down a job offer, even part-time, they can take away your benefits… of course they can take away your benefits if you say that your part-time job keep you from being immediately available to accept a full-time job should it miraculously fall out the sky one day as well…
I was lucky in that I could honestly say that my PTs would NOT interfere with that, since they’re both online, but they really put you in an awful situation, because of course if you “lie” to them, they can not only cut off your benefits, but make you pay them all back too!
What a fucked up mess.
the only way to make it work is to somehow work under the table while getting unemployment.
I had a less than full-time job back in the early 70s while I was on unemployment… the job paid once a month, on the first. So I just claimed I earned that for the week, rahter than for the month. At that time, they simply held back your Unemployment for THAT WEEK… it in fact extended the time you received the payments…
But one thing s absolutely certain, ALL federal and state programs were simpler back then.
It is now set up to be almost completely ”no win” situation…
cause I am not pregnant
Well…
No, forget it…
It’s forgotten! Believe me!
‘Weapons’ seized in G20 arrests not what they seem
Chief admits 5-metre G20 security rule didn’t exist
Imaginary laws. What could possibly go wrong?
I suppose something less than imaginary, as in R-E-A-L, could go wrong. That sort of anti-pattern pattern we live with.
They toss out imaginary laws and rules and people actually, really suffer under them.
But the authorities have a very weird, very ultimate “deniability”. Who knew it mattered?
Well, it’s going to matter once Amnesty Int and the civil liberties union are done with them.
I haven’t seen stats yet on how many people were arrested in those areas (out of the 900 they scooped up) but I expect there are going to be lawsuits for a very long time.
And who are the “thugs” again?
I think they think the payoff in intimidation of people is worth the settlements.
The end is nigh…unless it’s not
And I doubt that Pete Petersen is the only gazillionaire to pungle up a billion behind this sort of “Cut them off at the ankles… and NO TOURNIQUETS!”
Canada spends $1 billion to arrest a deaf man
Dozens of U.S. Citizens on Assassination List, White House Adviser Hints
..moving this last comment forward to the new thread, Madman…
New…
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laugh laugh laugh… Might as well…