Death 6 June 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.trackback
An oil-covered hermit crab is seen on on the shore of Alabama’s Dauphin Island on Wednesday. The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is spreading, with oil balls reportedly headed for Pensacola, Fla. John David Mercer/Press-register/AP
A late night caller to KGO who attended a series of lectures in the 70’s at Tulane on Louisiana coastal habitats, a series given by Jacques Cousteau, repeated a warning he leveled at the attendees:
If the marshes and wetlands were not protected and maintained then they would be facing the “death of birth”.
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Marisacat 
Gah… just catching Inside Washington, Evan Thomas is explaining away Obby’s cold fish demeanor, as “he’s Spock!”
Well, despite a huge sales job by the DNC, we know for certain he is not
FDR
JFK
RFK
LBJ
Truman
Reagan
Teddy Roosevelt
Mandela
King
and so on. Was ever a shamefully empty chameleon so manipulated into the skin of dead men?
(Mandela is not long for this world and whoever was in prison fro 27 years is very much dead)
some ghastly thought in my head, are we on the edge of swinging wildly (though not at all) to the equally ghastly fake “matriarchies” bit, of mostly well groomed (at least initially), starting with S.Palin ……… can’t I just go to sleep, and not wake up?
selfish, I know…………..(and yeah Mandela …..I immediately thought of Minnie, …and those rubber necklaces, ..okay ..I know someone jus called me a racist….what the fuck ever ya’ll ….peel that flesh back, and it’s a kinda indescribable …thing …………….)
I don’t see how that is racist. Minnie Mandela became a horror. A horror show as well.
thanks hon… ;0)
Not to be too nerdy, but Barry ain’t no Spock. Barry looks out for himself and whoever advances Barry. Barry is the LAST American politician (a notably selfish breed to begin with) that would walk into an irradiated reaction chamber and die with his last words being “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few … or the one.”
Barry is there for Barry and Barry’s own advancement. Service is a slogan, a part of a branding, like sugary breakfast cereals advertising how healthy they are.
agree… Evan T was flailing wildly just punching up and ptiching out whatever hit his maggot ridden brain.
Been a re-write man too long.
Actually, the whole Spock Star Trek Shattner (Strawberry Fields Forever) straight out of militarized Orange County, Hollowwood Desert of Sout CALI thing, and all its: MUST Go To Mars, ……. and trash the galaxies, like we’ve trashed this Earth thing, ……. is truly…DISTURBING ……………………
It reallly ain’t “The Jettsons” … (.or Jet’s Sons ….whatevahs)
..well, …..but jeesh …we deliberately bombed the fuckin Moon, last October, ….and that debris, …went….where?…where is Al Gore,…Newsum?
and then, there’s this:
As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Wary Eye on Space Weather
Can’t we try to keep it a little bit more straight forward, and down to [on] earth, or will we perpetually look for other places for a handful to escape to, because a handful, couldn’t get enough?
Please. It was Spock that bombed the moon. Pay attention in class!!
[snicker 😆 ]
sniccy snackies!
Steven Rosen is on “On the Media” this week on NPR. He pushed the idea that ANY criticism of Israel is to ATTACK Israel, to contribute to destroying Israel. Listening to Steve Beinart BEG to be taken seriously was pretty pathetic too.
Michael Oren, who is now the US born, Israeli Ambassador TO the US calls it “de-legitimising” Israel. Anything at all.
He spoke at UCLA and there were protests… he called it “de-legitimising” Israel.
I’d say he is ADMITTING how fragile and tendential is the state of Israel.
GMAFB
Rosen was very, very belligerent … he insisted that a “true friend’ remains a friend on “rainy days”.
He devaluation of Palestinian suffering was appalling. Nothing new, but it is always amazing to listen to people who constantly raise the ghosts of the Warsaw Ghetto and Camps to use the same dehumanizing language themselves that was once used to describe their ancestors.
well thugs survived and thugs run Israel. And we have our own thugs. Then there are shared thugs.
I think it is down to that…
It’s not a Hallmark card. 600, SIX HUNDRED beach cleaners from Mississippi to Panama City Beach in Fl.
The stories on CBS evening news are pretty damning.
The Mankell piece at the Daily Beast/Guardian is an interesting read. Thanks for that. I skimmed through some of the comments at the Beast and quickly had to stop. The horrible paranoid hysteria of Zionist gets more and more irrational as time goes on …
Yes I am still on Page 1 I have to go back…
Joe Klein, that indepedent paragon, wants Helen sent to the back of the room…. at the daily gaggle.
Cutsie Funsies… don’t yu just love how slap happy they all are. Catch the last bit…
Via Mike Allen Playbook
ick …
courtiers, the lot of them.
a belted yellow sun dress ….
sounds like that’s absolutely the color, to be there, or square in, ya think I should throw out last year’s wardrobe? should I consult Jezebel ….Gawker, etc. etc………….. …I jus don’ know what to do???????
I really am not quite sure about catnip’s consensus on that banana slug ( nuthin against actual banana slugs) yellah that shelly wore, soz the youngin’s could fight off that fat and get in line to die, though I got a hint that it weren’t so much about that color, it was about the form, think I’ll stick with my ole and raggedy for nowz………….
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A Real Profile In Courage
Obama-Drones Transforming al Qaeda from an Organization to a “Mid-East Mentality”
Top two posts at Tiny Revolution. Clapper. Plus ca change, etc.
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/
Think I will just beg for the cement we are mired in to dry faster.
oh the comments to the second thread, the post with a big pic of Clap the human Clapper… is a scream. I got some laughs, always valuable.
this June 5th post was very bleakly ‘funny,’ also:
” It’s always sad when governments which enjoy killing people starting quarreling with each other. Can’t they come together on shared killing-people common ground? So here’s my idea: since Israel kills Turks, and Turkey kills Kurds, maybe they can sign a “Triangular Trade” peace pact if the Kurds are willing to kill some Israelis.
P.S. The funniest part of the whole Israel-Turkey fight is that for decades Israel has happily assisted Turkey by denying that the Armenian genocide was in fact genocide. (Here’s an interesting letter on the subject to Shimon Peres.) After the fallout from the flotilla killings I’m guessing the Knesset even now is drafting a resolution in which Israel will suddenly discover it’s outraged!!! by the Ottoman Empire’s actions during World War I. ”
and of course, somehow or other out of all of this, the armenians STILL don’t get “genocide”.
haven’t even gotten to the comments yet hon, I’m still laughing about:
….General “Clapper’s,” agency spokesman, ”Burpee”….
mebbe I’m jus slowwwwwwwwww……………………………………………………
why yes,…yes I am slow, and stoopid, I meant to bold “General Capper’s” (oopsy, I meant “Clapper’s”, …..one trak mine there),..thusly:
….General “Clapper’s,” agency spokesman, ”Burpee”….
(and truly sorry I fucked that one up.)
This is interestin g on the sinkhole in Guatemal..
oh, I didn’t know that. How interesting/scary.
Lol … and I thought maybe that one was a REAL sinkhole. Look at it. Sink. Hole. The ones we get here are jagged, rough. And I uess that fulfils his description of an area with solid rock earth that collapses…
Get ready for the grasshopper and cricket swarms this summer
One thing after another …
they are already calling it locusts – out here
What a shock!!
BBC
Always observe the niceties…
Experiments in Torture: Physicians group alleges US conducted illegal research on detainees
Yes wha t is in the redcted?
AND THIS:
Can’t really say I’m surprised by this point. Absolutely sickening nonetheless.
sorry that your comment was held in moderation, James. It was because it was a first comment. Excepting blips in the WP system, your commetns will all go thru from now on…
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Found this while I was at BoingBoing…
BP had a 600 page report on “Spill PLan” from a [redacted in the file] well.
BP SPill Plan Leaks
She/Xeni Jardini links back to the New Orleasn blog that leaked it and alos to the report.
I’d like to break somethinhg….. I mean smash to pieces.
Fuck them all… I went ot the New Orleans blog which has more detail… since I can’t be opening the 29 mb pdf of the plan…………. Beninato’s blog – New Orleans – City Voices
AND she points out that in 2009 more was known about Corexit, BP used 2005 infomration:
Thre is some slight irony in that the leaked Plan was released on the day Obby dropped in to the Gulf.
She also has some more detail from the pdf about how BP was never to promise anything, not really. No real promises of returning anything to what it was.
The thread has some expansion and clarification… This was an official spill plan on file with MMS, and was handed to the blogger by an insider. I guess you could say it was hidden in the open.
the purloined bureaucracy.
God knows what is coming. More, that much is certain. Admittedly I have no clue what i am looking at, but the overnight stream looks scary… France24 news ran it without comment for about 4 minutes.
I searched “”news” for “Bp gulf spill plan filed with MMS” and got a single Market Watch June 3 report about regulatory and oversight issues going forth iwth a one line reference that currently all oil cos must file a spill plan with MMS…
HOWEVER when I searched those words with Google Web… I got this response.
I can’t open things right now… want to sort of chill out for a bit, but at quick glance the majority seem to seek to indicate BP did NOT have a spill plan on file for a blow out situation. hmm. But it seems they DID, however horrifyingly revealing of what they planned not to do… which may be why an insider handed it over to the NO blogger.
hmm Euro News is reporting that the oil must be heading for Texas state beaches, dead birds are landing on their shores…
Interesting. Just watching the Gibbs/Thad Allen presser. Someone asked re: compensation from BP – if someone owns a bed & breakfast (and someone supplies food etc. for it) and they’ve been impacted by the gusher, will they be compensated? Allen said they’ll be looking into those kind of scenarios this week. It’s been 49 days and they’re just considering this now?
Always behind the curve…
well I think the overall plan is sort of Plan No Plan (see up thread, the spill plan BP had on file with MMS)… do as little as possible. And once there is widespread wasteland, there sure won’t be any opposition to drilling.
I get the impression that West FL thinks it will only get a leeeetle worse than it is now.
GOOD LUCK!
Famous two words from the late sixties “Credibility gap”
Two more: “Question authority”
Snowballing: Assad: Syria prepared to act against Israel’s siege of Gaza; Erdogan: Turkey can give Gaza everything it needs if Israel lifts siege; Turkey to Israel: If you have nothing to hide, accept international probe.
Meanwhile: Israel navy kills four Palestinian ‘militants’ off Gaza
AFP has a report this am that the Iranians are plannign a relief and supplies flotilla to Gaza…
And they are even talking of having the Republican Guard/Iranian Navy as escort. I guess the Iranians ate their Wheaties over the weekend.
Speaking of disasters and so-called justice: Bhopal trial: Eight convicted over India gas disaster
Greenpeace has more on Anderson. A warrant was issued for him in 2009.
Lindorff on the killings on the Mavi Marmara
sigh… I can tell him wehre the NYT put Furkan’s name… in their blog The Lede…
Also in the article he decided, as a corollary event, to look into the shooting death of a young house robber, shot by the cops in his county….. The newspaper reported he had turned to face the cops, who thought he had a gun and shot him. Turned out to be a camera.
HOWEVER when Lindorff went ot the ME’s office and read the actual autopsy, the boy was shot in the back. he was fleeing, he did nto turn to the face the police.
The apologists have been out in full force since this happened.
ooo that was ugly… I am glad there was push back against Libertarianissssmsmsmsmsm or whatever his name was/is
Generalísimo Libertarianísimo
..don’t tell me, …..let me guess ……..shimmering, impeccably combed, ‘Golden’ Epaulets ………and ….whiter than White, …. Gloves, ….. untouched by the human blood, that Generalísimo, might, so very casually,….. allow to be spilled?
At C-Punch.. ex marine was on the Mavi Marmara…
Great article in the NYT:
I’ve been saying this for years – constant electronic communication/information is rewiring our brains, and not in a good way. Eventually people are going to stop reading books entirely (they’re too long and boring) and will only receive information in Tweet-size morsels. Reasoning and critical faculties will disappear. That’s what Those On HIgh want, of course – millions of braindead consumers who can be led this way and that by sparkling distractions and red flags.
I agree totally. For as “progressive” as Cali is rumored to be, Santa Clara County (which covers a very large area), the core of Silicon Valley, has only half a handful of Independent Bookstores, and most of those in Palo Alto, near Stanford. Their main sheet music store, which had been around for a very long time, just had to shut its doors a few years ago.
Further there’s an enormous social disconnect going on, people so plugged into their gadgetry, that historic human interactions, common and necessary to civilized societies are shattered. It is absolutely Heartbreaking.
Good luck addressing that in Cali though, or doing any independent studies on it, it’s the last thing the powers that be want, especially since most of technology is meant to serve Defense and Finance functions.
I’ve been hoping that Joan Didion would write a book on Silicon Valley, as she’s done some great pieces on California in general, and Southern California.
I fear Joan has gone nutz. I don’t exactly blame her, she lost her duaghter and her husband iwthin a short period of itme and both had horrendous illnesses…. major hosptialisations.
BUT THEN, she did a long piece in the NYRofB…. and I worked hard to drag myself thru it… she fully embraced the Winger take on Schiavo… the brain dead woman in FLorida… taht we all got dragged thru in 2004 I think it was… It was an horrific, long, detailed, manic article. And the Right loved her for it.
What she has done since………….. I have no idea.
oh now I remember (or i think I do…HA!!) … there was a play on Broadway, drawn from her experiences with their deaths iirc. I managed to get thru the hour with her on CRose…
The last thing I read was We tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, which included many of her old works, which I re-read. Loved it. I didn’t want to read the book (I think?) she wrote on her husbands death, it sounded way too depressing, and I just can’t read things like that anymore like I used to.
Yes. Great point about the loss of normal human interactions. I had Thanksgiving dinner last year at a friend’s – she has a large extended family with several high school and college-age kids. Throughout the evening, including while eating the meal, these kids spent their time staring down at their cellphones, Blackberries, and iPhones, busily texting or surfing (or something). The only people engaged in normal dinnertime conversation with each other were the over 40s like me. It was stunning.
I’ve had reason to spend some time on a high school ground recently. And watching the kids spill out of their classes ignoring those they were walking side by side with while rapidly hooking up with their gadgets, was so depressing it took me awhile to get over it.
Further, the few honest studies on the physical effects of the gadgetry on, are not promising at all. The frightening thing is that electrical fields are invisible and easy to consider absolutely harmless. Even cigarette smoke, which took so very, very long to admit could be deadly, is somewhat visible. I have been seriously wondering, if that’s not one reason why so many animals and insects are having problems, particularly honeybees.
Helen Thomas has retired. It really didn’t need to come to that…
That is incredibly sad, especially since the majority were absolutely able to read between the lines of her comment. SHAME ON ALL OF THEM.
I had never known she was Arab American. I’ve known a large number of people of Arab extraction, from the Middle East, and I will say, without much exception, they were the most charitable, hospitable, and humble people, I have ever met in my life.
yes I think she was of lebanese descent..
a wonderful people generally ….it is all ….so sad…………..
That sucks… simply for expressing the truth.
Maybe I should check out GOS tonight… no doubt an hilarious crapfest on the topic.
Interesting tidbit, re: a Jeralyn/Talkleft post, on Helen. Has anyone heard of, or know anything about ”Diane S. Nine’s” Nine Speakers agency?
How come this Nine Speakers agency doesn’t have a website? Is it all one person, named Diane Nine? While she’s registered in every directory, I can’t find a website. Odd, in this day and age
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From Glenn Greenwald: Our hard-core, adversarial press corps
…..look at the bright side: with Thomas banished, White House press briefings and presidential news conferences will be much friendlier and more harmonious with the amiable, star-struck Ed Henrys remaining in place.
Ooops.
A pipe dream, I know, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if across the country, forgetting the insane Red/Blue political identity, as if that’s the only valid identity a person has, those little peeps (the few still working), who are working for Mega Corp[se]Guv would take off a day in protest, to stop the machinery for a day of humanity and acknowledgement of the value of life outside of MONEY and POWER.
How BP is controlling Google results – When you search for information about the Gulf oil spill, BP wants you to see their side of the story first — and they’re paying up to make that happen
If you search Google, Bing, or Yahoo for information about the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, there’s a very good chance the top result will be a BP site explaining what the company is doing to mitigate the disaster. Coincidence? Hardly. BP is essentially renting oil-related search words and phrases to make sure search engine users see their pages first….
Why Isn’t the Justice Department Pursuing a Real Criminal Investigation Into BP?
BY Ariel Schwartz Today
We were relieved last week when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into BP’s involvement in the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. But our relief may be unwarranted, according to Scott West, the former special agent-in-charge at the EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division. That’s because West believes there isn’t actually an investigation.
“I won’t say [Holder] is a liar, but he’s certainly practicing deception,” West tells FastCompany.com. The investigation exists on paper–all the paperwork that goes along with filing an investigation has been completed—but nothing indicates that an actual investigation is underway.
“If there was a bonafide criminal investigation, you would be seeing a number of special agents knocking on doors and interviewing witnesses,” West says. No one has come forward to say they have been contacted or subpoenaed, and a grand jury hasn’t yet been empanelled for the investigation. This is a problem, according to West, because if an investigation does begin at a later date, witnesses’ memories of the spill may have already faded. And while the Justice Department has asked BP to preserve documents, there is no reason to believe that the oil company will comply.
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gee what a surprise, Holder and Obby, basically rent boys for the corps, are running a cute diversion.
So so so surprised.
NOW it is two gas well drillings that blew in one day, one in WV earlier and now one in Texas. AND one in PA last week.
Does it sound like methane gas has it in for us?
NO I guess it was a drill oepration in WV and a pipeline in Texas.
Hard to keep disasters straight…
try tracking the good events, much much easier, all you need is half a hand, if that. No worry at all about keeping those persnickety dates and details in order!
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