LINK TO NOAA PAGE TO FOLLOW THE HORRENDOUS OIL CRIME IN THE GULF OF MEXICO:

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico |
NOAA's National Ocean Service Office of Response and Restoration

GOLLY, I'M CONFUSED.  SHOULD I DO THIS?
HA HA LOL@THESPAMMERFOOLS!

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WASHINGTON STATE RESIDENTS: WE MUST ACT NOW TO BE SURE OUR REPRESENTATIVES STOP THE UNCONCIONABLE GIVE AWAY BY THE SUPREME (?) COURT OF OUR SYSTEM TO CORPORATE INTERESTS!

Congress must act now 

to prevent a flood of corporate spending 

in the 2010 elections 

 

Health Care Reform Law Poised to Make Health Care Safer New Law Includes Important Patient Safety Provisions That Will Save Lives and Health Care Dollars

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- While most of the attention surrounding the landmark health care reform measure just signed into law has focused on how it expands access to affordable insurance coverage, it also enacts important initiatives that will improve patient safety, according to Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports. GO.READ

Senators Announce Half-Assed Energy Reform Bill

Cross-posted from Treehugger and AlterNet

It’s been in the works for some time now, but the much-discussed “energy only” climate bill has been unveiled by senators Dick Lugar (R-IN) and George Voinovich (R-OH). Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who has been working on more substantive legislation, calls this kind of approach “half-assed”, as it would only provide subsidies to incentivize nuclear and energy development. It would do little do address emissions and global climate change, however — here’s what it would do.

From the Wonk Room:

Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH), both of whom have admitted the threat of global warming, today announced “a narrower competing bill” that resembles the weak legislation passed out of the Senate energy committee last year … an energy-only bill that would mandate new renewable and nuclear power production without imposing cuts on carbon emissions

The reasoning is that this bill is obviously easier to pass (though given the GOP’s current attitude cooperating with Dems to accomplish anything, it still might be a struggle . . .). It eschews all that ugly business of holding big polluters accountable for their greenhouse gas pollution, and instead would encourage the development of renewable energy and nuclear power. This would be wholly inadequate in addressing climate change — the fossil fuel industry would be able to go right on polluting unabated.
The problem with this thing isn’t that it’s a bad idea in and of itself — it’s just that it is in no way a real solution. And if this bill gets taken up, it probably means the serious bill, Kerry-Graham-Lieberman, doesn’t. To complicate things even further, there’s a third bill in the mix: a climate-only bill with weak reduction targets designed by senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Susan Collins (R-ME). Brad Johnson explains why this is trouble:

These senators are participating in a complex dance — if President Obama and the public throw their weight behind real action, then these senators can take credit when elements of their bills appear in the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman legislation. However, if momentum stalls under the weight of polluter lobbying and Beltway indifference to the climate crisis, they can instead say they offered a “pragmatic” alternative.Unfortunately, such political insurance only covers elected politicians, not people living in the real world.

If only people in the real world cared enough about averting the climate crisis to put enough pressure on those dallying politicians to actually get something done .

MORE NEWS OF SENATE MINORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL (R - ASSHOLVANIA)

(US) "Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has said that the financial regulation reform bill would institutionalize bank bailouts. The New York Times' Paul Krugman slammed the top-ranking Senate Republican's rhetoric Sunday, saying it was "possibly the most dishonest argument ever made in the history of politics."

In case you have never seen this asshole McConnel (Liarparty, Assholvania), here's a picture of the ultimate dipshit caught in the glare of headlights face:

Fukken Republicans - America's worst enemies!

So NOW we are to assume that McConnel and the rest of his crew of America Wreckers want all to go as usual for outfits like Goldman Sachs?

You remember hearing about Goldaman and shit like the billion$ of dollars in bonus money for assholes who made crap like "synthetic collateralized debt obligation", and other complex, highly leveraged, exotic trades without understanding the implications for millions of American home owners, retirees, and others whos MONEY and HOMES were rolled into these criminal vulture assholes fucking MONEY GAMES.

The Senate leader of the GOOP wants us to just forget it all happened and allow the rules (no rules) that allowed it to stay just the way they are!

HERE IS A CLIP FROM THE YOUNG TURKS PROGRAM OF THE ASSHOLE HIMSELF LYING THROUGH HIS TEETH:

I understand about how "busy" President Obama is and will be:  The Bush/Cheney Crew left so many sleeper cells, regulators who were told not to regulate, gutted rules and laws, that just making government WORK again is a full time job.
PLEASE, Mr. President, won't you please learn (QUICK NOW!) to speak in simple sentences and to DO things in simple ways that are easy to understand and easy to sell and easy to DO.
Thanks a lot Barack - feel free to email me any time you like for more advice.

 

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HOW CAN YOU TELL IF A REPUBLICAN IS LYING?

ITS MOUTH IS MOVING...

WHY REPUBLICANS LIE

WHY REPUBLICANS LIE 

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profound ambivalence in Obama's pledges to swiftly restore the rule of law:

Why Did Obama Let GOP Threats Torpedo OLC Nominee Dawn Johnsen?

 Obama's choice to allow a one-party bloc of Senators to unilaterally scuttle nominees without a vote rewards partisan obstruction with political leverage.

Greenwald suggests, as his administration began adopting several sweeping theories of executive power that Johnsen had long opposed. "I find it virtually impossible to imagine Dawn Johnsen opining that the President has the legal authority to order American citizens assassinated with no due process or to detain people indefinitely with no charges," 

GO.READ 

Chinese ship ‘gouged two mile scar’ in Great Barrier Reef | Raw Story

Chinese ship ‘gouged two mile scar’ in Great Barrier Reef | Raw Story

Copied/pasted from the story:

"Conservationists say the incidents highlight the risk to Australia's environment posed by rocketing resource (COAL) exports to Asia, which are fuelling a strong recovery from the global financial crisis.

The reef, which is visible from space and is one of the world's foremost ecological treasures, has already come under pressure from rising sea temperatures and pollution."

On the one hand, Australia makes a ton of money mining coal and selling it to China for thier pollution spewing power plants (2 or 3 new plants per week!), yet the global climate change causing carbon dioxide from this is killing the coral reefs that the ship wrecked on.

Dear Downunderdunderers: You MAY NOT have it both ways.

Oxygen Morons - The World Bank - Protection Racket

The World Bank is a profit making entity.  They make money as any other banker who cares little about the results of it's decisions.  Lend money to build huge coal fired power plants in Africa; lend money to deal with effects of climate change in Peru.  It's all about the money to these criminals.

1. A 2009 World Bank-published report warned Andean glaciers and the region's permanently snow-covered peaks could disappear in 20 years if no measures are taken to tackle climate change.
"Because of global warming the glaciers are going to detach and fall on these overflowing lakes. This is what happened today," Ancash Governor Cesar Alvarez told reporters, linking climate change to the disappearance of a third of the glaciers in the Peruvian Andes over the past three decades. (Story here)

2. World Bank has approved a controversial $3.75 billion loan for South Africa to build one of the world’s largest coal-fired power plants. Environmentalists in South Africa and abroad have criticized the decision and are urging the bank to stop supporting the development of coal plants and other large emitters of greenhouse gas emissions. (Story here)

SPEW climate changing carbon on one side of our garden planet - deprive people of critical drinking water or just outright kill them on the other side.  What the hell is UP with that sort of behaviour? 

Urge Discovery Communications to Drop Sarah Palin's New Show

 Targeting: Mr. David Zaslav (President and CEO, Discovery Communications)

Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

 

Sarah Palin has signed on with reality TV producers and Discovery Communications to star in a new TV show about Alaska and its outdoors.
But the ugly reality is that as governor for only two-and-a-half years, Sarah Palin escalated a bloody aerial wolf-slaughter campaign that continues to this very day. She even planned to offer a $150 bounty for the severed forelimb of each killed wolf.

Palin also fought against increased protections for endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales and America's dwindling populations of polar bears.

Sign our petition to Discovery Communications -- and let them know that Sarah Palin doesn't deserve to represent the "powerful beauty of Alaska" in front of millions of people.

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GRAND CHEROKEE MY ACHING ASS

THIS IS ALL CHRYSLER HAS NOW.  SURE, FIAT IS SUPPOSEDLY GOING TO IMPORT A REAL CUTE LITTLE FIAT-ESQUE MICRO CAR SOON, BUT CHRYSLER CORP HAS ONLY THE BIG FAT 4 WHEEL DRIVE V-8 GAS GUZZLING, RESOURCE HOG AMERICA-MOBILES TO OFFER.  SHAME ON THEM - WE SHOULD HAVE LET THE SHITHEADS WHO RUN THIS DINOSAUR CHOKE WHEN WE HAD THE CHANCE

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as we say away out West here - what a piece of shit...

SOME NEWS:

• String of offshore turbines along East Coast could provide steady supply of wind power 

• Obama's nuclear policy takes one step forward and two steps back 

• Hear that? All is quiet as Ford's Transit Connect Electric hits New York City's streets 

• Five tips for those that love the Earth and old houses

• American Science and Surplus' online catalog - WOOT! 

Alrighty then! After working all Winter, the CRAZY TRAILER is out of the shed ready for a "weather test" by a Pacific storm that is blowing in tonight.

 More pix over at INFORMIORIUM

In February, the director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, confirmed that US spy agencies had the authority to kill American citizens if they posed a direct threat to the United States.

So....Cheney, Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld, Crystal and the gang, the hedge fund guys, and all the "too big to fail" bank assholes had better watch their backs if this is true!

FINALLY, some clear thinking in our intelligence agencies!

‘Personhood’ movement seeks end to abortion - KansasCity.com

‘Personhood’ movement seeks end to abortion - KansasCity.com

STFU! Corporations are 'persons'. Now these dinks want to make fetuses (blobs of tissue inside a person's body!) into 'persons' and register them to vote. PERSONALLY, I am upset about the hubcaps on my CAR not having any representation...PERSONHOOD FOR HUBCAPS NOW!

U.S. Government To Save Billions By Cutting Wasteful Senator Program

Nearly all of the U.S. senatorial positions were categorized as inefficient redundancies.

WASHINGTON—In an effort to reduce wasteful spending and eliminate non-vital federal services, the U.S. government announced plans this week to cut its long-standing senator program, a move it says will help save more than $300 billion each year.

MORE HERE