9 days after the spill started on April 20th, Obama starts to do something:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04…

9 days with basically no action on the part of the Federal Government (unless you count the Coast Guard claiming the problem was small, or trying to light up the oil)

Baaa.

And, a third leak has been identified.  210,000 gallons per day.

I don’t think any of this is surprising.

Opening up parts of the U.S. Atlantic coast, Alaska and possibly offshore Florida to exploration is Obama’s latest effort to woo legislators needed to pass a climate bill before mid-term elections in November.

– Reuters

Accidents happen.  Except with wind and solar, etc.

“I urged him [Adolf Hitler] to give support [to Franco] under all circumstances, firstly, in order to prevent the further spread of communism in that theater and, secondly, to test my young Luftwaffe at this opportunity in this or that technical respect”

Herman Goring

http://www.nytimes.com/aponlin…

YEah, baby.

Another fine idea there president O’Bush.  

* The NYT is now reporting that the president has fled *

And this:

Opposition leaders said the toll was as high as 100 people, but that figure could not be confirmed.

-NYT

Kyrgyzstan is in outright revolt, after years of fake elections, and the removal of any semblance of a free media.

They’re between a rock and a hard place since both Russia and the US supports the current regime. The US because it needs the airbase for the Afghan war, and Russia for the same reasons–they also have bases there.

With the unrest deepening, several opposition leaders were arrested, including a former prime minister and presidential candidate, Almazbek Atambaev, and a former speaker of Parliament, Omurbek Tekebaev.

Is the US concerned about arrests, at least 12 protester deaths, the fake elections, the closing of the media?

Uh, no.

The US response?

The United States Embassy in Bishkek issued a statement saying that it was “deeply concerned about reports of civil disturbances.”

There’s some horrifying images on the NYT site, I’ll post only this one:

*** Update 12.37 PM : Hannity STILL SUCKS ***

And the Republicans suck too.

They suck

Suck

Suck

Did I mention, that Sean Hannity sucks?

Rush too.

Sucks

Sucks Sucks

<>Note: Insert Embedded Video Of A Republican Sucking Really Bad Here<>

Tea Party

Sucks.

McVeigh

Sucks

Sucks

Sucks

(Long Dead But Sucks)

 (Note to self, things not to mention in this or any diary:

 Democrats are in power?  

 Who knew?  

Things not to mention-Afghanistan, Goldman Sachs, AIG, Bonuses, Outsourcing, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Israel, Medical Insurance Companies, For Profit Health Care, Racial Profiling In Airports, Offshore Oil Drilling, Endangered Species, Torture, Rendition, Justice Dept, The Appointing Of US Senators by party insiders, Nuclear Power, Clean Coal ‘Technology’, Increased Military Spending, Military in the Schools, More Cops, The Attack On Public Education, Social (in)Security, Nuclear Weapons, Patriot Act Renewal, Mandates…

well, don’t mention any actual issue at all.  )

Sean Hannity:

Sucks.  

The winner gets to implement the platform they ran on, right?

Or, the platform of the losing side.

He (Obama) said that his plan to allow drilling along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska – ending a longstanding moratorium on exploration from the northern tip of Delaware to the central coast of Florida, covering 167 million acres of ocean

….the sheer breadth of the offshore drilling decision will take some of his supporters aback.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04…

Down the memory hole again.

July 2008 (CNN)

“It’s time to send a clear message to the world: America seeks a world with no nuclear weapons,” the White House hopeful said.

Today (NYT):

The treaty would require each side to reduce deployed strategic nuclear warheads to roughly 1,600, down from 2,200 now, officials have said. It would also oblige each side to reduce its arsenal of strategic bombers and land- and sea-based missiles to 800, half the old limit of 1,600.

Arms control advocates consider those reductions to be relatively modest.

Nice work, PResident.  This is no different then BUsh would have done.

Well, he did scrap Bush’s missile defense shield, right?

Uh, no.. not, really, he replaced it with his own version. (a little something for General Dynamics instead of Lockheed, maybe? Or Honeywell instead of Boeing? Who can say.)

If you want to stop nuclear weapons, and you’re the US, it’s kinda like what John Rotten said about rockstars complaining about having to be rockstars–JUST STOP BEING ONE THEN.

Dick.  

Under the bill now heading to President Obama’s desk, businesses that hire workers who have been jobless for at least 60 days will be exempt from paying the 6.2 percent payroll tax on those employees’ earnings until the end of the year. If those workers stay on for a full year, businesses will also get a $1,000 tax credit. (The employee’s pay would still be subject to the usual personal income taxes.) The business tax breaks would add up to about $15 billion in all.

Of course, yeah… that’ll do pig.

The US government is basically just a conduit for taking money from employees, or future generations at this point, and giving said money to the largest companies, on the theory that some of that money will trickle down–which some of it will (right to congress) .