BT, you mean victory for corporatism to steal an election in Arkansas. They did it even without having to outsource the vote rigging to the Little Brown People.

Not to worry. Rest assured that Eric “Rule of Law” Holder’s voting rights enforcement
people will be all over it.

U.N. celebrates “World Ocean Day.” Should have been a funeral.

Your birtherism link gets a 404 Not Found error.

OOOO. BP’s Hayward sez ‘hope.’ Guessing he doesn’t know it’s become a 4-letter word in this postpartisanship environment.

Hmm. Works for me.

Here’s a link for the birtherism item:

Dunn to face Bowen for Calif secretary of state

Edit: works for me now, but the URL is completely different from this one above.

I tried it at least 3 times. Not sure what’s wrong.

Mornin, BT, pups

Win some, lose some. Next project, please.

This is one I *really* hoped we’d win. I don’t care much for what I’ve seen of Halter, but he would have been preferable.

I hated waking up to Mara (Foxy lips) Liasson on NPR telling me what a defeat for progressives the Lincoln victory is. UGH.

Guest on democracynow sez the oil gusher could last forever if they can’t figure out a way of controlling it. Sez the pool of oil it is tapping is massive.

Morning BT, Firepups:

Well, Blanche managed to whore her way into the General. And the CNN spin this morning is that those evil unions couldn’t defeat her, even with the $10 million they spent. “I wonder how the union members feel about having their money spent that way, etc…”

Fucking clueless idiots.

And speaking of hags, there’s Meg and Carly in California.

My observation (about Whitman in particular) is this: Anyone crazy enough to spend $150 million to buy their way into public office must, by default, be considered too crazy to occupy said office. Seems pretty basic to me. If Brown is smart, he’ll pound the “billionaire buying the governorship angle” from now until November.

Re that obnoxious NYT headline at your first link:

If anti-incumbency (really anti-DINO) rage had really “bypassed” Arkansas, then there wouldn’t have been need for a runoff, would there?

As Jon Stewart said, “Thank a dinosaur.”

I think if Halter, certainly not the creme de la creme, had had more support at the beginning we might have been able to pull this off. We’ve got 2 years to get our act together on anti-establishment candidates. When the economy tanks next year we may have better luck.

SJ

Saw a headline over at HuffPo about the WH mocking the unions for spending $10M. WH ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Even more scary is the possibility that the undersea “container” holding the oil will collapse and spring multiple uncontrollable leaks. This has been bad enough, but that would be devastating, and there is evidence it’s happening.

Saw a headline over at HuffPo about the WH mocking the unions for spending $10M. WH ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

And the MSM is dutifully parroting that line this morning. What color is the sky in their world?

Maybe if a REAL Progressive had run in Arkansas rather than a Blanche lite, things would have turned out differently.

I’m not paying that close attention; don’t have the emotional fortitude. But it looks like that’s already happened.

B vitamin enriched piss yellow.

Yeah, we gotta work on that.

Lookin’ at the live feed looks like they haven’t accomplished shit with their cap.

Actually, bmaz had a post up about it earlier. I had forgotten. It was on KO last night, too.

Well Integrity May Be Blown

The link goes from an http to an https (https://secure.passport.mnginteractive.com/mngi/servletDispatch/ErightsPassportServlet.dyn?url=http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15256843?nclick_check=1&forced=true) which is and should be illegal because secure.passport.mnginteractive.com uses an invalid security certificate. Some browsers, such as some versions of IE, have a very high tolerance for letting these kinds of things go on. If your browser chokes then you should be happy that it does.

Yes, thanks. It was Nelson’s statements I picked up on KO.

I use FF3 on a Mac. Usually when the cert is bad, I get an alert about THAT. This was just a 404. My browser says the link is:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15256843?nclick_check-1

On edit: when I click on this link in my comment, I get no error. Toobz are strange this morning.

I remember reading some expert in the field a few weeks ago saying that depending on the size of the exit hole, the thing might play-out in less than eight months. Of course that might feel like forever.

Benen has an amusing post up this morning.

The Inherent Challenge of ‘What It All Means’

There is evidence that the sawing off of the riser has increased the flow of oil by orders of magnitude and judging by the live feed and the claim that they are recovering a lot of oil, I’d say that’s pretty apparent. I don’t see how the Gulf survives this or any of the Gulf coast. It’s only a matter of time until a tropical storm or hurricane comes along and forces it all ashore.

Your pasted link is not the same. The “=1″ link forwards to the https url. It’s the https server that has the invalid certificate. No big deal, just wanted you to know that this is a feature not a bug.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

What If You Knew

US KIA Irak: 4,402

US KIA Afghanistan: 1,108

Iraki and Afghan casualties: estimates vary to over 1.5M

US MBS 2010: 19,716 and counting

Truly I tell you, Inasmuch as you have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me. ~Matthew 25:40 (Lamsa Bible)

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

I have no idea how ‘they’ know how large the pool is that the gusher is tapping. Matt Simmons was on cnbc yesterday, asserting that BP actually drilled to 18,000 feet, which accounts for the tremendous pressure behind the gusher. I immediately contacted my money manager friend, one of whose sources is an expert in these matters, who sez Simmons is nuts. I asked her, since his book is anything but nuts, when did he go off the tracks? She didn’t know.

As for me, I’ll continue to lean toward the worst hypothesis I hear, as Occam’s razor, knowing that all official sources are nothing but rank propaganda.

The sawing was a last resort, as I understand it, for that same reason. Chances of success dropped with each less optimal decision. It appears they are settling for siphoning of small percentages, using that as PR by promising to sell those relatively small amounts and fighting the rest of the battles through the old baffle-em with bullshit technique.

My understanding is that the riser was bent, restricting the flow somewhat. They cut behind the bend which released the full flow. When they first put the cap on you could see the 3-4 other breaks that were also gushing. Now its all one plume of oil. I’m thinkin’ they’re not gonna get this genie back into the bottle.

Tony Hayward and every BP, Halliburton and Transocean employee involved with the decision making on the DH should be sentenced to life in prison, where they can spend 12 hours a day cleaning up the mess they made. No parole.

I’m definitely not disagreeing except insofar as the implications of infinite are applied. I doubt that anyone has more than a lot of educated guesses, moderated with self-interest. In the case of BP, self-interest is in avoiding the truth at all costs.

I’m thinkin’ they’re not gonna get this genie back into the bottle.

Nope. I’m also thinking this relief well idea is a fantasy as well.

just wanted you to know that this is a feature not a bug

After nearly 25 years in IT, I’m used to this sort of “feature.” But I’m not really knowledgeable about parsing URLs at ALL.

I had no idea where it redirected to. Thanks for clarifying.

They actually get the relief well drilled what’s to say they won’t use the same shoddy equipment they used on the main well. Nothing like having 2 gushers in the Gulf.

Me too. If there were a plan with a snowball’s chance, they wouldn’t be flailing about so much.

And as with the predictable Iraq War and housing bubble disasters, all you’ll hear from the PTB as it becomes obvious is: Who coulda predicted, and some useless kabuki hearings.

And no doubt doubt the same industry shills are “overseeing” the drilling operation. Yep. Fantasy. Even if they are successful, BP has demonstrated over and over that it’s been far more interested in recovering oil than stopping it.

They’re having one of those today in fact. Our government is bought and paid for. Period.

New post up top…

Even more interesting in some ways, a relief well has to be angled toward the defective well while being farther down the tube. Sort like cutting this one off at the pass. This well is already very deep.

Ok folks….we made a mistake. Obama is not what we thought he was going to be. He needs to get rid of that WH Staff and Obama needs to be advised not seek re-election. If he runs we will surely have a Republican President next time around.