The Quitter sure loves the Benjamins, doesn’t she?

The executive summary and the full investigation rely heavily on jargon, but they basically describe a systemic failure. However, BP cleverly sidesteps the question of well design, for which they have personal responsibility, and basically looks at the incidents on the Deepwater Horizon in a vacuum.

President Barack Obama faces pressure from a number of different directions as September 11 and the planned burning of the Quran at Dove World Outreach Center draw closer. It can be assured that no matter what response he chooses, that response will face strong opposition. Because many of his previous actions can be interpreted in terms of which fear controlled the response, it is informative to look at the pressures he will be facing in this situation and how fear when facing those same pressures has controlled his past behavior.

It’s an election year, and on this issue, President Obama has decided to make a stand. While other elements of this recovery makeover are more puzzling, on this one he’s merely following the promises made in the Presidential campaign — although we haven’t seen the words “veto” and “threat” yet.

Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca may have used his role in law enforcement to advance the political agenda of the “No on 19″ campaign, bolstered by drug treatment program theories and materials which California’s Dept. of Education reported as “misleading” and “inaccurate.”

Now, Scooter seems uninterested in relitigating his conviction for lying to protect his boss, Dick Cheney. Interestingly, though, a key point of his appearance — given its focus on Iran’s purported nukes — was to suggest that back in 2003 more could have been done to prevent Iran from getting nukes. You know. 2003. The year he outed a CIA spy trying to prevent Iran from getting nukes?

Can’t wait for the glibertarian morons at Reason to call Dave Petraeus a politically correct surrender monkey.

Finally, TLC gets a show that is a natural partner to Sarah Palin’s Alaska.

I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the news that I am going to be a grandma than with a cartoon set to music. Precious Pupp and Granny Sweet set to Jan and Dean — Little Old Lady From Pasadena.

A BP curriculum for environmental science? Really?