BATON ROUGE — British Petroleum, whose Deepwater Horizon crude oil extraction facility has historically done so much to liberate America from a debilitating reliance upon petroleum products provided by swarthy, untrustworthy foreigners, today announced its decision to sue Louisiana-based brown pelicans in federal court for the theft of valuable company assets. “Many people have seen [...]

The New York Times front page editors waste our time with an above the fold piece in which Peter Baker ponders how unusual it was for President Obama to say “I was wrong,” since none of his predecessors could manage much more than “mistakes were made.” But wrong about what?

BP supplies the Vampire Squid with ink.

Dredging up the idea that Giuliani may be a viable candidate in ’12? Must be a slow news day for Politico.

Buckle up, FirePups, it’s going to be a bumpy ride into the second week of May.

An editorial in Friday’s New York Times advocates for Hamid Karzai to hand over responsibility for economic redevelopment of Afghanistan from the United Nations to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Such a move would do nothing more than complete the rape of Afghanistan by the west and institute policies that Naomi Klein documented in The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

It appears that document mills are fabricating missing documents, backdating documents, and doing assignments of documents after the time to lodge those documents in the trusts has long expired. In other words, they are committing fraud to cover up the fact that they failed to “perfect” their ability to foreclose.

I’ve been saying for a while that when everything finally unravels, it will probably be revealed that Citibank has been playing the same function as BCCI–the bank that served as the means for organized crime, terrorists, and the CIA to launder money in the 80s–once did.

China believes that the US is weak state with unbridled capitalism. Chinese industrial policy reflects that belief. Both political parties in the US agree, and neither will change anything. No wonder we have a jobless recovery.

Four years, and it’s still shocking. Not the storm — as bad as that was — but the four years that have been squandered trying to put people’s lives and communities back together.

Lord, have mercy . . .