Here’s the video of how it’s supposed to work… Factbox: How BP’s “top kill” effort to stop leak works ReutersMay 26, 2010 (Reuters) – BP initiated a risky “top kill” process on Wednesday to try to stop the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Here is how the procedure is designed to work, […]
Another Reason Not To Vote For Gresham BarrettBy fitsnewsMay 26, 2010 By FITSNews || As if his flip-flop on the TARP vote, his bureaucratic-heavy “jobs” plan and his general douche-baggery weren’t reasons enough not to vote for U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett, now he has a “Dick” problem. As in former Vice President Dick Cheney, who […]
Sarah Palin lives in the cracks between the questions, even when she’s on her own turf. When asked about Rand Paul’s criticism of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, she outdoes Paul himself in evading the question, redirecting to her familiar attack on the Media being out to get her [I suspect that she doesn’t know […]
Who are these people, you ask? Well you know the guy on the left. It’s the now famous Mark Sanford, current Governor of South Carolina. And that pretty lady on the right? She’s Nikki Haley, a front-runner for Governor of South Carolina the next time around. That leaves Will Folks [AKA Sic Willie], the founder […]
Rand Paul’s Libertarian La-La Land Washington Post By Eugene Robinson May 25, 2010 Not so fast, everybody. Rand Paul can’t abruptly disavow the extremist views on civil rights that he’s been espousing for years and expect us all to just move along. Was he lying then? Is he lying now? Or has the Tea Party […]
Some movies are so good that I compliment them by saying "it’s not a movie – it’s a documentary." Dances with Wolves, The Last Indian, Pulp Fiction, Field of Dreams, Morgan, A Thousand Clowns, Captain Blood. You know, the really great ones. This op-ed by Krugman is like that. It’s not an opinion. It’s just […]
Some time in the distant past, I was flirting with watching "LOST," and I saw an episode with the first "long smokey thing" in it. I decided that I wasn’t up for a television series with a "long smokey thing" as one of the characters and I dropped out. That was years ago, but I […]
Friend ShrinkRap haunts the fertile ground of the New York Review of Books and often posts on the wonders he finds there. His post Young American Jews and Zionism is a fine example. ShrinkRap ends with: I do not pretend to know the answers to the problems in the mideast, but I am convinced that […]
This four page opinion piece that leads in Sunday’s Washington Post dichotomizes free-enterprise and "european-style statism" as mutually exclusive. It’s not hard to figure out which one the author is leaning towards in the very first paragraph: America’s new culture war: Free enterprise vs. government controlWashington PostBy Arthur C. BrooksMay 23, 2010 This is not […]
While he is unlikely to be electable, he is still the most dangerous man in America, so he’s worthy of worry no matter how remote his chances of holding office. He’s certainly been a prolific writer: The Government’s Role in Solving Societal Problems. January 1982 Window of Opportunity. December 1985. Contract with America, December 1994. […]