Recent Folks-Haley Texting Records Released By fitsnews June 5, 2010 By FITSNews || Republican gubernatorial front-runner Nikki Haley and FITS founding editor Will Folks texted each other nearly 200 times over the past ten months according to records provided by Verizon Wireless – not a particularly high volume of communication when compared to the voluminous phone records that Folks released last week, […]
Within the first month after his inauguration, Vice President Dick Cheney convened what is now known as Cheney’s Energy Task Force [National Energy Policy Development Group]. He went to the Supreme Court to keep the proceedings of those meetings secret, successfully arguing that he had the right to get confidential advice. What is known about […]
A Horrible Jobs Report FiveThirtyEight by Hale "Bonddad" Stewart 06/06/2010 From the BLS: Total nonfarm payroll employment grew by 431,000 in May, reflecting the hiring of 411,000 temporary employees to work on Census 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Private-sector employment changed little (+41,000). Manufacturing, temporary help services, and mining added jobs, […]
May unemployment is 9.7%, down from 9.9% in April. While it’s disappointing that it hasn’t really fallen yet, the new jobs added continue to rise [431,000], the overall unemployment figure containing people re-entering the job market. I think I’m finally getting far enough away from the Bush years to not feel so reflexively defensive of […]
Capping the oil gushing from the floor of the Gulf was a pretty impressive technical feat, but the oil continues to gush, so it’s hard to beak out into applause. The top cap sits atop the BOP [Blow Out Preventor] held in place by its own weight. Right now, the oil is coming from […]
After some cosmetic work with a hand saw, the oil was pouring out in a steady stream. Finally #4 [the cap] showed up. Then there was a three hour snafu while they untangled the hoses that ran to the cap… Finally, it snailed its way towards to BOP [blow out preventor]… Once they got […]
Awoke this morning as they were putting "shears" in place. The "shears" are there now [bottom] not yet "shearing." [I’m abandoning any plans I might have had for a second career in deepwater oil rig management]. They are trying to ooch the shears down and the cap is in place above the shears [at least […]
Throughout the evening, I’ve had all three BP feeds open on a side screen as I worked on other things. For a long time, the showed either still shots of tubes or nothing at all. Recently, one of the ROVs went on tour and showed un any number of things, none identifiable. On the other […]
Sanford “Doesn’t Believe” Haley Affair Story By fitsnews June 1, 2010 By FITSNews || Just when it seemed the Will Folks-Nikki Haley affair story had died down, along comes S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford to Haley’s, um, “rescue.” After a calm Memorial Day weekend, Sanford reignited the smoldering scandal on Tuesday when he told reporters that […]
Did the saw blade break? They say the blade is stuck. No progress since I left off last night… 2:00 PM They’ve taken the saw off of the BOP… Are they taking it topside for a new blade, or maybe another saw, or is BP giving up and heading for Rio? I think they’re pulling […]