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Where's the Navy? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-21 11:53:41 by Badeye
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Where's the Navy? Lee DeCovnick The Arthur Conan Doyle story, " The Adventure of Silver Blaze" has a famous verbal exchange between Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Gregory, the Scotland Yard detective. Inspector Gregory: "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" Holmes: "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." Gregory: "The dog did nothing in the night-time." Holmes: "That was the curious incident." The Deepwater Horizon explosion, fire, and pipeline rupture also has a "curious incident" where "the dog did nothing." There is one organization that has more ...
Obama Is Wrong; Alternative Energy is Not an Alternative
Post Date: 2010-06-21 11:10:06 by Badeye
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Obama Is Wrong; Alternative Energy is Not an Alternative By Dr. Tim Ball Monday, June 21, 2010 Obama is using the oil spill in the Gulf as an emotional lever to push his cap and trade policy. The spill is a disaster, but exploiting it is truly despicable. It is made far worse when the alternative energies solutions don’t work. Increased costs will damage the economy and negatively impact the people he claims to represent. We’re in this predicament because of exploitation by politicians and environmental groups who deliberately ignore scientific evidence and corruption in climate science. Options were dramatically reduced by campaigns of fear against nuclear power creating ...
U.S. Economic Recoveries Taking Ever Longer To Bring Back Jobs
Post Date: 2010-06-21 11:04:45 by Badeye
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U.S. Economic Recoveries Taking Ever Longer To Bring Back Jobs By SCOTT STODDARD, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 06/18/2010 07:17 PM ET View Enlarged Image Job recoveries have been increasingly sluggish over the past several recessions and the current downturn looks to be the longest since at least World War II. It took 28 months for employment to return to its pre-recession peak following the 1981 downturn; 32 months after the 1990 slump; and 47 months after the 2001 recession. Today's jobs slump, already at 29 months, could last five years or more, analysts say. Employers are expected to stay cautious amid a sluggish economic recovery. "It would be strange but not ...
Al-Qaida warns of new attacks deadlier than before
Post Date: 2010-06-21 09:38:58 by Badeye
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Al-Qaida warns of new attacks deadlier than before By PAUL SCHEMM, Associated Press Writer Sun Jun 20, 12:57 pm ET CAIRO – Al-Qaida's U.S.-born spokesman warned President Barack Obama Sunday that the militant group may launch new attacks that would kill more Americans than previous ones. In a taunting, 24 minute message that dwelled on Obama's setbacks, including the loss of Massachusetts Senate seat to the Republicans, Adam Gadahn set out al-Qaida's conditions for peace with the U.S., including cutting support for Israel and withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. Gadahn said that if you compared the number of dead Muslims "with the relatively small number of ...
Obama's thuggery is useless in fighting spill
Post Date: 2010-06-21 09:34:42 by Badeye
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Obama's thuggery is useless in fighting spill By: Michael Barone Senior Political Analyst June 20, 2010 President Barack Obama waves as he exits Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Friday. (Cliff Owen/AP) Thuggery is unattractive. Ineffective thuggery even more so. Which may be one reason so many Americans have been reacting negatively to the response of Barack Obama and his administration to BP's Gulf oil spill. Take Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's remark that he would keep his "boot on the neck" of BP, which brings to mind George Orwell's definition of totalitarianism as "a boot stamping on a human face -- forever." Except that ...
Critics say moratorium on gulf oil drilling could increase risks rather than make process safer
Post Date: 2010-06-21 09:28:39 by Badeye
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Critics say moratorium on gulf oil drilling could increase risks rather than make process safer By David Olinger and Mark Jaffe The Denver Post Posted: 06/21/2010 01:00:00 AM MDT Updated: 06/21/2010 07:15:26 AM MDT Jun 19: Gulf oil spill could lead to drop in global outputSalazar says BP capturing 25,000 barrels of oil dailyLewis: Professor finds fame after oil spill estimatesA six-month deep-water drilling moratorium imposed to protect the Gulf of Mexico may raise the risk of oil spills, some members of a U.S. Department of the Interior safety-advisory group warn. The moratorium is also raising concerns that the gulf's $124 billion offshore oil industry will suffer as 33 deep-water ...
ObamaCare and the Independent Vote
Post Date: 2010-06-21 09:26:35 by Badeye
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ObamaCare and the Independent Vote Voter opposition hasn't changed, and it could be decisive in November. By David Brady, Daniel Kessler And Douglas Rivers The Democrats made a strategic choice to pass health reform even though they knew it did not have majority support. They assumed passage would generate a positive initial response from the media—which it did. They also hoped that, with time, voters would see reform in a more favorable light, and that health care would not pose an issue in the midterm elections. Were the Democrats right? If our polling is correct, they were not. In January, we asked voters in 11 states that could have competitive Senate races in ...
U.S. buys Russian choppers for Afghan military
Post Date: 2010-06-19 17:01:27 by WhiteSands
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. government is snapping up Russian-made helicopters to form the core of Afghanistan's fledgling air force, a strategy that is drawing flak from members of Congress who want to force the Afghans to fly American choppers instead. In a turnabout from the Cold War, when the CIA gave Stinger missiles to Afghan rebels to shoot down Soviet helicopters, the Pentagon has spent $648 million to buy or refurbish 31 Russian Mi-17 transport helicopters for the Afghan National Army Air Corps. The Defense Department is seeking to buy 10 more of the Mi-17s next year, and had planned to buy dozens more over the next decade. The spectacle of using U.S. taxpayer dollars to buy ...
WikiLeaks Preparing to Release Video of Alleged U.S. 'Massacre' in Afghanistan [ Centcom issued a report in June 2009 saying that at least 78 Taliban fighters were killed and approximately 26 civilians]
Post Date: 2010-06-19 01:23:41 by WhiteSands
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WikiLeaks Preparing to Release Video of Alleged U.S. 'Massacre' in Afghanistan Iceland Votes for Strong Journalist and Whistleblower Protection Laws June 18, 2010— As the founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks remains underground in fear that the U.S. will detain him, the site is preparing to release a leaked video of a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan that is said to be more shocking than the Iraqi video that sent its controversial leader into hiding. Julian Assange, who has been garnering more attention since it was announced that Pentagon investigators are looking for him, told his supporters in an email this week that he has a classified video of a U.S. attack on ...
NBC’s David Gregory: White House Rhetoric 'Anti-Business,' 'Could Really Discourage Businesses' in U.S.
Post Date: 2010-06-18 13:29:47 by Badeye
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NBC’s David Gregory: White House Rhetoric 'Anti-Business,' 'Could Really Discourage Businesses' in U.S. By Jeff Poor (Bio | Archive) Fri, 06/18/2010 - 13:17 ET Wow, just wow. Never would have seen this one coming, but is one of the standard-bearers of the media elite recognizing the Obama administration's anti-business populist tone is inhibiting the U.S. economy? On the June 18 broadcast of CNBC's "Squawk Box," NBC "Meet the Press" moderator David Gregory was asked to respond to a June 18 New York Times article by David Sanger suggesting the Obama administration may be "overstepping" and discouraging business growth in the ...
Arctic Drilling Suspended
Post Date: 2010-06-18 13:15:58 by Badeye
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Arctic Drilling Suspended June 18, 2010 - 11:05 AM | by: Dan Springer The Obama Administration has done an about face on drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean. Just days after its Justice Department defended Shell Oil's plan to drill five exploratory wells in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off the coast of Alaska, the Interior Department suspended the operation. President Obama has directed the United States Geological Survey to conduct further study to determine the potential impacts of a spill there and the company's ability to respond. Shell officials criticize the move as purely political in the wake of the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico. The company points out the ...
Coast Guard defends grounding oil-sucking barges in Gulf
Post Date: 2010-06-18 13:13:05 by Badeye
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Coast Guard defends grounding oil-sucking barges in Gulf By Jonathan Strong - The Daily Caller | Published: 06/18/10 at 10:20 AM | Updated: 06/18/10 at 12:03 PM Sixteen crude-sucking barges are back in the Gulf of Mexico working to clean up oil, but the Coast Guard is defending its decision to ground the vessels because it couldn’t verify whether there were fire extinguishers and life vests on board. “The Coast Guard is not going to compromise safety … that’s our No. 1 priority,” Coast Guard spokesman Robert Brassel told The Daily Caller. The decision to ground the ships is under intense scrutiny after Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal expressed his deep ...
Will Obama Be the 'Jimmy Carter of the 21st Century'?
Post Date: 2010-06-18 12:27:09 by Badeye
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Will Obama Be the 'Jimmy Carter of the 21st Century'? Photo Gallery: 11 Photos DPACan US President Barack Obama lead America away from fossil fuel dependency? German commentators don't think so. Some say he is in danger of turning into an idealistic, one-term president like Jimmy Carter. US President Barack Obama's address from the Oval Office on Tuesday was supposed to be a moment of leadership during the worst environmental disaster in American history. But critics from across the political spectrum wondered afterwards whether he'd shown leadership at all. The geyser of oil in the Gulf of Mexico seems, technologically, to lie beyond anything either BP or the US ...
How Badly Has the Gulf Spill Hurt Obama's Image?
Post Date: 2010-06-18 12:20:21 by Badeye
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How Badly Has the Gulf Spill Hurt Obama's Image? By Tom Bevan Some observers have noted that while President Obama has faced intense criticism over his handling of the Gulf Oil spill during the last eight weeks, his approval rating remains more or less unchanged. Indeed, on April 21, the day after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sunk in the Gulf, President Obama’s approval rating in the RCP Average stood at 47.9% and his disapproval rating was at 46.9%. Despite all that’s transpired over the past two months, today President Obama’s approval rating in the RCP Average is two tenths of a point higher, at 48.1%, and his disapproval rating is five tenths of a point ...
Obama's Answer To Spill Comes Up Short
Post Date: 2010-06-18 12:18:59 by Badeye
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Obama's Answer To Spill Comes Up Short By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Posted 06/17/2010 06:44 PM ET View Enlarged Image Barack Obama doesn't do the mundane. He was sent to us to do larger things. You could see that plainly in his Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill. He could barely get himself through the pedestrian first half: a bit of BP-bashing, a bit of faux-Clintonian "I feel your pain," a bit of recovery and economic mitigation accounting. It wasn't until the end of the speech — the let-no-crisis-go-to-waste part that tried to leverage the Gulf Coast devastation to advance his cap-and-trade climate-change agenda — that Obama warmed to his task. ...
Democrats fates will hinge on Obama's handling of spill
Post Date: 2010-06-18 12:12:30 by Badeye
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Democrats fates will hinge on Obama's handling of spill By: Julie Mason Examiner White House Correspondent June 18, 2010 Democrats had planned to campaign this fall on health care reform, but President Obama's deep pivot to the BP oil spill changes both the equation and focus of midterm campaigning. Whether the shift helps or hurts Democrats is unclear. Health care has not been a solid political asset for Democrats, and it remains to be seen whether perceptions about Obama's management of the spill will turn a corner and give him an advantage. "Health care was never going to work quickly enough to be a lead issue for Democrats," said Cal Jillson, a political ...
A Disaster for the Gulf Coast, A Disaster for Obama
Post Date: 2010-06-18 12:10:07 by Badeye
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A Disaster for the Gulf Coast, A Disaster for Obama 14 hours ago :The oil spill is an environmental catastrophe for the Gulf Coast and a political disaster for Barack Obama. It is doing significant, and possibly irreparable, damage to his presidency. That may not be fully clear now, since Obama's approval ratings have certainly not collapsed during the span of this crisis. The deeper concern for the president, I think, is that what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico right now will accrete and soon metastasize, creating negative impressions that will be durable and difficult to undo. The oil spill calamity may become a metaphor for the Obama presidency. For one thing, the oil spill has ...
CNN Poll: Obama down 11 points on handling a crisis
Post Date: 2010-06-18 12:06:37 by Badeye
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CNN Poll: Obama down 11 points on handling a crisis Posted: June 17th, 2010 04:58 PM ET The first poll conducted after the president's Tuesday night prime-time address indicates the number of Americans who currently think Obama is a strong and decisive leader has dropped. Washington (CNN) – Is the Gulf of Mexico oil spill Barack Obama's Katrina? The first poll conducted after the president's Tuesday night prime-time address to the nation on the spill offers evidence that the public's view of Obama's leadership is following the same pattern that George W. Bush experienced after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in 2005. In the wake of Katrina, the ...
Greenspan Says U.S. May Soon Reach Borrowing Limit
Post Date: 2010-06-18 11:01:54 by Badeye
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Greenspan Says U.S. May Soon Reach Borrowing Limit By Jacob Greber - Jun 17, 2010 Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the U.S. may soon face higher borrowing costs on its swelling debt and called for a “tectonic shift” in fiscal policy to contain borrowing. “Perceptions of a large U.S. borrowing capacity are misleading,” and current long-term bond yields are masking America’s debt challenge, Greenspan wrote in an opinion piece posted on the Wall Street Journal’s website. “Long-term rate increases can emerge with unexpected suddenness,” such as the 4 percentage point surge over four months in 1979-80, he said. Greenspan rebutted ...
$7-a-gallon gas?
Post Date: 2010-06-18 10:57:53 by Badeye
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$7-a-gallon gas? The folly of O's oil-spill 'fix' By BEN LIEBERMAN Last Updated: 4:22 AM, June 18, 2010 Posted: 12:02 AM, June 18, 2010 Comments: 49 | More Print President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas. That's a Harvard University study's estimate of the per-gallon price of the president's global-warming agenda. And Obama made clear this week that this agenda is a part of his plan for addressing the Gulf mess. So what does global-warming legislation have to do with the oil spill? Good question, because such measures wouldn't do a thing to clean up the oil or fix the problems that led to the leak. The answer can be found in ...
Oil rig workers forced to job hunt after drill ban
Post Date: 2010-06-17 16:21:50 by Badeye
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Oil rig workers forced to job hunt after drill ban By CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press Writer 54 mins ago MORGAN CITY, La. – Mr. Charlie has seen the up and downs over the years in the oil patch off Louisiana's coast, but this could be the toughest slump of all. Earlier this week, the steel rig stationed on the Atchafalaya River graduated what could be one of its last classes of workers prepping for the rigors of offshore life. President Barack Obama's six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf has sent shudders across the coast's offshore oil industry — where no one knows just how extensive or long-lasting the damage to jobs may be. Louisiana has long ...
Hard times for financial reform
Post Date: 2010-06-17 13:27:59 by Badeye
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Hard times for financial reform 44Democrats accused Republicans of stalling. Republicans said Democrats were overlooking a real financial catastrophe. As Day Two of the Wall Street reform conference debate dragged on, partisan bickering underscored just how tough it would be to finish the bill by July 4. Republicans infuriated the two top Democrats on the committee — Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank — by criticizing Democrats for failing to use the financial reform bill to also reform mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama, the ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee, said leaving the government-sponsored enterprises ...
The Law of Obama
Post Date: 2010-06-17 13:24:45 by Badeye
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The Law of Obama By Ross Kaminsky on 6.17.10 @ 12:15PM In hearings before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee, Rep. Joe Barton of Texas said, in an opening remark nominally addressed to BP CEO Tony Hayward, "I am ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday. I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown, in this case a $20 billion shakedown." Other Republicans in and out of office, such as Michele Bachman are making similar comments about the lack of due process involved in arm-twisting (or arm-breaking) BP into putting aside $20 billion into an escrow account. Barton added: ...
Gulf oil spill: Will Obama regret his '90 percent' promise?
Post Date: 2010-06-17 10:16:51 by Badeye
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Gulf oil spill: Will Obama regret his '90 percent' promise? President Obama said in his Oval Office address that he wants "up to 90 percent" of the Gulf oil spill leak contained by the end of the month. He is putting his faith in an uncertain BP plan. .By Patrik Jonsson, Staff writer / June 16, 2010 President Obama's declaration that he'd like to see "up to 90 percent" of the Gulf oil spill geyser contained in the next few weeks is a best-case scenario in a worst-case kind of disaster. Oval Office speech: Obama's 'take charge' moment in Gulf oil spill .From the beginning, BP has failed to meet expectations either to kill the well or ...
Obama's address: grand setting, weak policies
Post Date: 2010-06-16 10:15:36 by Badeye
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Obama's address: grand setting, weak policies The main impression left by President Obama’s address on the oil spill is the chasm between the ambition of its commitments and the thinness of its policies. Obama pledges to "fight this spill with everything we’ve got for as long as it takes." Then he authorizes National Guard deployments that he cannot order, urging "governors in the affected states to activate these troops as soon as possible." He will "meet with" the chairman of BP to urge him to set aside sufficient recovery funds. He has "asked" someone who works for him to develop a long-term Gulf Coast restoration plan. He will bring ...
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