It's about time. Maybe Obama is finally figuring it out that the Rethuglicans have no desire to see him and the country succeed in getting past this economic crisis and putting Americans back to work.
More of it please.
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Friday, May 14, 2010
DE-REGULATE! DE-REGULATE! DRILL-BABY-DRILL! DE-REGULATE!! . . .
Nitrate contamination spreading in California communities
May 13, 2010 | Julia Scott
The water supply of more than two million Californians has been exposed to harmful levels of nitrates over the past 15 years – a time marked by lax regulatory efforts to contain the colorless and odorless contaminant, a California Watch investigation has found.
Nitrates are now the most common groundwater contaminant in California and across the country. A byproduct of nitrogen-based farm fertilizer, animal manure, wastewater treatment plants and leaky septic tanks, nitrates leach into the ground and can be expensive to extract.
The problem affects both rural Californians and wealthier big-city water systems. State law requires public water systems to remove nitrates. Many rural communities, however, don’t have access to the type of treatment systems available in metropolitan areas.
Nitrates have been linked to “blue baby syndrome,” which cuts off an infant’s oxygen supply. Some studies have found connections to certain cancers in lab animals.
Once again lax gov't oversight and/or de-regulation results in direct harm to U.S. citizens.
I've issued this challenge before to conservative acquaintances and as I've never had anyone respond to the challenge, I'll do so again. Show me a single, evidence documented case of an industry that was de-regulated and ended up benefitting anyone other than than wealthy Wall Street investors. Just one case - ONE!
The proverbial silence is deafening.
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Ecological Holocaust . . . coming soon to a beach near you!
May 14, 2010
The amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico is at least 10 times the size of official estimates, according to an exclusive NPR analysis.
At NPR's request, experts examined video that BP released Wednesday. Their findings suggest the BP spill is already far larger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska, which spilled at least 250,000 barrels of oil.
The gooey, smelly, life destroying shit has just begun to come ashore. Wait until it hits with full force. You'll see these idiot "drill baby drill" fuckheads trampling each other to backtrack from their support of offshore drilling and find hiding places from the media. And all that will remain will be Queen Sarah of the Exxon, Rush Limpballs and the FOX "News" crowd left to publicly defend BP and offshore drilling and blame it all on the evil dictator Obama.
Somehow I don't think they're going to get away with it this time.
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The "Back Up Sump Pump" candidate . . .
Not that I needed Keith Olbermann to bolster my long held contention that Sarah Palin is moron, but it is nice when someone who has more viewers than my dozen or so fans goes on national television to pretty much convey the same view which I've been positing for quite some time.
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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Justice -- The Great Icy North Style . . .
The Icelanders have got the right idea. I've always said - erect a gallows in front of the NY Stock Exchange, publicly hang a few of these Banksters and Investment firm CEO's and traders and you'll see Wall Street clean up their crooked act pretty fucking quick.
By Haukur Holm (AFP) – 22 hours ago
REYKJAVIK — More than a year and a half after Iceland's major banks failed, all but sinking the country's economy, police have begun rounding up a number of top bankers while other former executives and owners face a two-billion-dollar lawsuit.
Since Iceland's three largest banks -- Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir -- collapsed in late 2008, their former executives and owners have largely been living untroubled lives abroad.
But the publication last month of a parliamentary inquiry into the island nation's profound financial and economic crisis signaled a turning of the tide, laying much of the blame for the downfall on the former bank heads who had taken "inappropriate loans from the banks" they worked for.
Just saying . . .
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Beck's Nazi Tourette's . . .
In 5 minutes, Lewis Black gives us the sum total of what Glenn Beck's existence is all about.
Brilliant - - and thank you Lewis.
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Brilliant - - and thank you Lewis.
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