Matt Simmons’ interview on Bloomberg News Forty days and forty nights– that’s how long the rupture of BP’s Macondo Well has been spilling its oily guts into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of nearly a million gallons per day. That is, if you accept the twice revised estimates of BP and the US government that initially pegged the …
A Dire Straits message for President Obama Is President Obama suffering from Stockholm Syndrome brought on by the D.C. culture of Regulatory Capture corruption he inherited? Regulatory capture occurs when a state regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead acts in favor of the commercial or special interests that dominate in the industry or sector it is …
• Click it. • The devious strivings of a vainglorious generation threaten to swamp and submerge the whole complicated structure of a highly specialized civilization. The love of riches all too often obscures and even destroys the spiritual vision. Fail not to recognize the danger of wealth’s becoming, not your servant, but your master. Where your treasure is, there will …
A young heron sits dying amidst oil splattering underneath mangrove on an island impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, along the the coast of Louisiana on Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) # Yesterday, the Department of the Interior‘s (DOI) Inspector General (IG) released its investigation into the Lake Charles District Office of …
Some people are just sloppy thinkers. They get their little macaroni fingers on a delicious but strictly philosophical entrée, and the next thing you know it’s dribbling down their chinny-chin-chin and onto their anti-gravity vestments.
After realizing he stepped in it with Rachel Maddow over his stance that private business should be exempted from the Civil Rights law, Rand Paul went on Good Morning America and in this account by TPM, tried to steer: …the conversation toward something more recent, President Obama’s criticism of BP following the oil spill. Paul said: “This sort of, you …
The wrathful God of Ezekiel and Isaiah receives some well-deserved toadying from a grateful Mark Miner, spokesman for Texas Governor Rick Perry. Miner supplicated himself before the angry monarch on the Governor’s behalf, in recognition of God’s recent horrific oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. “Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce …
