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Executive Producer of The Professional Left Podcast. On staff at Crooks and Liars since 2007. Master's degree from Harvard. Happy wife of Driftglass. Mother of three geniuses. Obsessive knitter. Blogs at http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com. .
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fastfeat's picture

to enter loop current today, due to weather system pushing in from the west. Look out Keys and East Coast of Florida.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/A...

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-05-16/n...


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

pissed off patricia's picture

Just a matter of when, not if. I want someone out there to verify that BP is actually catching some of the oil that is coming from the broken pipe. For some reason I just don't trust those BP boys. I can't imagine why I would feel that way, but I just do.

We are scheduled for a weeks vacation next month on Sanibel Island. We go every year and damn, I hope that stuff doesn't cover our home away from home beach.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

BP has achieved it. They'll just have to process the salt out of the water.

Right Wing Hater's picture

Thanks - will pass along!


We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?

Right Wing Hater's picture

NASA: Easily the hottest April — and hottest Jan-April — in temperature record - http://climateprogress.org/2010/05/16/nasa-ea...
But, but, but, it snowed this past year....it was cold....

Peak oil production coming sooner than expected: Media, public, governments unprepared for the End of the World (As We Know It) - http://climateprogress.org/2010/05/15/peak-oil/
The BP oil disaster reminds us once again of the many large costs of oil use not included in its price. But because conservatives have blocked or rolled back all serious efforts to move us off of oil in the last three decades, peak oil will soon change that.

Oil Spills, World Bankruptcies, and Other Manmade Maladies: It’s High Time We Went Green - http://tpjmagazine.us/walker40

Giant Plumes of Oil Found Forming Under Gulf of Mexico. These BP Execs Should be Indicted at Once. "The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the government and BP have given."
- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/us/16oil.ht...

Short Sharp Science: Guess how much oil is spilling into the Gulf of Mexico - http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharps...
There's a new game in town: guess how many barrels of oil are gushing from BP's ruptured well into the Gulf of Mexico every day. ~~~ Wereley used particle image velocimetry to estimate the amount of spewing from the pipe. This technique uses a computer program that tracks and calculates how fast particles move, and is accurate to plus or minus 20 per cent, reports NPR. "Given that uncertainty, the amount of material spewing from the pipe could range from 56,000 barrels to 84,000 barrels a day."
In a press conference earlier this week Doug Suttles, BP chief operating officer, maintained the 5000-barrel-a-day figure was their best estimate - despite BP admitting to Congress a week earlier the figure might be as high as 60,000 barrels a day. Suttles said BP's official estimate is based on the visual observation of oil flowing from the barrel, and "how much oil is on top of the sea". "But," he said, "It's very, very difficult to know for certain."
ONE THING IS FOR CERTAIN, ANYONE STILL ADVOCATING TO KEEP OUR ECONOMY TIED TO THIS FINITE RESOURCE NEEDS THEIR HEAD EXAMINED

LONG OVERDUE: Obama Administration to push solar solution to coal addiction - http://www.grist.org/article/2010-05-14-solar...
The Obama administration is giving a $62 million boost to efforts to make solar power truly competitive with coal. It's going to a mix of startups and big old-line tech companies that are working on some potentially game-changing technology

Why De-regulation is just as stupid & nonsensical as 'trickle down economics': Oh Yeah? - http://politicalirony.com/2010/05/14/oh-yeah/
A Sarah Palin-esque response to those advocating for these truly idiotic machinations of con-servative 'ideology'...

The Irony of America (specifically the hypocrisy of the con-servatives & right wingnuts) - http://politicalirony.com/2010/05/16/the-iron...

Why Lewis Black is brilliant: Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourettes - http://politicalirony.com/2010/05/14/glenn-be...

EXXPOSE EXXON: Denial-a-palooza Round 4: 'International Conference on Climate Change' Groups Funded by Exxon, Koch Industries - http://www.desmogblog.com/denial-a-palooza-4t...

The video most likely to make you want to take a shower - http://www.desmogblog.com/video-most-likely-m...

Do Deficits Matter? - http://politicalirony.com/2010/05/15/do-defic...
Apparently, deficits only matter when a Democratic President is in the White House

GOP & Kagan - http://politicalirony.com/2010/05/16/judge-me...

The aftermath of the failed Geopolitical Energy End Game of the con-servatives & neo-cons: The Hundred Years Wars for Oil and Geopolitical Dominance are a Bust: Taliban Hold Sway in Area Taken by U.S., Farmers Say
- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/world/asia/...

How much stupid is there in this country and how much money can a con-servative make off of it? Video: Newt Gingrich says Obamas secular socialism is worse than the Nazis and the Soviet Union - http://rackjite.com/archives/5019-Video-Newt-...
Just so there is no mistake, let me say that again. Newt Gingrich says Obama's Secular Socialism is worse than the Nazis and the Soviet Union. This is no airhead out on the stump selling books to morons, this is one of the top four contenders for the Republican Nomination for President in 2012. Gingrich and Cheney represent the moderate wing. This guy is as bad as it gets whether it be politics, personality, character or even humanity itself. And whats more, the list of all the thing he has been wrong about, of placed end to end, would reach to the galactic center.

Noam Chomsky detained in Israel, denied entry to the West Bank - http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2010/05/1...
"Noam Chomsky, a renowned Jewish-American scholar and political activist, has been barred from entering Israel to deliver a speech at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank. He spoke to Al Jazeera about his hours-long wait at the Israeli border, and the explanation he was given for being denied entry."

BP whose drilling triggered the Gulf of Mexico oil spill also owns a rig that operated with incomplete and inaccurate engineering documents, which one official warned could "lead to catastrophic operator error," records and interviews show
- http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/...

Sarah "I can see Russia from my back porch" Palin's political bandwagon is wobbling under the weight of contradictions - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/nor...

"Sarah Palin on BP Oil Spill: 'We Need to Keep Drilling'." Someone should drill in her head; they would hit a gusher. - http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Media/sarah-pa...
The Queen of Stupidity & Insanity....with her loyal court jester Michelle "Kentucky Census worker blood on my hands" Bachmann...

Michele Bachmann Poses With Birther Queen Orly Taitz - http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2010/05/mich...

Because posting it twice means its a MUST SEE: Devastating Takedown of Glenn Beck's Nazi Tourette's Syndrome by the Last Angry Man, Lewis Black. Must Watch. Worthy of a Standing Ovation.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMOh9L60FKw

Brit Hume Shrugs Off Oil Spill: ‘Where Is The Oil?’ There's a Gusher Coming Our of Your Head, Brit! - http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/16/hume-wher...

Frank Rich: A Heaven Sent "Rent Boy." The Unrelenting Unraveling of Republican Hypocrisy and Pathology About Being Gay. "These dying gasps of our culture wars, like Rekers’s farcical pratfall, might be funnier if millions of gay Americans and their families were not still denied their full civil rights."
- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/opinion/16r...

Costa Rica Builds 'Underground Railroad' for Jaguars - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/costa...

Nobody does stupid, like con-servatives do stupid: As oil continues to gush into the Gulf, Mississippi offers $75 gas cards to tourists. - http://climateprogress.org/2010/05/16/bp-oil-...
Downplaying the BP disaster, Gov. Barbour encourages tourists to ‘enjoy the beach’ as dead dolphins wash ashore....


We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?

fastfeat's picture

Better off giving tourists $75 in credit at a Biloxi casino and a bucket...


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

he'd offer those vacant motel rooms at a discount for volunteers who might want to come assist in clean-up. But of course, he don't want no dirty, stinkin' hippies visiting his state...


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

pissed off patricia's picture

Brit Hume is an asshole and he so proved that yesterday. I don't think I have ever cursed at the tv as much as I did yesterday when he was poo-pooing the spill.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

fastfeat's picture

Where the f*ck is Eric Holder? Pussy little biatch!


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

On the other hand, Little Miss "Impeachment is Off the Table" Pelosi deserves to be tortured more than most of our 21st century politicians for failing America, so I don't actually feel that much moral outrage.

curtilingus's picture
:p

This analyst makes a reasonable argument as to why we may see a drop in the Dow that takes us below 5000.

“And the freefall is due to the fact that our financial system has $17 trillion of leverage and it only takes a handful of hedge funds to get a margin call before we start to see this freefall take place,” added Hefty.

I'm almost due for someone to tell me how great the economy is doing.

curtilingus's picture
:p

Ooo. Things are heating up. An organized, large group of protesters showed up at a Bank of America lobbyists home.

In the last year B of A spent 16 million to fight financial reform

This is what we need to start doing. take the fight directly to the corporations and their sub-contracted lobbyists. Its not like our representatives will do anything.

though.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Batocchio's picture

The Cheney connection needs to come out more.

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