Monday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!!! It’s an iced coffee-type of day here in the Boston area. Boy, this hot weather just won’t quit. We had a couple of days break awhile back and other than that it’s been hot and humid here. The big news right now is that something is seeping from the ocean floor around [...]

Sunday News And Other Mythologies

Good Day Conflucians!! The myth that we have two different political parties would be funny to watch if it didn’t have such serious consequences. Whichever party is in charge does the bidding of their corporatist bosses while the out party pretends to be opposed to what they’re doing. They each make lots of noise and [...]

A new “ketchup is a vegetable” moment

I don’t know what to make of this comment from David Obey about the Obama administration’s suggestion that funding for Obama’s Race to the Top educational initiatives be taken from food stamp funds: The secretary of education [Arne Duncan] is whining about the fact he only got 85 percent of the money he wanted .… [W]hen [...]

Friday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! TGIF! At the Washington Post, Michael Shear writes that Thursday was, arguably, the best day of Barack Obama’s presidency in many, many months. For the first time in more than 12 weeks, oil stopped gushing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. And in a less-than-dramatic ending, the U.S. Senate gave [...]

Drilling through Plagiarism

You’ve probably seen this McClatchy report by now. Gulf spill raises questions about role of oil consultants The names, locations and geographical coordinates are different. Otherwise the drilling plans for three oil companies in the Gulf of Mexico contain identical fonts, footnotes, overly optimistic projections and even typographical errors. [emphasis added] … Department of Interior [...]

Thursday News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! Last night on Anderson Cooper I heard the news that there has been another delay in BP’s efforts to cap their runaway oil well. I couldn’t quite understand what happened, but this morning the news is that engineers found a new leak in a “choke line,” and that is what caused the [...]

Wednesday News

Good Morning Conflucians!! Let’s get right to it on this late midweek morning. It looks like BP is delaying the tests from their new cap: BP PLC remains in a holding pattern on a crucial pressure test of a new containment system over its leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico while pursuing other [...]

Hapless Harry Enjoys Being an Oprecious Prop

Yesterday from Politico: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants President Barack Obama to be “more firm” and stop avoiding “confrontation” with Republicans. “He is a person who doesn’t like confrontation. He’s a peacemaker,” Reid said in an interview with Las Vegas television station KSNV. Oh really? And yet a month and a half ago, we [...]

“You have the right to obey my orders”

Via TGW, a story that will sicken and enrage you. The Raw Story: One officer was fired and another quit after a rural Georgia woman who called police to complain of a prowler was zapped repeatedly with a stun gun. Ryan Smith of the Lumpkin Police Department has resigned and Tim Murphy, of Richland Police [...]

Quit asking when your pony will arrive!

Over at OpenLeft Mike Lux isn’t a happy camper: The argument over Obama and the left rages on unabated. It started in earnest the day after his election with the first leaks of who would be appointed to the transition team, and has kept going since. [...] However, I’m writing this post not to join [...]