TGIF News and Views

Good Morning and TGIF, fellow Conflucians!!! Raw Story has an “exclusive” on the toxicity of the dispersants that BP and the Coast Guard used to cover up the massive amount of oil that was released into the Gulf of Mexico by the Deepwater Horizon well from hell. I used the quotation marks, because I wrote [...]

Thursday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!!!! President Obama is beginning to get some push back from the public about his many broken promises. The latest example of this came last night at fundraiser in Manhattan. Here’s some of the video: I have to ask: What *would* be the proper time and place for Americans to address their complaints [...]

Monday Morning News: Bradley Manning, BP Gusher

Good Morning Conflucians!! Two big stories are dominating the news so far this morning. OFFICIAL EFFORTS TO PERSONALLY DESTROY BRADLEY MANNING It looks to me like the mainstream press, probably pushed by the government, is trying to try to undermine the credibility of the material on Afghanistan released by Wikileaks by destroying Bradley Manning and [...]

Friday Late Morning News and Views

Hello Conflucians!!! TGIF!! I’ve got a potpourri of articles this morning with no overarching theme. I supposed Elena Kagan’s confirmation is the big story today, but I really can’t get too excited about it. She seems to me to be such a mediocre choice. The Politico says that the vote totals were a shot across [...]

Administration Scientists vs. Independent Scientists: Who are You Going to Believe?

The Obama administration and BP have been busy busy busy for the past week spreading the meme that it’s all over. There’s no more oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Everything is fine and dandy, hunky-dory, and A-Okay. So don’t worry your pretty little heads about it anymore, get out to the mall and go [...]

Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Corexit Dispersant

On Saturday, I promised to write a post about Corexit, the dispersant made by Nalco Company that has been used by BP to hide the amount of oil they have released into the Gulf of Mexico. This is the post. It’s way too long, I know; but it only begins to tell the story. USE [...]

Monday Late Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! It’s Monday, and the dog days of summer march on. We’ve had several days’ break in the heat here in New England, but I imagine we’ll get some more hot ones before September. The news isn’t exactly uplifting this morning, but that’s nothing new for America in 2010. Paul Krugman is “starting [...]

Clues to the Obama Administration’s Passive Response to the BP Disaster

“Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.” — Rahm Emanuel Since the first weeks after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, I have wondered why President Obama wasn’t using this tragedy as an opportunity to to shore up his [...]

Thursday Mid-Morning News and Views

Hello Conflucians!!! Things must be really bad in Obot land these days, because TC is starting to get more trolls dropping in–reminders of the old days. They still think we’re “bitter,” too. janeandpaul, on July 29, 2010 at 12:59 am Said: Edit Comment oh please…keep up your petty vindictive judgements. you are worse than those [...]

Is Nature Trying To Tell Us Something?

More photos here. Here we go again. Last night there was another massive oil spill, this time in Michigan near the Kalamazoo River. Michigan Oil Spill May Be Largest In History Of Midwest Crews along the Kalamazoo River in Michigan were busy Tuesday skimming oil and placing booms to prevent further damage from what is [...]