The report, released (well, sort of) by the Interior Department Inspector General clarifies what those of us who are suspicious of the Right Wingnuts have long asserted: let the Fox guard the Chickens and the Fox will eat comfortably. What the ObamaNauts need to do, and haven't been willing to do, is to smear the Right Wingnuts with their growing pile of excrement.
The Bushies made all these messes, and the American voter needs reminding, daily, who did what to whom. They tend to believe the lies that come out of the Rovian Spin Mill; left to fester, they will seize the opportunity to blame Obama for BP's (and the Bushies MMS) perfidy. Democrats need to get some balls. If they don't, we're all toast.
According to today's news reports, BP is waffling about sealing the well. BP, not too surprisingly, is said to have overruled Transocean's men with regard to loading mud; BP took a "shortcut", presumably to save a few bucks. If ever there were a case of Too Big to Fail, it is these rigs. What was obvious to anyone with a smattering of engineering or physics training, that there is NO margin of error with these rigs, means that hard and fast rules have to be set and enforced. Break the rules, and you never, ever get to drill here again. One strike, and you're out.
Such a regime will only work, I should mention, if those guarding the Chickens aren't the Foxes. The Bushies did this, and must be held to account.
It's the Distribution, Stupid
Essays on topics economics: monopolists, oligopolists, and oligarchs aren't better decision-makers for the society just because they's rich and they ain't the gummint.
Infinite granularity yields infinite complexity.
Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious
$536,800,000 MARF™(party like it's 1829)
-- New York Slammers, so far/2024 [GA and The Feds still to come]
Milton was going on about the money supply, so what I said was everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my written work.
-- Robert M. Solow, 1924-2023 [Dr. Hemond noted that he made his fortune in the stock market]
-- New York Slammers, so far/2024 [GA and The Feds still to come]
Milton was going on about the money supply, so what I said was everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my written work.
-- Robert M. Solow, 1924-2023 [Dr. Hemond noted that he made his fortune in the stock market]
Covid-19 has killed at least
1,123,836 people (as of 20 March 2023, final update)
Buck {Showalter] has always reminded me of something his father once told him:
"The jobs that are easy don't pay very well."
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]
-- Monticello.org [take that, MTG]
-- Marriner Eccles/1951
This week's thought
[The intelligence community] argued that [the restrictive amendment] would cripple the program because they typically use it before there is enough evidence to meet a standard of probable cause for a warrant, like early in investigations when they are trying to learn more about a phone number or an email account found to be in contact with a suspected foreign spy or terrorist. -- Charlie Savage/2024 [IOW, let's catch the thief before the horse is out of the barn - the MARF™(party like it's 1829) traitor's worst nightmare]
About Me
Who I Am
Left wing economist since before it was fashionable
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