Embrace Lt. Daniel Choi and scores of others who have been cast aside; stand before the American people (who support repeal by an overwhelming majority) and tell them that you have ended this unjust, immoral, and unconstitutional policy as of NOW, and it will be a political coup.


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Think Progress explains how the US Government can push out BP.

...The administration has been keeping an ecological criminal in charge of the crime scene during a national crisis. Seventeen nations have offered assistance - but “the final decision is up to BP” to accept it, according to the State Department - and only Canada, Mexico and Norway ( Read more... )

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Tony Hayward, BP CEO, will never live these words down:

In an bullish interview with the Guardian at BP's crisis centre in Houston, Hayward insisted that the leaked oil and the estimated 400,000 gallons of dispersant that BP has pumped into the sea to try to tackle the slick should be put in context ( Read more... )

This story gets worse by the day. Whoever was part of the Minerals Management Service who allowed such practices to go on needs to be brought in front of Congress immediately. Hearing about this only confirms how much control corporate interests have over the system. NY Times:

The federal Minerals Management Service gave permission to BP and ( Read more... )

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I had a more comprehensive links list post all done up but I managed to delete most of it, so here's the simple version without my commentary. The entire thing has me upset beyond words anyway.

Gulf Oils Spill Balloons

This post on crooksandliars has several links and some backsory on why BP didn't have a specific safety device on the rig that could have ( Read more... )

The BP oil spill is already being called as bad as the 1969 Santa Barbara spill off the coast of California which prompted a moratorium on oil drilling off both the Pacific & Atlantic coasts. The inevitable scenario of the oil infiltating the already precarious balance of the delicate wetlands ecosystem which is still nowhere near recovered from ( Read more... )

First, the actual Health Care Bill, H. R. 3200 . Don't let the 1,017 page- thing scare you; with the margins and breaks, it's a couple hundred pages. A lot of dry reading, but there's a lot to learn here, too. I wonder why so many Senators and Congresspeople haven't bother to, you know, actually read the bill instead of postulating what mighr be ( Read more... )

In case there is any doubt that senior citizens are being targeted with fear-mongering from the right, I'm posting the text from an email that appeaed in my in-box. The email is from the American Family Association, a group that more often than night sends out 'alerts' regarding the Gay Agenda (OMG!).

Here's the BIG LIE:

The seniors were trying ( Read more... )