Unbelievable

At least it would be if it weren't so distressingly predictable these days.

In a BBC interview British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward said Friday that the massive petroleum gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, the greatest oil-based environmental catastrophe in recorded history with the exception of global warming itself, should not forestall further deep-water drilling.

I’m not sure whether Hayward was channeling Sarah Palin, that font of good sense, or vice versa.

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You have to go to amateur video shot from a helicopter above the Gulf of Mexico and posted on Youtube to get the best reporting on the extent and implications of the BP oil volcano.

  Juan Cole

Glenn Beck Has Nazi Tourette's

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Bye Bye, Miranda

Appearing on the Sunday shows for the first time today, Attorney General Eric Holder said the Obama Administration wants to change the Miranda rule -- the requirement that police inform suspects of their right to remain silent and to a lawyer before interrogation -- in terrorism cases to "something that is flexible and is more consistent with the threat that we now face."

Holder said on Meet The Press that the Administration wants to work with Congress to make the public safety exception to Miranda -- in which information from questioning before reading the Miranda warning can be admitted in court, in certain situations in which public safety is a concern -- "more flexible."

  TPM

Somewhere in the future – maybe not so far away – someone is going to have to fight and die for American civil liberties all over again.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

And something else that's funny...

Obama says authorities are investigating the wild swing in the market yesterday in order to prevent it happening again. That's really funny.

Funny Headline

Pakistanis pose as Indians after NY bomb scare

It's from Yahoo, and the reason it's funny to me is the idea that they think any American can tell the difference between a Pak and and Indian.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

Drill, Baby, Drill

We shouldn't need any more argument against it than this. Wonder how that offshore drilling proposal of Obama's will fare now.

UPDATE Sunday: "the oil probably will keep gushing for months"

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

Lazy Man's Post

More Obama DOJ Attacks on Whistle-Blowers

Read it.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

Week-Long Leave

Too much going on to blog - about a week or so, I imagine. Keep up via the excellent blogs in the sidebar, and enjoy yourself.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

The Kind of Thing That Happens in War

Glen Greenwald posts the leaked video of a US helicopter attack on civilians in Iraq (2007) and a discussion...if you have the time...and reminds us that our freedom is what makes them hate us.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

No One Could Have Predicted...

In an attempt to garner public support, US Marines engaged in an intense battle with the Taliban in Marja, have been offering thousands of dollars a week to the local residents as compensation for property damage, but the move has backfired as the insurgents are using the same money against the international forces stationed in Afghanistan.

  One India

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....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

If You're White, Can You Still Be a Terrorist?

An East Texas man who federal prosecutors allege left explosive devices including pipe bombs in multiple area mail boxes, was motivated in part by anger at the government.

52-year-old Larry North […] was indicted Wednesday on a charge of illegally possessing a pipe bomb.

  TPM

No charges of terrorism, of course.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

Anybody Still There?

Here's your change.

Let us hear no more excuses for Barack Obama. Let us hear no more defenses, no more special pleading, no more extenuations. Let us have no more reciting of the "pressures" he is under, of the "many obstacles" that balk him in his quest to do us good, of the "bad advisors" who are swaying him to unworthy acts against his will. Let us be done at last with all these wretched lies, these complicitous self-deceptions that are facilitating atrocity and tyranny on a monstrous scale.

Barack Obama has ordered the murder of an American citizen, without trial, without due process, without the production of any evidence. All it takes to kill any American citizen in this way is Barack Obama's signature on a piece of paper, his arbitrary designation of the target as a "suspected terrorist." In precisely the same way -- precisely the same way -- Josef Stalin would place a mark by a name in a list of "suspected terrorists" or "counterrevolutionaries," and the bearer of that name would die.

  Empire Burlesque

The Obama administration [oversees a] "presidential assassination program," whereby American citizens are targeted for killings far away from any battlefield, based exclusively on unchecked accusations by the Executive Branch that they're involved in Terrorism. At the time,The Washington Post's Dana Priest had noted deep in a long article that Obama had continued Bush's policy (which Bush never actually implemented) of having the Joint Chiefs of Staff compile "hit lists" of Americans, and Priest suggested that the American-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was on that list. The following week, Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Adm. Dennis Blair, acknowledged in Congressional testimony that the administration reserves the "right" to carry out such assassinations.

  Glenn Greenwald

George Bush's decision merely to eavesdrop on American citizens without oversight, or to detainwithout due process Americans such as Jose Padilla and Yaser Hamdi, provoked years of vehement, vocal and intense complaints from Democrats and progressives. All of that was disparaged as Bush claiming the powers of a King, a vicious attack on the Constitution, a violation of Our Values, the trampling on the Rule of Law. Yet here you have Barack Obama not merely eavesdropping on or detaining Americans without oversight, but ordering them killed with no oversight and no due process of any kind. And the reaction among leading Democrats and progressives is largely non-existent

  Glenn Greenwald

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.