Jsmog Blog http://juneausmog.com/blog News & Info from the State of Alaska and the State of the Nation Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:27:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 State attorney generals mull charges on BP regarding oil spill http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/06/01/state-attorney-generals-mull-charges-on-bp-regarding-oil-spill/ http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/06/01/state-attorney-generals-mull-charges-on-bp-regarding-oil-spill/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:27:28 +0000 Calickizzle http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/06/01/state-attorney-generals-mull-charges-on-bp-regarding-oil-spill/ Eric Holder is meeting today with the state attorneys of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama to consider pressing charges on BP regarding the oil spill disaster.

I'm curious, are the state attorney generals Holder is meeting who are looking for legal support from the federal government the same ones who are filing briefs challenging the federal government regarding health care reform?

Oh, the irony….

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]]> http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/06/01/state-attorney-generals-mull-charges-on-bp-regarding-oil-spill/feed/ 0 Let’s re-examine that “Drill Baby Drill” chant a little more closer, shall we? http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/06/01/lets-re-examine-that-drill-baby-drill-chant-a-little-more-closer-shall-we/ http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/06/01/lets-re-examine-that-drill-baby-drill-chant-a-little-more-closer-shall-we/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:26:23 +0000 Calickizzle http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/06/01/lets-re-examine-that-drill-baby-drill-chant-a-little-more-closer-shall-we/ Is there anything more ironic than "Drill Baby Drill" Republicans criticizing Obama on this BP Oil Spill?  (Besides Sarah Palin being considered some sort of expert on oil and energy, or being "qualified" to be Vice President, of course.)

Quick & easy commercial to guarantee victory for the Democrats in the mid-terms: show images of "Drill baby Drill" from the 2008 RNC over shots of the BP Oil Spill.  Ta da.  Victory all but guaranteed.

The Oil Spill and the Republicans- Robert Creamers (Huffington Post)

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]]> http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/06/01/lets-re-examine-that-drill-baby-drill-chant-a-little-more-closer-shall-we/feed/ 0 Al Qaida’s No. 3 man gets killed, upsetting Dick Cheney http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/06/01/al-qaidas-no-3-man-gets-killed-upsetting-dick-cheney/ http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/06/01/al-qaidas-no-3-man-gets-killed-upsetting-dick-cheney/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:10:18 +0000 Calickizzle http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/06/01/al-qaidas-no-3-man-gets-killed-upsetting-dick-cheney/ This news makes Dick and Liz Cheney sad.

Its hard to call Obama "soft on terror" when top al Qaida and members of the Taliban keep getting killed.

The Cheneys would prefer it if America was successfully attacked by terrorists. That would make their shriveled little hearts double in size with glee!

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]]> http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/06/01/al-qaidas-no-3-man-gets-killed-upsetting-dick-cheney/feed/ 0 Israel ends its spell on non-douchebag behavior http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/31/israel-ends-its-spell-on-non-douchebag-behavior/ http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/31/israel-ends-its-spell-on-non-douchebag-behavior/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:02:48 +0000 Calickizzle http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/31/israel-ends-its-spell-on-non-douchebag-behavior/ Israel must have decided it had been too long since it acted like a complete douchebag, therefore deciding to attack an unarmed aid group in international waters in violation of maritime laws, killing dozens of activists, most of whom were from Turkey.

It will be a sad day for Israel when their only international ally is fellow pariah North Korea.

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]]> http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/31/israel-ends-its-spell-on-non-douchebag-behavior/feed/ 0 Will North Korea’s belligerence renew the Korean War? http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/29/will-north-koreas-belligerence-renew-the-korean-war/ http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/29/will-north-koreas-belligerence-renew-the-korean-war/#comments Sat, 29 May 2010 20:52:56 +0000 Calickizzle http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/29/will-north-koreas-belligerence-renew-the-korean-war/ North Korea says that South Korea is taking steps to start a war.

Really? Funny, I think an unprovoked sinking of a navy ship and killing all aborad might be the actual step towards starting a war.

Silly me…

And I'm sure the conservatives will start criticizing Obama for picking on poor ol' North Korea, correct?

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]]> http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/29/will-north-koreas-belligerence-renew-the-korean-war/feed/ 0 How the BP spill could affect the mid-terms, pt. VI http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/29/how-the-bp-spill-could-affect-the-mid-terms-pt-vi-2/ http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/29/how-the-bp-spill-could-affect-the-mid-terms-pt-vi-2/#comments Sat, 29 May 2010 20:52:49 +0000 Calickizzle http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/29/how-the-bp-spill-could-affect-the-mid-terms-pt-vi-2/ Since it was Bush-Cheney's MMS and Energy Task Force that allowed this BP spill to occur, should we consider the spill "Bush's Katrina?" Oh, that's right, the original Katrina was Bush's Katrina. Maybe this spill is "Bush's Katrina, pt. II?"

It's interesting just how we haven't head anything from either Shrub or Cheney.  And how suddenly all the anti-government Tea Baggers are demanding help from the federal government in cleaning up this spill.

As the saying goes: "There are no libertarians in a natural disaster."

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]]> http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/29/how-the-bp-spill-could-affect-the-mid-terms-pt-vi-2/feed/ 0 How the BP spill could affect the mid-terms, pt. VI http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/28/how-the-bp-spill-could-affect-the-mid-terms-pt-vi/ http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/28/how-the-bp-spill-could-affect-the-mid-terms-pt-vi/#comments Sat, 29 May 2010 00:54:38 +0000 Calickizzle http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/28/how-the-bp-spill-could-affect-the-mid-terms-pt-vi/ Since it was Bush-Cheney's MMS and Energy Task Force that allowed this BP spill to occur, should we consider the spill "Bush's Katrina?" Oh, that's right, the original Katrina was Bush's Katrina. Maybe this spill is "Bush's Katrina, pt. II?"

It's interesting just how we haven't head anything from either Shrub or Cheney.  And how suddenly all the anti-government Tea Baggers are demanding help from the federal government in cleaning up this spill.

As the saying goes: "There are no libertarians in a natural disaster."

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]]> http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/28/how-the-bp-spill-could-affect-the-mid-terms-pt-vi/feed/ 0 Wall Street’s war on Financial Reform http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/26/wall-streets-war-on-financial-reform/ http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/26/wall-streets-war-on-financial-reform/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 00:46:30 +0000 Calickizzle http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/26/wall-streets-war-on-financial-reform/ And the Senate is all too eager to roll over and play dead.

Read it and weep.

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But, its cool because immigrants are brown, and therefore are a subclass of humans.  They don't serve to have police protection…

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]]> http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/26/police-chiefs-criticize-arizonas-anti-immigrant-law/feed/ 0 How the BP oil spill might affect the 2010 mid-terms, part V http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/26/how-the-bp-oil-spill-might-affect-the-2010-mid-terms-part-v/ http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/26/how-the-bp-oil-spill-might-affect-the-2010-mid-terms-part-v/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 22:18:38 +0000 Calickizzle http://juneausmog.com/blog/2010/05/26/how-the-bp-oil-spill-might-affect-the-2010-mid-terms-part-v/

Has anyone seriously thought they would want President Obama to do? Seriously?

The government has deregulated, privatized, and outsourced such technical expertise for the past few decades, to the point where its allowed industry leaders write their own regulations. Can someone point out the Office of Oil Spill clean-up? Does the military have the technology to fix an oil leak 5000 feet below sea level? Really? Tell me when its done that!

And Sarah “drill baby drill” Palin tries score political points with the donation BP gave Obama. Well, which is it Tea Baggers. Is Obama being “un America”- according to Rand Paul- by saying he’ll “put the boot on the throat” of BP, or is he too “cozy” with the oil companies, according to Sarah Palin?

The fact is this oil leak is unprecedented, which is undeniable. Obama will say that in his press conference tomorrow, for which he’ll be mocked by Fox News.

There is a good chance this leak will NEVER be fixed, and the GOP would like nothing more than for Obama to shove aside BP and take “ownership” of this oil leak despite the federal government’s lack of expertise and technology, that way the federal government could be correctly blamed for the continual spilling of oil as opposed to pinning the blame on their precious “free market” and “private corporations”, whose failures become publicly owned.

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