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Chickens for pigeons?
Here's an idea: Hold a contest for composing a "Robot Pigeons from the Planet Zenu" theme song. The Ghost Chickens song is pretty funny but I bet there are a lot of song writers who listen to your show. I'm sure one of them could compose something better. Or just ask the best comedian/song writer/satirist: Roy Zimmerman!
I don't think there is a good cop. It's more like bad cop, worse cop.
We've disempowered ourselves by wondering, if only in the back of our heads, 'what if the center-right-nation mantra is actually accurate?'
Its not all that bad.
If we continue to use unsustainable energy to power our society, we'll all die out and the next dominate species on the planet can use our fossils for oil!
@DRichards, sounds like your waking up. ;-)
N
It's part double standard, but more Stockholm syndrome
Harry
Sounds like a game of good cop, bad cop. Either way, it's the same people running the show.
FYI
As a follow-up to yesterdays member of the day post re:Should Nebraska adopt an Arizona style immigration law. The final out come was 82% yes 18% no. There were 964 votes cast. What a sad commentary on todays culture. This is the HEARTLAND ?!?!
If you would like to post a comment go to editor@theindependant.com
Mena
Why are we drilling off shore? We have 2% world's oil reserves but use 25%. Every drop oil that we drill for, goes onto the World Exchange in Rotterdam, Holland. We get 25% of that oil. For every tax $ that we subsize the oil companies we get $0.25 of oil. The rest of the world get $0.75. This is a redistribution of wealth, from the US taxpayer to the rest of the world. And we are taking all of the risks.
It might be time to revisit Dubya's purchase of land in Paraguay -- atop the largest aquifer in the world (Guarani) near Chaco. Also, large natural gas reserves and marijuana fields. Sounds like survivalist to me ... bring about apocalypse, we don't care. By-the-way, since the US is now providing substantial funds to Paraguay in exchange for allowing our _military personnel_ there. Much SA coverage of this, but not much in the US.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/oct/23/mainsection.tomphillips
CREDO ASKS YOU SIGN PETITION
Subject: Tell EPA: Take away BP's billions in federal contracts
Dear Friend,
It's time to stop playing BP's games and make the company take responsibility for the pattern of reckless behavior that led to the growing Deep Horizon disaster in the gulf.
The Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to bar BP from receiving U.S. government contracts. Suspension of BP contracts would mean the loss of billions of dollars and effectively stop the company from drilling in federally controlled oil fields both on and offshore.
I just signed the petition to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson asking her to impose "discretionary debarment" and strip BP of all federal contracts. You can take action too by clicking on the link below.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/epa_bp/?r_by=9308-1947262-S.7vM1x&rc=paste1
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/epa_bp/letter.html?registered=1&country=United%20States&petition_id=566&r=5586&redirect_url=%2Fcampaign%2Fepa_bp%2Fletter.html&id=9308-1947262-S.7vM1x
@Drichards: why arent liberals yelling as loud? Obama isn't as bad as Bush.
@DRichards, no question about it, you'll always get the faithful to cheer for their team, no matter how bad they play.
N
Harry,
So why aren't the liberals yelling just as loud as when Bush was in office? Is it the same blind allegiance to a political party? Is it a double standard?
@rladlof, I think you missed Thom's point, I believe he's pointing out what the American people wanted, they thought they saw it in Obama, but ended up with yet another DLC servant. Your absolutely right, that if the American public as a whole really paid attention and had common sense they would have known this during the campaign, but as happens so often, the electorate falls into the "lessor of two evils" stupor, and ends up resigned to vote for someone they ultimately have settled for. Thom is right, though, a lot of people who voted for Obama, really believed he was a strong progressive, more so because they wanted to believe it, then actually having facts that supported it. Then there were those of us who had really no other choice then Obama or McCain at that point, what're you going to do with that choice?
N
1. Invoke Public Emergency exception to regulations currently slowing approval of shoreline defenses, such as the sand barriers Jindhal wants. Some mistakes will be made but assuming Jindhal's working in good faith, ordinary rules must not be barriers.
2. Reverse the emergency's command structure: put the Navy in charge of stopping the leak, with BP as prime contractor and the Coast Guard, which has failed, as a command subordinate. The Guard should never have taken the word of BP, an interested party, in this emergency.
3. Impound BP's existing supertankers, send them to the Gulf and start skimming the oil into them.
4. Freeze new offshore drilling; make up the difference by stopping the burning of crazy amounts of oil fighting wars on the other side of the planet.
Caller to Ed Schultz show said BP could have capped this well awhile ago via equalization of pressure. Here is his company http://www.wisedomeinc.com/
I will side with Bobby Jindahl to say that if there are sand booms that can be constructed, the federal goverment should do so and send the bill to BP. These could be used to protect the coral like a filter pack inside a water filter. However, an undaunting task, but those people are out of work anyway and no doubt want to help. We need to focus on remediation right now.
There should also be animal capture and relocation teams going out and looking for our dolphin and whale friends and detour them from going near the spill or the trace of the spill.
It all comes down to priorities. The volcano of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico is indeed BP's "top priority" right now. But WHAT aspect of the problem are they concentrating on - how are they focusing their efforts.
As a corporation, BP has but a single mission - to make money. Thus their priority is to find a way to minimise their own corporate losses due to the blowout. Their priorities DO NOT include the following:
1) Species diversity in the Gulf.
2) The Gulf environment
3) The people who earn their living from the Gulf.
Who cares about the above? THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT!! ... or at least it SHOULD! BP has no reason to care. That's why this disaster should be handled by the Government, NOT by a profit driven corporation.
@DRichards: re #13: they're spelled different. Actually, both parties feed from the same trough, but the GOP gets the deep end....
Re: Why would Obama appoint people to a commission who do not want to raise the Social Security tax ceiling?
Is Obama just a continuation of the Clinton administration?
Why has Obama continued Bush's policies?
OK, tell me again what the actual difference between the two parties is?
My answer to your question,
"What would you do if you were president?" is this :
I would issue an executive order to stop ALL offshore drilling immediately.
THOM! I believe you are incorrect. We did not vote for FDR and get Clinton:
On human rights, President Obama is truly GWBush-lite. On taxes and regulation, President Obama is the bastard love child of Reagan and Clinton. On corporations, President Obama is largely DLC.
@Gerald: "Why are we letting the Texas publishing companies to dummy down our youth? " 'cause its Texas's turn.
Social Security shouldn't be insurance.
The guest is correct that SS was sold to us as insurance, but that's a silly way to allow for retirement. It allows the Aristocracy to throw the burden on those least able to pay and ... as Nancy's entire presenation shows ... handicaps a rational analysis of the problem of caring for our aged and infirm.
Thom
May 25, 2010
Let me start by saying the Dow and Wall Street are not the economy. Labor and jobs are the economy.
If I was president, I would prosecute criminals. There is a long list of names and corporations that should be put in jail.
I have never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the tool box but why is it that the United States of Hell seems always screwed by foreign corporatists, such as BP and Halliburton? Why is it that the United States of Hell finds ways to waste away our precious natural resources? Why can’t the United States of Hell find alternative energies so that we do not go to war for a foreign country’s energy resources? Why is the United States of Hell a perpetual hell hole? Why are we letting the Texas publishing companies to dummy down our youth?