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US Says BP Must Pay Royalties On Oil,Gas From Leaking Gulf Well
Post Date: 2010-07-15 14:06:57 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Obama administration said Thursday that BP PLC ( BP, BP.LN) must pay royalties on oil and gas collected from the broken well in the Gulf of Mexico, and will also be liable for royalties on lost or wasted oil if it is determined that negligence or regulatory violations contributed to the spill disaster. The new head of the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement notified BP of its liability in a July 15 letter. The letter was described in a statement distributed by the Interior Department. "BP is required to report immediately" all "oil and gas-related activities associated with the Macondo ...
Doctor: If You Feel His Wrist, Cheney Might Not Have A Pulse
Post Date: 2010-07-15 14:04:06 by Brian S
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Liberals have long joked that Dick Cheney doesn't have a heart, and the former veep's latest medical setback might be hard for him to prove otherwise if checked for a pulse.Cheney, who likely has end-stage heart disease, was fitted with a special pump last week to help his heart pump blood through the body. The left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is consider a last step before a full heart transplant."It's reserved for people who have end-stage heart failure, and advanced and heroic therapies have been tried, and after folks have optimized evidence-based and guideline-recommended drug therapies," said Dr. William Abraham, director of the division of cardiovascular ...
Expert Suspects BP Has Ulterior Motive Behind Oil Well Cap
Post Date: 2010-07-15 13:54:49 by Brian S
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Since a blowout preventer cap was placed over BP's damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico last weekend, there have been repeated delays in the so-called "well integrity tests" to determine whether the cap can be effective in holding back the oil.On Tuesday, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen delayed the tests for 24 hours out of fears that they would lead to "irreversible leakage" if it was found that the well bore had been damaged below the sea floor. After a White House review, BP was told on Wednesday that it could proceed with the test, but a leak in a line leading from the cap then forced an additional one-day delay for repairs.Oil industry expert Bob Cavnar ...
Why Won’t the Media Cover the Black Panther Scandal? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-07-15 13:23:49 by Badeye
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Why Won’t the Media Cover the Black Panther Scandal? Posted by Dan Gifford Jul 15th 2010 at 6:57 am Poet Ogden Nash knew the score: …if called by a panther, don’t anther. And that’s exactly what America’s liberal agenda-setting media has done. It has not answered the “New” Black Panther’s call daring it to report on voter intimidation by two paramilitary dressed Panthers, one of whom was brandishing a club, outside a Philadelphia polling place in 2008. Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the leftist The Village Voice, a paper in which I have been published, said it’s “the most blatant form of voter intimidation ...
Thank you, Sarah Palin
Post Date: 2010-07-15 13:20:46 by Badeye
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Thank you, Sarah Palin By REP. MICHELE BACHMANN | 7/15/10 11:18 AM EDT I would like to take this opportunity and thank the author who has taken note to our successful fund-raising quarter. Every donor is a blessing and symbolizes the hope I hold that we can and will get our country back on the right track. However, I would respectfully disagree with some points when it comes to former Gov. Sarah Palin’s fund-raising ability. It is important to recognize Palin’s effect in our fund-raising numbers. Our successful fund-raising is due, in part, to the fact that she dedicated her time and efforts to come to Minnesota in April to help my reelection campaign. My race wasn’t ...
Latest Economic Deterioration Confirmation: Philly Fed Plunges To 5.1, Consensus At 10.0, Previous At 8.0
Post Date: 2010-07-15 11:44:53 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Some very troubling language in the release: Results from the Business Outlook Survey suggest that regional manufacturing activity continues to expand in July but has slowed over the past two months. Surveyed firms reported a decline in new orders this month compared with June. Employment showed a slight improvement this month. The survey’s broad indicators of future activity continue to suggest that the region’s manufacturing executives expect growth in business over the next six months, but optimism has waned notably in recent months. The survey’s broadest measure of manufacturing conditions, the diffusion index of current activity, decreased from a reading of 8 in June ...
NBC, CBS Decline To Run Mosque-Bashing Ad From Conservative Group
Post Date: 2010-07-15 11:38:17 by Brian S
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A conservative political action committee blasted the CBS and NBC networks Wednesday for rejecting its ad imploring Americans to fight the mosque proposed for Ground Zero. Titled "The Audacity of Jihad," the commercial intersperses graphic footage of the 9/11 attacks with armed Muslim militants and the sounds of Muslims praying. The narrator of the 60-second spot proposed by the National Republican Trust says, "On Sept. 11, they declared war against us. And to celebrate that murder of 3,000 Americans, they want to build a monstrous 13-story mosque at Ground Zero." In e-mails to the group, CBS and NBC officials said the ad did not meet the networks' standards and ...
More Fallout From Obama/Hitler Tea Party Billboard
Post Date: 2010-07-15 11:34:14 by Brian S
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National Democrats are using anger over a Mason City billboard that compared President Barack Obama to two dictators to solicit donations, while tourism and business officials are trying to knock down protests against Mason City. A billboard ordered and paid for by the North Iowa Tea Party showed President Barack Obama, Adolf Hitler, left and Vladimir Lenin, on South Federal Avenue in Mason City. The sign was papered over on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Globe Gazette, Deb Nicklay) The fallout over the billboard continues today, as people who found the billboard intriguing or offensive continue to express their views in e-mails and posts on news sites, including at The Des Moines Register. Fury over ...
UT Strips Klansman's Name From Austin Dorm
Post Date: 2010-07-15 11:22:23 by Brian S
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(07-15) 07:55 PDT Austin, Texas (AP) -- University of Texas regents have stripped the name of a former law school professor and early organizer of the Ku Klux Klan from a campus dormitory. The vote Thursday in Austin was unanimous. The residence hall named after William Stewart Simkins will now be known as Creekside Residence Hall. The two-story brick building was constructed in the 1950s near Waller Creek. Simkins, who was a Confederate colonel, helped organize the Klan in Florida after the Civil War. He taught law at Texas from 1899-1929 and gave speeches and wrote papers promoting the Klan and terrorizing blacks. Regents also voted to change the name of Simkins Park, a small green ...
BP Says Cap Is Repaired and Oil Cutoff Test Can Proceed
Post Date: 2010-07-15 11:18:28 by Brian S
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NEW ORLEANS — After a new setback because of a hydraulic leak, BP prepared Thursday to pick up where it left off the day before: with a crucial test that could stop the rush of oil from its well in the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since the disaster began three months ago. Overnight, engineers using remotely operated submersibles replaced equipment on the tight-sealing cap at the top of well, 5,000 feet under water, said Kent Wells, a senior vice president of the company. The equipment, part of a choke line that will be the last valve to be closed during the test, had been found to be leaking late Wednesday. With the repair made, “we’re looking to start this test as ...
Home loan applications down 2.9 pct. Mortgage applications fall 2.9 percent despite best rates in decades
Post Date: 2010-07-15 10:55:51 by Nebuchadnezzar
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Applications for home loans dipped last week even though consumers were able to refinance at the lowest rates in decades. The Mortgage Bankers Associations says overall applications decreased nearly 3 percent from a week earlier. That incorporates an adjustment for the Independence Day holiday. Applications to refinance home loans were down 2.9 percent. Applications taken out to purchase homes fell 3.1 percent, which the MBA said reduced its index to the lowest level since December 1996. The MBA doesn't publish the actual index. Applications to refinance loans made up nearly 79 percent of total applications. Mortgage rates have fallen since mid-April after ...
Real Joblessness Grimmer Than Gov't Stats
Post Date: 2010-07-15 10:18:38 by Badeye
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Real Joblessness Grimmer Than Gov't Stats By RAGHAVAN MAYUR Posted 07/14/2010 06:54 PM ET Writing in the New York Times in November 2003, Austan Goolsbee, then a professor at the University of Chicago, flamboyantly accused the government of "cooking" the books regarding unemployment. "The situation has grown so dire," he said, "that we can't even tell whether the job market is recovering. The time has come to correct the official unemployment statistics to account for those left out." Professor Goolsbee is now a top economic advisor to President Obama. Would he admit that the official jobless of 9.5% grossly underestimates the pain of job losses in ...
Its Hard to be a Depressed Republican
Post Date: 2010-07-15 09:29:44 by no gnu taxes
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My plan was, no matter what happened this year, that I’d keep the reporting about GOP prospects low key or negative. Lower expectations. Never put a bright face on things. Always assume disaster was just around the corner. What this has done is made it very hard for me to write – can’t find negative stories to tell about GOPers, can’t find any positive stories about Democrats to counter any good news for the GOP. For crying out loud, the entire political system is crashing and burning and Democrats are running ’round like chickens with their heads cut off. Yesterday I saw a House Democrat get up on TV to condemn the Obama Administration suit against Arizona! Sure, ...
Obama Hires Former Wellpoint Exec to Implement Health Care Law
Post Date: 2010-07-15 02:36:42 by WhiteSands
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From the Department of You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up, check out this little-noticed report from the Billings Gazette today: [Max Baucus and former aide and Wellpoint Exec Liz Fowler]Max Baucus and former aide and Wellpoint Exec Liz Fowler Liz Fowler, a key staffer for U.S. Sen. Max Baucus who helped draft the federal health reform bill enacted in March, is joining the Obama administration to help implement the new law... Fowler headed up a team of 20-some Senate Finance Committee staffers who helped draft the bill in the Senate. She was Baucus' top health care aide from 2001-2005 and left that job in 2006 to become an executive at WellPoint, the nation's largest private ...
The Piece of Shit In The White House Lied and Will Use Taxpayer Dollars To Murdeer American Babies
Post Date: 2010-07-14 22:04:01 by A K A Stone
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(CNSNews.com) - If you want proof that President Obama's Executive Order on taxpayer-funded abortion was a sham, look no further than Pennsylvania, says House Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio). Boehner and other Republicans point to reports that the Health and Human Services Department is giving Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new high-risk insurance pool that will cover any abortion that is legal in the state. "The fact that the high-risk pool insurance program in Pennsylvania will use federal taxpayer dollars to fund abortions is unconscionable," Boehner said in a statement on Tuesday. “Just last month at the White House, I asked President Obama to provide ...
Rampant sexual abuse puts teens in danger at juvenile prisons
Post Date: 2010-07-14 21:04:39 by WhiteSands
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Juvenile prisons are supposed to rehabilitate troubled teens, but thousands of Indiana's inmates, some as young as 13, have been placed at risk of rampant sexual violence and harassment -- often from the men and women paid to watch over them. Sex crimes inside juvenile prisons have long escaped public scrutiny in Indiana. Although incidents of rape and other sexual assault have broken into news headlines on occasion, the frequency with which state workers -- on the job and paid with tax dollars -- have had sex with young inmates was hidden behind a curtain of denial, unspoken acceptance and complacency. The scope of the problem finally became clear this year after the U.S. Department ...
President Tarball Owes Bush an Apology
Post Date: 2010-07-14 13:56:13 by no gnu taxes
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Had it not been for opposing war, President Obama might never have catapulted to the White House. It was taken for granted in the run-up to the presidential campaign of 2008 that candidate Obama had principled objections to the war in Iraq. He was the left's champion against Sen. Hillary Clinton, who had, along with 29 of the then 50 Democratic senators, voted in favor of the Iraq War resolution. That vote was to dog her throughout the Democratic primaries. Though Obama was only a state legislator in 2002, he gave a highly partisan anti-war speech that improved his standing with the left wing of the Democratic Party. "What I am opposed to," he declaimed, "is the ...
Were We Greeted as “Liberators” In Iraq?
Post Date: 2010-07-14 13:16:00 by no gnu taxes
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Democrat Voter Fraud is Far More Widespread Than You Think
Post Date: 2010-07-14 13:15:07 by reaganisright
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Last week I wrote an article titled How Obama Used an Army of Thugs to Steal the 2008 Democratic Primary that introduced the conservative community to the movie “We Will Not Be Silenced”, made by Democrat activist Gigi Gaston two years ago. Her video documented widespread voter fraud committed by Obama supporters during the 2008 Democratic primary election to secure the nomination for Obama over the popular vote winner Hillary Clinton. The story went viral and 24 hours later Fox News asked Gaston to appear on the Sunday morning program Fox and Friends. For the first time many Americans saw for themselves first hand accounts from Democrats who personally witnessed “the ...
Obama’s Favorite Campaign Lie Exposed: Bush Tax Cuts and the Deficit Myth
Post Date: 2010-07-14 12:56:41 by no gnu taxes
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DJH: I’ve become ambivalent about Obama’s latest Election 2010 stump speech; you know the one that goes: “[Conservatives] spent a decade driving the economy into a ditch. And now they’re asking for the keys back. And my answer is, no, you cant have the keys. You can’t drive. You don’t know how to drive. You drive in the wrong direction. You can’t have them back. We’re just getting the car out of the ditch. We can’t have you drive it back in the ditch. “ I’m ambivalent because this stupid line is clearing failing to pass the “sniff test” with all but the most virulent liberal audiences and I’m hoping he keeps it up ...
Eleanor Clift: Obama's Poll Numbers Down Because He Hasn't Blamed Bush Enough
Post Date: 2010-07-14 12:23:25 by no gnu taxes
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After the release of a number of polls Tuesday showing President Obama's favorability rating plummeting, his minions in the media were out in force trying to blame the slide on something or someone else. Newsweek's Eleanor Clift, ever the dutiful shill always at a Democrat's service when the chips are down, took [1] a predictably absurd tack: Obama hasn't blamed George W. Bush enough for all that ails the nation. "Obama hasn’t done as good a job as Reagan of blaming his predecessor," wrote Clift after sharing some of Obama's dismal poll numbers. For our sins Clift elaborated: Jimmy Carter for years served as the GOP’s version of Herbert Hoover ...
Utah Investigates 'Illegal Immigrant' List
Post Date: 2010-07-14 12:15:29 by Brian S
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SALT LAKE CITY, July 14 (UPI) -- Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has ordered an investigation into whether state employees helped make a list of alleged illegal immigrants e-mailed to state authorities. The list of 1,300 people accused of being undocumented immigrants was sent Monday to law enforcement agencies, the Utah House and Senate and media organizations, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Tuesday. Herbert spokeswoman Angie Welling said the governor odered a number of state agencies to look into whether anyone inappropriately accessed official computer records, the newspaper said. "If it reveals any kind of evidence of wrongdoing or release of private information we will turn it over to ...
Kentucky tax receipts hit 5-year low
Post Date: 2010-07-14 11:55:51 by Badeye
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Kentucky tax receipts hit 5-year low Associated Press • July 14, 2010 FRANKFORT - Kentucky's tax collections for the 2010 fiscal year tumbled to a five-year low, falling for the second consecutive year — the worst showing since World War II, the state's top budget official said. Budget Director Mary Lassiter reported in a news release that the General Fund receipts for the fiscal year that ended June 30 were 2.4 percent lower than the previous fiscal year at $8.225 billion. "We have reduced the state's budget seven times over the past two and (a) half years, and are now in the process of cutting again," Lassiter said in Monday's news release. In May, ...
President Tarball's Lie: A Decade of Spiraling Deficits
Post Date: 2010-07-14 11:46:12 by no gnu taxes
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Last Friday while speaking at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas about the economy, President Obama said: And these were all the consequence of a decade of misguided economic policies — a decade of stagnant wages, a decade of declining incomes, a decade of spiraling deficits. I want to focus on that last phrase: a decade of spiraling deficits. The best way to compare deficits over time is as a share of the economy. This first graph shows budget deficits during President Bush’s tenure. On this graph deficits are positive, so up is bad. The dotted green line shows the average deficit since 1970 for comparison (2.6% of GDP). As always you can click on the graph for a larger ...
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