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He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "What George Osborne was trying to do in his remarks was undermine the confidence of markets and undermine the confidence of traders that the medium-term direction of government policy is sound.
"That's why what he was doing, frankly, was reckless and irresponsible."
He insisted that the Government's stimulus package, which is to be unveiled in next week's Pre-Budget Report, was necessary to revitalise the economy and restore confidence among consumers and lenders.
He added that this was "internationally recognised", in the wake of the weekend's G20 meeting in Washington.
He also accused Mr Osborne and David Cameron, the Conservative leader, of contradicting themselves on the economy. "Their policies change from week to week," Lord Mandelson said.
On Sunday, Mr Osborne launched a robust defence of his response to the global economic crisis, insisting that he was "absolutely sure" that he was "doing the right thing".
The shadow chancellor said that he had a duty to tell the public "the truth" about Britain's economic problems and denied accusations that he had risked worsening the problem by warning of a run on sterling.
He refused to back a programme of tax cuts being drawn up by Gordon Brown which is expected to be unveiled in next week's Pre-Budget Report.
Mr Osborne has faced criticism from sections of the Conservative Party over his handling of the economic crisis amid claims he failed to foresee the seriousness of the problem. Some right-wing peers and MPs have called for him to be replaced.
The party's opinion poll ratings have fallen sharply and David Cameron has refused to call for big tax cuts - instead focusing on the need to keep Government borrowing under control.
Speaking on BBC's Andrew Marr show, Mr Osborne said that the approach had been correct and that the party had no plans to alter its stance. "My job as shadow chancellor is to tell the British people the truth about the British economy," he said. "The truth is that it is the worst prepared economy in the world for recession.
"The truth is that we have got the highest levels of personal debt in the world. The truth is that the pound has fallen by a record amount against other currencies. I am telling the public the truth."
He added: "People need to be very clear that David Cameron and I are deadly serious about fiscal responsibility…We are warning the country that Gordon Brown is abandoning fiscal responsibility and when a government does that it stacks up debt for future generations and stacks up tax rises for future generations as well."
Senior Conservative sources insist that by refusing to follow other countries and offer tax cuts, Mr Osborne and Mr Cameron are taking a bold position. They say that although it may mean they suffer a fall in opinion polls in the short term, the public will realise that keeping borrowing under control and not jeopardising the public finances will be seen as the correct long-term strategy.
Mr Osborne said: "The choice in British politics is going to be funded tax cuts from the Conservative Party, or a tax con by the Labour Party that has abandoned 15 years of rhetoric on fiscal stability."
Over the past few weeks, the value of sterling has plunged on the international currency markets amid fears over the British economy and high levels of Government borrowing. Many experts are forecasting further falls in the coming days.
Mr Osborne has been criticised for forecasting a further run on sterling amid claims he has breached a political understanding not to talk down the pound.
However, he denied that he had risked causing a further devaluation. "What the markets are doing is looking at the economic fundamentals," he said.
"They are looking at the fundamentals and they are making a judgment about the British economy. They are making a judgment that we are worse placed than other economies - the US and some other European countries."
Although Mr Osborne has ruled out supporting unfunded tax cuts, the Conservatives appear to be preparing to abandon the pledge to match Labour's public spending targets.
Yesterday, it was disclosed that Oliver Letwin, the party's policy chief, is drawing up proposals to cut areas of wasteful Government spending. An announcement may be made on the plans in the run-up to next Monday's pre-budget report.


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- Height:
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- Weight:
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- Major League Debut:
- 4-13-1921 with CLE
Riggs Stephenson's .336 career batting average ranks in the top 25 all-time, but the closest he came to a batting title was a fourth place finish in 1927. Stephenson batted .319 or better in 12 of his 14 major league seasons, but was poor defensively. Signed as a second baseman, he had a weak arm that kept him from playing regularly in his five years with Cleveland (1921-25). Converted to the outfield during a stint in the minors, he still had to depend on his potent bat to keep him in the Cubs' lineup. His throwing difficulties were the result of a shoulder injury sustained while playing football at the University of Alabama. It hindered him on pivot throws at second base, and, during one season in the Cubs outfield, he had only one assist.
In 1927, his first full season with Chicago, he led the NL with 46 doubles.
In many ways he was just another hard-hitting outfielder in the 1920s and 1930s. But he was a popular player in both Cleveland and Chicago. In the Cubs' 1929 pennant-winning year, he combined with Hall of Famers Hack Wilson and Kiki Cuyler in the only outfield in NL history in which each member had more than 100 RBI. (Stephenson 110, Wilson 159, Cuyler 102).
He twice went to the World Series with the Cubs. In Cleveland he teamed with Charlie Jamieson and Tris Speaker in one of the best outfields of that era.
Arm and leg injuries forced him to leave the Cubs in 1934, but he played and managed in the minors through 1939.
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If your customers like girl-next-door Japanese women who are a bit more assertive than on the usual video fare, these tapes may be their ticket to ride.
Each of these tapes has a theme subtitle. Since neither consistently sticks to the theme, one can only assume it's a charming affectation. Vol. 2 is called "Cumbag Teachers from Japan" and features three scenes of petite Japanese women getting down and dirty, complete with subtitles. Two scenes focus on English lessons turned raunchy and the third showcase Maya Hojo and Yuna Anzai as call girls utterly baffled by their facials.
Vol. 3 is called "Asian Winter Bush Nurses" and only shows one nurse, although both tapes include plenty of bush. It's nice to see Japanese women as the aggressor and doing slightly kinky things like the poolside foot fetish scene with Sei Morishita. They still squeak when having sex, though, so that's comfortingly familiar. Yui Koike appears on both tapes and does an admirable job, but appears to either be missing teeth or in need of immediate orthodontic attention.


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The deputies were retrieving stop sticks used to catch a car thief when they were killed. Fernandez returned to work in March.
The agency's accident review board has yet to view the crash investigation. The 19-year-old driver being pursued was sentenced to a year in jail.


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I have a different opinion here...
Before I walk into unknown territory and criticize this legendary title, let me say that I am not a young person. All the 8-bit Mario games remain great to me and in my view, are better than the majority of video games today. So it pains me to say anything bad about a game people love this much. In fact, I once fell for the hype. Last summer, I wrote a review for a small blog owned by someone else, and I completely urged people to download Super Mario 64, giving the game all the praise everyone else gives it. But as time goes on, my positive feelings about this title disappear.
For one thing, the camera is a pain throughout Mario 64. Yes, I realize this was one of the first Nintendo 64 releases and
Repetition can also be a problem. There are not a lot of different levels to see in Mario 64. You could find yourself going through the same exact stage at least five times or more each time. Mario 64 contrasts with the earlier Mario titles because the objective is not necessarily just to get to the end of a certain level. There are many stars to collect within each area, which sounds like a nice idea at first, until you realize Mario is running through the same environments multiple times. It is true that in Super Mario Bros. 3, you do run through the same "theme" ten times or so before moving to the next stage which again has you run through another theme ten times or so. However, each level within the different "themes" is set up completely different from each other. Whereas in Mario 64 the same footing, the same paths, the same entrances are passed over multiple times with only small variation, in Mario Bros. 3 you never have to go through something already seen. There is a chance I am not explaining this properly. The variety in visuals just disappointment me in Mario 64. The visuals themselves are fine. I do not mind block-ish graphics. But I am seeing the same objects, enemies, etc. over and over again just to get a star hidden in some remote location when I would rather be moving on to a different part of the game. I miss the linearity of the old Mario titles when I play Mario 64.
I could go on about the game's strong points. But people have heard them already. Yes, the music is spectacular. For the most part, the controls are great when not dealing with the poor camera, especially if you own a Gamecube controller. Just plug that in the Wii console and it will feel even better than controlling Mario on a Nintendo 64. Running around the playing field just for the sheer enjoyment of running around in an open environment can be fun at times, I must admit. But it is not enough to make me forget I have to get at least five stars each stage, which means I am forced to play each stage multiple times whether I take a liking to it or not. I feel the hype for Mario 64 comes from the fact that it is Mario in 3D for the first time. That in itself makes the game special, but not necessarily fun.


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We decide to fool around with our ideas to shoot the camera in Hollywood. We never thought of doing this way in this picture, this is perfect moment that the two "L" shaped fingers is like shooting the movie through Hollywoodland. I loved this picture.
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Lathrop High's softball team overcame a slow start and nearly came back to beat visiting Ripon in an 8-7 nonleague loss on Monday.
East Union's girls soccer team had a strong showing in the Pitman Extreme Spring Tournament last Friday and Saturday, finishing with three wins and a tie in four matches.
With two of its top three players still competing for the school's playoff basketball team, Ripon High's golf squad managed to escape Manteca Park Golf Course with a 231-235 nonleague victory over host Manteca Monday.
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RIPON - Ripon Christian's boys basketball team reaped the benefits of having a first-round bye in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division V playoffs, taking the opportunity to both rest and scout the competition.
The thought of Ripon and Riverbank meeting in a Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV semifinal would have been unfathomable at the start of the season.
STOCKTON - Trevor Smith came to Day 2 of the Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Tournament with business to handle.
For Julianna Triplett, the road is looking somewhat familiar.
Shalane Jackson and the rest of the East Union girls basketball team went out with a bang Thursday.
STOCKTON - Two wins.
SALIDA – Manteca opened the fourth quarter trailing by 10, but the Buffaloes responded, to put themselves in position for the upset and a chance to cut the lead to two. The five-point deficit would be as close as they'd get in a 58-49 loss Thursday.
RIPON - Teagan Manus helped Ripon Christian High to a second round Sac-Joaquin Section Division V win Thursday over feisty No. 6 Foresthill.
RIPON - Cole Herrin has been Mr. Reliable from the foul line for Ripon High.
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Danica Patrick slid into her chair at NASCAR media day Thursday and promptly informed her audience it would be race questions only.
Yeah, right. The ensuing 20-plus minutes consisted mostly of questions about her relationship with fellow driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr., and Patrick dutifully answered them all. She and Stenhouse better get used to this, at least in the early going.
Patrick and Stenhouse confirmed in January they are dating, and the duo will be competing against each other this year for Sprint Cup rookie of the year.
"Initially, it was a little bit of a mental hurdle of like, 'We compete against each other,' " Patrick said of the relationship. "It's like the Capulets and Montagues with (me in) Chevy and (him in) Ford, this just doesn't work. But you can't tell your heart who to like or not like. And so in the end, it ended up being something that I just didn't think was a big deal at all."
The two spent the last two seasons racing in the Nationwide Series, and Patrick leaned on Stenhouse, the two-time Nationwide champion, for friendship and advice after her move to NASCAR. She said the relationship grew deeper, and they went public after she filed for divorce in early January from her husband, Paul Hospenthal. She and Hospenthal announced in November they were splitting up after seven years of marriage.
The 30-year-old Patrick rarely talked about her personal life while married to Hospenthal, but she was open Thursday about the 25-year-old Stenhouse.
"I'm just relaxed," Patrick said. "I feel happy. I feel like I am enjoying my life. It makes me smile to talk about him. I feel like I'm on 'The Bachelorette.' "
The relationship is fodder for endless jokes and razzing from fellow competitors, and most were eager to dive into the topic Thursday.
"Pat on the back for him," Ty Dillon said.
"We can come up with plenty of jokes and how humorous it could be on the track and what each of them are thinking — we'll all be watching with great curiosity, for sure," said Jimmie Johnson.
But if the two have an incident on the track? "That would be one heck of a show," Johnson said. "I'm sure ratings would go up quite a bit. You never know. Danica has shown she can get quite upset at times, so there could be something going on."
Patrick was ready for all the ribbing, and even joked about what would happen if Stenhouse wrecked her on the track.
"He better have a really good, 'I'm sorry,' " Patrick said with a wink.
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Optimism, But No Breakthrough In Search For Malaysian Jet
Hopes were both raised and lowered Friday by officials involved in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The jet and the 239 people on board have now been missing for five weeks.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he is "very confident" that pings detected by searchers this week in the south Indian Ocean are coming from one or both of the plane's two black boxes that record flight data and cockpit conversations. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports that Abbott said it's his understanding the signals have significantly narrowed the focus of the search.
But Angus Houston, the retired Australian air defense chief who is leading the search effort, said Friday that "[based] on the information I have available to me, there has been no major breakthrough."
Houston also said it has been determined that the latest sound picked up by searchers, which was detected Thursday, "is unlikely to be related to the aircraft black boxes."
What's more, Houston said, it "could be some days" before it's decided whether the other sounds detected so far warrant sending an unmanned vehicle down to the seafloor. On Friday, the focus of the multinational searchers' operations was on three zones from 1,000 miles to about 1,500 miles northwest of Perth, Australia. The waters are about 3 miles deep.
"It is vital to glean as much information as possible" about the black boxes' possible locations "while the batteries on the underwater locator beacons may still be active," he said. Experts say those batteries likely began to fade after about 30 days in water. This is Day 35.
The jet was about one hour into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in the early morning hours of March 8 (local time) when it was last heard from. Flight 370 was headed north over the Gulf of Thailand as it approached Vietnamese airspace.
Investigators believe the plane turned west, flew back over the Malay Peninsula, then out over the Indian Ocean before turning south toward Australia. They're basing those conclusions largely on data collected by a satellite system that received some information from the aircraft. The critical question — why did it turn? — remains unanswered.
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As a City Honors parent, I am both saddened and distressed regarding the recent Parkside Avenue party and vandalism. Do parenting and controls still exist? Is protectionism and entitlement something we want to teach our children?
Each and every parent, whether City Honors or not, is a reflection of how our children have been raised. Every parent's lack of responsibility tarnishes those at City Honors who were not responsible and whose parents truly care. The article in The News was honest, but unfortunately hurt a wonderful Buffalo asset.
The parents of this immature, irresponsible "cat sitter" need to make this correct, both monetarily and by "naming names." I would not let this girl near my son's snapping turtle, which I hate.
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The four-day President's Day holiday weekend got off to a suprising start on Friday as Liam Neeson's "Unknown" topped expected champ "I Am Number Four" at the box office.
The Warner Bros. thriller, which successfully copied many elements of Neeson's previous hit "Taken" in its marketing campaign, found $6.7 million on Friday for what could be a $25-27 million gross over the four day frame. "Taken" was also assisted by much better reviews than the other new debuts, "Four" and "Big Mommas House: Like Father, Like Son."
"I Am Number Four," on the other hand, grossed a lower than expected $6.2 million on Friday. The first film from Dreamworks Studios in their new partnership with the Walt Disney Company, "Four" was expected to easily win the weekend. The PG-13 thriller will have to count on strong matinees to make up the difference if it wants to overtake "Unknown."
Dropping from the top spot to third was the Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston comedy "Just Go With It" with another $5.2 million. The Sony Pictures release has amassed $47.7 million in just eight days. It will be intriguing to see of Sandler's fanbase can push the critically panned comedy close to the star's typical $100 million gross.
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Murshed, S. M. and Tadjoeddin, M. Z. (2009), Revisiting the greed and grievance explanations for violent internal conflict. J. Int. Dev., 21: 87–111. doi: 10.1002/jid.1478
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Two phenomena have been recently utilised to explain conflict onset among rational choice analysts: greed and grievance. The former reflects elite competition over valuable natural resource rents. The latter argues that relative deprivation and the grievance it produces fuels conflict. Neither the presence of greed or grievance is sufficient for the outbreak of violent conflict, something which requires institutional breakdown, which we describe as the failure of the social contract. The degradation of the social contract is more likely in the context of poverty and growth failure. We provide a synthesis of the greed and grievance hypotheses. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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Did the GOP hamper Obama administration oversight of oil drilling?
Most of the blame for the BP oil disaster rests with BP, Big Oil, and its strong-arm supporters in Congress for the voluntary, "trust us," self-regulation we have today (see St. Petersburg Times: "It's becoming increasingly evident that self-regulation has not worked"). Some of the blame certainly resides with the Minerals Management Service, which became absurdly cozy with the industry under the Cheney-Bush administration (see "Flashback to 2008 MMS sex-for-oil scandal").
That doesn't let the Obama administration off the hook entirely. In theory they could have cleaned up the MMS from day one, but in practice Republicans made that task infinitely harder.
Newsweek's Howard Fineman spelled out some of the key background on MSNBC a couple weeks ago (starting around minute 5:55):
Olbermann: The BP shareholder who sued the company today, claiming that BP was knowingly cutting safety costs in violation of the commitments after the Texas refinery blast- Texas city. And spending $16 million to lobby against tougher regulation, by which I mean fight against any regulation. How long is that Bush era voluntary self-regulation regime going to last now?
Fineman: Well I think it's going to end because its got to end. And I think that's clear. What happened here is that BP presented a plan for drilling this deep well that was based on an earlier environmental impact statement of the whole Gulf of Mexico that was done under the Bush administration. And said "hey, the Bushies said it was fine, please approve this." And the person at the Minerals Management Service that was supposed to take a close look at it said "Well, ok, if the overall plan was approved for the whole Gulf and it won't cause serious environmental dangers then ill approve this specific one." He basically waved the thing on through last April and now you see the result. As the Democrats I was talking to pointed out, there is a total conflict between what they said in that application for the lease, namely that they had systems that could control any damage that would happen, and what BP and Halliburton and everybody else is saying now which is "we're trying everything because this is all a new thing to us."
Okay, but could the new senior political appointees at Interior have done more in March 2009 to block BP's drilling plan (which was sent in to MMS late February and approved in early April)?
Well, first, it's worth pointing out that the Transocean platform had a very good safety record until this disaster, as 60 Minutes reported:
… the Deepwater Horizon cost $350 million, rose 378 feet from bottom to top. Both advanced and safe, none of her 126 crew had been seriously injured in seven years.
The safety record was remarkable, because offshore drilling today pushes technology with challenges matched only by the space program.
That was, of course, until BP got heavily involved in the details of the cementing process and testing in order to save a few bucks (see "Should you believe anything BP says?).
So I am not certain that this particular drilling plan would have had any obvious red flags — unless, of course, the handful of senior political appointees at Interior around in early 2009 were simply prepared to stop all new drilling.
CAPAF's Tom Kenworthy has more background on how the GOP made such a scenario extremely unlikely:
You would think that in the wake of the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill that the petroleum industry's water carriers in Congress would at least tamp down their "drill, baby drill" nonsense for a while. But not even what threatens to become the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history keeps those oil-soaked lawmakers from their self-appointed rounds.
Ten days after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed 11 workers and the failure of the rig's blowout preventer began a gusher of millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf, Sens. Robert Bennett (R-UT) and John Barrasso (R-WY) informed Department of Interior secretary Ken Salazar that they would introduce legislation to speed up oil and gas development on federal lands in the West and short-circuit the more thorough environmental reviews Salazar has undertaken.
"We remain deeply concerned by the major changes you proposed in January 2010 to the onshore oil and natural gas leasing program and its impact on communities in Utah and Wyoming," the senators wrote. "As we have discussed with you on a number of occasions, oil and natural gas production is very important to the nation and particularly our states."
This isn't the first time Bennett and other western Republicans have interfered with the Obama administration's ability to properly regulate oil and gas development. In early 2009 Bennett and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) blocked the confirmation of David Hayes, Salazar's choice to be deputy secretary of the Interior Department. Their beef: Salazar had cancelled 77 oil and gas lease sales on western lands that had been drummed up in the last days of the Bush administration as a final gift to Big Oil, even though many of the parcels were close to some of Utah's most iconic landscapes, including Arches and Canyonlands national parks.
As deputy secretary, Hayes is in charge of many day-to-day operations at Interior. He has been vital to the Obama administration's response to the Gulf oil spill, and was on the scene on day two of the disaster.
Also last year, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), slowed down confirmation of two other key Interior officials, assistant secretary for land and minerals Wilma Lewis and Bureau of Land Management director Bob Abbey over concerns about legislation for an Arizona land swap. Lewis oversees the Minerals Management Service that regulates offshore oil development; Abbey's BLM oversees onshore energy development.
During the Bush administration, as Salazar has noted, Interior became a "candy store" for the oil and gas industry. Between fiscal 2001 and fiscal 2009, the department approved nearly 42,000 drilling permits on federal lands, nearly two and a half times the pace of the previous eight years.
Salazar, to his credit, put a stop to this open season assault on the West. Not only did he block the 77 Utah oil and gas leases pending further review, but he put the brakes on the Bush administration's rush to develop oil shale deposits in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming so their impacts on western water and other natural resources could be better understood. He moved to clean up the scandal-soaked Minerals Management Service. And after a probe by the Government Accountability Office found that the Bush administration policy of short-circuiting environmental reviews of oil and gas leasing decisions did not comply with the law, he instituted a new approach that will make the government look before it leaps into Big Oil's arms. Oil and gas interests, he said, "do not own the nation's public lands; taxpayers do."
The Interior Department holds much of the responsibility for assuring that the nation's oil and gas resources are developed in an environmentally responsible manner. As the GAO noted in a 2005 investigation, the department's "ability to meet its environmental mitigation responsibilities for oil and gas development has been lessened by a dramatic increase in oil and gas operations on federal lands"¦."
But that dramatic increase – there are now some 32 million acres of federal lands that have been leased but not yet developed by the oil and gas industry – isn't enough for Sens. Bennett and Barrasso.
Salazar's policies, said Bennett in a news release, "would add new bureaucracy and red tape to the oil and gas leasing program and significantly lengthen the amount of time before energy production could begin."
Given what's happening in the Gulf, a little more red tape and bureaucracy would be welcome.
So while team Obama could no doubt have done more, and I suppose one can construct scenario where they could have stopped this thing a mere two months after they came into office with one hand tied behind their backs by the GOP, in fact, it remains clear that the blame for the BP oil disaster rests with BP, the entire industry, and its strong-arm supporters in Congress for the voluntary, "trust us," self-regulation we have today.
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It is sad that Salazar thinks the nation's public lands belong to the taxpayers. They belong to the citizens and are held in trust for the future citizens. I'm quite sure that the future citizens have payed no taxes though we seem to expect them to cover what we have not payed. It is probably time for Salazar to resign since he does not seem to understand this pretty basic thing. The 24th Amendment bans such interpretations.
Your last paragraph sums it up well, Joe.
Senators who are constantly pushing for less regulation and freewheeling gas and oil development are the same ones who promote more logging, and disasters like Bush's "Clear Skies" initiative. Many are from Western states, and a few are Democrats.
The common thread is that they have lost their connection to the land, which is puzzling when one considers that the American West is one of the most magnificent manifestations of creation that anyone could imagine.
Senators like Bennett, Barasso, and Murkowski are talkers, not Westerners. Their time is spent in climate controlled offices in Washington DC, or at fundraisers and business friendly events in four star hotels back home. While being the first to wave the flag, they are not true Americans, because their indoor, schmoozing lives could just as easily be taking place in Singapore.
The Republican outdoor macho types are even worse. Palin shoots wolves from helicopters, and Cheney goes all the way to Texas to blow doves out of the sky with a shotgun. For them, the wild is the enemy.
The American voter needs to sharpen his ear for authenticity. The real American character is grounded in our love of the land, and all of its creatures. Louisianans are going to rediscover this side of themselves very soon.
Unfortunately it appears that the Coast Guard and Corps of Engineers – two agencies not used to being second-guessed – have made some slow and wrong moves. It looks like we don't have enough booms and certainly not enough skimmers in La and the dispersants appear to have dispersed the oil below the surface making the booms ineffective. Pelican rookeries sound like they are entirely lost. Jindall scored lots of points on CNN yesterday against BP and the Feds. Don't know whether Jindall is right about the Feds given his politics, or whether it's really all BP's failure to respond, but he has been the most attractive govt talking head on the MSM and on NPR.
On NPR this am the coverage of BP's so-called "legitimate damages" pledge didn't mention ecosystem damages at all. No one seems to recgnize the long term cost to the ocean ecosystem, just fishing and shoreline economic impacts. If NPR doesn't get it the MSM won't.
Thanks, Joe. More of this* please.
*Stories and documentation of the involvement of lax regulators and the need for stronger regulations concerning the extraction of natural resources.
Of course, natural resources belong to citizens, both present day and future. That's called good stewardship.
"Historically, stewardship was the responsibility given to household servants to bring food and drinks to a castle dining hall. The term was then expanded to indicate a household employee's responsibility for managing household or domestic affairs. Stewardship later became the responsibility for taking care of passengers' domestic needs on a ship, train and airplane, or managing the service provided to diners in a restaurant. The term continues to be used in these specific ways, but it is also used in a more general way to refer to a responsibility to take care of something owned by someone else. It is also doing something willingly without getting paid. Some religions consider humans to be stewards of the earth."
I think when Salazar says "belongs to the taxpayers" he means "belongs to the citizens", so it's not exactly fair to nitpick over semantics when his overall point is clear. At least he's fighting and blocking the momentum of the push to open up everything to drilling and exploration for oil.
Watching BP's Suttles spout his nonsense on CNN minutes ago. The hard truth is no one can completely clean up this mess. We now know and should figured out earlier that deep water drilling is too risky because we don't have effective cleanup/mitigation capabilities.
Feds are now in a no-win position: Let BP continue the now impossible cleanup task (by this I don't mean to suggest that BP shouldn't be doing a lot more to mitigate all that is possible) task and criticize BP's failure or do a Fed take over the cleanup effort and then have the Feds own the ineffective cleanup.
The answer to the headline question is "no."
Let them write letters. Did Bush and Cheney allow letters from Democrats deter them from pursuing their agenda? No. Why should Obama-Biden let the Rs push them around?
"Increasingly evident that self-regulation has not worked"
Increasingly reads like an epitaph
At the Natural Resources Defense Council Switchboard blog, a staff attorney, David Pettit, has posted language in the Clean Water Act, which was amended through the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, that appears clearly to vest the president with both the authority and the obligation to take the reins in a major oil spill where private actions have failed:
(A) If a discharge, or a substantial threat of a discharge, of oil or a hazardous substance from a vessel, offshore facility, or onshore facility is of such a size or character as to be a substantial threat to the public health or welfare of the United States (including but not limited to fish, shellfish, wildlife, other natural resources, and the public and private beaches and shorelines of the United States), the President shall direct all Federal, State, and private actions to remove the discharge or to mitigate or prevent the threat of the discharge.
Two points seem relevant to me:
1. The focus of the story seems to be on what can be done about the spill, and to what degree did BP and the Obama administration 'flub' their response. Instead, the focus should be (as Joe blogged earlier) that the focus should be on the mentality of continuing to rely so much on oil and coal for energy as opposed to aggressively pursuing energy conservation and alternative energy supplies.
2. The GOP obstructionism is ignored, and then the GOP focuses on the current administration's failure to act effectively. I heard a snippet of conservative talk radio discussing air travel security. A Republican senator was condemning Obama for failing to appoint someone to head TSA – when Republicans have blocked his nominees for over a year!
The Republican strategy of blocking effective action, then blaming the administration for failing to act effectively seems to pay off.
"Why should Obama-Biden let the Rs push them around?" Andy Olsen, # 7
I would say it is because the Democrats have been making a concerted effort to be bipartisan. The people were feed up with the "winner take all" mentality of the GOP. That GOP mentality has transformed into "loser stop all" and has progressed to the Tea Baggers fundamentalism and if we cannot get our way no one else will either.
For those interested I just found this trajectory map of the oil spill on youtube.
BP still seems to be standing by that 5000 barrels a day figure which would have this disaster still be smaller than the Exxon Valdez disaster. I don't trust their estimates and am trying to find a way to compare the current area of the BP spill with the Exxon Valdez.
I believe we are missing the larger issue here.
This isn't simply an oil problem, or a BP problem, it's a manifestation of the failure of the philosophy that has taken over political thought in this country.
The fault lies with the whole Ronnie Reagan "government is the problem" "private industry is the solution" mindset and the deregulation frenzy it unleashed, as well as the gutless Democrats who refuse to confront it.
Private industry needs to be regulated, period. Government needs to be big enough and funded well enough to regulate it.
Take an inventory of the disasters and crises that face us and each is rooted in the conservative myths and the Democrats refusal to confront them.
Financial meltdown? Deregulation, (serial deregulation of the financial industry culminating in the repeal of Glass-Steagal — under Clinton) together with the refusal to regulate things that should have been (derivatives, hedge funds) brought the country to its knees.
Broken health care system? (yes, it's still broken) –Expecting private for-profit industry, with a fiduciary responsibility to generate wealth for their shareholder to also provide health.
A Supreme Court that is an extension of the Chamber of Commerce? failure to confront Bush on Alito's and Robert's record as corporate shills.
Katrina? An eviscerated FEMA, a failed energy policy, and falure to address climate change, failure to spend on dikes and levies …
Climate change? Obama did pull a rabbit out of the proverbial hat in Copenhagen — but it was a very small rabbit (4% reduction by 2020 against 1990 is a moral victory at best). Had we engaged in the debate more forcefully in the 20 years prior to Copenhagen he wouldn't have had to settle for so little.
The recent mine disaster? Deregulation.
The BP spill? Deregulation.
On and on it goes. Grover Norquist famously said that his goal was to shrink the beast[government] until you could drown it in a bathtub.
Well, at a time when we need a second round of economic stimulus, we're contemplating tax cuts. Shades of 1937 …
The blame should be assigned to a failed economic and political philosophy, and to the cowards who will not confront it.
As long as the national debate starts with the premise that "big gubmin't caint do nothin right," and that all good things will come from the private sector by pure serendipity, then BP spills and Big Branch mines and Katrinas, and Wall Street meltdowns and Health care ripoffs and climate half measures will continue.
And yes, they may continue anyway if we attempt to confront the myths — but they may not, and we ought to make the attempt, because the outcome is certain if we don't.
So let's not blame the scorpion for its stinger — blame ourselves for trusting him.
Suttles could quote Flounder from Animal House: "you screwed up — you trusted us."
Here's an attempt to scale the Exxon Valdez to the BP spill to each other. Last thing I read is that BP is saying that this spill is currently half of what the Exxon Valdez was. I don't think that is accurate. This is definitely not a scientific analysis but my guess is the BP spill is already much larger and getting bigger by the day.
Everyone acts like this is the first and only deep water well that BP has drilled in the gulf. BP, with partners like ExxonMobil, has been drilling deep water wells in the gulf since at least 1999. Perhaps some may remember what hurricane Dennis did to their floating oil platform in 2005?
The fact is this has been going on for some time now and the Deepwater Horizon disaster is the first major accident in our home waters. We are just now discovering that the oil industry is the only entity that has the technology and expertise (for better or worse) to deal with any problems that may arise at these extreme ocean depths. If the government wanted to "take over" the operation to stop the blowout, they would still need the same private sector technology that BP uses.
We have no idea how long BP has been engaging in these cost cutting measures but we could have several more disasters waiting to erupt. We are completely at the mercy of the oil industry when it comes to these deep water oil wells and WE MUST have better government oversight. If a blowout cannot be prevented, or stopped once it occurs, then WE MUST STOP DEEP SEA OIL DRILLING!
Thomas Frank's 2008 book, "The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule", details the background to this GOP debacle stretching back decades. Its main thrust is explained well on the Indiebound bookseller's website at http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780805079883:
"Casting back to the early days of the conservative revolution, Frank describes the rise of a ruling coalition dedicated to dismantling government. But rather than cutting down the big government they claim to hate, conservatives have simply sold it off, deregulating some industries, defunding others, but always turning public policy into a private-sector bidding war. Washington itself has been remade into a golden landscape of super-wealthy suburbs and gleaming lobbyist headquarters—the wages of government-by-entrepreneurship practiced so outrageously by figures such as Jack Abramoff.
It is no coincidence, Frank argues, that the same politicians who guffaw at the idea of effective government have installed a regime in which incompetence is the rule. Nor will the country easily shake off the consequences of deliberate misgovernment through the usual election remedies. Obsessed with achieving a lasting victory, conservatives have taken pains to enshrine the free market as the permanent creed of state."
The Wrecking Crew is beautifully written and really worth reading.
Something keeps gnawing at me: How could Obama and Salazar not have insisted on at least figuring out how much oil BP has been spilling? Citing their figures, and obeying some kind of no dive zone, is a little ridiculous.
What has still not been explained or even reported in the Liberal Press, is why a month earlier, the Interior Dept looked into the BP oil drilling operations three times, and gave them a "thumbs up"…no problems here report….11 day before the explosion…Please have Obama and Salazar explain that….mo


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A suspect has been charged with Thursday's robbery of a Regions Bank branch in Birmingham, but the man has not been arrested.
Police told The Birmingham News that 26-year-old Quinton Duwan Posey of Birmingham has been charged with robbing the Regions branch on Richard Arrington Boulevard on Birmingham's Southside.
Police said a man entered the bank and handed an employee a note that warned that he was armed. He fled with an undisclosed amount of money.
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Man Utd 2-0 Otelul Galati
- From the section Football
Manchester United made hard work of finishing off Otelul Galati but Wayne Rooney's late second goal sent them top of Group C on goal difference and kept them on course for the Champions League knockout stages.
It appeared Antonio Valencia's close-range finish in the eighth minute would be the only goal of the night against the resolute Romanian side until defender Cristian Sarghi's ill-advised attempt to block Rooney's 25-yard shot ended with the ball looping into the net.
Basel's draw with Benfica means United replace the Portuguese outfit as group leaders, and sets up a showdown between the top two at Old Trafford on 22 November.
United, playing their first game on home turf since their 6-1 defeat by neighbours Manchester City, have now won three games in three competitions since that derby debacle and, while they may not be playing with the verve they displayed earlier in the season, they are doing the most important thing - which is winning.
With Otelul coach Dorinel Munteaunu describing a point here as a "dream result" before kick-off, his side's ambitions were clear, so for United to take the lead so early on was a relief for the home fans, especially after what had happened in the last game here.
It was a simple goal too. Dimitar Berbatov fed Phil Jones down the right and, although Michael Owen failed to get enough on his low cross at the near post, Valencia was on hand to turn it home.
If that settled some nerves, it did not open the floodgates. Otelul almost managed an instant reply when Marius Pena sent a glancing header wide from Liviu Antal's cross, but otherwise they continued to defend in numbers.
And United's fast start soon turned into frustration, beginning when Owen's rare chance to shine alongside Berbatov ended when he limped off with a suspected thigh strain after just 11 minutes.
His replacement Javier Hernandez was unusually sloppy in the final third leaving Jones with his marauding runs forward as by far United's best attacking outlet.
Jones was unlucky to see Sarghi head his curling shot away after cutting into the area but that was the closest the home side came to extending their lead before the break.
Otelul created little in response apart from what United gave them, with one example a careless Jonny Evans pass which almost released Pena but instead was the launchpad for Fabio's fruitless surge forward.
Nani repeated the trick on the stroke of half-time, allowing Ionut Neagu to cut into the area and fire in a shot which took a hefty deflection off Rio Ferdinand but was brilliantly pushed away by David de Gea.
With their advantage far from safe, United understandably looked anxious to finish the game off after the break but they were continually thwarted by poor finishing.
Berbatov - so often ignored this season - brought a fine stop from Branko Grahovac after being played in by Hernandez, but otherwise he struggled to find the target - most notably when he ran on to Cornel Rapa's poor back-pass but steered his shot into the side netting.
Hernandez was also guilty of wastefulness in front of goal, heading a fine Jones cross over, while Anderson was denied by Sergiu Costin's desperate goal-line clearance after flicking the ball past Grahovac.
The Romanian side were hardly looking a threat at the other end but it took until the 87th minute for the points to be truly safe.
Rooney, who had been operating in central midfield all night, tried his luck from distance and ended up wrong-footing the Otelul goalkeeper after the ball cannoned off Sarghi.
Lineup, Bookings (2) & Substitutions (6)
Man Utd
- 01 De Gea
- 04 Jones
- 05 Ferdinand
- 06 Evans Booked (Fryers - 89' )
- 20 F Da Silva
- 08 Anderson (Park Ji-sung - 80' )
- 17 Nani
- 25 Valencia
- 07 Owen (Hernandez - 11' )
- 09 Berbatov
- 10 Rooney
- 34 Lindegaard
- 03 Evra
- 51 Fryers
- 13 Park Ji-sung
- 42 Pogba
- 14 Hernandez
- 19 Welbeck
Otelul Galati
- 12 Grahovac
- 03 Rapa
- 16 Sarghi
- 18 Costin Booked
- 27 Pena
- 04 Filip
- 08 Antal (Iorga - 61' )
- 14 Ilie (Frunza - 52' )
- 23 Salageanu
- 26 Neagu
- 29 Giurgiu (Paraschiv - 81' )
- 01 Branet
- 02 Skubic
- 06 Benga
- 07 Iorga
- 10 Paraschiv
- 11 Frunza
- 19 Punosevac
Match Stats
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Live Text Commentary
Full Time The match has reached full-time.90:00 +2:27
Gabriel Paraschiv has an effort at goal from outside the box which goes wide right of the target.90:00 +0:48
Javier Hernandez challenges Cornel Rapa unfairly and gives away a free kick. Direct free kick taken by Cornel Rapa.89:42
Gabriel Paraschiv takes a shot from deep inside the box clearing the bar.88:44 Substitution
Substitution (Man Utd) makes a substitution, with Ezekiel Fryers coming on for Jonathan Evans.88:44
Wayne Rooney produces a right-footed shot from just outside the area that goes harmlessly over the bar.88:13
Corner taken left-footed by Sorin Frunza, clearance by Jonathan Evans.86:33
Assist by Ji-Sung Park.86:33 Goal scored
Goal! - Wayne Rooney - Man Utd 2 - 0 O Galati Wayne Rooney scores a goal from outside the penalty area to the bottom right corner of the goal. Man Utd 2-0 Otelul Galati.82:49
Ioan Filip challenges Dimitar Berbatov unfairly and gives away a free kick. Wayne Rooney takes the direct free kick.81:55
Foul by Ionut Neagu on Ji-Sung Park, free kick awarded. Direct free kick taken by Rio Ferdinand.81:10
Jonathan Evans challenges Marius Pena unfairly and gives away a free kick. The free kick is delivered left-footed by Adrian Salageanu from right channel, save by David De Gea.78:19
Direct free kick taken by David De Gea.78:19 Substitution
Substitution Gabriel Giurgiu leaves the field to be replaced by Gabriel Paraschiv.78:19 Substitution
Substitution Oliveira Anderson leaves the field to be replaced by Ji-Sung Park.78:19
The ball is crossed by Cornel Rapa. Unfair challenge on Phil Jones by Gabriel Giurgiu results in a free kick.76:53
Sorin Frunza gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Phil Jones. Direct free kick taken by David De Gea.76:13
Cornel Rapa sends in a cross, Fabio Da Silva manages to make a clearance.75:10
Inswinging corner taken left-footed by Sorin Frunza from the right by-line, clearance by Phil Jones.74:35
Effort from inside the area by Dimitar Berbatov misses to the left of the target.
Unfair challenge on Ionut Neagu by Luis Nani results in a free kick. Adrian Salageanu delivers the ball from the free kick left-footed from right wing. Sergiu Costin challenges Rio Ferdinand unfairly and gives away a free kick. Direct free kick taken by David De Gea.69:54
Free kick awarded for a foul by Dimitar Berbatov on Ioan Filip. Free kick crossed right-footed by Ionut Neagu, Rio Ferdinand makes a clearance.65:31
The ball is sent over by Fabio Da Silva, Dimitar Berbatov takes a shot. Save by Branko Grahovac.65:13
Oliveira Anderson takes a short corner.63:19
Luis Nani takes a shot. Save by Branko Grahovac.62:27
Phil Jones delivers the ball, Javier Hernandez has a headed effort at goal from close range which goes wide of the left-hand upright.60:21 Substitution
Substitution Laurentiu Iorga on for Liviu Antal.60:21
Liviu Antal produces a right-footed shot from the edge of the box and misses to the right of the target.59:08
Sorin Frunza has an effort at goal from outside the box which goes wide right of the target.58:50
Wayne Rooney takes a shot. Comfortable save by Branko Grahovac.57:24
Oliveira Anderson takes a shot. Clearance made by Sergiu Costin.56:13
Cornel Rapa sends in a cross.55:40
Sorin Frunza takes a inswinging corner from the right by-line to the near post, Wayne Rooney makes a clearance.54:38
The ball is delivered by Sorin Frunza, Fabio Da Silva manages to make a clearance. Inswinging corner taken left-footed by Sorin Frunza from the right by-line, Cristian Sarghi takes a shot. Save made by David De Gea.52:57
Effort on goal by Dimitar Berbatov from just inside the box goes harmlessly over the target.51:52 Substitution
Substitution Sorin Frunza on for Silviu Ilie.51:12
Adrian Salageanu produces a cross, save made by David De Gea.50:10
Javier Hernandez takes a shot. Save by Branko Grahovac.48:29
Wayne Rooney fouled by Ionut Neagu, the ref awards a free kick. Jonathan Evans restarts play with the free kick.47:46
The assistant referee flags for offside against Javier Hernandez. Branko Grahovac takes the indirect free kick.47:06
Branko Grahovac makes a save. The ball is delivered by Dimitar Berbatov,45:56
Foul by Ionut Neagu on Jonathan Evans, free kick awarded. Jonathan Evans restarts play with the free kick.45:01
The referee blows his whistle to start the second half.45:00 +1:06 Half time
Half Time The match has reached half-time.44:57
Oliveira Anderson produces a left-footed shot from just outside the penalty box that goes wide left of the target.43:55
Liviu Antal produces a cross. Marius Pena gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Phil Jones. David De Gea restarts play with the free kick.42:43
Corner from the left by-line taken by Luis Nani, clearance made by Cristian Sarghi.41:50
Ionut Neagu takes a shot. Blocked by Rio Ferdinand.39:16
Ionut Neagu takes a shot. Save by David De Gea.38:53
Jonathan Evans sends in a cross, save made by Branko Grahovac.38:06
Marius Pena is caught offside. Rio Ferdinand takes the indirect free kick.37:24
Handball by Antonio Valencia. Branko Grahovac takes the direct free kick.35:37
Cornel Rapa takes the direct free kick.35:37 Booking
Booking Jonathan Evans is cautioned.35:29
Jonathan Evans concedes a free kick for a foul on Marius Pena.34:34
Fabio Da Silva produces a cross, Cristian Sarghi manages to make a clearance. Corner taken by Luis Nani, Antonio Valencia takes a shot. Silviu Ilie gets a block in.32:09
Phil Jones takes a shot. Cristian Sarghi gets a block in. Corner from the right by-line taken by Oliveira Anderson, Sergiu Costin makes a clearance.31:11
Centre by Fabio Da Silva, Cristian Sarghi gets a block in.29:45
Shot from outside the area by Javier Hernandez misses to the left of the target.28:39
Phil Jones delivers the ball, blocked by Gabriel Giurgiu. Inswinging corner taken by Oliveira Anderson.27:01
Luis Nani takes a shot. Blocked by Cristian Sarghi.23:57
Unfair challenge on Gabriel Giurgiu by Wayne Rooney results in a free kick. Free kick crossed by Adrian Salageanu, save by David De Gea.23:23
Centre by Phil Jones, Branko Grahovac makes a save.19:43
Cornel Rapa produces a cross, clearance by Rio Ferdinand. Pass corner from right by-line taken by Silviu Ilie to short, clearance made by Antonio Valencia.18:57
Fabio Da Silva concedes a free kick for a foul on Liviu Antal. The free kick is delivered right-footed by Adrian Salageanu from right channel, Jonathan Evans makes a clearance.17:19
Free kick awarded for a foul by Luis Nani on Ionut Neagu. Direct free kick taken by Cornel Rapa.15:48
Free kick taken by Rio Ferdinand.15:48 Booking
Booking Sergiu Costin is cautioned.15:36
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Dimitar Berbatov by Sergiu Costin.15:16
The ball is crossed by Cornel Rapa, Jonathan Evans manages to make a clearance.12:51
Sergiu Costin gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Javier Hernandez. Direct free kick taken by Oliveira Anderson.10:19 Substitution
Substitution (Man Utd) makes a substitution, with Javier Hernandez coming on for Michael Owen.8:25
Liviu Antal sends in a cross, Headed effort from deep inside the area by Marius Pena misses to the left of the goal.7:23
Assist on the goal came from Phil Jones.7:23 Goal scored
Goal! - Antonio Valencia - Man Utd 1 - 0 O Galati A goal is scored by Antonio Valencia from inside the six-yard box low into the middle of the goal. Man Utd 1-0 Otelul Galati.7:16
Phil Jones sends in a cross,5:18
Foul by Cornel Rapa on Luis Nani, free kick awarded. Free kick taken by Luis Nani.3:52
The ball is delivered by Fabio Da Silva, blocked by Ioan Filip. Luis Nani delivers the ball in from the corner, clearance by Cornel Rapa.0:00
The referee gets the match started.
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