On Press the Meat today, Eric Holder is on to defend his shameful use of the Criminal Justice system to prosecute criminals. Plus, a roundtable of Douchebag Dave Brooks, the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne, BBC World News America’s Katty Kay, and Author Wes Moore.
Over at Faze then Nation, it’s John Brennan, Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Christopher Dodd, Dick Shelby, and the Commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Thad Allen.
Brennan also heads over to Fux News, and Weaselface Wallace also has two of the most disgusting people I can think of: racist xenophobe (and those are his better qualities) Peter King of NY, and Senator from the terrorist haven of Connecticut, Joey Lieberman. Plus “power player” Jennifer Griffin and the usual bunch of fuxheads.
Speaking of disgusting people, the Goebbels network has Guidi Ruliani, plus Eric Holder and a roundtable of George :jerk: Will, Shelby Steele, Robin Wright, and John Podesta.
On CNN, Fareed Zakaria has counter-terrorism expert Richard Clarke, and then a discussion on how a guy with a good job, a wife, kids and a mortgage gets radicalized (I think it’s probably the wife, kids, job, and mortgage).
Hard to believe it’s Mother’s Day again (especially since it’s snowing here). So, happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers out there.
Happy Mother’s Day to all you muthas!
Correction: :smack: Deepwater Horizon was not owned by Devon. (But they did sell all their interests in the gulf and internationally.) Devon had devised a way to “see” through dense salt soils to find these deep water wells. That’s how they found this mother. My geologist/oil friend said the current deep water well can’t have an automatic dead-man’s switch like the Norwegian wells, because it is too darn deep. The Norwegian wells, by example, are half as deep. Because of the depth of deep water horizon, those switches fail. He said we shouldn’t be going that deep because we don’t have the technology to do it safely. To wit, the current catastrophe.
He said that field is estimated at producing 100,000 barrels a day. As it blows now, the pipe gets bigger each day and so the flow is getting bigger each day. He did say the oil is lighter than that from the Exxon Valdez and because it is lighter and in warmer water, it will evaporate (bacteria eat it) quite quickly. Not before it causes massive catastrophic devastation to the region, however. He said if the one noaa model, where they have the slick going up the eastern seaboard, happens it will be a freaking nightmare. He said this blow is a game changer.
The redtail hawks, the female of which Lincoln says is Palemale’s daughter, lost their nest and three young to last night’s wind. This pair has hatched 9 chicks. Only one has made it to independence.
Palemale and Lola have not hatched a chick since their nest was removed and the birds rebuilt it. I believe it’s been 6 years.
So apparently there’s more than one woodpecker living in the walls at my place.