I am Karan from Olympia, WA.
Almost every other name used here is a pseodonym pseudonim pseudonymn alias.
The rest of it is true - mostly - and all of it is my own.
Don't even think about taking any of it, unless of course, you want to pay me.
Random Wisdom: I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them - Isaac Asimov
The counter says that 2846372 have been flummelized, but I personally think it's all a big lie.
I’m sick of the discussion and the self-righteous outrage that this “debate” has sparked and I think that we need to call it what it really is....bigotry....and then move on. I’m willing to bet a large sum that not one person has objected to the construction of a church anywhere near the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building...you know the one that that “Christian” Timothy McVeigh blew up.
The one thing that we have to guide us is a constitution that grants freedom of religion and if we can’t continue to promise that to all who live here, then those crazy thinking men who toppled the Twin Towers have won.
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Uh-Oh: 15 Million Pounds Of Spaghetti Os Recalled
Coincidence? I think not!
Because there is nothing more I can add, read this from Joel Connelly:
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Big Oil’s new gusher—in U.S. Senate
By JOEL CONNELLY
SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
“...As oil gushes out of the Deepwater Horizon, and undersea plumes spread across the Gulf of Mexico, allies of Big Oil plan a crude maneuver Thursday on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska and Jim Imhofe, R-Oklahoma, will ask the Senate to approve a resolution that prohibits the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from developing rules that regulate emissions from large polluters such as refineries and power plants.
The resolution would gut EPA’s authority and rescind recently adopted rules that require increased fuel efficiency on cars and light trucks manufactured over model years 2012 to 2016.
“The resolution would ignore and override scientific findings and allow big oil companies, big refineries and others to continue to pollute without any oversight or consequence,” EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson wrote Monday.
“It would also gut EPA’s authority in the clean cars program, a program that would help reduce our dependence on foreign oil and cut down on air pollution,” Jackson added in HuffingtonPost.
Big Oil is boss of senators from oil and automobile states. It’s been that way since Sen. Robert Kerr, D-Oklahoma, ruled the Senate Finance Committee and enhanced finances of the Kerr McGhee Corp. a half-century ago.
Murkowski and Imhofe already have blocked legislation that would boost oil companies’ liability when a spill kills thousands of birds and wrecks the livelihoods of thousands of people.
(The current liability cap is $75 million. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and others are seeking to raise it to $10 billion.)
Murkowski has called on such Democratic collaborators as Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Nebraska, to give a veneer of bipartisanship to Big Oil’s gambit to block reductions in greenhouse gas pollution.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll, earlier this week, found that more than 70 percent of Americans believe the Gulf of Mexico spill qualifies as a full-fledged disaster.
Big Oil strumpets think otherwise.
“This is not an environmental disaster,” Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, told Alaska Public Radio. “Oil has seeped into this ocean for centuries and will continue to do it. During World War II there was over 10 million barrels of oil spilled from ships, and no natural catastrophe.”
Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Mississippi, a longtime Washington, D.C., lobbyist, excused deepwater drilling with the words:
“In the last 50 years, with- the four states that allow off shore drilling on the Gulf, more than 30,000 wells have been drilled in the Gulf of Mexico. This is the first time in that 30,000 we have ever had anything happen."”
As he spoke, a second Gulf rig was found to be leaking. Of course, Barbour conveniently ignores the massive oil spill from a Mexican drilling rig just a few years ago.”
Big Oil has not only fouled the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico and Prince William Sound, and leaked thousands of gallons of crude (courtesy of corroded BP pipes) onto the tundra of the North Slope.
It has also fouled our politics, thwarting efforts to break this country of its addiction to oil—the fixes delivered from places like Iran and Venezuela—and cut back on emissions that are warming the planet.
President Barck Obama is trying to show Americans that he’s damned mad, resorting to salty language on the Today Show and declaring he would have fired BP boss Tony Hayward if Hayward worked for him.
He ought to define a new national strategy using famous words of John F. Kennedy: Don’t get mad, get even.
Twist arms to block the Murkowski amendment. Get behind Murray and other legislators trying to raise Big Oil’s liability limit. And speak truth to the power of Big Oil:
It’s time—NOW—to move out from the dark muck and corruption of the carbon economy, and into the sunlight of a new energy future.
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Contact your senators now and tell them to block this travesty of self-interest!!
How’s that for a title?
Anyway...the garbage strike is over! It didn’t even last a day...so much for enduring irony...allegory...oh whatever…
In honor of Earth Day...or maybe it’s just a coincidence...Seattle’s garbage workers have gone on strike. That’s just so...ironic...absurd...metaphorical...perfect. I love the symbolism.
Timing is everything...and now that it’s starting to warm up again, timing is stinky too.
