Spintested: 11/20/10

Obama On TSA Screening Anger: I Get It

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Isaac Yeffet, long-time anti-terrorism specialist for the Israeli Secret Services, and director of security for El Al Airlines (and currently running a security consulting firm in New Jersey) was on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last week. Yeffet explains why and how Israel and other nations have the most secure airlines in the world, nearly perfect safety and security records, without using scanners or body searches. Transcript - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40258307/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/ Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQum39C8K9Y Either Obama knows all of this and is a corrupt l!ar protecting a defense contracting industry making billions of dollars off of Americans (after terr!fying them intentionally), or Obama's a ig.no.rant rube who couldn't spell 3D chess, much less play it.
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Obama On TSA Screening Anger: I Get It

Isaac Yeffet, long-time anti-terrorism specialist for the Israeli Secret Services, and director of security for El Al Airlines (and currently running a security consulting firm in New Jersey) was on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last week. Yeffet explains why and how Israel and other nations have the most secure airlines in the world, nearly perfect safety and security records, without using scanners or body searches. Transcript - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40258307/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/ Video - http://www .youtube.c om/watch?v =pQum39C8K 9Y Either Obama knows all of this and is a corrupt l!ar protecting a defense contracting industry making billions of dollars off of Americans (after terr!fying them intentionally), or Obama's a ig.no.rant rube who couldn't spell 3D chess, much less play it.
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Obama On TSA Screening Anger: I Get It

No, it is NOT necessary, but heaven forbid you have your faith in Obama shaken. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQum39C8K9Y
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Obama On TSA Screening Anger: I Get It

And this is why Obama is FOS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQum39C8K9Y
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Sarah Palin Book 'America By Heart' Hits Obama, Defends Actions (ADVANCE EXCERPTS)

Glen Beck sure does. But how much of that, that Sheen "doesn't have the power of a major movement at his back" because he hasn't gotten the kind of coverage that the media gives to Palins and Becks and others on the far right? Last summer, when the teabaggers were taking over the townhalls that members of Congress were holding to discuss healthcare reform, protests by the left were taking place that got little or no media coverage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akwjAjcQnqM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx0Hi7NuQUo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSMyY3_dmrM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8umfwG0SSKQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-TqMDthnEo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-cxHC_JU8o That's been true since the 1970s in the US, after 'People Power' ended the Vietnam War. The establishment elites very effectively manage dissent by not covering it in the mainstream media. Had you not been in Washington on 1/20/01 or seen Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 911', would you have known that there was a sizable number of citizens and groups protesting the BushCheney ascent to the White House? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FKZKvdJbIk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAp6YAPtC2c&playnext=1&list=PLF068837D7D1928B3&index=18 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXffDJn9aoY&feature=related http://www.consortiumnews.com/2003/012703a.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1127937.stm By the way, unless you're clued in to activist groups, you rarely hear about rallies or marches until after they've occurred. It's not like these groups have a Fox channel advertising rallies as teabaggers had, and as Glen Beck had. Sheen also is a very humble protester, exercising his own conscience and not leading any movement. But I would bet that had he been calling for just such a movement, especially during the West Wing years, a major movement would have had his back.
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Democratic Donors Set To Go Rogue On Obama

YOU got rid of Blue Dogs? YOU? We on the left got rid of Blue Dogs. In spite of Obama's efforts and your unconditional love fest of him and the DLC.
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Democratic Donors Set To Go Rogue On Obama

Whether it's taking single payer universal health care, a public option, investigations and prosecutions of Bush-Cheney, etc., off the table, or continuing the Bush-Cheney policies and going Bush-Cheney one better (by asserting that presidents have the right to k!ll American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and 'preventive detention', the right to imprison anyone indefinitely because he thinks they might commit a crime), or using Joe Lieberman to hide behind, to duck out on his campaign pledge of transparency, and gut the FOIA, how does any real Democrat defend Obama?

What Obama did with Lieberman and how he did it, was so sneaky and deceitful, and not the only time he did something like this:

After the court ordered Obama's DoD release the torture & abuse photos of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan that Obama pledged during the 2008 campaign to release them and then flip-flopped on after he got into the White House, Obama had Lieberman slip giving the SecretaryOfDefense the power to gut FOIA & bury the evidence, the photos, forever, into legislation.

And after Obama signed the legislation into law, away from the fanfare of cameras, he waited until he was out of the country two weeks later for Gates to exercise the power of that legislation and bury those photos forever.

So not only is Obama a Iy!ng fraud, he's a c0ward who doesn't even take responsibility for his deceptions.
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Democratic Donors Set To Go Rogue On Obama

Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats want what they want. The DLC-controlled Democratic Party gives lip service to all populist issues (like civil rights protections, restoring habeas corpus, ending the wars, public healthcare, Wall Street reform, environmental & energy issues, etc.).

If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. It's not that Bush and R0ve were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush & R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politicians and the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans -- If you keep at it, escalate your attacks, don't take 'no' for an answer and never back away, you will wear the opposition down.

Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the Democratic Party's nomination) and the oldest, most experienced politicians in US history (including the R0ve machine) by not having mastered these skills. Nor do Democratic politicians (more incumbents than ever, in office longer) not know how to do it. How do you think Democrats managed to keep impeaching Bush and Cheney off the table, have us still reelecting them and not marching on Washington with torches and pitchforks?

Obama and Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.

The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them despite their failure to achieve our alleged shared objectives.

Getting Democratic voters (and Obama's 'most ardent supporters') to understand that Democratic politicians have been taking us all for suckers and patsies is the most immediate problem and the challenge.
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Democratic Donors Set To Go Rogue On Obama

Check this thread here and be sure to follow the links for the complete story:

Outgoing Democratic congressman Paul Kanjorski is one of several witnesses (4 or 5 other congressmen who Kanjorski hasn't specificallly identified, but has stated were present with him at a meeting in the White House) who can directly place George W. Bush and Condoleeza Rice at the scene of the conspiracy to deceive Congress into backing the attack on Iraq with evidence falsified by the CIA.

It's through Kanjorski's account that we learn the Bush-Cheney administration's scheme, which included the CIA's fabricating photographs for the explicit purpose of deceiving Congress into authorizating the use of military force in Iraq.

You'll also learn in the thread just how Cheney's expertise, his knowledge of Congress and the subcommittee process from his firsthand experience as a member of Congress, was the vehicle for hiding the t0rture from Nancy Pelosi and Congress, and most interesting is how John Murtha was utilized.
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Democratic Donors Set To Go Rogue On Obama

There's plenty to rail against Democrats for and call into question their real political bent and intentions, beginning with those who refused to read the NIE that was made available to them in a locked and guarded room in Congress. Hillary Clinton, even after being advised by Bob Graham to go to the room and read it before she voted, didn't. She also claims that she didn't talk her vote to authorize Bush to use military force in Iraq over with her husband, who as a former president got the same daily intelligence briefing that Bush got, and knew that it was trumped up twattle.

But here's the real smoking gvn, about the true nature of Democrats, and their not being any different than Republicans:

Obama & Democrats ran on putting the wars on the budget, with no more supplemental emergency spending bills to pay for these wars. Funding the wars through supplementals was how Bush & Cheney managed to avoid congressional oversight & public scrutiny.

After close to two years of controlling both Houses of Congress & the WhiteHouse, Democrats are continuing the funding of the wars through supplementals.

What's significant about this?:

When the funding of wars goes 'on budget', congressional committees & subcommittees then hold hearings & investigations into US policies, about US interests around the world, from which the UnitedState's overall foreign & military policies are derived. That's how civilian-control over the US military takes place: Through the citizens' chosen representatives choosing weapons systems & overseeing US military operations & installations, plans & policies, etc.

This doesn't happen with supplemental spending bills.

The nature of them is, "It's an emergency, we're running out of money, give us $80 billion now (that's the magic sum, invariably $80 billion) or you won't be 'supporting the troops'...We'll talk about it later".

"Later" doesn't happen.

The $80 billion ploy is so the American people think they're always talking about the same $80 billion.

I know, I know, "How is that possible that the average American wouldn't realize it's not the same $80 billion when it's year in& year out?" The average American is just barely keeping it all together as it is & fighting for his life(style).

Committees in both Houses of Congress have either never begun investigations into fraud and abuse, or dropped investigations (both on what happened during the Bush administration and afterwards), yet Congress is doing no oversight, & thieving criminal private contractors are still being awarded government contracts.

But that's not even the half of it.

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Democratic Donors Set To Go Rogue On Obama

Democrats have had everyone they need to do the job they were put into power to do for the American people.

During the Bush years, Democrats said if the People wanted change, they had to put Democrats in the majority in Congress. So in 2006, we did.

Nothing changed.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, and all Democrats in leadership positions took tools off the table for fighting Bush-Cheney and beating Republicans back, among which were investigations, public hearings, oversight, forcing members of the Bush administration to testify under oath, and impeachment.

They said, "You have to give us more Democrats -- 60 in the Senate".

In 2008, we did. We gave them 60 for the Democratic Caucus. And we gave them the White House.

Obama came into office with the wind at his back. More people voted for him, a black man in good old r@c!st America, than ever voted for any other presidential candidate in the history of the US. They did it because of his ability to persuade that he was going to change the system, end the corporatocracy, lobbyism in government -- He was going to be the People's president, not a corporate t00I.

And no sooner did Obama get elected than he slammed the brakes on the momentum of his election & a filibuster-proof Senate (tentative yet, with 2 senators, Kennedy & Byrd, at d.e.a.t.h's door), Obama did a 180-degree turn on his promises & sloooooowed everything down. To "work in a bipartisan manner with Republicans", after Republicans had already announced they were going to block everything Democrats wanted to do, vote no on everything, in lockstep.

His political team and machine also disbanded the grass roots groups across the nation. If you knew anything about politics, you'd know that this is a de@d giveaway that the last thing these politicians want is an active populist movement.

I'll cut to the chase:

Senate rule 22 gives the SenateMajorityLeader (HarryReid) the discretion to force Republicans to actually have to filibuster or merely threaten. Reid lets them merely threaten.

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Democratic Donors Set To Go Rogue On Obama

"We have only to get about making SURE we get the message to the currents dems that we support THEM do DO better."

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They got the message; THEY DON'T CARE.

Obama and the DLC have worked their butts off to PREVENT more progressives/liberals from getting elected. Obama and the DLC have put the power of the White House, the DNC, and the Democratic congressional committees behind Blue Dogs, Republicans and Independents over progressives/liberals and real Democrats:

Blue Dog Blanche Lincoln over progressive Democrat Lt. Governor Bill Halter.

Republican-turned-Independent Arlen Specter over progressive Democrat Joe Sestak.

Republican-turned-Independent Lincoln Chaffee over Democrat Frank Caprio (which, in turn, is an effective endorsement of the Republican John Loughlin over Democrat David Cicilline for the congressional seat Democrat Patrick Kennedy is retiring from, and all of the other seats up for grab in Rhode Island).

Republican-turned-Independent Charlie Crist over liberal Democrat Kendrick Meek.

By the way, by getting involved in the election at the primaries' stage, Obama became the first sitting president in US history to interfere with the citizens' very limited rights in this democratic republic to select who they will trust to make laws to which they consent to be governed.

Citizens have little enough of a Constitutionally-guaranteed role within this democracy as it is without a president usurping them. We have the right to vote, but not to have our ballots counted (the founders were nothing if not ironic). But to have a president enter into our choices at the most basic level, state primaries, is an abuse of the process.

They've all got to go, along with mushy middle-of-the-road thinking like yours. You need to cultivate some real Democratic convictions.
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Democratic Donors Set To Go Rogue On Obama

Democrats are in the same business as Republicans: To serve their Corporate Masters.

I suggest that you consider Democrats and Republicans as working on the same side, as tag relay teams (or like siblings competing for parental approval). 'Good cop/bad cop'. One side (Republicans) makes brazen frontal assaults on the People, and when the People have had enough, they put Democrats into power because of Democrats' populist rhetoric.

Once in power, Democrats consolidate Republicans' gains from previous years, and continue on with Republican policies but renamed, with new advertising campaigns. They throw the People a few bones, but once Democrats leave office, we learn that those bones really weren't what We, the People thought they were.

Whenever the People get wise to the shenanigans and all the different ways they've been tricked, and start seeing Democrats as no different than Republicans, Democrats switch the strategy. They invent new reasons for failing to achieve the People's business.

Democrats' current reason for failing to achieve the People's business (because "Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc.) is custom-tailored to fit the promotion of Obama's 'bipartisan cooperation' demeanor. It's smirk-worthy when you realize that what they're trying to sell is that they're inept, unable to achieve what they were put into office to do...And their ineptitude, like that's somehow "a good thing".
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Democratic Donors Set To Go Rogue On Obama

"You really have to stop it."

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No, you really have to stop it.

We've been doing it your way, the DLC's way, for 20 years now, and the government and the Democratic Party keeps moving farther to the right.

If you and I are on the same side (as you insist) and want real Democratic policies, and going about getting them your way (protecting Obama, a DINO, re-electing DLC Democrats) is getting Republican policies and NOT Democratic policies, when do you realize that maybe you don't know what you're talking about?

When do you realize that you've become that classic definition for 'insanity' ("Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results")?

Do you ever realize it?
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Sarah Palin: Mama Grizzly Bears Are 'Serious.' Suggesting Otherwise Is 'Bear Propaganda'

Then it's official -- We're a 'movement' to clean up 'Politics'. On HP, at least. ;-)
About Sarah Palin
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The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet

Russ Feingold voted for this. Russ Feingold who many on my side held up as our greatest champion for civil rights today, and who I argued just weeks ago should be booted out in the midterms (like all incumbent Democrats, regardless of their 'hearts') because he was "worthless in advancing our cause, and a failure at achieving any of our goals".

As a lame duck, this schmvck couldn't be counted on to vote right.
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Sarah Palin, Wall Street Bailout Hypocrite: David Corn

At this rate, HP will be giving Sarah Palin & Family an entire section of the website, like the new 'Divorce' and 'Dinner Family Conversation' sections.

I don't know why Sarah Palin is in the politics section at HP. She quit her job as governor, and now works as a broadcaster and reality show performer. She always was just a 'personality' in media and entertainment, playing at being a governor and quitting when it got too 'real' for her. Her daughter has been crowned a 'star' (achieving national celebrity for promiscuity that resulted in out-of-wedlock teen parenthood) so that she could appear on another reality show ('Dancing With The Stars'). Another case of corporate media bad-messaging, providing role-models for our youth that show them shortcuts to fame and fortune instead of through education, commitment, hard work, experience and achievement.

What do you say, Arianna? When Glen Beck says something about Obama, it's not in the Political section, but in your Media section. When Martin Sheen is arrested for sitting in at some political rally, it's in your Entertainment section.

Make it official: Get the Palins out of Politics and put all stories about them in your Entertainment and Media sections.
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Sarah Palin Slams Michelle Obama in Racially Charged Passage From New Book

At this rate, HP will be giving Sarah Palin & Family an entire section of the website, like the new 'Divorce' and 'Dinner Family Conversation' sections.

I don't know why Sarah Palin is in the politics section at HP. She quit her job as governor, and now works as a broadcaster and reality show performer. She always was just a 'personality' in media and entertainment, playing at being a governor and quitting when it got too 'real' for her. Her daughter has been crowned a 'star' (achieving national celebrity for promiscuity that resulted in out-of-wedlock teen parenthood) so that she could appear on another reality show ('Dancing With The Stars'). Another case of corporate media bad-messaging, providing role-models for our youth that show them shortcuts to fame and fortune instead of through education, commitment, hard work, experience and achievement.

What do you say, Arianna? When Glen Beck says something about Obama, it's not in the Political section, but in your Media section. When Martin Sheen is arrested for sitting in at some political rally, it's in your Entertainment section.

Make it official: Get the Palins out of Politics and put all stories about them in your Entertainment and Media sections.
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Palin Book Slams Levi Johnston

At this rate, HP will be giving Sarah Palin & Family an entire section of the website, like the new 'Divorce' and 'Dinner Family Conversation' sections.

I don't know why Sarah Palin is in the politics section at HP. She quit her job as governor, and now works as a broadcaster and reality show performer. She always was just a 'personality' in media and entertainment, playing at being a governor and quitting when it got too 'real' for her. Her daughter has been crowned a 'star' (achieving national celebrity for promiscuity that resulted in out-of-wedlock teen parenthood) so that she could appear on another reality show ('Dancing With The Stars'). Another case of corporate media bad-messaging, providing role-models for our youth that show them shortcuts to fame and fortune instead of through education, commitment, hard work, experience and achievement.

What do you say, Arianna? When Glen Beck says something about Obama, it's not in the Political section, but in your Media section. When Martin Sheen is arrested for sitting in at some political rally, it's in your Entertainment section.

Make it official: Get the Palins out of Politics and put all stories about them in your Entertainment and Media sections.
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Sarah Palin Book 'America By Heart' Hits Obama, Defends Actions (ADVANCE EXCERPTS)

At this rate, HP will be giving Sarah Palin & Family an entire section of the website, like the new 'Divorce' and 'Dinner Family Conversation' sections.

I don't know why Sarah Palin is in the politics section at HP. She quit her job as governor, and now works as a broadcaster and reality show performer. She always was just a 'personality' in media and entertainment, playing at being a governor and quitting when it got too 'real' for her. Her daughter has been crowned a 'star' (achieving national celebrity for promiscuity that resulted in out-of-wedlock teen parenthood) so that she could appear on another reality show ('Dancing With The Stars'). Another case of corporate media bad-messaging, providing role-models for our youth that show them shortcuts to fame and fortune instead of through education, commitment, hard work, experience and achievement.

What do you say, Arianna? When Glen Beck says something about Obama, it's not in the Political section, but in your Media section. When Martin Sheen is arrested for sitting in at some political rally, it's in your Entertainment section.

Make it official: Get the Palins out of Politics and put all stories about them in your Entertainment and Media sections.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Sarah Palin: Mama Grizzly Bears Are 'Serious.' Suggesting Otherwise Is 'Bear Propaganda'

At this rate, HP will be giving Sarah Palin & Family an entire section of the website, like the new 'Divorce' and 'Dinner Family Conversation' sections.

I don't know why Sarah Palin is in the politics section at HP. She quit her job as governor, and now works as a broadcaster and reality show performer. She always was just a 'personality' in media and entertainment, playing at being a governor and quitting when it got too 'real' for her. Her daughter has been crowned a 'star' (achieving national celebrity for promiscuity that resulted in out-of-wedlock teen parenthood) so that she could appear on another reality show ('Dancing With The Stars'). Another case of corporate media bad-messaging, providing role-models for our youth that show them shortcuts to fame and fortune instead of through education, commitment, hard work, experience and achievement.

What do you say, Arianna? When Glen Beck says something about Obama, it's not in the Political section, but in your Media section. When Martin Sheen is arrested for sitting in at some political rally, it's in your Entertainment section.

Make it official: Get the Palins out of Politics and put all stories about them in your Entertainment and Media sections.
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Millionaires To Obama: Tax Us

Obama and Democratic leadership have already indicated they're on board with Social Security cuts, privatizing, etc. -- Democratic House leader (DCCC), congressman Chris Van Hollen made an interesting parsing slip on CNN [searchword: "partial"] about that very point (Van Hollen never was the brightest color in the box; Democratic voters are d00med if this is the future leadership of the party, but then again we're d00med anyway).

There should be tax HIKES on corporations and the rich. There should be massive cuts to the military. Banks should be threatened with nationalization unless they begin lending to small businesses.

Democratic politicians should be beating this drum, loudly and constantly.

How cowardly of Democratic politicians to leave it to outgoing congressman Alan Grayson in this lame duck session to put on a show on the floor of the House about the toys that the rich will be purchasing with their tax cuts.

Has anybody seen the Democratic leadership lately? Where is Obama? Where is Harry Reid? Where is Nancy Pelosi? Where is Steny Hoyer? Where is Jim Clyburn? WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE'S LEADERS???

Come to think of it, where's Elizabeth Warren? Weren't her supporters, the ones who assured everyone it was just fine for her to take an advisory role to Obama instead of one with teeth, with power, saying we'd be hearing from her all the time, calling Obama and Geithner out?

Obama's been a quisling from the very beginning. Pro-corporate, pro-war and military industrial complex. That's what the DLC is all about.
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Millionaires To Obama: Tax Us

If Bush's tax cuts are allowed to expire as they are set to on December 31st, the deficit would be cut in half, instantly.

If the tax cuts are continued for the rich, we would have to borrow $700 billion to pay for it.

If the tax cuts are continued for everyone, we would have to borrow $3 trillion to pay for it.

And if there is a 2-year extension "compromise", we would still have to borrow $70-140 billion for the rich's portion and $383 billion for the middle class's portion.

Obama is expanding the wars into Yemen.

Obama's broken yet another promise (to begin ending the Afghanistan war in 2011), putting Americans off now until 2014, at least.
Obama wants to expand drone strikes in Pakistan.

The costs for reconnaissance drones in Iraq and Afghanistan are rising dramatically. One predator drone costs $4.5 million. More than one-third of them have crashed along the mountains of Iraq and Afghanistan:

Pilots, who fly them from trailers halfway around the world using joysticks and computer screens, say some of the controls are clunky. For example, the missile-firing button sits dangerously close to the switch that shuts off the plane’s engines. Pilots are also in such short supply that the service recently put out a call for retirees to help.

What's the Pentagon's solution? Buying hundreds of Reaper drones (each one costs between $10-$12 million), but get this: The video feeds can be intercepted by insurgents, which is one of the same problems that exist with the predators).

Where's all the money coming from?

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Oil Spill Continues To Wash Ashore In Gulf, BP Deep-Cleaning Beaches In Response

"So the question is: Is Obama, with the best and the brightest advisors surrounding him, just horribly misinformed? Or is he a corrupt Iiar?"

Not necessarily disagreeing with your last statement ( the "corrupt" bit is a "bit over the top").
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I think the facts of what Obama has done while in office (and even before, with his flip-flop on his FISA vote in July 2008, during the presidential campaign) support the charge of corruption (1 a : to become tainted or rotten b : to become morally debased, 2 a: to cause disintegration or ruin).

You can choose to think of Obama and his intentions in whatever way makes you happy. What you can't do is explain how any of what Obama's done these past two years has been in the People's and not the Corporations' interests. Or how, in this catastrophic event in the Gulf, Obama's allowing BP to flood the Gulf of Mexico with millions of gallons of a dispersant (Corexit), a neurotoxin that's so dangerous it is banned in the UK (it causes respiratory, nervous system, liver, kidney and blood disorders -- Let's just say it: It causes de@th in the living organisms it comes in contact with, including human beings) can be considered anything but corrupt. BP's sole purpose for using dispersant was to hide the amount of oil that was G U S H I N G from the blowout.

I think you're in massive denial yourself, to have written what you did, specifically challenging that comment of mine and trying to make 'seeps' acceptable. What would that mean to you, for your life, if you were to believe that Obama is corrupt? What would that mean to you personally?
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Oil Spill Continues To Wash Ashore In Gulf, BP Deep-Cleaning Beaches In Response

Individual spill rates of 'seeps' are much lower than the G U S H I N G from the Deepwater Horizon blowout. As well, these much smaller 'seeps' are dispersed around the Gulf, so that the amount of oil released from each 'seep' degrades quickly.

With BP's Deepwater Horizon blowout, the oil all G U S H E D out at the same time, in the same place. "Natural" 'seeps' occur spaced out, a bit at a time, over a wide geography -- The oceans can degrade small amounts of oil 'seeps' within 5 days, continually. Water in one location can only degrade so much oil at a time; the Deepwater Horizon blowout overwhelmed the ocean's natural oil-coping mechanisms.

Strong oil seeps can lead to increased microbial productivity (as those bacteria break down more abundant oil) and result in some local hypoxia (lack of oxygen) on the ocean floor, but not to the point of causing large dead zones. Further, individual seeps are not always active and the release rate can even vary considerably during a single day and from day to day. As a result, only a small area around a seep is ever actually exposed to "fresh," un-degraded oil, and that is when it is most toxic.

What we know as "oil" is actually a varying combination of thousands of different compounds. Many of these react differently and have different fates when released into the water: some molecules evaporate, others degrade in sunlight ("photolysis"), some dissolve in seawater, some get eaten by microbes, and others sink and end up in sediments. That is, if they don't wash up on a beach or become entrained in the biosphere first.

The BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico is an ELE (Extinction Level Event).

We were already driving the Sixth Great Extinction before the BP blowout in the Gulf -- We are a very careless species.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Oil Spill Continues To Wash Ashore In Gulf, BP Deep-Cleaning Beaches In Response

Let me first dispense with this idea that what is "natural" equates to 'good' or 'healthy' or even commonly occurring.

Botulism is natural, anthrax is natural, automobile accidents are natural, rabies in bats is natural, dogs eating their own feces is natural, but none are good or healthy or phenomena that we'd like to see or create more of.

Now, to the "seepage" versus G U S H I N G  (what happened in the Deepwater Horizon blowout):

Small quantities of oil do "seep" when enough cracks and fissures form above a reservoir. Oceans have an ability, limited, to deal with oil that 'seeps' out slowly and is widely dispersed. Oceans do not have the capability of accommodating massive amounts of oil G U S H I N G in one place; marine ecosystems can't cope with that kind of assault.

Oil from natural "seeps" normally stays in the water for between 10 hours and 5 days.  The area around seeps don't have any great effect on the surrounding biological communities. The animals living around seeps haven't needed to evolve in order to survive in the environment.

In that time that natural "seeps" normally stay in the water, those molecules that easily can be broken down are broken down, leaving behind the remaining, heavier oil. This heavier oil consists mostly of larger compounds that are more difficult to dissolve, evaporate or be digested by microbes. These molecules sink to the floor.

An analysis of sediment samples from different areas around a natural seep revealed a consistent rate of hydrocarbon loss in the oil that eventually sank. This indicates that there is an upper limit to how much oil can be broken down by natural forces in the ocean.

Hence, the difference between 'seeps' and G U S H I N G  (or more the more politically quaint and deceitful: 'Spills').

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About Gulf Oil Spill
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