Octafish
Octafish's JournalMacArthur tells it like he sees it.
Increasingly, I'm seeing it, too. The most recent example:
After stating he would veto the defense bill because of its superduper anti-Bill of Rights provisions, President Obama caved and signed it. Andrew Cohen gives us a quick read on what he sees:
5 Quick Thoughts on the White House Decision Not to Veto Detainee Measure: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/12/5-quick-thoughts-on-the-white-house-decision-not-to-veto-detainee-measure/250019/
Question: What would cause the president to say one thing and do another, again? Russ Baker has a clue:
The Military and Those Strange Threats to Obama: http://whowhatwhy.com/2011/12/13/the-military-and-those-strange-threats-to-obama/
Thank you for the heads-up, Karmadillo. It's not just my Democratic Party or who is "electable." The nation has a major problem with who can and who can't be President and what he or maybe some day she can and cannot do once in office.
That is an amazing statistic.
It's like they had an invisible hand helping like.
http://www.wburg.com/0202/arts/lombardi.html
Excellent stuff from mod mom:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4630396&mesg_id=4631257
Paraguay.
Plenty of clean water for those who can afford it.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3183814
Thank you for the heads-up, robertpaulsen. It might be in the garage, but I've got a USMC survival manual somewhere we can share...
President Obama thanked ''civilians'' for their "sacrifices" and ''service'' in Iraq.
He also thanked the nation's men and women in uniform for their sacrifice and service.
I am all for giving thanks to them: They volunteered to defend the United States out of patriotism.
The problem is blurring the lines of who's who and what's what when it comes to matters of war.
Specifically, American civilians in Iraq are largely the mercenaries and contractors there to make a buck.
What the president said at a presser with Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki:
...So this is a historic moment. A war is ending. A new day is upon us. And let us never forget those who gave us this chance -- the untold number of Iraqis who've given their lives; more than one million Americans, military and civilian, who have served in Iraq; nearly 4,500 fallen Americans who gave their last full measure of devotion; tens of thousands of wounded warriors, and so many inspiring military families. They are the reason that we can stand here today. And we owe it to every single one of them -- we have a moral obligation to all of them -- to build a future worthy of their sacrifice...
Here's the link to the official White House transcript:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/12/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-al-maliki-iraq-joint-press-co
I have a problem with blurring the distinction. Apart from the civilians in government service (State Department, CIA, and so on), the contractors are not there out of patriotism. Like their corporate paymasters -- such as Halliburton, Blackwater and DynCorp -- they did it for the money.
Real cause of nuclear crisis
The picture becomes clear: TEPCO blames the tsunami rather than the earthquake because making the nuclear fleet earthquake-proof is too expensive.
Real cause of nuclear crisis
SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), the operator of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Station, has been insisting that the culprit that caused the nuclear crisis was the huge tsunami that hit the plant after the March 11 earthquake. But evidence is mounting that the meltdown at the nuclear power plant was actually caused by the earthquake itself.
According to a science journalist well versed in the matter, Tepco is afraid that if the earthquake were to be determined as the direct cause of the accident, the government would have to review its quake-resistance standards completely, which in turn would delay by years the resumption of the operation of existing nuclear power stations that are suspended currently due to regular inspections.
The journalist is Mitsuhiko Tanaka, formerly with Babcock-Hitachi K.K. as an engineer responsible for designing the pressure vessel for the No. 4 reactor at the ill-fated Fukushima nuclear plant.
He says if the earthquake caused the damage to the plumbing, leading to a "loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA)" in which vaporized coolant gushed into the containment building from the damaged piping, an entirely new problem — "vulnerability to earthquake resistance of the nuclear reactor's core structure" — would surface and that this will require a total review of the government's safety standards for nuclear power plants in Japan, which is quite frequently hit by earthquakes.
CONTINUED...
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/eo20111213a1.html
Perhaps they are betting that in the long run it won't make any difference to the ratepayers.
I am going to enjoy her coming ascension into Democratic politics.
We are flush with outstanding progressive strategists. A rainbow coalition.
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