Archive for June 14th, 2010
THEORY: The reason the Obama Administration is not allowing flyovers or proper reporting on the Gulf Spill is that it's MUCH MUCH MUCH worse than the government is letting on.
Let us prove or disprove this theory, as speculated on this site, The Oil Drum, that the reason the Obama Administration is employing draconian tactics to hamper full reporting and visual images of the Gulf Spill Disaster is that it’s a MUCH, MUCH, MUCH worse problem than the government is letting on.
So far, the mystery’s involved:
(1) maintaining a no-fly zone over the spill
(2) preventing reporters from getting close to the spill
(3) using military at Grand Isle, Louisiana under tight security lockdown…for SOMETHING
(4) warehouses full of oil containing boom that aren’t being used
(5) the refusal to act on any of the plans Governors Jindal, Barbour and others have been trying to get the federal government to focus on
It feels like the Oil Drum piece might be on to something, in that they speculate the oil’s not leaking from the Deepwater Horizon shaft, but instead it’s leaking up from the sea floor itself…and that the oil’s somehow coming up not from a hole that can be plugged, but from a gash in the seabed that can’t be fixed.
If this is true, then BP is not to blame for what’s happening, as much as Obama wants to pin everything on this one British company to destroy it (and all the British pensions that are linked to its stock).
If this is true, then it’s a disaster only a demigod can avert and contain. Thank goodness all that Hope and Change from 2008 installed just such a Lightbringer with the power to lower the oceans and heal broken souls…and, we assume based on his own proclamations of godlike wonder, repair the sea floor.
Read what they’re saying over at Oil Drum, then come back here and let’s see how deep we can all dig into this…and see if the theory proves true that the reason the Obama White House is not acting in this matter is because they know there is nothing they can do to stop this, and aren’t yet prepared to announce the real scope of the problem at hand.
QUESTION: What do you know about the tour John F. Kennedy took of Europe to make him seem presidential?
Can any of you dig up some descriptions of the tour of Europe Joseph Kennedy sent his son John on…before JFK ran for president?
The Palin family seems to be headed to Europe on something similar this summer…which is great, because that means they won’t have to be in Wasilla while creepy peeper Joe McGinnis is there, with his binoculars trained on little Piper’s window (the sicko).
We’ve heard that Governor Palin will be meeting with Baroness Thatcher while in London…and we wonder if we can piece together more of her itinerary, and see how her schedule matches up with what JFK did so many years before her.
It’s a very interesting move by the Governor…and, as we said, a great way for the Palins to leave McGinnis behind and enjoy their summer away from his creepy craziness…while also giving the Governor a chance to meet with icons like the Baroness.
Canaries in the coal mine: how is the pet industry being impacted by Obama's failing economic policies?
Last night, we went to Sidetracks to catch part of the Tony Awards (and were promptly bored in about 10 minutes, as Sean Hayes is no Neil Patrick Harris), and ran into Sebastian’s ex David, whom we bump into every once in a while (and who is still very much an ass, but last night he was an ass in a weird-for-him-or-anyone Western shirt, like a cowboy would wear if he wanted to look ridiculous).
David works for a company that puts on pet trade shows and publishes some kind of pet magazines, like Happy Kitties or Smiling Puppies or something. David thinks he’s a writer (he wrote a terrible book a few years ago that centers on a magical black man who travels the suburbs of Cleveland raping elderly women, impregnating them, and then glamouring them to fall in love with him…then they die in childbirth and become angels and the man somehow ages the children into adults and puts them to work at a 24-hour strip club and breakfast buffet that he runs…we swear to you, we are not making this up, and this is really David’s “book”, which was written in the 90s while David was working as a cheesy lounge singer aboard cruise ships in the Caribbean), but they won’t let him write for the pet magazines (can’t imagine why not), and instead they have him deal with booking the exhibitors for the trade shows. There are two of these conventions every year, one in Chicago before Halloween and the other in Baltimore, Maryland at Christmas.
We asked David how the pet industry was doing, and he told us that people are abandoning their aquarium setups…and other animals that aren’t cuddly and affectionate like dogs and cats. Birds, reptiles, fish, insects, and other critters that aren’t the Big Two are not generating big revenue for the pet industry anymore, as people look to cut things back dramatically.
Years ago, we went to the first trade show David worked and saw all the exhibitors – and we were dazzled by the aquarium setups in particular. They were stunning. One memorable one had a model of the Titanic and gorgeous iceberg mountains with crystal marbles in the tank…it was so beautiful, and everything in it was outrageously expensive.
According to David, at the Baltimore trade show, there was only a fraction of aquarium vendors displaying their wares, and few convention goers were booking orders from them. Pet stores have been cutting back on everything that’s not Big Two, dog and cat, related.
We’re intrigued by this, because it’s another indicator of just how bad the economy is. We’ve told you that Sidetracks is a ghost of its former bustling self on a Sunday. Last night even with the Tony Awards being shown in one part of the bar, the place wasn’t packed like usual. The big, original room of the bar, with the giant projection screen, used to have dozens of regulars singing along to the showtunes and shouting alternate lyrics to all of the videos — but almost all of those older guys have stopped going out because they can’t afford it anymore. One of the leaders of that old troupe of showtuners told us he’s been laid off twice in the last two years, and has gone from making about $80k to just $22k…and he is working the only job he could get, after looking for work for months and months.
Scary stuff.
So, as people lose their jobs, are forced out of their condos, and cut back on drinking and eating out and all the other fun things they used to do, they are also giving up their hobbies…like their aquariums and terrariums and whatever.
The one thing they aren’t giving up completely are their cats and dogs, though, because according to David these people treat the Big Two like children. They might not be shelling out on all the expensive accessories to give their dogs the full-on Paris Hilton Tinkerbelle treatment, but they will always continue to buy their dogs the basics and give their cats a comfortable life.
If people ever cut the dogs and cats out, then we know we’re in Great Depression Part Two territory. It would be like these people taking their babies to an orphanage because they can’t care for them.
Oh, and David told us not to tell you that the trade show is no longer going to be held in Baltimore, because it’s too expensive there, and that the exhibitors in New York and New Jersey can’t afford to travel down there — so it’s being moved back to Atlantic City, where the show was held until just three years or so ago. They haven’t announced this change yet, but it’s coming, so that’s another impact of the economy. We know none of you will care about this, but David didn’t want us talking about it — and he was a major ass last night, so we just talked about it. See how that works.
Do you follow pet trends at all, or can you think of some other niche like this that is a good reflector of just how bad things are in Obama’s economy?
Monday Open Thread: June 14th, 2010
What’s on your minds this Monday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
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Here’s a great little read about Sophie B. Hawkins — another Hillary Clinton supporter, who, like us, used to be a lifelong, loyal Democrat but who never “fell in line” the way Donna Brazile demanded…to become part of the Obama cult that’s destroying this country.
The Media doesn’t like to report on this because it’s going to be the end of the Democrat Party, but the Obama campaign and its aftermath alienated the very core of the Democrats. PERMANENTLY ALIENATED us.
The famous people, like Hawkins or Lady Forester de Rothschild get most of the attention, whenever any attention at all is paid to this, but regular, average, middle class, working Americans who used to vote lock-step Democrat until 2008 are no longer backing this party. It’s now become inconceivable for most of us to think about ever voting Democrat again. Period.
Just like Hawkins, we’re not Republicans and never will be, and are only starting to get accustomed to calling ourselves Independents. We actually, when asked if we’re a Democrat, Republican, or whatever will usually answer the questions by saying “We’re Americans”.
What the Obama campaign and DNC did in 2008, and how it engaged in fraud, voter intimidation, race-baiting, and all manner of chicanery in service to their Lightbringer, will never be forgotten or forgiven.
The Media doesn’t get this…and doesn’t see that it’s about more than Hillary Clinton. It’s about waking up to realize the party we’d supported all our lives was actually anti-American, anti-democratic, and run by communists and lunatics.
That might not be revelatory to some of you — but for us it was. And there is no going back up the rabbit hole the DNC pushed us down in 2008 by going all in for Obama, to Hell with the consequences.
