Carville: Obama risking everything with ‘go along with BP’ strategy

HuffPo

Carville, the famously outspoken Louisianian who was a chief political aide to Bill and Hillary Clinton, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday that the administration’s response to the spill has been “lackadaisical” and that Obama was “naive” to trust BP to manage the massive clean-up effort.

“I’m as good a Democrat as [...]

Is BP telling Obama what to do? Apparently

CBS News team threatened with arrest by Coast Guard who said they were acting under the authority of British Petroleum.

BP refuses EPA order to switch to less-toxic oil dispersant.

As it too often the case with Obama, he meekly does whatever major corporations want. Just who is running the government, Obama or BP?

This [...]

SWP idiots break up trade union negotiations in Britain

Even Socialist Unity was speechless at the utter stupidity and and rampant narcissism of Socialist Workers Party invading a building uninvited where the UNITE union was holding important talks with British Airways. They disrupted negotiations, saying they were showing solidarity. Because you see, in their pinhead view of the world, it always has to be [...]

Merry Wives Cafe. Hildale, UT

Cafe run by polygamist wifes, Hildale UT

Hildale UT is the home of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamist breakaway sect from LDS. The cafe has articles about the area’s history of polygamy on the walls, so it’s hardly a big secret. It is run by polygamist [...]

Exploring Utah

We went driving today out past Hurricane then through Cedar Breaks National Monument. Utah has breathtaking scenery and it’s always changing. These photos were taken about an hour apart.

Panera Bread experiments with “pay what you want” model.

Instead of kneading the bread, Panera is pushing the envelope – replacing a for-profit operation with a non-profit operation. On Sunday, May 16, quietly, without any press releases or ribbon cutting, Panera Bread reopened the operation of a Clayton, Missouri store as a non-profit. The model is “take what you need, leave your fair [...]

On the brink of a new age of rage

Execution of Louis XVI

Simon Schama in Financial Times says unless governments quickly move to recognize the genuine and building anger of citizens over the looting of their countries by a few with resultant recessions for the many, that things could get seriously ugly, if not violent.

When Senate Republicans succeed in briefly blocking [...]

BP CEO frustrated. Obama promises commission to study oil leak

Obama oli leak commission waits for BP to tell them what to say

Tony Hayward, head weasel for BP, says he’s just anguished about the spill and says the Top Dump or Big Plug or whatever they call it, ramming garbage down the well, might not work when they try it next week.

Meanwhile, [...]

Hedge fund fraudster gets 27 months

This for the biggest hedge fund insider trading case ever. He had to give back $900,000 in ill-gotten gains but that’s all. This seems a slap on the wrist to me. Oh sure, he went boo hoo hoo at the trial, but when he gets out will still probably still have millions. This is justice?

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Stop cattle rustling with cloud computing and RFIDs

Photo. Idaho Statesman article on current cattle rustling

With the economy tanking, cattle rustling is back. ReadWriteWeb presents a way to use RFIDs to track cattle and the cloud to store the data securely.

The guiding motto of our strategy is this: THE RANCHER OWNS HIS OWN DATA.

There is no exception to this. [...]