June 2010 Archives

Remember that jobs bill the Republicans killed last week?  The one that Desperado wrote about that killed unemployment benefits for millions of unemployed Americans unable to find work? Did you know that the National Flood Insurance Program funding was killed as well?  For the fourth time this year?  This time, no emergency extention came, as the Republicans that kept blocking the filibuster in the past finally caved.  In case you're wondering, those Senators were Scott...

Yesterday, I was surprised to discover that Newsweek, who does a weekly summary of "Who Can You Trust" on major issues, named me as "Trending Up" and gave a nice plug to TDH at the same time.We are keeping our heads down and trying to get the most current and accurate information about the blowout, the spill, and the players in front of you.  Thanks to all of you for your support....

Scott Brown is a quick learner. In his short time in the Senate he's become a master at the game of 'How To String Along The Gullible Democrat' aka Lucy and the Football.Here's how it goes: Obstructionist Republican says, "I would vote for this particular piece of legislation except for X." Gullible Democrat believes Obstructionist Republican (although for the life of me I can't figure out why) and changes or takes out X. Obstructionist Republican then says, "That's...

I was on Hardball tonight with Chris Matthews talking about the relief wells and former President Clinton's assertion that the Navy should just "blow up the well" (which won't work, all due respect to President Clinton).  Have a look:...

On their website, BP released another of their instructional videos that explains sort of what they are planning, leaving out key hows and whys and throwing in just enough oil speak so as to be distracting from the otherwise good illustration.  This one, done by BP's Kent Wells, Senior Vice President of Exploration and Production (and in a Steve Jobs style mock turtle), is a short video, narrated by him, along with a recorded in-house...

You've heard about it before: The Peter Principle, aka "fuck up and move up" in Corporate America. (Come on, you know you've said it.) There are some immediate examples that may come to mind for you, or perhaps not, depending on your level of consciousness, and age. Nowhere are the examples more prevalent than in politics. Michael Brown, Former FEMA director - "Heckuva job, Brownie" - lost his job in September 2005 after his...

The Oil Palace in Tyler, Texas, that is. Where the suckers her adoring followers paid $40 and up to hear these pearls of wisdom: "I want this most exceptional country in the nation to be free, to be prosperous, to not be beholden to the foreign countries that soon we are going to be bowing down to if we become more reliant on them to drill for us.""Government can and must play an appropriate oversight...

After considerable effort, our great support staff got us up and running on our new server, so delays, chron-style hanging, and lost comments should have come to an end.  If you have any problems, please email me at bob@dailyhurricane.com and let me know.Thanks,Bob...

A new website, developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of New Hampshire Coastal Response Research Center allows for interactive tracking of environmental threats.  The website, called GeoPlatform, has a page, the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA), that is tracking the Gulf oil spill and other threats, like Tropical Storm Alex, currently coming into the western Gulf. Looking like Google Earth, it allows you to add and remove different layers...

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been watching videos of the Joint Investigation by the Coast Guard and the MMS of the Horizon disaster, where many of the surviving BP and Transocean members of the Horizon crew were interviewed during May in Kenner, Louisiana.  The information is detailed and very interesting, but have highlighted some inconsistencies with others' accounts.  Much of the conflict surrounds the condition of the BOP (blowout preventer) in the days...