Guess who's in the news again in a bad bad bad light? HALLIBURTON! Those criminals who profited nicely off the war in Iraq (everything from oil rig equipment to washing soldiers uniforms) have done it again!
Remember that BIG OIL SPILL we had earlier this year? Guess who supplied the concrete to sell the well? HALLIBURTON!
Guess who's concrete mix didn't meet the specifications but they used it anyway! HALLIBURTON and BP because BP had recieved notification that the stuff wasn't good enough and used it anyway.
For all you people out there who don't understand why so many of us hate the energy sector it is because there are too many involved in it who are greedy, dishonest, and downright criminal. Sure, there's plenty in other areas too, but oil spills, rig explosions, refinery explosions, leaking pipelines, etc. etc. are a special sort of horrible.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Only in America
Only in America can we have a candidate running for the US Senate who hasn't worked a real job ever in her life. Yes, that is hyperbole, but sadly not nearly enough of one to not warrant a massive facepalm
Christine O'Donnell, running for the Senate seat in Delaware, has less than zero qualifications to be a US senator, and yet she is not only being treated as a legitimate candidate, people are actively supporting her.
Her Wikipedia page details her work history, lots of time as a lobbyist, talking head, and working for various non-profits.
However, what she has been most adept at is getting herself into financial trouble and lying about her credentials. She's claimed on numerous occasions that she had been pursuing a master's degree in Constitional Studies, but neither of the schools she mentioned had record of her enrolling or taking classes there.
She got fired from a job at ISI for doing personal consulting work on their coin. Now, she had filed a lawsuit against ISI, stating that their "conservative beliefs" required men to be subordinate to women. Apparently being a conservative who believes masturbation to be wrong only applies so far in your personal pursuit of a buck. She eventually dropped the lawsuit because she was broke.
At some point in time she decided she'd make a good senator and became embroiled in even more financial troubles. She paid her townhouse's mortgage from campaign funds because she was essentially jobless. She's had numerous campaign employees quit and accuse her of misusing funds.
Another problem is, she's a Tea Partier who believes the Constitution to be some sort of "holy document" except she doesn't even know all the Amendments. I wouldn't expect the average American to know them all, but if you claim to be a Constitutional scholar, who holds the Constitution to almost the level of scripture, shouldn't you know at least all the changes and amendments to it?
What amazes me is that the people who are supporting her don't have a problem with this. They don't have a problem with someone who has lied about her credentials, doesn't exhibit any expertise about the thing they hold dear, and hasn't held a job like an "average" person for more than a couple years at a time.
We don't need lifetime politicians, but we also don't need uneducated buffoons making a different sort of mockery of the current system.
Christine O'Donnell, running for the Senate seat in Delaware, has less than zero qualifications to be a US senator, and yet she is not only being treated as a legitimate candidate, people are actively supporting her.
Her Wikipedia page details her work history, lots of time as a lobbyist, talking head, and working for various non-profits.
However, what she has been most adept at is getting herself into financial trouble and lying about her credentials. She's claimed on numerous occasions that she had been pursuing a master's degree in Constitional Studies, but neither of the schools she mentioned had record of her enrolling or taking classes there.
She got fired from a job at ISI for doing personal consulting work on their coin. Now, she had filed a lawsuit against ISI, stating that their "conservative beliefs" required men to be subordinate to women. Apparently being a conservative who believes masturbation to be wrong only applies so far in your personal pursuit of a buck. She eventually dropped the lawsuit because she was broke.
At some point in time she decided she'd make a good senator and became embroiled in even more financial troubles. She paid her townhouse's mortgage from campaign funds because she was essentially jobless. She's had numerous campaign employees quit and accuse her of misusing funds.
Another problem is, she's a Tea Partier who believes the Constitution to be some sort of "holy document" except she doesn't even know all the Amendments. I wouldn't expect the average American to know them all, but if you claim to be a Constitutional scholar, who holds the Constitution to almost the level of scripture, shouldn't you know at least all the changes and amendments to it?
What amazes me is that the people who are supporting her don't have a problem with this. They don't have a problem with someone who has lied about her credentials, doesn't exhibit any expertise about the thing they hold dear, and hasn't held a job like an "average" person for more than a couple years at a time.
We don't need lifetime politicians, but we also don't need uneducated buffoons making a different sort of mockery of the current system.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Flip Side: Obama admits he screwed up!
I lambasted the Tea Partiers, now I'll go the other way. Here is an article about Obama standing by hit policies, but saying he should have "sold" them more.
From the article: Campaigning in Seattle, he said: "We had to move so fast, we were in such emergency mode, that it was very difficult for us to spend time a lot doing victory laps and advertising exactly what we were doing because we had to move onto the next thing."
If he honestly believes this is why so many Americans of all stripes are disappointed in his administration so far then he is completely out of touch with reality.
We aren't upset about the bailout because he didn't sell it. We're pissed about it because it was bailing out many of the very people who created and exacerbated the crisis. We're angered because the version of bailout that went through helped the millionaires and billionaires and did next to nothing for the average American who is struggling with mortgages, finding work, and facing the future with retirement funds that were crushed during the crash.
Most aren't upset that you got health insurance mandated. (Some are, and that's fine too.) But many of us ARE upset about how you did it. You mandated everyone has heath insurance, but then gave them no competitive option to purchase it. You de facto handed ALL the power to the insurance companies while doing nothing or next to nothing to change how they operate.
This is on top of the graceless exit from Iraq, the continuation of many Bush era privacy invasions, your weak stance on off shore oil drilling, the continued debacle in Afghanistan, and on and on.
It was that you didn't sell your policies. Its that you didn't fight for them to matter. You didn't force the Democrats to not cave on a public option. You didn't fight to break up the biggest banks. You haven't fought for privacy rights. We're still embroiled in a nasty war with no end in sight.
Those are the reasons we are mad with you sir. Not that you didn't "sell" us on your polices. They just plain SUCK!
From the article: Campaigning in Seattle, he said: "We had to move so fast, we were in such emergency mode, that it was very difficult for us to spend time a lot doing victory laps and advertising exactly what we were doing because we had to move onto the next thing."
If he honestly believes this is why so many Americans of all stripes are disappointed in his administration so far then he is completely out of touch with reality.
We aren't upset about the bailout because he didn't sell it. We're pissed about it because it was bailing out many of the very people who created and exacerbated the crisis. We're angered because the version of bailout that went through helped the millionaires and billionaires and did next to nothing for the average American who is struggling with mortgages, finding work, and facing the future with retirement funds that were crushed during the crash.
Most aren't upset that you got health insurance mandated. (Some are, and that's fine too.) But many of us ARE upset about how you did it. You mandated everyone has heath insurance, but then gave them no competitive option to purchase it. You de facto handed ALL the power to the insurance companies while doing nothing or next to nothing to change how they operate.
This is on top of the graceless exit from Iraq, the continuation of many Bush era privacy invasions, your weak stance on off shore oil drilling, the continued debacle in Afghanistan, and on and on.
It was that you didn't sell your policies. Its that you didn't fight for them to matter. You didn't force the Democrats to not cave on a public option. You didn't fight to break up the biggest banks. You haven't fought for privacy rights. We're still embroiled in a nasty war with no end in sight.
Those are the reasons we are mad with you sir. Not that you didn't "sell" us on your polices. They just plain SUCK!
Election Season
I hate it. The 2 party system is broken and corrupt.
Instead of whining about it, here's a great article on how the "Tea Party" has no idea what they are talking about regarding the Constitution and how their supporters have often pushed for additions to the Constitution that has been so horribly altered and abused.
Nice.
Instead of whining about it, here's a great article on how the "Tea Party" has no idea what they are talking about regarding the Constitution and how their supporters have often pushed for additions to the Constitution that has been so horribly altered and abused.
Nice.
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