No guest today because there are simply too many stories to get to. There’s the continued GOP war on people, news on the war in Libya, and Newt Gingrich waring with himself. On to the Majority Report Recap!
We start off today with the worthless James O’Keefe. And we literally mean “worthless” if you take his word for it. It seems he’s pleading for people to donate $50,000 so he can pay off the credit card bills rung up for the sham video against NPR. Sam calls Mr. O’Keefe out on his nonsense.
Sam discusses his thoughts on when the US should use its military around the world and Juan Cole’s piece Top Ten Ways that Libya 2011 is Not Iraq 2003.
Probable GOP 2012 candidate Newt Gingrich was for a no fly zone in Libya before he was against it before he was for it again, just not the way Obama did it.
Breaking: US to handover control of the Libyan no fly zone to NATO within the next few days.
Sam does a post-mortem on the tax debate from yesterday adding more facts he did not have off the top of his head. If you haven’t listened to the debate with John Nolte yet, check it out.
Time to play Obama Good News, Bad News. Ready?
Good News: The return of the already proven-to-not-create-more-jobs-but-to-make-the-rich-richer repatriation tax holiday has been dismissed by the White House.
Bad News: It was dismissed only as a standalone bill. It can still be considered as part of an overall reform bill.
The Japanese death toll has officially topped 10,000 people and workers still struggle with the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Could a nuclear disaster happen in the US?
Why are we using Light Water Nuclear Reactors?
New oil slicks are popping up in the Gulf of Mexico as the Obama Administration OKs Chevron’s permit for new deep water drilling.
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12:05 pm
mornin gang!
12:09 pm
radiation from japan here already on the west coast.
12:34 pm
Where abouts are you, Jim?
3:51 pm
Arrived here in Colorado as well.
CNN Link
(CNN) — Colorado and Oregon have joined several other Western states in reporting trace amounts of radioactive particles that have likely drifted about 5,000 miles from a quake and tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant in Japan, officials say.
12:11 pm
Houston company accepts responsibility for oil spill off Louisiana
A Houston-based oil company has accepted responsibility for a mysterious spill near Grand Isle, although it says it remains “surprised” that what it thought was a minor discharge from a long dormant well could have produced miles-long slicks.
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Several hours after The Times-Picayune broke the story that state agents had traced the oil back to a well operated by Anglo-Suisse Offshore Partners, the Houston-based company put out a statement late Tuesday night.
In three reports to the Coast Guard since Friday, the company had reported that less than 5 gallons of crude had escaped. But state Wildlife and Fisheries agents traced the oil to the Anglo-Suisse well at its Platform E facility on Monday afternoon and found a crew on a boat trying to close in the well with a remotely operated submarine.
The company said it had reconnected the wellhead structure Tuesday morning and fully shut it in by 8:30 p.m.
The company said it was the 12th well it owned in the area to undergo plugging and abandonment operations. All of those wells were shut in after Hurricane Katrina caused damage to platforms and haven’t produced any oil since, the company said. Crews have been monitoring the site since September and didn’t report any oil discharge until the end of last week, the statement said.
12:18 pm
eya Sam, the salt water allows electrolosis.
12:43 pm
“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”
H. L. Mencken
12:59 pm
heh!
mornin T, good quote.
1:49 pm
yes!
2:32 pm
Amen!
2:32 pm
Catching up on yesterday’s pod…
The guest debater didn’t understand “saved jobs”. Here is a quick explanation of “saved jobs”…
This year, no stimulus money to the states, so this year the states are laying off teachers by the thousands. Had there been no stimulus, the layoffs would have been much sooner, and the teachers would have been unemployed for two years, instead of still being employed for a few more months yet.
Stimulus money saved those jobs then. Lack of stimulus now means those jobs are lost.
Even bigger than the job losses (if that wasn’t big enough) is the impact on the future hirability of the students affected by the cuts. From a humanitarian perspective, even worse than that, the unfulfilled human potential, the loss of what these children could be and their contributions to society because of the cuts.
And he doesn’t understand “saved jobs”.
@$$hole.
2:44 pm
Sammy: wrong debate today:
nuclear? or nuclear?
as long as you don’t say nuculer, (G.W.B&$#), you’re ok.
4:55 pm
Pat Paulsen! I remember one of his lines when he did an episode of the Monkees, “That’s tricky thinking, and not the right answer”.
Speaking of comedians running for office, Ian Murphy, the guy who called Wis. gov. Scott Walker as a Koch brother, has a campaign site up:
http://www.murphycanhascongress.com/