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Author - Bob Cesca
Doof Quote of the Day
"We care about the small people. Big oil company people think we don't care, we do care about the small people." BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg Small people?
Haley Barbour Is Worried About BP
Oh, Boss Hogg. You doofus. I do worry that this idea of making them make a huge escrow fund is going to make it less likely that they’ll pay for everything. They need their capital to drill wells...
BP Hands Over the Cash
Just in: BP has agreed to place about $20 billion in an escrow account to be used to pay damage claims resulting from the Gulf Coast oil spill, The New York Times is reporting. CNN and the AP have...
Big, Big Crash
From yesterday's Stage 4 in the Tour of Switzerland. Mark Cavendish is a douche of the highest order and proves it here by careening from the far left of the field to the far right -- directly into...
Bonus Stupid Palin Thing of the Day
Here we see Sarah Palin lying about the president. She claims that the president hasn't said the oil spill is his highest priority. And now, suck it. Here's the president: "Those who think that we...
On the Address Again
Several points I'd like to make with 12 hours of objective distance. 1. I think my disappointment stems from the first half not matching the second half. It sounded like he was ready to reach for the...
Stupid Palin Thing of the Day
Sarah Palin's solution to plugging the gusher: bring in the Dutch! You know, because they build dykes! Damn you, President Obama, for not calling the Dutch to build a dyke at the bottom of the ocean...
Morning Awesome
Metric - "Combat Baby"
Reaction to the Address
First, he ought to speak from the Oval Office more often. He's exceptional at speaking directly to "me." He was firm, personable and direct. That said, I was disappointed in the content. I might have...
Presidential Address Open Thread
Excelsior! Discuss all of the very serious cable news people who insist that the president has neither closed the deal nor jumped atop the Resolute Desk and shouted RRRRROOOOOOOOWWR! SMASH!
Who Will Vote Against Relief Wells?
Senator Lautenberg intends to find out. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would require oil companies to begin drilling emergency relief wells concurrently with...
Suck It, England
Another classic Colbert segment: "Your oil has washed up on Florida and it's getting on my Pee-Pop!"
Choking on History
I keep thinking about this commercial. The question is whether Rick Barber, along with usual suspects Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, are deliberately misleading their people about history or if they...
Lightning and Fire and Oil
Just in: NEW ORLEANS -- BP says a fire believed caused by lightning has shut down a system capturing oil from a gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico. Effing crap on a stick. And the hurricanes haven't...
BP's Paramilitary Thugs
BP hired private firm Talon Security to block media access to sections of Gulf beaches and intimidate workers. From WDSU TV: Of course the workers are afraid of being fired if they talk to the press...
Tonight's Oil Spill Address
Sam Stein provides the following preview. The first and last parts should be the most interesting. 1. Obama will stress, according to the official, that the "mission of the Oil Commission [set up to...
Morning Awesome
REM - "Nightswimming" Live on Jools Holland
The Punch-Me Face in Full Bloom
Glenn Beck thinks President Obama hasn't met with Tony Hayward -- because Hayward is white. In the process, Beck's punch-me face has extra "punch-me" written all over it. How many corporate...
Ayn Rand Can Suck It
The free market is so awesome. So much so that BP had to be forced by the government to capture more oil: Under intense administration pressure, BP is planning new measures to draw off more oil and...