It's Been 51 Days
I don't think they know what
they're doing.
On Wednesday, the cap was collecting 630,000 gallons of oil – but it could be capturing more oil if BP had decided to put more ships on the surface to hold and process the collected oil. That means the cap will have to continue venting excess oil into the Gulf until another two ships – one which can sift gas and water out of the crude and another which will shuttle oil to shore – arrive next week.
Or
How about if you'd asked them that question
in January of 2009? Specifically, "...if unemployment remains near 10% in May 2010?"
Would really like an answer to the "if we knew then what we know now what would have done" question.
Progress
The urban hellhole just got a bit more sensible, effectively decriminalizing
first time pot busts under an ounce.
Also
They talked about it on the
Sunday shows because... Obama was going to be there that day.
I'm not sure if the administration is doing all that it can or should given the completely messed up underwater drilling regime we have. I suspect that leaving BP in charge of the cleanup is a really bad idea. But Kurtz's "wrong" is idiotic.
Morality Play
This column by Martin Wolf is otherwise good, but it's important to provide a small
addendum to this:
Premature fiscal tightening is, warns experience, as big a danger as delayed tightening would be. There are no certainties here. The world economy – or at least that of the advanced countries – remains disturbingly fragile. Only those who believe the economy is a morality play, in which those they deem wicked should suffer punishment, would enjoy that painful result.
The wicked, of course, aren't bad people like the banksters who have been doing their best to destroy the world. No, the "wicked" are those people who just aren't quite moral enough to be rich.
Go Senate
I guess it's
up to the Senate to try to save the jobs of a few more House members. Funny.
Fresh Thread
I'm probably somewhere in Maryland.
The Last Pump
We're probably at the end of all of the
efforts to reinflate the housing bubble, so now we'll see what happens...
Meanwhile
How many has it been this
week already?
KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents shot down a NATO helicopter in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing four United States soldiers on board, according to Afghan and NATO officials.
What are they doing there?
Travel Day
And no wireless broadband might equal no blog posts for a bit. Back in the early afternoon if not before.
Morning and Shit
I guess the election results could have been worse.
This Has Been The Strategy All Along
Not sure why
anyone is surprised that the Republicans keep trotting out a designated football holder for every bill to water it down and delay and then ultimately withdraw support.
Only surprise is that Lindsey has done this without nearly as much of his usual trademark hissy fit.
Also, Not The Market
Had not realized that until recently developers
around BART stations would have to replace all surface parking with expensive and of course still not tiny parking decks if they wanted to develop around them.
Need to move away from the park-n-ride model where possible and provide walkable living near good transit links.
...adding, for those who don't like to click through, lots of places don't have decent transit and some places which have decent transit in some sense have built it, suburban DC Metro-like, in highway medians and similar which don't really allow for decent transit oriented development. But there are also plenty of places, including chunks of suburban Philadelphia, where you do have a decent transit system except for the fact that for various reasons including zoning laws there has never been appropriate development around the stops.
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