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Obama Gives Panel Six Months to Revise Drilling Rules - NYTimes.com

President Obama established a bipartisan national commission on Friday to investigate what caused the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and figure out where the government went wrong so as to “make sure it never happens again,” as he put it.
via nytimes.com

There is only one way to "make sure this never happens again". And that is to ban oil drilling of the coast of the US. Anything else is pure hubris.

Black swans exist - and anytime someone says they have "addresses all possibilities" run for the hills.

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Posted 2 months ago

More on restricting Miranda Rights

This just in from Matt Taibbi:


The point is that this gesture by Eric Holder to drop to his knees and pray at the altar of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin is one of those things that both sides are going to end up seriously regretting.
 

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Filed under  //  bill of rights   free and civil society   imperial presidency   matt taibbi   obama  
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Posted 2 months ago

Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Obama Said to Be Open to New Miranda Look

This from the NY Times:

David Axelrod, the top White House political adviser, said Monday that President Obama was amenable to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s call for a new law allowing interrogators to question terrorism suspects for lengthy periods without informing them of their rights.

This is a strange and disturbing idea.  First of all, any breaching of our civil rights because some bureaucrat "suspects" that we are a terrorist leaves the door wide open for full scale abuse.  No oversight.  No protection.  Scary to contemplate.

Second, we have "Miranda rights" not because of any legislation that was passed.  This is the result of a Supreme Court ruling, not legislation.  How can you create a "new law" which abridges a ruling of the Supreme Court?  I don't see how this is constitutionally possible.

If Bush/Cheney had even suggested this there would have been howls of protest.  Let's hope there is outrage against this coming from Obama - but I won't hold my breath.

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Posted 2 months ago

Obama to Increase NASA budget

We have a $1.3 trillion deficit and our Federal Government is unable to step up to the reality that we can not afford to do everything that we are attempting to do.  Where does NASA sit on the priority list which currently includes Social Security, Medicare, etc?  According to this article, Obama is proposing to increase the NASA budget and have them refocus on human spaceflight.  The cynic in me sees this as a political calculation that goes something like this:  "It worked for Kennedy."

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Posted 6 months ago