|
|
By Shoq, on February 21, 2011, at 8:10 am
UPDATE/NOTE: Twitter has a very poorly-timed bug. If you're having trouble changing your avatar, see note below.
I so rarely do this, but as I wrote in a post last week, and detailed in my primer on the crisis, what is happening in Wisconsin is too important to not do everything that we
- Read More -
By Shoq, on February 19, 2011, at 10:34 pm
"Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected." Samuel Gompers
About
The Wisconsin budget showdown might be the Stonewall moment of this generation. A time when the middle class finally wakes up and decides to take action, trying to save their jobs, their lives, and their nation. This
- Read More -
By Shoq, on February 18, 2011, at 8:34 am
This video will tell you just about everything you need to know about what Wisconsin is all about.
If the left doesn't rise to this challenge, this nation is a lost cause. Just book a flight to Australia, New Zealand, or some other nation where there is still a shred of decency left in their cultural
- Read More -
By Shoq, on February 17, 2011, at 6:23 pm
"If you break the public unions in Wisconsin you can break them everywhere." — Rachel Maddow
Ok, maybe Julian Assange didn't exactly parachute into Wisconsin. But he might have! And the pathetic fact is, that link-baiting baloney is what got you here. And that was my mission.
Why? Because with Gov. Scott Walker's outrageous effort to - Read More -
By Shoq, on December 15, 2010, at 10:26 am
In Taking Stock of WikiLeaks, by George Friedman (Stratfor Consulting), a well known geopolicy analyst, provides the best snapshot yet of the overall panorama of the big Wikileaks facts and issues. It frames them from the perspective of someone who deals with geopolitical people and realities every day, as opposed to the legions of
- Read More -
By Shoq, on October 13, 2010, at 12:45 pm
Dear friends:
As some know, I am alway hesitant to make charitable appeals, because the Internet is rife with cases of scams, phony dramas, or attention whores claiming some fender bender caused them serious trauma and need your dollars to survive (or more likely, buy more Spaghettios for their dinner). Few ever try to confirm these
- Read More -
By Shoq, on July 15, 2010, at 12:25 pm
On July 14th, on an MSNBC Countdown segment about the pending well bore pressure tests of the Macondo well, an oil industry MBA named Bob Cavnar was "confused," saying this was the first he'd heard of an "integrity test," then suggesting that something was "not making any sense," as if some other agenda might
- Read More -
By Shoq, on June 28, 2010, at 12:47 pm
A floating city springs up to contain gulf oil spill (Washington Postl
The endgame is tricky. No one knows the condition of the well bore deep below the gulf. It's conceivable that the bottom of the well has eroded around the steel casing, said Charles West, a geophysicist who has consulted for the petroleum
- Read More -
By Shoq, on June 8, 2010, at 11:44 am
Thanks to @Noetical.me for the base drawing.
Note: This project has been moved to a Wiki for collaboration purposes.
Please visit at: http://oilduct.pbworks.com/FrontPage
- Read More -
By Shoq, on May 31, 2010, at 9:43 pm
wkrg_oil_spill on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free
The BP Feed
If you know of some good feeds, please Tweet me. I'm getting tired of looking for them for each event. Thanks.
- Read More -
|
|