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Thursday Happy Hour starts NOW!
Topic Started: Aug 5 2010, 12:09 PM (276 Views)
Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
It's Thursday, and it's only 4 pm in my time zone. Why an "happy hour" now?

There is much to celebrate --

1. Prop. 8 ruled unconstitutional, happy day for every one who cherishes equality under the law

2. US Senate passed the $26.1B jobs, Medicaid, and state aid bill -- 290,000 jobs saved

3. "Static kill" stopped the BP oil leak in the gulf for good; nature and clean-up effort took care of 75%+ of leaked oil. Heck of a job, Barry Mr. President!

4. The US Senate confirmed Elena Kagan as a US Supreme Court justice.

So, drink up, and feel free to add to the list!

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I see it's BYOK. And here I was going to bring you a pitcher.

On the other hand, perhaps you've had too much already. :lol2:
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http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2010/08/05/increase-in-jobless-claims-weighs-on-stock-futures/

The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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LD, you're just not getting the spirit of 'Happy Hour'.
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No, but I find myself needing a drink.
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Aug 5 2010, 12:36 PM
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Does M&M share your notion of "happy hour" in this instance? :blink:
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Well Mr. Obama did do a swell job cleaning up 75% of the oil.

I'm pretty sure that Mr. Bush couldn't have done that, and Ms. Palin certainly couldn't, we are lucky to have him.
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Aug 5 2010, 01:21 PM
Well Mr. Obama did do a swell job cleaning up 75% of the oil.

I'm pretty sure that Mr. Bush couldn't have done that, and Ms. Palin certainly couldn't, we are lucky to have him.
Yup. Here he is, hard at work.

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How does he do it?
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Aug 5 2010, 01:32 PM
How does he do it?
My God, if he keeps this up he's going to vacation almost as much as Bush II and Reagan!

(Not that I'm complaining - when Reagan took a nap, we all relaxed, since the threat of him accidentally hitting the wrong big red button receded somewhat)
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Aug 5 2010, 01:41 PM
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Aug 5 2010, 01:32 PM
How does he do it?
My God, if he keeps this up he's going to vacation almost as much as Bush II and Reagan!

(Not that I'm complaining - when Reagan took a nap, we all relaxed, since the threat of him accidentally hitting the wrong big red button receded somewhat)
That's funny. I seem to recall Bush cutting his vacation short for Katrina clean up.
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Aug 5 2010, 01:58 PM
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Aug 5 2010, 01:41 PM
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Aug 5 2010, 01:32 PM
How does he do it?
My God, if he keeps this up he's going to vacation almost as much as Bush II and Reagan!

(Not that I'm complaining - when Reagan took a nap, we all relaxed, since the threat of him accidentally hitting the wrong big red button receded somewhat)
That's funny. I seem to recall Bush cutting his vacation short for Katrina clean up.
He could probably afford to based on how many he took...

http://www.factcheck.org/2010/01/president-obamas-vacation-days/


(Personally, I think that Presidents taking good long vacations is a good idea. Only a moron wants to work 52 weeks a year, and vacations help clear the mind)
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Yeah, because Obama's 10+ foreign trips abroad doesn't count.

So Bush's multiple trips to Crawford and Camp David, where he was completely surrounded by his advisors and had immediate access to the same personnel and information that he would have at The White House, is much worse than the over two work weeks worth of time Obama has spent on the links with only a cell phone.

Actually that's not completely fair, as that time only takes into account the actual time O spent on the course, and doesn't include travel and prep time.
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Aug 5 2010, 02:34 PM
Yeah, because Obama's 10+ foreign trips abroad doesn't count.

So Bush's multiple trips to Crawford and Camp David, where he was completely surrounded by his advisors and had immediate access to the same personnel and information that he would have at The White House, is much worse than the over two work weeks worth of time Obama has spent on the links with only a cell phone.

Actually that's not completely fair, as that time only takes into account the actual time O spent on the course, and doesn't include travel and prep time.
I think you might be showing just the teensiest hint of bias. I'm no fan of Obama any more than I was of Bush, but accusing either of them of laziness is completely missing the point.

And speaking from my own experience, foreign trips as part of a job have about as much with being on holiday as McDonalds has with a NY striploin.
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Axtremus
Aug 5 2010, 12:09 PM
3. ...nature and clean-up effort took care of 75%+ of leaked oil.
Tell you what. Let's bring science back into the White House, okay?
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...in interviews, scientists who worked on the report said the figures were based in large part on assumptions and estimates with a significant margin of error.

Some outside scientists went further: In a situation in which many facts remain murky, they said, the government seemed to have used interpretations that made the gulf -- and the federal efforts to save it -- look as good as possible.

"There's a lot of . . . smoke and mirrors in this report," said Ian MacDonald, a professor of biological oceanography at Florida State University. "It seems very reassuring, but the data aren't there to actually bear out the assurances that were made."

The government's accounting of the spilled oil, called an "oil budget," was announced Wednesday at the White House. It appeared to answer the most troubling question: Of the 4.9 million barrels (205.8 million gallons) that poured out of the well, only 827,000 barrels were siphoned to vessels on the surface. Where did the rest of it go? Where there had been mystery, now there was a pie chart.

It showed that 5 percent of the total oil had been burned and that 3 percent had been skimmed off the surface. An additional 25 percent had evaporated or dissolved. About another quarter had been "dispersed" -- broken into tiny droplets by chemicals or by the force of being blasted out of the well.

The dispersed oil, Lubchenco said, "is in the process of being very rapidly degraded naturally, and so Mother Nature is assisting here considerably." She said, however, that "diluted and out of sight doesn't necessarily mean benign."

Those facts did not seem to support a statement that White House climate and energy czar Carol M. Browner made Wednesday on NBC's "Today" show. An initial assessment showed that "more than three-quarters of the oil is gone. The vast majority of the oil is gone," she said. At best, the report shows that three-quarters of the oil could be on its way out: It does not say that it has vanished.

The remaining 26 percent or so of the oil was still unaccounted for, although Lubchenco said that did not necessarily mean it is still causing ecological harm.

Asked how much of the success of the cleanup should be attributable to BP, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the cleanup "would have been different" if federal officials had not pushed the company to work faster.

And, as for Lubchenco's assertion that the oil that has been dispersed is "rapidly degrading," Bill Lehr, a NOAA scientist and an author of the report, said the analysis did not include an actual calculation or measurement of what's happening in the gulf. "We haven't attempted yet to calculate that rate," he said, and instead relied on assumptions based on past spills in the gulf.

Given such uncertainties, one researcher who collaborated on the report said he would not have given out exact figures. "We don't have the foggiest idea [about how to measure the oil] with that precision," said Ed Overton, a professor at Louisiana State University.

Some outside researchers said that, given the uncertainty about what's happening in the gulf, the administration's assertion that 74 percent of the oil had been accounted for seemed too optimistic. They saw it another way: About half of the oil is probably gone for certain: skimmed, burned, siphoned or evaporated.

They said the other half, including the 24 percent that has been "dispersed" but is underwater, is the real total of what's missing. Despite the largest oil-spill response in history, these 2.5 million barrels of oil will be cleaned up by the Gulf of Mexico, if at all.

The situation is "being portrayed as 'the oil is out of the environment; it's gone,' " said Michael J. Blum, a professor at Tulane University in New Orleans. But, he said, all that's certain is that "the form of the oil has shifted. Dispersed oil is still oil. It's just in a different form."


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Well Mr. Obama did do a swell job cleaning up 75% of the oil.



From what I've read, mother nature didn't take any vacations and has thus far done a much better job on the oil spill that Mr. Obama. I think she's running on the Libertarian ticket next election.
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Aug 5 2010, 07:03 PM
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Well Mr. Obama did do a swell job cleaning up 75% of the oil.



From what I've read, mother nature didn't take any vacations and has thus far done a much better job on the oil spill that Mr. Obama. I think she's running on the Libertarian ticket next election.
She was going to run for the green party, but then realized that, just like all other primordial forces, she hates hippies.
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Aug 5 2010, 07:28 PM
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Well Mr. Obama did do a swell job cleaning up 75% of the oil.



From what I've read, mother nature didn't take any vacations and has thus far done a much better job on the oil spill that Mr. Obama. I think she's running on the Libertarian ticket next election.
She was going to run for the green party, but then realized that, just like all other primordial forces, she hates hippies.
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Aug 5 2010, 08:10 PM
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Aug 5 2010, 07:28 PM
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Aug 5 2010, 07:03 PM
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Well Mr. Obama did do a swell job cleaning up 75% of the oil.



From what I've read, mother nature didn't take any vacations and has thus far done a much better job on the oil spill that Mr. Obama. I think she's running on the Libertarian ticket next election.
She was going to run for the green party, but then realized that, just like all other primordial forces, she hates hippies.
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