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- NYC Water
- Jon Stewart on Obama's Broken Civil Liberties Promises
- BP Oil Spill is a Reverse Katrina
- State/Local Governments Taking Spill Clean up And Mitigation Into Their Own Hands
| Posted: 17 Jun 2010 10:55 AM PDT Picture embedded below. 
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| Jon Stewart on Obama's Broken Civil Liberties Promises Posted: 16 Jun 2010 07:11 PM PDT "Like I said before: I didn't expect the guy to walk on water, but I'd love it if he wouldn't wallow in shit." Video embedded below. (via)
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| BP Oil Spill is a Reverse Katrina Posted: 16 Jun 2010 05:40 PM PDT Over the past few weeks there have been a lot of people asking if the BP oil spill is 'Obama's Katrina'. They have it wrong; they have it reversed. This oil spill is not a Katrina repeat, it is the complete opposite. People saw Katrina coming, and though people may not have known just how bad it would get the storm took no one paying attention by surprise. They knew they had to get out, evacuate, get to a safe place ... a decidedly local government issue. The local government is the first stop, if you are told to leave your home because a storm is coming no one should expect the president of the United States to be driving the bus. President of the PTA or some other local group, maybe. What happened in Katrina was a massive screw up on the local level. A screw up so monumental that the federal government had to step in. Despite the local screw up, and the federal save, it was President Bush that got most of the blame. The BP oil spill is something that we may not have seen coming specifically, but something that there are plans for. More important for the comparison, this is decidedly a federal responsibility. What is happening now is that the federal response is so inept that the local and state governments are now stepping in. Despite the federal screw up, most of the blame has not been directed at Obama. Just to recap: Katrina -> Local problem/issue, local screw up, federal save, President gets blamed. BP Oil Spill -> Federal problem/issue, federal screw up, locals stepping in, President not blamed. 
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| State/Local Governments Taking Spill Clean up And Mitigation Into Their Own Hands Posted: 16 Jun 2010 05:05 PM PDT If the Federal government is not going to do what is necessary the State and Local governments are going to step in and do what they can. http://abcnews.go.com/WN/article/bp-oil-spill-gov-bobby-jindal-orders-national/story?id=10914348 "Eight weeks into the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of the Mexico, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has told the National Guard that there's no time left to wait for BP, so they're taking matters into their own hands. In Fort Jackson, La., Jindal has ordered the Guard to start building barrier walls right in the middle of the ocean. The barriers, built nine miles off shore, are intended to keep the oil from reaching the coast by filling the gaps between barrier islands." http://www.thedestinlog.com/news/pass-30005-nwfdn-command-plans.html "County commissioners voted unanimously to give their emergency management team the power to take whatever action it deems necessary to prevent oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill from entering Choctawhatchee Bay through the East Pass. That means the team, led by Public Safety Director Dino Villani, can take whatever action it sees fit to protect the pass without having its plans approved by state or federal authorities." 
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