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caption “America thanks you for lying about Yellow Cake.”

On Jun 19, 8:40 am, Cold Water wrote:

First you nationalize the ocean floors and western lands; then you make yourself the arbiter of what regulations will ensure safety working on them and people who own neighboring properties; then you incompetently administer the occupied territories you have seized.

US has approved 19 environmental drilling waivers since oil spill

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/05…..l-waivers/

By John Byrne Monday, May 24th, 2010 — 8:48 am

On May 14, President Barack Obama announced that oil companies would no longer be given license to bypass environmental reviews of their drilling projects.

“We’re also closing the loophole that has allowed some oil companies to bypass some critical environmental reviews,” Obama said.

But in the month since the BP-run Deepwater Horizon (above right) exploded and collapsed into the sea, its drill site spewing an unending current of oil into the open ocean, the US government has granted at least 19 environmental waivers for gulf drilling projects and 17 drilling permits. Most are for deepwater drilling operations, similar to that conducted by the ill-fated rig.

“At least six of the drilling projects that have been given waivers in the past four weeks are for waters that are deeper — and therefore more difficult and dangerous — than where Deepwater Horizon was operating,” the New York Times’ Ian Urbina wrote Monday. “While that rig, which was drilling at a depth just shy of 5,000 feet, was classified as a deep-water operation, many of the wells in the six projects are classified as “ultra” deep water, including four new wells at over 9,100 feet.”

“In explaining why they were still granting new permits for certain types of drilling on existing wells, Department of the Interior officials said some of the procedures being allowed are necessary for the safety of the existing wellbore,” Urbina added.

A wellbore refers to the hole created in the drilling process used for the extraction of oil.

The Interior Department’s Ken Salazar, testifying before Congress, said his department has been limited in contesting drilling efforts because of a statute which requires his agency to respond within 30 days of applications being submitted.

“That is what has driven a number of the categorical exclusions that have been given over time in the gulf,” Salazar said.

Urbina notes that the drill projects which have received waivers have yet to begin drilling. But, he says, “these waivers have been especially troublesome to environmentalists because they were granted through a special legal provision that is supposed to be limited to projects that present minimal or no risk to the environment.”

CBS re-opens soon and the koboko squad shall unleash its madness on wanainchi!

Meantime, Nambooze, OO and KB can make do wtih making public appearances at public gatherings and religious functions! It used to work during Obote II. That is considering curfew does not begin!

This century;  enjoy

This Century…. We are becoming lesser by the day!

Our communication – Wireless

Our dress – Topless Our telephone – Cordless

Our cooking – Fireless Our youth – Jobless

Our food – Fatless Our labour – Effortless

Our conduct – Worthless Our relationships – Loveless

Our certificates – Useless Our attitude – Careless

Our feelings – Heartless Our politics – Shameless

Our education – Valueless Our follies – Countless

Our arguments – Baseless

Our Jobs – Thankless

Our Bosses – Brainless Our Salaries- Meaningless Our emails – useless (especially this one)!   NOTE: Do Not send this e-mail to your boss!!!

Okello went overboard this time!

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Joshua Kato wrote:

You are very wrong on Mwesigwa. His death in the 70s is well documented. He was never in Luwero as you claim.

Black GOP Candidates Burdened by Weighty Millstones New America Media, Commentary, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Posted: May 03, 2010

The 32 black Republicans that will run for House seats in the fall mid-term elections comprise a historic high. The black GOP candidates, for their part, say they’re in it to win, and that they were even inspired to run by President Obama’s big win. That’s admirable. But the black GOP’s have some of the weightiest millstones around their political necks that any candidates could have.

One is the Democratic Party. Much was made that then-candidate Obama moved, revved up, and inspired black voters as no other presidential candidate ever has. He did. But Obama is a Democrat, and so are the overwhelming majority of blacks. If the Democratic nominee had been Hillary Clinton, the pre-disgraced John Edwards, or any of the pack of other Democratic contenders, blacks would have given that Democratic candidate a solid 85 to 90 percent of their vote.

They have given that percentage to every Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson’s landslide shellacking of Republican presidential contender Barry Goldwater in 1964. Black Republicans rail at this and call it political plantationism; meaning that the Democrats say and do as little as possible to meet black needs, knowing that the black vote is firmly in their hip pocket.

There is some truth to this. Past Democratic presidential contenders Bill Clinton, Al Gore and John Kerry, and to a degree President Obama, have deliberately downplayed race and poverty issues. But even so, black voter’s solid loyalty to the Democrats is not simply a case of blind and misguided loyalty. The entire Congressional Black Caucus is Democrats, and so are the leaders of the mainstream civil rights organizations. Despite the shots some blacks take at the Democrats for taking the black vote for granted, black Democrats and civil rights leaders are still highly respected. Most blacks still look to them to fight the tough battles for health care, greater funding for education and jobs, voting rights protections, affirmative action, and against racial discrimination.

Black Democrats still accurately capture the mood of fear and hostility the majority of blacks feel toward the Republicans. Even when black Democratic politicians stumble, they are still regarded as better bets than Republican candidates to be more responsive to black needs.

The other millstone around the necks of Black GOP candidates is their party. There’s the GOP’s terrible and infuriating history of racial exclusion, neglect and race baiting. The endless foot in the mouth, racially insulting gaffes, racially loaded campaign ads by Republican officials and politicians and tea party activists and the refusal by GOP brass to loudly condemn them — or worse, their tendency to defend them — has continually ignited black fury. Then there was the fight of House Republicans against the Voting Rights Act renewal, the slash and burn of job and education programs, Bush’ s Katrina bungle, as well as his many snubs of the NAACP and Congressional Black Caucus, the relentless low-intensity war by the GOP against virtually any and every Obama initiative, program, spending measure, and that includes measures that GOP congressional leaders would back in a heartbeat if proposed by a GOP president.

The take-no-prisoners warfare against Obama has deepened black suspicions that the GOP is chock full of bigots. And unfortunately for them, the GOP leadership’s blatant pandering to and backdoor encouragement of tea party attacks on President Obama have done even less to allay doubts about the GOP’ s motives.

In 2000, Bush talked about making the GOP a true party of diversity. The GOP presidential convention featured more black faces than at any time in living memory. With Bush’s pick of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, and a handful of other high profile blacks to top policy making administration posts, it seemed like the GOP was serious about transforming the party from its insular base of Deep South and heartland nativists, rural and blue collar workers into a rainbow party that represented many different ethnic interests.

In 2004, Bush built on the diversity pitch and courted the black evangelicals, with a mix of bible thumping fundamentalism and support of school choice, and anti-abortionist and anti-gay rights rhetoric. This touched a nerve among many black evangelicals. It got Bush a mild bump up in the black vote in his 2004 presidential win. This stirred many black Republicans to hope for the unthinkable: that they could win big-ticket offices. Bush’s Katrina comatose response and GOP racism quashed that hope. It’s been downhill for the GOP among blacks since then.

The final test for the black GOP candidates, and their party, is whether Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele will actually put the GOP’ s money and muscle behind any of their candidacies. They are all newcomers to politics, and in most cases are facing seasoned incumbents. They’ll need every penny and bit of party backing they can get. Whether they get it or not is one more millstone around their political necks.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. His new book is How Obama Governed: The Year of Crisis and Challenge (Middle Passage Press).

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My friend Corporal Otto,

Answer the questions: Is Black Mwesigwa alive or dead? Was he not murdered in Luwero by Museveni? Why does your head hit the roof when this murder is mentioned? You want to keep it all under the carpet, it is something that should never be talked about?

Of course I am mad. Mad of the orchestrated violence that Museveni has personally and systemically committed in Uganda. That is not making a fool of myself. That is being indefatigable and unrelenting in the search for justice for the numerous victims of Museveni. If that irks you, I have no apologies to make. Perhaps you are guilty as well, for as they say, the guilty are always afraid, seeing by your reaction to my investigations of Black Mwesigwa’s murder. Mwesigwa may have been a terrorist himself but that does not justify his brutal murder by Museveni.

George O. Pacu-Otto

On 4/27/10, Patrick Otto wrote:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/26/panthers-deem-flap-over-voting-error/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_must-read-stories-today

In a message dated 4/24/2010 4:07:05 PM Central Daylight Time, ProudLiberal7@aol.com writes: