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PRESS CONFERENCE FOLLIES: Obama: Um, I’m not sure if the MMS director was fired or resigned.  Obumbler lurches onward...
 
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, May 27, 2010, 11:02 AM

A man has his priorities, you know.
Obama will hold a few more photo ops before addressing the BP oil spill disaster today.

President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, left, and former President Bill Clinton, right, pose for a photo with the U.S. World Cup soccer team under the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 27, 2010. (AP)

Political Punch reported:

This morning, President Obama will meet with the NCAA men’s basketball champion Duke Blue Devils at the White House to honor their 2009-2010 championship season in the Rose Garden.

Keeping up the sports theme, the president and the vice president will take a photo with the U.S. World Cup soccer team and former President Bill Clinton, who is chairing the 2018 World Cup bid, on the North Portico. The White House has previously announced that Vice President Biden and Jill Biden will attend the World Cup in South Africa next month.

Afterward, the president will a private have lunch with President Clinton in the Private Dining Room.

In the afternoon, the President will deliver remarks on the BP oil spill and the conclusions of his ordered 30-day safety review and hold a press conference in the East Room.

The president will announce standards to strengthen oversight of the industry and enhance safety, a first step in a process that the independent Presidential Commission will continue, a White House official says.

In the meantime, the moratorium on permits to drill new deepwater wells will continue for a period of six months

 
A country gets the foreign policy, nearly all the time, that its population WANTS. About 60% of the US population want the US humiliated and defeated because they are not in fact, American. They are Post-American. “Citizens of the World.”  Link to this Comment
 

Obama To Appear on Coast Guard Ship With "Plug the Damn Hole! Mission Accomplished" Sign

—Ace

I made up that last part, but my oh my, the victory laps this guy is going to take after letting oil gout into the Gulf for 36 days.

When he makes his Memorial Day photo-op here, I expect the letter "I" to be used an awful lot in speaking of the disaster arrested; on the other hand, I expect the letters "BP" to be used a lot when speaking of the month before.

Now that the flood of oil was stopped, they can safely admit how much oil they had been allowing into the Gulf:

Allen also said that later today, an interagency team will release a revised estimate of how much oil was flowing from the well into the Gulf. The Coast Guard has estimated the flow at 5,000 barrels a day, but independent estimates suggest it is much higher -- perhaps tens of thousands of barrels a day.

You might think that this could help the cause of energy production a little. A Worst Case Scenario has been handled (we think), after all. But you'd be wrong: Obama's cancelling licenses for offshore drilling.

Posted by Ace at 12:32 PM New Comments Thingy
 

This Just In: Gadsden Flag Now Officially "Offensive" In America

—Ace

Tread on you I shall.

'Tea Party' flag rankles some

Flag, one of nation's oldest, causes stir after being raised over Town Common

By Ted Hayes

WARREN — The Warren Fire Department drew fire Friday morning when members raised one of the nation’s oldest — but these days, controversial — flags from one of three flagpoles they maintain at the Warren Town Common.

Their flying of the Gadsden Flag, a Revolutionary War-era flag depicting a coiled rattlesnake with the slogan “Don’t Tread On Me” below it, angered some residents because though it was originally created to protest the British government prior to and during the American Revolution, it has become a symbol to some of the American Tea Party movement....

[The Fire Chief who raised it said:] “It was only done for history’s sake. If people got offended I apologize. I just hope the American flag isn’t offending anyone, becaue that’s one flag I’ll never take down.

That offends all the same people, but they know better than to admit it.

Posted by Ace at 03:25 PM New Comments Thingy
 
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Just wait till they hear about this "Live Free or Die" thing. Then they'll be boycotting New Hampshire.

 

Dunn at Am Thinker: Illegals and the Election

$165 Billion Bailout for Union Pensions. Nobody is bailing out my 401-K.

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Hedges proposes Burn, America, Burn. What's the matter with these people?

Rand Paul's lack of political depth. He's an idealistic beginner. He will learn - he's a doctor.

Why Big City Incompetents Like “Gun Control”

Crony capitalism collapses in Spain

Palin derangement syndrome. Why the obsession? Is he in love with her? Isn't this "stalking"?



12,393 posted on 05/27/2010 4:20:47 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
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To: backhoe

What’s that flag mean?


12,399 posted on 05/29/2010 1:45:12 AM PDT by raygun
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