Archive for June 16, 2011
Mitt Romney Jokes About Being Unemployed
Geezus, Mitt Romney is such an insensitive dork:
Jeff Zelney/The New York Times
Mitt Romney sat at the head of the table at a coffee shop here on Thursday, listening to a group of unemployed Floridians explain the challenges of looking for work. When they finished, he weighed in with a predicament of his own.
“I should tell my story,” Mr. Romney said. “I’m also unemployed.”
He chuckled. The eight people gathered around him, who had just finished talking about strategies of finding employment in a slow-to-recover economy, joined him in laughter.
Crack me up Mitt.
Romney is worth somewhere between $190 and $250 million. He has no idea whatsoever what the people sitting around that table are going through.
This reminds me of the time John McCain couldn’t remember how many houses he owns.
Thank God for Anthony Weiner
I’m sure the nuclear power industry is thanking God for Anthony Weiner otherwise the “liberal media” might have covered this story:
Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant / AP
A fire in Nebraska’s Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant briefly knocked out the cooling process for spent nuclear fuel rods, ProPublica reports.
The fire occurred on June 7th, and knocked out cooling for approximately 90 minutes. After 88 hours, the cooling pool would boil dry and highly radioactive materials would be exposed.
On June 6th, the Federal Administration Aviation (FAA) issued a directive banning aircraft from entering the airspace within a two-mile radius of the plant [and that directive is still in effect]:
“No pilots may operate an aircraft in the areas covered by this NOTAM,” referring to the “notice to airmen,” effective immediately.
Since last week, the plant has been under a “notification of unusual event” classification, becausing of the rising Missouri River. That is the lowest level of emergency alert.
The OPPD claims the FAA closed airspace over the plant because of the Missouri River flooding. But the FAA ban specifically lists the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant as the location for the flight ban.
So, I guess the moral of the story is that we won’t know a nuclear power plant is about to melt down until it’s actually happening, if then.
Says it All
Watch this amazing video compilation from TalkingPointsMemo showing how all three cable “news” networks cut away from a presser being given by Nancy Pelosi immediately after she announced she was there to talk about jobs, and would not comment on Anthony Weiner:
I just heard MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell say that Weiner had to resign because coverage of other news “just stopped” and Democrats couldn’t get any other messages out (about the deficit, Medicare, etc.).
Well Andrea, given that ya’ll cut away from Pelosi when she wanted to talk about jobs, you tell me who has control over that.
This is such clear proof that if it bleeds it leads and our 24/7 cable “news” organizations don’t deserve the privilege of being called that.
Glass Houses, Glass Cities
Here’s a Special Comment from Keith Olbermann about Weinergate and the hypocrisy that is so thick in the air. (View the video here. I took it down because it started to play every time I accessed my site and it was driving me nuts.)
