MacArthur All Over Again; Louisiana Morons

President Obama needs to fire General McChrystal. A damning profile in Rolling Stone magazine, of Stanley McChrystal, the general in charge of U.S. operations in Afghanistan, reveals a man who holds civilian control of the military in contempt, and speaks openly of his disdain for the President, the Vice President, and the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan. This is unforgivable. He MUST be fired.
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Harry Truman faced this kind of insubordination from Douglas MacArthur, and FIRED MacArthur. President Obama must equally fire McChrystal. No two ways about it.
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Louisianans Sue to Resume Offshore Drilling! What is it about the South that has produced a calamitous proportion of mental defectives? Louisiana, devastated and increasingly to BE devastated by a catastrophic accident in deep-sea offshore oil drilling, thru its childlike moron of a governor, is actually suing to overturn the Obama Administration's six-month moratorium on more such drilling. What the f*k is wrong with them? Don't they realize that the VERY NEXT WELL drilled under current regulations could ALSO explode? And the one after than, and the one after that?
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The technology is inherently unsafe, and NO economic benefit justifies the risk to the environment, more than to the local economy of one of the mental-defective states of the Deep South. The Federal Government has an absolute RIGHT to END such oil drilling, not just impose a moratorium, because it is PLAINLY inherently dangerous. Oil companies do not have the right to use unsafe technologies that cause catastrophic devastation to TRILLIONS of sea creatures, wetland creatures, the Gulf Coast fishing industry, the tourist industry, and the health of people not just in Louisiana but everywhere the unleashed oil might flow. No judge has the right to undo the decisions of the President and Secretary of the Interior when it comes to what national resources are to be developed in what manner. The fact that oil companies need PERMITS to drill shows plainly that the right to give OR WITHHOLD such permits is WHOLLY within Federal power, so unless CONGRESS passes legislation, over the President's veto if need be, the Federal Government, as guardian of the resources, livelihood, and health of the Nation's people, animals, and plants, has the right to withhold any damned permit it may wish, and no judge has the right to intervene.
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How is it that "conservatives" like Bobby Jindal, the retarded governor of Louisiana, detest "activist judges" but call upon a judge now to act in precisely the way that conservatives pretend to detest?
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If Jindal's stance is widely held among Louisianans, I am very tempted to urge that all Federal assistance in stopping escaped oil from reaching Louisiana's shores should be ended. All outsiders thinking of volunteering to help clean up in Louisiana should cancel their plans or reroute to Florida or some other place that isn't filled to overflowing with sh*theads. You want the free market to govern? Fine. I want to say "Live with the consequences, without our help: not one dollar of our money, not one second of our time." But no, we are not going to let rednecks and their Indian puppet endanger US, nor pelicans, fish, shrimp, crabs, and other creatures elsewhere than Louisiana. Indeed, not even in Louisiana.
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Responsible adults don't allow tiny children or mental defectives to play with matches, or guns. The current idiot governor of Louisiana has no say in the disposition of FEDERAL oil-drilling permits. Shut up and clean up, you stupid, stupid little hypocrite.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 4,407 — for Israel.)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 12:33 PM