Posts Tagged ‘dams’

Barack O’Bomber Complains Bitcoin Is Like Having A Swiss Bank Account In Your Pocket

It was a ridiculous interview – full of the usual spin and lies – but it did show how even the most powerful politicians are being rocked by the internet these days. And how this is puncturing their gassy rhetoric. They can’t get away with pontificating about freedom while passing secret orders […]

Barack O’Bomber Complains Bitcoin Is Like Having A Swiss Bank Account In Your Pocket

It was a ridiculous interview – full of the usual spin and lies – but it did show how even the most powerful politicians are being rocked by the internet these days. And how this is puncturing their gassy rhetoric. They can’t get away with pontificating about freedom while passing secret orders […]

SCOTUS stonewall: Republicans will refuse to have hearing on new Obama Supreme Court nominee

     Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have come to a consensus decision to not have hearings or a vote on a Supreme Court nominee in 2016. “We believe the American people need to decide who is going to make this appointment rather than a lame-duck president,” Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn (Texas) told reporters […]

Empathy borne of pain and suffering

     I recently underwent a relatively minor – but surprisingly painful – outpatient surgical procedure. I spent the next two days crashed out at my parents house in a haze of Percocet, Zofran, and Ibuprofen. On day three I stopped the narcotics, preparing myself to return to work. But the pain didn’t stop. I spent […]

Call to release more details of dams decision

Updated September 30, 2011 12:14:16 Photo: Water pours from a floodgate at Wivenhoe Dam on January 19. (Kerrin Binnie: ABC News – file photo) Deputy Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls says the Queensland Government should release the details behind its decision not to lower dam levels. The floods inquiry recommended water levels in Wivenhoe and North […]

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