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BP paid workers $12-per-hour to show up for Obama visit, be props for the photo ops
By: Mark Tapscott

Has it really come to this? Yahoo News' Brett Michael Dykes reports that BP paid busloads of temporary cleanup workers to show up as stage props for President Obama's visit to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup operations on Grand Isle.

Dykes quoted Jefferson Parish councilman Chris Roberts who said "the overnight contingent of workers was there mainly to furnish a Potemkin-style backdrop for the event — while also making it appear that BP was firmly in command of spill cleanup efforts. New Orleans NBC affiliate WDSU reports that the workers were paid $12 an hour and came mostly from neighboring Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes."

For more, go here.

Obama was enjoying a bit of a recovery in the presidential approval numbers earlier in the week, after hitting the lowest point of his presidency. You think BP also paid those four percentage points to show up for the president in the latest Rasmussen polling?

HT: Examiner contributor Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.com.

Read more at the Washington Examiner:

This Is What I'm Warning Ya'll About

By now you probably know that a GOP fundraiser and her boyfriend were beaten Staurday night in New Orleans. The immediate story was that they were wearing Palin pins and that is what precipitated the attack.

The Brennan’s Beatdown: Piecing Together A Story (Updated, 8:47 p.m)

.....the author of a post on the Iron Rail blog boasting about vandalizing three banks in the French Quarter. Don’t hit the link if profanity bothers you; what you need to know about it is this:

We also did this for New Orleans, in the initial phase of our project to expel capital from our beautiful home.This ain’t no fall trend. Increasingly, righteously bad behavior becomes a part of our everyday routine. Thinking, talking, making – these things are insufficient in a society that co-opts any and everything except that which attacks directly.There is no reason to be scared. You, too, can fight.

First, Jindal spokesman Kyle Plotkin tells us that Alle Bautsch was not wearing a Palin pin. And neither was Joe Brown. So that’s an allegation which has been disputed.

Second, as far as the Jindal administration is concerned they do not have evidence at this time that the attack on Bautsch and Brown was directly related to the protest. We have a report, as you’ll see below, that the attack was politically motivated, and we’re looking forward to full confirmation of that fact. But the two are not necessarily at odds; our understanding is that Bautsch and Brown remained at Brennan’s after the fundraiser was over and by the time they left there wasn’t much of a protest going on – so if we’ve given the impression that the attack occurred as a result of fundraiser attendees having to run a gauntlet of Democrats upon leaving the restaurant we’d like to correct that right now; that is not our understanding.

Third, since the attack itself appears to have come from assailants who apparently either followed the victims (which we think is most reasonable, given that Brennan’s is located half a block from a police station) or happened upon them and decided to express displeasure with Republican politics in an unacceptably demonstrable fashion, a facet of this we’re actively looking into is the nature of the protest itself. As we noted in the original post here, a group of self-described “anarchists” claim to have disrupted the event and there are snippets of information – or were – following the event in which people holding themselves out as protestors bragged about confrontations with evil Republicans they’d had on Friday.

Jump over to the Hayride and read the whole thing. Michelle has a post up encouraging us to hold off on assuming that the attack was politically motivated, but Gateway Pundit has some more info, and The Hayride is standing by the Palin pin report.

Kristinn has posted some good info here.

I love that the blog is called the Hayride. The Louisisana Hayride, for all you toddlers out there, was a country music radio show that featured Hank Williams. He'd sign off saying, "Put the biscuits on, I'll be home soon, Bocephus."

The Hammer-Weekly Standard Blog

MKH has a great article in Townhall Magazine this month.
The title is cool:

"Sell Crazy Someplace Else", and discusses the media's portrayal of conservatives as insane unbalanced and ignorant; but we all know its not the Right that has problems with tolerance or diversity or inbalance.

Meanwhile, just two hours ago, MK was busy posting this about the greedy little beeeatch Senator from LA.

I give this a 20 lb splitting maul rating.

The Audacity of Buy-Offs
Mary Landrieu was awfully upfront about her $100 million vote in Senate debate Saturday:
“I will correct something. It’s not $100 million, it’s $300 million, and I’m proud of it and will keep fighting for it,” Landrieu told reporters after her floor speech. “But that is not why I started this health care debate; I started this health care debate for all the reasons I just mentioned in my statement” on the floor.

She blamed "very partisan, Republican bloggers" for reporting on that section of the bill, but it was first reported by the well-known, right-wing outlet, ABC. The nerve of any of us to insinuate she could be bought for a measly $100 million.

Hey, thank God for algore.

Landrieu's justification for the extra money for Louisiana is that federal emergency aid surrounding Katrina had incorrectly inflated Louisiana's per-capita income for a short time, thus leading to insufficient Medicaid funds for the state, due to the federal government's calculation based on per-capita income.

She followed up with another odd assertion:
"Our state is still as poor as it was, if not poorer."
Perhaps not the thing to highlight so dramatically, when you're a senator who's been serving for 12 years.

Landrieu said her yes vote Saturday, to proceed to debate on Reid's health-care bill, should not be construed as a vote of support for the bill in its current form.

Sen. Mary Landrieu said that Reid wouldn't have 60 votes unless Democrats agree to weaken the government plan so that it is triggered if private insurers don't reach certain benchmarks.

IT'S MARDI GRAS!!!!!

HAPPY MARDI GRAS!!!
LAISSEZ LE BON TEMPS ROULEZ!!!!




Dr. John!

T'ROW ME SOMETHIN' MISTAH!!!

Come to New Orleans!


I Miss this!

You can tell its not Mardi Gras just yet....there's breathing room between the people and there's not enough skin or booze....




BACCHUS! MY FAVORITE PARADE!


KREWE OF ENDYMION!

MORE ENDYMION!




I ALWAYS LOVED MARCHING IN ENDYMION!




KREWE OF TUCKS


KREWE OF CHAOS!


TAKE ME TO THE MARDI GRAS!


Live Parade Cam!

I get so homesick for Mardi Gras!


Get Naked and Drink!
(You'll have to go find your own "Show me your ...." pics. I've got MY memories....)

OBAMA HAS SAVED US!

Remember when THE ONE said this: "...this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal..."?

Well, ITS TRUE!!

We're saved! Global warming is OVER! Do you hear me? OVER!!!!!!!!!

IT'S SNOWING IN NEW ORLEANS!

Ski scenic Monkey Hill at the zoo!

Keeping the Peace

New Orleans was a nice place to grow up. Or, at least when I was growing up....
Now, I don't know.

This is the proper use of the 2nd Amendment.....

Bayou Renaissance Man: A recipe for neighborhood peace and quiet

Another Good Example for Having Multiple Sources

Gustav has literally shut down the petroleum industry in the Gulf for the next three to four weeks, depending on how bad this thing really gets.

It may only affect it for a few days, but no doubt it is having an affect.

Suppose we had ANWR or the Babbin(?) Field in Montana online and pumping. Ain't no hurricaines in Montana or Alaska, that I know of. This wouldn't even have been a bump in the supply system. They fly all the workers from the Gulf to the north fields, and double production for the duration of the emergency.

National Weather Service Alert

ATTENTION TO THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN AND AROUND THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS. HURRICANE GUSTAV IS ABOUT A WEEK OUT FROM MAKING LANDFALL SOMEWHERE NEAR YOUR CITY.
PLEASE BE ADVISED... THE REST OF AMERICA INCLUDING FEMA SHOULD NOT BE BLAMED IN THE CASE THAT YOU CHOOSE NOT TO LEAVE.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT PRESIDENT BUSH DOES NOT CONTROL THE WEATHER AND NO ONE IS BEING RACIST TOWARD YOU IF YOU MAKE THE DECISION TO STAY IN HARMS WAY.
WE AS COUNTRY DO NOT WANT YOU TO BRING YOUR VIOLENCE TO OUR CITIES AS YOU SEEK REFUGE FROM A VIOLENT STORM.
YOU ARE WELCOME IN OUR CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, ETC. BUT PLEASE LEAVE YOUR BAGGAGE FOR THE HURRICANE TO DESTROY.
ONCE AGAIN, THERE IS A HURRICANE HEADED IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION!
I WOULD SUGGEST LEAVING NOW!
PLEASE FORWARD THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW SO THAT AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE BEFORE THE STORM MAKES LANDFALL!