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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (81473)	8/23/2010 1:47:05 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

More bad news for the professional left..."We shudda listened to Cassandra da Rat." Zogby Interactive: GOP Leads In Congressional Vote Preference, 42%-41% I was with friends the other nite and one of them was rambling on about how the Dems have to do a better job of marketing themselves. I was sitting there listening when I suddenly realized this is the same ole same ole that I have been hearing since 2000. Ten frigging years.........and I am sick of it. Why is it never the Rs who are the ones fukked up and need to improve their message? And then it suddenly hit me, the Rs ARE in trouble. They have been in trouble forever. Why? Because they have been playing the villain since Obama took over. Nothing wrong with that.......villains can score a lot of points. But one thing I learned in acting class is that if you play the villain, you've got to make sure you villain is likeable. In fact, that's true of every character an actor plays......that character must always be likeable if not lovable. However, that's hard to do with a villain.....only the best actors are able to pull that one off. Back to the Rs.......they definitely are not likeable villains. In fact, they are dastardly villains......not nice at all. And very few Americans like them. Their brand is badly damage. So then, all we need is a little bit of good economic news and I betcha......Americans will go pheeeewee! Thank the good Lord and pull the Dem lever. As for Cassandra da Rat, she causes the professional lefties to sweat and get tongue tied.....which makes them look very stupid. That's why professional lefties hope Cassandra da Rat gets bit by a black widow and has a very painful death. Lord have mercy on her soul!

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (81473)	8/23/2010 10:30:04 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

And now we have the Republican candidates running away from the tea party. They were reading Rasmussen polls all along. =============================== Florida Candidate Veers From Tea Party’s Script Steve Johnson for The New York Times By JEFF ZELENY Published: August 22, 2010 PENSACOLA, Fla. — When the year began, the stars could not have shone brighter for Marco Rubio, the fresh voice of newly invigorated conservatives who embodied the change that frustrated grass-roots Republicans demanded from inside their own party. ....read more at nytimes.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (81473)	8/24/2010 6:00:20 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Its an out and out lie I tell ya. Its outrageous. How stupid do they think we are? And I know whose behind it....that Muslim president of ours who was born in Kenya and who plays golf all day. Study: Petroleum-eating microbes significantly reduced gulf oil plume By David Brown Tuesday, August 24, 2010; 1:44 PM The Gulf of Mexico ecosystem was ready and waiting for something like the Deepwater Horizon blowout, and seems to have made the most of it, a new scientific study suggests. Petroleum-eating bacteria - which had dined for eons on oil seeping naturally through the sea floor - proliferated in the cloud of oil that drifted underwater for months after the April 20 accident. They not only outcompeted fellow microbes, they each ramped up their own internal metabolic machinery to digest the oil as efficiently as possible. The result was a nature-made cleanup crew capable of reducing the amount of oil in the undersea "plume" by half about every three days, according to research published online Tuesday by the journal Science. The findings, by a team of scientists led by Terry C. Hazen of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laborator, in California, help explain one of the biggest mysteries of the disaster - where has all the oil gone? "What we know about the degradation rates fits with what we are seeing in the last three weeks," Hazen said. "We've gone out to the sites and we don't find any oil but we do find the bacteria." The findings point to a different conclusion from that drawn by many readers of a study published last week, also in the journal Science. That research, by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute found no reduction in the oxygen content of the gigantic oil plume, suggesting that microbes were consuming the oil very slowly. The study published Tuesday also suggests indirectly that dispersants used to break the wellhead stream of oil into a mass of sub-microscopic particles may have speeded the cleanup. By increasing the surface area between oil and water, the dispersants seem to have provided the deep-sea microbes greater access to this unusual food source. Some of the spill's 206 million gallons of oil has come ashore, some has sunk into bottom sediments, and a little is still a floating froth. But the mile-wide, 650-foot high cloud of oil that drifted for months 4,000 feet below the surface underwater seems to have disappeared in the six weeks since the well was plugged. The plume's whereabouts has been a contentious matter. In the Woods Hole study published last week, scientists described finding an undersea oil cloud on June 23 to 27 similar to the one Hazen and his colleagues found between May 25 and June 2 - which was similar to one found soon after by people from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. read more............ washingtonpost.com