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Ah, out on the pre owned gucci handbags deck the geraniums are in glorious bloom, the peacocks are screeching with lust, and pre owned gucci handbags T-Bone is reloading to fire off a warning burst in the pre owned gucci handbags direction of the Fox 12 news chopper circling overhead. Time to pre owned gucci handbags crack open a case of Bud Lite Lime and check the pre owned gucci handbags pulse of the republic. Summer is upon us at last…maybe.

Those who come to this space regularly, from pre owned gucci handbags time to time, or by fair chance or foul may note that pre owned gucci handbags your oft humbled scribe has not been scribing much of late. The flame of inspiration flickers and pre owned gucci handbags wanes. The grim specter of oil saturating the gulf and and pre owned gucci handbags washing into Louisiana’s wetlands and pre owned gucci handbags marshes where Bobby Jindal screeches like the pencil-neck geek manager of a pre owned gucci handbags villainous professional wrestling tag team is enough to render even the pre owned gucci handbags peacocks mute, much less a man of poetic sensibility and pre owned gucci handbags artistic pretension, I mean, ambition.

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It seems the pre owned gucci handbags company formerly known as British Petroleum invoiced its Deepwater Horizon partners for pre owned gucci handbags their share in costs related to the debacle, hitting Texas-based Andarko for pre owned gucci handbags $272 million and pre owned gucci handbags Moex, a subsidiary of the Japanese company Mitsui, for $111 million. Andarko fired back:

BP Plc, the project’s operator, should pay the pre owned gucci handbags costs from the spill because it acted recklessly and unsafely at the pre owned gucci handbags drilling site…

BP didn’t monitor or pre owned gucci handbags react to warning signs as the Macondo well was drilled, Chief Executive Officer Jim Hackett said yesterday in a pre owned gucci handbags statement. BP is responsible for damages under such conditions.

“BP’s behavior and pre owned gucci handbags actions likely represent gross negligence or willful misconduct and thus affect the pre owned gucci handbags obligations of the parties under the operating agreement,” Hackett said in the statement.

Needless to say, BP “strongly disagrees” with Andarko’s position. [Edward Klump, Andarko Says BP Should Pay After Being Reckless (Update 1) cheap gucci leather jacket, Bloomberg Businessweek, 19 June 2010].

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Meantime, in Afghanistan, where the counter-insurgency roils on, the Wall Street Journal reporting on l’affaire McChrystal offered this intriguing tidbit:

Even before the pre owned gucci handbags Rolling Stone article surfaced, Pentagon officials had become concerned with what pre owned gucci handbags one senior military official Thursday called a “cult of personality” that had surrounded Gen. McChrystal.

“That atmosphere is not just about McChrystal; it’s about that team, it’s that culture,” said another U.S. military officer who pre owned gucci handbags has worked with Gen. McChrystal. “The environment alienated other conventional commanders.” (Peter Spiegel and Jonathan Weisman, Officials Promise Unity Amid Afghan Shuffle, 25 June 2010)

Aha, the pre owned gucci handbags cult of personality. Maybe we need some Red Guards to root out the pre owned gucci handbags running dogs and lackeys and exile them to the hinterlands where pre owned gucci handbags they will be reeducated harvesting rutabagas and reading David Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest.

President Obama’s choice of General Petraeus to pre owned gucci handbags replace General McChrystal was a savvy political and tactical move. The policy, however, remains dubious, though I acknowledge that pre owned gucci handbags this is one of those “damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t” situations, where any course is liable to come to a bad end.

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Even The Economist, not exactly a pre owned gucci handbags publication of a liberal bent, suspects that the rush to Hooveresque policies prompted by the pre owned gucci handbags fad for deficit reduction and fiscal austerity is not a good thing. The magazine reflexively charges that pre owned gucci handbags Keynesian critics of of this approach, such as Paul Krugman, oversimplify in making their own case, and pre owned gucci handbags tries to put the best face of the budget hawks’ policy, saying “The result probably won’t be pre owned gucci handbags another Hooveresque Depression. But it could be a recovery that is pre owned gucci handbags weaker and slower that it should have been.” When we consider the pre owned gucci handbags source, the indictment is stronger that it appears at first blush. (“Austerity Alarm,” The Economist, July 3rd–9th 2010, pp. 16-17).

The Economist fails to pre owned gucci handbags note that not all deficit hawks act in good faith. Not a pre owned gucci handbags few see the deficit issue as a golden opportunity to roll back, if not dismantle entirely, social programs to pre owned gucci handbags which they object on philosophical grounds. This leads to some preposterous positions, such as the pre owned gucci handbags argument against extension of unemployment benefits beyond 26 weeks on that pre owned gucci handbags grounds that it would give the unemployed the perverse incentive not to pre owned gucci handbags look for work. Cutting off benefits at a date certain, say the pre owned gucci handbags established 26 weeks, provides a positive incentive for the unemployed to pre owned gucci handbags look harder for work, or so the argument goes. Precisely how pushing the pre owned gucci handbags unemployed to look harder for jobs that by all accounts do not exist will solve the pre owned gucci handbags problem is blithely ignored by these ideologues of extreme laissez-faire and a naive individualism. Quelle surprise.

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