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Featured in the news Sunday Edition: A "gusher" of bureacracy

• Frances Coleman: Where did the Coast Guard of Katrina go?  A "gusher" of bureaucracy.
• Hugh Hewitt: On Tebow, McCoy and Faith in Athletes.  Hard to hate, unless you can't tolerate men of faith. 
• Why Are Liberals So Miserable?  Making life "fairer" is a difficult task. 
• US House lawmaker calls for probe of Fannie Mae charges. Windy days and a house of cards.
• Big Democratic Fund-Raiser Indicted.  Draining the swamp, my ass.
• Report: Florida coach Urban Meyer closes practice to keep out 'internet people' and 'scumbags.'  Paranoia will destroy ya.
• Michelle Obama Lunches With King at Family's Resort Home During Spanish Vacation.  Royalty.
• In Kentucky, Tea Party vs. Obama proxy war.  Outspokenness as a double edged sword? 
• BP Internal Audit Found Key Flaws On US Gulf Rig.  Was the Deepwater Horizon doomed? 
• What Missouri’s Law Against ObamaCare Does and Doesn’t Do.  A victory for personal freedom, not states rights.

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Michelle Obama to visit the Gulf Coast beach that doesn't have oil on it

How charming!  First Lady Michelle Obama is scheduled to visit the Gulf Coast on Monday, July 12.  The White House made the announcement on Friday afternoon (doc dump?):

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First lady Michelle Obama will travel to Panama City Beach, Fla., on Monday to meet with members of the community and discuss the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the White House announced this afternoon.

The first lady will begin her visit with a briefing by officials and local leaders. She will then speak to the Panama City Beach community at an open event in the early evening, White House officials said.

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It remains to be seen if areas farther west will be as blessed as Panama City Beach since well, that's where the oil has been.  Northwest Florida has seen several of its pristine beaches fouled with tarballs, oil mousse and sheen. But for the most part, Panama City Beach has gotten off fairly well. Just a few miles east on US 98, Fort Walton Beach and Destin got hammered pretty hard. Navarre, Pensacola Beach and Gulf Breeze have gotten hit even harder.

Alabama and Mississippi shores have both been fouled as badly or worse than Pensacola, and of course the bulk of the shoreline damage done by spilled crude is on the Louisiana shore, where nearly 300 miles of contiguous shoreline see oil beaching almost daily.  The image below is a screenshot of the JIC's mapping tool, ERMA.  Click it for the full screen version.

Note the legend to the right, showing the latest observations of beached oil. Areas with blue lines along the coast have no beached oil observed.  In fact, there hasn't been oil coming ashore in Panama City for days, and the latest projections of the slick's trajectory through the weekend show the oil will be miles and miles and miles to the west.


You watch, though--when she does her little dog and pony show for the crowd on Monday night, she'll talk about a "devastating impact" she's never even seen.

What a joke.

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