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A mile-long sheen is now visible where an offshore petroleum platform exploded and burned Thursday off Louisiana, the Coast Guard said. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Coklough said the sheen, about 100 feet wide, was spotted near the platform owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy Inc.
No one was killed in the explosion, which was spotted by a commercial helicopter flying over the site Thursday morning.

All 13 people aboard the rig were found floating in the water in survival gear, Coast Guard spokesman Chief Petty Officer John Edwards said. The platform was in about 340 feet of water, considered shallow water and far less than the roughly 5,000 feet where BP’s well spewed oil and gas for three months after an April rig explosion. READ MORE…

At their first direct talks Thursday, Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to meet every two weeks during the coming year to work out parameters for a peace agreement, Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell told journalists Thursday.

“The parties themselves have suggested and agreed that the logical way to proceed is to try to reach a framework agreement first,” Mitchell told journalists at the State Department Thursday, defining it as “not an interim agreement and more detailed than a declaration of principles, but less than a full-fledged treaty.” ecretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mitchell will attend the next set of talks in the region on Sept. 14-15th, Mitchell said. In the future, the U.S. will attend some of the talks, if not all of them, he said. READ MORE…

No one has turned up any decapitated corpses buried in Arizona as of yet, but some of the Republican governor’s toughest critics are joking that she lost her head during a debate televised on Wednesday night. Gov. Janet Brewer stumbled during her opening statement of a televised debate with political opponents and refused to answer reporters questions about “headless bodies” afterward.

“Brewer, who has gained national notoriety for signing into law the country’s toughest provisions for illegal immigrants, awkwardly paused twice during the opening statement of the Clean Elections Debate broadcast on the state’s PBS affiliate.” READ MORE…

The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics. The lawsuit calls Arpaio and his office’s defiance “unprecedented,” and said the federal government has been trying since March 2009 to get officials to comply with its probe of alleged discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and having English-only policies in his jails that discriminates against people with limited English skills.

Arpaio had been given until Aug. 17 to hand over documents it first asked for 15 months ago. Arpaio’s attorney, Robert Driscoll, declined immediate comment on the lawsuit, saying he had just received it and hadn’t yet conferred with his client. READ MORE…

As the election approaches, immigrants have become convenient political targets for a whole host of politicians on the right.

Yet in an interview with Human Events yesterday, one high-profile Republican broke with his party and condemned conservatives advocating for policies that take advantage of immigrant labor but fail to comprehensively reform our immigration system. Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS), who comes from a state ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, explained that the state would be “way, way, way behind where we are now” if it wasn’t for immigrants — “some of there [who] were here illegally” — that helped to rebuild the state. He went on to say that people should search for “common sense” solutions for undocumented immigration, and that “we’re not going to take 10 or 12 or 14 million people and put them in jail or deport them.” He continued, “Some people need to quit acting like we are and let’s talk about real solutions“. READ MORE…

Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN), a potential presidential candidate, is now aggressively promoting his executive order for Minnesota to not apply for any discretionary federal funding from President Obama’s health care bill. What’s more, he’s also fundraising off of it.

As Minnesota Independent reports, Pawlenty’s Freedom First PAC sent out a fundraising letter to its supporter list, telling recipients about the order. “Pawlenty told reporters in Minnesota that he would do all in his power to limit the reach or the new health care law during his remaining four months in office,” the letter said, also adding: “P.S. – If you want to help elect candidates in 2010 who will fight Obamacare, please consider donating to Freedom First PAC today.” In addition, Pawlenty went on Fox News last night to discuss the order with Greta Van Susteren. READ MORE…

Earlier this week, when the Daily Caller asked neoconservative war hawk John Bolton if he wanted to run for president in 2012, the former (recess-appointed) U.N. ambassador wouldn’t rule out the possibility. “You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that…there is a limit to what that accomplishes,” he said. But today on Fox News, Bolton indicated that he’s getting more interested in making a run for the White House, saying, “I’m not saying ‘no’”. READ MORE….

Keith Olbermann and The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill respond to the “revisionist historian”, “credit where credit’s due” right wingers who are demanding that everyone “thank Bush” after Obama’s speech on Iraq this week. They’ve got some thanks for him alright, as in yeah, thanks a lot of your illegal invasion and wrecking our economy while enriching your defense contractor buddies. Thanks…. thanks for nothing.

John McCain, Stephen Hadley, Karl Rove, Dan Senor and the rest of these war mongers who think we should be praising Bush for invading a country that wasn’t a threat to us and squandering our tax dollars should be ashamed of themselves, but that would imply that they have the capacity to feel shame. READ MORE…

The trailer for Charles Ferguson’s new documentary “Inside Job” has been making its way around the web (hat tip to Nouriel Roubini’s Twitter feed). The film has been getting serious love from critics, including winning the top award at Cannes this year.

Roger Ebert called the the film “devastating” summed it up this way in May: “From Roosevelt until Reagan, the American economy enjoyed 40 years of stability, prosperity and growth. Beginning with Reagan’s moves against financial regulation, that sound base has been progressively eroded. The crucial federal error (in administrations of both parties) was to allow financial institutions to trade on their own behalf. Today many large trading banks are betting against their own customers.” READ MORE…

The National Rifle Association is out with a new ad featuring a doughy, redneck stereotype named Randy, a geriatric “Blue Cougar” or “Blougar” named Louise, and most importantly, action movie star and pop culture legend Chuck Norris. In the ad, Randy, the group leader, delivers a moving presentation to a congregation of like-minded, denim-loving individuals who seem to embody the “you’ll pry my guns from my cold, dead hands” mentality.

After “grandma” Louise gives a particularly fiery explanation of what she’d do to someone who’s trying to come take away her gun, the fun stops. Chuck Norris comes through the door that he just kicked down to deliver a message: “Folks, there’s only one way to protect our rights,” Norris says. “Register to vote.” READ MORE…

The first (and likely only) debate between Barbara Boxer and Carly Fiorina took place tonight. From the first question to the last closing statements, Boxer was fully in control. Despite a format that was difficult — timed responses and rebuttals — Fiorina could not escape her past record at the helm of Hewlett-Packard, or her tired Republican ideas. One of the finest moments came with the first question to Fiorina about opposition to the small business jobs bill and teachers bill. READ MORE…

The man who held three hostages at the Discovery Communications building before he was killed by police Wednesday told NBC News in a brief telephone conversation that he was armed with several bombs he had been working on for as long as a month. Asked how he had learned to make a bomb, the man said that he knew how to weld and read widely but that he also picked up pointers from the TV show “Mythbusters.”

The program airs on the Discovery Channel, one of the targets of the man’s years-long protest campaign against what he saw as the company’s failures to adequately program shows that made clear the threat to the planet from overpopulation and animal extinction. The program’s producers could not be reached for comment Wednesday night. READ MORE…

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Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes this morning rejected calls from prominent members of the GOP that he quit the race. “I am not getting out of the race, and that’s all I have to say at this time,” Dan Maes said in a phone interview with Denver Post reporter Christopher N.Osher this morning.

Maes comments came after former state Senate president John Andrews today withdrew his endorsement and called on Maes to get out the race for “the public good.” He also told the Post that he met with Maes this morning and that Maes was considering whether he should stay in. “I think that he’s taking a hard look at whether he has any base left or any hope of winning,” Andrews said. “Although he understandably feels he’s beaten the odds before.” READ MORE…