text: [[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cody-rhodes3_7113.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:350:The Son of a Son of a Plumber.]]Cody Runnels (born June 30, 1985) is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Cody Rhodes (or Stardust) who is known for his time working for Wrestling/{{WWE}}. He is the half-brother of fellow WWE veteran Dustin "Wrestling/{{Goldust}}" Rhodes and the son of WWE Hall of Famer "The American Dream" Wrestling/DustyRhodes. Rhodes is a two-time Intercontinental Champion, three-time World Tag Team Champion (once with [[Wrestling/BobHolly Hardcore Holly]] and twice with Wrestling/TedDiBiaseJr), and three-time WWE Tag Team Champion (twice with his brother Wrestling/{{Goldust}} and once with Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre).In 2016, Runnels asked for and was granted his release from WWE.ThatOtherWiki has a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cody_Rhodes rundown]] on his life and career.----!! Tropes associated with Cody Rhodes:* TheAdjectivalSuperhero: Stardust is an homage to Adam West ''Series/{{Batman}}''-era super villains; i.e. PG bad guys, and that's a cornerstone of what makes Stardust so great on the show. That gives him far more mileage than a violent psychopath on a PG show.* AffablyEvil: He wanted everyone to look as good as he did, the only thing stopping him from being a good guy, was being a heel, and his narcissism.* AmbiguousDisorder: This may be true of Cody Rhodes, given the ease in which he slips into completely different personalities.* ArchEnemy:** Wrestling/{{Rey Mysterio|Jr}}, which started when Rey accidentally broke his nose when performing the 619, and caused Cody to turn slightly insane.** Wrestling/RandyOrton; the two have not seen eye to eye since the break up of Legacy.** Wrestling/TripleH; by default in Legacy because that was who Orton was feuding with. Has become a thorn in his side when he was fired after not winning a match against Orton and then basically going after the Rhodes family.** Wrestling/BookerT; who he thought was past his prime and should just retire (Booker was an announcer at the time of the feud)** Wrestling/TheBigShow; Started when he began mocking Big Show's poor Wrestling/WrestleMania record,[[note]]it wasn't good[[/note]] and this lead to their [=WrestleMania=] match for the IC title in which Show won (oops).** [[Wrestling/AdrianNeville Neville]]; He constantly taunts Neville asking him to "Be. My. Hero". But when Neville doesn't seem to be up to the task he turns his eyes to...** Stephen Amell of ''Series/{{Arrow}}''; Stardust became convinced that Amell, an actor, is really [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Oliver Queen]]. So, he taunted him until Amell agreed to fight him in [=SummerSlam=].* AscendedMeme** According to ''The John Cena Experience'' DVD, even Wrestling/JohnCena [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1yo8xVR4LU loves singing]] "Smoke and Mirrors".** "Woooooooah-oh! You're only Steve Lombardi! Woooooooah-oh! There goes Cody Rhodes!"*** It becomes even funnier when you hear Wrestling/ChrisJericho joining in.** Wrestling/WadeBarrett credits Cody for having created the "Bad News" gimmick while hamming it up in the locker room about how Wade was so much older than him and how he remembered watching Barrett wrestle in the late '80s as a character who liked to give bad news to people, even doing the "I'M AFRAID I'VE GOT SOME BAD NEWS..." lines. The story eventually got to Wrestling/VinceMcMahon himself who thought that it was hysterical and demanded that it become an actual gimmick, to the delight of everyone.* AxCrazy: It doesn't always show, but Cody does have a tendency of going completely off the deep end when he loses his temper - even as a {{Face}}.* BadassLongcoat: Started wearing one since ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 28''.* BadassMustache:** He's ''trying,'' but he seems to be having trouble getting it to fill in.** He… well actually Wrestling/WadeBarrett shaved it off pre HeelFaceTurn.* BashBrothers: In 2013, he teamed up with his older brother [=Goldust=]. The following year, he would almost ''become'' his older brother, adopting a similar gold-and-black jumpsuit and facepaint and renaming himself "Stardust".* BecomingTheMask: In-universe, he seems to have lost his original personality to Stardust. It's creating tension between him and Goldust.* BerserkButton:** Don't slap him across the face... or better yet, do, because the results tend to be [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]].*** "NOT THE FACE!"** During his feud with Goldust as Stardust, whenever his brother or father calls him Cody.*** Lampshaded by the audience and a number of wrestlers after that. Opponents have called him Cody to distract him, while the audience tends to shout Cody during his entrance and during matches. While he doesn't go outright berserk at that, he does show some obvious reaction.* BloodIsTheNewBlack: That time Wrestling/RandyOrton cracked him over the head with the ring bell and busted him open legit. The resulting crimson mask was probably the first time in a while that a WWE match made a slight blip on the Muta scale.* BreakTheCutie: Invoked accidentally.* [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]]: Most of his promos consist of[=/=]include one.* BreakupBreakout: In regards to Legacy, he has fared much better than Wrestling/{{Ted DiBiase|Jr}}, who in 2013 left the company. After the split Cody became Dashing, while Ted was given his father's gimmick, which didn't help him much. He then teamed with Cody again during Cody's disfigurement gimmick, only to grow tired of the "undashing" Cody's abuse, turn face and develop the [[SpoiledSweet DiBiase Posse]] gimmick, and it looked like he would avert this. Sadly, injuries in the middle of a push halted all this and he ended up leaving WWE after a year of not being used.* BridalCarry: To Summer Rae, whom he got behind when she climbed the apron to distract his brother Goldust during his match with Wrestling/{{Fandango}}, so she would not get her. While thankful, Summer immediately started acting like she did not like it when Fandango got jealous.* BrownBagMask: He's taken to handing these out at ringside to the front-row fans, as well as placing them over the heads of his defeated opponents. The idea is that he "doing them a favor" by hiding what he perceives as their hideousness from the world, thus making him a one-man [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]][=/=]AlternateCompanyEquivalent to Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s [[Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople Beautiful People.]] Randy Orton put one over Cody's head after defeating him in a brutal street fight.* BullyingADragon:** Did this to Wrestling/TheBigShow over his less than stellar WrestleMania record. Big Show is 7ft tall, weighs over 400 pounds, while Cody's 6ft and weighs closer to 200 pounds. [[WhatWereYouThinking Dude, what the hell!?]]** As his father, Dusty said, he poked a Grizzly Bear.* ButtMonkey:** While a member of Legacy, Cody would always be the one to end up taking the fall first, taken out of a thing, or seen as the lesser member.** Now alternates between this and CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass.*** And has now fully migrated into BadAss with his maniacal beatdown of Wrestling/RandyOrton.* CainAndAbel: Became Cain to Wrestling/{{Goldust}}'s Abel in the end.* CampStraight:** Shaves his legs, wears lip gloss (to keep his lips from drying out, he claims), and paints nails, but otherwise still shows interest in women.....when not focused on himself.** One time Wrestling/CMPunk said on commentary that Cody Rhodes and [[CampGay Pat Patterson]] have a lot in common...** Go back and rewatch that segment at the 2010 ''TLC'' in which Rhodes was [[ComedicUnderwearExposure stripped to his underwear]] by Big Show. On his dress socks he was wearing garters, [[OutdatedOutfit which were common for men in the early 20th century, but now just seem effeminate]].* CharacterDevelopment** Cody's entire ''[=SmackDown=]'' run to date has been nothing but character development:*** His mentoring of the {{acrofatic}} Husky Harris on ''NXT'' made Cody realize how good looking he actually was, leading to the birth of "Dashing".** A few months later and Rey Mysterio's knee brace breaking Cody's nose, making him go psychotic about how "disfigured" he became.** Then some more months later, Orton destroyed Rhodes' protective mask, and the disfigured gimmick disappeared, but he still retained his DarkerAndEdgier attitude.** Then, after a losing streak, he [[TenMinuteRetirement stopped wrestling altogether for several weeks]], finally coming back as Stardust.** Stardust's character development is perfectly summarized in [[https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/3jn2gx/stardust_has_become_the_most_storydriven/ this reddit thread]]. Stardust has gone from a mask that Cody would wear when teaming with his brother to a full blown villainous persona to the point that he rejects that he is Cody.* CheapHeat: At 2010's ''Tables, Ladders & Chairs'' event, he got some for remarking that the city of Houston (which was designated America's fattest city) suffers from "irritable [[{{Pun}} jowl]] syndrome."* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: '''Stardust. Dear sweet mother of god, STARDUST.''' Wrestling/{{Goldust}} has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVWTyA0lRt0 described himself as the "normal" one]] in the partnership. ''Think about the implications of that for a second.''** When he is said to hail from "The Fifth Dimension", you know something's not right with his mind** Just take a quick dive into [[https://twitter.com/StardustWWE his twitter]] to see just how out there he is.** If you still doubt his lack of sanity, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPWyZK_suAk take]] a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNtsf1PcKMg look]] at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmwWz4LtoeQ any]] of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEcCDR1SZus his interviews]].* CoDragons: With Ted [=DiBiase=] Jr. to Randy Orton in [[PowerTrio Legacy]].* CombatPragmatist: Cody's a slimy bastard, but he's a cunning slimy bastard. Like the time he proceeded to knock Wrestling/TheBigShow silly after stunning him, then handcuffing him to the ropes.* ConfusionFu: His Stardust moveset features virtually none of the moves that he employed in his repertoire as Cody Rhodes. Even though it's been all but acknowledged on-screen that Stardust is (or at least once ''was'') Cody. [[FridgeBrilliance This may be intentional,]] as opponents who have come to expect Cody to do certain things in the ring have now been thrown completely off by Stardust's unique offense.* ContinuityNod:** Cody's moveset includes several moves picked up from his former partners, such as [[Wrestling/BobHolly Hardcore Holly]]'s Alabama Slam.*** His dropdown uppercut is a move picked up from his brother, Goldust.*** His stomps and knee drops on downed opponents look decidedly [[Wrestling/RandyOrton Ortonesque.]]*** He's used his old tag partner Ted [=DiBiase=]'s following lariat. Where the guy runs the ropes and Cody immediately follows right behind them with a clothesline.*** Cody even picks up moves from his former rivals; the Corkscrew Sunset Flip out of the corner was a staple of Wrestling/BookerT during his prime WWE years. He's also been using the Harley Race high knee that was a Wrestling/TripleH signature move.*** Stardust has, once or twice, broken into a random cartwheel in the middle of the match. While this sort of spontaneity isn't terribly out of character for Stardust, fans with good memories will remember that the cartwheel was an in-ring taunt of sorts used by [[strike:Stard]]Cody's old tag partner, Wrestling/DamienSandow.** One that was rarely acknowledged: During the first season of ''Wrestling/{{WWE NXT}}'', he was the "mentor" to [[Wrestling/TheNexus Husky Harris]], the son of Mike Rotunda and grandson of WWE Hall of Famer [[Wrestling/TheBlackjacks Blackjack Mulligan]]. Back in the 1980s in Florida, Mulligan, his son Wrestling/BarryWindham and Rotunda were members of [[PowerStable Dusty Rhodes' Family]].* CreepyMonotone: After he went insane, he got this kind of voice going. It got better once he lost his mask.* TheDandy: His image conscious "dashing" character veered dangerously close to GorgeousGeorge at times.* DarkReprise:** With his psychotic character turn, his entrance music has become [[DarkerAndEdgier slower and creepier.]] It's really just a lower instrumental of his theme song, except it keeps the "WHOOOOOAH", and makes it lower. And creepy.** After his mask removal, he got yet another DarkReprise. The remix is less creepy but more aggressive, with the original lyrics close to being restored ("No one knows and no one cares" however was changed to "I don't know and I don't give a damn").* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Since he's been masked and then unmasked again, almost no traces of his "Dashing" persona show up, even though (in storyline) his face has been repaired. [[TookALevelInBadass The argument could easily be made that he's better for it.]]* DeathGlare: The look he gave his apparently former friend Wrestling/DamienSandow, whom upended Cody to win the MITB briefcase, was partly this and also one of shock at the seeming betrayal of his best friend.* DefectorFromDecadence: With Ted [=DiBiase=] in Legacy. But then it was [[Wrestling/RandyOrton the decadence]] [[KarmaHoudini that came out]] [[DracoInLeatherPants smelling like roses]]!* DemotedToExtra: Cody Rhodes was relegated to competing on ''Wrestling/WWESuperstars'' while fellow heels such as [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]], Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio, Wrestling/TheBigShow, Wrestling/DolphZiggler, and even Wrestling/DamienSandow and Wrestling/HeathSlater were getting the spotlight instead of him, for a few weeks before he got better and got back in the spotlight. Unfortunately, in the latter part of his WWE career he served as the jobber to the stars on ''Raw'' and ''[=SmackDown=]'' while occasionally competing on ''WWE Superstars'', before being only mostly featured on ''Superstars'' and ''Main Event''.* DespairEventHorizon: A recent losing streak with his brother and partner Goldust seems to have pushed him over this, as he's now quit wrestling and stands in the back wearing a suit as he recruits all manner of different people other than himself to help Goldust win a match.** Until the 6/16/14 edition of WWERaw, where he, or should we say "Stardust", partnered with Goldust and finally picked up a win over [=RybAxel=].* DistractedByMyOwnSexy: During his "Dashing" gimmick, he always stopped to take a look at himself in the mirror, and his entrance involved him stopping at the top of the ramp and looking into a digital mirror, which had a camera behind it so his real image was shown in the minitron.* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Randy Orton, Ted [=DiBiase=] Jr. and Cody Rhodes started very similar; MrFanservice that have [[JackOfAllStats well-rounded wrestling styles]], were third-generation Superstars and part of a WrestlingFamily, and all wear UnderwearOfPower. However, Randy's gimmick isn't anything like his father's, is a massive DracoInLeatherPants and has become a seven-time ''world champion''. Ted is an exact LegacyCharacter copy of his father, floundering in the lower mid-card and getting into feuds with Cody's brother (Goldust). Cody is the smallest and quickest, [[SoBadItsGood goofiest]], has gone as far away from his father (but not his [[GorgeousGeorge brother]]) as possible, did quite well for himself on ''[=SmackDown=]'', took a "disfigured" psychotic heel character to a prestige-restoring run as Intercontinental Champion, gained two tag team titles with Goldust, became the supervillain Stardust, and went on to fight Creator/StephenAmell in 2015's [=SummerSlam=].* [[DoNotCallMePaul Do Not Call Me Cody]]: Stardust ''[[BerserkButton hates]]'' to be called Cody.* TheDogBitesBack: [=DiBiase=] got tired of being treated like crap by Cody and beat the crap out of him, and nearly took his IC title from him.* EarlyBirdCameo: Under his real name of Cody Runnels, seconded Dusty for his induction into the WCW Hall of Fame at ''WCW Slamboree 95'', May 21, 1995.[[note]]WCW fired Dustin on March 23rd for blading in the [[GimmickMatches "King of the Road" Match]] at ''WCW Uncensored 95'' on March 19th.[[/note]]** Also, one of Cody's 'bag attendants' from his masked period was none other than Damien Sandow. Granted, he was sans beard at the time, so it would have been very hard to tell.* EasilyForgiven:** So, Randy Orton can concuss you, your father, and your best friend, but it's all good in the end and you're willing to join with his new group. Worse still was Orton's treatment of [=DiBiase=] and Rhodes in Legacy, which consisted of being outright abusive at times and STILL attacking their family members and such. They did eventually get tired of it…which somehow was a HeelFaceTurn [[KarmaHoudini for Randy]] [[DracoInLeatherPants Orton]].** It was supposed to be the other way around, but fans decided that they hated Ted and Cody more and made Randy the ''de facto'' good guy for kicking their asses. [[RealLifeWritesThePlot The writers ran with it]].** Except now that Cody's had time to stew over it, he's come back for Orton's blood.* TheEighties: Strongly evoked by his entrance theme, "Smoke and Mirrors", until it got altered in 2011.* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Cross Rhodes, as mentioned below, along with Beautiful Disaster, a springboard kick to the opponent's head. The latter involves spinning, because he usually runs into the corner/towards the ropes, away from the opponent, before spinning 180 to hit the opponent.* EvilLaugh: Whenever he had done a promo during his masked disfigured period.* {{Expy}}:** His masked heel incarnation was somewhat like [[Wrestling/MickFoley Mankind]] [[XMeetsY meets]] [[Wrestling/RandyOrton Viper!Orton-lite.]]** He claimed in a shoot the "undashing" character was supposed to be an expy of [[Comicbook/XMen Mister Sinister]], but Big Show called him [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Cody Von Doom]]. Marvel has caught on to the comparison and interviewed him. Interview can be found [[http://marvel.com/news/story/15747/fightin_fanboys_the_fall_of_cody_rhodes here]].*** Post-heel turn, Stardust once again invokes Mister Sinister, as he's even donned a cape similar to the character.** And his unmasked gimmick is in many ways a tweaked version of Orton's "Legend Killer" gimmick.** His "Stardust" gimmick is an {{Expy}} of... well, Wrestling/{{Goldust}}.*** As well as a ShoutOut to his father DustyRhodes, who innovated the "Stardust" character during the early days of his career.** Multiple personalities, each with their own demented and/or bizarre characteristics...[[FleetingDemographicRule are we talking about]] Cody or [[Wrestling/MickFoley the Three Faces of Foley]]?* FaceHeelTurn: Turned on Wrestling/BobHolly to team with Ted [=DiBiase=], who had said he had a mystery partner at ''Night of Champions 08'', and won the tag team belts with [=DiBiase=]. ** MindScrew: Because he was revealed as [=DiBiase=]'s secret partner in the same match where he teamed with Holly only to turn on him, he technically ''defeated and was defeated by himself.''* FeigningIntelligence:-->'''[[Wrestling/PrimeTimePlayers Titus]]''': Can you even read?\\'''Stardust''': AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL.* TheFightingNarcissist: Became obsessed with how he looked after NXT, his dashing outfit came complete with a mirror that he could use to look at himself. His un-dashing gimmick did not stop either, even though he thought he was grotesque in appearance he was just as narcissistic.* FinishingMove: Cross Rhodes, a rolling cutter. During his debut and subsequent heel turn he used a snap DDT, later christened the "Silver Spoon DDT".** As Stardust, he uses a modified version of a reverse STO dubbed "Dark Matter."** He eventually went back to using Cross Rhodes again, but as of 2015 now calls it "the Queen's Crossbow" as a ShoutOut [[note]] Or perhaps a TakeThat, since he and Creator/StephenAmell are supposed to be enemies[[/note]] to Oliver Queen from Series/{{Arrow}}.* GameBreakingInjury: Although not a serious injury, his broken nose that he suffered in 2011, which made him miss the Wrestling/RoyalRumble and Elimination Chamber, and his shoulder/back injury in November 2012.* GenreThrowback:** His gimmick, outfit, music, and wrestling style is a throwback to the eighties.** Even his "Dashing" grooming tip vignettes are a throwback to the 80s era, when they used to be a component of establishing a character outside the ring (i.e. [[Wrestling/CurtHennig Mr. Perfect]] being "perfect" at every sport). Nowadays, vignettes are primarily used for debuting wrestlers before they make their first appearance.** In ''Hell in the Cell'' 2011, Cody dumped the current Intercontinental championship belt in favor of the classic white Intercontinental championship.* GroinAttack: Wrestling/TheBigShow hit a spear on a leaping Cody at ''[=WrestleMania=] 28'' that was a slight botch in timing. Show was aiming for Cody's abdomen but his shoulder hit a little bit lower. [[ThatsGottaHurt Ouch!]]* HeelFaceTurn: Got cheated out of the World Heavyweight Championship Money in the Bank briefcase by his former best friend, Damien Sandow. The following night on RAW, Rhodes attacked Sandow after Sandow lost to Christian.** HeelRealization: Later explained his furious anger against Sandow as not being about just getting outwitted in a match, but about having this as a result of Sandow's smugness.* HoistByHisOwnPetard:** Attacking Randy Orton with his mask for a second time didn't end too well.** Then the following Monday, he insults Wrestling/TripleH, which ends up with him defending his Intercontinental Title in a 10-Man Battle Royal.** He started making fun of The Big Show's less then perfect ''[=WrestleMania=]'' record, i.e that he lost more than he won. Big Show was not happy, had a talk with Teddy Long about a match with Cody at WrestleMania for the Intercontinental Title. He got it. Whoops. This off course didn't stop him from bullying Big Show on a weekly basis up till WrestleMania, where Big Show was the victorious one and won the Intercontinental Championship. Double whoops.** Oh, geez, if he had just kept his mouth shut at ''Over The Limit'', he'd still have his title. {{Christian}} won a Battle Royal where the winner had the right to challenge for either the IC or US Title that night. Christian won and immediately appeared to choose Wrestling/SantinoMarella, the US Champion. But Cody just 'had' to go mouthing off to Wrestling/EveTorres about how the match wouldn't have been close if Wrestling/{{Christian}} had chosen him. Unfortunately, Christian overheard the conversation, changed his mind, and then beat Cody for the IC Championship.** Cody trying to unmask either Sin Cara or Rey Mysterio, has cost him some matches as he's been to focused on the unmasking than the actual match.** In story, there was a very good reason for Rey Mysterio injuring him, as Cody had been fiddling with Rey's knee brace in order to do more damage, shifting its position for the inevitable 619.* HypocriticalHumor: Made fun of Tony Chimel for being a comic book fan, while in RealLife, Cody is a huge fanboy of comic books.* [[IAmNotPretty I Am Not Dashing]]: After getting his nose broken accidentally by Rey Mysterio's kneebrace, he didn't think he was this anymore. Which leads to our next two points...** InformedAttractiveness: While he's said to be the best looking wrestler on Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s roster, there's stiff competition from Randy Orton, John Cena and Wrestling/JohnMorrison for that title. He beat all three of them in a poll by the Divas to see who the best looking Superstar was.** InformedDeformity: Cody hates Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr because Rey's knee brace maimed Cody's face so that Cody is no longer dashing. Of course, he looks exactly the same. This is all highly [[InvokedTrope intentional]], as Cody is playing a psychotic heel.** Of course Cody's extreme ego could justify why he seems to make such a big deal when there is no noticeable change in his looks. Because knowing how he likes to be a picture of perfection, it's very likely that something in his looks has changed, but it's so minor only he would notice.* IHaveTheHighGround: One of Cody's [[SignatureMove signature moves]] is a ''beautiful'' moonsault press.* IconicItem: For his Intercontinental Championship run, Cody brought back the "New Generation" era IC belt (early 90s, before the Attitude Era), complete with its white belt and rectangular plates.* ImprobableWeaponUser: His mask.* InTheBlood: Dusty Rhodes seems to have charisma in his genes, judging by his sons.* InTheHood: Fairly often since his 'masked' gimmick and almost always since unmasking.* JackOfAllStats: As mentioned in DivergentCharacterEvolution.* JobberEntrance: Got one on the last ''[=SmackDown=]'' of January 2014, though in a subversion, Cody actually defeated Road Dogg.* LargeHam: Not at first, but after he became "Absolutely DASHING!" Stardust is this personified.* LaughablyEvil: Yes, he's a goof with a enormous ego, but his narcissism is so massive that any slight, perceived or otherwise, will send him into a psychotic rage.** Very much [[AvertedTrope averted]] with his new psycho heel persona; he's way more of a legitimate threat, and he's actually kind of creepy at times.* LaughingMad: When he was masked and "disfigured". And again as Stardust.* ''{{Leitmotif}}''[=/=]RecurringRiff: All of his songs since the breakup of Legacy have started with almost identical vocalizations of "WHOOOOA-OOOH..." to the point where it's now associated almost exclusively with him.* LegionOfDoom: The Cosmic Wasteland.* LightIsNotGood: Ever since unmasking, Cody's taken to dressing in mostly white ring gear.* MalevolentMaskedMan: Played with. The effect was sort of lost since the mask was clear, but the malevolence was there in spades.* MaskOfPower: His mask that he had after breaking his nose.* MeanCharacterNiceActor: While Cody can pull off amazing {{heel}} personas, many fans and wrestlers can attest that he's one of the nicest and most genuine people in the industry.* MinorInjuryOverreaction: What drove him to his psychotic heel persona. ReyMysterioJr's knee brace broke his nose, which isn't exactly the worst thing that can happen to a WWE Superstar. See [[IAmNotPretty I Am Not Dashing]].* {{Mook}}s: During his masked period, Cody was usually accompanied ringside by a group of nameless "attendants"/"baggers", who distribute his paper bag masks for him.** Now he has two full-time {{Mook}}s in in [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} the Ascension]], and now call themselves [[LegionOfDoom The Cosmic Wasteland]].* MrFanservice: Pushed as such thanks to a divas poll, though Jerry Lawler repeatedly denied it on commentary.* NightmareFace: Just [[http://img.youtube.com/vi/KnOOl9T1Y4U/0.jpg LOOK]] at him in his Stardust persona.* NotInTheFace: Almost a catchphrase for him during his "Dashing" gimmick. In fact, after taking a hit in the face during his match at ''Survivor Series 2010'' he freaked out and jumped out of the ring, to look in a mirror and make sure that his face was still ''dashing''.* OlderThanTheyLook: He's 29, but looks much younger clean-shaven.* OnlySaneMan: In his partnership with Goldust. Well, that was before he became Stardust...* PartsUnknown: As Stardust, he's billed from "the Stars of the Milky Way" and "The Fifth Dimension".* {{Pornstache}}: Came back from a month-long hiatus (see PutOnABus) sporting... well... [[http://cdn.wl.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/cody_rhodes_mustache.jpg this.]] [[[MemeticMutation It immediately got its own chant.]] He [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this calling it a [[strike:pornstache]] lovestache. He would later get rid of it after turning face.* PutOnABus:** For about a month due to a series of injuries.** In September 2013, he was fired in-universe so that he could take some time off and enjoy the married life.*** TheBusCameBack: Returned to the WWE after he and [=Goldust=] defeated Wrestling/TheShield at WWE Battleground on October 6. They would capture the WWE Tag Team belts from Rollins and Reigns on the October 14th episode of RAW.* PyrrhicVictory: He lucked into a victory at ''Extreme Rules'', winning back his Intercontinental Title. Only problem was...The Big Show was all sorts of pissed after the match and chokeslammed him through TWO tables.* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The 'firing' angle that led to his and Goldust's return and subsequent WWE Tag Title reign started as a way to write Cody off TV temporarily so he could get married.* RedBaron: "Dashing" Cody Rhodes, early in his career. JBL has taken to calling him "the son of a son of a plumber," referencing his [[Wrestling/DustyRhodes father's]] gimmick.* RedEyesTakeWarning: Stardust is seeing red* RoguesGallery: Wrestling/{{Rey Mysterio|Jr}}, [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]], Wrestling/RandyOrton, Wrestling/BookerT, Wrestling/TheBigShow, Wrestling/{{Christian}}, Wrestling/SinCara, Damien Sandow, Wrestling/{{J|ohnBradshawLayfield}}BL, Wrestling/TripleH, Wrestling/TheShield* SanitySlippage: ''Oh yeah.'' So, so much after he broke his nose, and he considered himself not dashing any more, he went off the deep end. He eventually regained his sanity back, only to lose it again as Stardust.* ShipTease: Had one with Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}}, who was the only one in the company, besides Sandow, that weren't mocking him for his moustache. This was alter dropped for unknown reasons.* ShutUpHannibal: ''Raw'' 12/10/12, the night of his return from a brief injury. After he and Damien Sandow win a tag team four-way to earn the chance to face Rey Mysterio and Sin Cara in a #1 contender tables match over the tag titles, Wrestling/TheMiz gets them on his [[TalkShowWithFists "Miz TV" talk show segment]] for the sole purpose of mocking Rhodes' mustache, making HoYay jokes, and trying to break up Rhodes Scholars by lecturing Cody on not standing out and saying Sandow said it -- the same way Wrestling/JohnCena successfully did to Miz himself and [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]] over a year ago. After calming Sandow down from his outrage, Cody comes right back at Miz and gives him a piece of his own medicine by openly referencing his BadassDecay before ending the interview then and there.* SoreLoser:** Many fans, as well as JBL and Damien Sandow, felt Cody was this after losing out on MITB, and that it doesn't justify Cody's actions against Sandow. This notion wouldn't ring so hollow on Sandow's part if he hadn't constantly been touting their bonds of friendship, claiming to be intellectual and professional equals and each man [[BlatantLies promising not to stop the other from achieving success on their own]]. Sandow ''really'' didn't help his stance by offering Cody to be "Keeper of the Case" for Sandow, essentially defining Sandow's view of their friendship in which Cody is his lackey rather than his equal.** The premise of the feud itself is definitely sound. The disconnect seems to be in the execution, as WWE jumped the gun by having the commentators rush to declare Sandow a traitor immediately after he pushed Cody off the ladder and Cody try to take Sandow's head off the next night on ''Raw'' ''before'' having the promo confrontation where Sandow showed his true colors on the lesser-watched ''[=SmackDown=]''. Had they had the promo done on ''Raw'' and ''then'' had Cody and the face announcers fully regard him as a traitor afterward, it's very likely this trope wouldn't even be discussed here.** Seems to have been cleared up when Cody finally explained himself under tough scrutiny. His anger at getting cost the briefcase wasn't all that severe, but it was enough to get him to look at Sandow competitively, at which point he could no longer ignore what a SmugSnake he's been hanging out with all this time.* StuckItems: In the JBLAndColeShow, Cody won JBL's hat but when he put it on, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIj1o-KGDm8 it got stuck.]] * StepfordSmiler: Don't let the grin he flashes fool you - this guy's not all there in the head. ''Especially'' as Stardust.* TechnicolorEyes: Stardust's eyes are red with some yellow along the iris. Ups the odd factor.* ThatManIsDead: Stardust has said that "Cody Rhodes is dead."** On the 2/16/15 edition of Raw, during said feud with Goldust, Dusty visits the locker room to try and get his sons on the same page again. Stardust proceeds to make a long, drawn-out rant about being in his father and brother's shadows, concluding with "Cody Rhodes is dead, and so is my father!" Made HarsherInHindsight as this would be Dusty's very last appearance on Raw before passing away for real almost four months later.* TookALevelInBadass: In frightening fashion. Cody was largely played as a joke since becoming "Dashing" ... That is, until he attacked Rey Mysterio, knocked him into his mirror (the stage screen) and tore his mask off. Yes, Cody Rhodes, the same one who played ButtMonkey for Legacy, who threw a tantrum when you hurt his face and who gave you tips on how to be "dashing", ''beat the hell out of one of the top faces in the WWE''.** Becoming Stardust, complete with an entirely new moveset. He's yet to lose a match in the new persona.* [[UglyGuysHotDaughter Ugly Guy's Dashing Son]]: Have you seen Dusty Rhodes? How on God's green earth was Cody born? This was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]], who noted that Looks Aren't Everything while (unfavorably) comparing Cody to Dusty.* UnnecessaryRoughness: Most heels will end a beatdown with their finisher. Cody ended the one he gave to [[Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr Rey]] by raking his face across metal grating, throwing him headfirst into a wall, and then yanking his mask off.** Also ended up on the wrong end of this via Randy Orton, the ''poster boy'' for UnnecessaryRoughness. A Falls Count Anywhere match during their brief feud saw Randy Orton blasting Rhodes across the face with a ring bell, busting him open the hard way and turning his face (ironically) into a crimson mask.* VillainousBreakdown: Underwent one after Rey Mysterio Jr. broke his nose. Being an egomaniac who considered himself the picture of perfection, this resulted in him losing his mind and turning into a psychotic heel. Had one again after Wrestling/{{Edge}} basically ignored him.* VillainousFriendship: Type 1 with Damien Sandow. The two legitimately enjoyed one another's company and considered the other their best friend. Then, Money In The Bank 2013 happened.* VillainTeamUp: First with Ted [=DiBiase=] in 2008; some time later the two teamed up with Wrestling/RandyOrton to form Legacy. He then teamed with Drew [=McIntyre=] in '10 to create "The Dashing Ones." Unfortunately, right after they established their tag team moniker, they split up. Then he teamed up with Wrestling/DamienSandow, who claimed that Rhodes was the only Superstar he could have an intelligent conversation with, which is hilarious when you consider who Cody's father is. They were officially the "Rhodes Scholars". After teaming up for a couple months, they mutually decided to focus on their singles careers while remaining best friends, going on to resume their team-up a month later while continuing to support each other's solo careers. But then…* WeUsedToBeFriends:** Damien Sandow seemingly double crossed him to get his hands on the Money in the Bank briefcase. Was confirmed after Cody assaulted Sandow after his match the following night on ''Raw'' and Sandow would go on to try to hash things out with him on ''[=SmackDown=]'' by…[[StealthInsult asking Cody to become "Protector of the Case"]].** Finally got his revenge on Sandow by tossing Sandow's briefcase into the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GBZcxqby-k Gulf of Mexico]] on the July 26, 2013 episode of ''[=SmackDown=]'' .** Cody in fact used this as his reasoning when explaining his actions on Raw. While he admits he would've done the same to Sandow if the positions were reversed, Damien's actions allowed Cody to see him as a competitor and not a friend, able to comprehend what an asshole Sandow is, something Cody was naive to as his best friend.* WellDoneSonGuy: Creeps in at times when Dusty gets involved with a storyline.* WhamLine: To a pleading, desperate Damien Sandow right before he flings the MITB briefcase into the Gulf of Mexico:-->'''Cody''': ''[[IronicEcho You've earned this.]]''* WorkedShoot: After he was fired from WWE, following a loss to Randy Orton, the Pro Wrestling Syndicate announced that Cody Rhodes would be joining their roster as soon as his 90 day no compete clause had expired, with Cody himself confirming it. Of course even if he had really been fired, he was brought back before the clause could run out.* WrestlingFamily: The son of "The American Dream" Wrestling/DustyRhodes & half-brother to Dustin "[=Goldust=]" Runnels. And Dustin/Goldust was married to former diva/manager and one-time [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-hc.html WWE Hardcore Champion]] Wrestling/TerriRunnels, which made her Cody's half-sister-in-law. Also, his new wife Brandi has appeared on WWE programming before as Eden Stiles, and recently signed back with NXT as an announcer.* YouHaveFailedMe: Cody puled this on Ted [=DiBiase=] after losing to Randy Orton. Cody looks at him in disappointment and nails him with the Cross Rhodes.* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[Wrestling/TheNexus Husky Harris]] (Rhodes' former ''NXT'' rookie) more or less did this to Cody during a battle Royal that took place on the 2010 ''Tribute To The Troops''. At one point during the match Rhodes [[ContinuityNod raised Husky's arm to praise him and point him out to the crowd]], Husky thanks him by throwing out of the ring.** TooDumbToLive: All the commentators had to say about Rhodes' actions was something along the lines of "I guess Cody Rhodes supports Nexus."----->[[EarWorm WHOOOAH-OH! YOU'RE ONLY SMOKE AND MIRRORS TO ME!]]----


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Oracle Unveils Oracle Cloud Platform for Big Data
by Angela Guess According to a new article out of the company, "Oracle simplified the process of unlocking business value from big data today with the announcement of Oracle Cloud Platform for Big Data. As part of the world's most complete Platform as a Service portfolio, Oracle Cloud Platform for Big Data is uniquely positioned […]Read More →
How to Make the Buy-or-Build Cloud Services Decision
by Angela Guess Barb Darrow recently wrote for GigaOM, "If you need proof that cloud deployment stories can touch off religious disputes, my recent report about @Walmartlabs deploying 100K cores of OpenStack to run the retail giant's e-commerce operations is Exhibit A. This is, by any measure, a massive private cloud, and some readers were […]Read More →
Google Expands Cloud Presence by Acquiring Firebase
by Angela Guess Thomas Claburn of InformationWeek reports, "In an effort to expand the capabilities of its Cloud Platform, Google has acquired Firebase, a service that helps developers create mobile and web apps that store and sync data in real-time. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Google product management director Greg DeMichillie said […]Read More →
Cognitive Scale Tackles Big Data's Rising Failure Rate with the First Industry Specific Cognitive Cloud Platform
by Angela Guess A new article out of Cognitive Scale reports, "After 18 months focused on product and technology development, Cognitive Scale today emerged from stealth with the industry's first technology independent cognitive cloud platform, four vertical industry applications, new customers, partnerships with technology titans, and 22 patents filed. The company is on track to […]Read More →
BlueData Offers Free 5-Node License of EPIC Enterprise Big Data Private Cloud Platform
by Angela Guess A new article out of the company reports, "BlueData, the pioneer in Big Data private clouds, today announced a free 5-node license of EPIC™ Enterprise, the industry's first Big Data software that enables enterprises to create a self-service cloud experience on-premises. The deployment is fully supported by BlueData. Organizations that deploy BlueData […]Read More →
Microsoft and Oracle Team Up on Cloud-Based Platforms
by Angela Guess Sooraj Shah of Computing.co.uk reports, "Rivals Microsoft and Oracle are to team up on their cloud-based platforms as they face growing competition from new agile internet-based tech firms that sell cheaper services. For years Microsoft and Oracle had been competing for the same customers, but the firms will now work together in order to […]Read More →

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Distraught Gulf Shrimper Arrested for Pouring Oil on Herself in Senate Energy Hearing
Protesting Senator Murkowski's Refusal to Make BP Pay
Diane Wilson, a fourth generation shrimper from the Gulf, poured oil on herself at today's Senate Energy Committee hearing to protest Senator Lisa Murkowski's refusal to make BP pay for the disaster that has devastating Wilson's shrimping community. Republican Lisa Murkowski, ranking member of the Senate Energy Committee, blocked the bill that would have lifted the oil companies' liability cap (the Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act). Wilson was removed from the hearing and arrested.
Ocean Saratoga: Another Oil Spill In The Gulf? Coast Guard Investigates
Ocean Saratoga: Another Oil Spill In The Gulf? Coast Guard Investigates | Huffington Post
In the wake of yet another possible oil spill in the Gulf region, the United States Coast Guard has decided to launch an investigation into the dark waters surrounding Taylor Energy Corporation's Ocean Saratoga rig, resting only 40 miles away from the Deepwater Horizon rig.
Though the rig has been leaking since at least April 30, the rig's owner, Taylor Energy Corporation, and operator, Diamond Offshore Drilling, are both declining to comment. Taylor's spokesperson Denise Fields told Huffington Post that the company would be issuing a press release this afternoon.
Mobile, Alabama's Press Register reported that a 10-mile long slick emanating from the rig is visible from space.
Earlier today, Mother Jones's Kate Sheppard reported that John Amos of West Virginia-based nonprofit SkyTruth, was the first to notice the spill, observing an oil slick eleven miles off the coast of Louisiana. After viewing satellite images of the reported second spill, Amos concluded that the Deep Water Horizon and the Saratoga spills are independent of one another, meaning the Gulf cleanup situation may be getting worse before it gets better. Read more.
Two More Gulf Spills?
By Kate Sheppard | Atlantic
The BP oil spill is still dominating headlines, 50 days after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded. But how much oil leaks into the Gulf on any other day of the year? Satillite images and photographs from the region indicate that there may be two other offshore drilling units leaking oil into the ocean. Read more.
Pentagon Chief In Azerbaijan: Afghan War Arc Stretches To Caspian And Caucasus
Pentagon Chief In Azerbaijan: Afghan War Arc Stretches To Caspian And Caucasus
By Rick Rozoff | Stop NATO | Blog site
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates arrived in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, on June 6, meeting with President Ilham Aliyev on that day and on the following with Defense Minister Colonel General Safar Abiyev.
Gates was the first cabinet-level American official to visit the strategically positioned nation - located in the South Caucasus with Russia to its north, Iran to its south and the Caspian Sea to its east - in five years and the first U.S. defense chief to visit since Donald Rumsfeld did in 2005.
When Gates' predecessor was last in Azerbaijan his mission centered on "the transportation of Caspian oil and the security of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline" as the chief element of U.S. trans-Eurasian oil and natural gas plans "which [are] directly connected with Mr Rumsfeld's department" [1] to bring Caspian Sea hydrocarbons into Europe while bypassing Russia and Iran, both of which adjoin Azerbaijan.
Rumsfeld's visit of five years ago also focused on a related initiative, the Caspian Guard project the Pentagon launched in 2003. "Guaranteeing security to the pipeline...will be the prime goal of the Caspian Guard. The Caspian Guard will represent a network of police detachments and special military units in the Caspian region." [2]
At the time Rumsfeld's Defense Department planned to allot over $100 million for the Caspian Guard to operate at both ends of the inland sea - Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan - and to be based in Stuttgart, Germany where the Pentagon's new Africa Command is now based. In fact U.S. European Command was simultaneously elaborating plans for the Caspian Guard and a complementary Gulf of Guinea Guard in oil-rich western Africa to secure control over the 21st century's main new sources of energy supplies. [3]
Gates arrived in Azerbaijan the day after the ninth annual Asian security summit organized by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore and before his attendance at the NATO defense chiefs meeting in Brussels on the 9th.
He had intended to visit Beijing following the conference in Singapore, but his overtures in that direction were rebuffed by the Chinese government, presumably because of Washington's confirmation this January of plans to complete a $6.5 billion arms transaction with Taiwan, one whose latest installment includes 200 Patriot Advanced Capability-3 anti-ballistic missiles.
That Baku replaced Beijing on the Pentagon chief's way to the NATO meeting indicates the importance that the comparatively small nation - with a population of under nine million while China's is over 1.3 billion - has in American global geostrategic plans.
Oil Spill Expert: BP Is 'Groping In the Dark'
Oil Spill Expert: BP Is 'Groping In the Dark'
Dr. Ian McDonald Says BP Could Be Sucking Up Spill More Quickly Now If It Had Allowed More Accurate Estimates Of The Spill Rate,br /> By Matthew Mosk, Avni Patel and Brian Ross | ABC News
A leading scientist following the BP oil spill said Monday that if the company or the government had made realistic estimates about the amounts flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, they could have had sufficient tanker space ready on the surface to hold the crude being pumped up through a make-shift collection device.
Instead, BP officials have acknowledged they may be constrained from pumping oil up too quickly because the surface ships there now can only receive only 15,000 barrels daily. Read more.
Apocalypse in the Gulf Now (Oil) & Next (Nukes)
Apocalypse in the Gulf Now (Oil) & Next (Nukes)
By Harvey Wasserman
As BP's ghastly gusher assaults the Gulf of Mexico and so much more, a tornado has forced shut the Fermi2 atomic reactor at the site of a 1966 melt-down that nearly irradiated the entire Great Lakes region.
If the White House has a reliable plan for deploying and funding a credible response to a disaster at a reactor that's superior to the one we've seen at the Deepwater Horizon, we'd sure like to see it.
Meanwhile it wants us to fund two more reactors on the Gulf and another one 40 miles from Washington DC. And that's just for starters.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has warned that at least one new design proposed for federal funding cannot withstand tornadoes, earthquakes or hurricanes.
But the administration has slipped $9 billion for nuclear loan guarantees into an emergency military funding bill, in addition to the $8.33 it's already approved for two new nukes in Georgia.
TomDispatch: Bill McKibben, "If There Was Ever A Moment To Seize, Will Obama Stand Up to Big Energy In Deeds As Well As Words?"
From TomDispatch this Sunday: A major environmental writer asks the biggest question of all: Can the president act to change our world in the midst of a historic eco-disaster? -- Bill McKibben, "If There Was Ever A Moment to Seize, Will Obama Stand Up to Big Energy in Deeds as Well as Words?"
The President's words on BP's disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are ever so slowly growing stronger. Environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, now asks the tough question. Will deeds follow? Can this president step up to the moment or will he more typically nibble at the edges of our energy crisis, letting the American system fiddle while the Gulf burns?
In his latest TomDispatch post, McKibben brilliantly compares Barack Obama's BP moment to the moment when John F. Kennedy committed the U.S. to land a man on the moon -- to point out how deeds can truly follow words. He adds: "The challenge [Obama] faces is so much tougher. The Apollo mission was technically complex, but in a sense the very opposite of our energy challenge: a moon shot meant focusing all our energy on three guys and a rocket, while an energy revolution would mean, in essence, landing all of us on a different planet, one where we no longer need the fossil fuels that are currently the engine for our economy."
Still, as we lose our Heat War on a globally warming planet, he suggests just how Barack Obama could begin "turning history" in a new direction: "Obama's barely broken a sweat on climate change: a few paragraphs in a few speeches. Now, the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf offers him the best chance he's ever going to get to go to work. The president could stand on the Louisiana shore and say: 'Bad as this is, it's only a small and visible symbol of the greater damage we do each day simply by burning coal and gas and oil. If that black gunk now washing up here had ended up safely in the gas tanks of our cars, it would nonetheless have done great damage. It's all dirty, every last drop and lump.'"
This piece is a stirring call for an American president to rise to a moment that must not be missed. McKibben ends this way: "To have a chance we need a leader. We need someone to stand up and tell it the way it is, and in language so compelling and dramatic it sets us on a new path. On this planet of nearly seven billion, at this moment in history, there's exactly one person who could play that role. And so far he hasn't decided."
Don't miss this one. It's McKibben at his best!
Government Impotence and Corporate Rule
Government Impotence and Corporate Rule
By Jim Hightower | Common Dreams
Many news reports about the Gulf oil catastrophe refer to it as a "spill." Wrong. A spill is a minor "oops" — one accidentally spills milks, for example, and from childhood, we're taught the old aphorism: "Don't cry over spilt milk." What's in the Gulf isn't milk and it wasn't spilt. The explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon well was the inevitable result of deliberate decisions made by avaricious corporate executives, laissez faire politicians and obsequious regulators.
As the ruinous gulf oil blowout spreads onto land, over wildlife, across the ocean floor and into people's lives, it raises a fundamental question for all of us Americans: Who the hell's in charge here? What we're witnessing is not merely a human and environmental horror, but also an appalling deterioration in our nation's governance. Just as we saw in Wall Street's devastating economic disaster and in Massey Energy's murderous explosion inside its Upper Big Branch coal mine, the nastiness in the gulf is baring an ugly truth that We the People must finally face: We are living under de facto corporate rule that has rendered our government impotent.
Thirty years of laissez-faire, ideological nonsense (pushed upon us with a vengeance in the past decade) has transformed government into a subsidiary of corporate power. Wall Street, Massey, BP and its partners — all were allowed to become their own "regulators" and officially encouraged to put their short-term profit interests over the public interest.
Let's not forget that on April 2, barely two weeks before Deepwater Horizon blew and 11 people perished on the spot, the public's No. 1 official, Barack Obama, trumpeted his support for more deepwater oil drilling, blithely regurgitating Big Oil's big lie: "Oil rigs today generally don't cause spills." He and his advisors had not bothered to check the truth of that — they simply took the industry's word. That's not governing, it's aiding and abetting profiteers, and it's a pathetic performance. Read more.
BP Buys 'Oil' Search Terms to Redirect Users to Official Company Website
BP Buys 'Oil' Search Terms to Redirect Users to Official Company Website
BP Spokesman Acknowledges Purchase 'To Make It Easier for People to Find Out More About Our Efforts in the Gulf' and Other Ways to Help
By Emily Friedman | ABC News
Be careful where you click, especially if you're looking for news on the BP oil spill.
BP, the very company responsible for the oil spill that is already the worst in U.S. history, has purchased several phrases on search engines such as Google and Yahoo so that the first result that shows up directs information seekers to the company's official website.
A simple Google search of "oil spill" turns up several thousand news results, but the first link, highlighted at the very top of the page, is from BP. "Learn more about how BP is helping," the link's tagline reads.
A spokesman for the company confirmed to ABC News that it had, in fact, bought these search terms to make information on the spill more accessible to the public.
"We have bought search terms on search engines like Google to make it easier for people to find out more about our efforts in the Gulf and make it easier for people to find key links to information on filing claims, reporting oil on the beach and signing up to volunteer," BP spokesman Toby Odone told ABC News. Read more.
BP to Pay a Second Month of Loss of Income Claims
BP to Pay a Second Month of Loss of Income Claims | Deepwater Horizon Response Official Site
BP said today it will be sending a second advance payment during June to individuals and businesses along the Gulf Coast to compensate for the loss of income or net profit due to the cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon Incident in the Gulf of Mexico.
With the second advance payments, BP estimates it will have spent about $84 million for loss of income or net profit through June, based on the claims it has received to date. This number will grow as additional claims are filed.
"We deeply regret the impact the oil spill has had on individuals and businesses, and understand the need for quick and reasonable compensation," said Doug Suttles, chief operating officer, BP Exploration and Production. "We hope these payments will assist individuals, businesses and the communities impacted."
About 14,000 individuals and businesses in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida have received an initial advance payment for loss of income or net profit to date. Read more.
Halliburton Profited by BP's Destruction of the Gulf Coast and Cheney's Company Made a Profit
Halliburton Profited by BP's Destruction of the Gulf Coast and Cheney's Company Made a Profit
By Brian Connors | Associated Content
This proves that Cheney was willing to make the bottom 99% unwitting pawns to his desire of increasing profits for the top 1%! Also that he deserves to be put in jail for his crimes.
The article "As 'top kill' effort fails, BP must fall back on oil spill containment strategy" relating to Cheney's Energy Task Force Ruined the Gulf states "BP's three-day effort to throttle the leaking gulf oil well with multiple blasts of heavy mud has failed. The attempted "top kill" of the well was abandoned late Saturday afternoon, leaving the huge Macondo field deep beneath the sea floor once again free to pump at least half a million gallons of crude a day into the gulf...
"There's no silver bullet to stop this leak," Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said.
We are being held captive to this catastrophe as a mediocre containment strategy is all that will be currently utilized as the article states "After that, the company could place another blowout preventer on top of the existing one. Meanwhile two drilling rigs at the surface continue to drill relief wells. That's a long-term strategy that requires engineers to hit a seven-inch target, the bottom of the leaking well, 3 1/2 miles below the surface of the gulf. The first of the two relief wells to hit the target will send a massive dose of cement to seal the leaking well. Read more.
Lawsuit Seeks Full Disclosure of Dispersant Impacts on Gulf's Endangered Wildlife
Lawsuit Seeks Full Disclosure of Dispersant Impacts on Gulf's Endangered Wildlife
By Center for Biological Diversity | Common Dreams
The Center for Biological Diversity today filed an official notice of its intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for authorizing the use of toxic dispersants without ensuring that these chemicals would not harm endangered species and their habitats. The letter requests that the agency, along with the U.S. Coast Guard, immediately study the effects of dispersants on species such as sea turtles, sperm whales, piping plovers, and corals and incorporate this knowledge into oil-spill response efforts.
"The Gulf of Mexico has become Frankenstein's laboratory for BP's enormous, uncontrolled experiment in flooding the ocean with toxic chemicals," said Andrea Treece, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. "The fact that no one in the federal government ever required that these chemicals be proven safe for this sort of use before they were set loose on the environment is inexcusable."
Dispersants are chemicals used to break oil spills into tiny droplets. In theory, this allows the oil to be eaten by microorganisms and become diluted faster than it would otherwise. However, the effects of using large quantities of dispersants and injecting them into very deep water, as BP has done in the Gulf of Mexico, have never been studied. Researchers suspect that underwater oil plumes, measuring as much as 20 miles long and extending dozens of miles from the leaking rig, are the result of dispersants keeping the oil below the surface.
On May 24, EPA Administrator Jackson expressed concern over the environmental unknowns of dispersants, which include the long-term effects on aquatic life. Nonetheless, the federal government has allowed BP to pump nearly 1 million gallons of dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico. Read more.
Feds Move to Block Transocean's Bid To Cap Damages For Gulf Oil Spill
Feds Move to Block Transocean's Bid To Cap Damages For Gulf Oil Spill
'This It Cannot Do,' Says Justice Department, And Compares Transocean To Titanic's Owners
By Jason Ryan | ABC News
"Suffice it to say, eleven crewmembers lost their lives in the immediate disaster stemming from the explosion and fire aboard the vessel. As for the oil spill, we shall forego a cascade of words like 'catastrophic' and 'cataclysmic' as they simply do not do justice to the magnitude of economic, health, and environmental devastation wrought upon the nation's waters, across a swath of States, and upon entire communities."
Hours after Attorney General Eric Holder disclosed ongoing criminal and civil probes related to the Gulf oil spill , the Justice Department has filed motions to block Transocean from seeking to limit their liability in the unfolding disaster. The documents were filed late Tuesday night in federal court in Houston, Texas.
The motion filed by the Justice Department follows Transocean's May 13 motion to seek limited liability of just $26.7 million. The Justice Department initially signaled to Transocean that it would oppose this in a May 24 letter to Transocean's counsel. Transocean has asked for limited liability under the Limitation of Liability Act of 1851, the same act invoked by the owners of the RMS Titanic when they awarded a paltry $95,000 to the survivors of the Titanic tragedy.
The May 24 letter said, "It is simply unconscionable, in the circumstances of this case, that Transocean is attempting to use this same shield of liability potentially leaving thousands of people who have been damaged by your clients' actions with no remedy."
Transocean owned the Deepwater Horizon, the mobile offshore drilling platform that exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. The explosion triggered the ongoing oil spill that has become the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.
In the Tuesday filing, the Justice Department said, "Transocean seeks to absolve ('exonerate') itself from liability concerning the Deepwater Horizon explosion, fire, and oil spill, or, alternatively, limit its liability to approximately $27 million. This it cannot do." Read more.
By Nikolas Kozloff
From Buzzflash
Judging from the oily history of the last ten years, reining in BP could prove politically daunting. A company with incredible economic might, BP has enjoyed privileged access to the inner rungs of Washington power. Only by ridding the political system of insider money can we hope to avert future oil disasters like the devastating spill which hit the Gulf of Mexico last week.
The perversion of U.S. democracy to serve oil interests like BP went into high gear under former Vice President Dick Cheney. Dallas-based Halliburton, where Cheney worked prior to the 2000 election, made equipment and chemicals used in oil drilling, and sold to producers including BP.
BP Hires Cheney's Press Flack
BP Hires Cheney's Press Flack
By Kate Sheppard | Mother Jones
BP has hired Dick Cheney's former press flack, Anne Womack Kolton, to serve as the new "head of U.S. media relations" as the company deals with the PR disaster of the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf. Kolton was Cheney's press secretary during the 2004 campaign, and then moved to a job in public affairs at the Department of Energy.
One of her tasks in her previous job was defending the administration's secret meetings with energy officials, even as courts were telling the White House to turn over documents about the task force: "We are ready to defend our principles in court. This goes to the heart of the presidency and to the ability of the president and vice president to receive candid, discreet advice."
Not a lot is known about the task force, since the administration succeeded in shielding it from the public. But it is known that BP officials were among the oil chiefs involved in the secret meetings. Read more.
The BP Oil Gusher Is Just The Latest In A Long Line Of Assaults On The Gulf Of Mexico
The BP oil gusher is just the latest in a long line of assaults on the Gulf of Mexico
By Diane Wilson | Grist
I'm a fourth-generation fisherwoman from the Texas Gulf Coast, on a boat since I was eight. Over the last two decades, I've become a self-appointed watchdog of the chemical, oil, and gas corporations that are decimating the Gulf.
I hate to say it, but what I'm seeing now in the Gulf ain't nothing new. The toxic releases, the lies, the cover-ups, the skimping on safety, the nonexistent documents, the "swinging door" with regulators, the deaths. Same ole same ole.
What is new is the massive nature of the oil gusher and the fact that it can't be covered up because it's ongoing and being videoed. This elephant can't be swept under the carpet, but I'm sure if BP could, BP would.
There are politicians out there -- we've all heard them -- who say this oil spill is just one accident and one accident does not a case make. Heck, one plane crashes and you don't stop flying, do ya? Well, this isn't just one accident. This is the biggest flame among the thousands of fires set by Corporate America on its Sherman-like march across the Gulf. Read more.
5 Million Charging Stations For Electric Vehicles By 2015
5 million charging stations for electric vehicles by 2015
By Weston Sedgwick, Chicago Green Technology Examiner
A total of 4.7 million electric vehicle charging stations will be installed worldwide over the next five years to support the transition to plug-in vehicles, says Pike's "Electric Vehicle Charging Equipment" report. The United States alone is likely to be home to almost 1 million charging points by 2015.
Pike Research forecasts that annual revenue from EV charging equipment will reach $1.8 billion (US) in 2015.
That need will be fueled by the more than 3.1 million electric vehicles (EVs), including both hybrids and all-electric cars, expected to be sold worldwide during the next five years, according to Pike.
"The success of hybrid vehicles in the 2000s gave drivers a taste for propulsion by electric power, and governments around the world are now highly focused on creating the charging infrastructure to support the arrival of EVs in significant numbers," Pike senior analyst John Gartner said in a statement.
Pike anticipates that the Asia Pacific region will be the world's largest market for EVs and charging equipment. Read more.
Protest BP in Charlottesville on Memorial Day
Blow-Out Polluters, Bull Promoters, Bellowing Pigs, Beyond Prosecution?
What ever you call BP, it's destroying the Gulf of Mexico, utterly destroying it.
Think I'm kidding? See these images.
And people in Charlottesville, in addition to through their taxes, are giving money directly to BP every day at gas stations.
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TomDispatch: BPing the Arctic?, Will the Obama Administration Allow Shell Oil to Do to Arctic Waters What BP Did to the Gulf?
From TomDispatch today: a unique first-person account by an Arctic photographer of the next deep-water oil drilling danger, Shell Oil's venture into America's Arctic seas -- Subhankar Banerjee, "BPing the Arctic?, Will the Obama Administration Allow Shell Oil to Do to Arctic Waters What BP Did to the Gulf?" (Note as well that there is a TomCast audio interview with Banerjee on the impact of drilling in Arctic waters which can be found here, and that three of Banerjee's remarkable Alaskan Arctic photos accompany the piece and can be reproduced with credit.)
Writes photographer Subhankar Banerjee, "I've come to know Arctic Alaska about as intimately as a photographer can. I've been there many times... crisscrossing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- 4,000 miles in all seasons by foot, raft, kayak, and snowmobile." He's spent almost a month in a near-continual blizzard camped out before a polar bear den. He's counted almost 1,000 Beluga whales in a mile stretch of the Chukchi Sea coast and has been on native whale hunting expeditions. He's been unable to go to sleep at night because of the cacophony of calls from 180 nesting species of birds.
This is what it has meant for Banerjee to photograph the Alaskan Arctic for the last decade -- and he offers it up in all its vivid detail in his first TomDispatch post. (His highly regarded photographs of the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge were infamously censored in the Bush years by the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History - because pressure to drill for oil in the refuge was so high.)
Now, as Shell Oil prepares to send a drilling ship into Alaska's Arctic seas this July, he describes in vivid prose the world he's explored. It's one of the richest ecologies on the planet that, sooner or later, will -- as events in the Gulf of Mexico make clear -- be despoiled if the Obama administration doesn't at the last moment deny access to Arctic waters to that oil company.
This is the rarest of accounts of a world in danger, as vivid as any set of photos. It's news; it's a passionate hymn to an ecology that should be preserved; and it's a plea to the president and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar not to grant the last permits that will lead to the tragic BPing of America's Alaskan waters.
Banerjee concludes: "If the remaining permits are approved for Shell in the coming weeks, [the drilling ship] the Frontier Discoverer will be in the Chukchi Sea less than six weeks later. President Obama and Secretary Salazar should stop this folly now. It's important for them to listen to those who really know what's at stake, the environmental groups and human rights organizations of the indigenous Inupiat communities. It's time to put a stop to Shell's drilling plan in America's Arctic Ocean for this summer -- and all the summers to come."
This is a unique piece for TomDispatch to publish. I hope you'll give it special attention by reading it now.
BP Oil Spill Gulf Coverage: May 26, 2010: Day 37, Top Kill Begins
- AP Exclusive: Witness says BP took 'shortcuts' | Yahoo News
- Multiple warning signs preceded BP blast: inquiry | Raw Story
- How Big Is The Deep Horizon Spill? | Paul Rademacher Using Google Earth
- BP Cites Crucial 'Mistake' | WSJ
- BP says it has paid $29M in oil spill claims | Google
- Washington and BP -- 'Like a Junkie Controlling His Dealer' | Der Spiegel
- Spill 39 million gallons of oil in the sea: no charges. Peacefully protest oil drilling: charged for felony | Greenpeace
- FL DEP update: No oil on Florida beaches – contains FL emergency resources
- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Response/Official Site of Deepwater Horizon Unified Command
- Fishermen hired by BP for oil clean up weren't provided protective equipment, have now fallen ill | Think Progress
- **Hearing Thursday** Landrieu to Chair Hearing On Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill Impact On Small Businesses | Market Watch
BP Oil Spill Gulf Coverage: May 25, 2010, Day 36
- AP Impact: Bad cement jobs plague offshore rigs | Google News
- Oil Spill's Economic Toll Estimated in the Billions | ABC News
- Jean-Michel Cousteau Dispatches Team To Gulf Oil Spill | Ocean Futures
- Research Shows Federal Oil Leasing and Royalty Income a Raw Deal for Taxpayers | Solve Climate
- Investigator Warned MMS in 2009 About Deepwater Gas Blowouts in Gulf of Mexico | Solve Climate
- Regulators Conducted Lax Oversight of Oil Industry, Report Uncovers | Truthout
- Louisiana Fishermen Helping in Spill Cleanup Report Getting Sick | Fox News
- Read the Govt's Report Blasting Drilling Regulators on Ethics, Drugs and Porn | ProPublica
- Fears Grow of Continued Oil Spill Through August | Democracy Now!
- Gulf oil plume darker; not good news, expert says | Desdemona Despair
- EPA Officials Weigh Sanctions Against BP's U.S. Operations | Pro Publica
- Louisiana Fishermen Helping in Spill Cleanup Report Getting Sick | Fox News
Oily Apocalypse or Green Wave?
Kucinich: We Must Look to the Consequences of our own Demand and Consumption
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 25, 2010) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement on the Floor of the House of Representatives about the ongoing ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico:
"We are now in the 36th day of a man-made environmental disaster which is fast becoming an ecological apocalypse for countless species of marine life. The ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico cannot survive wave after wave of toxic substances hitting the beaches.
"The ultimate surprise is not that it happened. Oil companies, and Democratic and Republican administrations, refuse responsibility and rejected alternatives. In this privatization of the natural world, damage to sea life is the cost of doing business. The ultimate horror is that we can't stop the oil flood, won't stop consumption of oil products and fail to admit the limits of technology.
Protesters Pose Nearly Naked At BP HQ
Protesters pose nearly naked at BP HQ | ABC 13 KTRK
Activists staged a nearly naked protest to bring attention to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Dozens of Codepink activisits, in a women-led, women-initiated action, took their message to the public in front of the BP headquarters on Westlake Park Boulevard just before noon Monday. The women posed nearly naked, dripping with 'oil' and dragging nets of fish.
The protesters mourned the deaths of the 11 workers and devastation of wildlife and livelihoods all along the Gulf Coast. Read more.
BP Houston: The Naked Truth--Rallying the Troops!
BP Houston: The Naked Truth--Rallying the Troops!
BP Houston: The Naked Truth--Singing in Action!
Enviros Go Veal Pen 2.0 With BP's Money
Enviros Go Veal Pen 2.0 With BP's Money
By Jane Hamsher | FireDogLake
"Some purists believe environmental groups should keep a healthy distance from certain kinds of corporations, particularly those whose core mission poses risks to the environment." No, what the "purists" actually believe is that these groups should not be raising money from the public to act as watchdogs of the oil companies, and then take money from the oil companies to rubber stamp their green washing efforts and shield them from criticism when they richly deserve it. It's known in common parlance as a "scam."
Ten days after the BP oil rig collapsed into a flaming ball of oil on April 20, I wrote a post about how most of the environmental groups still had nothing about it on their landing pages. [At left] Here was the Sierra Club's landing page on the morning of April 30.
I chalked it up to an unwillingness to buck the White House, as President Obama had a press conference in the Rose Garden to announce the expansion of offshore drilling on March 31:
PRESIDENT OBAMA: So today we're announcing the expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration, but in ways that balance the need to harness domestic energy resources and the need to protect America's natural resources. Under the leadership of Secretary Salazar, we'll employ new technologies that reduce the impact of oil exploration. We'll protect areas that are vital to tourism, the environment, and our national security. And we'll be guided not by political ideology, but by scientific evidence.
That's why my administration will consider potential areas for development in the mid and south Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, while studying and protecting sensitive areas in the Arctic. That's why we'll continue to support development of leased areas off the North Slope of Alaska, while protecting Alaska's Bristol Bay.
But the Washington Post is reporting that money from BP itself was also complicating matters for the enviros: Read more.


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A Day to Remember
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Anyone listen to this sort of music? I'm talking about bands like:
Mayday Parade
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All-time Low
A Day to Remember
Would love to chat with some other people who love this stuff.
Would Muse count?
I guess. For some reason, I don't really care for them; but they're moderately similar to my kinda stuff.
I love the first and second generation "emo" bands from the 1980s and 1990s, and there has been a strong revival of that sound in the last couple years, but most of what got slapped with the emo label in the early to mid aughts is next to unlistenable, IMO...
I am old and stuck in my ways. I recognize those band names (I know I like a Paramore song but have no idea which one), but don't recall the music. You could help us old-folk out and post a clip or two. BTW, I love everything I have ever heard from Muse.
BC, IDK if emo is the right term for my stuff anyway. Its hard to find exactly what genre it falls under. Somewhere between emo, punk, and alternative rock.
Captain, my favorite Paramore song:
A few more favorites from Mayday and GR:
I like Muse a lot, but am not generally crazy about emo. I enjoy Paramore, but don't go out of my way to listen to them. Same for My Chemical Romance, which I might like better if fewer of their fans were middle school girls.
Somehow I expected Vampire Weekend to be emo, but they aren't, and I like them.
I was into that stuff when I was a young teenager. If that's your bag, you'll probably graduate onto stuff like this at some point:
I'll drop some links in this post for anyone interested in checking out more in this style of music
DFA is a little different than the rest of this, but if you're into it, I think you'd like them:
Here's the original emo.
In 2-3 years you will be National fans.
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I'd heard of some of the negative emails referring to Mr. Ely, but because my very own sister claimed to have "won" a medal for a poem she entered - I'll probably ask her to make sure she didn't purchase it lol - and also because one of my poems was also rejected by the website, I felt that perhaps the solicitations were a necessary part of financing for the website.
That was, until I received a letter inviting me to a special convention announcing their grand prize winner. The scumbag "informed" me that this convention would not only have special workshops featuring popular poets, but would also feature a special guest singer: Rubben Studdard! Recently I received an email with Howard Ely claiming to have received poetry from people such as "Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and the late 'Man in Black,' Johnny Cash."
I think any lawyers interested in Poetry.com's controversy should definitely challenge the website on the basis of these assertions, as this man is swindeling the dreams of thousands with his lies and false claims.
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AUTHOR: sinnerman1 - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, August 11, 2011POSTED: Thursday, August 11, 2011
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AUTHOR: catherine janet taylor---- Lovee - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, July 05, 2011POSTED: Tuesday, July 05, 2011
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- Report: #951288
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Complaint Review: Rasberry Ketone Slim Fast
Rasberry Ketone Slim Fastunknown Internet United States of America
Rasberry Ketone Slim Fast none known Continous stream of unwanted unauthorized emails without an unsubscribe bottom , Internet
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