Restoration Biologists - click title for an example of NOAA recommendations for Wetland Restoration

The States along the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi River need to begin to assess the long term affects on their wetlands and fisheries.

The 'Day of Oil' is over. 

End of Discussion in regard to continuing this charade.  The USA needs to move past this idiocy. 

The tax base to these States are on the verge of collapse and now they are affected by more dynamics that will collapse them further.  It has to stop.

The USA cannot continue to 'pretend' that Wall Street is a friend to its infrastructure. 

IT  IS  NOT !

The States affected by this disaster have to examine their tax base, their tax distribution and reapportion monies to restoration efforts as soon as possible.

This is a matter of preserving the land and its resources to benefit the citizens that live there.  The people that derive an income from the fisheries need to be hired by the State Governments through fiscal allotments to do this work under the supervision of scientists qualified to make assessments, formulate plans and continually assess the dynamics of the restoration as it unfolds.

The 3% of the Earth's REMAINING oil/gas reserves are best left to the discretion of future generations by some chance they might actually need it.  Oil and gas are soon to become an insignificant element of the USA tax base and presence within its economy.

The USA cannot do without its fisheries.  The plans to drill on the East and West Coast of the USA has to be stopped and all the States along those coasts have to prevent any occurrence to their coastal areas.  The 'chance' that the East Coast could be affected by this disaster in the Gulf is still very, very real.  The oil could enter the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current and travel great distances to erode any health of the East Coast fisheries.

The 'crude' will not simply breakdown on its own.  It has to be removed and to realize that one will begin to realize how a coat of it will destroy microscopic organisms that are the base of any ecosystem that sustains remaining fisheries.

The circumstances surrounding this disaster are grave and needs to be treated as such.

To minimize the impact of this disaster is to doom the health of the fisheries and any potential recovery.  Microscopic organisms don't 'show up' in 'landscape beauty' and it is why there has to be uncorrupted and qualified scientists 'running the show' and 'setting priorities.'

The motto first appeared on a coin in 1864 during strong Christian sentiment emerging during the Civil War,

While we are on the subject of the Illegitmiate Media in the USA; the morons at the Murdock 'dictate' do it again.  Is Palin on something?  She looks a little 'woozy' to me.

But, at any rate, both her and O'Reilly are lying. 

AGAIN.

They state this 'motto' was adopted by the Founders of the USA Constitution.  It wasn't.  It was adopted during the Civil War.  A Civil War is a very threatening episode in any country's history.  It is not uncommon during times of war that people, citizens that will be putting their lives on the line to die for the sovereign right of to exist, will turn to solice in dedicated belief to God even over country.

Separation of Church and State was the cry of the Founders of the USA Constitution EVEN when at war for their sovereign right to exist.  "Times of Trial" are always difficult for any nation, finding comfort in lies such as those from Murdoch isn't the way to protect the USA Constitution.

The Murdoch Media Machine are promoting Lies and Anti-Constitutional Agendas for the USA.  They are treasonists.  Get over it.  Where is the FCC?

It is as I thought, the vat is too dangerous to drill. That is the rupture in the apparatus, not planet Earth.

The picture is of the rupture.  That is metal, collapsed and broken metal spewing crude and methane gas out of the hole.

The 'white stuff' is methane gas and the 'dark stuff' is the crude.  The Earth is burping large amounts of methane from this site and it will remain to be dangerous.  The white stuff is what caused the deaths of eleven people and the dark stuff is what is causing a coastal dead zone across the entire Gulf Coast of the USA.

There were reports yesterday of 3 inches of crude along the Alabama beaches.  People should not be in their homes with crude oil only yards away from their homes.

AND let's get this straight, it is NOT tar balls, its Crude Oil !

John is incorrect in assessing the fact we need gas and oil.  We don't.  His 'mind speak' is typical of the oppressed nature of the USA South.  The people of the South are focused to 'buy into' Wall Street priorities as it is 'portrayed' as the only venue for income for the citizen-peasant. 

John is correct in his assessement of the hopelessness to the circumstances in the Gulf, but, he is grossly "W"rong to his loyalty to the Petroleum Industry and the 'idea' that government can actually control this.  It can't !!!

The drill site in the Gulf has PROVEN to be too dangerous to continue to allow leases and our fisheries are now limited to the East and West Coasts.  The Gulf fisheries are lost for at least three generations, if not forever.

There is no reason for the USA to continue to drill for 3% of the oil supply REMAINING in Earth.

TORPEDOES !!!!!!!!  Close the hole !

This will be recorded in history as testiment of Wall Street's dominance over the soverignty and well being of the citizen in the USA.

Gulf oil spill news links: Alabama resident says it's worse than BP admits  (click title to entry - thank you)
By Press-Register staff
May 13, 2010, 5:09PM
Alabama resident John Wathen talks about his impressions of flying out over the Gulf of Mexico to view the oil spill caused by the demise of the Deepwater Horizon oil well.
As a volunteer pilot flies him out farther and farther from the coastline, Wathen becomes more and more impressed by the scope of the oil spill. "It's not a leak, it's a volcano spewing oil," Wathen says in the text posted with the video....




This is the propaganda from the Associated Press. 

I suppose the people of the USA can go back to bed with their security blankets now.

Where's the oil?
Much has evaporated, underwater

By CAIN BURDEAU (AP) – 1 hour ago
NEW ORLEANS — For a spill now nearly half the size of Exxon Valdez, it's hard to pin down where the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has gone.
Although the government has been slow to say what's happened to it, a picture can be drawn from a publicly available model called the Automated Data Inquiry for Oil Spills.
The model shows that about 35 percent of a hypothetical 4.8 million gallon spill of light Louisiana crude oil released in conditions similar to those found in the Gulf now would evaporate.
It also shows that between 50 percent and 60 percent of the oil would remain in or on the water and the rest would be dispersed in the ocean.
Ed Overton, a Louisiana State University chemist analyzing the spill, says he thinks most of the oil is floating within 1 foot of the surface


http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j8YdCmUhenqe5oY9IW57QRQ4jBOAD9FMHN0G8

Real lives, real economy and they contribute more quality of life and to the tax base of the USA than the Petroleum Industry ever did given all the crime and subsidies they receive !!!!!!!!!

The citizens along the Gulf Coast have had their lives played with and destroyed.  I suppose their solice is that they were lucky enough not to work on an oil rig.

Updated 8:55 am Wednesday May 12, 2010

Louisiana Confirms Tar balls at South Pass
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) has confirmed the presence of tar balls at South Pass in Plaquemines Parish. Tar balls are sticky, dark-colored pieces of oil which occur after weatherization changes the physical characteristics of floating oil.


LDWF technicians working with oil spill response crews on boom maintenance around Pass a Loutre Wildlife Management Area (WMA) spotted the tar balls that had washed ashore on the southeast side of the WMA .
The state continues to monitor coastal conditions and will assess any potential damage to Louisiana’s coast and wetlands as impacts are reported.

http://www.plaqueminesparish.com/


Gulf oil spill: More tar balls wash up; turtles, dolphins found dead  (click title to entry - thank you)
May 12, 2010

10:49 am
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries confirmed Wednesday that tar balls that washed up on the beach at South Pass in Plaquemines Parish, La., are from the Deepwater Horizon spill.
Biologists found the sticky, dark-colored blobs on the beach at South Pass Monday but did not confirm that they were from the rig until Wednesday, said Department of Wildlife and Fisheries spokesman Bo Boehringer.
The Louisiana Bucket Brigade, which is tracking the oil spill and its effects on local communities, also confirmed the presence of a dead turtle on shore at the Bay of St. Louis, Miss. Locals also saw dead fish on the beach, an hour east of New Orleans.
On Tuesday, the National Marine Fisheries Service said that dead dolphins also had been found in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, but that such deaths are common in calving season, when they swim into shallow waters. Tests are being conducted to see if the dolphins were affected by the oil.
-- Alana Semuels

And what is Wall Street worried about?  Oh, yeah, the really important stuff, like how much liability are ALL the partners going to have?  No human interest, just, PURE MONEY and GREED.  They should all be so proud.

...Pound for pound, Anadarko may have to pay more than BP. (see link below) ING Bank NV estimated that costs of the spill may reach $7.8 billion. Anadarko may have to pay as much as 25 percent of those expenses, which would be almost $2 billion, if ING’s forecast proves accurate. BP, which owns 65 percent of Macondo and is project operator, is 29 times the size of Anadarko by revenue and almost eight times as big based on reserves available for future production....



http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-13/spill-may-hit-anadarko-hardest-as-bp-s-silent-partner-update1-.html

So what I was wondering is the reference of 'pound for pound' mean the weight of the peasants that died?  Or the collapse of the industry that won't exist any longer along the Gulf Coast?

Being near a solution is still not having one. Any industry that is this distructive to the environment and economy doesn't deserve the consideration of any nation.

...The Mississippi River Delta and nearby Louisiana coast (image top) appear dark in the sunglint that illuminates most of the image. Sunglint is caused by sunlight reflecting off the water surface—much like a mirror—directly back towards the astronaut observer on the Space Station. The sunglint improves the identification of the oil spill. Oil on the water smoothes the surface texture, and the mirror-like reflection of the Sun accentuates the difference between the smooth, oil-covered water (dark to light gray ) and the rougher water of the reflective ocean surface (colored silver to white). Wind and water currents patterns have modified the oil spill’s original shape into streamers and elongated masses. Among the coastal ecosystems threatened by the spill are the Chandeleur Islands (image right center)....(click title to entry - thank you)

It is completely appalling the level of risk the Petroleum Industry has engaged in KNOWING the delicate nature of the ocean environment in relation to the livelihoods of the citizens of which PERMITTED leases to be written against their natural resources.

There are eleven people dead through no other reason except pure unadulterated negligence and risk taking.  The well head should have been taken into the custody of the USA military as soon as it occurred and an immediate solution resolved. 

This disaster has caused issues now with the National Security of the USA and the Petroleum Industry needs to be banned from drilling any deeper than they currently have DOCUMENTED technology that is known to be effective in prevention of such incidents.

What does the Petroleum Industry think they are doing?  These are the natural resources of the people of the USA and they treat the citizens of this country as if we are a nuisance to them. 

Well, too bad.  There needs to be drastic measures taken against this industry and every day that goes by that it doesn't occur, is another day of danger to our nation, its populous and it natural resources, including economies that have stood far longer as a VALUE to this nation than this mess !

All the companies' executives involved with this should be criminally charged and imprisoned !

Light tan streamers snake across Chandeleur Sound in this detailed natural-color satellite image from May 5, 2010. The streamers are probably ropes of oil from a leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico. The streamers surround Freemason Island and arc through Chandeleur Sound west of the Chandeleur Islands. The image is from the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=43903&src=eoa-iotd

THERE WERE ABSOLUTELY NO government regulations or instruments in place to protect the citizens of this country.  There were absolutely no measures IN PLACE in at the State level either.  This is negligence at every level including that of the USA military.  They don't understand how important the marine environement is to the security of this country?

And to think this industry was allowed to run rampant over our lands and assets as if they didn't hold value unless the precious Petroleum Industy could do as they please without any scientific process to dictate the safety of their practics.  This is some of the WORST governance I have witnessed in my lifetime.

Where is all the testimony at the Senate and House from scientists and conservations in rebuttal to the Petroleum Industry?

Bart Stupak is limiting the cause of the incident one mile down in the Gulf of Mexico to ONE failure of a device.  He is making the mistake of 'generalizing' the cause to treat the citizens of the country as simpletons to limit the impact on the Petroleum Industry.

I am sorry, but, that is not competent assessment of the circumstances the Gulf States and the citizens there are facing.  To allow such generalized assessment to dictate the impact on the Petroleum Industry is to doom it to happen againh....Representative Bart Stupak, head of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, said the rig's underwater blowout preventer had a leak in its hydraulic system and the device was not powerful enough to cut through joints to seal the drill pipe....  (click title to entry - thank you)


'Top hat' reaches Gulf of Mexico floor, BP says  (see link below for video)

...The "top hat," a 5-foot-tall, 4-foot-diameter structure, weighs less than 2 tons. The structure was deployed by the drill ship Enterprise....
...Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said the success of this latest attempt to cap the well could be known in the next few days....

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/12/oil.spill.main/

PB is going to drill a 'relief' what? Is that really advisable?

The false information surrounding this profound tragedy simply mystifies me. 

Where is the logic that states this won't happen again? 

Better than that, where is the assessment of the incident and the PROOF that this won't happen again.  There isn't any and yet we are all suppose to believe allowing BP free rein to do exactly what they want will bring about a solution. 

Well, there hasn't been a solution yet !

Are we all so desperate for a resolve to this crisis in the Gulf of Mexico that we are willing to believe in the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause?

There are eleven people ALREADY dead and their bodies missing, probably never to be found, and yet we are allowing British Petroleum to carry on as if nothing has happened.

Absolutely NOT !

Eleven people dead and a devasted coastal economy that promises to get worse and no one is even having the dialogue about how TOXIC the oil washing up on shore is to human health.  DON'T GET IT ON THE SKIN ! 

Yahoo has an article that is a good BEGINNING.

Oil spill clean-up brings workers and volunteers into close contact with chemicals that are known to be hazardous to human health. As we deal with the oil spill in the Gulf, it helps to brush up on history.

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/daily_green_news/344/the-health-effects-of-oil-spills.html

After the Exxon Valdez disaster, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) reported an increase in respiratory symptoms, headaches, throat and eye irritation, rashes and other skin problems among the clean-up workers.
More recently, a study of beach clean-up workers and volunteers in Spain after a 2002 oil spill found an increase in DNA damage. The long-term significance of this finding is not yet known. In Alaska, a mental health study of residents one year after the spill found that exposed individuals were more likely to suffer from anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression.


Here's a summary of some of the scientific studies of the health effects to workers, volunteers, and local residents associated with five previous oil spills:

That is only the beginning.  What about the innocent citizens now harvesting fish that are contaminated in some way unknown to them and they'll start to get sick and worse than that even die.

What about the children that are swimming in waters off of Florida as if there is NO POTENTIAL to danger?  What about them?  BP has not come forward to release information regarding the dispursants and what to expect from them.  Yet, the Coast Guard is trapped in to advocating the use of them due to the sad attempt to stop the coastal damage.

Where is a Russian Submarine when one needs them?

We have witnessed the contamination and death of wildlife with results to their death still pending, but, there are no precautions to protect the public from unknown toxins.

Well, the Petroleum Industry indeed seems to have mystified the USA government along with every citizens in the country, save me perhaps.

A "Top Hat."  How cozy. 

And then there is 'The Junk Shot.'  Very amusing.  Sort of like shooting hoops.  Ah?

The incompetency that is currently engaged in this issue throughout the Petroleum Industry can't be understated, yet, British Petroleum, Transocean and Halliburton (Which was the last company to complete work within 24 hours of the explostion.) are still at work to remedy this.

Well, there is a remedy, but, it has NOTHING to do with the failed plans of these industries.  To allow this to continue is to damage the USA Coast all that much more and disperse more and more unknown chemicals into the water column.  Where is the logic in all this? 

This has gone on too long, the industry is simply playing with the citizens and government of the USA and are hoping to be some kind of hero at the end of the day.  The only hero they will be is to show how strategies to disarm the power of citizens can actually work for the industry while people and there economies disappear off the horizon of the future.

Everyone is being played for fools.  Everyone.

Go ahead.  Become so invested in the myth that everything is going to be alright that the worst case scenario actually becomes a 'grace of god.'  Go right ahead.

I think the expression is, "When the lie becomes the truth."

...The shift would be the first major structural change in government regulation of oil and gas operations since the destructive Gulf Coast oil spill that began on April 20. The formal announcement is expected to be made by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar at 1 p.m. Eastern time, officials said.
Mr. Salazar will propose breaking up the Minerals Management Service, which has been caught up in scandals repeatedly in recent years and has been accused of being too cozy with the industry it is supposed to regulate. Its current mission includes collecting royalties and negotiating leases while at the same time acting as a policeman, overseeing safety and environmental protection rules....

 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/us/12interior.html

Senators and House Representativs that have received political monies from British Petroleum need to RECUSE themeslves.

These are ethics violations.  When an elected official is seated on a sensitive committee  after having received monies in the way of political donations, it is CORRUPTION.  

This is an ethics violation.  People don't understand influence peddling?  

Any elected person that willingly takes a seat on a committee that DIRECTLY interacts with cronies should be ruled as unethical with appropriate measures taken.  I don' care whom it is.  No different than Senator Dodd and his role with the economic interests of his state.  Same thing. 


An elected official of any state in any capacity has to recognize when their authority and power are interfering the best interests of their electorate/citizens.  


Enough.  Knock it off!

This is influence peddling.  

I don't care if this is just a 'hint' of unethical practice.  It is and it needs to be dealt with.

I want Landrieu investigated !  Eleven people dead and all she has to say is 'These things happen."  I don't think so. 

Hang nails happen, deaths don't JUST HAPPEN.  Minimalism is not my reality.

There are tons of conflict of interest between the best interests of Louisiana and Landrieu.  

Torpedoes, Ms. Landrieu.  

T-O-R-P-E-D-O-E-S !!!!!!!

...BP-related campaign and lobbying spending makes the political outlays of Toyota, another major foreign-based company under investigation by Congress for its failings on safety issues, look feeble by comparison.

British-based BP, No. 4 on Fortune magazine's list of the world's largest companies, spent $16 million last year lobbying Congress and the federal government, and $3.5 million in the first three months of this year. That was before its rig disaster led at least a half-dozen congressional committees to start investigating. Japanese automaker Toyota, No. 10 in the Fortune ranking, spent $5 million lobbying last year and $880,000 in the first quarter this year....

...The other top recipients of BP employee 2008 election-giving both sit on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, one of the panels investigating the spill. Obama's GOP presidential rival, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, received $37,000. And $16,000 went to a senator whose state is on the receiving end of much of the spilled oil, Democrat Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, according to figures compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

The oil and gas industry is a big employer in Louisiana. Landrieu supports offshore drilling and has repeatedly said rig fires are rare, a point she made at a committee hearing last November when Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., displayed a photo of a summer blaze on a rig off Australia's coast.

"The fact is, these things happen," Landrieu said at the time, estimating there are about 20,000 such rigs. "So, 19,999 were not on fire."...

Seeking a stronger female insight for the Supreme Court, President Obama makes history again.

Fairly recently, in an interview, the Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated there were four women justices on the Canadian Supreme Court.  She was worried there would never be a strong female insight at this level of the court in the USA.

President Obama is seeking to seat the third female justice to the Supreme Court and it could not be more wonderful.

I wish he and Ms. Kagan the best in their confirmation process.  She is a scholar in every sense of the word.

Let me make this real clear. BP is not going to be able to solve their problems at this deep water site. WILL NOT BE ABLE TO.

The issue currently existing with the 'hydrates' is an issue ALSO inherent to methane.

The 'methane clathrate' at the site is causing the issue with the extraction of the oil.  It is my opinion the entire field in this location is heavily laden with methane and this will be a continuing problem regardless of any plans to stop the leak.  Another well head won't make any difference either. 

The reason there are three holes rather than one is because of the continued instability with the methane field that has been cut loose now that there is a breech to the field.

This is NOT an oil site, this is a methane field.  The reason the oil is rushing out with such force is because it is under high pressure from the methane gas.  The issues that BP is encountering with this field is going to continue to be an issue for its entire existence.

While there are other geological issues that accompany 'gushers' there is a gas component that is like a propellant.  The high content of methane at this site will continue to cause real problems.  I don't believe it will ever be a 'safe' field to drill.

No drill site is usually compromised by escaping oil under high pressure with high level of methane in the area as well.  To continue to believe this is a manageable site is ridiculous and completely foolish.  

The coastal costs are not prudent to continue this charade.  The Petroleum Industry has no interest in the coastal economy of the Gulf Coast and it will continue to experiment with solutions while the oil continues to surface and the danger to regional and global circulation becomes greater and greater.

BP should cut its losses and allow the USA Navy to formulate a solution to this crisis.

This is not going to resolve with conventional methods.

The reason the deaths occurred may have been ACCOMPANIED by lack of application of industry standards, but, there is a lot more at work here than simply industry negligence and poor practice.  We are looking at an industry in the sunset of its existence and willing to take chances with life and 'content' in order to find some sort of profitability when in fact it should have been shut down a decade or more ago.

The entire crisis is related to the 'denial' by the West to come to terms with its dependence on fossil fuels.  It is time to end it and bring this tragedy to a close.

It is an unmanageable emergency and needs to be brought to an end.

Case in point, the Petroleum Industry does NOT have engineers and oceanographers that are the Brightest Bulbs in the Box.

My money is still on torpedoes.  That is not going to change.

That said, the government seems to think that environmentalists, conservationists and oceanographers always go to the highest bidder.

"W"rong  !

People involved with the well being of this planet are NOT involved with toxic industries.  They are far more moral than that.

The people that are the smartest and best centered on the well being of this planet and its oceans and its fisheries are opposition to the industries and ALWAYS are in consultant to the government in activism and in positions within academia and the government such as NOAA and NASA and the US Forest Service.

So, that said, British Petroleum has a decision to make and that is they are going to do the right thing and blow the ruptures of the planet closed or they are going to continue in an ineffective and untested manner at a depth they should have never drilled in the first place.

That said, there is a roll by the USA military and federal and State governments to demand a quick resolve to a set of circumstances that are out of control and have been from the beginning.

British Petroleum and Halliburton have breached EVERY safety standard in the industry and killed eleven people while doing it. 

Eminent Domaine comes into play here and it is time to call this what it is.  It is a corrupt government structure that has allowed this level of negligence and the federal government needs to take up the responsible position and recall the rights to the leases that surround this tragedy. 

The USA military needs to have war games at 5000 feet down and close the rupture to the planet. 

There are currently eleven people dead and entire coastal economy on the way to being destroyed for an indeterment length of time and I am calling it half a century recovery, if at all.

Enough!!!

I have held this point of view from the beginning and I will not be changing it.

Haliiburton has prepared this concrete structure to use at the cost of who knows how many millions of dollars and NEVER took into account the EXTREME conditions at 5000 feet down.  Where did they think they were engineering this structure to be placed, at the surface, in the tropics, with full sunlight and temperatures exceeding 60 degrees Fahrenheit?

Halliburton has NO CLUE what it is doing and this is suppose to be state of  the art.

THAT SHOULD BE TELLING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS ACROSS THE GLOBE SOMETHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are limits to going into deep spaces of the planet and this is one of them !

"Morning Papers" - Its Origins

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

Does anyone have pictures of Sarah Palin hanging out with her minority friends?

Race and Equal Opportunity - Unknown:

Palin's views on affirmative action, civil rights bills, and other issues pertaining to racial justice are not yet clear.

You know, like pictures of her opening her office in Harlem?

Something like that?

Anything that indicates she actually is sensitive to issues of minorities.

Are her positions on anything clear and backed up by solid and sound policy that is REAL? 

Good night.

Supports a path to citizenship, but no amnesty for illegals. (Oct 2008)

Bush Fence Failed to Keep Arizona Protected

With over a billion dollars in "border security funds" (click title to entry - thank you) allocated by Congress, private companies are carrying out the biggest hoax of all—a $31.5 million dollar, seven-mile border fence at Sasabe, Arizona. The project has been whitewashed by a slim environmental assessment that obligingly finds "No Significant Impact....

...Never shy about injecting divisive rhetoric into any public debate, the patron saint of political foolishness, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, has attempted to dismiss the Arizona immigration law’s potential for racial profiling.

Palin has asserted that, “There is no ability or opportunity in there for racial profiling…shame on the lame stream media again for turning this into something that it is not.”

For those of you out there still undecided about this issue, I suggest you use my personal barometer. Whatever Sarah Palin believes and feels the need to make public, think and support the opposite.

Only then can you be assured that you are actually normal and intelligent.

http://www.sfltimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4372&Itemid=188

Some dictators hate America & what we stand for. (Oct 2008)

That might be true.

CIA’s final report: No WMD found in Iraq  (click title to entry - thank you)

Recommends freeing detainees held for weapons knowledge

updated 9:24 p.m. ET, Mon., April 25, 2005

WASHINGTON - In his final word, the CIA’s top weapons inspector in Iraq said Monday that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction has “gone as far as feasible” and has found nothing, closing an investigation into the purported programs of Saddam Hussein that were used to justify the 2003 invasion.

“After more than 18 months, the WMD investigation and debriefing of the WMD-related detainees has been exhausted,” wrote Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group, in an addendum to the final report he issued last fall.

“As matters now stand, the WMD investigation has gone as far as feasible.”

Analyze potential costs associated with climate change. (Oct 2006)

October 30, 2006 

Unchecked Global Warming a Massive Threat to US and Global Economies

Unchecked Global Warming a Massive Threat to US and Global Economies

WASHINGTON—A major new report on the economics of climate change released today has the potential to alter the terms of the US global warming debate, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. The report, prepared for the British government by Sir Nicholas Stern, a former Chief Economist and Vice-President of the World Bank, concludes that the world economy faces the threat of a massive economic depression if urgent action is not taken to limit the damaging impacts of unconstrained global warming.

The report also demonstrates that the costs of reducing emissions of the heat-trapping gases that are causing climate change are much more modest than some claim. While the economic cost of global warming could be as much as 20 percent of world gross domestic product (GDP) each year, an investment of just one percent of annual GDP by 2050 could reduce emissions significantly and head off the worst projected impacts of climate change. The report looks at the net present value of implementing strong mitigation policies and finds that the benefits of such action exceed the costs by $2.5 trillion annually...

Palin was an appointee under Murkowski to  "The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission."   Did she exercise any type of understanding of Global Warming there?  No, it was there she found scandal enough to propel her to the Governorship of the State.  

Project Map

http://www.thealaskapipelineproject.com/project_map

It was within this commission she wrangled a Trans Canada position for a gas pipeline for Alaska.  Does she understand today the brevity of the issue?  

No.

Does she care the Union of Concerned Scientists actually took her question serious enough to answer the question of what costs will impact the USA by doing nothing?

No, she doesn't care. Does she care about the brevity of any of her statements or actions?  

No.  It is all a big game to her.  She does not take seriously the brain trust of the USA in determining policies.  Yet, she is considered a competent public figure. 

Global warming denier Sarah Palin to appear at ‘Oil Palace’ in Texas. 

 Sarah Palin will soon take her rightful place as the queen of the Oil Palace. Event organizers in Tyler, TX announced that Palin will be speaking at the 60,000 square foot arena on June 24, following earlier appearances by her Fox News colleagues Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.  In fact, “people who have tickets for Beck, who is coming to the Oil Palace April 24, will have priority in buying tickets for Palin’s appearance.” It’s a fitting venue for Palin, who has referred to global warming science as “snake oil.” This morning, Palin doubled down with this Facebook posting:

The man-made global warming hysteria isn’t based on sound science, and the Obama administration’s energy policy isn’t based on sound economics. If the climategate revelations teach us anything, it’s that we need to cool down the rhetoric and fire up our common sense.

That’s the kind of rhetoric that seems fitting for the Oil Palace.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/19/palin-oil-palace/

She denied NINE, not one but nine assessments regarding the Polar Bear.  Did Sarah perform a study herself or have an assessment that stated differently?  Nah.  The Polar Bear got in the way of her rhetoric.  That's all.  Everything that matters isn't important when it comes to 'Agenda First Palin.'

Palin Fought Polar Bear Protections

Governor Discounted the Findings of Nine Recent USGS Studies

By JUSTIN ROOD

Aug. 31, 2008

...In defending her position, Palin has discounted the findings of nine recent U.S. Geological Survey studies which concluded that the polar bear's habitat is threatened by global warming, and the animals could be extinct before this century ends....

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5689165&page=1

I’m a feminist; equal rights for women. (Sep 2008)

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which was signed into law on Jan. 29, 2009, restores the protection against pay discrimination that was stripped away by the Supreme Court’s decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. The Act reinstates prior law and helps to ensure that individuals subjected to unlawful pay discrimination are able to effectively assert their rights under federal anti-discrimination laws.... (click title to entry - thank you)

Palin on Ledbetter.

"I’m absolutely for equal pay for equal work. The Ledbetter pay act--it was gonna turn into a boon for trial lawyers who, I believe, could have taken advantage of women who [would] allege discrimination many, many years ago. Thankfully, there are laws on the books, there have been since 1963, that no woman could be discriminated against in the workplace in terms of anything, but especially in terms of pay. So, thankfully we have the laws on the books and they better be enforced."

Where does that statement make sense?  She endorses old laws 'already on the books' that facilitated the Ledbetter v. Goodyear decision, but, she rhetorically states she believes in equal pay.

Palin flies in the fact of pure unadulterated logic to facilitate rhetoric.  That is leadership?  Where?  There is no leadership here.  

First understanding that government is not perfect is to realize when it works for people and when it doesn't.  If Sarah Palin cannot discern when government is acting adversely toward a citizen or citizens she endangers the rights of every American.  She certainly impales equality in a way that no one before her has, with the exception of perhaps Clarence Thomas and Bob Packwood.  "You've come a long way, babe."

Hillary put 18 million cracks in glass ceiling. (Sep 2008) 

So.  Pouting? 

No state-mandated religion, but public faith is ok

What is the difference?  If public displays of religious symbols are allowed, what is the difference between an officially mandated religion and a casual inference?

If government at any level provides a 'peep hole' of preference to religion at its core, there is no separation of church and state.

This is dangerous business.  It is a slippery slope and it is treated by Republicans as if it is a real issue.  It isn't.

The citizens of the USA are allowed to practice whatever faith they choose in the way they choose it.  This isn't even an issue. 

Creating a 'Designer Issue' is about compromising the USA Constitution, it isn't about impingement of government on personal rights.  IF ANYTHING, the insistence by the Republicans that the USA should 'help people be religious' is an impingement on personal rights.  

The Republicans are Anti-Civil Rights, from race to sexual identity to religious freedom. 

Sarah Palin's 'Christian Nation' Remarks Spark Debate

Advocates of Church-State Separation Say Palin Is Distorting Founders' Intent

But two groups dedicated to the separation of church and state are now speaking out against her, arguing that she is misreading the founders' intent. 

"It's incredibly hypocritical that Sarah Palin, who disapproves of government involvement in just about anything, now suddenly wants the government to help people be religious," Barry Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, told ABC News. 

"It is wildly inconsistent with her views on limited government to get the government involved in matters of faith."...

Use my daughter Bristol as a teaching tool for others. (Oct 2008)

This is simply "W"rong.  It was wrong to display a young woman expecting her first child out of wedlock as a role model.  And to consider that her mother employed her as a teaching tool is exploitation beyond any form of morality.

The problem with Sarah Palin's activism is that she sincerely motivates people to follow her.  She obviously has an agenda and that is to find alliances that will support her in a career.  A political career.

Has the Sarah bubble burst?  

She turned on her own political network in the Tea Baggers and decided to endorse a Republican with significant financial ties.

“She’s not a career politician,” added Ms. Palin, the former Alaska governor. “She’s a businesswoman who has run a major corporation. She knows how to really incentivize job creation.”  (click title to entry - thank you)

Sarah is a 'flip-flopper' when 'sniffing the wind' means lots and lots of money.  She is corrupt and worships the 'money god' and nothing else.  I have never witnessed a mother that actually allowed her daughter to be a 'display' for Pro-Life at one of the most delicate times of her life. 

I am suppose to admire this?  This is ambition?  No.

(Economic) Restraint of last two years should continue in tough times. (Jan 2009)

The Republican Rhetoric doesn't make sense based on past performance of the Bush/Cheney economy.

So, let's start there.

What bothers me about any of these dynamics is that there is an entire news network dedicated to electing into office 'the Republican' no matter the costs to the country.

The Bush Years consisted of a faux economy accompanied by two wars of which one had no legitimacy.

We know for a fact the years of the GOP outlined here was due to chronic funding of the economy by the USA Treasury.  

This was the report by the Federal Reserve Board regarding 2007.  This was the year before the national elections and it preceded the global economic collapse of 2008.  Yet, nothing was done with this information as the election would overshadow any prudent decision making regarding the obviously impending collapse.  And Sarah?  She didn't have a clue.

...The financial turmoil did not appear to leave much of a mark on overall economic activity in the third quarter. Real GDP rose at an annual rate of nearly 5 percent, as solid gains in consumer spending, business investment, and exports more than offset the continuing drag from residential investment. In the fourth quarter, however, economic activity decelerated significantly, and the economy seems to have entered 2008 with little forward momentum....

...In the labor market, private hiring slowed sharply in late 2007 and January 2008. The increase in the price index for total personal consumption expenditures (PCE) picked up to 3-1/2 percent in 2007 as a result of sizable increases in food and energy prices. Core PCE inflation, though uneven over the course of the year, averaged a bit more than 2 percent during 2007 as a whole, a little less than the increase posted in 2006....

What does all that mean?  It means the purchasing power of the USA Dollar was waning as the economy became weaker and weaker.  Even in the year 2007 and into early 2008 it was known that the economy was tanking, yet, no one did a thing.

Does anyone besides me see the danger in a government based in rhetoric for the purpose of controlling the outcome to elections?  

The rhetoric at the time was that the Republicans brought 7 years of incredible growth to the USA.  Seven years of huge government spending accompanied by national security issues, "W"rongful wars and increasing USA debt.  And where was that debt financed under Bush/Cheney?  But, yet, they claim they are patriotic Americans right up to the point where they sell the 'credit rating' of the USA to the highest foreign bidder.

Anyone ever hear of US Treasury Bills or US Savings Bonds?  Anyone?  Maybe those Day Traders?

Treasury Direct

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/products.htm