The Bush Policy regarding Polar Bears is bogus. The 'backbone' to the ESA, IS and has been restoration and protection of habitat.

To allow The Salazar Interior Department to turn its back on restoration of habitat for Polar Bears, by neglecting the regulation of greenhouse gases as a methodology to reverse the trend of the destruction of the Arctic Ocean Ice, is a very DANGEROUS precedent.

It cannot be allowed to stand! It panders to 'special interest groups' with big bank rolls, such as Halliburton and the oil companies that have never concerned themselves with the best interest of any species and have impinged upon Human Rights in places like Nigeria.

...The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced a grant of $500,000 for the Table Rocks purchase from funds dedicated to the acquisition of vital habitat for threatened and endangered plants and animals. Of the 1,710 acres, 450 acres are designated by the Service as critical habitat for the vernal pool fairy shrimp....

May 7, 2009

Breaking News

Stimulus to provide $15.8 million for BLM projects (click here)

By Jeremy Duda, jeremy.duda@azcapitoltimes.com
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is slated to receive $15.8 million in federal stimulus money for 54 projects in Arizona, with a large portion dedicated to renewable energy projects....

...The remainder of the 54 projects will be dedicated to things such as maintenance for bureau buildings and parking lots, habitat preservation and road and bridge work. About $2.8 million of the money will go toward numerous habitat restoration projects....

New organic initiative signup is May 11-29 (click here)
By The Associated Press
05/08/2009

HURON -- USDA has announced a new initiative to encourage more organic agriculture production. Funding for the initiative is being made available as part of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
The 2009 Organic Initiative is a nationwide special initiative to provide financial assistance to National Organic Program (NOP) certified organic producers as well as producers in the process of transitioning to organic production. Organic producers may also apply for assistance under general EQIP.South Dakota received over $1.1 million in funding, said NRCS State Conservationist Janet Oertly of Huron....

Federal funds available to protect working farms (click here)
Thursday, May 7, 2009
BANGOR — Juan Hernandez, state conservationist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Maine, has announced that the agency has up to $1.4 million available through the Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program (FRPP)."This program helps ensure that valuable, productive land is protected," said Hernandez. "The funds will be used to purchase conservation easements to limit conversion of farmland to non-agricultural uses." NRCS will accept FRPP proposals from interested state, tribal, and local governments and non-governmental organizations until June 5. For those proposals selected for funding, NRCS will enter into an agreement to support efforts to protect soils and historical and archaeological sites. NRCS provides up to 50 percent of the appraised fair market value of the conservation easement. All funds will be awarded to the highest ranked eligible parcels through a statewide, competitive process. Additional information may be obtained online at www.me.nrcs.usda.gov or by contacting Programs Manager Bill Yamartino at 207-990-9553.

The Obama Stimulus will not fail. It supports profoundly American Values including The Family Farm. The USE of the stimulus bill is very diversified. There is no way it will fail, because, it is supported by development of all walks of life in the USA. All these funds translate into jobs and/or private entrepreneurship with tax income for the country and states. It supports every aspect of an economy. It is one of the most 'richly diverse' and supportive legislation in the country's history. Of course, every American Family Farm receiving support is a 'green initative' as Family Farms are far more efficient with environmentally friendly land stewardship.

Salazar can't separate greenhouse gases from Polar Bears. It is pure moronity to believe they are separate issues. LAW SUITS !!!!

Hey, Salazar, see if you can follow this, son !!!

Greenhouse Gas = Human Induced Global Warming.

Got that much?

Human Induced Global Warming = melting Arctic Ocean Sea Ice.

Right? Right.

Stay with me now, this is the tough part.

The Polar Bears? You know the critters protected by the Endangered Species Act? I know you know bears. The big white ones. The ones that have a paw the size of a human face. You know the ones I am talking about?

Okay. They live on sea ice. When the sea ice is gone? They die. Really, no lie. These bears are great swimmers and are considered a Marine Mammal, which brings in The Marine Mammal Protection Act by the way, but, when they swim ALL THE TIME because there is no sea ice to 'rest' on they die. Lose body weight, hence insulation to the frigid waters and they die.

Hard concept to get your mind around, but, I have confidence in you.

Now, the real challenge to all this is that I agree, the USA needs to legislate the Carbon Dioxide issue that we sprew at 25% of all polluters. Definately needs 'autonomous' legislation, HOWEVER, that does not mean greenhouse gases are separated from Polar Bears and their survival. Not at all. As a matter of fact, the legislature that covers CO2 also needs to addresss METHANE, too. All greenhouse gases.

If I was a Polar Bear, I would definately expect the USA to regulate ALL greehouse gases that are KIILING me and my kids.

Got that!

Now. About those leases that are against our sovereign best interest. I really don't care if the 'budget' is a little 'out of wack' because the leases are pulled. We have a RIGHT to a sane USA. That simply means the new Treasury Secretary needs to sharpen his pencil a little more.

Oh, yeah. You can resign if you like. No problem.

Knock it Off ! What are people doin'. This is probably one of the most appropriately beautiful pictures we'll ever have of the Statue of Liberty.

Mr. Caldera, we'll miss you. (click here)

I am not the least bit surprised the photo op was not annouced to the public. It is after all AIR FORCE ONE.

We have these kind of exercises all the time over Wilmington International Airport. They practice 'touch downs' and emergency procedures and the plane is always accompanied by jet fighters.

Give me a break already. These are necessary exercises and if they decided to take pictures this time, then it was because these costs were already figured into the military budget. The ONLY 'real cost' to the USA was the fuel and that's all.

It is unfortunate people were alarmed, but, with the plane being Air Force One, I am not surprised there was no formal notification of the public. What if the military made the exception of notifying the public 'this time' and there was some kind of error and one day the information was released regarding the airplane when the President was actually in it. I am confident the policy exists that protects the movement of any Air Force One.

Hello, America. Are we still allowoing Osama bin Laden to plague our realities? Who is the real enemy here? It isn't the White House. You mean people weren't ooing and awing at the site of President Obama's plane and wondering if he was making a surprise visit? That is a shame.


An Air Force presidential aircraft, part of the fleet used by U.S. presidents, is pictured above the Statue of Liberty in New York, in this photograph released to Reuters on May 8, 2009. White House military aide Louis Caldera, who authorized an Air Force flyover of New York that caused panic among some New Yorkers there, resigned on Friday.
REUTERS/The White House/Handout

People don't understand what this was all about? The crown to the Statue of Liberty is opening on July 4th. What a beautiful idea for New York to have a new image of its city in the year 2009. A symbol of freedom instead of the nightmare of a terrorist attack. I don't believe that man resigned over this.

I've heard it all now.

This country was falling apart at the seams when President Obama came into office and this is the one pickable incident the Republicans can make a fuss over. Honestly !

This is a new administration simply trying to satisfy the needs of the administration.

...Caldera had approved the mission. His resignation came on the same day Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in a letter to Senator John McCain that the photo shoot cost U.S. taxpayers as much as $357,000....

He has nothing else to do except pick on a Presidential aid that was simply doing his job. It isn't as though this is the 'FIRST' set of photo ops that ever were done. Bush USED the flights over the '9-11 site' as a campaign uptick. This is ridiculous already. Big achievement for John McCann, he harassed a Presidential aid to resign over a photo to uplife the image of New York City.

McCann should join Jeb Bush, the next Republican Presidential hopeful, on his LISTENING TOUR rather than diving into a 'Complaining Campaign.' Not bad, Jeb Bush gets to run a 'exploratory' campaign without paying a dime.


Republicans launch a listening tour in Democratic-leaning suburbs (click here)
By JOSH KRAUSHAAR & PATRICK O'CONNOR
5/4/09 4:16 AM EDT
...Romney and Bush both downplayed their own political ambitions. Bush, who earlier this year declined to run for Florida’s open Senate seat, said he was glad to be out of the political arena and is now focused on brainstorming policy ideas — and he expressed his frustration that most politics in Washington are “defined by a food fight.”...

A food fight. Real nice. The President is trying to find in roads to bring the Republicans out of their grudge match and now ANOTHER Bush calls everything a food fight. We don't need this. We didn't need 'Contract with America' either !

Why wealth merchants are so dangerous. Whether Mike Moore wants the 'crown' or not, he has inherited the legacy of what ails capitalism run amok.

For centuries the 'government/ruling class' have dictated 'the state of affairs' of the populous. Wealth merchants are the basis of Wall Street. To die for power occurred under Bush when the American markets became 'monotone' to product availability.


...The stories I hear are pretty much the same(click here), with a few variations to allow for the pink-slipped brother who committed suicide, or the mother who lost her life savings when the pension fund went belly-up. I have heard so many of these stories that I can fill in the blanks before the sentences are finished. I find myself doing this to keep from sinking into an even greater despair.
It is not pleasant when a homeless person actually knows you and calls out, "Hey, Mike!" as you are trying to walk quickly past him and his shopping cart. This happened to me on 46th Street in New York City in front of the Paramount Hotel. I was with a vice president of NBC and the producers of my show "TV Nation." The homeless man grabbed my hand for a shake and told me he, too, was from Flint, Michigan, but now lives here on the street.
He wanted to describe his favorite part of Roger & Me, which he had seen three years ago when he had a job. While the NBC executive was watching in disbelief, I'm thinking to myself ... I know this guy!
"You remember me, don't you?" he asked. "I used to deliver your newspaper, the Flint Voice."...

One of the reasons the American Auto Manufacturer failed is because they never concentrated on Americans. They made products Americans didn't want, but, settled for simply because that was what was provided. While failing to accommodate their 'best' consumers they sought hope for their industry abroad, expanding their kingdoms and entering into hideous debt. So, today, the American Auto Industry is virtually in ruins, with the exception of Ford which had the 'luck' of investing in liquid capital when it was cheap, thus avoiding government bailout funds.

The survival of JP Morgan was due to its hulking size alone. In the case of Goldman Sachs, it survives inspite of its overt and frank failure, because of the manipulation of its 'influence' though a marketing strategy based in 'out sourcing' its well indoctrinated and trained executives.


This type of 'power' is not only scary for its control of the outcome of American entitlements and sovereignty of its government, but, imposes an overlay to the populous and the allowance of its values as reflected in its market place. This type of consumerism is a form of harassment to 'instill' values rather than 'reflect' values. No different than the profits of Columbus in 1492 when he reported to Queen Isabella the discovery of a new land and its new products and potential for consumerism; the American consumer is 'locked into' the dictates of Wall Street.

Is this benign and good for us OR is it the most harmful venues of product availability that actually harnesses democracy in a manner of servatude? Part of what we are seeing in this economic collapse is the failure of this form of consumerism and its vast effect on a globally vital economy.

We need our companies and corporations when producing a product such as a car due to the large need of capital investment, however, when the markets demand 'change' and it is not forthcoming are we open to a 'sentence' of frustration and political jocking in order to 'enforce' the change that should have occurred within the definitions of 'capitalism.'

Therefore we as Americans concerned with our futures and those of our children have to be left with the answer that 'capitalism' as 'allowed' by Conservatives simply doesn't work. So, therefore, can government ever disappear? Can taxes ever be reduced to only support a military? Can companies ever dominate the resources of the USA without 'control/regulations' by government? When is government too big and when is it grossly insufficient?

No different than Isabella that found genius in the idea of a brave Columbus to find better routes to the West Indies a government has to see the future and act on it with confidence and commitment.

So, how do we find 'value' in consumerism that benefits us and our high moral content? High moral content that incorporates all venues of our lives other than just a 'good time' on Saturday Night. How do we prevent now and in the future such damage to our lifestyles? Where does 'the control' to protect our futures, promises and entitlements come from and how do we make Wall Street work for us rather than just supplying 'dirt cheap' lives that provide an existance above proverty level taking away the American Dream and promise of a happy retirement? Is our Constitution sufficient in its venues of authority to actually protect the people of the USA or do we have grossly deficient laws without enforcement capacity to 'stabilize' our lifestyles and promises?

I propose the USA Constitution and its laws are sufficient to provide incredible venues of control to protect the lives of Americans. There are laws of anti-trust and they should be used on a regular basis to 'break' the log jam of bad business strategies that entangle the American people in values alien to their 'national moral content.' When conglomerates are 'enforcers' of impoverishment there needs to be actions to relieve Americans 'learned understanding' of what life is all about.

We once lived in a 'day' when people were able to secure their best outcomes in life with a good lifestyle plan. We lived in a 'day' when promise to security was a reality and not an illusion. We lived in a 'day' when our scientists were respected and revered for the investment our nation placed in them to carry out a 'path of security and hope' for our country.

When government becomes oppressive and enforces that oppression of our moral content and wishes for our best outcomes and those of our children through 'Wall Street' abuses; we need to attack the mechanism of our entrapment and seek to break down corporate havens of power while returning promise to the American economy.

The Conservatives of the 'opposite' party complain about the current spending habits of the adminisration we need to ask ourselves if 'downsizing' government that began with Reagan was actually an 'investment' into the economic collapse that resulted by the reinvention of Reagan by "W." If the American people weren't blind sided by its inability to grasp what Reagan did to its moral content back in the day when an 'economic cushion' hid all the damage and deficits were easily accommodated we would not be facing the issues of today.

The new government elected in 2008 is necessary to reestablish the moral content of the USA in its 'status' in the world. It is easy and cheap to build 'personal reward' within a 'society' to base it in a theocracy. It is not 'cheap' to build a government that reacts to the moral content of a nation in a way that protects its capitalism democracy. The people of the USA have to come to terms with the 'lack' of its moral content since Reagan and accept how its government has to work to insure its future and promise of all its 'quality.'

It is far more prudent to build a better America than continue to pander to 'cheap' answers to enforcing and upholding the moral content of this nation. We can't allow any of this to happen again and I refuse to believe we have to accept Wall Street on its own definition without the ability to thwart its 'worsening' impact on our soveriegn nation. Dear God, they could have destroyed us !

Homeless NO More !

Downsize This ! Where did all the jobs go?

The economy as it exists today doesn't allow for healthy competition. It doesn't give consumers across the spectrum of needs, wants and desires multiple venues of opportunity. There are huge multi-naitonal corporations that 'service' the USA in a cafeteria style consumerism.

I think it goes unsaid that banks have monopolized viable alternatives to any fiscal venue causing limited answers to the economic collapse that resulted from eight years of Conservative indulgence of cronies. It gave life to the expression, "The Bigger thay are the Harder they Fall."

The American public, especially its entrepreneurs, are trapped in death defying acts of Overstock and Black Fridays to survive fiscally within their own lives. Across the board small businesses can't compete with conglomerates with headquarters in foreign lands. The mass produced reality of the American people is as foreign to its landscape as the banks that lend to them.

There needs to be Anti-Trust suits across the board in order to releave the American consumer from 'dirt cheap lifestyles and paychecks' and return the rewards of 'quality' achieved through savings and lifestyle planning. We have to move away from 'unidimension' lifestyles where everyone has the same dish pattern and the same towel design. This isn't the USA, this is the subculture of a global economy seeking 'sameism' and consumer poverty to guarantee their future.

They have to be disbanded while the unemployed find their footing in opportunity presented by open markets.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
v.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®
Defendant.

V. REQUIRED CONDUCT (click here)
A. Within five business days after entry of this Final Judgment, NAR shall repeal the ILD Policy and direct each Member Board that adopted Rules implementing the ILD Policy to repeal such Rules at the next meeting of the Member Board's decisionmaking body that occurs more than ten days after receipt of the directive, but no later than ninety days after entry of this Final Judgment.

B. Within five business days after entry of this Final Judgment, NAR shall direct Member Boards that adopted Rules implementing the VOW Policy to repeal such Rules at the next meeting of the Member Board's decisionmaking body that occurs more than ten days after receipt of the directive, but no later than ninety days after entry of this Final Judgment.

C. Within five business days after entry of this Final Judgment, NAR shall adopt the Modified VOW Policy. NAR shall not change the Modified VOW Policy without either obtaining advance written approval by the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division ("DOJ") or an order of the Court pursuant to Section VIII of this Final Judgment authorizing the proposed modification....