The USA does not need a 'full' Climate Bill. The Supreme Court has already given brevity to the power of the EPA to regulate.

All the other 'stuff' that was being considered like "Carbon Credits" is not really necessary. I doubt seriously (In its initial form.) Carbon Credits would do anything except increase consumer costs. 

The USA Supreme Court has already provided power to the EPA to regulate Greenhouse Gases.  There is every indiction Secretary Jackson is providing methods to do exactly that.

The other 'fluff' in the bill such as 'Natural Gas Vehicles' is simply to 'stroke the cronies' and there is no reason for it.  Such carbon dioxide emitting vehicles need to be viewed as an emergency measure to alternative types of transportation such as electric cars and mass transit. 

Ethanol is still a viable source of fuel for the USA, but, the 'export' of the ethanol is an issue and grossly limits the 'carbon reduction' character of the fuel.  However, ethanol is far safer than crude and methane. 

Offshore Oil Drilling has to be controlled and ultimately eliminated.  There just isn't any reason for the USA to continue to be this foolish.  We need an economy we can count on and the fisheries are a vital component to that.  If the USA hasn't got an autonomous food source in its fisheries then it is a National Security Issue.  That can't be allowed any longer. 

The USA has to stabilize its economy and expand its tax base so future generations have a strong 'spring board' for their economies.  A wider tax base means the 'average' tax load for every American will be reduced and manageable.

The car emission standards of all the vehicles no matter there energy source has to be raised.  That means even though a Chevy Volt might have a sticker price of $30 thousand or more, it also means the cost of the 'fuel' to power it will be less and the long term value of the electric car will prove to be less after initial investment.

I believe the 'Climate Legislation' as it is known is 'on track' in a way that streamlines the responsiblity for Greenhouse Gases and keeps the cost of government down to enforce the regs.  I think we are doing fine.

On a Global Scale, Carbon Credits and Subsidies to countries that support vast tracks of rainforest and other carbon sinks such as Coral Reefs is still vital to bring Human Induced Global Warming and the Climate Crisis under control.  I also believe the USA has to create 'value' to carbon sinks within the USA.  The National Park Service and The USA Forest Service need a program to 'set aside' Heritage Forests. 

Heritage Forests are those similar to the Redwoods and the Old Growth Forests of the Northwest that harken back to 'the way things were' when the USA was first discovered and settled.  If the Grand Cypresses along the Southeast Coast were left alone, today we would have trees over 2000 to 2500 years old that were vital to steming the carbon dioxide pollution that currently exists.  Imagine having a tree over 2000 years old for your children to see and realize it was there before the time of Jesus Christ.  All that is gone and it is time to establish priorities to return 'Grand Forests' back to the American Landscape.

What is this unemployment mess all about anyway? Right? Basically, the USA has been robbed by Wall Street.

Back in the day when President Clinton was able to garner a surplus to our USA Treasury, we had a service economy.

But, I'd like to go back a litte further to make the point as to how the USA was literally robbed of its jobs and industrial sector by Wall Street.

Everyone has heard of 'the balance of power.'  What about the 'balance of trade?'

I am not discussing the bank bailout, that is simply pure unadulterated expolitation of the American Dream.  Actually, outsourcing lead to the exploitation of the USA's home ownership dilemma.  See, with a service economy, the Wall Street crowd was looking at the 'last run' at the 'profiteering' by Wall Street.  The 'capacity' of Americans to actually save, live and plan for the future was becoming deperately absent in this country's culture.  The history of outsouring goes back decades and I'll use the example of GM and Mexico to illustrate that point, but, it never really became a political issue until 2004 when it was an issue for more and more people under the Bush/Cheney White House. 

Let's start with Nixon and China.  It was a good thing to have diplomatic relations with China and to find ways to encourage a market based economic system with China, but, the way it was done was "W"rong.  I'll get back to that.  First Mexico and GM.

GM's CEO wanted to make more money.  Just that simply.  They had already cheapened the steel metal they were using to make cars and trucks that increased the 'rusting' to the consumer's dismay, so GM had to find another way to make more money and they targeted labor.  At the time GM employees were well paid with significant benefits.  The American Dream.  Work hard, save, buy a home, make the world better for your kids and retire with security for 'The Golden Years.'

That doesn't exist for many, many Americans and the generation that enjoyed that life style never wanted the USA in such economic disrepair for their children.  But, it happened didn't it.  At first it seemed as though it was mostly benign and something that happened to someone else.  But, as time went by and the corporations found out they could 'export' their labor to far, far cheaper labor markets WITHOUT REPERCUSSIONS, the movement of outsourcing grew.  Stockholders were happy. 

The one 'player' in all this that was completely absent was the USA government.

When an American looks at Mexico today, realizing how much of the economy was 'shipped' there, did it matter?  Did it matter that GM outsourced jobs to Mexico?  Did it matter to the Mexicans that now had American jobs?

No, it didn't matter.  GM moved operations to Mexico, not ot improve the poverty of Mexicans, they moved their operations there to improve their bottom line.  That is not only true with GM, but, every other corporation that initally built their empires in the USA, perfected their products and then 'moved on' to 'greener pastures.' 

One might ask, did the lifestyles of anyone along the way improve?  Did the lifestyles of Mexicans improve?  Did the lifestyles of Americans improve? 

Nope.  As a matter of fact, corporations like GM were just about as stupid as they come in 'planning' their market strategies, because, the countries they moved their operations to not only undermined the economies of the country that accepted the manufacturing into their borders, they were also demoralizing the 'buying ability' of the Americans they still 'counted on' to purchase their goods.

Got this, now?

When Nixon went to China to 'encourage' openness and peace, it was a good thing.  When China decided to open its borders to American companies to bring jobs to the people there, it was considered a good thing.  But, what in reality occurred was 'the draining' of 'the market place,' except for the 'cost' of the products that were being sold.  So, now that the manufacturing jobs of the USA were ouitsourced Americans faced the reality of having to maintain two and three jobs to replace the jobs they had before outsourcing.

The economy under H. W. Bush was tanking too.  His son, Neil, needed a 'bailout' in order to keep 'Silverado' afloat.  The USA Economy was already showing signs of collapse during Bush, Sr.'s Presidency.  The jobs that allowed the USA economy to flourish were disappearing and the economic engine the USA was used to started to slow and become sluggish.

President Clinton was elected and he went about stimulating the economy by 'pushing' the USA into the only economic venue it had left since the Capitalists robbed the manufacturing sector out of the country.  Under Clinton, the USA began to have a better 'trade balance' with other countries and the revenues into the Treasury were improving.  Families were still working more jobs, but, there were more jobs to be found.

Oh, yeah, Reaganomics.  There really was 'no such thing.'  What Reagan did was to DEREGULATE all the sectors of the economy, INCLUDING, natural resources.  No one has to be Einstein to do that.  Republicans were favored at the time because they were LOOKING as though the 'economic engine' was escalating in its ability to PROSPER. 

But, to get back to Clinton, what he did was to promote peace, stay out of wars and increase the service industries such as tourism.  Country's with citizens with 'disposable income' were now shopping for a good time in the USA.  Was the Clinton Service Economy 'enough' for the USA?  No.  It was enough while it was at peace, but, to increase major spending of any kind would cause deficit spending and increase the USA Debt.  What occurred as well, was a 'rolling back' of some social programs such as welfare.  It was replaced with 'Welfare to Work.'  Basically, under Clinton the USA was becoming lean and mean.  Its revenues were going up becuase of the increased 'good relations' with other nations, its pursuit of peace and its expenses were going down due to 'trimming' of the social programs. 

What Clinton did do was to return manufacturing to the USA.  It took eight years of 'positive' diplomacy to achieve a growing economy, but, the manufacturing sector was left fallow.  What Clinton was looking at was the 'surplus' and what to do with it to increase the USA economy without impacting burgeoning economies such as China and India.

Then came the year 2000.  The surplus was squandered and the USA was forced into war in a far away country called Afghanistan.  The economy of the USA was no different than under Clinton, except, in 2001 a bill was passed that would begin the exploitation of the 'working poor' that was always hoping to have a home.  The bill was accompanied by a few billion as an incentive for Wall Street to cooperate.  The tale goes on from there and the seven years of 'so called' economic growth in the USA was nothing more than deficit spending.  Why was that so invisible?  Why was the USA economy not really 'changing character' by returning manufacturing, but, appearing to be growing and expanding?  Because the government spending was blamed on two wars, one of which was unnecessary and one that could have been prevented.  "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in USA."  The housing industry was booming on 'faux credit' and a 'burgeoning collapse.'

Nothing had changed in the USA under Bush/Cheney, except, the Republican Raping of the RESIDUAL economic strength of the USA.  All the 'residual' monies of any kind were drained through legislation and/or economic desperation by every company and every Wall Street firm. 

Basically, by January 2009 the USA economy was DOA with two wars to fight and a national debt going through the roof.

The sad truth has resulted in a destroyed economy that provided Wall Street with billions of government money leaving Americans to 'figure it out' and 'remake their economy FROM SCRATCH.'

When President Obama took office he had a huge task in front of him, far worse than anything Former President Clinton had to face.  The USA was 'at peace' under Clinton, it had a good reputation and it was making in roads to a service economy.  The USA that President Obama inherited was simply 'empty' of any potential. 

The wars were really a 'no brainer.'  They were "W," except, for the potential of actually ending the terrorist network that attacked the USA on September 11, 2001.  THAT was something all Americans still wanted to do.  They wanted Bin Laden's head on a stick.  What no one KNEW, except perhaps, some intelligence agencies SOMEWHERE, that the Afghan Government was now in a power sharing agreement with the Taliban and the corruption that accompanied THAT TRUTH was profound.  What had transpired under Bush was complete collapse of the Karzai government except for its figure head Presient.

What the USA needed was a 'new economy' which would deliver jobs back to the people.  So, the NEW President Obama and majority Democratic House and Senate passed a 'Stimulus Bill.'  The Simulus Bill, however, was not to be exclusively a 'job stimulus' bill, it was a 'bailout bill' for most States of the Union.  The States were failing nearly as badly as the country.  So, the Stimulus Bill not only had to build a new economy, it had to bailout States by providing 'projects' to put people back to work.  WHAT WAS COMPLETELY UNEXEPCTED, was the number of jobs SAVED by the Stimulus Bill.  The States were failing so badly, they were about to cut jobs and put people on unemployment.  No one, and I mean no one, knew the very impoverished state of the USA economy when President Obama took office.

Once the Stimulus Bill 'hit' there was still sluggish recovery.  Somehow it didn't make sense still.  What wasn't 'factored' into the equation was the fact that the USA Industrial Sector was still missing in action.  So, when States and Cities began to make changes to a 'Green Economy' the HARDWARE of the Green Economy was being IMPORTED.  So, while the Stimulus was 'delivering' on a Green Economy, the spending was not COMPLETELY giving returns to the USA treasury. 

The equation the Obama White House was a good equation, except, it was not completely a USA equation.  To that end, it added to stability in other countries, but, at the same time any 'service economy' for the USA was mostly minimal.  The GLOBAL BANKING COLLAPSE had devasted every economy on Earth.  Not only that, but, countries that received the outsourced jobs from the USA, like China and India, were still paying 'dirt cheap' wages and the 'goods' were necessary to Americans that now were facing a life receiving unemployment while seeking jobs somewhere, anywhere doing something.

The manufacturing sector of the USA would not yet return.  There are glimmers of hope, such as the new Wind Turbine manufacturing in Michigan.  I believe they have four factories at this point.  BUT, Michigan had learned a hard lesson a long time ago and when the Green Economy began to become a reality about a decade ago, Michigan saw the opportunity and didn't turn from it.

The 'much needed' local economies the USA absolutely needed to return economic strength to its communities and States were slow to return.  Wall Street was not lending monies to small businesses.  The Obama White House had to work with the Small Business Administraiton to beging to provide the necessary loans to help small businesses to bring about stability to cities and States.  All this 'alarming' truth took monies and the USA Treasury would not yet see the likes of a building surplus.

Why the unemployment? 

BECAUSE.

Because if we are to return economic strength to the USA, a surplus to our treasury, we have to LITERALLY build it from the ground up.

Will it happen?

Are we Americans?  There is no such thing as a lazy American, just a determined one.  The Unemployment was the right thing to do and the health care legislation closes the donut hole in two years and begins to build a surplus by eliminating 'privatized' Wall Street Medicare Advantage. 

Does anyone ever believe 'lawyers' would ever set themselves up to be 'caught?'

On January 6, 2005 Colin Newman, an assistant in the White House counsels office, wrote to David Leitch stating, "Karl Rove stopped by to ask you (roughly quoting) 'how we planned to proceed regarding U.S. Attorneys, whether we were going to allow all to stay, request resignations from all and accept only some of them or selectively replace them, etc.'". The email was then forwarded to Kyle Sampson, chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

In reply, Kyle Sampson, then Department of Justice counsel to Attorney General John Ashcroft, wrote that it would be "weird to ask them to leave before completing at least a 4-year term", that they "would like to replace 15–20 percent of the current U.S. Attorneys" and that the rest "are doing a great job, are loyal Bushies, etc." The White House at one time suggested that the plan for dismissals came from White House counsel Harriet Miers, who left the White House in January 2007 before the dismissal received public attention.

E-Mails Show Rove's Role in U.S. Attorney Firings


White House Says E-Mails Are Consistent With Its Original Statements on the Controversy

By JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG

 March 15, 2007

New unreleased e-mails from top administration officials show that the idea of firing all 93 U.S. attorneys was raised by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove in early January 2005, indicating Rove was more involved in the plan than the White House previously acknowledged. The e-mails also show how Alberto Gonzales discussed the idea of firing the attorneys en masse while he was still White House counsel -- weeks before he was confirmed as attorney general.
The e-mails put Rove at the epicenter of the imbroglio and raise questions about Gonzales' explanations of the matter.

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..."Evidence (click title to entry - thank you) did not demonstrate that any prosecutable criminal offense was committed with regard to the removal of David Iglesias," the Justice Department said in a letter to lawmakers Wednesday. "The investigative team also determined that the evidence did not warrant expanding the scope of the investigation beyond the removal of Iglesias."Prosecutors also said there was insufficient evidence to charge someone with lying to Congress or investigators....


Why do I get the idea that the current Justice Department is playing 'avoidance' politics with the former Bush White House?

The weather at Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska is (Crystal Wind Chime) hideous!

The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf in the Canadian arctic. File photo.


Photograph by: Denis Sarrazin/Center for Northern Studies/Handout/Reuters,


..."Arctic air temperatures were higher than normal, and Arctic sea ice continued to decline at a fast pace" last month, (click title to entry - thank you) the centre said in its July 6 report, adding that June also "saw the return of the Arctic dipole anomaly, an atmospheric pressure pattern that contributed to the record sea ice loss in 2007."...

Local Time: 3:20 PM AKDT (GMT -08)
Lat/Lon: 58.8° N 137.0° W
Elevation :: 33 feet
Temperature :: 57 Fahrenheit
Conditions :: Overcast
Humidity :: 82%
Dew Point :: 52 Fahrenheit
Wind :: 6 mph from the SW
Pressure :: 30.20 inches (Rising)
Visibility :: 10.0 miles
UV :: 2 out of 16
Clouds :: 3400 feet (Above Ground Level)

Ms. Shirley Sherrod has legal recourse against Breitbart and Murdoch and everyone in between.

Ms. Sherrod should be awarded her full retirement and the Agriculture Department needs to provide all benefits to her that would normally be awarded had this not been exploited by the media.  This isn't her issue.  Her record at the Department of Agriculture cannot express a termination that will effect her status in pursuing a productive and secure future.

Shirley Sherrod, the former Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the USDA, resigned on Monday after making racial remarks.

I have never seen such defamation of a person, a woman's character in my life.  What is the Secretary of Agriculture suppose to do?  HOPE the department isn't effected.  It already has been effected.

Ms. Sherrod needs a good civil rights attorney.

The Tea Party is racist.  Look at the religious bigotry leveled by Sarah Palin regarding a Mosque in New York CIty.

Look, a political party that wants to erase 200 years of Civil Rights in this country is definately racist.

They have viciously attacked prominent African Americans since President Obama was inaugurated.  This is no different than the Van Jones issue.  Who runs country?  Rupert Murdoch and their spin machine and those that fall into line to 'make a buck.' 
...Sherrod "kept us out of bankruptcy," said Eloise Spooner, 82. She and her husband Roger Sooner, who own a farm in Iron City, located in southwest Georgia, approached Sherrod in 1986 -- when she worked with the Georgia field office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund -- seeking assistance....

It is impossible to drill one mile down on a high content methane vat.

The crew of the Deepwater Horizon found pieces of seal because the methane was crystalizing them.  There is a chance the same thing will happen with the relief wells.  With the four risers operating and removing methane from the site where the relief well enters the well casing there is a 'chance' it might work.  There is also a chance it may not and the only option is a subterranian explosion that will seal the well.

This well is a high content methane well and while it spews a large amount at the well head when it is not restrained, that doesn't mean it maintains the same status when the oil and gas are NOT moving.  The only reason the well head doesn't freeze over without containment is because it is flowing to fast at a high pressure to create 'cohesive' ice 'masses,' only 'crystals.

I am dead serious about this.

The flange is leaking because the seal has either contracted due to freezing or crystalized as well. 

The gauge is increasing its reading 'slowly' because the ice is increasing in the 'the stack.' 

The vat is not diminished in its volume or capacity or pressure.  Accurate readings of the vat are inhibited by the methane hydrates.

The risers to the surface can be closed slowly once the relief well is in place and ready to deliver the concrete.  But, until that point the cap has to remain open and removing the methane from the well.  The oil is secondary in concern, it is the methane that has made this well dangerous and continues to do so.

I am very worried. The methane hydrates at the 'flange' IS DEFINATELY a leak of the stack.

It may be that the mechanism that is in place, "the stack," is frozen.  The reason the pressure may not be increasing is because it is frozen. The pressure as it is now might be increasing slowly as the ice inside the well bore increases and does not indicate there is more pressure because of the vat.

The GAUGES measuring the pressure may be 'inhibited' from delivering accuracy due to frozen hydrates.  There is definately a potential for inaccuracy in the readings.

THE VAT IS NOT DIMINISHED IN ITS CAPACITY.  NOT DEPLETED AT ALL.  The oil and gas previous to the closing of the new cap was just as significant as the first day this occurred.  The vat has plenty of pressure in it.  This is about ICE.

The issue is this, the four risers should be open, BUT, very slowly as to not explode the new cap AT THE FLANGE.  If there is a sudden movement of solid (ICE) through 'the stack' it could destroy it and we will be worse off than before.

The new cap has to remain a 'flow' to insure its integrity.  The ships will have to receive the oil to maintain a flow and not pollute the Gulf anymore than it currently has been effective.

There cannot be any further 'waiting' to this issue.  The pressure is a monster and it has its own dynamics.  There is a sea floor 'at risk' and there is a 'worse case' scenario that will yield NO RESOLVE to this disaster.  Considering the 'catastrophic' nature of this potential and 'real' outcome it is not prudent to 'play the odds.'  All and every precaution has to be taken and that cap HAS TO REMAIN functioning.  It has to be the 'vent' to the well when the relief wells are connected to the current well.  We do not need a more unstable sea floor.  We need to maintain the integrity of the well cap and that is not assured at this moment.  Not if there is methane ice (hydrates) at the flange.  If there was methane ice just happening haphazardly around the stack it would make sense the leak of methane was from another source and simply floating in the water and adhering to the stack.  BUT, it is completely obvious that the methane ice is 'at the flange.'  That is DEFINITIVE. 

There CANNOT be any guess work here and if there is an INCREMENTAL 'doubt' about anything there has to be decision making on the side of safety and integrity of the stack.  According to the BP reporting we are about a month away from relief well intervention.  That is where the 'target' is and the stack has to be intact and functioning when that occurs.  There is too much on the line to allow speculation of this well head and the stack.  We have to maintain a flow through the new cap to the risers and to the ships in order to INSURE the best outcome one month from now.

No more speculation.  That cap has to be opened and the flow returned to insure its integrity.   There is absolutely no logic to 'speculation.'  If there is not SOLID facts then the decisions is to return the flow to the cap.  This is NOT good decision making on the part of BP.

If there is any discussion of using a 'warming method' to the stack, it has to be approached with great caution as the stack may be filled with methane, even if that is in the form of hydrates.  This is a monster.  It simply is.

NO SPECULATION.  Either there are solid facts in the decision making process or the well cap remains open and risers carry the oil and methane to the surface.  It is completely imprudent to do anything else.  All surface exposure to the methane has to be taken as well to not repeat the explosion that caused this in the first place. 

Nothing like walking on eggshells now is there?

British Petroleum again evading 'the truth.' Oil Seep found near existing well head.

Matthew Weaver
guardian.co.uk,
Monday 19 July 2010 09.18 BST

...Admiral Thad Allen, who is in charge of the US government's response to the disaster, has written to BP demanding answers to "undetermined anomalies at the well head".
Allen ordered the company to provide a plan for reopening the well by 1am today (BST).
In a letter to the BP managing director, Bob Dudley, he said: "When seeps are detected, you are directed to marshal resources, quickly investigate, and report findings to the government in no more than four hours.
"I direct you to provide me a written procedure for opening the choke valve as quickly as possible without damaging the well should hydrocarbon seepage near the well head be confirmed."
BP has yet to respond to the letter. Shares in the oil company fell more than 5% following today's news after rallying on Friday amid initial reports of the cap's success....

BP needs to cooperate with the demands of the people of the USA, open the well head, begin capturing the oil and gas and continue to drill the relief wells.  It is nearly impossible to stop 8000+ psi.
 
The USA also needs to prepare for the possiblity of closing the well with a subterranian explosion.

I have a mission for USA citizens. Find one kind and good word per day to describe the President.

The difference between this President and the past Republican presidents is that he does NOT CALCULATE his every move 'when with his family' as if it were a POLITICAL EVENT.

He took his family on vacation in Maine.  You'll excuse me but where is there a reason to criticize President OBAMA for going to Maine?  He doesn't own land at Kennybunkport?  Is that the reason?

One might notice, it has been extremely hot in the southern USA and while that seems the quintessential place to promote 'good will' for vacation planning for the country, it is extremely hot in the southern end of the country.

Why is it that President Obama has to sustain a vacation that would be a disaster for his children.  There is nothing like coming home and having the wife and family say, "That was really a lousy time we had." 

President Obama went on a summer vacation with the family.  GET  OVER  IT.

Isn't he great.  He is a great Dad.

Oh, yeah, one other thing. There was a question about the fine BP is to pay.

The President was absolutely correct, it has to be calculated. You know if the media 'doesn't get it,' that isn't the President's fault.  I knew what he was saying as soon as he said it.

It goes like this:

When one looked at the picture of the rupture and the oil and gas spewing from it, one would notice a robotic arm, of sorts.  The arm was holding a device that was emitting 'white smoke' into the oil and gas stream.  No one noticed that?  No one said, "Hey, what is that mess about?"

No?

Where have the powers of observation gone? 

Oh, wait.  Keeping the public 'stupid' is good political philosophy.  That's right.  Manipulation is the key.

Well, this is how the calculation works.

The 'white smoke' was probably sea water being pumped out the 'three' holes.  The RATE of pumping is a KNOWN commodity.  Get it now?

No?

A known rate is measurable.  THAT 'known measurement' is used to gauge the 'stream of flow' surrounding it.  The rate of the oil and gas stream was significant.  It was so significant that it 'snuffed out' the 'KNOWN measurement' on many occassion.

Literally, Dr. Chu's staff could sit down with the video tape and at any given time, calculate the stream of oil and gas from the film while measuring its rate against the 'KNOWN.'

I doubt 'the fine' is first on the minds of people monitoring this event and making decisions.  But, I can understand how the Right Wing Media would consider that paramount to THEIR reality.  It is amazing the arrogance of that media.  This was a lot of hard work and design that went into that MOMENT of 'ending it' and they ask about the fine to BP.  What a bunch of jackasses.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

...BP and government officials decided to extend the integrity testing on the busted well in the Gulf of Mexico for another 24 hours, (click title to entry - thank you) National Incident Commander Thad Allen said Saturday in a statement.

Allen said the government ordered more monitoring of the area while the test continues, including doubling the seismic mapping runs over the well site....

I don't know how accurate this assessment is, but, it seems to me the cap has been influenced by 'submarine' technology.  It reminds me of a bulk head, scaled down,' as if it were torpedo doors of a submarine.

When the 'universal fitting' was placed.  The large brass collar.  I had an overwhelming view of a Navy influence in its design. 

Basically, the 'metal' replaces the two miles of Earth removed to make the hole.  It equalizes the force of the water, which at one mile down is about 2200 PSI, with the force of the oil and methane escaping from the vat.  The 'metal' and its design is the equivalent of the missing Earth. 

See, the oil industry has been focused on 'concrete' compliments of Halliburton to answer all its problems. 

"W"rong.

I hope the tests continue to go well and the best decisions are made. 

All my hopes.

If we get rid of the FDA panels we might find more funding for a new 'peacetime' economy.

To say the clean up and revitalization of the fisheries of Louisiana is important is an understatement.  The chemical dispersant needs to be monitored for its dilution with ocean waters and how it is going to be removed.

Options For High-Speed Rail Discussed Again
Officials Envision Train Between B.R., N.O., Beyond



POSTED: 12:21 pm CDT July 16, 2010


UPDATED: 12:43 pm CDT July 16, 2010


NEW ORLEANS -- With the south Louisiana economy taking one hit after another, an economic engine could be on the horizon, in the form a high-speed rail line along the Gulf Coast.
Some of the best railroad minds in America are in New Orleans this week talking about high-speed rail, because they believe it will work here. A high-speed train between Baton Rouge and New Orleans has been discussed for decades, but now there is a sense of urgency to see it become a reality.
"It depends on us. I think we can see more progress in the near future with the mayors of the two cities coming together," said state Rep. Michael Jackson of Baton Rouge.
It could be just what the Crescent City needs, proponents say.


"We stand to gain a huge economic development project. We stand to gain a transportation-oriented development along the corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans," Jackson said.
Funding for the project has always been the biggest stumbling block....

Bring the troops home.

US Army soldier from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion of the 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, climbs over high wall during patrol in volatile Arghandab Valley, outside Kandahar City, 10 July 2010


The U.S. Army has released new statistics indicating a record number of suicides occurred in the month of June. (click title to entry - thank you)

C0IN is not a legitimate strategy to any war.  It causes conflict within the soldier.  Any soldier should have a 'clear strategy' and that is not happening.  I am not blaming anyone in the military, not even the Secretary of Defense.  COIN was a 'last chance effort' for a failed war strategy to allow a President to stay in office.  It was a 'think tank' answer, not one centered on the mental health of soldiers.  The military has simply been doing its job.  It is time to speak truth to power.  The soldiers need to come home.


...NATO says five of its troops have been killed in improvised-bomb attacks in southern and eastern Afghanistan.
Three soldiers died in separate attacks Saturday, and NATO officials said a single explosion killed two others on Friday.
Two of the casualties were British troops fighting in Helmand province; two others were identified as Americans, and NATO did not disclose the nationality of the person killed in the third fatal bombing on Saturday.
Roadside bombs, also known as improvised explosive devices (or IEDs), are a major cause of troop deaths in Afghanistan....

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Four-NATO-Troops-Killed-in-Afghanistan-98662424.html



 
...U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves Washington Saturday on a week-long, four-nation, trip to South and East Asia. She will attend the Kabul conference aimed at shoring up the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai.
Clinton will join foreign ministers from dozens of countries from around the world including neighboring Iran at the Kabul conference.
It is the largest international meeting in Afghanistan since the 1970's and is intended to generate support for Mr. Karzai's plans to build security and good governance, and reintegrate reconcilable elements of the Taliban into government security forces.
The United States has supported the Afghan leader's effort to try to draw from the battlefield Taliban members who renounce violence and pledge allegiance to the government, but it has been less enthusiastic about efforts at talks with senior Taliban leaders....

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Clinton-Beginning-Trip-to-South-and-East-Asia-98634329.html


The Obstructionist Republicans.  Our troops are just part of the 'NO Agenda' for the RNC.
 
...If Congress doesn’t act on the fiscal 2010 request for supplemental war funding, Defense Department employees may not get paid, Morrell said during a news conference.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is disappointed that Congress did not pass the supplemental spending bill before its Fourth of July break, Morrell told reporters.
“He’s very concerned about the predicament that puts us in,” he said. “And in order to assure that war operations are not interrupted, the services will now have to begin cash-flowing operating costs for war activities using their base budgets.” This means that the services will begin borrowing money from fourth-quarter accounts to pay for current obligations, but even that won’t be enough, he added.
“We project that certain Army and Marine Corps accounts will run dry in August,” Morrell said. “So we urgently need Congress to pass the supplemental before members leave town for the next break in August.”
In the meantime, he added, the department is obligated to begin planning what to do if Congress does not pass the spending measure. “Needless to say, all of this is extraordinarily disruptive to the department,” he said....

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60024

Earth's delicate atmospheres.

...Emmert said there were still other possibilities unaccounted for that could have contributed to this phenomenon.
"It could be that we're underestimating the effects [of carbon dioxide] somehow. It could be because there were some physics that we're missing in the region of the atmosphere below the thermosphere, which quickly affects the thermosphere," he said.
The researchers say they will continue to monitor the upper atmosphere, which is already rebounding.
"So we're probably going to work in the next couple of years to try and unravel this," Emmert said.

Earth has limits.  A near collapse of an atmospheric layer is not a minor issue.  No one listens. 

$550 million is no joke, but, to realize it could be a drop in the bucket to a group of banks that disregard ethics and morality; it is a little scary.

Protestors jeer Goldman Sachs chairman Lloyd Blankfein as he prepares to face US Senators over the banking crisis. Photograph: Jim Young/REUTERS


For those seeking greater satisfaction out of the loss of homes and the exploitation of The American Dream, look to Europe.

.. .Last Thursday, Goldman agreed to pay a $550m fine to settle US regulators' claims that the bank misled investors in (click title to entry - thank you) a mortgage-backed security. Goldman admitted that its marketing materials were incomplete, because they failed to state that the same third party that helped choose the assets had taken a bet against them.
But governments have also been shocked at the emergence of past transactions between Goldman and Greece and Italy, where products the bank helped to sell aided both in hiding government debt. Greece, which used Goldman in a bond sale this year, is practically at war with the bank. A sharp contrast with the situation months before, when Goldman bankers dined with the prime minister in a private meeting overlooking the Acropolis. The relationship broke down, though, after news leaked earlier this year that Goldman was about to strike a bond sale deal with China's sovereign fund – which never materialised....

Something tells me it is going to be a while before Goldman and its cohorts are going to be out of trouble.  Don't blame the falling DOW completely on the USA Economy.  The picture of 'insecurity' is much bigger than that.  And much to the lying Republicans chagrin, the cause is not about socialism either, but, more about exploitive capitalism.

He has't been the same since he directed god. George Burns never had this issue.

If you're Mel Gibson, (click title to entry -thank you) you know you're really in trouble when your epic ranting misadventures take the leap from the showbiz blogosphere and tabloids to the august New York Times Op-Ed pages, where the Times' house conservative David Brooks nails the rage-filled actor as the quintessential modern-day narcissist....

Even reruns of interviews with Larry King isn't going to help.

According to the 'tapes' of Mel's Ex-girlfriend, he is an Anti-Semite turned woman beater.

What else is new?  However, I remind, there was once a lady named Nicole Brown Simpson who no one believed either.

The T.P.M. is a group of P.A.C.s - At the very least. What is this about no organization? Liars.

This isn't racist?  In who's book?  Nice try.  To demand the USA government return to the "Original" Constitution and Bill of Rights negates any and all the Civil Rights Movements.  The Civil Rights Movement wasn't a PAC either.  Take a look into the archives of Martin Luther King and try and find the PAC he organized.  I dare you. 

No joke.  Shut up.  The Tea Party are a bunch of hard nose greed merchants that have no respect for anyone except their bankers.

See effigies mean something.  If you don't think so ask the CEO's of BOA and Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan how it felt to have their images marched in a parade against their exploitation of Americans? 

Apologies count, too.  The Tea Party needs to apologize.


Tea party PAC endorses Barela
By Matthew Reichbach
6/17/10 12:01 AM
The FreedomWorks PAC, the campaign arm of the group that has mentored the tea party movement, has endorsed Jon Barela in the New Mexico 1st Congressional District race. The group, chaired by former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, called Barela a “fiscal hero” in its endorsement.



“A vote for Jon Barela would clearly be a vote for individual liberty and economic prosperity,” Armey said in a statement.
The group endorsed Barela because they say he believes in lowering taxes and accused incumbent Democrat Martin Heinrich of being a “big-spender.”
FreedomWorks said it will fund get-out-the-vote efforts, including direct mailings, yard sign distribution, volunteer phone banks and neighborhood literature drops in support of Barela.
Armey recently pooh-poohed the idea that he’s the leader of the tea party movement, saying Freedom Works is only a “mentoring” organization. FreedomWorks launched a nationwide tea party tour last year.

http://newmexicoindependent.com/57559/tea-party-pac-endorses-barela

I think it is bizarre to ask the NAACP to have town meetings next to the Tea Party.  The Tea Party absolutely hates President Obama.  I don't see that as a resolution.  Lacks respect for the President in an attempt to try to divide people rather than unite them.  Besides, it could result in violence.  I don't believe it is a good idea.

Confront racism, don’t deny it  (click title to entry - thank you)


Since when has it become racist to point out racism in America? That’s where this country finds itself, as many purporting to want a color-blind nation refuse to admit that not everyone shares their dream.
Case in point, the beat-down the NAACP has been receiving for having the audacity to point out the obvious: that racists have been infiltrating tea-party gatherings because any criticism of America’s first black president gives them a buzz.
A resolution passed by the NAACP didn’t say being a tea-party member was equivalent to being a racist. It asked the movement to condemn the extremists too frequently seen at its meetings. If the tea-partiers truly want to change America for the better, they will act on the NAACP’s charge and work harder to make sure that no one — regardless of skin color, religion, or country of origin — would feel unwelcome.


Philadelphia Inquirer editorial

 
I tell you what.  Why doesn't the Tea Party simply apologize for their insulting manners and 'Let's Move' for the First Lady and advocate for taxes on soft drinks and fruit drinks that add calories to a child's diet.

Sound fair?  I would be an extention of 'good will' between everyone.

Money, money and mo' money

Every aspect of the Palin Family experience has resulted in 'bankrolling' millions. 

Sarah Palin has a PAC that banks millions on a regular basis.  She acts as a catalyst to the GOP Base to attempt to get out the vote in November.

Britol has her own non-profit of which she earns plenty of money to act as a 'celebrity' that carries the message.

And boyfriend has been making the rounds to all kinds of appearances, with and without cloths.

Then the insult of all insults, Levi would have to part with thousands upon thousands in order to support his son.

"Oh, no !" 

Better to marry the heifer and keep the money in the family than to hand it over to Bristol and the potential of another man. 

Nothing new here.

Go ahead, tell me the photo on the cover of "US" was a volunteer effort. 


As the Diva was taking a sip of her freshly ground gourmet coffee (click title to entry - thank you) earlier this week, she heard something so shocking, she sprayed java onto her polished marble countertop. No, it wasn't the news that BP had successfully capped the ruptured oil well. Bristol Palin was back in the arms of baby daddy Levi Johnston, the hockey stud from Wasilla, Alaska, with the good looks of a privileged jock in a John Huhgesian teen romp and, if interviews are any indication, the brains to match....

http://www.cleveland.com/people/index.ssf/2010/07/lebron_james_bristol_palin_and.html

Darth Vadar gets a mechanical heart

Rove should tell him what I said, it might actually give him back his blood pressure.

Basically, Dick Cheney now has an artificial heart.  The "Left Ventricular Assist" is what has resulted instead of an artificial heart.

He is probably on a transplant waiting list, however, for the majority populous of the USA, transplants are
'off the table' if a person is over sixty years old.

The former Veep is very ill.  No one should understate that for the purpose political manipulation.  At this point, I would hope there is a bipartisan concern for the life of Mr. Cheney.

All that 'fuch you' meanness did it, Dick.  "Ah, only if he could take it all back now."

I wonder which insurance policy is paying for all this?  Halliburton or the USA or both.  What's fair is fair.  This is an example of how the wealthy recieve every advantage by a lopsided heatlh care system while others are only spectators to others good luck.

And there are no antibiotics in Haiti.  Oh, well.  Who ever said life is fair?  Be well, Dick.