And Defending Our Borders from Foreigners Who are Invading US illegally–stealing our livelihoods, our money, paying -0- taxes, exporting ill-gotten $USD to another country–committing crimes here–like terrorists?
Independent who is voting out Incumbents Congress has gotta go.
Please elaborate?
Why all this sanctuary thinking for Illegals who invade and cross our southern and northern borders, and sending soldiers to fight Terrorists who harm America?
There is no difference.
When BP CEO Tony Hayward testified before Congress this morning, many expected to hear him apologize for the disaster his company has caused which is destroying the gulf of Mexico and the southern coast of the United States, and may also soon spread to the east coast. Instead, Republican Congressman Joe Barton was the one saying he was sorry — to BP.
In his opening statement, Barton, the top Republican on the committee overseeing the oil spill and its aftermath, delivered a personal apology to the oil giant. He said the $20 billion fund that President Obama directed BP to establish to provide relief to the victims of the oil disaster was a "tragedy in the first proportion." Because, as a typical Republican, he is more interested in representing industry and big oil corporations, not the American people he is supposed to represent.
Other Republicans are echoing his call. Republican Sen. John Cornyn said he "shares" Barton’s concern. Republican Michele Bachmann said that BP shouldn’t agree to be "fleeced." She feels making BP take responsibility to compensate those whose livelihoods have been destroyed by BP is a bad idea. Rush Limbaugh the king of promoting corporate America over its citizens, called it a "bailout." How about that for typical Limbaugh irresponsible and backwards thinking!? The Republican Study Committee, with its 114 members in the House, called it a "shakedown." BP is not eve and American owned company so these Republican are not even taking the side of Americans corporations over American people. They are taking the side of foreign corporations, careless foreign corporations who are destroying our nations coastline at that, over the interests of the American people!
This fund is a major victory for the people of the Gulf. It’s a key step toward making them whole again. BP has a responsibility to those whose lives and livelihoods have been devastated by the disaster. And BP oil executives don’t deserve an apology — the people of the Gulf do.
Now if we can just get the Republican Party to think about the needs of the American people for once and stop BSing us and selling the US out to corporations, foreign or domestic!
The families and businesspeople in the Gulf region want leadership, accountability and action from BP and the Administration. It is unacceptable that, 59 days after this crisis began, no solution is forthcoming. Simply put, the American people want all resources, time and focus to be directed toward stopping the spill and cleaning up the mess.
It was perfectly predictable, which is what makes Barton’s gaffe so excruciating. If you know the left is desperate to change the subject in the press, why make it easy for them? And why, oh why, frame your criticism of Obama and the escrow account as an apology to BP? He could have knocked the escrow fund independently before or after the hearing, at a press conference or in a written statement or an interview or various other ways. As it is, I can only assume that he was trying to pander to the right and that he’s willing to take on Obama’s White House even if it means siding — on national television — with the perpetrators of the oil apocalypse in the gulf. Red meat for grassroots conservatives, poison for everyone else in America. Maybe there was something to that “epistemic closure” criticism after all.
The other pity of Barton’s sympathy act is that it obscures the fact that he has a legitimate complaint about the escrow account. It’s time for this distraction-on-a-silver-platter to end. o_O
I don’t have a ton of money and I can’t take a lot of time off my job right now, but I would really like to help the animals and people that are being affected by this horrible disaster. It’s so incredibly irresponsible and so horrible what this disaster is doing to not only the wild life and ocean, but also the quickly disintegrating livelihoods of those in the (now not so near-by) areas. It’s so horribly sad for everybody. I really wish I could help more.
Organize a drive in your area. It could be money or just tons of "Dawn" dish soap. "Dawn" is one of the best at removing oil from feathers and fins. Promote the gulf coast for sun drenched vacations so that local businesses can rebound as quickly as possible when this mess is cleaned up. Talk, write and bombard your local congressman and senator to make sure the coastal states get what they need to first mitigate the disaster and then to clean up from the mess. Tell them to cut through the regulations that are holding up that help. These are things you can do from far away none of which cost a ton of money.
It’s a known fact that we can’t keep using oil at the current rate. Our addiction to oil is costing lives and destroying our way of life. It is not only a problem for our environment but our onging livelihoods and national security. What do you pledge to do to personally conserve energy and become part of the solution rather than the problem?
My family has already switched from gasoline cars to cars that run on natural gas (methane). It’s cleaner and cheaper (95 cents per gallon) and we got nice tax credits for buying the cars (used, even!). Now when we take our recyclables to the recycle center, we aren’t using gasoline to do it. Since we started recycling, we have gone from an overflowing garbage can every week to just 1 bag. We try to promote the use of nat.gas vehicles whenever we can, to friends, neighbors, family and anyone else who will listen. If you set the example, some people will take notice and change for the better.
Alms for a ex-leper. Alms for an ex-leper. Here I was sitting minding my own business, you know making a living begging and all, and I’m doing alright, as far as begging goes, you know, paying the bills and putting a little away for the kids – if I ever get kids that is, you know, who would want to have kids with a leper, you know, not like my member fell off or anything, might be missing a few toes and fingers, and the nose, the nose it ain’t what it used to be, but you know, maybe someday…. Anyway, this guy, Jesus comes along and He cures me. That’s it! Poof, I’m cured! Now I’m out of work. I can’t make a decent living. I got no skills. I ain’t got a wife. Who would want to marry a man who has no job skills and is unemployed. At least as a leper I had an outside chance. You know, money talks. Talking about money, you got alms for an ex-leper? Eh? What you say? A decishekle ought to get me through the day… Hey where you going. Damn. He could have left me with a limp or something. Alms, for an ex-leper.
Yes I agree with Michon! and yes you can bet that Diane Fineswine had something to do with it, including those al gore fake environmentalists. they are ruining this state, and its in my local paper all the time, something becomes extinct because the High Source takes care of these things,. and everyone in this state panics, for all the wrong reasons, its also called job creativity, we have way too many tree huggers in calif, but they can let a control burn get out of hand, and all of a sudden no tree huggers around at all when we get inundated with smoke from a forest fire burn…………………makes no sense at all
Anything is possible in these dark times we are living in now!
We do have Intel showing the headquarter locations for the following organizations:
BP – Great Britain.
Halliburton – Dubai
TransOcean – Cayman Islands
Absolutely – that would be the “conservative” thing to do. Protecting our Nation and her people should be on top of everyone’s agenda.
a. northern banks
b. the railroad
c. the boll weevil
d the Farmers’ Alliance
That would be "D" the farmers’ alliance.
if you could? Like you are attempting to do to Arizonans indiscriminately?
sweet sarah- I think you know exactly what I’m saying
Of course! If they can collapse the economic system here and abroad then they can have complete control and be the master of everyone’s fate. The goal in one word is: Enslavement…. and the committed followers are too blind to see it.
MR