Updated - August 08, 2010 - a-Squared Free changed to a-Squared Anti-Malware
Updated - August 04, 2010 - Added info about VirusTotal.com since I forgot that info initially.
So... I just replied to a "Help" request in one of the Computer Tech forums that I participate in and decided to give them a long reply with lots of details about the computer security programs that I use and recommend. This isn't everything I use since I don't want to alert the cyber-criminals about some of my other defenses but this is a good list that most beginners should be able to use and utilize.
Here is a snip of my long reply...
BTW, there is no need to spend a single penny on security programs. ALL of the *good* companies make their programs available to home users at no charge, either by a fully or mostly functioning download or as an online scan.
I use and recommend:
Comodo Internet Security http://www.Comodo.com as a FREE and fully functioning security suite that has a professional featured, award winning firewall, good antivirus with real-time and scheduled scanner and good real-time antimalware protection.
NO SINGLE PROGRAM IS 100% EFFECTIVE. While Comodo Internet Security will keep most computer users malware free, for folks that do not practice safe surfing habits, it's a VERY GOOD idea to have multiple backup programs to also scan for things that CIS might miss from time to time. Here are the other programs that I use from time to time.... or all the time for a couple of them.
Also, remember that ALL programs will report false positives from time to time so check things out before deleting files if you are not sure of what you are about to delete. For those instances, I use Virus Total http://www.VirusTotal.com which will allow you to upload the suspicious file and then scan it against ALL of the major security programs to see if more than just your scan is showing it as an infected file. If only one or two show it to be infected, it could be a false positive and you should check it out with the security program's help section, tech support, online forums, etc., to see what they say... before deleting the file. If you find it to be a false positive, make sure you report this to the security program's tech support people so they can keep others from having a problem.... otherwise, someone might delete a file that causes their computer or one of their programs to no longer work. While s-Squared is one of the best free scanners available to us, it's also the most likely to find false positives... at least that's been my experience when using a-Squared Anti-Malware.
MalwareBytes http://www.MalwareBytes.org as a backup scanner for when needed or folks that surf the net wildly, they can do weekly scans just to make sure that their main security didn't miss anything.
SuperAntiSpyware http://www.superantispyware.com/ as another backup scanner for when needed as above.
a-Squared Free, now called a-Squared Anti-Malware, which can be a paid for full-time scanner or the FREE scanner which does not provide full-time scanning but can still be used as one of the backup scanners, which is what I suggest - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/antimalware/ Obviously, feel free to pay for the full-time scanner but if you run Comodo Internet Security or other full-time antivirus/antimalware scanning, it's not good to run others full-time since they can cause conflicts and slow down your computer.
SpywareBlaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html - This doesn't do any scanning or use any system resources. You simply download the updated definitions on a weekly basis and enable them to protect your computer from LOTS of malicious websites, adding them to your Hosts file and registry... and it also block LOTS of malicious drive-by software.
Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/ - I really only use the Immunization feature on this program although it does have a scanner as well. The Immunization feature will build a nice Hosts file to supplement the one with SpywareBlaster. I do use the scanner from time to time to look for Flash Cookies that CCleaner might miss. I DO NOT recommend using the Tea-Timer real-time scanner from Spybot as it seems to cause more problems than it fixes.
I haven't used this but I have read lots of good reviews about Microsoft Security Essentials, but I think Comodo is TEN TIMES better, especially as far as the firewall, since MSE only uses the standard Windows Firewall which I find to be NOT very good. You can get MSE for FREE and also use the FREE online scan from Microsoft, called Windows Live OneCare. http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm - When using the Windows Live OneCare Scanner, RUN the FULL SCAN once a month and it will check your system online for virus/malware and also do a cleanup and tune-up of your computer, repair your registry and also defrag your hard drive.
There are many other online scanners from nearly ALL of the other computer security software makers so I will not go through that list. The above should be all that most folks need.
I hope this helps... and if you need any help with the above programs, feel free to leave me a comment below and I'll post a reply... or you can hunt me down in one of the many forums I'm in or go to your own favorite computer tech forum. Most of the above programs have their own respective specialty forums listed on the main website as well.
Lenny Vasbinder
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
"The Ten Commandments According To Obama" - By PatriotUpdate.com
©2009 The Patriot Update. Feel free to circulate this article, but please link / give credit to The Patriot Update. http://patriotupdate.com/exclusives/read/13
After observing Obama on the campaign trail and during his first six months in office, we have concluded that our President lives and governs according to his own set of “Ten Commandments.” They’re certainly NOT the Ten Commandments you learned in Sunday School. In fact, many are the direct opposite! To prove that our conclusions are correct, you will find a link to SOURCE documentation at the end of each commandment.
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ACCORDING TO OBAMA
I. Thou shalt have no God in America, except for me. For we are no longer a Christian nation and, after all, I am the chosen One. (And like God, I do not have a birth certificate.) SOURCE
II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, unless it is my face carved on Mt. Rushmore. SOURCE
III. Thou shalt not utter my middle name in vain (or in public). Only I can say Barack Hussein Obama. SOURCE
IV. Remember tax day, April 15th, to keep it holy. SOURCE
V. Honour thy father and thy mother until they are too old and sick to care for. They will cost our public-funded health-care system too much money. SOURCE
VI. Thou shalt not kill, unless you have an unwanted, unborn baby. For it would be an abomination to punish your daughter with a baby. SOURCE
VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery if you are conservative or a Republican. Liberals and Democrats are hereby forgiven for all of their infidelity and immorality, but the careers of conservatives will be forever destroyed. SOURCE
VIII. Thou shalt not steal, until you've been elected to public office. Only then is it acceptable to take money from hard-working, successful citizens and give it to those who do not work, illegal immigrants, or those who do not have the motivation to better their own lives. SOURCE
IX. Thou shalt not discriminate against thy neighbor unless they are conservative, Caucasian, or Christian. SOURCE
X. Thou shalt not covet because it is simply unnecessary. I will place such a heavy tax burden on those that have achieved the American Dream that, by the end of my term as President, nobody will have any wealth or material goods left for you to covet. SOURCE
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After observing Obama on the campaign trail and during his first six months in office, we have concluded that our President lives and governs according to his own set of “Ten Commandments.” They’re certainly NOT the Ten Commandments you learned in Sunday School. In fact, many are the direct opposite! To prove that our conclusions are correct, you will find a link to SOURCE documentation at the end of each commandment.
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ACCORDING TO OBAMA
I. Thou shalt have no God in America, except for me. For we are no longer a Christian nation and, after all, I am the chosen One. (And like God, I do not have a birth certificate.) SOURCE
II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, unless it is my face carved on Mt. Rushmore. SOURCE
III. Thou shalt not utter my middle name in vain (or in public). Only I can say Barack Hussein Obama. SOURCE
IV. Remember tax day, April 15th, to keep it holy. SOURCE
V. Honour thy father and thy mother until they are too old and sick to care for. They will cost our public-funded health-care system too much money. SOURCE
VI. Thou shalt not kill, unless you have an unwanted, unborn baby. For it would be an abomination to punish your daughter with a baby. SOURCE
VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery if you are conservative or a Republican. Liberals and Democrats are hereby forgiven for all of their infidelity and immorality, but the careers of conservatives will be forever destroyed. SOURCE
VIII. Thou shalt not steal, until you've been elected to public office. Only then is it acceptable to take money from hard-working, successful citizens and give it to those who do not work, illegal immigrants, or those who do not have the motivation to better their own lives. SOURCE
IX. Thou shalt not discriminate against thy neighbor unless they are conservative, Caucasian, or Christian. SOURCE
X. Thou shalt not covet because it is simply unnecessary. I will place such a heavy tax burden on those that have achieved the American Dream that, by the end of my term as President, nobody will have any wealth or material goods left for you to covet. SOURCE
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Why Do SOME Jails Cost So Much Taxpayer Money??? - L.A. Jail Built For $74 MILLION ONLY Houses 600 Inmates
I wrote about this 20 years ago down here in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, when the now deceased Sheriff Harry Lee spent $40 MILLION on a 400 bed facility... $100,000.00 per bed... but it seems the City Of Los Angeles has outdone Harry Lee's ridiculous spending record by spending $74 MILLION on a 600 bed facility. I'm being generous here since one short news article said it was a 500 bed facility but a much longer L.A. Times article said that the jail was composed of four pods, each capable of holding 125 inmates, which would be 600 beds.
Now, this calculates out to $123,000.00 per bed, not $123,000.00 per cell, which would be bad enough... but it's $123,000.00 per bed!!!!! Of course, if it's only 500 beds, then the cost to taxpayers would be $148,000.00 per bed!!!!!
I haven't mentioned yet, that this new $74 MILLION jail sits empty because of the City of L.A.'s other wasteful government spending that leaves it with nearly a HALF BILLION DOLLAR budget deficit so they can't afford to hire more deputies to staff the new jail. NOW THAT IS BEYOND STUPID THAT THEY ARE LETTING PRISONERS OUT OF THE OLD JAIL EVERY DAY, DUE TO SO-CALLED OVERCROWDING, WHILE A BIG NEW JAIL SITS EMPTY.
THE TAXPAYERS OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA SHOULD BE STORMING CITY HALL TO TAR AND FEATHER (OR HANG) THEIR POLITICIANS FOR THESE KINDS OF IGNORANT DECISIONS!!! OR... MAYBE THEY COULD JUST THROW ALL THEIR POLITICIANS INTO THE NEW JAIL... OR BETTER YET, THE OLD JAIL AND USE THE NEW JAIL FOR THE REST OF THE CRIMINALS! NOW THAT WOULD MAKE IT WORTH THE COST!!!!!
HEY L.A.... THIS AIN'T ROCKET SCIENCE! LET ME OFFER A SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM! Take some cops off the streets to man the new jail. For every criminal you all release, it results in dozens of new crimes every month by these released inmates. If they are locked up, they won't be committing crimes and you won't need as many cops out on the streets. The majority of crimes, especially violent crimes, are committed by criminals with long RAP sheets. Very few criminals start off burglarizing homes, robbing people, raping women, murdering people, etc. as their first crimes. They usually have a lengthy juvenile and adult arrest record long before they commit their most serious crimes.
Compare this kind of utterly ridiculous and outrageous figure of $74,000,000.00 ($74 MILLION) to house 600 inmates to what Sheriff Joe Arpaio spent for his MASSIVE Tent City jail in Maricopa County, Arizona, which cost ONLY $100,000.00 (ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) and holds over 2,400 inmates... ONLY $41.00 per bed!!!!! Sheriff Arpaio made the decision to build this BIG Tent City after a study showed it would cost over $70 MILLION to build a *normal* jail in Maricopa County.
WHY DON'T POLITICIANS UNDERSTAND THAT THE MONEY THEY ARE SPENDING DOES NOT GROW ON TREES AND FOR EVERY DOLLAR THEY WASTE, THE TASK COULD PROBABLY HAVE BEEN DONE FOR A FRACTION OF THE COST IF THEY HAD DONE THEIR JOBS AND BEEN MORE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE WITH THE TAXPAYER'S MONEY!!!
I welcome your comments... especially if you can give me a logical answer to the question in the title of this blog.
Lenny Vasbinder
References:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/20/local/la-me-empty-jail-20100620
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent_city#Maricopa_County_Jail_Modification
http://www.mcso.org/index.php?a=GetModule&mn=sheriff_bio
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_15340419
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Now, this calculates out to $123,000.00 per bed, not $123,000.00 per cell, which would be bad enough... but it's $123,000.00 per bed!!!!! Of course, if it's only 500 beds, then the cost to taxpayers would be $148,000.00 per bed!!!!!
I haven't mentioned yet, that this new $74 MILLION jail sits empty because of the City of L.A.'s other wasteful government spending that leaves it with nearly a HALF BILLION DOLLAR budget deficit so they can't afford to hire more deputies to staff the new jail. NOW THAT IS BEYOND STUPID THAT THEY ARE LETTING PRISONERS OUT OF THE OLD JAIL EVERY DAY, DUE TO SO-CALLED OVERCROWDING, WHILE A BIG NEW JAIL SITS EMPTY.
THE TAXPAYERS OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA SHOULD BE STORMING CITY HALL TO TAR AND FEATHER (OR HANG) THEIR POLITICIANS FOR THESE KINDS OF IGNORANT DECISIONS!!! OR... MAYBE THEY COULD JUST THROW ALL THEIR POLITICIANS INTO THE NEW JAIL... OR BETTER YET, THE OLD JAIL AND USE THE NEW JAIL FOR THE REST OF THE CRIMINALS! NOW THAT WOULD MAKE IT WORTH THE COST!!!!!
HEY L.A.... THIS AIN'T ROCKET SCIENCE! LET ME OFFER A SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM! Take some cops off the streets to man the new jail. For every criminal you all release, it results in dozens of new crimes every month by these released inmates. If they are locked up, they won't be committing crimes and you won't need as many cops out on the streets. The majority of crimes, especially violent crimes, are committed by criminals with long RAP sheets. Very few criminals start off burglarizing homes, robbing people, raping women, murdering people, etc. as their first crimes. They usually have a lengthy juvenile and adult arrest record long before they commit their most serious crimes.
Compare this kind of utterly ridiculous and outrageous figure of $74,000,000.00 ($74 MILLION) to house 600 inmates to what Sheriff Joe Arpaio spent for his MASSIVE Tent City jail in Maricopa County, Arizona, which cost ONLY $100,000.00 (ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) and holds over 2,400 inmates... ONLY $41.00 per bed!!!!! Sheriff Arpaio made the decision to build this BIG Tent City after a study showed it would cost over $70 MILLION to build a *normal* jail in Maricopa County.
WHY DON'T POLITICIANS UNDERSTAND THAT THE MONEY THEY ARE SPENDING DOES NOT GROW ON TREES AND FOR EVERY DOLLAR THEY WASTE, THE TASK COULD PROBABLY HAVE BEEN DONE FOR A FRACTION OF THE COST IF THEY HAD DONE THEIR JOBS AND BEEN MORE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE WITH THE TAXPAYER'S MONEY!!!
I welcome your comments... especially if you can give me a logical answer to the question in the title of this blog.
Lenny Vasbinder
References:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/20/local/la-me-empty-jail-20100620
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent_city#Maricopa_County_Jail_Modification
http://www.mcso.org/index.php?a=GetModule&mn=sheriff_bio
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_15340419
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Timeline: BP Oil Spill - Notice Of Many Updates And Amendments Added To My Original Timeline Blog
This is just a short blog notice that I have updated and amended my original Timeline Blog page.
Here is my original Timeline Blog started in June 2010 with all of the updated and amended information. http://lennyvasbinder.blogspot.com/2010/06/bp-oil-spill-was-all-obamas-fault-bush.html
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Here is my original Timeline Blog started in June 2010 with all of the updated and amended information. http://lennyvasbinder.blogspot.com/2010/06/bp-oil-spill-was-all-obamas-fault-bush.html
Lenny Vasbinder
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Friday, July 23, 2010
WalMart vs. Congress a/k/a The Morons In Washington, D. C.
So... I got this email today and after checking things out, decided it was worth of posting and it kind of fits in with the "545 PEOPLE" blog from yesterday.
The email contained the following subject lines but I decided on my own "Title" above!
Walmart vs The Government
Wal-Mart vs. The Morons
1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world's largest private employer, and most speak English.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.
8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.
11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.
You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.
This should be read and understood by all Americans... Democrats, Republicans, Independents... EVERYONE!!
To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature, it is now official... you are ALL corrupt morons:
a. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broken.
b. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broken.
c. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broken.
d. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.
e. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broken.
f. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broken.
g. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.
AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM???
MAYBE WE OUGHT TO KICK YOUR EGG-HEAD BUDDY BUMS OUT OF OFFICE AND HIRE WALMART TO RUN THE GOVERNMENT???
WALMART SEEMS TO KNOW HOW TO RUN A BUSINESS... WHY DON'T YOU GUYS JUST ADMIT IT'S WAY BEYOND YOUR PAY GRADE, AND QUIT?
Folks, keep this circulating. It is very well stated. Maybe it will end up in the emails of some of our "duly elected' (they never read anything) and their staff will clue them in on how Americans feel.
(END OF EMAIL)
I have checked this out with Snopes.com who have have verified the information about WalMart as "Mostly Accurate". You can read the Snopes.com report here... http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/bigwalmart.asp
Lenny Vasbinder
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The email contained the following subject lines but I decided on my own "Title" above!
Walmart vs The Government
Wal-Mart vs. The Morons
1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world's largest private employer, and most speak English.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.
8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.
11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.
You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.
This should be read and understood by all Americans... Democrats, Republicans, Independents... EVERYONE!!
To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature, it is now official... you are ALL corrupt morons:
a. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broken.
b. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broken.
c. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broken.
d. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.
e. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broken.
f. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broken.
g. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.
AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM???
MAYBE WE OUGHT TO KICK YOUR EGG-HEAD BUDDY BUMS OUT OF OFFICE AND HIRE WALMART TO RUN THE GOVERNMENT???
WALMART SEEMS TO KNOW HOW TO RUN A BUSINESS... WHY DON'T YOU GUYS JUST ADMIT IT'S WAY BEYOND YOUR PAY GRADE, AND QUIT?
Folks, keep this circulating. It is very well stated. Maybe it will end up in the emails of some of our "duly elected' (they never read anything) and their staff will clue them in on how Americans feel.
(END OF EMAIL)
I have checked this out with Snopes.com who have have verified the information about WalMart as "Mostly Accurate". You can read the Snopes.com report here... http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/bigwalmart.asp
Lenny Vasbinder
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Is America Better Off Today Than It Was Two Years Ago???
While reading this article, "20 Questions for the Obama Regime", the last question prompted the title to this blog. Not withstanding the other 19 very important questions, answers and FACTS in the rest of the article, lets look at a few FACTS, in my own words!
Two years ago, unemployment was under 6% and was usually between 4% and 6% during President Bush's two terms... and since Obama took office, unemployment has hovered between 9.5% and 10%, even after Obama promised us it would not go over 8% if Congress passed Obama's Spendulus package, which has mostly failed... so we're not better off with unemployment. http://www.miseryindex.us/URbyyear.asp?StartYear=2000&EndYear=2009
Two years ago, the national debt was under $10 TRILLION and since Obama took office, his deficit spending of over a TRILLION dollars and nearly TWO TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR has raised the national debt to OVER $13 TRILLION... a 33% increase since Obama took office. (Side note: When the Democrats took over Congress in 2006, the national debt was a little over $8 TRILLION so it's up around 60% in only four years of Democrat control... with projections, if Obama and the Democrats stay in control, of OVER $20 TRILLION!!!)... so we're not better off with the deficits and national debt.
The Misery Index during eight years of President Bush averaged only 8.11% and under Obama, the Misery Index has averaged 9.88%, OVER a 20% increase. The Misery Index has been down in single digits from 1993 until Obama took office and has been in double digits the past nine months... so we're not better off with the Misery Index. http://www.miseryindex.us/indexbypresident.asp
http://www.miseryindex.us/raw_data.asp
Since 9/11, there were NO terrorist attacks on American soil but since Obama has taken over and started babying the terrorists... or rather "man caused disasters" as he and his administration started calling terrorist attacks, there have been MANY terrorist attacks on American soil, fortunately a couple of them have failed due to the DUMB-ASSED terrorists but if they had succeeded, there would have been dozens, if not hundreds of Americans killed in those failed attacks. The ones that have succeeded resulted in dozens of American deaths on American soil... so we're not better off with terrorist attacks IN America!!!
I could go on and on but I think you get the point!
AMERICA IS NOT BETTER OFF TODAY THAN WE WERE TWO YEARS AGO... THANKS OBAMA!!!!
Lenny Vasbinder
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Two years ago, unemployment was under 6% and was usually between 4% and 6% during President Bush's two terms... and since Obama took office, unemployment has hovered between 9.5% and 10%, even after Obama promised us it would not go over 8% if Congress passed Obama's Spendulus package, which has mostly failed... so we're not better off with unemployment. http://www.miseryindex.us/URbyyear.asp?StartYear=2000&EndYear=2009
Two years ago, the national debt was under $10 TRILLION and since Obama took office, his deficit spending of over a TRILLION dollars and nearly TWO TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR has raised the national debt to OVER $13 TRILLION... a 33% increase since Obama took office. (Side note: When the Democrats took over Congress in 2006, the national debt was a little over $8 TRILLION so it's up around 60% in only four years of Democrat control... with projections, if Obama and the Democrats stay in control, of OVER $20 TRILLION!!!)... so we're not better off with the deficits and national debt.
The Misery Index during eight years of President Bush averaged only 8.11% and under Obama, the Misery Index has averaged 9.88%, OVER a 20% increase. The Misery Index has been down in single digits from 1993 until Obama took office and has been in double digits the past nine months... so we're not better off with the Misery Index. http://www.miseryindex.us/indexbypresident.asp
http://www.miseryindex.us/raw_data.asp
Since 9/11, there were NO terrorist attacks on American soil but since Obama has taken over and started babying the terrorists... or rather "man caused disasters" as he and his administration started calling terrorist attacks, there have been MANY terrorist attacks on American soil, fortunately a couple of them have failed due to the DUMB-ASSED terrorists but if they had succeeded, there would have been dozens, if not hundreds of Americans killed in those failed attacks. The ones that have succeeded resulted in dozens of American deaths on American soil... so we're not better off with terrorist attacks IN America!!!
I could go on and on but I think you get the point!
AMERICA IS NOT BETTER OFF TODAY THAN WE WERE TWO YEARS AGO... THANKS OBAMA!!!!
Lenny Vasbinder
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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary Landrieu SUCKS Obama's ASS Once Again!!!
Using some talking points from the NumbersUSA Action Board and some of my own appropriate language, then using the Tea Party Citizen Action Center's email tool, I sent the following email to Senator Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary Landrieu... as well as the rest of my elected politicians in Louisiana.
Lenny Vasbinder
-----Original Message-----
From: donotreply@votervoice.net
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 8:20 PM
To: Leonard Vasbinder
Subject: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary Landrieu SUCKS Obama's ASS Once Again!!!
***Please do not reply to this email--this confirmation simply lets you know that your message was sent.***
Leonard Vasbinder:
Your message has been sent to the following recipients:
* President Barack Obama
* Vice President Joe Biden
* Senator Mary Landrieu
* Senator David Vitter
* Representative Steve Scalise
* Governor Bobby Jindal
* Secretary of State Jay Dardenne
* Attorney General Buddy Caldwell
* Senator Conrad Appel
* Representative Kirk Talbot
The content of your message is as follows:
Dear [The message(s) you sent had each recipient's name here]:
Americans are dying because of our porous borders and unchecked illegal immigration. Despite this, President Obama and Attorney General Holder have decided to interfere with Arizona's attempts to protect its citizens. With this in mind, the Senator's decision to vote against the DeMint amendment to the American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act of 2010 is disgusting and shows a total lack of respect for the millions of Americans that have to put up with lax border security and illegal immigration. Most Americans support Arizona's law and you should be supporting the will of your constituents, not protecting job-stealing illegal aliens!
HEY MARY LANDRIEU... GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF OBAMA'S ASS AND HARRY REID'S ASS AND START REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA.
GOD, I CAN'T WAIT TILL YOU ARE UP FOR RE-ELECTION AND WE CAN THROW YOUR CROOKED, LIBERAL, SUCK-ASS, WASTE OF HUMAN FLESH OUT OF OFFICE!!!
IT WILL BE A GREAT DAY IN LOUISIANA WHEN ALL OF THE LANDRIEU'S HAVE DIED OFF... LIKE THE HUEY LONG'S AND EDWIN EDWARD'S OF POLITICS PAST.
Sincerely,
Leonard Vasbinder
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Lenny Vasbinder
-----Original Message-----
From: donotreply@votervoice.net
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 8:20 PM
To: Leonard Vasbinder
Subject: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary Landrieu SUCKS Obama's ASS Once Again!!!
***Please do not reply to this email--this confirmation simply lets you know that your message was sent.***
Leonard Vasbinder:
Your message has been sent to the following recipients:
* President Barack Obama
* Vice President Joe Biden
* Senator Mary Landrieu
* Senator David Vitter
* Representative Steve Scalise
* Governor Bobby Jindal
* Secretary of State Jay Dardenne
* Attorney General Buddy Caldwell
* Senator Conrad Appel
* Representative Kirk Talbot
The content of your message is as follows:
Dear [The message(s) you sent had each recipient's name here]:
Americans are dying because of our porous borders and unchecked illegal immigration. Despite this, President Obama and Attorney General Holder have decided to interfere with Arizona's attempts to protect its citizens. With this in mind, the Senator's decision to vote against the DeMint amendment to the American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act of 2010 is disgusting and shows a total lack of respect for the millions of Americans that have to put up with lax border security and illegal immigration. Most Americans support Arizona's law and you should be supporting the will of your constituents, not protecting job-stealing illegal aliens!
HEY MARY LANDRIEU... GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF OBAMA'S ASS AND HARRY REID'S ASS AND START REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA.
GOD, I CAN'T WAIT TILL YOU ARE UP FOR RE-ELECTION AND WE CAN THROW YOUR CROOKED, LIBERAL, SUCK-ASS, WASTE OF HUMAN FLESH OUT OF OFFICE!!!
IT WILL BE A GREAT DAY IN LOUISIANA WHEN ALL OF THE LANDRIEU'S HAVE DIED OFF... LIKE THE HUEY LONG'S AND EDWIN EDWARD'S OF POLITICS PAST.
Sincerely,
Leonard Vasbinder
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545 People - Updated And Amended From The 1985 Version
545 PEOPLE - By Charlie Reese
(Originally written in 1985 with updates by many others over the years)
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 307 million are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party. What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party since 2006. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 307 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
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End of original piece (with updates). The succeeding was added by an unknown author or authors... including some updates above and below by me, Lenny Vasbinder.
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We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a retired columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with this article now that you have read it.......... is up to you.
This might be funny if it weren't so darned true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts
Anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.
Put these words
Upon his tomb,
Taxes drove me
to my doom...'
When he's gone,
Do not relax,
It's time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Death Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 60 cents to nearly a dollar per gallon in some States)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Vehicle Transfer Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What in the hell happened?
Can you spell 'politicians?'
And I still have to 'press 1' for English!
NOTE - Verified as "Correctly Attributed" by Snopes and you can view the original version at http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/reese.asp
-----------
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You can click on the Comments link below to open the Comments section to leave your comments.
(Originally written in 1985 with updates by many others over the years)
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 307 million are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party. What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party since 2006. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 307 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
----------------------------------
End of original piece (with updates). The succeeding was added by an unknown author or authors... including some updates above and below by me, Lenny Vasbinder.
-----------------------------------
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a retired columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with this article now that you have read it.......... is up to you.
This might be funny if it weren't so darned true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts
Anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.
Put these words
Upon his tomb,
Taxes drove me
to my doom...'
When he's gone,
Do not relax,
It's time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Death Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 60 cents to nearly a dollar per gallon in some States)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Vehicle Transfer Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What in the hell happened?
Can you spell 'politicians?'
And I still have to 'press 1' for English!
NOTE - Verified as "Correctly Attributed" by Snopes and you can view the original version at http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/reese.asp
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The "Contract From America", the new Contract based on the "Contract With America" led by Newt Gingrich's 1994 Highly Successful Republican Revolution
You may not remember Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution from 1994... two years after Bill Clinton was elected and tried to start socializing America with Hillary-care... so here's a couple of links to remind you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#Contract_with_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America
http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html
Based on that HIGHLY successful campaign from 1994, many of the 2010 congressional races being fought by some Republicans and most Tea Party activists are using the Contract With America as part of their rallying cry! The "Contract From America" was built by the American people's suggestions and online voting to come up with the ten pledges that make up the contract.
Read and support the actual contract here:
http://www.thecontract.org/support/
Here's the short version of the "Contract With America":
http://www.thecontract.org/2010/07/the-contract-from-america/
We, the citizens of the United States of America, call upon those seeking to represent us in public office to sign the Contract from America and by doing so commit to support each of its agenda items and advocate on behalf of individual liberty, limited government, and economic freedom.
1: Protect the Constitution
2: Reject Cap & Trade
3: Demand a Balanced Budget
4: Enact Fundamental Tax Reform
5: Restore Fiscal Responsibility & Constitutionally Limited Government
6: End Runaway Government Spending
7: Defund, Repeal, & Replace Government-run Health Care
8: Pass an ‘All-of-the-Above” Energy Policy
9: Stop the Pork
10: Stop the Tax Hikes
Please go and sign the Contract From America to let your local politicians know how you feel and where you stand!
Lenny Vasbinder
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#Contract_with_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America
http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html
Based on that HIGHLY successful campaign from 1994, many of the 2010 congressional races being fought by some Republicans and most Tea Party activists are using the Contract With America as part of their rallying cry! The "Contract From America" was built by the American people's suggestions and online voting to come up with the ten pledges that make up the contract.
Read and support the actual contract here:
http://www.thecontract.org/support/
Here's the short version of the "Contract With America":
http://www.thecontract.org/2010/07/the-contract-from-america/
We, the citizens of the United States of America, call upon those seeking to represent us in public office to sign the Contract from America and by doing so commit to support each of its agenda items and advocate on behalf of individual liberty, limited government, and economic freedom.
1: Protect the Constitution
2: Reject Cap & Trade
3: Demand a Balanced Budget
4: Enact Fundamental Tax Reform
5: Restore Fiscal Responsibility & Constitutionally Limited Government
6: End Runaway Government Spending
7: Defund, Repeal, & Replace Government-run Health Care
8: Pass an ‘All-of-the-Above” Energy Policy
9: Stop the Pork
10: Stop the Tax Hikes
Please go and sign the Contract From America to let your local politicians know how you feel and where you stand!
Lenny Vasbinder
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Not Racist, Not Violent, Just No Longer Silent!!!
I posted this back in May but I thought I'd re-post it again today!
The title line says it all for most folks. Of course, I haven't been silent for the past 30 years. I'm also not violent although, in some of my writings, I've used Rush Limbaugh's, "Illustrating absurdity by being absurd", writing style which might make me appear violent at times... like one of my recent blogs about dreaming that one of our enemies might NUKE the Washington, D.C. beltway to get rid of all the lying, thieving politicians in one fell swoop so we will be forced to start over with a wholesale change in Washington, D.C., since we voters haven't been able to effect any real change in the past 80 years since our great country started spinning out of control with BIG government and the waste that comes with it.
Not racist, not violent, just no longer silent!!!!
Lenny Vasbinder
Thanks Glenn Beck!!! I'm not sure if he came up with the slogan but I heard it from him so I have to thank him!
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The title line says it all for most folks. Of course, I haven't been silent for the past 30 years. I'm also not violent although, in some of my writings, I've used Rush Limbaugh's, "Illustrating absurdity by being absurd", writing style which might make me appear violent at times... like one of my recent blogs about dreaming that one of our enemies might NUKE the Washington, D.C. beltway to get rid of all the lying, thieving politicians in one fell swoop so we will be forced to start over with a wholesale change in Washington, D.C., since we voters haven't been able to effect any real change in the past 80 years since our great country started spinning out of control with BIG government and the waste that comes with it.
Not racist, not violent, just no longer silent!!!!
Lenny Vasbinder
Thanks Glenn Beck!!! I'm not sure if he came up with the slogan but I heard it from him so I have to thank him!
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"Race Bait Reality Check" - By Mark Alexander - Thursday, July 22, 2010
Some things are best said by others! See below!
Lenny Vasbinder
http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2010/07/22/race-bait-reality-check/print/
"We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man." --James Madison
You know things are going well when your political opponents resort to the lowest form of Demo-goguery -- race baiting.
Barack Obama has portrayed Tea Party Patriots [1] as a gang of malcontents "waving their little teabags." Such undignified characterizations notwithstanding, Obama and his Leftist cadres are clearly concerned that an enlightened grassroots movement to restore Rule of Law will undermine their Socialist agenda.
Last week, Obama surrogates at the National Association to Agitate Colored People (NAACP) took over the effort to stir that pot. The NAACP calculus is simple: If they can coerce the Tea Party into defending itself against spurious charges of racism, they distract the movement from focusing on the abject failure of Barack Obama's policies.
NAACP president Ben Jealous warned, "The danger of the Tea Party is that people see them and think about periods in history when groups like them were much more powerful than they are now, and so a lot of what we spend energy doing is explaining to people what reality is, and that the reality is that the majority from 2008 still exists. ... What we take issue with is the Tea Party's continued tolerance for bigotry and bigoted statements. The time has come for them to accept the responsibility that comes with influence and make clear there is no place for racism and anti-Semitism, homophobia and other forms of bigotry in their movement."
Jealous and his hooligans went on to officially condemn the movement as "a threat to the pursuit of human rights, justice and equality for all" because of its "the racist elements."
Perhaps by "racist elements," Jealous was alluding to the fact that almost 25 percent of Tea Party participants are racial minorities? Of course not.
Vernon Parker, an Arizona Tea Party congressional candidate who is a black, offered this rejoinder: "The NAACP should be concerned about bringing jobs to people in depressed areas. Not the Tea Party."
South Carolina conservative congressional candidate Tim Scott, who is also a black, added, "I believe that the NAACP is making a grave mistake in stereotyping a diverse group of Americans who care deeply about their country and who contribute their time, energy and resources to make a difference."
Ward Connerly, founder of the American Civil Rights Institute, concludes, "[R]ace is the engine that drives the political Left. In the courtrooms, on college campuses, and, most especially, in our politics, race is a central theme. Where it does not naturally rise to the surface, there are those who will manufacture and amplify it. Such is the case with the claims that the 'Tea Partiers' are a bunch of racists... I am convinced beyond any doubt that all of this is part of the strategic plan being implemented by the Left in its current campaign to remake America."
Not to be outdone by the NAACP, that erstwhile protagonist of race-baiting mischief, the "Reverend" Al Sharpton, claimed, "The Tea Party, as a political philosophy, is to reverse what civil rights did and that is saying the federal government must protect people. There clearly are some racial leaves in their tea bag, but this is not just about race. It is about how you see government."
Sharpton, who has retained his official media celeb race-card status despite having fabricated the notorious Tawana Brawley rape hoax, is now treated with the same admiration as the "Reverend" Jesse Jackson, he of the Jew-baiting "Hymies" and "Hymietown" comments.
But perhaps the most influential purveyor of this sort of racism is the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who recently emerged from hiding to assert that Tea Party opposition to Obama's agenda [2] is based on their hatred for "people of color."
Why is Wright the most influential of the race hustlers? He was Obama's religious mentor [3], an inexorable and unapologetic propagator of afrocentric liberation theology and its message of black supremacist doctrine and "social gospel" Marxism.
Wright officiated at Obama's wedding, baptized his daughters and is credited by Obama for the title of his book, "The Audacity of Hope." In that book, Obama describes Wright as the "vessel carrying the story of a people into future generations and into a larger world."
What story did that "vessel" teach Obama?
In Wright's own words, "The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government gives [black people] drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strikes law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, g-d d--- America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. G-d d--- America for treating our citizens as less than human. G-d d---- America for as long as she acts like she is god and she is supreme."
Wright calls America "the US-KKK-A" and says the nation is "controlled by and run by rich white people. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in god. And. And-and! God! Has got! To be sick! Of this sh-t!"
In an ridiculous attempt to compare Obama to Jesus, Wright said, "Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people."
Recall how Obama responded to video evidence [4] of his mentor's black supremacist rants: "It sounds like he was trying to be provocative. ... This is somebody who I have known for 20 years [who] led me to Christ. He is a biblical scholar. He is a well-regarded preacher and somebody who is known for talking about the social gospel. ... [Wright is] like family to me."
The racist Reverend Wright has also been a featured speaker at NAACP events, spouting the same messages as has fellow racist Islamist cleric Louis Farrakhan. So before Ben Jealous lectures Tea Party Patriots about their "continued tolerance for bigotry and bigoted statements," he ought to pay more attention to his own organization.
Of course, Leftmedia types propagate accusations of racism by Obama's race-card cutouts. According to political science professor Jim Campbell from the State University of New York, "[M]edia have been successful in [playing the race card]. You have people now talking about the tea party and others in terms of this race issue, and that in itself deflects from what the tea party people are really concerned about, which is out-of-control federal spending and excessive intrusion of government. To the extent that the press, even by suggesting that race is an issue, if it gets everybody talking about the tea party in those terms, they have been successful."
For the record, racism is thriving in some American sub-cultures and movements, but the Tea Party is not one of them.
I also make a larger point -- that the Democrat Party [5] has thoroughly institutionalized racial segregation by co-opting black America as one of its most loyal constituencies. Indeed, an unprecedented 93 percent of black voters, like so many lemmings, march in lockstep to their Democrat masters.
But, in the rhetorical style of Jesse Jackson, the message of race they embrace is a disgrace. The Democrats have replaced the chains of chattel slavery with the chains of welfare and entitlement slavery.
From the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed, "I have a dream that my children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." However, Leftists race-based policies such as "Affirmative Action" are precisely designed to judge by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character.
In 2008, Martin Luther King III declared, "race relations clearly will be advanced ... because of President-elect Obama."
Unfortunately, he was probably referring to "advancement" in the NAACP sense. And if so, he was correct.
Links:
1. http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2010/06/24/the-tea-party-movement/
2. http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2010/07/08/barackracy-part-1/
3. http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2008/04/18/obama-pathos-part-2-disciple-of-hate/
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hPR5jnjtLo
5. http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2008/10/24/the-once-noble-democratic-party/
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http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2010/07/22/race-bait-reality-check/print/
"We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man." --James MadisonYou know things are going well when your political opponents resort to the lowest form of Demo-goguery -- race baiting.
Barack Obama has portrayed Tea Party Patriots [1] as a gang of malcontents "waving their little teabags." Such undignified characterizations notwithstanding, Obama and his Leftist cadres are clearly concerned that an enlightened grassroots movement to restore Rule of Law will undermine their Socialist agenda.
Last week, Obama surrogates at the National Association to Agitate Colored People (NAACP) took over the effort to stir that pot. The NAACP calculus is simple: If they can coerce the Tea Party into defending itself against spurious charges of racism, they distract the movement from focusing on the abject failure of Barack Obama's policies.
NAACP president Ben Jealous warned, "The danger of the Tea Party is that people see them and think about periods in history when groups like them were much more powerful than they are now, and so a lot of what we spend energy doing is explaining to people what reality is, and that the reality is that the majority from 2008 still exists. ... What we take issue with is the Tea Party's continued tolerance for bigotry and bigoted statements. The time has come for them to accept the responsibility that comes with influence and make clear there is no place for racism and anti-Semitism, homophobia and other forms of bigotry in their movement."
Jealous and his hooligans went on to officially condemn the movement as "a threat to the pursuit of human rights, justice and equality for all" because of its "the racist elements."
Perhaps by "racist elements," Jealous was alluding to the fact that almost 25 percent of Tea Party participants are racial minorities? Of course not.
Vernon Parker, an Arizona Tea Party congressional candidate who is a black, offered this rejoinder: "The NAACP should be concerned about bringing jobs to people in depressed areas. Not the Tea Party."
South Carolina conservative congressional candidate Tim Scott, who is also a black, added, "I believe that the NAACP is making a grave mistake in stereotyping a diverse group of Americans who care deeply about their country and who contribute their time, energy and resources to make a difference."
Ward Connerly, founder of the American Civil Rights Institute, concludes, "[R]ace is the engine that drives the political Left. In the courtrooms, on college campuses, and, most especially, in our politics, race is a central theme. Where it does not naturally rise to the surface, there are those who will manufacture and amplify it. Such is the case with the claims that the 'Tea Partiers' are a bunch of racists... I am convinced beyond any doubt that all of this is part of the strategic plan being implemented by the Left in its current campaign to remake America."
Not to be outdone by the NAACP, that erstwhile protagonist of race-baiting mischief, the "Reverend" Al Sharpton, claimed, "The Tea Party, as a political philosophy, is to reverse what civil rights did and that is saying the federal government must protect people. There clearly are some racial leaves in their tea bag, but this is not just about race. It is about how you see government."
Sharpton, who has retained his official media celeb race-card status despite having fabricated the notorious Tawana Brawley rape hoax, is now treated with the same admiration as the "Reverend" Jesse Jackson, he of the Jew-baiting "Hymies" and "Hymietown" comments.
But perhaps the most influential purveyor of this sort of racism is the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who recently emerged from hiding to assert that Tea Party opposition to Obama's agenda [2] is based on their hatred for "people of color."
Why is Wright the most influential of the race hustlers? He was Obama's religious mentor [3], an inexorable and unapologetic propagator of afrocentric liberation theology and its message of black supremacist doctrine and "social gospel" Marxism.
Wright officiated at Obama's wedding, baptized his daughters and is credited by Obama for the title of his book, "The Audacity of Hope." In that book, Obama describes Wright as the "vessel carrying the story of a people into future generations and into a larger world."
What story did that "vessel" teach Obama?
In Wright's own words, "The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government gives [black people] drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strikes law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, g-d d--- America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. G-d d--- America for treating our citizens as less than human. G-d d---- America for as long as she acts like she is god and she is supreme."
Wright calls America "the US-KKK-A" and says the nation is "controlled by and run by rich white people. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in god. And. And-and! God! Has got! To be sick! Of this sh-t!"
In an ridiculous attempt to compare Obama to Jesus, Wright said, "Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people."
Recall how Obama responded to video evidence [4] of his mentor's black supremacist rants: "It sounds like he was trying to be provocative. ... This is somebody who I have known for 20 years [who] led me to Christ. He is a biblical scholar. He is a well-regarded preacher and somebody who is known for talking about the social gospel. ... [Wright is] like family to me."
The racist Reverend Wright has also been a featured speaker at NAACP events, spouting the same messages as has fellow racist Islamist cleric Louis Farrakhan. So before Ben Jealous lectures Tea Party Patriots about their "continued tolerance for bigotry and bigoted statements," he ought to pay more attention to his own organization.
Of course, Leftmedia types propagate accusations of racism by Obama's race-card cutouts. According to political science professor Jim Campbell from the State University of New York, "[M]edia have been successful in [playing the race card]. You have people now talking about the tea party and others in terms of this race issue, and that in itself deflects from what the tea party people are really concerned about, which is out-of-control federal spending and excessive intrusion of government. To the extent that the press, even by suggesting that race is an issue, if it gets everybody talking about the tea party in those terms, they have been successful."
For the record, racism is thriving in some American sub-cultures and movements, but the Tea Party is not one of them.
I also make a larger point -- that the Democrat Party [5] has thoroughly institutionalized racial segregation by co-opting black America as one of its most loyal constituencies. Indeed, an unprecedented 93 percent of black voters, like so many lemmings, march in lockstep to their Democrat masters.
But, in the rhetorical style of Jesse Jackson, the message of race they embrace is a disgrace. The Democrats have replaced the chains of chattel slavery with the chains of welfare and entitlement slavery.
From the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed, "I have a dream that my children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." However, Leftists race-based policies such as "Affirmative Action" are precisely designed to judge by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character.
In 2008, Martin Luther King III declared, "race relations clearly will be advanced ... because of President-elect Obama."
Unfortunately, he was probably referring to "advancement" in the NAACP sense. And if so, he was correct.
Links:
1. http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2010/06/24/the-tea-party-movement/
2. http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2010/07/08/barackracy-part-1/
3. http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2008/04/18/obama-pathos-part-2-disciple-of-hate/
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hPR5jnjtLo
5. http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2008/10/24/the-once-noble-democratic-party/
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
What Percentage Of the Gulf Of Mexico Has The BP Oil Spill Contaminated?
Updated:
July 17, 2010 - with info from CNBC.com
July 31, 2010 - with info from RushLimbaugh.com, based on Time.com article with other statistics
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According to the EPA's official site, http://www.epa.gov/gmpo/about/facts.html#location, which says, "... The mean (average) water depth of the Gulf is ~1,615 m and the basin contains a volume of 2,434,000 cubic kilometers of water (6.43 * 10^17 or 643 quadrillion gallons)....", or 643 followed by 15 zeros.
So the est. 90-180 million gallons (90-180 followed by 6 zeros) of oil that would have flowed into the Gulf from the BP spill, less the 25%-50% that they've skimmed/collected, means that the spill has contaminated the Gulf at around 0.000000015% to 0.00000003% of the total Gulf water volume... or as one analyst said, "One-millionth of an ounce in a bathtub full of water". Another compared it to "10 drops in an Olympic sized swimming pool." CNBC.com said, "it's like a can of beer in a domed stadium".
Yes... it's still bad and needs to be cleaned up but don't let the tree-hugging, environmentalist wackos... like Obama's supporters and many so-called reporters in the LSM (Lame Stream Media)... try to make it worse than it really is. Out of tens of thousands of wells drilled in the Gulf in the past 60 years, this is the first major accident in American waters and the last major accident in Mexican waters was over 40 years ago.
Look at my blogs about the 1979 Ixtoc spill that was around the same volume of oil as the BP spill and most folks don't even remember that spill as it cleaned up nearly 100% within a couple of years and that was without all of the technological advances and skimming capabilities that we have today.
And... besides all of man's capabilities, God knew we would cause accidents from time to time so He created oil-eating bacteria that are also attacking the oil spill on a "Natural" front.
Lenny Vasbinder
7/31/2010 Update:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_072910/content/01125109.guest.html
"...Well, the next paragraph begins this way. Well, the obnoxious and anti-environmentalist Rush has a point. The Deepwater explosion was an awful tragedy for the 11 workers who died on the rig, and it's no leak; it's the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. It's also inflicting serious economic and psychological damage on coastal communities. ... Yes, the spill killed birds -- but so far, less than 1% of the birds killed by the Exxon Valdez. Yes, we've heard horror stories about oiled dolphins -- but, so far, wildlife response teams have collected only three visibly oiled carcasses of any mammals. Yes, the spill prompted harsh restrictions on fishing and shrimping, but so far, the region's fish and shrimp have tested clean, and the restrictions are gradually being lifted. And, yes, scientists have warned that the oil could accelerate the destruction of Louisiana's disintegrating coastal marshes ... but, so far, shorelines assessment teams have only found about 350 acres of oiled marshes, when Louisiana was already losing about 15,000 acres of wetlands every year." So it's convoluted piece, ladies and gentlemen, but does point out that the obnoxious and anti-environmentalist Rush Limbaugh has a point, that it's all been exaggerated..."
Also see the five reference links at the bottom of the RushLimbaugh.com article, with links to Time, USAToday, NewsBusters, VanityFair and the AP for related articles.
NOTE AND CORRECTION:
When I first wrote this blog on July 14, 2010, I had the percentage range as 0.015% to 0.03% (mainly due to a math typo where my calculator wouldn't allow so many zeros and I forgot to add the extra six zeros back into the percentages), but on July 17, 2010, CNBC.com posted a slide show which included their own calculations which showed 184 million gallons as being ".00000002788%" so I'll presume, at this time, that my calculations were wrong and I had things much worse than they actually are... presuming that CNBC.com is correct. I will continue to look for other calculations to see if I was correct, CNBC.com was correct or if the figure is somewhere in the middle. I have now double checked my math and I have corrected the original post above to reflect the corrected numbers.
Here's the link to the CNBC.com slide so you can see how they use Cowboy Stadium and a 24 oz. can of beer for comparison purposes. http://www.cnbc.com/id/38294088/What_Does_184_Million_Gallons_of_Oil_Look_Like?slide=9 I found out about this link when reading the July 22, 2010 edition of the http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/ daily e-newsletter.
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July 17, 2010 - with info from CNBC.com
July 31, 2010 - with info from RushLimbaugh.com, based on Time.com article with other statistics
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According to the EPA's official site, http://www.epa.gov/gmpo/about/facts.html#location, which says, "... The mean (average) water depth of the Gulf is ~1,615 m and the basin contains a volume of 2,434,000 cubic kilometers of water (6.43 * 10^17 or 643 quadrillion gallons)....", or 643 followed by 15 zeros.
So the est. 90-180 million gallons (90-180 followed by 6 zeros) of oil that would have flowed into the Gulf from the BP spill, less the 25%-50% that they've skimmed/collected, means that the spill has contaminated the Gulf at around 0.000000015% to 0.00000003% of the total Gulf water volume... or as one analyst said, "One-millionth of an ounce in a bathtub full of water". Another compared it to "10 drops in an Olympic sized swimming pool." CNBC.com said, "it's like a can of beer in a domed stadium".
Yes... it's still bad and needs to be cleaned up but don't let the tree-hugging, environmentalist wackos... like Obama's supporters and many so-called reporters in the LSM (Lame Stream Media)... try to make it worse than it really is. Out of tens of thousands of wells drilled in the Gulf in the past 60 years, this is the first major accident in American waters and the last major accident in Mexican waters was over 40 years ago.
Look at my blogs about the 1979 Ixtoc spill that was around the same volume of oil as the BP spill and most folks don't even remember that spill as it cleaned up nearly 100% within a couple of years and that was without all of the technological advances and skimming capabilities that we have today.
And... besides all of man's capabilities, God knew we would cause accidents from time to time so He created oil-eating bacteria that are also attacking the oil spill on a "Natural" front.
Lenny Vasbinder
7/31/2010 Update:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_072910/content/01125109.guest.html
"...Well, the next paragraph begins this way. Well, the obnoxious and anti-environmentalist Rush has a point. The Deepwater explosion was an awful tragedy for the 11 workers who died on the rig, and it's no leak; it's the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. It's also inflicting serious economic and psychological damage on coastal communities. ... Yes, the spill killed birds -- but so far, less than 1% of the birds killed by the Exxon Valdez. Yes, we've heard horror stories about oiled dolphins -- but, so far, wildlife response teams have collected only three visibly oiled carcasses of any mammals. Yes, the spill prompted harsh restrictions on fishing and shrimping, but so far, the region's fish and shrimp have tested clean, and the restrictions are gradually being lifted. And, yes, scientists have warned that the oil could accelerate the destruction of Louisiana's disintegrating coastal marshes ... but, so far, shorelines assessment teams have only found about 350 acres of oiled marshes, when Louisiana was already losing about 15,000 acres of wetlands every year." So it's convoluted piece, ladies and gentlemen, but does point out that the obnoxious and anti-environmentalist Rush Limbaugh has a point, that it's all been exaggerated..."
Also see the five reference links at the bottom of the RushLimbaugh.com article, with links to Time, USAToday, NewsBusters, VanityFair and the AP for related articles.
NOTE AND CORRECTION:
When I first wrote this blog on July 14, 2010, I had the percentage range as 0.015% to 0.03% (mainly due to a math typo where my calculator wouldn't allow so many zeros and I forgot to add the extra six zeros back into the percentages), but on July 17, 2010, CNBC.com posted a slide show which included their own calculations which showed 184 million gallons as being ".00000002788%" so I'll presume, at this time, that my calculations were wrong and I had things much worse than they actually are... presuming that CNBC.com is correct. I will continue to look for other calculations to see if I was correct, CNBC.com was correct or if the figure is somewhere in the middle. I have now double checked my math and I have corrected the original post above to reflect the corrected numbers.
Here's the link to the CNBC.com slide so you can see how they use Cowboy Stadium and a 24 oz. can of beer for comparison purposes. http://www.cnbc.com/id/38294088/What_Does_184_Million_Gallons_of_Oil_Look_Like?slide=9 I found out about this link when reading the July 22, 2010 edition of the http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/ daily e-newsletter.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Play Golf OR Save The Gulf???
HERE is an interactive page of non-essential things that Obama has done since the BP Oil Spill Accident.
Which 5 of the President's leisure activities or missteps during this
environmental disaster have made you the most angry???
http://actnow.gop.com/golforgulf/
Leave me a comment of the "Top Five" that you chose. I'm still working on mine!
Lenny Vasbinder
OK... here's my "TOP FIVE" list of Obama's IGNORANT, YET INTENTIONAL choices concerning the BP Oil Spill!!!!!
If the "TOP FIVE" image doesn't show up above this (since it's a script and some browsers will block it), you can click on this link to see my "TOP FIVE" list!
http://actnow.gop.com/golforgulf/profile.php?user_id=bG52dG0xQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ
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Which 5 of the President's leisure activities or missteps during this
environmental disaster have made you the most angry???
http://actnow.gop.com/golforgulf/
Leave me a comment of the "Top Five" that you chose. I'm still working on mine!
Lenny Vasbinder
OK... here's my "TOP FIVE" list of Obama's IGNORANT, YET INTENTIONAL choices concerning the BP Oil Spill!!!!!
If the "TOP FIVE" image doesn't show up above this (since it's a script and some browsers will block it), you can click on this link to see my "TOP FIVE" list!
http://actnow.gop.com/golforgulf/profile.php?user_id=bG52dG0xQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ
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Friday, July 09, 2010
Have You Discovered The Ugly Truths About ObamaCare? Take The Quiz Now!!!
I got the below email a week or so ago but am just now getting around to posting info about it. Go HERE now and take the ObamaCare quiz!!!
Lenny Vasbinder
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeanette Nordstrom, National Center for Policy Analysis [mailto:Jeanette.Nordstrom@ncpa.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:34 AM
To: Leonard Vasbinder
Subject: A Disaster for America
The National Center for Policy Analysis
Have you discovered ObamaCare's ugly surprises? Take the quiz now!
http://www.policypatriots.org/obamacarequiz/
Dear Leonard,
Because you opposed ObamaCare, you signed the Free Our Health Care Now petition from the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) last year to oppose its passage.
With more than 1,367,900 signers, it was the largest online policy petition ever delivered to Capitol Hill!
Now as part of the effort to repeal and reform ObamaCare, the NCPA is conducting a National ObamaCare Quiz so you can test your knowledge about what's in the law!
Take the quiz now. http://www.policypatriots.org/obamacarequiz/
But be warned: The answers may raise your blood pressure! ObamaCare is bigger, badder, and uglier than you probably ever imagined. How bad is it, really? Find out here.
Sincerely,
Jeanette Nordstrom
National Center for Policy Analysis
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Lenny Vasbinder
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeanette Nordstrom, National Center for Policy Analysis [mailto:Jeanette.Nordstrom@ncpa.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:34 AM
To: Leonard Vasbinder
Subject: A Disaster for America
The National Center for Policy Analysis
Have you discovered ObamaCare's ugly surprises? Take the quiz now!
http://www.policypatriots.org/obamacarequiz/
Dear Leonard,
Because you opposed ObamaCare, you signed the Free Our Health Care Now petition from the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) last year to oppose its passage.
With more than 1,367,900 signers, it was the largest online policy petition ever delivered to Capitol Hill!
Now as part of the effort to repeal and reform ObamaCare, the NCPA is conducting a National ObamaCare Quiz so you can test your knowledge about what's in the law!
Take the quiz now. http://www.policypatriots.org/obamacarequiz/
But be warned: The answers may raise your blood pressure! ObamaCare is bigger, badder, and uglier than you probably ever imagined. How bad is it, really? Find out here.
Sincerely,
Jeanette Nordstrom
National Center for Policy Analysis
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http://lennyvasbinder.blogspot.com/search/label/ObamaCare, to read
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Obama Seeks To Make Offshore Drilling Off-Limits... AGAIN!!! by: IER
I just got the following email from the Institute for Energy Research (IER) and thought I would pass it along!
Happy Independence Day!!! And hopefully American can achieve energy independence one day... if we can get a President that wants energy independence instead of just talking about it!!!
Lenny Vasbinder
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Pyle (IER) [mailto:tom.pyle@ierdc.org]
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 4:26 PM
To: lnvtm1@gmail.com
Subject: Obama Seeks to Make Offshore Off-Limits
Dear Supporter of American Energy:
The Good News
We have some good and bad news to report. First the good news: an eminent federal judge recently rebuked the Administration and their attempt to halt all new energy development offshore. In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, President Obama put a moratorium on all deepwater energy exploration. One would think a decision of this magnitude—one bound to put tens-of-thousands of jobs at risk, further increase our use of foreign energy sources and the cost of all petroleum products and cripple an already struggling region—would have been based on sound expert advice.
Think again—it was based on politics, and politics at its worst. Last week, a federal judge in Louisiana issued a sharp rebuke of the Obama Administration and overturned this policy because the Administration failed to justify its plan.
The Bad News
Even though an offshore moratorium will destroy jobs, the Obama Administration has announced plans to reinstate the ban on new offshore energy development. And in practice, it is affecting both shallow and deepwater drilling. We all want BP to stop the oil spill and quickly clean up the Gulf, but there is no justification to essentially ban all new energy offshore.
Soros-Funded Center for American Progress Calling the Shots in D.C.
It is also interesting to note just who is calling the shots on the spill response and cleanup. If you watch cable TV and read the newspapers, you would think Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen is the top guy on this case. And he is—to an extent. In a very short, and grossly underreported, story published recently, The Wall Street Journal reported that the George Soros (the guy who started MoveOn.Org) funded Center for American Progress is behind the Obama Administration’s energy policy and spill response. This is scary:
“If you want to see where President Barack Obama’s response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster is heading, try following the urgings of the Center for American Progress.
“The liberal think tank with close White House ties appears to have more influence on spill policy than the president’s in-house advisers…”
Why Obama’s Blanket Moratorium in the Gulf is a Mistake
With the “politics” now covered, you may find yourself saying, or hear a friend say, “We need to stop drilling until we find out what happened with the BP spill.” I can understand why you may be thinking this, but allow me to briefly explain why imposing a blanket moratorium on all drilling is a bad idea.
1. There have been over 4,000 oil and natural gas wells drilled in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. We have had one tragic accident – which is one too many. But we don’t ground all airplanes after an accident or stop all medical procedures after a patient dies on the operating table.
2. Every deepwater drilling rig was inspected following the tragic accident on April 20, 2010. Each rig operating in the deepwater passed this safety inspection.
3. A panel of experts, including engineers from the National Academy of Engineering, recommended that the President cease issuing new permits in the deepwater temporarily, not ban existing deepwater operations. As they said, "However, we do not agree with the six month blanket moratorium on floating drilling. A moratorium was added after the final review and was never agreed to by the contributors."
4. We produce 1/3 of our domestic oil from the Gulf of Mexico. Stopping new exploration will have untold effects on energy availability and prices down the road. While the Administration has stated its goal is to make energy more expensive, this plan simply stunts economic growth.
5. According to the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, this politically motivated decision could cost up to 40,000 men and women to lose their job.
6. The U.S. stands to lose its deepwater drilling fleet to other parts of the world for much longer than the six months’ time.
There is no doubt that the Deepwater Horizon spill is a tragedy on every level. But to further hamstring an area of the country that relies on oil and gas production for political gain—as the President has done—makes absolutely zero sense . . . unless the intention is to make energy more scarce and more expensive.
As we celebrate Independence Day this weekend, it’s important to remember what the Founders fought for—freedom—freedom to control their lives instead of being controlled by an out-of-touch, out-of-control, and overbearing government. Washington, D.C. is growing out-of-touch and out-of-control and we need to fight back.
Happy Independence Day!
Tom Pyle
P.S. If you are on Facebook, be sure to check out IER’s Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Institute-for-Energy-Research/33341294529 to stay up to date on energy and environmental policy issues!
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Happy Independence Day!!! And hopefully American can achieve energy independence one day... if we can get a President that wants energy independence instead of just talking about it!!!
Lenny Vasbinder
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Pyle (IER) [mailto:tom.pyle@ierdc.org]
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 4:26 PM
To: lnvtm1@gmail.com
Subject: Obama Seeks to Make Offshore Off-Limits
Dear Supporter of American Energy:
The Good News
We have some good and bad news to report. First the good news: an eminent federal judge recently rebuked the Administration and their attempt to halt all new energy development offshore. In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, President Obama put a moratorium on all deepwater energy exploration. One would think a decision of this magnitude—one bound to put tens-of-thousands of jobs at risk, further increase our use of foreign energy sources and the cost of all petroleum products and cripple an already struggling region—would have been based on sound expert advice.
Think again—it was based on politics, and politics at its worst. Last week, a federal judge in Louisiana issued a sharp rebuke of the Obama Administration and overturned this policy because the Administration failed to justify its plan.
The Bad News
Even though an offshore moratorium will destroy jobs, the Obama Administration has announced plans to reinstate the ban on new offshore energy development. And in practice, it is affecting both shallow and deepwater drilling. We all want BP to stop the oil spill and quickly clean up the Gulf, but there is no justification to essentially ban all new energy offshore.
Soros-Funded Center for American Progress Calling the Shots in D.C.
It is also interesting to note just who is calling the shots on the spill response and cleanup. If you watch cable TV and read the newspapers, you would think Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen is the top guy on this case. And he is—to an extent. In a very short, and grossly underreported, story published recently, The Wall Street Journal reported that the George Soros (the guy who started MoveOn.Org) funded Center for American Progress is behind the Obama Administration’s energy policy and spill response. This is scary:
“If you want to see where President Barack Obama’s response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster is heading, try following the urgings of the Center for American Progress.
“The liberal think tank with close White House ties appears to have more influence on spill policy than the president’s in-house advisers…”
Why Obama’s Blanket Moratorium in the Gulf is a Mistake
With the “politics” now covered, you may find yourself saying, or hear a friend say, “We need to stop drilling until we find out what happened with the BP spill.” I can understand why you may be thinking this, but allow me to briefly explain why imposing a blanket moratorium on all drilling is a bad idea.
1. There have been over 4,000 oil and natural gas wells drilled in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. We have had one tragic accident – which is one too many. But we don’t ground all airplanes after an accident or stop all medical procedures after a patient dies on the operating table.
2. Every deepwater drilling rig was inspected following the tragic accident on April 20, 2010. Each rig operating in the deepwater passed this safety inspection.
3. A panel of experts, including engineers from the National Academy of Engineering, recommended that the President cease issuing new permits in the deepwater temporarily, not ban existing deepwater operations. As they said
4. We produce 1/3 of our domestic oil from the Gulf of Mexico. Stopping new exploration will have untold effects on energy availability and prices down the road. While the Administration has stated its goal is to make energy more expensive, this plan simply stunts economic growth.
5. According to the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, this politically motivated decision could cost up to 40,000 men and women to lose their job.
6. The U.S. stands to lose its deepwater drilling fleet to other parts of the world for much longer than the six months’ time.
There is no doubt that the Deepwater Horizon spill is a tragedy on every level. But to further hamstring an area of the country that relies on oil and gas production for political gain—as the President has done—makes absolutely zero sense . . . unless the intention is to make energy more scarce and more expensive.
As we celebrate Independence Day this weekend, it’s important to remember what the Founders fought for—freedom—freedom to control their lives instead of being controlled by an out-of-touch, out-of-control, and overbearing government. Washington, D.C. is growing out-of-touch and out-of-control and we need to fight back.
Happy Independence Day!
Tom Pyle
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Saturday, July 03, 2010
"Can Microbes Save The Gulf Beaches"... And My Comments On That Blog
While doing all of my reading and Googling and Googling and reading... and more particularly, while looking for pictures for my previous blog with photos and videos of the 1979 Ixtoc oil spill, I came across this blog and started commenting... and if I have to say so myself, some very GOOD comments! ;-) I am re-posting ONLY my comments below but you can read the referenced blog and all other comments here...
http://xenophilius.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/can-microbes-save-the-gulf-beaches/
My first comment:
Lenny Vasbinder said
July 2, 2010 at 3:23 am
What is that a picture of? It’s not any beaches down here in LA, MS, AL or FL. It kind of looks like the beaches of the 1979 Ixtoc spill but the flags flying on the lifeguard stands are NOT Mexican flags so I wonder where that pic is from… and why it’s on a thread about the BP Oil Spill… it’s really a seriously bad misrepresentation.
Here’s my 12+ blogs so far about the BP Oil Spill…
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Lenny Vasbinder said
July 2, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Ann,
I agree with you about Obama sitting on his hands doing nothing when he should have accepted foreign help on the third day, when it was offered.. instead of waiting two months to accept foreign help. He also did nothing about mobilizing the 2,000+ American skimmers, instead leaving us with a few dozen skimmers to handle the spill. He also stood in the way of all of our attempts to block the oil from getting into our LA marshes and coastline and still blocks our attempts today.
Now, as far as the 1979 Ixtoc spill in Mexico, it actually lasted for 10 months and they weren't able to cap the leaking well until after they drilled two relief wells… which is why BP is also drilling the two relief wells. I just wanted to clarify that for you.
BUT… we’ve come a long way in skimming capabilities since 1979 but still needed all 2,000 or at least a large majority of them down here from day one. One FL Senator said that Obama’s excuse that those other areas might need their skimmers in the event of an accident is analogous to not bringing in surrounding fire engines to fight a BIG fire because a fire might happen in one of those surrounding areas. Same with ambulances that come from all over when there’s a major plane or train accident. It’s asinine how Obama is handling this accident and the BP spill will be to Obama what the hostages were to Jimmy Carter… showing just how inept they both are and were.
I agree with all of your third paragraph.
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Lenny Vasbinder said
July 2, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Obama Wimp,
You should be blaming Obama. What happened to BP was an accident… although the steps leading up to the accident were due to BP and MMS (Mineral Management Services... a federal bureaucracy) approving every step of what BP was doing (See my Timeline Blog).
What Obama is doing.. or rather NOT doing is intentional! He will go down in history as the reason for any major environmental damage to the LA marshes and coastline to those who want to know the truth.
http://lennyvasbinder.blogspot.com/search/label/BP%20Oil%20Spill
Lenny Vasbinder said
July 3, 2010 at 11:12 am
P-1. Mostly agreed. NOT all businesses are inspected MANY times at MANY phases of their work product… and if they are being inspected by a government agency that isn’t doing it’s job or is telling the business that it’s OK to skip those safety steps, then the burden shifts from the business to the government agency that is approving the *new* rules.
P-2. The difference is that Obama IS the president since January 2009 and Democrats have controlled both halls of Congress since 2006… so they have to OWN responsibility for ALL of this regulatory SNAFU’s and cleanup mess. Further, just like the Democrats and many honest Republicans (I live down here in New Orleans burbs) blamed George Bush when FEMA was slow to react to Katrina (although much of the delay blame also lies with our then Democrat Governor Blanco), Obama and the Democrats are to be BLAMED for the MUCH SLOWER response to the post-accident clean-up fiasco. The accident, whether it could have been prevented or not, will always be the fault of BP with corresponding fault on MMS for approving all of the waivers and permits… but the two-month delay in moving the necessary assets down into the Gulf to clean up the oil before it got to shore is ALL Obama’s fault.
P-3. Yes, BP and many other corporations and individuals support various politicians as part of their “free speech”, which I agree with, and while these donations might get doors opened or access to a politician that the rest of us may not have, this doesn’t mean that politicians should commit illegal acts, disregard laws and regulations, etc., just because someone gave a donation.
P-4. I wouldn’t turn my back but I wouldn’t commit crimes or disregard rules/regulations… or if I did, I would then expect that I would be held responsible if my actions contributed to negligence that resulted in an accident… which is what MMS did. BUT Obama’s failure to act has nothing to do with the waivers and permits… but instead because he was in bed with BP (Obama was BP’s biggest recipient of donations in the past 20 years… more than Bush or McCain), he listened to them instead of Governors and others down here on the front lines so Obama’s various agencies followed their *leader* and refused to listen to the Governors (maybe because all of the Governors are Red-State Governors???) and his inaction have resulted in this spill being much more of an environmental issue than it needed to be. If Obama would have accepted foreign assistance from day three and also mobilized hundreds, if not thousands of skimmers from around America, the oil could have been sucked up way out in the Gulf before it had a chance to spread out so much and eventually make landfall into the marshes. The beaches are relatively easy to clean up but the marshes are a much larger problem.
P-5. I hate to burst your bubble and all of the other people’s bubbles that think that “BP should have to pay all of the costs”. Yes, BP will be paying all of the costs up front, but just like any other cost of doing business, whether it’s political contributions or taxes or fines or lawsuit judgments, etc…. it’s the consumer who ultimately pays all of these expenses. And with Oil being publicly traded in a world market, it’s NOT just BP’s customers who will pay. For example, lets say that all of the costs related to this spill causes BP to have to charge $5.00 a barrel more for their product. Do you really think the rest of the thousands of oil companies around the world are going to charge $5.00 less? NOPE… they’re going to charge whatever the market will bear. It’s the nature of any company or product available on the open and free markets. And don’t say, “Well, we should regulate their prices!”, as government regulation of prices has ALWAYS resulted in even higher prices to the consumer. The same thing happens for every government fee, fine, tax, etc… it’s the customers who pay these, not the corporation since ALL costs of doing business are factored into the price of the product or service that business produces.
Lenny Vasbinder said
July 3, 2010 at 2:33 pm
How do you figure we have a smaller government today than in the 70′s? Just look at the budget growth in the past 40 years. In inflation adjusted dollars, federal spending has climbed by 242% since 1970 whereas individual income has only grown by 29%. http://www.heritage.org/BudgetChartbook/growth-federal-spending
Federal spending per household in 1970 was under $15K whereas today, in inflation adjusted dollars, it’s over $30K and CLIMBING FAST!
http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/federal-spending-per-household
Yes, you can find charts and graphs showing the total number of federal employees has not grown proportionately but that is only because there are companies with hundreds of thousands of employees that are virtual government agencies so the feds have merely contracted out much of the work but if those employees are being paid for with federal dollars, IMO, they’re the same as federal employees.
I don’t agree with your conclusion that “It’s all within the law”. Unfortunately, the fox is guarding the hen house in many of these issues so prosecutions will never occur. Look at Treasury Scty. tax-cheat Tim Geitner, Congress members Charlie Rangle, Chris Dodd, etc… and a host of Republicans as well.. who were allowed to serve out their terms or quietly retire without being prosecuted. I seriously doubt that Holder will investigate MMS, etc. for their violation of their duties in this accident… but they’ll go after BP because so many people are ignorant to the facts about the pathetic permitting, inspection, waivers and pathetic response to the post-accident cleanup.
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July 3, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Actually, Bush did listen to Blanco. He had to under the Constitution and State’s rights… and more particularly, Posse Comitatus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
Bush could NOT send federal troops into LA until Blanco asked for them. MS and AL got federal troops right away while Blanco tried to hang on to her power-grab and wanting to stay in control rather than relinquishing control over the the military. She refused to allow federal troops for at least a week after Katrina.
On Sept. 1, 2005, “The Bush administration sent Governor Blanco a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans. Louisiana officials eventually rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law.” (from Wikipedia timeline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Hurricane_Katrina)
I don’t recall the exact date but Lt. Gen’l. Russell Honore’s name doesn’t show up in the Wikipedia timeline until September 9th, 2005 and he is the one that took over things for the U.S. Military and finally brought things back into control down here.
Because of this issue that led to so many delays during Katrina, new laws were passed in 2006-2007, “… The National Guard is an exception, since unless federalized, they are under the control of state governors.[11] This was changed briefly: Public Law 109-364, or the “John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007″ (H.R.5122), was signed by President Bush on October 17, 2006, and allowed the President to declare a “public emergency” and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law#United_States_of_America
I do NOT necessarily agree with State’s rights being trampled on like that but it seems like so many other American’s don’t seem to mind. I do… just like with Obamacare’s mandated insurance purchase. Fortunately, my state is one of the 20+ that have filed suit against this illegal mandate.
Blanco screwed things up so badly with Katrina that she didn’t even run for re-election because LA people knew just how pathetic she was…. now, if only Obama had that kind of integrity! ;-)
Lenny Vasbinder said
July 3, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Ooops.. I forgot to try and explain the “market” but I doubt I could explain it here anyhow.
In simple terms, the “market” is based on supply and demand and also what people are willing to pay for a certain product or service. In the case of BP, if their costs/expenses related to this spill results in them having to charge more than the competition in order to still make money, then all that will happen is the competition will likely raise their own prices to just below BP’s price. Competition is what leads to lower prices for consumers.
I disagree with your presumption that there are only a few giant companies controlling everything. Yes, there are a few giant companies but the commodities market is what determines the price of a barrel of oil, not the companies themselves. OPEC certainly is a BIG factor in determining pricing when they restrict production or increase production as that affects supply and demand and the price that the other oil producing companies can charge in the market. There are hundreds of IOC’s (International Oil Companies) and thousands of NOC’s (National Oil Companies) and then there are dozens, if not hundreds of countries that OWN all oil production in their respective countries… for examply, PEMEX in Mexico and PDVSA in Venezuela. MANY other countries, large and small, own ALL production in their respective countries.
All of these countries and groups of countries control the price of oil FAR MORE than the half dozen BIG oil companies and hundreds and/or thousands of smaller oil companies.
Lenny Vasbinder said
July 3, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Oops… I reversed my numbers for the NOC’s and IOC’s and then due to snipping a section of my reply, didn’t clearly identify that NOC’s are “National(ized) Oil Companies” meaning they are mostly “state owned” or owned by their respective countries.
These Wiki’s put things back in perspective.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Oil_Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_oil_company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_petroleum_companies
Lenny Vasbinder said
July 4, 2010 at 2:31 am
Once again, it’s not an oligopoly since there are hundreds, if not thousands of oil producing companies, either IOC’s or NOC’s.
As far as the Big 6 controlling 62% of the US retail market, this simply isn’t true either… since the overwhelming majority of the actual gas stations are independently owned and/or franchises and they actually set the retail price based on their own local market conditions. When I was in my early 20′s I managed a local gas station / convenience store and I would drive around every morning and late afternoon checking the competitions prices and go up or down on my prices accordingly since the station’s business plan called for keeping our prices lower than all of the nearby competition. Often, we might sell our gas at cost or just a penny a gallon mark-up in order to keep our “lowest price” policy in effect. While the station was signed as one of the BIG companies back then, we were an independent and could buy our gas from any of the distributors down here in Southern Louisiana, for which there were many distributors, so whichever one gave us the best pricing when we needed a new delivery, that’s who we went with for the most part. Since we were signed as one of the BIG companies, we did have to buy gasoline that had to meet minimum standards but other than that, we were free to buy our gas from either the “signed” distributor or any of the other distributors. I can only hope and pray that government authorized monopolies or oligopolies like utilities (electric, gas, cable, etc.) were open to real competition. It’s slowly happening with telephone service due to wireless carriers but for wired service, it’s still very limited which is why the prices are still so high… and why wired service is losing business more and more to wireless companies. I haven’t had wired phone service in more than a decade, although I do have a Skype phone number and a MagicJack phone number so I guess those are technically wired services since they go through the internet.
50% of a market between six companies does NOT constitute a monopoly or oligopoly… since the other 50% is controlled by dozens, if not hundreds of companies.
I’m not sure what you mean by your last paragraph. You’re still not getting the reality that U.S. oil prices are the same as any other oil prices around the world depending on the world market price for oil at any given time. Since Venezuela is a dictatorship and has a Nationalized Oil Company, I also do not get how you can compare the U.S. with them… oh wait… maybe since Obama wants to socialize Amerika and become it’s first dictator, that’s why you’re making that comparison.
Lenny Vasbinder said
July 4, 2010 at 2:38 am
I explained in my earlier reply, a moment ago, that “gasoline price wars” are usually determined by the local gas stations, not by the BIG 6.
Industry consolidation happens for various reasons, usually due to bad economic times within that industry. Most of the BIG OIL companies that merged did so when times were very tough for them so they consolidated their resources, laid off thousands of employees to get lean and mean again and now they’re enjoying record profits, while still having the same profit margin of only a few pennies per gallon of gasoline. I can only hope and pray that the federal gov’t. would consolidate instead of expanding… and that states that are in trouble should consolidate instead of expand as well.. unfortunately, government ALWAYS grows regardless of whether times are good or bad… which just makes things so much worse for those of us who are forced to support these bloated bureaucracies. Of course, it’s why I went into my own business while in my 20′s so I could start avoiding some of the confiscatory taxes… yes, that means I’m a tax cheat like Obama’s Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner! LOL
Lenny Vasbinder said
July 4, 2010 at 5:42 pm
P-1 & 2 – Well, if retailers make agreements with certain distributors, that is their right as the business owner… just like it’s your right to make agreements with your bank, credit card companies, landlord, insurance company, etc. There will always be new start ups or other companies with more competitive business plans who will come in and start up and either have a better product or lower price to draw customers away from the existing stores. At one time, McDonald's and Burger King had the fast food hamburger market pretty well locked up, then along came Wendy’s, Rally’s, Jack-in-the-Box, etc. Same with other large grocery chains that have come and gone… and down here, one of the biggest chains is NOT a national chain but a local chain that started up out in the boonies of LA, a small city called Houma, down in Bayou or “Coonass” Country and as the big stores would close up stores, Rouses would take them over and now have dozens of stores in the metro New Orleans area. I shop either them or the WalMart SuperCenter… which ever has the lowest prices for what I want/need.
P-3 – You can’t compare *retail* prices between countries since there are often many layers of fees and taxes added on to the retail price and most consumers have no clue just how HIGH they are. The price per barrel is nearly the same world wide although some countries and companies will play the commodities market and hedge their buying power if they think prices will be changing. Southwest Airlines does this to try and keep the lowest prices on jet fuel. You can’t use Venezuela as a comparison for anything since that country is run by a whacko dictator and the oil company is subsidized by the *State* to lower their retail costs… just like the whacko gives away heating oil to some Americans every winter as a way of trying to make himself look good. Anyone that buys into a dictator being good is just as whacko as the dictator himself. These A-HOLES that wear Chavez and Gueverra (Che’) clothing are complete idiots and should be deported to the communist country they believe in… but then they’re allowed their freedom of speech in America so we can’t do it. I’d love to see one of them wear a Bush t-shirt in one of those communist countries and see what prison they end up in. They’re pathetic!!!
P-4 – As a small business owner, I completely disagree with your thought process in this paragraph. Your anti-business or big business leanings come out way too much in your thougt processes in this paragraph. This is AMERICA… where anyone can become as successful as they choose to be!!! God Bless America on this 4th of July… the day, 234 years ago, when we decided to become a GREAT country.. that hudreds of thousands… possibly millions of foreigners risk their lives to come to every year. Unfortunately, we can’t handle all of them so we have to send many back. I don’t see that happening with any other country in the world, unless a neighborhing country is being overrun so their masses flee and become refugees in neighboring countries.
P-5 – Once again, I disagree 100% with your anti-business, pro-big goverment thought process. It sounds like you should be fleeing to a communist country… and make room for one more LEGAL immigrant who will come to America, start up their own little business and work hard to grow it into a BIG business one day. It happens to thousand of Americans and LEGAL immigrants every year. You should strive to grab a piece of the American dream instead of letting the LSM and Obama turn you into a socialist. As far as you thoughts that cancer has increased… it’s the ability to detect cancer that has increased. In the old days, people died of “consumption” or some other generic term when they didn’t really know what killed somebody. Autopsies didn’t really become commonplace until 17th-18th century… and even then, they didn’t understand everything they saw. “Hippocrates believed that the body was composed of four fluids: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. He believed that an excess of black bile in any given site in the body caused cancer. This was the general thought of the cause of cancer for the next 1400 years. In ancient Egypt, it was believed cancer was caused by the Gods.”
P-6 – Businesses ARE OWNED by people and should have every right to speak, lobby, communicate, etc., with politicians as any other person. Why should a socialist citizen who wants the goverment to give them cradle to grave welfare and pays very little in taxes have more of a voice than an independent person who has their own business and pays the bulk of the taxes that run our goverment? That’s just a mindset I could never agree with… and I’m in pretty good company since the Supreme Court also ruled the same way recently… but now the socialist democrats in Congress are trying to block the Supreme Court ruling with new anti-business, anti-tea party patriots, pro-BIG union (which is just another form of business) legislation that will allow unions to donate money and run commercials but put a damper on businesses and tea party groups from doing the same. Hopefully, the Supreme Court will rule against this new legistlation as well… of course, if the socialist Kagan gets on the bench, we know she won’t vote in favor of REAL freedom of speech.
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Lenny Vasbinder said
July 2, 2010 at 3:23 am
What is that a picture of? It’s not any beaches down here in LA, MS, AL or FL. It kind of looks like the beaches of the 1979 Ixtoc spill but the flags flying on the lifeguard stands are NOT Mexican flags so I wonder where that pic is from… and why it’s on a thread about the BP Oil Spill… it’s really a seriously bad misrepresentation.
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Lenny Vasbinder said
July 2, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Ann,
I agree with you about Obama sitting on his hands doing nothing when he should have accepted foreign help on the third day, when it was offered.. instead of waiting two months to accept foreign help. He also did nothing about mobilizing the 2,000+ American skimmers, instead leaving us with a few dozen skimmers to handle the spill. He also stood in the way of all of our attempts to block the oil from getting into our LA marshes and coastline and still blocks our attempts today.
Now, as far as the 1979 Ixtoc spill in Mexico, it actually lasted for 10 months and they weren't able to cap the leaking well until after they drilled two relief wells… which is why BP is also drilling the two relief wells. I just wanted to clarify that for you.
BUT… we’ve come a long way in skimming capabilities since 1979 but still needed all 2,000 or at least a large majority of them down here from day one. One FL Senator said that Obama’s excuse that those other areas might need their skimmers in the event of an accident is analogous to not bringing in surrounding fire engines to fight a BIG fire because a fire might happen in one of those surrounding areas. Same with ambulances that come from all over when there’s a major plane or train accident. It’s asinine how Obama is handling this accident and the BP spill will be to Obama what the hostages were to Jimmy Carter… showing just how inept they both are and were.
I agree with all of your third paragraph.
Check out my blog’s series of articles at http://lennyvasbinder.blogspot.com/search/label/BP%20Oil%20Spill for more information and facts.
Lenny Vasbinder said
July 2, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Obama Wimp,
You should be blaming Obama. What happened to BP was an accident… although the steps leading up to the accident were due to BP and MMS (Mineral Management Services... a federal bureaucracy) approving every step of what BP was doing (See my Timeline Blog).
What Obama is doing.. or rather NOT doing is intentional! He will go down in history as the reason for any major environmental damage to the LA marshes and coastline to those who want to know the truth.
http://lennyvasbinder.blogspot.com/search/label/BP%20Oil%20Spill
Lenny Vasbinder said
July 3, 2010 at 11:12 am
P-1. Mostly agreed. NOT all businesses are inspected MANY times at MANY phases of their work product… and if they are being inspected by a government agency that isn’t doing it’s job or is telling the business that it’s OK to skip those safety steps, then the burden shifts from the business to the government agency that is approving the *new* rules.
P-2. The difference is that Obama IS the president since January 2009 and Democrats have controlled both halls of Congress since 2006… so they have to OWN responsibility for ALL of this regulatory SNAFU’s and cleanup mess. Further, just like the Democrats and many honest Republicans (I live down here in New Orleans burbs) blamed George Bush when FEMA was slow to react to Katrina (although much of the delay blame also lies with our then Democrat Governor Blanco), Obama and the Democrats are to be BLAMED for the MUCH SLOWER response to the post-accident clean-up fiasco. The accident, whether it could have been prevented or not, will always be the fault of BP with corresponding fault on MMS for approving all of the waivers and permits… but the two-month delay in moving the necessary assets down into the Gulf to clean up the oil before it got to shore is ALL Obama’s fault.
P-3. Yes, BP and many other corporations and individuals support various politicians as part of their “free speech”, which I agree with, and while these donations might get doors opened or access to a politician that the rest of us may not have, this doesn’t mean that politicians should commit illegal acts, disregard laws and regulations, etc., just because someone gave a donation.
P-4. I wouldn’t turn my back but I wouldn’t commit crimes or disregard rules/regulations… or if I did, I would then expect that I would be held responsible if my actions contributed to negligence that resulted in an accident… which is what MMS did. BUT Obama’s failure to act has nothing to do with the waivers and permits… but instead because he was in bed with BP (Obama was BP’s biggest recipient of donations in the past 20 years… more than Bush or McCain), he listened to them instead of Governors and others down here on the front lines so Obama’s various agencies followed their *leader* and refused to listen to the Governors (maybe because all of the Governors are Red-State Governors???) and his inaction have resulted in this spill being much more of an environmental issue than it needed to be. If Obama would have accepted foreign assistance from day three and also mobilized hundreds, if not thousands of skimmers from around America, the oil could have been sucked up way out in the Gulf before it had a chance to spread out so much and eventually make landfall into the marshes. The beaches are relatively easy to clean up but the marshes are a much larger problem.
P-5. I hate to burst your bubble and all of the other people’s bubbles that think that “BP should have to pay all of the costs”. Yes, BP will be paying all of the costs up front, but just like any other cost of doing business, whether it’s political contributions or taxes or fines or lawsuit judgments, etc…. it’s the consumer who ultimately pays all of these expenses. And with Oil being publicly traded in a world market, it’s NOT just BP’s customers who will pay. For example, lets say that all of the costs related to this spill causes BP to have to charge $5.00 a barrel more for their product. Do you really think the rest of the thousands of oil companies around the world are going to charge $5.00 less? NOPE… they’re going to charge whatever the market will bear. It’s the nature of any company or product available on the open and free markets. And don’t say, “Well, we should regulate their prices!”, as government regulation of prices has ALWAYS resulted in even higher prices to the consumer. The same thing happens for every government fee, fine, tax, etc… it’s the customers who pay these, not the corporation since ALL costs of doing business are factored into the price of the product or service that business produces.
Lenny Vasbinder said
July 3, 2010 at 2:33 pm
How do you figure we have a smaller government today than in the 70′s? Just look at the budget growth in the past 40 years. In inflation adjusted dollars, federal spending has climbed by 242% since 1970 whereas individual income has only grown by 29%. http://www.heritage.org/BudgetChartbook/growth-federal-spending
Federal spending per household in 1970 was under $15K whereas today, in inflation adjusted dollars, it’s over $30K and CLIMBING FAST!
http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/federal-spending-per-household
Yes, you can find charts and graphs showing the total number of federal employees has not grown proportionately but that is only because there are companies with hundreds of thousands of employees that are virtual government agencies so the feds have merely contracted out much of the work but if those employees are being paid for with federal dollars, IMO, they’re the same as federal employees.
I don’t agree with your conclusion that “It’s all within the law”. Unfortunately, the fox is guarding the hen house in many of these issues so prosecutions will never occur. Look at Treasury Scty. tax-cheat Tim Geitner, Congress members Charlie Rangle, Chris Dodd, etc… and a host of Republicans as well.. who were allowed to serve out their terms or quietly retire without being prosecuted. I seriously doubt that Holder will investigate MMS, etc. for their violation of their duties in this accident… but they’ll go after BP because so many people are ignorant to the facts about the pathetic permitting, inspection, waivers and pathetic response to the post-accident cleanup.
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July 3, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Actually, Bush did listen to Blanco. He had to under the Constitution and State’s rights… and more particularly, Posse Comitatus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
Bush could NOT send federal troops into LA until Blanco asked for them. MS and AL got federal troops right away while Blanco tried to hang on to her power-grab and wanting to stay in control rather than relinquishing control over the the military. She refused to allow federal troops for at least a week after Katrina.
On Sept. 1, 2005, “The Bush administration sent Governor Blanco a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans. Louisiana officials eventually rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law.” (from Wikipedia timeline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Hurricane_Katrina)
I don’t recall the exact date but Lt. Gen’l. Russell Honore’s name doesn’t show up in the Wikipedia timeline until September 9th, 2005 and he is the one that took over things for the U.S. Military and finally brought things back into control down here.
Because of this issue that led to so many delays during Katrina, new laws were passed in 2006-2007, “… The National Guard is an exception, since unless federalized, they are under the control of state governors.[11] This was changed briefly: Public Law 109-364, or the “John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007″ (H.R.5122), was signed by President Bush on October 17, 2006, and allowed the President to declare a “public emergency” and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law#United_States_of_America
I do NOT necessarily agree with State’s rights being trampled on like that but it seems like so many other American’s don’t seem to mind. I do… just like with Obamacare’s mandated insurance purchase. Fortunately, my state is one of the 20+ that have filed suit against this illegal mandate.
Blanco screwed things up so badly with Katrina that she didn’t even run for re-election because LA people knew just how pathetic she was…. now, if only Obama had that kind of integrity! ;-)
Lenny Vasbinder said
July 3, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Ooops.. I forgot to try and explain the “market” but I doubt I could explain it here anyhow.
In simple terms, the “market” is based on supply and demand and also what people are willing to pay for a certain product or service. In the case of BP, if their costs/expenses related to this spill results in them having to charge more than the competition in order to still make money, then all that will happen is the competition will likely raise their own prices to just below BP’s price. Competition is what leads to lower prices for consumers.
I disagree with your presumption that there are only a few giant companies controlling everything. Yes, there are a few giant companies but the commodities market is what determines the price of a barrel of oil, not the companies themselves. OPEC certainly is a BIG factor in determining pricing when they restrict production or increase production as that affects supply and demand and the price that the other oil producing companies can charge in the market. There are hundreds of IOC’s (International Oil Companies) and thousands of NOC’s (National Oil Companies) and then there are dozens, if not hundreds of countries that OWN all oil production in their respective countries… for examply, PEMEX in Mexico and PDVSA in Venezuela. MANY other countries, large and small, own ALL production in their respective countries.
All of these countries and groups of countries control the price of oil FAR MORE than the half dozen BIG oil companies and hundreds and/or thousands of smaller oil companies.
Lenny Vasbinder said
July 3, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Oops… I reversed my numbers for the NOC’s and IOC’s and then due to snipping a section of my reply, didn’t clearly identify that NOC’s are “National(ized) Oil Companies” meaning they are mostly “state owned” or owned by their respective countries.
These Wiki’s put things back in perspective.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Oil_Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_oil_company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_petroleum_companies
Lenny Vasbinder said
July 4, 2010 at 2:31 am
Once again, it’s not an oligopoly since there are hundreds, if not thousands of oil producing companies, either IOC’s or NOC’s.
As far as the Big 6 controlling 62% of the US retail market, this simply isn’t true either… since the overwhelming majority of the actual gas stations are independently owned and/or franchises and they actually set the retail price based on their own local market conditions. When I was in my early 20′s I managed a local gas station / convenience store and I would drive around every morning and late afternoon checking the competitions prices and go up or down on my prices accordingly since the station’s business plan called for keeping our prices lower than all of the nearby competition. Often, we might sell our gas at cost or just a penny a gallon mark-up in order to keep our “lowest price” policy in effect. While the station was signed as one of the BIG companies back then, we were an independent and could buy our gas from any of the distributors down here in Southern Louisiana, for which there were many distributors, so whichever one gave us the best pricing when we needed a new delivery, that’s who we went with for the most part. Since we were signed as one of the BIG companies, we did have to buy gasoline that had to meet minimum standards but other than that, we were free to buy our gas from either the “signed” distributor or any of the other distributors. I can only hope and pray that government authorized monopolies or oligopolies like utilities (electric, gas, cable, etc.) were open to real competition. It’s slowly happening with telephone service due to wireless carriers but for wired service, it’s still very limited which is why the prices are still so high… and why wired service is losing business more and more to wireless companies. I haven’t had wired phone service in more than a decade, although I do have a Skype phone number and a MagicJack phone number so I guess those are technically wired services since they go through the internet.
50% of a market between six companies does NOT constitute a monopoly or oligopoly… since the other 50% is controlled by dozens, if not hundreds of companies.
I’m not sure what you mean by your last paragraph. You’re still not getting the reality that U.S. oil prices are the same as any other oil prices around the world depending on the world market price for oil at any given time. Since Venezuela is a dictatorship and has a Nationalized Oil Company, I also do not get how you can compare the U.S. with them… oh wait… maybe since Obama wants to socialize Amerika and become it’s first dictator, that’s why you’re making that comparison.
Lenny Vasbinder said
July 4, 2010 at 2:38 am
I explained in my earlier reply, a moment ago, that “gasoline price wars” are usually determined by the local gas stations, not by the BIG 6.
Industry consolidation happens for various reasons, usually due to bad economic times within that industry. Most of the BIG OIL companies that merged did so when times were very tough for them so they consolidated their resources, laid off thousands of employees to get lean and mean again and now they’re enjoying record profits, while still having the same profit margin of only a few pennies per gallon of gasoline. I can only hope and pray that the federal gov’t. would consolidate instead of expanding… and that states that are in trouble should consolidate instead of expand as well.. unfortunately, government ALWAYS grows regardless of whether times are good or bad… which just makes things so much worse for those of us who are forced to support these bloated bureaucracies. Of course, it’s why I went into my own business while in my 20′s so I could start avoiding some of the confiscatory taxes… yes, that means I’m a tax cheat like Obama’s Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner! LOL
Lenny Vasbinder said
July 4, 2010 at 5:42 pm
P-1 & 2 – Well, if retailers make agreements with certain distributors, that is their right as the business owner… just like it’s your right to make agreements with your bank, credit card companies, landlord, insurance company, etc. There will always be new start ups or other companies with more competitive business plans who will come in and start up and either have a better product or lower price to draw customers away from the existing stores. At one time, McDonald's and Burger King had the fast food hamburger market pretty well locked up, then along came Wendy’s, Rally’s, Jack-in-the-Box, etc. Same with other large grocery chains that have come and gone… and down here, one of the biggest chains is NOT a national chain but a local chain that started up out in the boonies of LA, a small city called Houma, down in Bayou or “Coonass” Country and as the big stores would close up stores, Rouses would take them over and now have dozens of stores in the metro New Orleans area. I shop either them or the WalMart SuperCenter… which ever has the lowest prices for what I want/need.
P-3 – You can’t compare *retail* prices between countries since there are often many layers of fees and taxes added on to the retail price and most consumers have no clue just how HIGH they are. The price per barrel is nearly the same world wide although some countries and companies will play the commodities market and hedge their buying power if they think prices will be changing. Southwest Airlines does this to try and keep the lowest prices on jet fuel. You can’t use Venezuela as a comparison for anything since that country is run by a whacko dictator and the oil company is subsidized by the *State* to lower their retail costs… just like the whacko gives away heating oil to some Americans every winter as a way of trying to make himself look good. Anyone that buys into a dictator being good is just as whacko as the dictator himself. These A-HOLES that wear Chavez and Gueverra (Che’) clothing are complete idiots and should be deported to the communist country they believe in… but then they’re allowed their freedom of speech in America so we can’t do it. I’d love to see one of them wear a Bush t-shirt in one of those communist countries and see what prison they end up in. They’re pathetic!!!
P-4 – As a small business owner, I completely disagree with your thought process in this paragraph. Your anti-business or big business leanings come out way too much in your thougt processes in this paragraph. This is AMERICA… where anyone can become as successful as they choose to be!!! God Bless America on this 4th of July… the day, 234 years ago, when we decided to become a GREAT country.. that hudreds of thousands… possibly millions of foreigners risk their lives to come to every year. Unfortunately, we can’t handle all of them so we have to send many back. I don’t see that happening with any other country in the world, unless a neighborhing country is being overrun so their masses flee and become refugees in neighboring countries.
P-5 – Once again, I disagree 100% with your anti-business, pro-big goverment thought process. It sounds like you should be fleeing to a communist country… and make room for one more LEGAL immigrant who will come to America, start up their own little business and work hard to grow it into a BIG business one day. It happens to thousand of Americans and LEGAL immigrants every year. You should strive to grab a piece of the American dream instead of letting the LSM and Obama turn you into a socialist. As far as you thoughts that cancer has increased… it’s the ability to detect cancer that has increased. In the old days, people died of “consumption” or some other generic term when they didn’t really know what killed somebody. Autopsies didn’t really become commonplace until 17th-18th century… and even then, they didn’t understand everything they saw. “Hippocrates believed that the body was composed of four fluids: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. He believed that an excess of black bile in any given site in the body caused cancer. This was the general thought of the cause of cancer for the next 1400 years. In ancient Egypt, it was believed cancer was caused by the Gods.”
P-6 – Businesses ARE OWNED by people and should have every right to speak, lobby, communicate, etc., with politicians as any other person. Why should a socialist citizen who wants the goverment to give them cradle to grave welfare and pays very little in taxes have more of a voice than an independent person who has their own business and pays the bulk of the taxes that run our goverment? That’s just a mindset I could never agree with… and I’m in pretty good company since the Supreme Court also ruled the same way recently… but now the socialist democrats in Congress are trying to block the Supreme Court ruling with new anti-business, anti-tea party patriots, pro-BIG union (which is just another form of business) legislation that will allow unions to donate money and run commercials but put a damper on businesses and tea party groups from doing the same. Hopefully, the Supreme Court will rule against this new legistlation as well… of course, if the socialist Kagan gets on the bench, we know she won’t vote in favor of REAL freedom of speech.
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Friday, July 02, 2010
Gulf Oil Tracker By PBS News Hour
While I'm certainly not much of a fan of PBS, due to their leftist-leaning reporting that is paid for, in part, by taxpayer dollars, I did like their little oil spill widget tht they call the PBS NewsHour Gulf Oil Tracker... so here it is!
Sorry.... after testing this widget, I noticed that Internet Explorer was using up a LOT of system resources whenever a page with the widget was being viewed on two of my computers so the widget was a real resource HOG. If you really want to see it, you can go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/horizon-oil-spill.html.
Sorry for wasting your time with this blog.
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Sorry for wasting your time with this blog.
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Thursday, July 01, 2010
Pictures And Videos Of The 1979 Ixtoc 1 Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill
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The below pictures and videos are related to the June 03, 1979 Ixtoc Oil Spill in the Bay Of Campeche / Gulf Of Mexico, off the Mexican coast which flowed unabated for nearly 10 months and dumped an estimated 140-150 million gallons of oil into the Gulf Of Mexico. If they don't figure out a way to cap the BP spill, it could surpass the 1979 spill. The good news is that we have much more skimmer capability compared to 1979 and the spill was further out in the Gulf from shore so the dispersants and skimmers have more time to deal with the oil. A large percentage of the BP oil is being skimmed up but...
Unfortunately, Barack Hussein Obama has handled things pathetically BAD and did not accept foreign help from countries with much more skimmer capacity nor did he mobilize the 2,000+ skimmers in America so the oil has been hitting landfall in Louisiana and tar balls have started washing up on other State's beaches. Most, if not all of this could have been avoided if BHO would have acted more quickly, accepted foreign help on day three when it was offered and allowed Gov. Jindal of Louisiana to build the sand berms like he wanted to do just a week or so after the accident. Two months later and BHO's administration is still putting up roadblocks to the sand berms so the marshes and wetlands are getting more and more heavy oil pollution.
WORKERS SHOVELING UP THICK LAYER OF BLACK CRUDE OFF OF THE MEXICAN BEACHES
Now, compare the above thick gooey oil on the Mexican beaches to the more tar like substance found on the Padre Island, TX, USA beaches as the tar balls washed ashore in the below pictures, several months after the accident down in the Bay of Campeche.
AUGUST 20, 1979 IXTOC OILED BEACH - PADRE ISLAND, TX, USA
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SEPTEMBER 11, 1979 IXTOC SHELLHASH AERIAL VIEW - PADRE ISLAND, TX, USA
SEPTEMBER 11, 1979 IXTOC SHELLHASH - PADRE ISLAND, TX, USA
SEPTEMBER 13, 1979 IXTOC STORM SURGE
OCTOBER 1979 IXTOC TARMAT AERIAL VIEW
OCTOBER 11, 1979 IXTOC TARMAT
BBC Looks Back At 1979 Ixtoc Oil Spill
1979 Ixtoc Spill Much Like Current One, Says Texas A&M Prof.
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The below pictures and videos are related to the June 03, 1979 Ixtoc Oil Spill in the Bay Of Campeche / Gulf Of Mexico, off the Mexican coast which flowed unabated for nearly 10 months and dumped an estimated 140-150 million gallons of oil into the Gulf Of Mexico. If they don't figure out a way to cap the BP spill, it could surpass the 1979 spill. The good news is that we have much more skimmer capability compared to 1979 and the spill was further out in the Gulf from shore so the dispersants and skimmers have more time to deal with the oil. A large percentage of the BP oil is being skimmed up but...
Unfortunately, Barack Hussein Obama has handled things pathetically BAD and did not accept foreign help from countries with much more skimmer capacity nor did he mobilize the 2,000+ skimmers in America so the oil has been hitting landfall in Louisiana and tar balls have started washing up on other State's beaches. Most, if not all of this could have been avoided if BHO would have acted more quickly, accepted foreign help on day three when it was offered and allowed Gov. Jindal of Louisiana to build the sand berms like he wanted to do just a week or so after the accident. Two months later and BHO's administration is still putting up roadblocks to the sand berms so the marshes and wetlands are getting more and more heavy oil pollution.
WORKERS SHOVELING UP THICK LAYER OF BLACK CRUDE OFF OF THE MEXICAN BEACHES
Now, compare the above thick gooey oil on the Mexican beaches to the more tar like substance found on the Padre Island, TX, USA beaches as the tar balls washed ashore in the below pictures, several months after the accident down in the Bay of Campeche.
AUGUST 20, 1979 IXTOC OILED BEACH - PADRE ISLAND, TX, USA
SEPTEMBER 11, 1979 IXTOC SHELLHASH AERIAL VIEW - PADRE ISLAND, TX, USA
SEPTEMBER 11, 1979 IXTOC SHELLHASH - PADRE ISLAND, TX, USA
SEPTEMBER 13, 1979 IXTOC STORM SURGE
OCTOBER 1979 IXTOC TARMAT AERIAL VIEW
OCTOBER 11, 1979 IXTOC TARMAT
BBC Looks Back At 1979 Ixtoc Oil Spill
1979 Ixtoc Spill Much Like Current One, Says Texas A&M Prof.
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