Fluffy Pink Slippers

I keep hearing different versions of who’s in charge of the clean up and what’s being accomplished to clean up the oil and restore the Gulf. Yet, the situation is getting worse.  With the resources of the world at our beck and call, why aren’t we working towards a solution?  Who’s lying and who’s not? 

In the movie, “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”, Willy Wonka remarks “Suspense is terrible. I hope it lasts”. That’s exactly the atmosphere of today… the suspense is terrible, and it’s not going away. Each day of conflicting reports, incomplete news and talks of more problems creates a suspense among Americans that doesn’t seem to be waning.

The Deep Horizon Oil rig exploded on April 20 killing 11 workers. It was owned by Transocean and operated by British Petroleum or BP.

President Obama has repeatedly said that he and his administration have ”… been fully engaged on the Gulf Coast oil spill since Day One”, assuring that he was “bringing every resource to bear and able to ensure without question that taxpayers will be protected.”

So why, then, has Obama refused help from around the world and attempted a moratorium on drilling that would ‘destroy’ the Gulf economy? Over the last two months, the Federal government has consistently refused help from companies and locals. Along the Gulf, health of its residents, ocean and marsh marine life and the economic lifeline of the region is suffering.

http://http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/04/gulf-disaster-obama-day-maybe/

On May 24, BP CEO Tony Hayward announced during a press conference on Fourchon Beach, Lousiana, where cleanup efforts were under way, ”We’re going to clear every drop of oil off the shore. We will remediate any environmental damage, and we will put the Gulf Coast right and back to normality as fast as we can.”  Maybe I didn’t get the memo, but I see no progress.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/24/oil.spill.main/index.html
On June 29, Mississippi Governor. Haley Barbour slammed the federal government and BP “for failing to capture the crude offshore.” Neither BP nor the federal government is giving them the resources to effectively stop the oil from coming ashore.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-20100629,0,1497067.story
Residents of the Gulf are not only losing jobs and income, they’re getting sick.  More than 1 million gallons of the toxic dispersant Corexit have been dumped into the ocean or sprayed on beaches and marshes. The effects of the toxic dispersants and oil are clealy documented by the safety data sheets of Nalco, who manufactures the dispersant, Corexit9527, banned by the UK and Sweden. Most dispersants are designed for open ocean use and should NEVER be used on sensitive marshes. According to residents, they’re being sprayed on marshes.

According to Nalco’s proprietary SAFETY DATA SHEET on Corexit EC9527A, Corexit has ‘acute health risks, with excessive exposure causing central nervous system effects,nausea,vomiting, and can harm the kidneys or liver.’ This is written by the manufacturer, yet BP refuses to pay any claims or acknowledge the effects of the dispersant it is dumping into the Gulf.

When fishermen and other residents complained of illness, the CDC released the following bizarre statement, on their website,  indicating they could find not a connection between the dispersants and the illnesses. “Based on its investigation of a separate incident, NIOSH concludes it was unlikely that dispersants were the cause of headaches, upper respiratory irritation, nausea, and other symptoms among seven fishermen who were hospitalized on May 26, 2010.”

They also sent a letter with their  findings to Fred Tremmel, Health Specialist working at  BP’ Command Center in Louisiana.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/

I’m hearing promises of help from the government and BP, but seeing no attempts at a resolution.  So who’s lying about the Gulf crisis and why?  
I look forward to receiving your comments.

On April 20, 2010, an accidental explosion of the Deepwater Horizon BP Oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico,  forty-one miles off the southeast coast of Louisiana, killed eleven workers. 

The lack of response by the Obama Administration and BP in the days and weeks that followed devastated the areas from Louisiana to Florida, where residents lost wages.  They are looking at the destruction of marine life, pollution of beaches and a steep decline in tourism.

The bizarre and inept behavior of BP and the Obama administration  left Americans scratching their heads wondering “Why” and “What could possibly be the motivation for blatant inaction on the part of the President which is destroying the Gulf coast?”.  

In the seventy-two hours following the explosion, thirteen countries, including Holland, offered help of top experts who knew how to keep the spill from spreading, but the Obama administrated turned down all assistance. According to Geert Visser, Consul General for the Netherlands, he received a letter from the administration saying, ‘Thanks, but no thanks.’”   Almost two months later, the Obama administration finally agreed to accept “partial assistance”.  This was typical of the Whitehouse response to all who offered help.

BP employs 29,000 Americans who are financially affected by this loss of work. The BP dividend has been suspended for a year, leaving shareholders without quarterly income.

Even more troubling, Obama placed a moratorium on oil drilling that  will leave thousands of Americans unemployed, and oil companies looking elsewhere to drill.  One of the likely destinations is Brazil, where Obama invested $2 Billion of taxpayers’ money in August of 2009 to the Petrobras, the Brazilian state-own oil company.   George Soros has a major financial stake in Petrobras.  While Obama thinks Americans should look to windmills and solar panels for energy, he’s promoting deep-sea oil drilling in Brazil.

BP management agreed to pay out at least $20 billion in compensation, citing a 1990 law. In return, BP’s American assets were held as collateral.  If BP defaults, it seems that the Obama administration can assume control of BP, creating the desired change from private business to government control.

     Some had better luck.  Goldman Sachs as well as BP CEO, Tony Hayward, sold millions of shares of BP stock in the weeks preceeding the explosion, avoiding a 36% drop if sale occurred after the spill.
     Yes, Americans are scratching their heads wondering why our President’s actions weakens America but aides Brazil and Soros. One thing is clear, Drill Baby Drill, is only true for Brazil.

Apparently, former Weather Underground leaders William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, as well as Code Pink founder Jodie Evans, helped organize the Free Gaza Movement, which launched the six-ship flotilla from Turkey to Israel that ended in a violent clash with Israeli Defense Forces, BigGovernment.com reported.

In January, the trio were spotted in Egypt attempting to stir up crowds on the streets with 1,400 other left-wing activists after the Egyptian government refused to allow Free Gaza Movement members to enter the Gaza Strip. 

Israeli commandos on Monday, 5/30, stormed six ships, in international waters, carrying hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists on an aid mission to the blockaded Gaza Strip, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens after encountering unexpected resistance as the forces boarded the vessels.

The Israelis were within their rights to inspect ships coming in.  Although the ships were said to be peaceful, Israel wanted to make sure they were not carrying guns or explosives. Turkey’s NTV showed activists beating one Israeli soldier with sticks as he rappelled from a helicopter onto one of the boats.The Israeli military said troops only opened fire after encountering unexpected resistance from the activists. Activists attacked troops with knives and iron rods, and opened fire with two pistols seized from the forces.

So I was confused when Obama was interviewed on Larry King about the incident.  While Obama said the deaths of nine people were unnecessary, he said the U.S. wants to wait for “an investigation of international standards” to determine the facts. Israel, he said, should agree to such an investigation.

“They recognize that this can’t be good for Israel’s long-term security,” Obama said in an interview with CNN’s Larry King airing Thursday night.

Why wait for an investigation of international standards?  Why doesn’t Obama just call his BFF, Bill Ayers, and find out what happened?

HOW WE TAX
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,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.  
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income 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 44.75 cents per gallon)
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
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service FeeTax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone    State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
 
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world.   Reprinted from Sherri Hilts.

I’m constantly aware and amazed at articles and reports that refer to Fox News as a right-wing news organization.  Of course it is conservative and leans to the right.    If Fox is right wing, who is left wing?  No one is the perceived left wing in terms of media reporting.  I’ve never seen a report or story referring to CBS, NBC or ABC as a left-wing news organization.  Americans perceive these media outlets as ‘middle of the road’.  But are they?  I have tried, in vein, to get any reporter from these news organization to investigate Obama and his administration, and they flatly refuse with the excuse that ‘it’s not news’ or ‘no one is interested’ .  Just a couple of items that I believe are important are the unprecdented Czars in the Whitehouse with powers beyond Congress and no accountabililty…or the lack of a paper trail on the President.  Forget the birth certificate.  No one has seen his parents’ marriage license, divorce papers, his passport (which would give his citizenship for either the U.S. or Indonesia), college records or law school records, to name a few.    Let me know your thoughts.

As I listen to Obama’s speeches, or many of the speeches given by the Left, I’m constantly aware of the Rules of Saul Alinsky.   Many times in these speeches, words are used to manipulate or con us into a belief.

Saul Alinsky was a Community Organizer in Chicago who wrote a book, “Rules for Radicals” which quickly became the bible of the Left.  It educated people about organizing and manipulating groups of people to get them to do what the organizer  wants, and at the same time, convince them it’s for their own good.  Barack Obama later taught these rules, himself, so he knows them well. 

The First Rule is “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”  Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood. 

Generally, when a community organizer starts out, he or she doesn’t have a lot of support.  But if they talk in superlatives about their conquests, their goals, their support…their audience ‘thinks’ they have power.  I hear Obama talking about their plans for increasing jobs, plans for cutting the deficit, but has anyone seen a plan?   It’s simply shameless deception.  This rule is further supported by creating two groups of people, the haves and the have nots.  The audience, of course, is in the ‘have nots’ and feels resentments towards the haves.  This kind of manipulation is played daily by the left in their speeches…remember the phrase, “Wall Street vs. Main Street” or “tax cuts for the rich”.   This is purely manipulative speech that the main street media keeps alive.  What is Wall  Street vs. Main Street?  Is Wall Street supposed to be our enemy?  Are your IRA and pension accounts held by Wall Street firms?  Is that bad?  What would you do without your pensions?  Goldman Sachs is a good friend of Obama’s, so is he part of Wall Street or Main Street?

Take the phrase “tax cuts for the rich”.   Everyone who paid taxes got a tax cut; those who didn’t pay taxes, didn’t.  It wasn’t a tax cut for the rich, but it was rather a tax cut for taxpayers.   Did rich people get more back?  Yes…why shouldn’t they?  This was never really explained, but the phrase was used over and over.  It was never fully explained what rich people should do with their tax cut; should they give it back to the government?  should they give it to people who don’t pay taxes?

The purpose of the rules and tactics of Alinsky is to con and manipulate the audience into believing their words.  So listen to a speech, question the remarks and make sure you understand what’s being said.

On December 17, President Obama signed the following Executive Order:

Executive Order: AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOL AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION

“By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words “except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act” and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.”  Barack Obama

Here’s the text of 2(c), which this EO now has applying to INTERPOL:

(c) Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable.

An INTERPOL branch in the US now cannot be searched, it’s files are not subject to legal subpoena nor discovery. If any branch of government wants to keep documents out of the hands of the court system, just hand them over to INTERPOL until the smoke clears.

INTERPOL will now be able to maintain files on US citizens.

By this EO, Obama has conferred diplomatic immunity upon INTERPOL, exemption from any search and seizure by U. S. law enforcement officials, exemption from US taxes, and immunity from Freedom of Information Act requests, etc.

What this order, in effect, accomplishes is to allow a foreign person, persons or agency, under the shield of Interpol to come into the United States, maintain files on United States citizens and not be held accountable for its actions.  Al Qaeda could hide under this, and nothing can be done.  Through this order, he is decreasing US sovereignty and may now, also, be setting up the American people for dissolution of all of their rights under said US Constitution.

So my question is, why?

Is it me, or does this administration make a habit of talking in secret, planning behind closed doors and signing orders without telling anyone?  

On December 17, 2009, the White House released an Executive Order “Amending Executive Order 12425.” It grants INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization) a new level of full diplomatic immunity afforded to foreign embassies and select other “International Organizations” as set forth in the United States International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945.

By removing language from President Reagan’s 1983 Executive Order 12425, this international law enforcement body now operates on American soil beyond the reach of our own top law enforcement arm, the FBI, and is immune from Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests.  This Order, in effect, gives immunity to Interpol.  But what is the reason. 

I have also noticed during the non-debates about Healthcare Reform that the Democratic legislators do not seem to care about upcoming elections and the possibility of being defeated.  Do they know something we don’t know? 

The most frequent visitor to the Whitehouse is Andy Stern, President of the SIEU, and foremost fighter for global redistribution of wealth, from Americans to the Third World.  This is in line with the leftist belief that, if everyone is equal, we can eliminate poverty and violence.   And then, I guess, money rains from heaven.  Call me cynical but what if, martial law were declared in the United States, Interpol came in, with no enforcement over them, took over, and then the Czars took over for Congress.  Sounds kooky doesn’t it?

This is first in a series of articles about a husband and wife team,  Richard Cloward and Frances Piven, who penned the Cloward-Piven Strategy, the activist bible of the far left.  Both authors bridged the gap between political activism and scholarly pursuits.  

Richard A. Cloward, born in 1926, served in the Navy during WWII.  After his service he worked as a social worker in an army prison in Pennsylvania.   He believed in the Strain Theory of criminal behavior which looks at the ‘strain’ of negative relationships upon youth and its effects on delinquency.    With fellow sociologist, Lloyd Ohlin, Cloward wrote “Delinquency and Opportunity:  A Theory of Delinquent Gangs”  claiming that delinquency was a symptom of poverty and the lack of alterntive opportunities.  He argued that social programs in local communities would help youths keep out of gangs and avoid a life of crime. 

Frances Piven attended school in Chicago, and after getting her PHD, worked as a city planner in New York.    She is  known equally for her contributions to social theory and for her social activism. Over the course of her career, she has served on the boards of the ACLU and the Democratic Socialists of America. 

In their book,  “Regulating the Poor” , Piven and Cloward argued that any advances the poor have made throughout history were directly proportional to their ability to disrupt institutions that depend upon their cooperation.  This belief is the basis from which their Cloward-Piven strategy would emerge.

 Piven studied voter registration and, together with Cloward, worked on the Motor Voter Bill, designed to increase voter registration.  In 1994, President Clinton signed the Voter Registration Act. which required state governments to allow for registration when a qualifying voter applied for or renewed their drivers license or applied for social services.  The intention of the legislation was to encourage greater access to voter registration for the citizens who needed further assistance registering to vote.

Inspired by the August 1965 riots in Watts, where  police used batons to subdue a Black man suspected of drunk driving, they published an article entitied “The Weight of the Poor:  A strategy to End Poverty”.  In their aricle, they indicated that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor.  Rather than giving the poor government hand-outs, Cloward and Piven believed that activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system, which would, in turn, ignite a political and financial crisis…then the rest of the society would accept the demands of the poor.