Thanks Doug for informing me of this article:

Rand Paul: Obama Sounds ‘Un-American’ For Criticizing BP Over Gulf Oil Spill (VID

In attempting to close the book on his controversial statements about the scope of the Civil Rights Act, Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul invited another round of intrigue and critique on an entirely unrelated front.

The Tea Party favorite, in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Friday morning, accused the Obama administration of being too tough on BP — the oil company directly responsible for the massive spill in the Gulf.

“What I don’t like from the president’s administration is this sort of ‘I’ll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.’ I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business,” he said. “I’ve heard nothing from BP about not paying for the spill. And I think it’s part of this sort of blame game society in the sense that it’s always got to be someone’s fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.”

From a sheer political standpoint, defending an oil company that has caused a massive amount of economic and environmental damage along America’s coast seems like a tricky proposition — even for a candidate from a landlocked state. (Though at least two Kentucky residents have suedthe oil company over the current spill).

Even BP itself wouldn’t go as far as Paul, declining to comment on its relationship with the Obama administration except to say, through spokesperson Mark Salt, that it continues “to work with the government on every aspect of the response.”

Substantively, Paul seems to be arguing that sharper regulatory oversight, or legislation that raises BP’s liability cap, are both redundant. BP, after all, has pledged to make full payments. And as for future spills, well, “accidents happen.”

It’s an element of libertarianism that may be ideologically pure but probably doesn’t prove all that comforting for those affected by the spill — or, for that matter, the national Republican Party. On Thursday, GOP officials largely skirted the issue of Paul’s controversial interpretation of the Civil Rights Act. In perhaps the comment that came closest to candor, National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman John Cornyn (R-Tex.) insisted that “Rand Paul, like every new candidate, is going to get better.”

Candidates, Cornyn added, in an interview with Bloomberg’s Al Hunt, “make mistakes and they misspeak.”

As for the oil spill remarks, Paul hasn’t taken much, if any, money from the oil and gas industry during his run for the Senate (under $8,000 total, according to Center for Responsive Politics). But it should be noted that BP does have major operations in his state.

Yeah, accidents do happen Paul, and sometimes it just isn’t about the money. But I’m not surprised that you would reference only that, and nay say a word about the dire damage and the relentless ruination of our ecosystem that will continue for years to come, from this ‘accident’, even after the gush is plugged. I am hopeful it will be soon.

Yes, BP should absolutely be footing the bill. But to me this isn’t an ‘accident’ – this is ‘negligence’. This wouldn’t have happened had BP been less greedy, and more caring and competent by putting a safety switch on the damn pipe in the first place. Not to mention whatever other safety measures that should’ve been taken to ensure that everything possible was done to prevent an ‘accident’ like this from ever happening. Only then would I feel okay to call it an ‘accident’ – anything less is ‘negligence’ in my book.

I’ve heard the back-up cut off switch would’ve costed $100,000 and I think I even read somewhere $500,000 – who cares; it is a measly sum for the protection of this ever happening. And in my opinion, it would’ve been money well spent. I’m sure BP is thinking that now too. But obviously BP didn’t care or see the need to take the precautions. Their greed cost them big time. And more importantly it came at a huge cost to our beloved planet and the sea life that we will never get the privilege to befriend.

So if Obama’s administration talks like they wants to put a heel on the throat of BP, they have my backing. In fact I’ll add the pressure of my spiked heel and accept and wear the label ‘un-American’, proudly too, if that’s what it takes. The administration has a right to be a little upset and demanding; many people are and I am too.

A lot of how we have operated in this country is reactionary – after the fact. What can we do now that we have totally polluted our oceans so that something like this doesn’t happen again? Instead of taking the precautions and putting things in place before these ‘accident’s’ happen. It’s really all about caring less about the bottom line, less about money, and caring more about the environment, our planet.

Since we know people don’t police themselves, and we are witness to what happens when there are no regulations in place, in order to protect ourselves, literally from ourselves, we must have regulations. The true bottom line is, if we can’t get people to do what is best and right for the planet, and not just for them and theirs, we must enforce it through regulations, or we will continue to destroy that which sustains us.

Readers: But…back to Paul Rand. He has got to be defeated. Thoughts? You know what to do.

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Charles: What a horrific experience for all. That young girl was very lucky.

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Good morning everyone. I just got this letter from Obama. He’s asking for our help once again. The November elections will be here sooner than you think, and the kick-off time to start canvassing is June 5th. Can you host a party in your area?

Zen Lill: You have many friends and you’re very influential in your circle - I’m counting on you to host one.

Michelle –

Historical trends are against us this year, but, with your help, we can overcome them.
If we can increase the turnout levels of first-time voters by just 8% over previous trends, that would mean a shift of 2% in the final vote total — more than enough to swing close races across the country and make sure we elect candidates committed to change.

And it all starts with our Vote 2010 Kick-off Canvasses the weekend of June 5th. OFA supporters fromMaine to Hawaii will go door-to-door, re-engaging first-time voters from 2008 in the fights ahead and asking them to commit to return to the polls in 2010.

We know that starting early will help us build the connection we’ll need with these voters to get them to the polls in November.

But to make sure enough doors get knocked and voters are spoken with, we need 2 more events in your area.Can you sign up to host one?

Readers: I know you’re out there, but it is awfully quiet and lonely around here. Where are all of you? Anna, Peter, Ruth, Evelyn, Mike, Helena, Robert? Anyone? This is not the time to disappear, although I doubt it is your choice. Hope to hear from all of my readers soon…

…peace out…

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Like our need for the latest and greatest in technology, i.e., cell phones, computers etc., I feel we need to act as responsible citizens and be aware of how our personal  ’wants’  ’affect’ the people that we share this planet with.

I have written at least 4 blog entries about the plight of women in the  Congo. One of my writes was focused on cell phones, and simply said, “Basically every electronic device you support leads to the plight of the Congo women.”  And yet, many of us continue to  turn a blind eye, and continue to shop irresponsibly, snatching up every new product that Apple and other big tech companies push.

I am not writing about the Congo today, but something came across my plate, and it reminded me, once again that our dependency, our need, for something is causing distress to other people that we share this planet with. I am talking about drugs, illegal drugs.

It has been said that our US war on drugs has not met any of it’s goals.

MEXICO CITY — After 40 years, the United States’ war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread. Even U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske concedes the strategy hasn’t worked.

John P. Walters, Kerlikowske’s predecessor disagrees:

Walters insists society would be far worse today if there had been no War on Drugs. Drug abuse peaked nationally in 1979 and, despite fluctuations, remains below those levels, he says. Judging the drug war is complicated: Records indicate marijuana and prescription drug abuse are climbing, while cocaine use is way down. Seizures are up, but so is availability.

Here’s a little history:

In 1970, hippies were smoking pot and dropping acid. Soldiers were coming home from Vietnam hooked on heroin. Embattled President Richard M. Nixon seized on a new war he thought he could win.

“This nation faces a major crisis in terms of the increasing use of drugs, particularly among our young people,” Nixon said as he signed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. The following year, he said: “Public enemy No. 1 in the United States is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive.”

His first drug-fighting budget was $100 million. Now it’s $15.1 billion, 31 times Nixon’s amount even when adjusted for inflation.

Using Freedom of Information Act requests, archival records, federal budgets and dozens of interviews with leaders and analysts, the AP tracked where that money went, and found that the United States repeatedly increased budgets for programs that did little to stop the flow of drugs. In 40 years, taxpayers spent more than:

_ $20 billion to fight the drug gangs in their home countries. In Colombia, for example, the United States spent more than $6 billion, while coca cultivation increased and trafficking moved to Mexico – and the violence along with it.

_ $33 billion in marketing “Just Say No”-style messages to America’s youth and other prevention programs. High school students report the same rates of illegal drug use as they did in 1970, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says drug overdoses have “risen steadily” since the early 1970s to more than 20,000 last year.

_ $49 billion for law enforcement along America’s borders to cut off the flow of illegal drugs. This year, 25 million Americans will snort, swallow, inject and smoke illicit drugs, about 10 million more than in 1970, with the bulk of those drugs imported from Mexico.

_ $121 billion to arrest more than 37 million nonviolent drug offenders, about 10 million of them for possession of marijuana. Studies show that jail time tends to increase drug abuse.

_ $450 billion to lock those people up in federal prisons alone. Last year, half of all federal prisoners in the U.S. were serving sentences for drug offenses.

At the same time, drug abuse is costing the nation in other ways. The Justice Department estimates the consequences of drug abuse – “an overburdened justice system, a strained health care system, lost productivity, and environmental destruction” – cost the United States $215 billion a year.

Harvard University economist Jeffrey Miron says the only sure thing taxpayers get for more spending on police and soldiers is more homicides.

“Current policy is not having an effect of reducing drug use,” Miron said, “but it’s costing the public a fortune.”

-Huff Po

Readers: What do you think. Is the war on drugs working? It’s obvious we have a drug problem in the US. And our use of it is causing deaths and disaster in Mexico:

From the beginning, lawmakers debated fiercely whether law enforcement – no matter how well funded and well trained – could ever defeat the drug problem.

Then-Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel, who had his doubts, has since watched his worst fears come to pass.

“Look what happened. It’s an ongoing tragedy that has cost us a trillion dollars. It has loaded our jails and it has destabilized countries like Mexico and Colombia,” he said.

In 1970, proponents said beefed-up law enforcement could effectively seal the southern U.S. border and stop drugs from coming in. Since then, the U.S. used patrols, checkpoints, sniffer dogs, cameras, motion detectors, heat sensors, drone aircraft – and even put up more than 1,000 miles of steel beam, concrete walls and heavy mesh stretching from California to Texas.

None of that has stopped the drugs. The Office of National Drug Control Policy says about 330 tons of cocaine, 20 tons of heroin and 110 tons of methamphetamine are sold in the United States every year – almost all of it brought in across the borders. Even more marijuana is sold, but it’s hard to know how much of that is grown domestically, including vast fields run by Mexican drug cartels in U.S. national parks.

The dealers who are caught have overwhelmed justice systems in the United States and elsewhere. U.S. prosecutors declined to file charges in 7,482 drug cases last year, most because they simply didn’t have the time. That’s about one out of every four drug cases.

The United States has in recent years rounded up thousands of suspected associates of Mexican drug gangs, then turned some of the cases over to local prosecutors who can’t make the charges stick for lack of evidence. The suspects are then sometimes released, deported or acquitted. The U.S. Justice Department doesn’t even keep track of what happens to all of them.

In Mexico, traffickers exploit a broken justice system. Investigators often fail to collect convincing evidence – and are sometimes assassinated when they do. Confessions are beaten out of suspects by frustrated, underpaid police. Judges who no longer turn a blind eye to such abuse release the suspects in exasperation.

In prison, in the U.S. or Mexico, traffickers continue to operate, ordering assassinations and arranging distribution of their product even from solitary confinement in Texas and California. In Mexico, prisoners can sometimes even buy their way out.

The violence spans Mexico. In Ciudad Juarez, the epicenter of drug violence in Mexico, 2,600 people were killed last year in cartel-related violence, making the city of 1 million across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, one of the world’s deadliest. Not a single person was prosecuted for homicide related to organized crime.

And then there’s the money.

The $320 billion annual global drug industry now accounts for 1 percent of all commerce on the planet.

A full 10 percent of Mexico’s economy is built on drug proceeds – $25 billion smuggled in from the United States every year, of which 25 cents of each $100 smuggled is seized at the border. Thus there’s no incentive for the kind of financial reform that could tame the cartels.

“For every drug dealer you put in jail or kill, there’s a line up to replace him because the money is just so good,” says Walter McCay, who heads the nonprofit Center for Professional Police Certification in Mexico City.

McCay is one of the 13,000 members of Medford, Mass.-based Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, a group of cops, judges, prosecutors, prison wardens and others who want to legalize and regulate all drugs.

A decade ago, no politician who wanted to keep his job would breathe a word about legalization, but a consensus is growing across the country that at least marijuana will someday be regulated and sold like tobacco and alcohol.

California voters decide in November whether to legalize marijuana, and South Dakota will vote this fall on whether to allow medical uses of marijuana, already permitted in California and 13 other states. The Obama administration says it won’t target marijuana dispensaries if they comply with state laws.

-Huff Po

The president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, puts it quite simply: “If America wants to fix the drug problem, it needs to do something about Americans’ unquenching thirst for illegal drugs.”

So Readers…what do we do about it? People are not going to give up their drugs even though our U.S. dependancy is the impetus for the growing violence that spans Mexico over the trafficking of drugs. Homicide rates are skyrocketing in Ciudad Juárez. Is the answer to legalize and regulate drugs? Tell me your thoughts.

Zen Lill: Enjoy your weekend. Good luck in getting your wheels in motion. See you Monday.

Peace out….

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my ‘loyal’(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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‘We aren’t a racist society.” I’m always shocked when I hear that statement, and I think, “Where are you living?” How can you not say that racism doesn’t exist when it is all around us – everywhere.

Research and discussions with parents of the children who participated in this study, indicate that white parents as a whole do not talk to their kids about race as much as black parents.

A 2007 study in the Journal of Marriage and Family found that 75 percent of white families with kindergartners never, or almost never, talk about race. For black parents the number is reversed with 75 percent addressing race with their children.

Not surprising is it? Why would whites talk about race to their kids when they don’t need to worry about racism? Yeah, I’d say that little girl has a healthy ego -it’s all about me…But really, it’s all about me being white. Anybody that looks like me, must be smart and good, and anybody darker than me is mean and ugly. Basically, ‘white’ is ‘clean and good’, and ‘black’ is ‘dirty and bad’. The child is strictly judging based on skin color. It is sad and scary. Where did this come from?

How about turning ‘dirty’ into ‘diversity’ and talking to your kids and explaining to them that diversity is a beautiful thing, and the color of one’s skin doesn’t matter…it is the inside that matters. I don’t know how in these days with so much racism all around us, parents who truly care about their children growing up to be accepting and decent human beings, aren’t meeting with their children and discussing different races, cultures, and the beauty of the diversity of the people who inhabit our planet, etc.

In my opinion it is simply irresponsible parenting, and leads to raising children thinking they are better simply because of the color of their skin. It is disgusting. Those kind of thoughts at a young age need to be stopped or all we’re doing is raising children to believe something that is not true, and promoting racism as acceptable behavior and thinking as adults.

Then I saw this article:

The Secret Service investigated an Alabama high school teacher for using the example of shooting President Obama while teaching a geometry lesson.

The Secret Service spoke with the man, a teacher at Corner High School in Jefferson County, but decided not to arrest him.

“We did not find a credible threat,” Roy Sex ton, of Birmingham’s Secret Service office, told the Birmingham News. “As far as the Secret Service is concerned, we looked into it, we talked to the gentleman and we have closed our investigation.”

The teacher was apparently teaching his geometry students about parallel lines and angles, officials said. He used the example of where to stand and aim if shooting Obama.??

A student in the class described the lesson: “He was talking about angles and said, ‘If you’re in this building, you would need to take this angle to shoot the president.’”?

The district superintendent told the News that the unnamed teacher will not be disciplined.

“We are going to have a long conversation with him about what’s appropriate,” he said. “It was extremely poor judgment on his part, and a poor choice of words.”

The superintendent, Phil Hammonds, did not immediately return a request for comment.

Late update: The teacher has been placed on paid leave and may be fired.

And this was a comment from one of the parents:

Caroline Polk, the parent of a ninth-grader at the school, said she doesn’t be­lieve the teacher ought to be fired.?? ”We all make mistakes, and we should be able to learn from our mistakes,” she said.

There it is again…whites giving themselves deference when we know that if this same incident happened to a white president, this would not only be all over every news station, but all of the parents would be screaming for the teacher to be fired and arrested. And he most certainly would be. But no, this happens to Obama and the result is, ‘no arrest and the investigation is closed.’

And moving on….

March with King, vote with Goldwater: Rand Paul, the newly elected Republican nominee for Senate in Kentucky, is talking out of both sides of his mouth when it comes to his position and comments about the Civil Rights Act.

Paul says that he is against legalized or institutional racism. In fact Paul says,

“I don’t believe in any racism…I don’t think we should have any form of institutional racism.” But when pressed on whether he supported some aspects of the law — which banned discrimination in the workplace and public places, such as schools and voting booths — Paul answered with comments about how the government shouldn’t get involved in private business.

How can someone say that they are so against racism and in any form and then in the same conversation, not to mention the same sentence, not support government getting involved in private business, (in regards to Civil Rights) when we know discrimination will take place if the government doesn’t get involved in private business (in regards to Civil Rights)?

Paul can’t. – For instance, at the end of the interview with Rachel Maddow, Paul can’t seem to give a straight answer. In Rachel’s frustration she asks a simple yes or no question as to whether the Walworth’s lunch counters should’ve been desegregated or not. The video says it all. If you can’t watch the entire segment, I suggest you watch the video starting at 13:00-till the end, roughly 6 minutes.

Rand ends with saying, “Every fiber of my being doesn’t believe in discrimination…” Yeah, even though he wants to allow private businesses to discriminate along the basis of race because of property rights. As Rachel points out this is an extreme view, and will be the focus of his candidacy and talked about again and again. Rand paul seems to think this subject is ‘not an issue’. Well of course not Rand, you’re white. Segregation and any form of racism does not and will not ever affect you and your life.

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So….who are these people that say we aren’t a racist society?

Readers: Comments? Blog me.

Hi Zen Lill :)

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my ‘loyal’(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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Lots happening out there in the world as usual; I am feeling a bit overwhelmed. I’m trying to stay positive but the oil rig disaster is still heavy on my mind. How can it not be? It gets worse daily as oil gushes into our ocean and sea life continues to perish.

I watched 60 Minutes the other night and was shocked about the news regarding the Deepwater Horizon rig. Did any of you see? Here it is in case you didn’t:

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Readers: Once again, money is the driving force here, and human life, our environment, and the sea life is put second.

And now to add to the misery of this disaster,  tar balls have been found off Key West, Florida.

Some 5 million gallons of crude has spewed into the Gulf and tar balls have been washing ashore in several states along the coast.

Scientists are worried that oil is getting caught in a major ocean current that could carry it through the Florida Keys and up the East Coast.

The Coast Guard says the Florida Park Service found the tar balls on Monday during a shoreline survey. The balls were 3-to-8 inches in diameter

There are also few hundred areas in our oceans called Dead Zones. They are called this because these areas are oxygen deprived. When fish come across these areas, they swim away to a more oxygen rich environment. If the Dead Zones are really big, covering a great distance and the fish can’t swim to get out of it, they die.

How are these Dead Zones created? Pollution. And oil polluting our water is another way that Dead Zones are created.  In areas surrounding these new found oil plumes, that have formed because of the oil spill, the oxygen levels have dropped 30%. And if they continue to drop, New Dead Zones will be created.

When will we wake up and stop polluting our Mother Earth? When will we care enough to take the precautions that are needed instead of only thinking of the bottom line?

Clarence: It seems that you got the best of me yesterday. Although I can’t ever understand your viewpoint and I don’t accept it, I shouldn’t have threatened you with the wrath of Madaline. Albeit I was having a bit of fun, but nonetheless, it was a threat. My apologies.

Zen Lill: I haven’t seen that docu but it looks interesting. Thanks for sharing. In regards to your questions, I don’t have the answers yet, but we are at least some new people are being appointed to the high court, and I think they will make a difference. This will not be the last of my writes in regards to this topic.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my ‘loyal’(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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