THE BP OIL SPILL WAS WORSE THAN WE EVER THOUGHT!

"It’s as safe as Dawn dishwashing liquid.” That’s what Jamie Griffin says the BP man told her about the smelly, rainbow-streaked gunk coating the floor of the “floating hotel” where Griffin was feeding hundreds of cleanup workers during the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Apparently, the workers were tracking the gunk inside on their boots. Griffin, as chief cook and maid, was trying to clean it. But even boiling water didn’t work.


Griffin did as she was told: “I tried Pine-Sol, bleach, I even tried Dawn on those floors.” As she scrubbed, the mix of cleanser and gunk occasionally splashed onto her arms and face.
Within days, the 32-year-old single mother was coughing up blood and suffering constant headaches. She lost her voice. “My throat felt like I’d swallowed razor blades,” she says.
Then things got much worse.
Like hundreds, possibly thousands, of workers on the cleanup, Griffin soon fell ill with a cluster of excruciating, bizarre, grotesque ailments. By July, unstoppable muscle spasms were twisting her hands into immovable claws. In August, she began losing her short-term memory. After cooking professionally for 10 years, she couldn’t remember the recipe for vegetable soup; one morning, she got in the car to go to work, only to discover she hadn’t put on pants. The right side, but only the right side, of her body “started acting crazy. It felt like the nerves were coming out of my skin. It was so painful. My right leg swelled—my ankle would get as wide as my calf—and my skin got incredibly itchy.”

We need to check out the cleaning crews and their health now.


http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/bp-spill-was-worse-you-knew

Jon Stewart Coverage of seeking the Bombers

Just a few mistakes and missteps.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/jon-stewart-takes-another-shot-cnn-reporti

Blatant HOSTILITY towards Sandy Hook Families and Gabby Giffords during the Gun Laws Discussions: Why?

In the NRA world of political payoffs, FAMILIES AND PEOPLE SHOT IN THE HEAD DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO DISCUSS GUN LEGISLATION!

Republican lawmakers and conservative activists became surprisingly hostile towards the family members of those slain in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary.

I had thought this kind of loathsome rhetoric was confined to the likes of Limbaugh, Coulter, Malkin and the rest of the right wing hate-ocracy. It obviously has infected much more of the right. It is now a race to the bottom in order to get noticed. For shame.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/04/23/17876574-from-newtown-families-to-gabrielle-giffords

James Taranto is an idiot.  His hostility towards Gabby Gifford are appalling.  She got shot in the brain but she made amazing rehab progress and she can think.  Did others type it. probably.  Is that ok?  DAMN RIGHT it is.  I wish I were the one typing it for her.  (Never happen though - 30 WPM and 6 errors does not impress people. )
Thank You Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelley for standing up for those who get shot and killed by gun violence.  I STAND WITH GABBY!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/22/1204031/-Wall-Street-Journal-columnist-goes-after-Gabby-Giffords-because-that-s-what-they-do

NRA PAID SENATORS FOR THE NO VOTES!!

20 - 5 year olds killed and 8 adults at Sandy Hook but the NRA pays for NO votes so we CANNOT MAKE OUR SCHOOLS, MOVIE THEATERS AND EVEN SPORTING EVENTS SAFER.  (The NRA blocked legislation which would allow markers being put in gun powder which is used to make explosives.)  I do not feel safer with the NRA buying up our Politicians in WA DC.


With research conducted by the Sunlight Foundation, The Guardian reported on the donations from the NRA and other pro-gun organizations over the last couple of decades. The NRA alone had given $800,000 to the Senators who helped nix the bill.
Among the top NRA recipients are Roy Blunt (Missouri) with $60,550 and Saxby Chambliss (Georgia) with $56,950. Fellow Republican Senators John Thune (South Dakota), Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) and Jim Inhofe (Oklahoma) have each received well over $40,000 apiece, as well.
While donations of this sort are generally made during election cycles, at least two Senators suspiciously received money from the gun industry in recent weeks. During the month of March, Richard Burr (North Carolina) and Dan Coats (Indiana) had donations from an ammunition manufacturer and shooting group. Considering that these donations came at a time when gun control looked more likely to pass, their potential impact cannot be discredited.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/93-of-senators-who-rejected-gun-control-paid-by-nra.html#ixzz2RHwzxAUF

http://www.care2.com/causes/93-of-senators-who-rejected-gun-control-paid-by-nra.html

Did the older brother brainwash the younger brother?

Those who knew them are beginning to ask if the younger brother, who worshipped his big brother, had been brainwashed by the older brother.  Those who knew them are amazed that they could bomb innocent people

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/21/us/tsarnaev-brothers-relationship/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

Dead Brother was the brains behind the Boston Attack

Bomber 2 is talking and says the brother was the one who planned the attack.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/22/us/boston-attack/index.html

Bomber 2 will be tried in US Court System

He is a US Citizen and cannot be tried as an enemy combatant legally.  US Courts have a long history of putting terrorists behind bars.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/bombing-suspect-be-tried-criminal-not

Gabby Giffords childish display in the NY Times is an embarrassment

The fellow who wrote that article is a loser.
I'll tell you what is an embarrassment, Mr. Williamson. It is a Senate who voted against the will of 90 percent of this nation and instead caved to the craven demands of the National Rifle Association. What is embarrassing is having people like you defend this action and take it upon yourself to decide that a shooting victim who was a member of the United States Congress has no moral license to speak out on behalf of the overwhelming majority of this country who stand in agreement with her. What is cringe-inducing is to have people who carry your same sentiments tell the parents of the children killed in the Newtown massacre that they should have no voice in the debate

Mark my words: if we cannot make our communities safer with the Congress we have now, we will use every means available to make sure we have a different Congress, one that puts communities’ interests ahead of the gun lobby’s. To do nothing while others are in danger is not the American way.

I stand with Gabby Giffords, a hero.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/19/1203268/-National-Review-Giffords-childish-display-in-the-New-York-Times-is-an-embarrassment?detail=email#

EARTH DAY! Watch DO THE MATH. The math behind ruining our environment

The fossil fuel industry is killing us.

They have five times the amount of coal, gas and oil that is safe to burn -- and they are planning on burning it all. Left to their own devices, they'll push us past the brink of cataclysmic disaster -- life as we know it will be irrevocably altered forever. Unless we rise up and fight back.

Do The Math chronicles follows the climate crusader Bill McKibben as he works with a rising global movement in a David-vs-Goliath fight to change the terrifying math of the climate crisis.

This growing groundswell of climate activists is going after the fossil fuel industry directly, energizing a movement like the ones that overturned the great immoral institutions of the past century, such as Apartheid in South Africa. The film follows people who are putting their bodies on the line the Keystone XL Pipeline and leading universities and institutions to divest in the corporate polluters hellbent on burning fossil fuels no matter the cost.

http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/watch-full-documentary-do-math

COREXIT; Health issues galore: Banned in many countries: Why do we still use it?

Great Britain, the home country of BP, has banned the stuff. So has Sweden. But BP says as long as the US allows it, they'll use Corexit dispersant on their next oil spill. "If this vision becomes reality, long-term destruction to our health and environment will expand exponentially." This according to a damning new report, Deadly Dispersants in the Gulf: Are Public Health and Environmental Tragedies the New Norm for Oil Spill Cleanups?, by the nonprofit Government Accountability Project (GAP).

The report cites four major areas of concern: 1) existing health problems; 2) failure to protect clean-up workers; 3) ecological problems and food safety issues; 4) and inadequate compensation. Ongoing health problems from the "BP Syndrome" include: blood in urine, heart palpitations, kidney and liver damage, migraines, multiple chemical sensitivity, memory loss, rapid weight loss, respiratory system and nervous system damage, seizures, skin irritation (burning and lesions), and temporary paralysis, plus long-term concerns about exposure to known carcinogens.

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/04/corexit-bp-oil-spill-cover-gulf-mexico-health-and-environment-risk

3 years after the GULF OIL SPILL - It is still a Big Mess

On Grand Isle, at the state park, I found tar balls ranging from the size of a quarter to eight inches long. The beach was not blanketed in them but you could find one every couple of feet.
On the beach in Mississippi, from Waveland to Pass Christian, I found tar balls and dead animals including a Kemp's Ridely turtle. Though finding dead animals on the beach is not uncommon, I find the quantity of dead animals on the shore in Mississippi alarming. How the animals are dying is impossible to say. There is no proof the deaths are BP related as none of the scientific studies done on the dolphins and sea turtles have been released. T


http://www.alternet.org/environment/three-years-after-bp-spill-and-gulf-still-mess?akid=10351.294211.1axE-6&rd=1&src=newsletter828346&t=20

Herbs, spices, fruits and vegetables to fight cancer

Informational -
http://www.therealfoodchannel.com/videos/healthy-foods/cancer-fighting-spices.html

10 States with the highest gun violence, no permits needed

Most have Republican Governors and they do not require permits to get guns.

http://247wallst.com/2013/04/15/states-with-the-most-gun-violence/3/

Bombers DID NOT HAVE GUN PERMITS!

We need to know more about the guns they used.  What were they?  Where did they get them?  Did they buy them at a gun show or what?  The NRA is silent on finding out about them of course.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/police-boston-bombing-suspects-didnt-have-gun-permits.php?ref=fpa

Standardized Testing: The False and empty promise of them improving education

A high performing school in a high income area has parents who get tutors for their children so they can score well on any test given.  The middle class and poor cannot afford the luxury of a tutor. The teacher at the school in the high income area will have high test scores and be a super teacher.
The teacher in the low income area actually works harder and has better results but it is not shown with the test scores.   All the while, class sized in the poorer schools increase but they stay small in the high income schools.   Standardized testing should not be used in teacher performance.


Another matter is the “mainstreaming” of special needs students, placed in crowded classes because of funding shortfalls or long backlogs in evaluating and classifying kids with ADD/ADHD, emotional disabilities or other issues. From day one, we see so many of these kids cannot focus long for “desk work”, demanding inordinate teacher time. But because they are as-yet unevaluated, they are considered “general ed” and will again skew teacher evaluations.
Because of other home factors such as neglect, abuse, depression or homelessness, success in school is increasingly supported by “wraparound” services like health checks, or counseling which look at problems more holistically. These services are close to non-existent in my school, while suburban schools in the region can offer weekly one-on-one counselor meetings for every student.


http://my.firedoglake.com/amerigus/2013/04/21/learning-the-hard-way-the-false-promises-of-standardized-tests/

Drones killing innocent people part of the reason people are angry at the US

Tom Brokaw asked about Drones and killing of innocents which causes anger toward the US.  It is definitely something that needs to be considered.  Why the anger at the US?

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/brokaw-we-need-examine-drone-policy-m

Delores Kearns Goodwin tells what is going on with the Senate.

Republican Peggy Noonun did her usual noise but Delores Kearns Goodwin told her the problem with the Senate in passing the Guns bills or any bill these days.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/noonan-gets-called-out-trying-blame-lack-n

More like Columbine than a terrorist operation

A  former CIA Deputy Director says they should be charged with murder and not terrorism.  He said the signs of 2 kids who were intent on killing people.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/ex-cia-deputy-director-boston-bombing-more-c

700+ pound woman

She eats all day long and sits.  (At the Heart Attack Grill in Vegas she can get a free meal.  They also need a new TV spokesperson because the last one died of a heart attack.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0VtYe4lZ7I

SHAME ON YOU, to the Senate and she got interrogated

In Tucson, she stopped the shooter who had killed a young girl and 7 others and the man shot Gabby Giffords in the head.  She fought and stopped the shooter.  She said, 'Shame on You' after the Senate voted down gun control changes and had to go through a background check, which is not needed to buy an AK-47 at gun shows.

She is a hero.

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/on-our-radar-patricia-maisch-tells-the-gun-loving-senate-shame-on-you/news/2013/04/21/65606/comment-page-1#comment-36090

Coca Cola: An honest Commercial about Obesity

Honesty is good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHhCP5ad-zM&feature=player_embedded

Diane Feinstein says court in the Federal Court System. I agree. The Bomber is an American Citizen.

What Peter King wants is unconstitutional and should not even be considered.  Peter King and others who think him like him would put the case of jeapardy of being thrown out of court for violation of rights.

Interrogating him and trying him in a Federal Court has proven successful in dealing with terrorists.  He will be interrogated by some very effective people and methods.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/peter-king-treat-bomber-enemy-combatant-beca

Mudflats: The Good We Can Do

The last week has been sadness filled with a bombing in Boston, a town blowing up in West Texas because a Company cared less about regulations and then we had the shoot out and shutting down of a whole Metropolitan area while the second Bomber hid out.  Then we also had to deal with or real lives and jobs.  I know my job was stressful this past week.

This is just a good article which reminds us to have balance in our lives and don't become overwhelmed with the negative.  Along with the tragedy, there was a tremendous amount of good people who worked hard to overcome the acts of crazy.  Let us applaud those who help more than we dwell on the tragedy itself.  Help each other these next few weeks and find something to enjoy.

http://www.themudflats.net/?p=37253

Gov Patrick talks about the bombings and Bombers

Please take the time, do the research and present the case in court.  We don't need to rush to judgement, he can hurt noone at this time.

http://www.businessinsider.com/deval-patrick-boston-suspect-dzhokar-tsarnaev-video-2013-4

NO TO KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE!! Sign the petition against it.

ARKANSAS OIL SPILL - That is a small spill compared to the mess which the MUCH LARGER KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE WOULD MAKE!  Keystone only makes 35 or so permanent jobs and THE OIL WILL BE SOLD OVERSEAS which will not decrease the cost of fuel in the US.

Sign the Petition to stop the toxic goopy mess from traveling through THOUSANDS OF MILES in the US.  The US would take all of the risk and get no benefit.  (Interesting:  The Toxic Goop which would pass in the pipeline would not even have to pay the oil taxes because it is too toxic to be considered oil.)  If there is a spill, they have not paid into the clean up fund and we end up with an environmental mess.

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/save_the_planet_stop_keystone/

Women's Rights win in court!

On Thursday, a US district judge in the state ruled that HB 1297, which bans medication abortion, is unconstitutional. Judge Wickham Corwin wrote that North Dakota’s excuse that the bill is meant to keep women safe is “exaggerated and contrived” and is clearly designed to “stand in the way of women’s health,” and women’s constitutional right to have an abortion in the way her and her doctor deem best.
Medical science has proven that abortions via medication are safe for women. According to a study published in December 2012 in Obstetrics and Gynecology and reported on by Reuters, only one percent of women out of 233,305 treated had complications after taking medication to end their pregnancies.


http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/20/choice-wins-again-north-dakota-law-barring-abortion-by-medication-struck-down-by-federal-judge/

President Clinton gave a speech to the GLAAD

We have a new bigotry in America — apparently we don’t want to be around anyone who doesn’t agree with us,” the Democrat whose career began in Arkansas, told the audience of thousands at the Marriott Hotel.
“Whenever we turn away from treating someone with the dignity and honor and the respect that we would like accorded to ourselves, we have to face the fact it’s about us,” Clinton said.


http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/watch-bill-clinton-delivers-speech-at-glaad-awards-that-every-american-must-hear/politics/2013/04/21/65694

HOME GROWN TERRORISM is growing! It is a growing problem.

U.S. security officials have been warning for years that one of their biggest challenges is detecting homegrown terrorists — extremists who grow up in America, or have lived here for years, know the customs, speak the language, blend in easily and can fly below the radar of law enforcement.
As details of Boston bombing suspects emerge, reports point to two young men of Chechen origin who had been in the U.S. for up to a decade and were seemingly fully integrated into American society.


http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/20/177958045/boston-bombings-point-to-growing-threat-of-homegrown-terrorism

US MEAT HAS SUPERBUGS - quite often

After testing samples of ground turkey, pork chops and ground beef collected from supermarkets, federal researchers found that more than half contain antibiotic-resistant forms of bacteria or “superbugs,” including salmonella, E. coli and campylobacter.
Maybe it’s time to take a break from the hamburgers and buffalo wings, if you eat meat?
81 percent of samples of ground turkey found in U.S. supermarkets were found to contain superbugs along with 69 percent of pork chops and 55 percent of ground beef. The meat was specifically tested for the presence of enterococcus bacteria, which can indicate fecal contamination, develops resistance to bacteria and then pass this on to other bacteria. Two species of the bacteria, Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium, are the “third-leading cause of infections in the intensive care units of United States hospitals,” according to the New York Times.
Federal researchers also tested chicken breasts, wings and thighs and found that these contained bacteria.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/theres-something-superbuggy-about-most-u-s-meat.html#ixzz2R6WPED7W

http://www.care2.com/causes/theres-something-superbuggy-about-most-u-s-meat.html

NEW STUDY; Guns DO NOT make a person safer

In 2010, across the nation there were only 230 justifiable homicides involving a private citizen using a firearm reported to the FBI. That same year, there were 8,275 criminal gun homicides. Using these numbers, in 2010, for every justifiable homicide in the United States involving a gun, guns were used in 36 criminal homicides. This ratio does not take into account the thousands of lives ended in gun suicides (19,392) or unintentional shootings (606) that year. 

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-study-totally-refutes-claim-that.html

The actual study results
https://www.vpc.org/press/1304self.htm

ATTENTION: The Bombers Got Attention

It was negative attention but it was attention none the less.

http://www.alternet.org/media/boston-bomber-brothers-got-attention-they-wanted?akid=10350.294211.CLbVGv&rd=1&src=newsletter828008&t=7

Michael Jackson - a 2 hour performance

2 hours of Michael Jackson.  Not many performers were ever able to pull off a 2 hour show.  Michael Jackson really was a great performer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3MO0sCMP0

Bread - Great Music

This music by Bread is just great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJc0BX2qmHU

Boston: A message to Gun Nuts about the 2nd Amendment

The entire city of Boston was under martial law the last few days.  You get that, right?  MARTIAL LAW.
In a cameras-everywhere society, we went from tragedy to identification to capture in less than five days.  And to make that happen, the full-force of the government came in, shut down a major metropolitan area, instituted a no-fly zone, flooded the place with troops and technology and locked it down until it completed its mission.
Think about that, screaming gun lunatic with more weapons than friends, the next time you think your 100-clip magazine and fourteen guns can protect you from a determined military.  Your “Red Dawn” fantasy is laughable.
Think about that the next time there’s a school shooting that could have been prevented by a ban or minimized by regulating clip size, but wasn’t because of you or the fearful twit in the Senate that represents you.

...My views on the issue haven’t changed in the last week. I want sensible gun reform and will continue to fight for it.  I stand with 90% of Americans and against the senators who are in the pocket of the NRA.
You, on the other hand, got a big lesson on just how sad and defenseless you would be if Obama – or ANY President – truly was the dictator you fear.
You wouldn’t last two days.


http://aattp.org/a-message-about-boston-to-anyone-who-thinks-their-gun-is-the-last-line-of-defense-in-a-world-gone-mad/

Bill Maher - Discussion, good

Cowardly politicians, primaries and right wing and going righter as well as other topics.

http://aattp.org/must-see-bill-mahers-epic-rant-against-teabaggers-and-the-constitution-video/