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April 22, 2016
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 -In the evening, an explosion occurred on the DeepWater Horizon oil rig. Out of the 126 people aboard the rig, 17 people were injured and 11 are presumed dead. The rig, located 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, was leased by BP from Transocean Ltd. There was no mention of any possible spill. President Obama was alerted.
Friday, April 23, 2010 -On Good Morning America, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said, "No oil appeared to be leaking from the wellhead at the ocean floor, nor was any leaking at the water's surface. That being said, we have positioned resources to be ready to respond should a spill occur... We will continue to monitor 24/7 for the next several days." The rig was found sunken and upside down approximately one quarter mile northwest of the blowout preventer. An oil sheen was reported with approximately 8,400 gallons estimated on the water, although no apparent leak was discovered. The Coast guard called off the search for the 11 missing workers.
Saturday, April 24, 2010 -US Coast Guard held a press conference where they announced for the first time that oil was leaking. "About 1,000 barrels a day are emanating from the wellhead into the water," and "this has the potential to be a major spill," Mary Landry said. One leak was located on the riser and another on the drill pipe. US Coast Guard elevated response. Flyovers indicated that there was a different oil sheen than the one immediately following the explosion, according to the Coast Guard.
http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases-all?ID=8408bd41-802a-23ad-4464-ad127e495a41&Issue_id=
Mary E. Landry is an American disaster-management official and retired senior officer of the United States Coast Guard.
In April 2012, Landry became the inaugural Director of Incident Management and Preparedness at the Coast Guard's headquarters. She is responsible for establishing, developing, and implementing all hazards incident management goals, strategies, policies, and doctrine to meet Coast Guard responsibilities in incident preparedness and response
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Landry
I have not bought gas from BP for 6 years now or Mobil for that matter because of careless greed. I like how the Coast Guard and Big oil work so close together to skew the facts only taking four days to decide that millions of gallons of oil are leaking into the gulf and the shut off that could stop oil leaking didn't work, its like someone payed off the coast guard with oil friendly jobs. Higher Education has taught to play along to get along, no matter the cost!
2006 Coast Guard Claims “No Oil Leaking” Horizon Anniversary Youtube Video Timeline
2006 Coast Guard Claims “No Oil Leaking” Horizon Anniversary Video
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 -In the evening, an explosion occurred on the DeepWater Horizon oil rig. Out of the 126 people aboard the rig, 17 people were injured and 11 are presumed dead. The rig, located 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, was leased by BP from Transocean Ltd. There was no mention of any possible spill. President Obama was alerted.
Friday, April 23, 2010 -On Good Morning America, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said, "No oil appeared to be leaking from the wellhead at the ocean floor, nor was any leaking at the water's surface. That being said, we have positioned resources to be ready to respond should a spill occur... We will continue to monitor 24/7 for the next several days." The rig was found sunken and upside down approximately one quarter mile northwest of the blowout preventer. An oil sheen was reported with approximately 8,400 gallons estimated on the water, although no apparent leak was discovered. The Coast guard called off the search for the 11 missing workers.
Saturday, April 24, 2010 -US Coast Guard held a press conference where they announced for the first time that oil was leaking. "About 1,000 barrels a day are emanating from the wellhead into the water," and "this has the potential to be a major spill," Mary Landry said. One leak was located on the riser and another on the drill pipe. US Coast Guard elevated response. Flyovers indicated that there was a different oil sheen than the one immediately following the explosion, according to the Coast Guard.
http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases-all?ID=8408bd41-802a-23ad-4464-ad127e495a41&Issue_id=
Mary E. Landry is an American disaster-management official and retired senior officer of the United States Coast Guard.
In April 2012, Landry became the inaugural Director of Incident Management and Preparedness at the Coast Guard's headquarters. She is responsible for establishing, developing, and implementing all hazards incident management goals, strategies, policies, and doctrine to meet Coast Guard responsibilities in incident preparedness and response
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Landry
I have not bought gas from BP for 6 years now or Mobil for that matter because of careless greed. I like how the Coast Guard and Big oil work so close together to skew the facts only taking four days to decide that millions of gallons of oil are leaking into the gulf and the shut off that could stop oil leaking didn't work, its like someone payed off the coast guard with oil friendly jobs. Higher Education has taught to play along to get along, no matter the cost!
April 21, 2016
Don't Believe it; Paul Ryan spokeswoman: Ryan will not accept a GOP nomination for president
"You know, I haven't given any thought to this stuff," Ryan said in the exclusive interview at the Capitol. "People say, 'What about the contested convention?' I say, well, there are a lot of people running for president. We'll see. Who knows?"
Ryan, who ran in 2012 as Mitt Romney's vice presidential nominee, has taken no public actions to encourage the idea that he could become a candidate. To the contrary, a political committee set up to draft him into the 2016 race recently shut down at the urging of the speaker's aides.
"If we don't have a nominee who can win on the first ballot, I'm for none of the above," Boehner said at a Florida conference, according to Politico.
But a Boehner spokesman told NBC his remarks were "off-the-cuff" and related to "a hypothetical scenario in which none of the current candidates are able to secure the nomination at the convention."
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/15/paul-ryan-wont-categorically-rule-out-accepting-gop-nom.html
Read My Lips " If we don't have a nominee who can win on the first ballot" Ryan said and John Boehner. Trump, Cruz will not beat Hillary after Trump doesn't hit the 1,237. After the first or even the third ballots it would be time for the man that ran for Vise President would, could and will step in to stop the bleeding. Time will start getting short toi come after Ryan by the media or pacs that have been redirected by Ryans Bull.
Don't Believe PAUL RYAN He will Run after 1st Ballot Contested Convention Ryans Bull
Don't Believe it; Paul Ryan spokeswoman: Ryan will not accept a GOP nomination for president
"You know, I haven't given any thought to this stuff," Ryan said in the exclusive interview at the Capitol. "People say, 'What about the contested convention?' I say, well, there are a lot of people running for president. We'll see. Who knows?"
Ryan, who ran in 2012 as Mitt Romney's vice presidential nominee, has taken no public actions to encourage the idea that he could become a candidate. To the contrary, a political committee set up to draft him into the 2016 race recently shut down at the urging of the speaker's aides.
"If we don't have a nominee who can win on the first ballot, I'm for none of the above," Boehner said at a Florida conference, according to Politico.
But a Boehner spokesman told NBC his remarks were "off-the-cuff" and related to "a hypothetical scenario in which none of the current candidates are able to secure the nomination at the convention."
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/15/paul-ryan-wont-categorically-rule-out-accepting-gop-nom.html
Read My Lips " If we don't have a nominee who can win on the first ballot" Ryan said and John Boehner. Trump, Cruz will not beat Hillary after Trump doesn't hit the 1,237. After the first or even the third ballots it would be time for the man that ran for Vise President would, could and will step in to stop the bleeding. Time will start getting short toi come after Ryan by the media or pacs that have been redirected by Ryans Bull.
April 19, 2016
GOP Super PACs Launch Anti-Trump Ad Blitz
New polls released in the past week suggest that Donald Trump is heading to a decisive victory this week in New York, followed by further big wins in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, and California. After months of warnings from their own party leaders, about the singular unfitness of this one man for office, roughly half of likely Republican primary voters in those states still plan to choose him as presidential nominee.
They have not worked in New York but have cut into Trumps overall voting numbers even though the main republican party would rather have you think they are not working at all around the country because of Trumps votes in the east.
When the pacs come out to hunt Sanders or Kasich they will not care about facts, remember Bush against a Real Vietnam War Hero, winning is all that matters in politics, its not how you play the game! Teaching are youth or Sanders young enthusiast a bad reality.
Food for Thought; NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll owned by Bloomberg and Fox News have been totally unreliable.
Trump Says Neg Ads Non-Existent by Pacs/Campaigns Against Kasich/Sanders Honey Moon Over?
GOP Super PACs Launch Anti-Trump Ad Blitz
New polls released in the past week suggest that Donald Trump is heading to a decisive victory this week in New York, followed by further big wins in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, and California. After months of warnings from their own party leaders, about the singular unfitness of this one man for office, roughly half of likely Republican primary voters in those states still plan to choose him as presidential nominee.
They have not worked in New York but have cut into Trumps overall voting numbers even though the main republican party would rather have you think they are not working at all around the country because of Trumps votes in the east.
When the pacs come out to hunt Sanders or Kasich they will not care about facts, remember Bush against a Real Vietnam War Hero, winning is all that matters in politics, its not how you play the game! Teaching are youth or Sanders young enthusiast a bad reality.
Food for Thought; NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll owned by Bloomberg and Fox News have been totally unreliable.
April 17, 2016
46,000 Killed by Heroin Overdose is a LIE
To know how a person died, you have to do a autopsy, to get a autopsy done costs over $500.00. You need a crime or you need a act, witness of a crime.
A person whom died of natural causes has a hard time getting a autopsy. Opioid deaths statistics are guess work not backed up with any qualified US study. Something else is at work, usually having to do with Money. Not to say Doctors gave away Oxy this or that drugs for years now they have a problem especially after thousands wounded in wars.
Corporate health care givers have expensive clinics all over the country. It's just like imagrants, it was fine to bring in millions to build a housing bubble, then say we have a problem after they caused the problem and voting, we have a unknown problem with voters to make laws to slow down voting, this is a f"ed up.........
April 12, 2016
Has anyone seen Bernie Sanders Tax Returns?
April 12, 2016
Paul Ryan 3:15 et I am NOT Running
Source: Cnn
Ryan is going to make a speech RNC at 3:15 ET
Read more: Not yet
April 4, 2016
Vote Trump Open Primary Wisconsin Dems/Burnie Fans
Trump has lost momentum, now Cruz needs to be blocked, more imported then voting for Democrats.
April 4, 2016
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "from 2001 to 2009, it [Bradley Foundation] doled out nearly as much money as the seven Koch and Scaife foundations combined.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation
Wed Jul 25, 2012
A report released Wednesday by the government watchdog group the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign finds that of the $81 million spent on the race, Walker and his allies spent $58.7 million. Barrett and Democrats spent $22 million.
The report finds that the 15 recall races in 2011 and this year cost $137 milliion
http://www.weau.com/home/headlines/Nearly-81-million-spent-on-Walker-recall-163689586.html
The Big Money Behind Paul Ryan's Political Career
The vice presidential nominee's campaign finance record is not without some minor controversy. To begin with, he has long been a favorite of the libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch. Before entering Congress, Ryan worked with a conservative group that would eventually merge with a Koch brothers' group to become FreedomWorks, a leading sponsor of the Tea Party movement. Their mutual interests in libertarianism could explain why the private energy corporation Koch Industries has given Ryan more than $65,000 over his career. The Koch brothers have promised to funnel $400 million through outside groups to defeat President Obama this year
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/08/14/the-big-money-behind-paul-ryans-political-career
Tea Party Utopia: Scott Walker's Wisconsin #1 In Household Income Decline
Walker’s recent budget just cut $250 million from the University of Wisconsin’s budget, delayed any kind of improvement to the state’s crumbling highway infrastructure, gave free rein to predatory pay-day lenders- allowing them to sell insurance and offer financial advice to the very people they are extorting money out of. It also cut millions in grants to conservation groups attempting to protect public lands from the rapacious hunger of corporate profits, and instituted drug tests for food stamp recipients. Walker claims it is a budget for the taxpayers, but state legislator Peter Barca sees it differently: “We think it’s much more of a campaign document for the far right wing.”
Indeed, Walker has been very proud of his “successes” in ramming through a Koch Brother-approved agenda that crushed unions and public bargaining, efforts to privatize public schools, give millions in tax breaks to the rich and to huge corporations. They may be well and pleased with his efforts, but it has dealt grievous wounds to the state’s middle class and the working families of Wisconsin.
He has ruined job creation in Wisconsin, falling far short of his campaign pledge to create 250,000 in his first term- barely achieving 129,000 while the liberal high-tax policies of neighboring Minnesota have made them the #1 state in the country for doing business.
http://occupydemocrats.com/2015/07/13/tea-party-utopia-scott-walkers-wisconsin-1-in-household-income-decline/
Trump, Cruz or Kasich have nothing on the all ready crowned kings of citizen united “Buy Me Now” Wisconsin Leaders of Corporate RATS!
Rats Nest of National Corruption in Wisconsin $Millions Buying Politicians
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "from 2001 to 2009, it [Bradley Foundation] doled out nearly as much money as the seven Koch and Scaife foundations combined.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation
Wed Jul 25, 2012
A report released Wednesday by the government watchdog group the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign finds that of the $81 million spent on the race, Walker and his allies spent $58.7 million. Barrett and Democrats spent $22 million.
The report finds that the 15 recall races in 2011 and this year cost $137 milliion
http://www.weau.com/home/headlines/Nearly-81-million-spent-on-Walker-recall-163689586.html
The Big Money Behind Paul Ryan's Political Career
The vice presidential nominee's campaign finance record is not without some minor controversy. To begin with, he has long been a favorite of the libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch. Before entering Congress, Ryan worked with a conservative group that would eventually merge with a Koch brothers' group to become FreedomWorks, a leading sponsor of the Tea Party movement. Their mutual interests in libertarianism could explain why the private energy corporation Koch Industries has given Ryan more than $65,000 over his career. The Koch brothers have promised to funnel $400 million through outside groups to defeat President Obama this year
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/08/14/the-big-money-behind-paul-ryans-political-career
Tea Party Utopia: Scott Walker's Wisconsin #1 In Household Income Decline
Walker’s recent budget just cut $250 million from the University of Wisconsin’s budget, delayed any kind of improvement to the state’s crumbling highway infrastructure, gave free rein to predatory pay-day lenders- allowing them to sell insurance and offer financial advice to the very people they are extorting money out of. It also cut millions in grants to conservation groups attempting to protect public lands from the rapacious hunger of corporate profits, and instituted drug tests for food stamp recipients. Walker claims it is a budget for the taxpayers, but state legislator Peter Barca sees it differently: “We think it’s much more of a campaign document for the far right wing.”
Indeed, Walker has been very proud of his “successes” in ramming through a Koch Brother-approved agenda that crushed unions and public bargaining, efforts to privatize public schools, give millions in tax breaks to the rich and to huge corporations. They may be well and pleased with his efforts, but it has dealt grievous wounds to the state’s middle class and the working families of Wisconsin.
He has ruined job creation in Wisconsin, falling far short of his campaign pledge to create 250,000 in his first term- barely achieving 129,000 while the liberal high-tax policies of neighboring Minnesota have made them the #1 state in the country for doing business.
http://occupydemocrats.com/2015/07/13/tea-party-utopia-scott-walkers-wisconsin-1-in-household-income-decline/
Trump, Cruz or Kasich have nothing on the all ready crowned kings of citizen united “Buy Me Now” Wisconsin Leaders of Corporate RATS!
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