Mississippi Politics

Tennessee’s Bought Representatives and Lame’r Alexander

Have my fellow Tennesseans paid much attention lately to your representatives and how they vote? How about your beloved Senators?

Video Rebel lists all the representatives that voted to keep you from “protesting” around them. I wanted to share the locals, for your education and possible discussion. I am also including the Mississippi chickenshits, since that is my home state and friends still endure their sorry asses. They are deathly afraid of facing any assembly of folks that might be finally getting fed up with their shenanigans and have signed the latest bill that strips you of even MORE of your rights (I’m sure most will just yawn). The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011 is a bit more than simply providing Mexican lawn care workers to take care of the grass around Federal Buildings. It is meant for you (well, “you”, meaning those who are awake and want answers).

There are a few that didn’t bow to their Masters in Israel, but they are a minority. Notice that none of them mind spending as much as you make in a year traveling around on junkets, while most are to afraid to spend much time in their district. Remember last summer’s break, when a mass of sycophantic Zionist Jew worshipers took their allegiance trip to Israel? At least Marsha didn’t make that trip. Cohen (a Zionist Jew), however, made his (imagine that).

Tennessee

Yea TN-1 Roe, Phil [R] 3 trips taken between 2009 – 2012 costing $19,250 1 trip to Israel $15,917.

Yea TN-2 Duncan, John [R] 25 trips taken between 2000 – 2011 costing $114,365 No trips to Israel. 1 trip to Aspen Institute.

Yea TN-3 Fleischmann, Chuck [R]
1 trip to Israel taken in 2011 costing $19,763.

Yea TN-4 DesJarlais, Scott [R] 1 trip to Israel taken in 2011 costing $19,636

Yea TN-5 Cooper, Jim [D] 31 trips taken between 2003 – 2012 costing $136,553 No trips to Israel. 1 trip to Aspen Institute.

Yea TN-6 Black, Diane [R] 2 trips taken in 2011 costing $24,990 1 trip to Israel $22,314.

Yea TN-7 Blackburn, Marsha [R] 35 trips taken between 2003 – 2012 costing $68,139 No trips to Israel. 1 trip to Aspen Institute.

Yea TN-8 Fincher, Stephen [R] 2 trips taken in 2011 costing $23,233 1 trip to Israel $20,227.

Yea TN-9 Cohen, Steve [D] 10 trips taken between 2007 – 2011 costing $61,451 2 trips to Israel $19,520. This is the guy who got Jesse Ventura’s episode on Camp FEMA pulled off the air.

Mississippi

Yea MS-1 Nunnelee, Alan [R] No trips anywhere.

Yea MS-2 Thompson, Bennie [D] 57 trips taken between 2000 – 2011 costing $115,549 No trips to Israel.

Yea MS-3 Harper, Gregg [R] 4 trips taken between 2009 – 2011 costing $43,172 1 trip to Israel $17,610.

Yea MS-4 Palazzo, Steven [R] 1 trip to Israel taken in 2011 costing $23,360.

One could look at the list of people who voted for the NDAA and perhaps feel a bit better (Marsha Blackburn DID vote “aye”, showing that she is not interested in preserving our liberties), but not much.

Now to Lame Alexander. I received my monthly email newsletter from him. Apparently, he is very worried about the “checks and balances” that Obama is ruining for Congress. He wrote something about his imaginary outrage here. This is a very slimy man, who also could care less about the Constitution, much less any checks and balances. You know, Lame, if you really were worried, you might work with Congress to impeach the liar, instead of clutching your faux pearls of shame. You might not have voted FOR the patriot Act (and every extension). You might have not voted to continue the bogus Iraq War that you were complicit in getting started (or too stupid to see was a bunch of malarkey). You might have not voted against implementing the 911 Commission’s recommendations (no matter how bogus they were), but better yet, sponsor a new, REAL investigation, since many of the members and its legal council have come out and said it was bogus. You might even vote to dismantle the TSA and certainly work to stop their roadside drug searches in your own state. Maybe you would even call out Israel, but instead, you love them and their “democracy” (apparently more than your own country). Maybe you could fight for American jobs instead of voting to allow corporations to keep their tax free crap from overseas profits.

If the man truly gave more than his obligatory lie, he might not have voted lock-step “yea” on the NDAA. He might actually tell us the truth. He might actually fight for liberties, instead of stripping as many as he can muster.

Oh yeah, as  aside note to all the PaulTards, the bastion for personal liberties didn’t even bother to vote on either of the above mentioned recent bills.

Suckers.

Oh yeah, now Tennesseans have voted to put Santorum on the ballot. Speaking of suckers.

“I’m Having a Katrina Flashback” – “Sometimes Life Is Not Fair”

Poor old Gene Taylor (Mississippi Representative) is beside himself after a recent air flight over the affected areas in Mississippi. Apparently, he didn’t get Haley Barbour’s message that oil is not to be found and that all you lemmings need to come down and play on our beaches (shit, the nasty stuff is ONLY coming in by the Ton. Or maybe you heard about that fat slob telling us how the $20B escrow account will hurt, not help, the situation (even tho it will take TRILLIONS to fix this)? Crazy? Zionist Kenneth Feinburg tells us that there is “not enough money in the world” to pay all the claims.

I always say, never allow the facts to get in the way of the rhetoric.

Gov. Haley Barbour says he’s pressing BP and federal officials to increase resources in Mississippi, where oil has reached the shoreline and continues to flow into the waters around barrier islands.

“While command and control of on-water resources has improved, it must get much better and the amount of resources to attack the oil offshore must be greatly increased,” Barbour said in an e-mailed statement.

h/t CBSNews

Back to Gene and his incredulousness:

U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor got off the flight angry.

“It’s criminal what’s going on out there,” Taylor said minutes later. “This doesn’t have to happen.”

A scientist onboard, Mike Carron with the Northern Gulf Institute, said with this scenario, there will be oil on the beaches of the mainland.

“There’s oil in the Sound and there was no skimming,” Carron said. “No coordinated effort.”

Taylor said it was a good thing he didn’t have a mic in the helicopter, because he might have said some things he didn’t want his children to hear.

“They’re paying all these boats to run around like headless chickens,” Taylor said, as reporters gathered to hear his assessment of the Sound.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/26/96608/no-skimmers-in-sight-as-oil-floods.html#ixzz0s9FtIdRe

So, I come back to my old adage: Is this ineptness or intentional?

Do I have to keep asking the question, “how is it possible that we are so inept? How is it that anything and everything we do seems to be ass backwards? As “if” they want this thing to happen? I wouldn’t be the first to think it is possible. Kenny’s Sideshow linked to a post about the potential Asphalt Volcano that was PURPOSEFULLY drilled to cause precisely what is happening. According to this link, they know that the oil will degrade and disperse on its own, so they are not concerned about cleanup. However, the rationale is evil: they want all the southern, lazy-assed rednecks,  filthy coon-asses and low-life blacks DEAD.

There is also much scuttlebutt that suggests that the US government knew and was instrumental in this (which aligns to my previous posts questioning purpose or ineptness)

Thank goodness we still have our government to look after us, right?

Is Gulf safe for swimming?

Of course it is. This is why over 400 people who visited Escambia County Beaches are needing medical assistance “for upper or lower respiratory problems, headaches, nausea, and eye irritation“. This is why they are setting up “Decontamination Stations” all over the beaches. This is why:

Swimmers who did venture into the water questioned whether it was really safe to wade, swim and play in the Gulf, especially when they had to walk through a line of tar balls and stay clear of skimmers scooping up oil just 25 and 50 feet from the shore.

“I only went into the water up to my ankles. That’s as far as I wanted to go,” said Joe Chambers, 28, of West Pensacola as he scrubbed off oily residue from himself and his son, Ethan, 4, in the public showers at Casino Beach. “It doesn’t smell like the beach. It smells like a gas station. There are no fish in the water. There’s nothing alive in the water. I don’t know how public officials can just look at the water and make a call to reopen it for swimming.”

Carol Doster of Grand Isle, Miss., said her son Dallas, 12, was frightened by the oil that streaked his legs and arms after a five-minute swim in the Gulf on Friday. “It won’t rub off,” Doster said. …

Lanza said the health department did not test the water or sand samples before lifting the health advisory. He did send out health department employees to look at the water before they covered up the health advisory signs.

Are you still thinking you need some beach time? Watch this:

Enjoy your swim in Goldman Sach’s Corexit bath. I mean, hell, can’t let that “product” go to waste (especially if it can be used to cull a good chunk of the population and keep them from losing BILLIONS cause of its being outlawed almost everywhere else).

At least we got Biden that cares…

“Sometimes life’s not fair,” said Vice President Joe Biden, as he addressed a small crowd in New Orleans, Louisiana yesterday. “Y’all have been hit with Katrina, Gustav and now the BP oil spill. You’ve been through more than any community has a right to be asked to go through. You’ve been on boats, some of you, since you were kids.”

I have warned people not to go (and some went anyway, and defriended me from Facebook to avoid hearing from me about it). Within 3 or 4 days, those people are back and told me that I was right. That there is something being hidden and that many people are going to be sick (and that evacuations are probable). All of this shit I told them before they left. Duh. Take a damned chance on getting cancer by going to that place, ignorant, but caring ones.

Martial Law is close (there are already more military down there than anyone has ever seen before). Roadblocks are going up (unsubstantiated as of7/14/10 4:00PM… Ed) Papers are needed to get close to report on the action. Many people from S Louisiana are leaving (moving trucks are all rented with none available at this time).

This shit is so much worse than we are being told (and the stuff we are hearing is pretty bad).

Carl Safina explains how bad it is in the TED video:

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What Is The Motive For Killing The Gulf?

This isn’t “just happening”. This has the smell of purpose. But what could possibly be the motive?

BP had no contingency plans for emergency. On the contrary: they knew where it would go, that ecology would never recover.

According to Karen Dalton Beninato’s blog post at neworleans.com, there are three main conclusions that point to the fact that BP knew how bad this was:

1) In the worst case discharge scenario (on chart below), an oil leak was expected to come ashore with highest probability in Plaquemines Parish within 30 days

2) Spokespersons were advised never to assure the public that an ecosystem would be back to normal after the worst case scenario, which we are now living through.

3) Corexit oil dispersant toxicity has not been tested on ecosystems, according to the Oil Spill Response Plan. “Ecotoxilogical effects: No toxicity studies have been conducted on this product.”

But, “why”? Why let it keep spreading to new regions of the gulf? Or worse (as Dr Doug and I were discussing today) what happens when some tropical storm or hurricane picks this stuff up and dumps it on us? Into our water table? Killing our plants and livestock? Is it possible?

… the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season officially began on June 1. This season is predicted to be especially active with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) expecting up to 23 tropical storms, up to 14 of which may become hurricanes. Strong storms could sweep the toxic mixture of oil and chemical dispersants from the Gulf far inland, contaminating rivers, wildlife and even residential areas that might have escaped exposure under other circumstances.

The experts are already frightened that this is the end of the fishing industry:

Because of the increasing threat posed to the environment by spreading oil, NOAA was forced to expand the area covered by their fishing ban for three consecutive days beginning May 31. As it stands, 37 percent of the Gulf of Mexico, or 88,522 square miles, is now closed to fishing. Large areas off the coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama are shut down. Federal waters near the Florida panhandle have also been closed.

“Fishing communities are suffering a worst case scenario of total collapse,” Carl Safina, an ecologist with Blue Ocean Institute, told the World Socialist Web Site. “I don’t see how this could be temporary. The basis of their livelihood is being destroyed.”

There has been one series of bad solutions. In the last case, they had to increase the flow by 20% to try the Top Hat. Ed shows us well that is working out for us. They just can’t seem to stop it. The scary thing?

Oil Might Keep Leaking for Months After Relief Wells are Drilled

Many technical experts have said that the first attempts to complete the relief well in August could miss entirely on the first try, as it is difficult to intersect the blown-out well at the precise location and angle needed.

(h/t Washington’s Blog)

Is it a done deal or not? Dr Doug has a friend who said this should have been stopped long ago (I have had oil folk tell me the same thing).

Am I just a suspicious bastard or is it a fact that everything seems so purposeful? It seems to me that people knew something was about to happen. Jay at ThoughtSwirl explains that there is Evidence Supporting Foreknowledge Of BP Oil Spill “Accident”

Goldman Sachs sold $250 million worth of BP stock in the first quarter of this year.

BP chief Tony Hayward sold £1.4 (about $1.68 million) worth of BP shares weeks before the oil spill.

And Haliburton bought a company that specializes in dealing with WELL FIRES and BLOWOUTS in APRIL

Since the spill the BP stock is taking a beating (pretty convenient for ole Tony, Haliburton AND GS). As a matter of fact, there are a “A Series Of Lucky Coincidences Involving Goldman Sachs And BP plc“

Earlier, when observing the US AG disclosure of a civil and criminal investigation into BP plc, we noted in passing that BP’s former Chairman, Peter Sutherland, who left the firm is a Chairman of Goldman Sachs International. Mr. Sutherland holds some other interesting titles, including a position on the Trilateral Commission, he was a chairman of the London School of Economics in 2008, he is a UN special representative for migration and development; he was the founding director-general of the World Trade Organisation, he had previously served as director general of GATT since July 1993 and was instrumental in concluding the Uruguay GATT Round Negotiations. Needless to say, we focused on the Goldman relationship. When digging deeper, we uncovered some amusing correlations, most notably between the BP plc sellside ratings by Goldman BP analyst Michelle della Vigna and the Goldman Sachs Asset Management holdings of BP plc.

h/t ZeroHedge

I can say this… this is raw Capitalism in action. No regulation, winks and nods towards environmental safety concerns, and no matter what,  PAY THOSE DIVIDENDS while you got ‘em.

Can you imagine the share owners as they laugh, knowing that at their Texas City facility, they just released 500,000 pounds of emissions, including more than 400 pounds of benzene for 40 consecutive days?

That’s a hoot to celebrate over with a bath full of cash, huh?

(h/t Infowars)

Oh, and did you know that Haley Barbour (Governor of Mississippi) is a tool?

So the tool needs to be asked, why would “Defense Secretary Robert Gates grant YOUR request to send troops of up to 6,000 by Louisiana, 3,000 by Alabama, 2,500 by Florida and 6,000 by Mississippi“?

Funny thing. I see those numbers (6,000; which is EQUAL to Louisiana’s request) and I think that Jowls must be lying out his ass.

Holding Haley Barbour Accountable

How in the world do you rednecks put up with him? Of all the things I miss about Mississippi since leaving, that nincompoop isn’t one of them. He is an embarrassment to Mississippians, and the saddest fact is that most of you don’t know it or care. When Haley vetoes the Stimulus money, there can be but one reason, he is running for higher office of some sort. I can’t wait until tomorrow to write about his pardoning a guy who shot his wife to death with a 12 gauge shotgun on a street corner in Mississippi. Don’t let me forget to mention that he once worked on the Gov’s staff, as I understand it. Or the fact that the Mississippi Senate felt like some sort of law be passed to have a citizen watch group have a board to question these idiotic “pardons”.

But don’t let that blubber filled lobbyist get away with his criminality. You can do something.

There is a new  campaign by the Mississippi Center for Justice that allows you to sign a petition to make Haley fully aware that we are watching and know better. There are far too many Mississippians that are dependent upon whatever stimulus money they can get. Unlike Haley, most Mississippians have to work for a living and are not dependent upon lobbying efforts to make us rich, like most of the elitist wannabes that prance around, walking as if they are important or something.

The fact is that Haley works for YOU. You must figure that out and stop putting that embarrassment up on some sort of pedestal (unless it is a witches pyre):

Petition to Governor Barbour: Accept Stimulus Money

Mississippi Center for Justice launches national online petition in favor of stimulus

Mississippi Center for Justice launched an online campaign, “Standing With Mississippi,” designed to inform Mississippians—and other friends around the country—about Governor Haley Barbour’s intended rejection of nearly $60 million in Unemployment Insurance benefits provided to Mississippi as part of the Federal stimulus package.

“Standing With Mississippi” encourages people to voice their support for providing every available dollar to Mississippians who have lost their employment through no fault of their own.

As the poorest state in the nation, Mississippi can least afford to put partisan politics ahead of people’s basic needs. Mississippi desperately needs its rightful share of the stimulus package. The money that Governor Barbour is rejecting will help 39,600 hardworking families weather this recession.

Supporters are encouraged to sign the petition and learn more at: http://www.StandingWithMississippi.org

The petition comes at a time when Governor Barbour has called a public meeting for April 16 to discuss the stimulus money. Mississippi Center for Justice believes hardworking Mississippians deserve every available resource to support their basic needs of food and shelter during such a difficult economic time.

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For more information, please contact:

Sharon Garrison
Director of Communications
Mississippi Center for Justice
sgarrison@mscenterforjustice.org
(601) 352-2269

Mississippi Center for Justice

The Mississippi Center for Justice is a nonprofit, public interest law firm committed to advancing racial and economic justice. Supported and staffed by attorneys, community leaders and volunteers, the Center develops and pursues strategies to combat discrimination and poverty statewide. To learn more about our work, visit www.mscenterforjustice.org.

Mississippi Politics Can Surprise You

Big Brother takes a hit from Mississippi politicians. From UNDERNEWS:

LOCAL HEROES: MISSISSIPPI HOUSE VOTES TO BAN TICKET CAMERAS

The Newspaper – A near-unanimous Mississippi state House of Representatives voted to ban red light cameras and speed cameras while anti-camera citizen protest movements gathered steam in other parts of the country. Mississippi state Representative Edward Blackmon, Jr. (D-Canton) inadvertently kicked off the effort when he introduced a measure designed to give legislative approval to the use of photo enforcement so long as ticket records were not shared with insurance companies. . .

The state House Judiciary Committee would have none of it. The panel rewrote Blackmon’s measure to ban not just the reporting of photo tickets to insurance companies, but also the issuance a photo ticket for any offense other than a toll violation. . .

Blackmon was one of only three House members who voted against the revised legislation which now heads to the state Senate for its consideration.

In the state of Missouri, a group of concerned Kansas City residents gathered this weekend to protest red light cameras. The event took place at the location of the city’s first red light camera which is to be activated later this week. The citizens’ group Liberty Restoration Project insisted that red light cameras increase accidents and urged passersby to support Senate Bill 211, a measure that would ban all photo ticketing. . .

At the same time in Maryland, a group of citizens gathered on Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase, just over the border from Washington, DC, to protest at the site of a notorious speed camera trap. Members of the newly formed DC.CameraFraud.com pointed out that the speed cameras were located on a six-lane boulevard — not a school zone or residential neighborhood as required by state law — and that the cameras themselves were hidden behind trees and signs. . .