Louisiana Gov. Jindal on Obama delaying sand berns: We don't need any more professors. CNN video

Due to endless oil gushing with no end in sight, Jindal has long tried to install sand berns to protect Louisana wetlands. Obama of course refuses to go along with this. Permanent catastrophe is heaven for him. He forced busy Governor Jindal to sit through another wasted meeting with professors and others on Tuesday, June 1. Jindal's comments to the press,

• CNN video introduced by Wolf Blitzer. Jindal's comments about the 'professors' is toward the end of the video, about 3/4 in. He notes we don't need any professors now, we already know what to do. The sand berns have even been given provisional approval by the Coast Guard (which had previously been withheld). Obama still won't sign off on it.

A 6/2 Wall Street Journal piece has notes from the day which provide some background. (The substantive information in the article was incidental. The author, Corey Dade, was mainly interested petty political gotcha type issues, is pre-occupied with the fact that Jindal is a Republican. Too bad. Most of us realize our country is lost at sea, pirates have boarded the ship, and no one cares. ed.)

• 6/2: "Local officials said Mr. Jindal and his administration have done well filling gaps in the federal response to the spill. "He's stepping outside the box and doing what we need done since we can't get any help out of the Coast Guard and BP.

It's an embarrassment," Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, a Republican, said last week.

• Mr. Jindal wants the federal government to approve construction of offshore sand berms to protect Louisiana's coastline. Approval by the Coast Guard would enable the project to be folded into the federal government's response to the spill, triggering BP's legal obligation to pay for it.

BP hasn't said how it might respond if ordered by the Coast Guard to pay for the entire project. Company officials, like federal authorities, have expressed doubts about the berms, from their effectiveness to the construction time to the risk of legal

• liability if the barriers cause problems.

The Coast Guard last Thursday approved a berm two miles long to be built off Plaquemines Parish as a "prototype" for officials to evaluate.

• Senior White House officials said Mr. Jindal's proposed sand berms
  
• would take too long to construct, the proper sand quantity wasn't readily available and the barriers
  
• could erode before stopping the oil flow.

Yet on Tuesday in New Orleans, the Coast Guard, at the president's direction, met with Mr. Jindal and local officials and discussed the governor's plan. Mr. Nungesser left early, fuming at the federal government,

• and later called the talks a farce." article titled, "In criticizing cleanup, Jindal finds his voice" He doesn't seem to be doing that as no one is listening. ed.

5/23, Pelican nesting areas already awash with crude, Jindal's request to Army Corps of Engineers is met with dead silence. AP, "La, won't wait for federal OK to erect sand berns"

• The "environmental" president has no clothes. ed.

Above rotting carcass of dolphin on Gulf Coast from NY Daily News.
Oil soaked bird.

US voters support Arizona bill, say boycotts are bad idea-Quinnipiac poll, 6/1

• 5/21: 17 states now filing versions of Arizona law SB1070.

6/1/10: Quinnipiac Poll: US Voters approve Arizona immigration bill

• 51-31 percent:

• "American voters say 48 - 35 percent they want their state to pass an immigration law similar to Arizona's and by
  
• an overwhelming 76 - 12 percent they say that plans by those opposed to the law to boycott Arizona are a bad idea, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today."...

• US voters approve of Arizona law 51 - 31 percent...

71% of ARIZONA voters approve the bill. 5/20 Rasmussen poll.

Fidel Castro says Obama lives in fantasy world totally lacking in ethics

6/2, AP: "Castro often has praised Obama in recent years, but painted him as a pawn of the global capitalist machine on Wednesday.

• "President Obama can give hundreds of speeches, trying to reconcile contradictions that are irreconcilable ... dreaming of the magic of his well-articulated phrases," he wrote.

But Castro said Obama

• "makes concessions to personalities and groups totally lacking in ethics and draws fantasy worlds that only fit in his head and that unscrupulous advisers, knowing his tendencies, plant in his mind.""...via MichaelSavage.com, photo also

P.S. Obama's actions aren't the result of incompetence, but are by design. Cloward-Piven design. Nothing could be better than an oil catastrophe. No conspiracy, just facts.

Obama chose to give a $41 million job to a foreign bank instead of a US one

6/1/10, Politico: "The German bank (Deutsche Bank) was selected in an open-bidding process to auction the stock options of 11 banks on behalf of the Treasury Department. After the banks repaid their bailout money, Treasury needed to sell the stock options it had been given in exchange for its investments. When Treasury and the banks couldn’t come to terms on a price, Treasury hired Deutsche to auction them off to investors, netting the government at least $3.2 billion.

For its work, Deutsche hauled in a total commission valued at no less than $40.6 million."...via Drudge Report

Petition to stop teachers from teaching global warming as fact in Colorado county

• In 2007, British Courts ruled to protect school children against false claims in Al Gore movie.

It was America's crimes against humanity, now "species endangerment" has been added to the list. Most of the money supposed to correct environmental injustice is unaccounted for and always will be. The only thing anyone is sure of is they must take it from the US middle class.

• ""This is just a small battle in a larger battle," Pugliese said. "I really hope this inspires more people to get involved in our schools."" ...

5/26/10: Denver Post: "A national group that thinks global warming is "junk science" and that teaching it is unnecessarily scaring schoolchildren brought its first petition effort for "balanced education" to Mesa County Schools on Tuesday night.

• Rose Pugliese, an unsuccessful candidate for a District 51 school board seat in the last election, presented a petition with 700 signatures to the board asking that
  
• science teachers stop giving lessons on global warming.

Pugliese, a 32-year-old Grand Junction attorney and activist in Tea Party and conservative Republican groups, also presented a petition with 600 signatures demanding Mesa County schools keep political views out of classrooms.

• Pugliese's efforts have made her the poster girl for the group Balanced Education for Everyone and have pinpointed Mesa County as a national test case for keeping the teaching of humans' influence on global warming out of science classes.

"It (global warming) is not a proven scientific theory. There is not evidence to support it," Pugliese told the board, generating applause from about 40 Tea Party and other conservative group members who filled the room for the

• first school board petition battle over this issue in the country.

The climate-change deniers scoffed and shook their heads when a scientist and a college professor spoke up to say that global warming is a well-supported scientific fact.

"This is not just some liberal theory," said Richard Alward, an ecologist with a Ph.D.

Tamera Minnick, an associate professor in environmental science at Mesa State College, had the audience tittering when she told the board that global warming is as certain a scientific theory as those describing relativity, gravity and evolution.

• Pugliese and three other people who spoke against global-warming education said that if the subject is going to be taught, the "other side" should be presented so that students aren't subjected to a frightening untruth.

World to "melt away"

"A survey showed two out of three kids were coming home thinking their world is going to melt away and all the polar bears are going to die," Laura Kindregan told the board.

• The Denver resident came to the meeting to promote Balanced Education for Everyone. The movement began a campaign in April to remove the teaching of man-made global warming from science classes. The group focused on Grand Junction for its inaugural effort when Pugliese agreed to start a petition drive.

School board members accepted the petition and listened to the presentation but took no action.

• "We'll have to look at state curriculum and state standards and see what policies are already in place," said board member Greg Mikolai.

Board member Harry Butler said this is the first time he has heard a complaint alleging that teachers are espousing too many liberal ideas in classrooms.

• Since Pugliese wrapped up her petition drive and was prominently featured on the Balanced Education for Everyone website and Facebook page, the notion of putting an end to global-warming education has begun
  

• gain traction. A parent in Las Vegas has started a petition campaign. Closer to home, parents in Franktown and Littleton have also complained on the movement's website about the "liberal madness" in Colorado schools.

Balanced Education for Everyone was formed by the conservative Independent Women's Forum, which heavily promotes the documentary "Not Evil Just Wrong" as the basis for classroom lesson plans and also as the "scientifically accurate" truth about global warming.

• The video was created as a counterpoint to Al Gore's Oscar-winning global-warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."

Brenda Ekwurzel, a climate scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, said she finds the "Not Evil Just Wrong" curriculum push "very troubling" because the majority of scientists around the world agree that global warming is accelerating because of the effect of human activities on top of a natural cycle of warming.

• "To keep this information out of schools is really anti-education," Ekwurzel said. "It seems to me what is equivalent would be teaching that if you smoke tobacco, there is no risk you will ever develop cancer."

Pugliese said she personally doesn't think global warming should be talked about at all in schools. And she is not in favor of showing movies in classrooms.

• But she said she took up the Balanced Education for Everyone issue when, while running for school board, parents approached her to complain that their
  
• children couldn't freely express their conservative values in class.

Put in moral dilemma

She said one student was placed in a moral dilemma when he encountered a CSAP question and knew the "correct" answer was "global warming," while not believing that was true.

• Pugliese told the board she will return in several months "to see where you guys are at."

One of her supporters, Doug Thompson, warned the board that "the people of this community are watching, and we want to see change." He said failure to act could have consequences in the next board elections.

• Pugliese, who has the backing of Colorado State Board of Education member Marcia Neal, said she hopes to expand her campaign to attack curriculum issues on a larger scale.

"This is just a small battle in a larger battle," Pugliese said. "I really hope this inspires more people to get involved in our schools.""

• "Push to teach "other side" of global warming heats up in Colorado's Mesa county" via Climate Depot
  

In 2007 a parent in the UK was concerned about hysteria being taught to his child via screening of Al Gore's movie. The British Court ruled in the parent's favor, citing 9 inaccuracies in Gore's film and required children be advised of them.


press clippings from britainandamerica.com

Mayor of Mexican resort Cancun charged with drug trafficking, organized crime, money laundering (donde esta Calderon?)

• Was going to run for governor...Previous mayor extradited to US on drug charges last month...Cancun police chief arrested last year...Mexican drugs control political system
  

6/1, BBC: "The mayor of the Mexican resort city of Cancun, Gregorio Sanchez Martinez, has been formally charged with drug-trafficking, money laundering and organised crime.

• The charges mean he must give up his campaign to be governor of the state of Quintana Roo.

Prosecutors say there is evidence he protected two of Mexico's biggest drugs gangs and lived well beyond his means.

• Mr Sanchez's party, the PRD, says the charges are politically motivated....

Unexplained millions

• Prosecutors say they have submitted documents and testimony indicating that
  
• he has ties to the Beltran Leyva and Zetas drugs gangs.
  

They say they have evidence he made bank withdrawals amounting to £1.3m ($2m), far more than his declared income.

• But his party says he has a real estate business that explains his wealth.

Corruption scandals are nothing new in Cancun, the capital of Quintana Roo state and Mexico's most popular beach resort.

• A former governor of Quintana Roo, Mario Villanueva, was extradited to the United States on drugs charges last month,
  
• and Mr Sanchez's police chief was arrested last year.

The run up to elections in 10 Mexican states on 4 July has already been marred by violence and threats against candidates.

• This has fuelled fears that Mexico's drugs cartels are increasingly using bribes and intimidation to infiltrate the political system."

Obama seeks Hollywood bully Cameron's advice on Gulf oil spill

• 6/1: Hollywood Titanic director Cameron among "group of scientists and other experts"....(per AP)
  
• (3/25: Cameron wants to "shoot it out" with anyone who doesn't buy into the global warming scam.)
  

6/1: "Federal officials are hoping film director James Cameron can help them come up with ideas on how to stop the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

• The "Avatar" and "Titanic" director was among a group of scientists and other experts who met Tuesday with officials from the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies for a brainstorming session on stopping the massive oil leak.

The Canadian-born Cameron is considered an expert on underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies."...

• 3/25: Cameron was "unsparing in his comments about those who
  
• don't accept global warming as fact.

"That's right," Cameron said. "I want to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and

• shoot it out with those boneheads."...

4/30/10, Vanity Fair: "James Cameron will direct NASA's next Mars exploration"

• P.S. At least two better versions of the Titanic disaster were filmed before Cameron's:

"Titanic," in 1953 with Clifton Webb, and "A Night to Remember," in 1958, a British production with Honor Blackman.

Girls in Afghanistan savagely whipped, flogged for not subjecting to pedophilia and forced marriages