Wednesday, July 14, 2010
dont make sense
What sense does it make to make laws and then don`t in force it at all just stupid to me
Monday, June 28, 2010
BET Awards Show
The award show was really good and I like that Chris Brown was able to come back on and do his Michael Jackson tribute the other performances were good to to see Chris back on stage again was he has been forgiven now .
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Good book to read The Cartel series of books by Ashley JaQuavis
I can`t wait till The cartel 3 The Last Chapter come out I have the cartel 1 & 2 waiting on the third installment to come out in July of 2010 they are really good book to read .
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Officials continue to test seafood, trying to keep La. seafood safe
It's a strenuous process and very often messy but choosing just the right size and amount of oysters is key in making sure Louisiana seafood is safe to eat.
This is one good step, these kind of samples to show people really good solid data," said Brian Levina, from the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Proof by way of scientific analysis, starts here in the open waterways that feed into the Gulf, where Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agents collect the samples.
“The lab is looking for certain kinds of hydrocardbons, but essentially those things that we would find in that crude oil,” said Levina.
Fortunately, biologists didn't find any traces of oil here in Drum Bay, nor Treasure pPass where they trawled for shrimp.
"We have the same issues as commercial fishermen sometimes it takes longer to catch sometimes have to go further to do it and well get around a pound or so," said Levina.
Picking through the catch officials find, sometimes a blue crab, but a lot more shrimp. This is done over and over again until the biologists find what they need and toss the rest to the birds.
Officials say it's a process that is repeated daily from Lake Charles to the Mississippi state line but not in areas inundated with oil.
“There are some issues with doing that if it is heavy on the surface then you’re just getting it all over the animals anyway and it’s not a true representation on whether or not, it's in the fish tissue or if it was on everything else, that was next to the fish," said Levina.
It's an effort to fight a national perception that all Louisiana seafood is tainted.
“There isn’t going to be a product out there that isn’t safe for them, there is even without oil spill there is testing,” said Levina.
This is one good step, these kind of samples to show people really good solid data," said Brian Levina, from the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Proof by way of scientific analysis, starts here in the open waterways that feed into the Gulf, where Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agents collect the samples.
“The lab is looking for certain kinds of hydrocardbons, but essentially those things that we would find in that crude oil,” said Levina.
Fortunately, biologists didn't find any traces of oil here in Drum Bay, nor Treasure pPass where they trawled for shrimp.
"We have the same issues as commercial fishermen sometimes it takes longer to catch sometimes have to go further to do it and well get around a pound or so," said Levina.
Picking through the catch officials find, sometimes a blue crab, but a lot more shrimp. This is done over and over again until the biologists find what they need and toss the rest to the birds.
Officials say it's a process that is repeated daily from Lake Charles to the Mississippi state line but not in areas inundated with oil.
“There are some issues with doing that if it is heavy on the surface then you’re just getting it all over the animals anyway and it’s not a true representation on whether or not, it's in the fish tissue or if it was on everything else, that was next to the fish," said Levina.
It's an effort to fight a national perception that all Louisiana seafood is tainted.
“There isn’t going to be a product out there that isn’t safe for them, there is even without oil spill there is testing,” said Levina.
What will Happen in the Gulf of Mexico should a Hurricane come
More than three weeks into hurricane season, there are still no firm plans from BP nor Unified Command, on how to handle the oil response should a storm threaten.
This comes as a weather disturbance in the Caribbean Sea is forecast to move into the Gulf early next week.
The situation is now worrying state and local officials, who wonder how BP will evacuate its assets stationed in some of Louisiana's most storm-vulnerable parishes.
"I don't have a lot of faith in the decision-making," said Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser.
Nungesser said the parish has already started making its own plans. They met with BP representatives on Wednesday, to offer them a staging area on the north end of the parish, where the oil response equipment could be placed in an emergency.
"Anything you want to bring from Venice, this is your spot," Nungesser said. "This area is for your subcontractors."
The concerns lie not just with Plaquemines Parish. Governor Bobby Jindal on Wednesday also expressed concerns that BP's overall hurricane plans lack critical details.
"We're still not satisfied, as of today. We're pushing them back again, in terms of securing some of the evacuation sites, their staging areas and the resources they're going to need," said Gov. Jindal, R-Louisiana. "We want to make sure they have adequate resources and, secondly, that they are not depending on resources that other entities may be counting on."
One of the most important resources is time, which is needed to evacuate coastal parishes before a storm hits, under normal circumstances. Yet, the oil spill in Gulf is anything but normal and there are real concerns about whether evacuating workers and equipment could interfere with residents trying to get out at the same time.
"There is no way physically possible, we will get all these men ashore in buses and out of this parish and out of this state or to safe haven, without, in my opinion, putting our resident at additional risk," Nungesser said. "If they want to get out, they're going to have to leave extra early.
In news conference Wednesday, U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said the hurricane plans were still being worked on. He also added that getting workers and equipment out early, far ahead of a storm, would be key: at least three to seven days prior to landfall.
"If you kind of look at the area between the Yucatan [Peninsula], Cuba and the Straits of Florida, that's kind of a radius or a perimeter," Adm. Allen said. "Anything approaching that area with a trajectory that could fall in that area, should prompt some action at that point.
Whether that move will be needed during this hurricane season remains to be seen.
This comes as a weather disturbance in the Caribbean Sea is forecast to move into the Gulf early next week.
The situation is now worrying state and local officials, who wonder how BP will evacuate its assets stationed in some of Louisiana's most storm-vulnerable parishes.
"I don't have a lot of faith in the decision-making," said Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser.
Nungesser said the parish has already started making its own plans. They met with BP representatives on Wednesday, to offer them a staging area on the north end of the parish, where the oil response equipment could be placed in an emergency.
"Anything you want to bring from Venice, this is your spot," Nungesser said. "This area is for your subcontractors."
The concerns lie not just with Plaquemines Parish. Governor Bobby Jindal on Wednesday also expressed concerns that BP's overall hurricane plans lack critical details.
"We're still not satisfied, as of today. We're pushing them back again, in terms of securing some of the evacuation sites, their staging areas and the resources they're going to need," said Gov. Jindal, R-Louisiana. "We want to make sure they have adequate resources and, secondly, that they are not depending on resources that other entities may be counting on."
One of the most important resources is time, which is needed to evacuate coastal parishes before a storm hits, under normal circumstances. Yet, the oil spill in Gulf is anything but normal and there are real concerns about whether evacuating workers and equipment could interfere with residents trying to get out at the same time.
"There is no way physically possible, we will get all these men ashore in buses and out of this parish and out of this state or to safe haven, without, in my opinion, putting our resident at additional risk," Nungesser said. "If they want to get out, they're going to have to leave extra early.
In news conference Wednesday, U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said the hurricane plans were still being worked on. He also added that getting workers and equipment out early, far ahead of a storm, would be key: at least three to seven days prior to landfall.
"If you kind of look at the area between the Yucatan [Peninsula], Cuba and the Straits of Florida, that's kind of a radius or a perimeter," Adm. Allen said. "Anything approaching that area with a trajectory that could fall in that area, should prompt some action at that point.
Whether that move will be needed during this hurricane season remains to be seen.
Judge who nixed drilling ban has oil investments money
Judge who nixed drilling ban has oil investments
By CURT ANDERSON and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN (AP) – 1 day ago
NEW ORLEANS — The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry, according to financial disclosure reports. He's also a new member of a secret national security court.
U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman, a 1983 appointee of President Ronald Reagan, reported owning less than $15,000 in stock in 2008 in Transocean Ltd., the company that owned the sunken Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
Feldman overturned the ban Tuesday, saying the government simply assumed that because one rig exploded, the others pose an imminent danger, too.
The White House promised an immediate appeal. The Interior Department had imposed the moratorium last month in the wake of the BP disaster, halting approval of any new permits for deepwater projects and suspending drilling on 33 exploratory wells.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a statement late Tuesday that within the next few days he would issue a new order imposing a moratorium that eliminates any doubt it is needed and appropriate.
Several companies that ferry people and supplies and provide other services to offshore rigs argued that the moratorium was arbitrarily imposed after the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers and blew out a well 5,000 feet underwater. It has spewed anywhere from 67 million to 127 million gallons of oil.
Feldman's 2008 financial disclosure report — the most recent available — also showed investments in Ocean Energy, a Houston-based company, as well as Quicksilver Resources, Prospect Energy, Peabody Energy, Halliburton, Pengrowth Energy Trust, Atlas Energy Resources, Parker Drilling and others. Halliburton was also involved in the doomed Deepwater Horizon project.
Feldman did not respond to requests for comment and to clarify whether he still holds some or all of these investments.
He's one of many federal judges across the Gulf Coast region with money in oil and gas. Several have disqualified themselves from hearing spill-related lawsuits and others have sold their holdings so they can preside over some of the 200-plus cases.
Although Feldman ruled in favor of oil interests Tuesday, one expert said his reasoning appeared sound because the six-month ban was overly broad.
"There's been some concern that he is biased toward the industry, but I don't see it in this opinion," said Tim Howard, a Northeastern University law professor who also represents businesses and people claiming economic losses in several spill-related lawsuits. "They overreacted and just shut an industry down, rather than focusing on where the problems are."
That was what Feldman essentially said in his ruling, writing that the blanket moratorium "seems to assume that because one rig failed and although no one yet fully knows why, all companies and rigs drilling new wells over 500 feet also universally present an imminent danger." Josh Reichert, managing director of the Pew Environment Group, said the ruling should be rescinded if Feldman still has investments in companies that could benefit.
"If Judge Feldman has any investments in oil and gas operators in the Gulf, it represents a flagrant conflict of interest," Reichert said.
Feldman's ruling prohibits federal officials from enforcing the moratorium until a trial is held. He wrote: "If some drilling equipment parts are flawed, is it rational to say all are? Are all airplanes a danger because one was? All oil tankers like Exxon Valdez? All trains? All mines? That sort of thinking seems heavy-handed, and rather overbearing."
At least two major oil companies, Shell and Marathon, said they would wait to see how the appeals play out before resuming drilling.
The lawsuit was filed by Hornbeck Offshore Services of Covington, La. CEO Todd Hornbeck said after the ruling that he is looking forward to getting back to work. "It's the right thing for not only the industry but the country," he said.
Earlier in the day, executives at a major oil conference in London warned that the moratorium would cripple world energy supplies. Steven Newman, president and CEO of Transocean, called it unnecessary and an overreaction.
"There are things the administration could implement today that would allow the industry to go back to work tomorrow without an arbitrary six-month time limit," Newman said.
BP stock dropped 81 cents Tuesday, or 2.7 percent, to $29.52, near a 14-year low for the company in U.S. trading. The stocks of other companies associated with the spill remained low despite Feldman's ruling.
Feldman is a native of St. Louis and former Army captain in the Judge Advocate General Corps who was appointed in May to a seven-year term on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, according to court records.
The court meets secretly to consider government requests for wiretaps in national security cases, such as those involving foreign terrorist groups.
A graduate of Tulane University in New Orleans with bachelor's and law degrees, Feldman frequently jokes with lawyers before his court about his friendship with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, known for his strict interpretation of the Constitution as written more than 200 years ago.
Feldman has handled several cases stemming from Hurricane Katrina, among them a lawsuit against the city of New Orleans filed by a retired teacher who sued over his beating by police officers in the French Quarter. The case was settled. Feldman also presided over the first trial in a wave of insurance litigation spawned by the storm.
In August, he will sentence Wayne Read, a former movie studio CEO who pleaded guilty to selling $1.9 million in nonexistent state film tax credits to current and former members of the New Orleans Saints, including head coach Sean Payton and Super Bowl MVP quarterback Drew Brees.
By CURT ANDERSON and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN (AP) – 1 day ago
NEW ORLEANS — The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry, according to financial disclosure reports. He's also a new member of a secret national security court.
U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman, a 1983 appointee of President Ronald Reagan, reported owning less than $15,000 in stock in 2008 in Transocean Ltd., the company that owned the sunken Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
Feldman overturned the ban Tuesday, saying the government simply assumed that because one rig exploded, the others pose an imminent danger, too.
The White House promised an immediate appeal. The Interior Department had imposed the moratorium last month in the wake of the BP disaster, halting approval of any new permits for deepwater projects and suspending drilling on 33 exploratory wells.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a statement late Tuesday that within the next few days he would issue a new order imposing a moratorium that eliminates any doubt it is needed and appropriate.
Several companies that ferry people and supplies and provide other services to offshore rigs argued that the moratorium was arbitrarily imposed after the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers and blew out a well 5,000 feet underwater. It has spewed anywhere from 67 million to 127 million gallons of oil.
Feldman's 2008 financial disclosure report — the most recent available — also showed investments in Ocean Energy, a Houston-based company, as well as Quicksilver Resources, Prospect Energy, Peabody Energy, Halliburton, Pengrowth Energy Trust, Atlas Energy Resources, Parker Drilling and others. Halliburton was also involved in the doomed Deepwater Horizon project.
Feldman did not respond to requests for comment and to clarify whether he still holds some or all of these investments.
He's one of many federal judges across the Gulf Coast region with money in oil and gas. Several have disqualified themselves from hearing spill-related lawsuits and others have sold their holdings so they can preside over some of the 200-plus cases.
Although Feldman ruled in favor of oil interests Tuesday, one expert said his reasoning appeared sound because the six-month ban was overly broad.
"There's been some concern that he is biased toward the industry, but I don't see it in this opinion," said Tim Howard, a Northeastern University law professor who also represents businesses and people claiming economic losses in several spill-related lawsuits. "They overreacted and just shut an industry down, rather than focusing on where the problems are."
That was what Feldman essentially said in his ruling, writing that the blanket moratorium "seems to assume that because one rig failed and although no one yet fully knows why, all companies and rigs drilling new wells over 500 feet also universally present an imminent danger." Josh Reichert, managing director of the Pew Environment Group, said the ruling should be rescinded if Feldman still has investments in companies that could benefit.
"If Judge Feldman has any investments in oil and gas operators in the Gulf, it represents a flagrant conflict of interest," Reichert said.
Feldman's ruling prohibits federal officials from enforcing the moratorium until a trial is held. He wrote: "If some drilling equipment parts are flawed, is it rational to say all are? Are all airplanes a danger because one was? All oil tankers like Exxon Valdez? All trains? All mines? That sort of thinking seems heavy-handed, and rather overbearing."
At least two major oil companies, Shell and Marathon, said they would wait to see how the appeals play out before resuming drilling.
The lawsuit was filed by Hornbeck Offshore Services of Covington, La. CEO Todd Hornbeck said after the ruling that he is looking forward to getting back to work. "It's the right thing for not only the industry but the country," he said.
Earlier in the day, executives at a major oil conference in London warned that the moratorium would cripple world energy supplies. Steven Newman, president and CEO of Transocean, called it unnecessary and an overreaction.
"There are things the administration could implement today that would allow the industry to go back to work tomorrow without an arbitrary six-month time limit," Newman said.
BP stock dropped 81 cents Tuesday, or 2.7 percent, to $29.52, near a 14-year low for the company in U.S. trading. The stocks of other companies associated with the spill remained low despite Feldman's ruling.
Feldman is a native of St. Louis and former Army captain in the Judge Advocate General Corps who was appointed in May to a seven-year term on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, according to court records.
The court meets secretly to consider government requests for wiretaps in national security cases, such as those involving foreign terrorist groups.
A graduate of Tulane University in New Orleans with bachelor's and law degrees, Feldman frequently jokes with lawyers before his court about his friendship with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, known for his strict interpretation of the Constitution as written more than 200 years ago.
Feldman has handled several cases stemming from Hurricane Katrina, among them a lawsuit against the city of New Orleans filed by a retired teacher who sued over his beating by police officers in the French Quarter. The case was settled. Feldman also presided over the first trial in a wave of insurance litigation spawned by the storm.
In August, he will sentence Wayne Read, a former movie studio CEO who pleaded guilty to selling $1.9 million in nonexistent state film tax credits to current and former members of the New Orleans Saints, including head coach Sean Payton and Super Bowl MVP quarterback Drew Brees.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Game tonight Lakers won
Boston celtics got that ass whip tonight all i hear is people saying wait till thursday
Monday, June 14, 2010
Do you understand the critical development that the Louisiana marshes provide to the entire Gulf of Mexico? Day 56 of BP Oil spill and it just keep pouring out in to the water with happen to be drinking water for a lot of people in the Gulf States plus Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi and Alabama They will need BP’s financial assistance for years to come to stop/clean/replenish the Gulf Coast region
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