When you are the kind of person who believes the rich really don’t need any more of our money, that tax cuts to wealth don’t really create jobs, at least not the kind of jobs where you don’t need two or three of them to survive, and when you also believe that in the tightened economy, its important to help the growing number of people … Continue reading And Obama wants a thank you?
Oh, and you’re not needed anymore here… Earlier this year, Kenneth Feinberg reached out to former US Rep, Ahn ” Joseph” Cao to serve as a liaison to Vietnamese coastal and fishing communities, and apparently Cao made the mistake of taking his role too seriously. Ah yes, the tale of two stories… From Feinberg, a man with serious credibility issues: “We appreciate all that former … Continue reading Feinberg tells Cao to stop being so available to claimants…
Simple, If you really want to make sure Louisiana gets all the money they need for coastal restoration, only one thing really needs to happen… Pass a bill in Congress requiring Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America to build new corporate headquarters and base their operations in Grand Isle. Just a thought… Have a nice day Continue reading How to ensure coastal restoration…
It would appear a pattern is developing in this great land of ours. Simply put, we begin with a tragedy, then we have an investigation which discovers the governmental agencies designed to prevent such tragedies either fell down on the job or didn’t care, and even worse, the fail-safe for the agency that didn’t do their job is woefully unprepared to handle the mess created. … Continue reading So, they’ll get it right this time? Oil spills, mine disasters, levees and forgetfulness…
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Ken Feinberg, of course assured all in his methodology that everything would be fine in the Gulf by 2012…but certain species, even beyond humans might beg to differ… Just ask the dolphins: Oiled dead dolphins washing ashore, 8 months after spill Or ask the sea turtles: Sea Turtle Deaths Mount in the Gulf Hell, even ask the dwarf sea horses if ya like: Dwarf seahorses … Continue reading No, really, it’s getting better out there…
This is how it’s supposed to work: A company, Transocean in this case, makes a bonehead move and gives bonuses to its executives for their “exemplary” safety record last year. Transocean, being an offshore drilling contractor at work on the Deepwater Horizon when it exploded and killed eleven people, is immediately barraged with criticism for awarding these bonuses. Steven Newman, CEO of Transocean, and four … Continue reading Okay, but will Hayward and Feinberg follow suit?
Ah yes, the legalities of our lawyerly society…one of the truly frustrating experiences is watching a case built on common sense disintegrate into the bullshit of corporate attorneys…or, in other words: You can find an expert to give expert testimony on anything. Take for example, global warming…despite common sense dictating something is seriously going wrong on our planet, despite the near unanimous consensus that we … Continue reading What can you prove? What can I say? I worry…
BP says this, the government says that…and then, David Vitter says what? According to two British newspapers, the Financial Times and the Sunday Times, British Petroleum could be coming back to the Gulf this July…or will they? A government spokeswoman said the government had reached no agreement and no permits are in the offing, but the New York Times reports negotiations are underway with BP … Continue reading So which is it…BP drills again or no? Permits or no? Vitter’s an idiot or no?
I am, really bad… You see, I’ve been doing this job for a long, long time, off and on for about ten years and frankly, it’s getting a little old. If unfamiliar with crisis work, what I do for a living is I get calls from doctors and police officers in various hospital emergency rooms, or maybe jail corporals at detention centers to come to the scene and speak … Continue reading I have a confession to make…I’m a really lousy crisis worker…
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