BP oil spill Solution

So everyone has a solution why not me? 
Solution for the BP problem. As a Scuba diver I make the following suggestion. Use a Y shaped valve. One side open the other side to a hose or pipe to the surface. Once the connector is slipped over the leak then a valve on the open side could be closed diverting the oil up to the side with the pipe. As long as they keep trying to put their devices over the leak with out a way to vent the system at that depth they will continue to fail.


It's really a simple process that is being over complicated.

Did you ever hear the story of the child that figured out to simply let the air out of the truck tires to get it under the bridge? Same thing. They keep trying to put something over a busted pipe that has pressure but the pressure just keeps blowing them away. it needs to be vented until its on. Once on just redirect the flow.

I know it sounds too easy but it really is that simple. You can't fight all that pressure you can redirect it. Liquids flow you can't stop them you must redirect them.

BP and the disaster

Tony Hayward of BP and Benjamin Linus of LOST....

Does anyone see anything freaky going on?  The series finale and then the disaster?  Could it be DARMA!

BP a/k/a Big Polluters and Boycott BP

Here we are its been 6 weeks! and still the oil is pumping in to the Gulf.  The entire region is destroyed and government is still busing trying to figure out who to Blame. 

Boycott BP

Blow up the BP oil Well

Blowing up the BP oil well is not a new technology.  When oil wells fail and they do the resulting solution was to blow them up so they would be sealed off and stop the leak.  Enough already lets blow that puppy up and stop the spill.

BP is still murdering the planet

Said I said the M word, for Murder!  They are just killing everything with little or no regard.  There is no hurry up going on.  It's okay now they tell you were only leaking 2,000 gallons a day it's not so bad.

Yea and I'm a fish in need of a lube job.

Microsoft loves BP oil

BP Kills the East Coast of the United States of America

Video from a Private Pilot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=did-S6XbpMM

BP lets Boycott them

BP Peed in the pool.  They royaly screwed up the ecosytems for generations to come.  So like stupid little sheep we continue to buy their gas?  I don't think so.

Spirit Airlines Boycott

If you read this please tell anyone and everyone you know to Boycott Spirit Airlines as they are now charging for any bag that does not fit under the seat.
They want 45 dollars for a carry on bag.

Now I admitt that some folks bring bags that are way to big, but to charge 45 dollars?  A checked bag is 19 if done online and 25 if done at the airport.
If you become a member for 9$ a carry on is 20$  its 30$ if you decalre a bag in advance for carry on.
Show up at the gate with too much and its a whopping 45$!

Boycott Spirit

Cloud Computing will it vanish?

Cloud computing is the buzz these days. But we all know about clouds, they are just vapor. One minute they are wonderful and the next they are gone. Many of these cloud companies went out of business when the economy changed and anyone holding data with them lost it.




Now I would like to give my favorite view on cloud computing and cloud data storage.

Lets say you give me your wallet to hold with all your money and all your credit cards and all your personal information like social security numbers, your wife’s number, your girlfriends numbers, your children’s birth certificates and all your family photos. Now you will pay me every month to hold this information for you.

I must safeguard it from hackers. It should be available 24/7 100% so you can access it anytime you want.

Sound good? Okay so I go on vacation with all your wallet of goodies, maybe I don't come back and maybe my security is not so good or the power company shuts me off because I bought a car instead of paying the electric bill? So what about your data?

I think I'll sell copies of your data to raise money, and maybe I'll flee the country or just file bankruptcy.

So now where was your valuable data?

Stanford Victims Coaliton to be Audited by IRS

Those wild and wack folks that like to be called Victims are going to be victimized again except this time by the IRS.  Looks like when they put in their law suit what they did was make their names a matter of public record.  The IRS says that out of the thousands on the the list only about 1,000 filed proper returns and the rest will be audited.
Okay but heck they are not really victims they are just bad investors.

Oh by the way what they did is called "Tax Evasion"

R. Allen Stanford and the Victims or Investors

Okay lets see if they were Victims they would have had their money taken?  if they are investors they would have given their money?
Since they invested with a criminal does that make them criminals?

Oh wait Stanford is not a criminal,  he has not been convicted of any crimes as yet.  What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

How live changes

We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE! PONG! that was it I had fucking PONG! The ball just went back and forth across the screen.




You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?! Channel surfing was how fast you could spin the dial and then your parents would scream when the TV man had to come because you broke it from spinning it too fast.



There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-finks! And if you woke your parents you were grounded for life! I think I'm still ground but mom is too old to remember.



And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that! You had a stove? we had a coal pot.



And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores! and they didn’t care how freakin cold it was outside. Put on a sweater the sun is out. So what its below zero your young when I was your age we wore T-shirts and played in the snow and loved it.



And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were luckily, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place! Which explains why many of us look the way we do.



See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or any time before! 1980? Shit they would have died from polyester in the 70's., or been drafted to Viet Nam in the 60's.



We didn’t have digital cameras, we had to take the film in and wait a week then pray the pictures came out good. We went to the movies early in the day so we could get the discount price and sneak from theater to theater because nobody had enough money to get into the movies more than once in a few months.



We didn’t have any good pornography. There was Hugh Heffner and maybe if the guy at Teamo wasn’t looking you could sneak a peak. then came Larry Flynt but someone shot him. We had to put up with a nipple shot of Farrah's Faucets, and they were that great. Some folks made a big deal about Marsha Brady when she wore a low cut blouse and showed cleavage, but nobody knew she was sleeping with everyone in the cast. And Florence Henderson was doing the boys.



Richard Nixon was not a crook, he was the president. Somehow Jimmy Carter go to be president, then it was Ronny Ray gun.



We had to duck and cover incase of an atom bomb. Like it would really save us. There are still supplies incase of an attack in the basement of my old public school which now has some dead persons name on it.



Public nudity was called streaking. The Frisbee was an actual toy. By the way the guy who invented the Frisbee died this year. Mini skirts was like mini sex, and what ever happened to hot pants.

Today girls have something called a muffin top which is pretty gross.

When I was young I was considered a big boy, by today's kids I'm in great shape as they all suffer from McDonalds.

Antigua-Barbuda government responds to FATF status

Copied from Caribbean Net News
Antigua-Barbuda government responds to FATF status
Published on Thursday, February 25, 2010 Email To Friend Print Version

ST JOHN'S, Antigua -- The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which is the international body that sets the anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) global standards, on February 18 2010 issued a public statement identifying countries who currently have regulatory deficiencies and placing them in four categories.


Antigua and Barbuda has been placed in category 4 which are “jurisdictions which have deficiencies for which they have developed an action plan and expressed a high-level political commitment to work with FATF and the regional Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) to address these identified deficiencies”.



According to the Ministry of Legal Affairs, the public statement follows a face-to-face meeting in November 2009 in Argentina between the International Cooperation Review Group (ICRG) and Antigua and Barbuda represented by the Attorney General, Justin Simon QC and the Chair of the Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC), Althea Crick.



A follow-up Report was submitted by Antigua and Barbuda in early February 2010 following the recent passage in the House of Representatives of important amendments to various pieces of legislation including The Money Laundering (Prevention) (Amendment) Bill, The Prevention of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill, and the International Business Corporations (Amendment) Bill.



These Bills will be debated in the Senate next week.



The arrest of R Allen Stanford in the US on allegations that he operated a massive Ponzi Scheme through his wholly-owned Stanford International Bank, which is registered in and regulated by Antigua and Barbuda, and the request for the extradition of Leroy King the former Administrator of FSRC, has highlighted deficiencies in the country's legal and regulatory framework additional to those previously identified in the CFATF’s 2007 Mutual Evaluation Examiners Report on Antigua and Barbuda.



The Report is conducted in each jurisdiction every third year and assesses compliance with FATF Recommendations and implementation of changing norms and regulatory practices. Stanford International Bank Limited is currently in liquidation.



The Ministry said that Antigua and Barbuda has committed itself to and has been duly implementing the requested amendments and changes to its off-shore financial regime and will be making a full report on its legislative and regulatory actions at the CFATF Plenary in June 2010.



"We are pleased with the progress made to date following the 30th Plenary in Curaçao in October 2009 at which a follow-up Report had been tabled for CFATF’s consideration and review. This is an ongoing process," the Ministry said in a statement.



"While we recognise the vital importance of the offshore financial sector to our economy, we must also pay close attention to our concomitant obligation to maintain the global standards of good governance and AML/CFT requirements. We are therefore working assiduously at correcting these deficiencies by June 2010. We expect our financial institutions (whether local or off-shore) to recognise the changes being made, both regulatory and legislative, and call on them to ensure their diligent and effective compliance as we continuously seek to improve our international standing," the statement concluded.

Pirates of the Caribbean

So once again the Dumb previal as postings on the below site list Antigua as being Black Listed by some chessy French group called FATF.
http://antigua-pirates-of-the-caribbean.blogspot.com/


Antigua was not Black Listed duh! Does anyone read the newspapers correctly.

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Ilyushin Il-76

Ilyushin Il-76

funky looking cargo plane

Stanford Investors Coalition formerly Stanford Victims

Okay now that they have been renamed from Stanford Victims to Stanford Investors let me explain.  That is what they are or at least were.  See if I buy a stock and the company goes backrupt who do I sue?  Should I sue the US government?  GM went bankrupt and I lost my money to that.  So why am I not a victim?
Hence they invested with Stanford Investment Bank not the Stanford Victims Bank. 

Now these bozos want to sue everyone?  and tie up the court sytems?  Who do I sue about that?

Stanford Victims Coalition

The Stanford Victims Coaltion has been renamed to the Stanford Investors Coalition.

Open Letter to Terry Ward - "Writers to Avoid

Open Letter to Terry Ward

I'll bet you wouldn’t like it if I wrote a story that said "Writers to Avoid" would you? I am offended by your story "Caribbean Islands to Avoid", firstly the story is loosely written and very broad.


The title alone will turn people off from Caribbean Islands. As a well traveled American living in Antigua I find your report shallow and offensive. It looks like you generalized by writing what you have read in the papers about people that have placed themselves in precarious positions.

Would you walk down a dark alley in Thailand? where is your story on Countries to Avoid? Stay away from Haiti? state the obvious why don't you.



Yet you write telling people to avoid Antigua? One of the prettiest and friendliest Islands in Caribbean? Bahamas? what is so bad? Any one of the islands could be dangerous if your brain is on vacation when you travel. There is crime around the globe.

The islands in the Caribbean rely on tourism as a major source of income, yet with one fell swoop of your pen you publish to millions on AOL and who knows where else, and you did so without any first hand knowledge.

Terry Ward, a Writer to Avoid