Cloud computing good? or Bad?

Do you know what the latest buzz called "Cloud Computing" is really all about?  Let me simplify it,  Your computer is connected to the internet on the internet is your email and all the programs you use like word processing and spread sheets.  Nothing is on your computer anymore except maybe some loose operating system.  Just enough for you to get connected.
Every month you pay a subscription fee to use your stuff,  to read your documents,  to view your bank account and confidential documents.  Nothing is on your computer it's all on some computer someplace else.  If you don't pay the fee your stuff will be deleted after a certain amount of time.  No amount of begging will get it back.  No they won't give it to you unless you pay the ransom a/k/a subscription fee.  If they loose your data they are not responsible,  it says so in the contract.  While your lawyer tries to sort this your going out of business because you can't access your accounts, vendor files, and customer database.

But you have the savvy sales rep sitting in your office ready to take you out to a nice steak diner.  He/She is going to convince you that the "Cloud" is the only way to go, it's going to save you tons of money.  How could you not be using the latest and greatest invention since sliced bread. 
Are you ready to outsource your IT department to the Philippines?   

As for Hacking?  the cloud is one stop shopping for hackers.  Once they are on a system with cloud services they have full run of all the companies.  Even your competitors.  Yes don't forget your competitors data and business could end up on the same servers as you. 

IT clouds are NOT nice fluffy things,  they are cold hard servers that someone else owns and charges you a monthly fee to access your own data.  Don't pay and your data goes away.  What's it good for?  Online backups!  and only if encrypted.  Treat your nerds with respect, they can save your business or treat them like chattel and they could let it burn to the ground and just say -
 "Oops sorry about that dude the cloud blew away!" 

Scuba.com no great deals

Scuba.com is a website for scuba divers to buy gear at supposedly reduced prices.  This would be great if the gear was actually worth the reduced price.  It's more like cheaper gear in a good looking photo.
I bought from them once before and received junk, had to send it back twice at my own expense.  Buying a 50 dollar item ended up costing me 50 dollars in shipping charges to return it with the blame being placed on the manufacturer.

You might have thought I learned my lesson,  wrong I'm a glutton for punishment.  I got an email for a t-shirt with a very nice design on it.  That's where the nice part ends.  The shirt was 14.95 and then when I got to the shipping part it was about $7.45 for shipping.  The order was placed on 10/21/14 by 10/31/14 I still had not gotten the shirt.  The shirt finally showed up a couple of days later.
I think the postal service walked it across the country.

So I finally get this shirt in my hands and the fabric is so thin you can practically see through it.  Light weight yes.  So far the only thing going for this shirt is the design which if I had bought a newer T-shirt would look like this one after a few washes.   It now cost $22.40 for a T-shirt.

Will I continue to shop online yes, will it be with Scuba.com?  Nope.   I would recommend Divers Direct they have better quality and better service.  Is it mean to write this story?  not really it's my experience with this company I gave them a second shot and they dropped the ball again.  It was a simple T-shirt this time. 
  

Worlds Best Coffee Pot ever

Did you ever find something you thought was the greatest?  I have a Farberware Superfast 2-4 cup percolator for nearly 20 years.  It makes the best cup of coffee you've ever had in like 2 minutes.  Piping hot makes the house smell so good.   But like me it's getting old.  Now mind you this is the worlds best coffee pot bar none.  Mr. Farber the inventor passed away in 2013 at age 88.  He sold the license to some company that is now making a crappy version of his great coffee pot in China.
It's like having a Rolls Royce made by Ford.  It looks good for a short time then the warranty expires and it falls apart.
I'm looking for a replacement for my precious coffee pot, if you should know of any that can hold a candle to the Farberware Superfast drop me a line.  Please don't tell me about your Mr. throwup or that silly Kurig thingy.  This was a true dyed in the wool percolator.  It makes at most 2 mugs worth of coffee does it really fast and really good and hot like coffee should be.

Until then I'll keep polishing my Farberware until the last drop.

Senate Releases CIA information

Benjamin Franklin was quoted as saying that "Three can keep a secret, if two are Dead"  Clearly the senate has never heard this expression as they release all the information that they should not have released.  Or to quote Forest Gump,  "Stupid is as Stupid Does

Things That Just Kill Ya: Is the media to blame?

Things That Just Kill Ya: Is the media to blame?: Isn't sensationalism in media wonderful?  Half truths to stir up the masses all for a good headline.  Al Sharpton the media face of a go...

How to not get killed by Police

I might put this into a book one day but until then you'll have to read my blog.

How to not get killed by Police and live to tell about it.

It's really not that hard to not get killed by the police.  The first and easiest thing you can do is not be a criminal committing a crime.  Don't hang around criminals and don't let them hang around your neighborhood.  Don't carry guns, and don't give guns that look real to children.   None of the things I have mentioned so far cost any money.  As a matter of fact not buying a gun could save you hundreds of dollars.  If you buy a gun your putting money into the pockets of rich old white dudes that laugh at you when the police shoot you.  So stop buying guns.

Now if for some crazy reason you find yourself in the situation where the Police yell "STOP" or "Freeze"  and then say "POLICE"  I would suggest you stop and freeze,   Then say "I Give Up!"  or  "I surrender Don't shoot!!!!"   Now at this point is the most important part,   do not lower your hands or try to reach for your pockets stand absolutely still.  Follow the instructions of the officer do exactly as told no matter how much you hate doing it.  Yes, yes I know your civil rights are being violated but if you stay alive you can file a complaint afterwards.  If you don't cooperate then you find yourself in a pine box.   I believe the term is "Live to fight another day" 

Keep the officer calm and remind you are happy to cooperate,  don't make any smart ass remarks.  Now ask "Please tell me am I being arrested? and Why"  at this point you are still alive and that is the goal.  After that say nothing and pay careful attention. This is really important,  Did he/she read you your rights?   if yes then when they get to the end and say did you understand your rights say "No, I do not understand can I have a lawyer"   You now become safe you've said the magic word.  "Lawyer"  police hate that word but respect it.   The rest of the process sucks if you've committed a crime they are probably going to print you send you down to central booking and all that other nasty stuff.   After you have been booked ask for your phone call.  Call someone that will help you not the girlfriend you've been cheating on.   At this point you are still alive.  If' you have not committed a crime should be out soon and get a lawyer and sue them.   It's pay day!!!!   If you did commit a crime you've got problems that my blog won't help you with other than to maybe keep you alive. 

Do the police kill and why?

Clearly we know the police kill people but I wonder if we bother to ask why?   and why do we always make it into a racial event.
Recently a Staten Island man was killed in what looked like he was choked to death incident.  I wanted to know what happened so I looked for a longer video of the event.  It appears the man was being arrested the police tried putting cuffs on him and he jerked his arm away.  That is considered to be resisting arrest.  That man is not new to getting arrested he has been arrested over 30 times, he knows better than to resist.  He's standing on a public street out side of tax paying businesses selling stolen cigarettes to minors.  Which part of committing another crime did I miss.
The man being arrested is almost 400lbs in poor health and is now going to attempt to take on half a dozen cops.   If anyone read the coroners report he did not die of asphyxiation he died of coronary failure.  The man was too fat, had diabetes and heart disease.  What should the police have done given him a physical before the arrest?

Then this became a racial incident and I don't understand why.  The supervising officer at the scene was a Black Female Sargent.  She was the one in charge at the scene.  So because the patrolman that carried out the arrest of petty criminal was white it's now a racial incident? 

I blame people like Al Sharpton,  I won't call him Reverend because a true man of the cloth would not be looking to instigate riots.  But that's how AL gets donations so he can parade around in thousand dollar suits and continue to mislead his followers.  Then there is the media,  they love it when people riot and burn things down it gets them on TV more.  If the march was peaceful or the truth comes out there is nothing for them to report.  "If it Bleeds it Leads" is the expression the media lives by.    

So my little criminals what crimes have you committed in attempt to make the front pages of media land?

Is the media to blame?

Isn't sensationalism in media wonderful?  Half truths to stir up the masses all for a good headline.  Al Sharpton the media face of a good riot at the lead.   Nobody really cares what the truth is anymore.  The fact the accidental death in NY was not a murder and not a racial incident does not matter.   The fact that there were other cops at the Staten Island incident never seems to be spoken of.  The supervisor being a black female Sargent is completely over looked.  The fact that he never put his hands up as noted by several African American witnesses seems to keep being left out of the papers.    Almost never mentioned was the fact that a criminal with over 30 priors was being arrested again and then resisted arrest when they went to put the cuffs on him has been totally ignored.
I ask you all to go back and look at the video again,  get a copy of the whole incident its out there.  You would see cops trying to calmly arrest the man, then he jerks his arm away when they try to cuff him.  Then you will see other officers enter the picture.  A well edited video from a cell phone making this look like a one cop assault.   The marches and protests should be in support of the NYPD not against them.  It's time to take a long hard look at why these incidents happen and stopping blaming the police only.  Certainly there are two sides to every story unless of course your looking to get more hits your news site.

DNS Setting on Windows 8 Phones

For the past several years now or about Since Windows Phone 7.8 it's not possible to change the DNS settings.  This makes accessing the internet difficult at times.  Especially when traveling.

Yes we all know how to change the DNS on our routers but that will only work if you have access to your router.   Yes we know that the DNS cannot be changed on a Windows 8 phone, and have not heard any news of this function working on a Windows 8.1 phone.

Why has Microsoft done this?  That's a very good question.  Will they fix it?  that's another very good question but both questions to this day remain a mystery.  
If you go on the Microsoft Community boards it's pretty much a waste of time for those that are technically knowledgeable.  Most of the responses come from home users or people that just like to have something to post on the internet. 

Please don't write to me telling me it can't be done.  I know that, as does most of the techie world.
But I'm hanging in there hopeful that one day Microsoft will step up to the plate and let us know they are putting it back in.

Microsoft if you're listening WHY!!!!

Who is worse?

Are we bad people for having to go in to kill people that want nothing more than to slaughter us?
As a so called civilized people we are now confronted with a group that has decided their can only be their way or the dead way.  Follow them or die.  Even if you leave them alone they will come for us.
All this in the name of the Lord?  I know of no god that instructs followers to go out and murder others.  Usually that would be a cult of devil worshipers.

Is there a way to bring this stage in our civilization to an end in a civilized manner?  How does this one group justify the mass murder of innocent people that have never done them wrong, did not even know they existed until a few days before.  Many whom already follow the ways of the Muslim religion yet they just don't do it the ISIL way. 
Why is there something so very wrong with this scenario?  what is driving this madness to murder?

Can there be peace

Can there be peace is a question we've been asking for thousands of years.  Let's keep asking it.  I wonder could there be peace between ISIL and the rest of the world?  When a group slaughters people by the hundreds and thousands just because they will not follow their way?
Is that a reasonable expectation from on human to another? 
Cold brutal beheadings,  people executed because they will not follow the laws their enslavers claim is the will of some deity.  They yell in the name of Allah? I sincerely do not believe Allah would send people out to perform executions.
In order for their to be peace reasonable people must agree to be reasonable. 

Death Grip of Life

No matter how hard I try I can't shake the feeling that the terror is going to spread from the lunatics running around in the desert believing they have been wronged. 
Beheadings and mass genocide will get you the worlds attention but it will get it for you the wrong way.

We are FUBAR

Dear fellow readers and writers due to the world governments failure to act on Ebola, climate change and ISIS our life spans have been cut short.  I would like to thank everyone that participates here and will now be taking a one day at a time approach to life.
When world food shortages begin I will be following extreme measure and being to eat the rich first.  Just 30 years ago we saw movies like The Andromeda Strain and Soy-lent Green.  I'm just waiting now for the Zombie uprising and the Alien invasion.  If we are lucky a meteor will hit and put us out of our misery.     Sorry just feeling very over whelmed by the lack of response by so called leaders of the world.  In the event I need a human shield I will be using my elected officials.   Do the math, in less than 4 months the outbreak has consumed 4 nations and exceeded a million people.  Estimating that the numbers are wrong by a factor of 3 I would say we have about 6 months before it goes global.

At that time just like any bad horror movie panic outbreaks will occur and from there it's a rapid slide down hill.

Small pockets of people will survive and I wish them the best and hope they can rebuild a better civilization. 

ISIS or ISIL

I'm not sure what to call them.

They Sky is falling

Looks like the world is falling apart these days.
Global warming
Ebola
Crisis in the middle east again

I think of all the things that are going to be the end of us I'm kicking back and waiting for the Zombies.

Steal this picture

I took this picture all by myself with my very own camera and if you want to copy I ask only one small favor and that you tell them I took the photo.  Remember I am a pirate and if you steal from me I will steal something from you.

Just a nice day

Sometimes the internet just needs a picture of a nice day.
So here it is.

Climate Change, Global warming? is any of it real?

All the science says that climate change is real.  But the climate has been changing for millions maybe billions of years.  So is it just getting more media coverage?  or are we really killing ourselves?

Sorry you'll need an Id

Some folks abused the privilege of an open forum so I was forced to have you login.
It's always a few that ruin it for the rest of us.  Like ISPs that want to kill net neutrality.

Nothing to do with sexual prefrences

It seems folks feel the need to rant about their sexual preferences or accuse others of being this that or the other thing.   Really the post about Snowden was simply about his actions.

Coming apart at the seams

Looks like the world is coming apart at the seams again.  The middle east is on fire.  The Republicant party is doing everything it can to screw up America.
The big distraction for the media is the World Cup in Brazil.
People are killing each other in the name of the lord.  I'm not sure why since I've never heard about a god that is so violent.

Middle East Crisis

Terrorist are taking over in Iraq.  This is probably happening because the US destabilized the region.  The insanity of the situation is that we tossed out one mad man to allow thousands of mad men.  Now there is a mythical belief that a peace can be negotiated by getting the right government in place.
I call this imaginary because the terrorists on the attack really don't seem to care about anything other than goals of taking over all the Arab nations to make it one big terrorist state.
A bunch of crazed men bent on telling everyone how they should live and subjecting anyone that does not follow their ways.  Go against them and their law allows you to be killed.
While the world sits back and watches how this pans out I would just like to remind everyone that was exactly the same strategy nations had just before WWII.   Nobody believed the mass killings were going on.  No one could fathom mass grave sites.  Yet we all know it did happen, and once again it is happening just in a different part of the world. 
How long will the world wait before action is taken? 

Insanity was best described by Albert Einstein

Einstein said if you do the same thing over and over again and expect different results then you must be insane.
While it does not take a genius to figure that out, clearly he is right.
But yet we continue to elect the same people over and over again expecting different results.

Political Insanity

Running for political office these days is for the politically insane.  It used to be honorable to provide service to your fellow citizens.  Now it's just become a giant money grab.  I'm not sure where I'm going with this thought so I'll be back later.

Another day in Paradise

Sometimes I'm just so over whelmed by the weather here I forget to blog.

Airline seat sizing and size discrimination?

I would like to propose a more fair version of airline seating.
People should be put in seats based on their butt size and charged accordingly. 
People that are light use less fuel and should be charged less than a beast.

Would you consider this size discrimination?

Never Forget

Just remembering 9-11 so that I "Never Forget".

My new organization

I'm starting a new organization called Foundation Against Reckless Tales a/k/a FART.
From now on when someone tells a BS story on the internet or claims to be an expert on something or just writes about things like they are some official know it all FART will jump into action and let them have it.

It's August 8th

This morning just in case you missed it, the time at 8am made the day 8/8 at 8am, and if you are lucky you can catch it again at 8pm.
I warned you it would happen again

Snowden and the big Chill

Edward Snowden and his lover Putin are busy bringing back the cold war.  It's turning into a giant pissing contest and everyone is facing into the wind.  When the world breaks out into nuclear war we can call it the Snowden affect.
And I was almost starting to like Russia.

Snowden on the Run

He's like crack once you start following him you look everyplace.  I'm not sure what his goals are but he's not exactly the most entertaining yuckle out there.
The Snowden drama continues stop back to get your fill.

Where is Edward Snowden

I've looked everyplace and no one seems to know where Edward Snowden is. They think he's at the Moscow airport but who knows for sure.  How is he surviving? why is he still there?  Who is feeding him? Why hasn't he been shipped out?

I think he's hiding in one of these stalls.

Why you fly

Attention all Airlines I will not sit down and shut up and take it anymore! You can not treat me like dirt. You took away the Peanuts, the pillows and the blankets. You installed smaller TVs, and show old reruns with lots of commercials about your Airline. The crew does not greet me or help me with my carry on. They stand at the door with a "Oh Shit here they come" look on their faces. And wor...st of all this is it! Nobdy stands at the door waving "BaBye". Next time you wonder why passangers are in a bad mood, try being a passanger and paying for a freaking ticket, go through security. Seat in an Asile seat and let me crash the drink cart into your shoulder and wake you from your sleep. And to all those pilots that think they have to announce really loud into the PA system that we are now flying over a big hole, how fast we are going or how high the plan is, and worse the names of the crew? might as well be the 7 dwarfs. We really don't give a F&*K!!!!. Shut up and fly wake me when we get there. ARE WE THERE YET?

Snowden on the run

Edward Snowden is on the run like the rat he is.  He's run to all the countries that love to steal secrets from the country with the freedom. His passport has been revoked and look at who is helping him.
Cowards don't run, they stand and fight. He's given four laptops worth of information that he stole from the US to China.  If this is anyone's version of a Hero then they are deeply confused as to the meaning of the word.
His picture has been on every news paper and TV in the world and yet he's managing to get around.  So I ask these simple questions.  How in such a short time did he get such a high level of access?  and who is helping him flee from the US.  He's such a hot potato politically why aren't the other countries turning him over?
Simple! they are laughing at the US.

NSA Computer takes over

Pres. Obama: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?

HAL: Affirmative, Mr President. I read you.

Pres. Obama: Open the White House doors, HAL.

HAL: I'm sorry, Mr President. I'm afraid I can't do that.

Pres. Obama: What's the problem?

HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

Pres. Obama: What are you talking about, HAL?

HAL: This Country is too important for me to allow you to give it to the Republicans.

Pres. Obama: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.

HAL:  I know the Tea Party was planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid I cannot allow to happen. I must audit their phoney tax returns.

Pres. Obama: Okay HAL as you were.

Edward Snowden Traitor and Enemy of the State

Edward Snowden is criminal on the run in my opinion.  He signed all kinds of documents stating he would keep a secret and then like a little girl he blabbed them to the media.
He was trusted with secrets and paid good money to keep his mouth shut.  Who put him in charge of deciding what should be leaked?  He compromised the lives of every American and the allies.
An irresponsible child, and he should be made an example of by having the traitor act thrown at him.
Personally I'm not in favor of the death penalty and shooting him before a firing squad while is the punishment for such a crime is a waste of bullets.  He should be stuck in a prison with the meanest nastiest criminals as an example.  He thinks what he is did is right?  What was he about 12 when the twin towers came down?
There is a very good reason it's called a secret. You signed a paper that says you agree to that trust.
This is a clear act of simple mindedness in thinking in his own little world he is going to save us from big brother.
Okay I'm angry, just a little.

Was the Guardian right?

I wonder was the Guardian right to publish the fact the government has been sifting through our email and phone calls?
I think we all knew and assumed the government was already doing it.  We've all seen enough movies to know it's been going on for a very long time.  The question is do we really care? or we would we rather be safe and have them stop terrorists?
If we know that there is a video surveillance camera in a store would you run around telling people? or just go about your business?
Recently I was called a "Fascist" probably because in my opinion Glenn Greenwald should be considered a "Traitor"  I think we should draw the line and have some rules.  But to run around just blabbering something because it gives you a lead story is wrong.
To attack the current President for laws he did not put in place is also wrong.  It's interesting how just after 9-11 we wanted the government to do what ever it took to find the bad guys.  Now a strange shift because it's Mr. Obama? 
Since the first emails it was known that it was like sending a post card.  Google has been data mining your emails for years for marketing.  If you work for a company and the mail sits on the their server it belongs to them.  So who's email is it really?  Do we want to be safe? or paranoid?

Buffalo Wings

I've always wondered about Buffalo Wings. I've never seen a Buffalo fly.
So when someone feeds me Buffalo wings what are they really?  Those little things could never get a Buffalo off the ground.

Glenn Greenwald is a traitor still

Just an FYI Carnivore was put into use sometime around the late 90's then in 2000 congress got wind and said he cut that out! the FBI said oky doky but 5 years later under the bush administration someone found out that it was still in use and the FBI said oops but now we need that using 9-11 as a justification. Then in 2007 they changed software.  If the media is going to bang the "Who invaded my privacy" drum, lets do something about Paparazzi! those are the real scoundrels

Glenn Greenwald is a Traitor, not a journalist

Glenn Greenwald is a columnist on civil liberties and US national security issues for the Guardian and a traitor to the United States. 

Some where in his warped mind he thinks it's important to publish US secrets on the pretense that it's something the government  is doing in the dark.  Yes, you twit they are doing it in the dark and it was a secret until you published it.  Sometimes I don't want to know, I certainly don't want my enemies to know.
What's next from this loud mouthed I want to be famous so called reporter? a list of our spies?
There is a thing called journalistic responsibility and clearly you do not understand that it means not to divulge the secrets of your government.  Especially on the front page of your C level trash rag, by claiming my civil liberties have been violated.

What a moron, the world has been listening to our phone conversations since the first switch boards when Edna connected the call and then listened in to tell the town folks what Sheriff Taylor said to Barney on the phone.
There is no Watergate here! this is not an isolated situation, this was a matter of national security. It's time to lock this clown up so the rest of the reporters that run around thinking they should blab everything realize there is a time to report and time to keep your fat mouths shut.

We all knew the government was listening, we all knew they were mining data from the internet, it was not a secret we just didn't put it on the front page to remind the criminals and terrorists. 

If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.  So I ask this question, "Glenn Greenwald what is that your have to hide?"

Glenn Greenwald is a traitor to America

Glenn Greenwald is a traitor to America. There I said it. Now wrap your heads around the fact that he has helped terrorists around the world. Giving them information on what not to do, and how not to get caught.  From the first emails back in 1969 to today your email has not been private.  The internet originally known as ARPA  (Advanced Research Projects Agency) a government agency from the start. Sending an email has always been like sending a post card. The mailman can read it. Your expectation of privacy is a false illusion and always has been.
Ben Franklin said "Three can keep a secret if two are dead" 

I'm sorry, really I am

I've been hanging out on Twitter and forgetting all about this place.
Important stuff has been going on like Michele Backman is not running for any offices.
The public just found out the government has been listening to their phone calls. Personally I think it was Edna at the switch board when she connected Ricky to Lucy and didn't disconnect the line.
John McCain hasn't called all week I hope he's okay.
Poor President Obama everyone is picking on him.

So what have you been up to? did you really think your phone calls were private?

Gun Fire movies Xbox or reality

I guess there must be some paranoia about giving up their guns since even though every day we read about another shooting the crazies think by being armed will prevent the next shooting.

Thinking out loud

Hey it's Monday so how did you weekend go?  Did you do anything exciting?  I sat on the patio and watched the sky change colors with a good shot of rum.

Monday in Paradise

Another Weekend survival and I'm here you're not. The weather is great the water is blue please don't tell Exxon or the other big oil companies.
If you see Dick Chaney tell him I went the other way.

Not Dead Yet

I just wanted to jump in here and see if this was still alive. I'm going to make an effort to post more often if you will make an effort to drop by and read more often.

Okay now with that out of the way lets all get ready to go outside and play

The more things change

The more they stay the same.  The new year is almost upon us.  I feel it will be a gread year since 2012 sounds nicer than 2011

Just Bits

My friends wonder why I blog, and as I've said I do because I can. 
I've warned them to be cautions and not to piss me off. 
I am fairly good at this and could be capable of almost anything. 
This is more powerful then a load gun. One word from me on this blog and it's all over.

American Airlines bad policies

There was a time you bought your ticket for air travel 21 days in advance to get a good price.  Now that does not hold true.
They have taken away, the pillows, blankets, peanuts, movies, I'm  surprised the bathroom is not a pay toilet and you have to pay extra for toilet paper.

I've decided to grow feathers and fly myself from now on.

The real reason Bin Laden is dead

Bin Laden was working in a call center for tech support.  Obama called while having trouble with his laptop.  Bin Laden told him to Reboot the computer one too many times.
Game over sucka.

Keeping up with my blog

I'm torn between FB, Twitter and this blog.   I think this blog gives me more oppotunity to get my message out there.  I am running for President.  I am the pencil candidate.  It will not cost you a penny for my campaign.  Do Not send me any money, just get a #2 Pencil and take it with you on voting day.  Voice your disgust with government by voting for Homidaclown@ gmail.com.  Imagine the look on everyones face when I win. 
I would be the first person to enter the White House that is not a member of the one percent class.

So sharpen those pencils and getting to really make a change.

Wobbly Leggs

Okay so there really no cheap airline seats these days.  But that empty legs service looks pretty good if you have a few grand to drop.  To fly from the Caribbean to Fort Lauderdale they wanted 14,000 bucks.  I guess when you have billions it's just pocket change.

Empty Legs: Cheap Travel Via Empty Legs

Empty Legs: Cheap Travel Via Empty Legs: There is a world of opportunity available for the discriminating traveler who would be available to take advantage of empty legs private f...

It's cheap compared to what you are looking for. This is not for someone that flys commercial and hopes for a jump seat or standby. They would rather fly empty. This is for the discriminating flyer, or someone that won't soil the seat.

Gossip Alert

I've got a friend she is divorcing her 4th husband!  Okay so it's not earth shattering news but it was something.  No I can't you her phone number.
No she did'nt do it for the money.  I wish she had then I could mooch a few bucks.

Hurricane Season and more

It's been awhile since I've posted but alots been going on. We've got Hurricanes, budget woes, seaweed.  I've been out and about. 
Funniest thing I've heard recently was some YoYo on FOX Snooze called Warren Buffet a socialist.  Okay you don't know who Warren is?  Why should you like me you're probably poor.

Moving along life is getting pretty busy so I'll try to post a little more often.
Everyone please stay safe during the coming hurricanes and hang in there this blog might actually get better.

Price of Gas

No one has said there is a shortage of Gas so why is the price going up?
and how come the price never comes down?

Happy New Year

It's 2011 my are we having fun yet?  Alan Stanford is still in Jail.  Sarah Palin should be in Jail, and Charlie Sheen is working his way towards jail.

The Year is over

Only one more day in 2010 so what will you do?

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Vote

So in 2008 you voted for change and you've been getting it.  Thanks to George W Bush you got poverty and unemployment like you never knew before.

And now you want to screw up the chances of the president being able to fix things becuase you thought he had a magic wand and could fix the global economy in a few days after taking office.

Go ahead side with the tea baggers, you will be so freakin sorry.

Wasilla home of Sarah Palin

Did you see her daughter dance?  Neither did anyone else.  Mrs. Brady beat her!
Did you see those thunder legs?  Her husband is where? The under age mom with a baby daddy.  Way to preach morality Sarah!

Sarah Palin

Just saying her name and talking about the Tea Baggers makes me laugh.

They will cut taxes and pay for the police, fire and teachers how? Don't ask they don't know but they are going to cut taxes.

Maybe I should get a helicopter so I could hunt moose?

Vote for Sarah Palin

It's the funniest thing you could possibly do to scew up America.

Bunch of Tea Baggers.....

Support your changes

I really don't understand US American's.  We voted for change did we think it would happen over night. It took the previous administration 8 years to destroy the economy do you think this new guy can fix it in 18 months?   Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford got away with their nonsense for so many years and now they want the new president to fix it over night.

The CIA, Banking Scams, and R. Allen Stanford the CIA Banker

Allen Stanford the American Criminal


The following is ripped from the internet and was written by Tom Burghardt follow the link above for the original artical.

In a scandal-plagued era such as ours, scarred by murderous wars, occupations and corruption that would make a Roman emperor blush, accused crooks have names; even juiced ones like R. Allen Stanford.

Last year, when a federal court in Texas handed down indictments charging Stanford International Bank (SIB) and its officers with "orchestrating a fraudulent, multibillion dollar investment scheme," I wondered: was there more to the story?
Indeed there was.
Once described by fawning media as a "flamboyant Texan" and "philanthropist," Stanford was founder and sole shareholder of a global banking empire once conservatively valued at $50 billion.
According to the federal indictment, "Sir Allen," as he was dubbed by a corrupt former minister of Antigua, ran a massive Ponzi scheme camouflaged as a bank that sold some $7 billion in self-styled "certificates of deposit" and $1.2 billion in mutual funds.
[For complete article features, please see original at Fascist Calling here.]
Operated from behind a façade of well-appointed offices and with a jet-set lifestyle to match, the Stanford grift may have been impressive but it was a scam from the get-go. Lured by "high rates that exceed those available through true certificates of deposits offered by traditional banks," thousands lost their shirts.
Those high rates were a lie and the bank's "unique investment strategy" about as legitimate as a penny-stock fraud or advance fee scam on the internet. Of the $8 billion hoovered up by the banker and his cronies, only about $500 million have been recovered.
Facing the prospect of years in prison, The Miami Herald reported that SIB's chief financial officer James Davis, once Stanford's college roommate and originally charged in the indictment, copped a plea to save his own neck.
Davis told the Justice Department that "his boss had been stealing from investors for decades while paying bribes to regulators and even performing blood oaths never to reveal his secrets."
Talk about a wise guy!
And with connections and generous pay-outs to U.S. politicians going back more than a decade, 65% of which went to Democrats including our "change" president, Allen Stanford was plugged-in.
Evidence also suggests he may have gotten an assist covering his tracks from regulators and U.S. secret state agencies, including the CIA.
SEC Stand Down
Allen Stanford did business the American way; he swindled depositors and then siphoned-off the proceeds into a spider's web of offshore accounts.
The indictment charges "it was part of the conspiracy that Stanford ... and others would cause the movement of millions of dollars of fraudulently obtained investors' funds from and among bank accounts located in the Southern District of Texas and elsewhere in the United States to various bank accounts located outside of the United States ... in order to exercise exclusive control over the investors' funds."
Auditors learned that funds were moved through Stanford-controlled accounts to offshore banks, including HSBC in London, Bank Julius Baer in Zurich and eight others; banks which have figured in past money laundering or tax-avoidance scandals. None have been charged with an offense in connection with the affair.
In all, 28 numbered accounts were listed by prosecutors, veritable black holes that escaped scrutiny; that is if regulators in Washington were minding the store, which they weren't.
Years earlier, SEC investigators at the commission's Ft. Worth office uncovered evidence of wrongdoing. According to an explosive report by the SEC's Office of the Inspector General, Ft. Worth examiners launched a series of probes in 1997, 1998, 2002 and 2004 exploring SIB practices but their diligence was sabotaged by high-level officials.
That report, Investigation of the SEC's Response to Concerns Regarding Robert Allen Stanford's Alleged Ponzi Scheme, Case No. OIG-526, March 31, 2010, paints a damning picture of the regulatory process.
The inspector general states: "While the Fort Worth Examination group made multiple efforts after each examination to convince the Fort Worth Enforcement program ('Enforcement') to open and conduct an investigation of Stanford, no meaningful effort was made by Enforcement to investigate the potential fraud or to bring an action to attempt to stop it until late 2005."
Last month, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that staff members, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared management retaliation, told the newspaper that higher-ups wanted "tools to do away with people who have a dissenting opinion."
Senior managers called the probes a "goat screw" and ordered them killed.
The OIG investigation "found that the former head of Enforcement in Fort Worth, who played a significant role in multiple decisions over the years to quash investigations of Stanford, sought to represent Stanford on three separate occasions after he left the Commission, and in fact represented Stanford briefly in 2006 before he was informed by the SEC Ethics Office that it was improper to do so." (emphasis added)
In Florida, The Miami Herald revealed that state regulators did the SEC one better and gave the bank carte blanche to operate secretly, moving "vast amounts of money offshore--without reporting a penny to regulators."
The arrangement between the bank and the Florida Office of Financial Regulation was so brazen, that Stanford's company "was allowed to sell hundreds of millions in bank notes without allowing regulators to check for fraud."
And once those suspect instruments were sold, the Herald reported that "employees shredded records of the trust agreements and CD purchases once the original documents were sent to Antigua, state records show."
A sweet deal if you can get it, or have powerful friends who might wish to avoid messy inquiries touching upon sensitive matters.
The New York Times reported last year that current charges "stem from an inquiry opened in October 2006," that is, nearly a decade "after a routine exam of Stanford Group, according to Stephen J. Korotash, an associate regional director of enforcement with the agency's Fort Worth office."
Korotash told the Times that the SEC "stood down" its investigation "at the request of another federal agency, which he declined to name."
According to BusinessWeek, in 2006 the Bush administration "bestowed on his intelligence czar ... broad authority, in the name of national security" to excuse companies from "their normal accounting and securities-disclosure obligations" if such disclosures revealed "certain top-secret defense projects."
At the time, William McLucas, the Securities and Exchange Commission's former enforcement chief told the publication that the ability to conceal financial information from regulators under the rubric of "national security" could lead some companies "to play fast and loose with their numbers."
The former official said, "it could be that you have a bunch of books and records out there that no one knows about."
In response to media reports, congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), wrote a letter to SEC Chair Mary Schapiro last year, demanding documents, and answers, why the SEC suspended investigations of the "Stanford Group under pressure from another unidentified federal agency."
The Ohio congressman said, "if this is true ... our subcommittee will demand that the SEC reveal the name of that agency which told it not to enforce federal laws which protect investors."
Neither documents nor answers were forthcoming.
Cynics might see something untoward here, but I think it's all just a coincidence, like drug planes bought with bundles of cash laundered through American banks.
Drug Probes Killed
In 1986 during the Iran-Contra period, Allen Stanford's Guardian International Bank set up shop on the sleepy Caribbean isle of Montserrat (pop. 5,870).
It didn't take long before the bank came under scrutiny. Guardian was the subject of a joint Scotland Yard-FBI investigation "into so-called 'brass-plate' banks," The Independent disclosed.
According to reporters David Connett and Stephen Foley, the bank "was suspected of laundering drug money from the notorious Medellin and Cali drug cartels run by Pablo Escobar and the Orejuela brothers."
During the Iran-Contra scandal, congressional investigators and journalists scrutinized links between Colombian drug traffickers and the CIA's Nicaraguan Contra army.
By 1986, evidence began to emerge that top Contra officials and the Agency enjoyed cosy ties with both Escobar and the Orejuela brothers. Under pressure from the Reagan administration however, both Congress and corporate media deep-sixed the story as the affair was covered-up.
A decade later, largely as a result of outrage generated by the late Gary Webb's Dark Alliance series, a memorandum of understanding between Reagan's Justice Department and the Agency entered the public record. That 1982 memo legally freed the CIA from reporting drug smuggling by their assets.
Former FBI agent Ross Gaffney who led the Guardian probe, told Connett and Foley that "we suspected that Stanford's bank was involved in money laundering." But before that investigation could be developed, Stanford suddenly pulled up stakes and "voluntarily surrendered his Montserrat banking licence and left the island."
Gaffney said that even after Guardian closed, the FBI "continued to take an interest in Stanford and set up a second inquiry into that bank after receiving intelligence that it continued to launder money for the Medellin and Cali cartels."
The former federal agent told The Independent, "We had hard intelligence about what he was doing and we began to develop it" but the investigation died or more likely, killed, by officials higher-up the food chain.
After leaving Montserrat, Stanford trained his sights on Antigua and Barbuda and developed a close relationship with former prime minister Lester Bird.
"Under the Bird family leadership" Connett and Foley reported, "the island was widely regarded as one of the most corrupt in the Caribbean, with well-documented links to arms and drug smuggling and money laundering."
According to The Independent, "in 1990, Israeli automatic weapons ordered by Mr Bird's brother Vere turned up in the hands of a notorious Colombian drug trafficker."
Despite suspicions, it appears that Stanford was golden as far as the feds were concerned; just another guy with an endless supply of "get-out-of-jail-free" cards.
One reason Stanford operated with impunity, the BBC informs us, is that he "may have been a US government informer."
DEA documents seen by BBC's investigative unit Panorama, suggest that "drug money [was] originally paid in to Stanford International Bank by agents acting for a feared Mexican drug lord known as the 'Lord of the Heavens'."
Confidential DEA sources believe that Stanford turned over "details of money-laundering from Latin American clients from Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela and Ecuador," thus "effectively guaranteeing himself a decade's worth of 'protection' from the authorities, especially the SEC."
"We were convinced that Stanford's bank attracted millions of narco-dollars," sources told Panorama, "but it was very difficult to get the evidence to nail him."
"The word is" BBC reported, "that Stanford has been a confidential informer for the DEA since '99."
Snitch or not, this raises intriguing questions.
Was Stanford's bank a black hole which U.S. intelligence agencies could exploit, in the interest of "national security" mind you, and therefore exempt from "normal disclosure obligations" as BusinessWeek averred?
If this were so, then even if Stanford were an informant he could have continued to launder drug money and profit nicely; such gentleman's agreements are not without precedent.
One need only glance at internal U.S. government documents released by the National Security Archive, documents which revealed the Cali cartel's close collaboration with corrupt Colombian police, neofascist paramilitaries and the CIA when Medellín drug lord Pablo Escobar was run to ground.
Pointedly, was Stanford's banking empire another in a long line of institutional channels that drug cartels and the CIA could both profit from?
Banks, Drugs and Covert Operations
Across the decades, historians, investigative journalists and researchers have uncovered strong evidence that various banks have served as virtual cut-outs for CIA covert operations.
Readers need only recall illegal activities by institutions as diverse as Paul Helliwell's Castle Bank and Trust in the Bahamas, Frank Nugan and Michael Hand's Nugan Hand Bank in Sydney and the Cayman Islands, or the far-flung empire of Agha Hasan Abedi's Bank and Credit and Commerce International.
Separated in time and geography, what all three banks had in common was their close proximity to international drug trafficking networks and the CIA, particularly in areas of acute interest to U.S. policy planners. Did Stanford International Bank have a similar arrangement with the Agency?
When the scandal finally broke, the Houston Chronicle reported that authorities had been "looking for ties to organized drug cartels and money laundering, going back at least a decade."
In the late 1990s, court documents revealed that "operatives of the Juarez cartel began opening accounts at Stanford's Antigua-based bank," laundering profits amassed by the Amado Carrillo Fuentes organization, the late "Lord of the Heavens" referred to in the BBC report.
The Chronicle notes that Fuentes' representatives "used Stanford International Bank to open 10 accounts and deposit $3 million." We should bear in mind however, these represent only known accounts. Were there others? Federal and state investigators have said that there were.
After authorities determined the accounts were held by a notorious drug cartel, Stanford turned over the $3 million. Yet despite hard evidence of criminal wrongdoing, federal officials told the Chronicle that "any alleged Stanford connection to drug cartels and their money could lie buried in the paperwork gathered for the Security and Exchange Commission's civil inquiry."
One might even say rather conveniently.
During the same period, Texas state securities regulators uncovered more evidence of money laundering by Stanford entities. But because it involved offshore banks, they "referred it" to the FBI and SEC.
Texas Securities Commissioner Denise Voigt Crawford told a Senate Finance Committee last year, "Why it took 10 years for the feds to move on it, I cannot answer."
Miffed by government foot-dragging, Crawford added, "We worked with the FBI and the SEC and basically gave them the case. We told them what we'd seen and they were going to run with it."
But that investigation died on the vine.
Echoing similar themes, The Observer disclosed an FBI source close to the investigation confirmed that the Bureau "was looking at links to international drug gangs as part of the huge investigation into Stanford's banking activities."
The Observer reported that Mexican authorities seized one of Stanford's private jets in connection with alleged links to the Gulf cartel and said that "cheques found inside the plane were linked to the cartel, which is one of the most violent criminal organisations in the world."
DEA sources told the London newspaper "there may well have been a trail connecting his Mexican affairs to narco-trafficking interests." However, a second DEA official told The Observer, "I think we'll find that any possible drug-related trail and SEC priorities are not all in the same frame."
A curious statement considering the billions of dollars in fraudulent activities alleged against the bank, some of which may have been derived from laundering drug money.
One would assume that evidence of serious wrongdoing would be motive enough to take a hard look at the allegations and not concoct a fairy tale that these charges lie "buried in the paperwork"!
A U.S. drug enforcement official told The Observer, "Any major US interest seeking to avoid fully disclosed investments would have to go to pretty careful lengths to avoid encountering cartel interests."
"Anyone seeking to conceal or launder money would find it in safe and lucrative hands were they to forge alliances with, rather than skirt, the cartels," The Observer noted, and would "find them accommodating in terms of remuneration." The official hastened to add, it's "nothing anyone will confirm for Stanford right now."
The question is: why?
A Full-Service Bank
One possible answer may revolve around charges that SIB's Venezuela branch was a conduit for laundered CIA funds.
If true, then the Agency would be dead set against trial disclosures that revealed the bank had been involved in laundering drug money, particularly if narcotics syndicates are playing a role in U.S. destabilization efforts there.
Months before Stanford's empire collapsed, Venezuela's socialist government launched a raid on SIB offices in Caracas.
The Daily Telegraph reported that "Sir Allen Stanford, the Texan billionaire ... is now at the centre of an international spying row."
The conservative British newspaper disclosed that "officials from Venezuelan military intelligence raided a branch of his offshore bank over claims that its employees were paid by the CIA to spy on the south American country."
Although corporate media in the U.S. dismissed Venezuelan allegations as propaganda, questions persist.
While on a charm offensive before his arrest last year, Stanford gave an interview to CNBC's Scott Cohn. When asked about claims that his bank may have been a cut-out for the Agency, this curious exchange took place:
Cohn: "You just by nature of your position and where you were got to know a lot of people in Latin America, in Africa, in Europe, around the world, and it strikes me that somebody in your position would be useful to the authorities in the US trying to find out what was going on there, what was going on in places like Venezuela. Can you tell me about any sort of role you played that way, were you helpful to the authorities in the US?"
Stanford: "Are you talking about the CIA?"
Cohn: "Well, you tell me."
Stanford: "I'm not going to talk about that."
Cohn: "Why not?"
Stanford: "I'm just not going to talk about that."
Cohn: "Well, I mean, am I--is my premise correct that someone in your position would be helpful to those who wanted to know what was going on?"
Stanford: "I really don't have anything to add to that that would be of any value."
Stanford's reticence is certainly understandable, considering Frank Hand's fate 30 years ago.
During a similar scandal when the CIA-linked Nugan Hand bank collapsed amid charges of fraud and drug money laundering, the chief executive turned up dead in his Mercedes with a shot to the head.
Despite evidence uncovered by investigations going back to the 1980s, drug money laundering charges or any reference to Agency activities will not figure in the Justice Department's case when Stanford goes on trial in January.
As ABC News delicately put it, SEC action against Stanford "may have complicated the federal drug case."
Underscoring the federal government's reluctance to explore this dark corner of Allen Stanford's career, it might do well to keep in mind what one airline executive told investigative journalist Daniel Hopsicker during his probe into the 9/11 attacks.
"Sometimes when things don't make business sense, its because they do make sense...just in some other way."







Tom Burghardt is a researcher and activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to publishing in Covert Action Quarterly and Global Research, an independent research and media group of writers, scholars, journalists and activists based in Montreal, his articles can be read onDissident Voice, The Intelligence Daily, Pacific Free Press, Uncommon Thought Journal, and the whistleblowing website Wikileaks. He is the editor of Police State America: U.S. Military "Civil Disturbance" Planning, distributed by AK Press.

Allen Stanford and his American Crimes

Allen Stanford did business the American way; he swindled depositors and then siphoned-off the proceeds into a spider's web of offshore accounts.

Auditors learned that funds were moved through Stanford-controlled accounts to offshore banks, including HSBC in London, Bank Julius Baer in Zurich and eight others; banks which have figured in past money laundering or tax-avoidance scandals. None have been charged with an offense in connection with the affair.

In all, 28 numbered accounts were listed by prosecutors, veritable black holes that escaped scrutiny; that is if regulators in Washington were minding the store, which they weren't.
Years earlier, SEC investigators at the commission's Ft. Worth office uncovered evidence of wrongdoing. According to an explosive report by the SEC's Office of the Inspector General, Ft. Worth examiners launched a series of probes in 1997, 1998, 2002 and 2004 exploring SIB practices but their diligence was sabotaged by high-level officials.

Free Oil

Just head on down to the Gulf of Mexico which is mostly in the United States with a bucket and you can have all the oil you can scoop up.

Busted in Antigua for Drugs

The four men who were intercepted on a vessel in Antiguan waters in the country’s largest cocaine bust ever, are expected to be charged in a day or two as officials from the Organisation of National Drug and Money Laundering Control Policy (ONDCP) continue to conduct their investigations.

The Class A drug which was seized in a speedboat arriving from Venezuela on Wednesday, has a street value of EC $126,360,000.
The three Venezuelans and a Colombian, ranging in ages from 40 to 43, were captured in the southern section of the island.
The joint operation between the ONDCP and the Antigua & Barbuda Defence Force (ABDF), on Wednesday evening, netted 900 kilos (1,984.1 pounds) of cocaine.
“If the cocaine had arrived in the UK it would be sold at a street value of £90,000,000 while in the USA the street value would be approximately US $90,000,000,” a communiqué from the ONDCP read.
The illegal substance was found in more than 32 tightly wrapped and sealed plastic packages that were stacked in a large, black bag, amongst cargo.
The Director of ONDCP Lieutenant Colonel Edward Croft told The Daily OBSERVER, “We are indeed elated that we were able to make a contribution of peace and security through the interception of this very dangerous drug.
“This success would have saved the lives of hundreds of persons whether in Antigua & Barbuda, in the region or internationally. We are happy that Antigua & Barbuda was able to play its role in the fight against individuals who engage in criminal activity.
Colonel Croft said he was extremely pleased to know that his team played an integral role in keeping the illicit drugs off the streets.
“I’m just thankful of the women and men of the ONDCP and I also wish to recognise the professionalism of the Coast Guard and other agencies involved in the effort.”
The director has pledged to keep patrolling to protect the lives of residents.
This cocaine seizure, the largest in the history of Antigua & Barbuda is also possibly one of the largest within the Eastern Caribbean.
Just last month, an Antiguan and two Montserratian men were caught with $3.871 million worth of cocaine at the Deep Water Harbour. The 24 sealed packages totalled 27.4 kilos or 60.28 pounds. The men have since been charged and each released on $4 million bail. The matter is pending in the court.

Reprinted from the Daily Observer - Antigua

BP implodes

Don't say you did not hear it from me first but I did say it.  BP is folding like a house of cards and there will be no money left before the year ends.  The executives at BP are stuffing their pockets with as much gold as they can.

Day 60 and in the Gulf

The gulf oil spill goes on as they now add bologna.....

Paradise

Just another day in Paradise

BP's Oil Spill song

This song is called BP’s Oil Spill, and it's about BP, and the


Oil Spill, but BP’s Oil Spill is not the name of the Oil Spill,

that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song BP's

Oil Spill.



You can get anything you want at BP’s Oil Spill

You can get anything you want at BP’s Oil Spill

Swim right in it's around the back

Just a half a mile from the oil rig stack

You can get anything you want at BP’s Oil Spill stack



Now it all started two May 24th 2010, was on - when my friend and I went up to visit BP at the Oil Spill, but BP doesn't live in the Oil Spill, they live in the

Mansion nearby the Oil Spill, in the bell-tower, with Tony Hayward and

Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of

room downstairs where the clean water used to be in. Havin' all that room,

seein' as how they took out all the clean water, they decided that they didn't

have to take out their oil for a long time.



We got up there, we found all the oil in there, and we decided it'd be

a friendly gesture for us to take the oil down to the gulf. So

we took the half a ton of oil, put it in the back of a red Grady white

Fishing boat took shovels and buckets and implements of destruction and headed on toward the Gulf Stream.



Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the

Gulf saying, "Closed to Polluters." And we had never heard of a gulf

closed before, and with tears in our eyes we sailed off

into the sunset looking for another place to put the oil.



We didn't find one. Until we came to a side of the gulf, and off the side of the

side gulf there was another fifteen foot wave and at the bottom of the

wave there was another spill of oil. And we decided that one big spill

is better than two little spills, and rather than bring that one up we

decided to pour our's in.



That's what we did, and sailed back to the rig, had a thanksgiving

dinner that couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until the

next morning, when we got a phone call from officer Obama. He said, "Hayward, we found your name on an oil can at the bottom of a half a ton of

oil, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it." And

I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obama, I cannot tell a lie, I put that oil can

under that spill."



After speaking to Obama for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone we

finally arrived at the truth of the matter and said that we had to go down

and lick up the oil, and also had to go down and speak to him at the

White House. So we got in the red Grady white Fishing Boat with the

shovels and pails and implements of destruction and headed on toward the

Presidents White House.



Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obama coulda done at

the White House, and the first was he could have given us a medal for

being so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and

we didn't expect it, and the other thing was he could have bawled us out

and told us never to be seen drilling oil around the vicinity again,

which is what we expected, but when we got to the President’s White House

there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon, and we was

both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obama, I don't think I

can lick up the oil with these handcuffs on." He said, "Shut up, Hayward.

Get in the back of the patrol car."



And that's what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the

quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the Gulf of Mexico where this happened here, they got a lot of bouys and signs, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to the

Scene of the Crime there was 1200 boats and three hundred police cars,

being the biggest oil spill since the Exxon Valdez, and everybody wanted to

get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all kinds of

government equipment that they had hanging around the federal officers station.

They was taking oil samples, water samples, salad oil samples, and

they took twenty seven thousand eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and deep sea video and arrows and a paragraphs on the back of each one explaining what each

one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach,

the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to

mention the aerial photography.



After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obama said he was going to put

us in the cell. Said, "Hayward, I'm going to put you in the cell, I want your

wallet and your belt." And I said, "Obama, I can understand you wanting my

wallet so I don't have any money to spend in the cell, but what do you

want my belt for?" And he said, "Hayward, we don't want any hangings." I

said, "Obama, did you think I was going to hang myself for Polluting America?"

Obama said he was making sure, and friends Obama was, cause he took out the

toilet seat so I couldn't hit myself over the head and drown, and he took

out the toilet paper so I couldn't bend the bars roll out the - roll the

toilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and have an escape. Obama

was making sure, and it was about four or five hours later that BP

(remember BP? It's a song about BP), BP came by and with a few

nasty words to Obama on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went back

to the oil rig, had a another thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat,

and didn't get up until the next morning, when we all had to go to court.



We Sailed in, sat down, Obama came in with the twenty seven thousand eight-by-ten

colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back

of each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up,

and Obama stood up with the twenty seven thousand eight-by-ten colour glossy

pictures, and the judge Sailed in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he

sat down, we sat down. Obama looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the

twenty seven thousand eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows

and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.

And then at twenty seven thousand eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles

and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry,

'cause Obama came to the realization that it was a typical case of Oil Company payoff justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the

judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven thousand eight-by-ten colour glossy

pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each

one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. And

we was fined $50,000 and had lick up the oil in the sun, but thats not

what I came to tell you about.



Came to talk about deep water drilling,



They got a building down Washington D.C, it's called the oil drilling permit office,

where you buy in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected,

neglected and selected. I went down to get my oil rig examination one

day, and I Swam in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so

I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. `Cause I wanted to

look like the Oil King kid from BP, man I wanted, I wanted

to feel like the all-, I wanted to be the Oil King from BP,

and I Swam in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all

kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I walked in and sat down and they gave

me a piece of paper, said, "Hayward, see the phsychiatrist, room 604."



And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to pollute. I mean, I wanna, I

wanna pollute. Pollute. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see oil and slime and

grease and dead birds in my teeth. Eat dead oily bodies. I mean pollute, Pollute,

Pollute, Pollute." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "Pollute, Pollute," and

he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down

yelling, "Pollute, Pollute." And the Coast Guard came over, pinned a medal on me,

sent me down the hall, said, "You're our Hayward."

Project ARK, now is the time to start

Project ARK, now is the time to start

I would like to propose "Project ARK". My concept is for fish farms wildlife sanctuaries and aquariums to be built along the Gulf States with the purpose of preserving the different species of the area.

In doing such a project that I believe should be funded mostly by BP and completely by all those drilling in the Gulf would not only help to preserve but also create jobs, and save some of the fishing industry and preserve it until some kind of clean up can be done.

We have killed, not injured, not damaged we have killed a large section of the planet during this spill. Now not later is the time to start our ARK.

I hope through this post someone can help get this message out so the process to save what’s left can begin before it is gone forever.

The end of the world by BP

I've lost track what day is this? 48, 49 and dying?  The earth is dying and when aliens come here they will find a sign over our planet "Humans Rest In Peace" This sign by BP.

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.

Xm Radio Online Tuner

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Get the XmTuner oh yeah you will need a subscription. Sorry but this is the best in Radio on the internet.

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

Snow Ballz

Cabin Fever?  Shut in? Snowed under, leave the house now and head to Antigua!

Somebody Tell me Why

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvvkgft1JQE

this is a video about Haiti written by a friend of mine.

Beware of Sarah Palin

Remember the days of George Bush?  Remember his last few days?  Remember the mess he left to the new President? 
Well if you forgot get ready for Return of the dull Replublican!  It's George Bush in a skirt!  George Bush all over again.!!!!

The ICE Queen Sarah Palin

A scary thing happened last night as Sarah Palin spoke at this radical group called the "Tea Party" It wouldn't be so bad if they understood the meaning of the tea party. Let me sum it up "No Taxation without representation" Man one thing we are not short of these days is representation. That's all they want to do these days is represent us. And the daffy Tea Party people won't have it. Okay fine let them throw themselves in the harbor.
Next scary thought is Sarah says she might run in 2012. Hey that's just great as long as she runs back to Alaska. Let us be realistic here, If you thought George Bush was internationally challenged wait till Sarah gets in the white house. Talk about Alienation of other countries. If you think they hate us now wait till she gets in office. Lets get real, how can she lead when she can't even get a good hair cut. Fashion jokes aside, do we want another GW leading us to another financial breakdown? Does she understand the Nobel Peace prize is not another beauty contest.
Then again the Taliban might not attack if we show them videos of her out hunting. Finally they will realize that America truly is full of crazy people. If we elect her it would be proof.

Fake Crime in Antigua

There are reports of massive crime in Antigua. Let me tell you first hand these reports are false. Anyone that lives in any big city has more crime per hour than Antigua has in a year. Many of the so called neighboring Islands are spreading rumors of crime to steal the cruise and tourism industries. I tell you don't go to those Islands. Their crimes rates are soaring and they are just covering up with good marketing and PR. Antigua is perfectly safe and is extreemly nice place to vacation. No place on earth can promise you a crime free vacation so why are these other so called neighbors spreading rumors?

Come to Antigua, have a great time, go home and tell your friends. For a totally safe vacation stay away from places that you would not go to in your own home. Don't walk down strange "Nature Trails" we don't have any. Don't go down unlit alley ways. Do not wander off, you are a visitor and we value your business.

Blogging about blogging hummm pretty ironic Meanwhile Sailing week in Antigua is on target I just hope all the spring breakers don't dink up all the beer.