Dust Explosions: Another Bush Administration disaster.

Its almost as if everything the Bush Administration does badly, comes back to haunt innocent Americans. We all know, of course, that nearly every agency in the United States is a Republican controlled faction. Of course, with the introduction of the Democrats as the party leaders of the House and the Senate, these things are changing, albeit slowly. Of course, when it comes to Presidential appointed leaders, there is little, if anything, that the Democrats can do to stop the process. This is especially true because of the latest series of catastropies to hit the United States.

The lastest is the oversight which is lead by OSHA, or Occupations Safety and Health Administration. The leader of OSHA,

This is the article about the rejection of new Safety Standards regarding Dust Particles IN 2006 at Industrial Sites and Plants, like the sugar plant which exploded in Savannah last week.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8UMELQ80.htm

Top federal safety officials urged the Labor Department in 2006 to adopt
critical regulations to prevent deadly dust explosions -- like the one suspected
in the deadly blast in a Georgia sugar plant Thursday -- but the government has
failed to do so.
In the past 28 years, about 300 dust explosions have killed
more than 120 workers and injured several hundred others in sugar plants, food
processors, and many industrial and wood manufacturers. Most are preventable by
removing fine-grain dust as it builds up, experts say.
But that has not been
required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which is part of
the Labor Department. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board, which investigates
industrial accidents, concluded in a report in 2006 that OSHA had no
comprehensive regulation to prevent dust explosions and that its program
"inadequately addresses" the problem.
A 20-year-old OSHA dust regulation
aimed only at grain plants and silos is effective, the safety board said, and
shows why regulations are needed for other companies.
OSHA officials said
they began stepped-up enforcement on dust issues in October, but other safety
officials say that's not enough and that detailed dust safety regulations are
needed.
"This is an extremely dangerous component that is not regulated,"
former safety board chairwoman Carolyn Merritt told The Associated Press Friday.
Dust explosion situations "are so dangerous that people have got to pay
attention to this. There should be an outcry."Two California Democrats in Congress who serve on labor panels, George Miller and Lynn Woolsey, wrote the labor secretary Friday, saying, "a mandatory combustible dust standard should be a high priority of OSHA. ... We strongly urge you to act now."
By law OSHA was supposed to respond within six months to the safety board's November 2006 recommendations to adopt a mandatory regulation. Except for a letter a year ago acknowledging receipt of the report and its recent special enforcement emphasis, it has not done so, officials said.
Merritt, who was appointed in 2002 by President Bush and left the board last year, said she and her colleagues repeatedly pressed OSHA to do something.
"There really isn't a lot of excuse," she said. "The question is why are they hesitant to write new regulations when it's been proven -- when our special study has shown -- how serious it was and how many fatalities there were."

This is the Article about OSHA and how it leaves safety Standards to the Bush Administration.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/washington/25osha.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Since George
W. Bush became president, OSHA has issued the fewest significant standards
in its history, public health experts say. It has imposed only one major safety
rule. The only significant health standard it issued was ordered by a federal
court.
The agency has killed dozens of existing and proposed regulations and
delayed adopting others. For example, OSHA has repeatedly identified silica
dust, which can cause lung cancer, and construction site noise as health hazards
that warrant new safeguards for nearly three million workers, but it has yet to
require them.
“The people at OSHA have no interest in running a regulatory
agency,” said Dr. David Michaels, an occupational health expert at George
Washington University who has written extensively about workplace safety.
“If they ever knew how to issue regulations, they’ve forgotten. The concern
about protecting workers has gone out the window.”
Agency officials defend
their performance, saying that workplace deaths and injuries have declined
during their tenure. They have been considering new standards and revising
outdated ones that were unduly burdensome on businesses, they said, adding that
they have moved cautiously on new rules because those require extensive
scientific and economic analysis.

Huckabee-Romney 2008: Death to American Religious freedom.

IMagine the most Theocratic political ticket since the country was established.

This team could quite possibly be America's very own Taliban. Single-handidly, Huckabee has declared war on American "secularism" and has established himself, along-side Romney, as the most dangerous threat to our US Constitution.

Read this article for more...

Huckabee: U.S. gave up on religionSchool shootings were wake-up call, he says

LINDA S. CAILLOUETARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTESALT LAKE CITY


-- Government may have dropped the ball in modern American society, but religion dropped it first, Gov. Mike Huckabee told Southern Baptist pastors Sunday night. "The reason we have so much government is because we have so much broken humanity," he said. "And the reason we have so much broken humanity is because sin reigns in the hearts and lives of human beings instead of the Savior." Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, addressed his contemporaries at the two-day Pastors' Conference, which continues today. The three-day Southern Baptist Convention begins Tuesday here in the heartland of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the city in which the Mormons have their world headquarters. Huckabee told the pastors gathered in the Salt Palace Convention Center that while the March 1, 1997, tornadoes which struck Arkansas were tragic, at least the devastation could be clearly seen from a helicopter. In contrast, he said, the catalysts for the nation's recent school shootings -- including the one March 24 near Jonesboro that left four students and a teacher dead and 10 others wounded -- were harder to see but were driven by "the winds of spiritual change in a nation that has forgotten its God." "Government knows it does not have the answer, but it's arrogant and acts as though it does," Huckabee said. "Church does have the answer but will cowardly deny that it does and wonder when the world will be changed." The shootings were just one more wake-up call to the nation, he said. "I fear we will turn and hit the snooze button one more time and lose this great republic of ours." Huckabee said ungiving individuals are responsible for higher taxes. "I'm often asked why taxes are so high and government is so big. It's because the faith we have in local churches has become so small. If we'd been doing what we should have -- giving a dime from every dollar to help the widows, the orphans and the poor -- we now wouldn't be giving nearly 50 cents of every dollar to a government that's doing ... what we should have been doing all along." Huckabee also explained why he left pastoring for politics. "I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives." He compared his entry into politics to "getting inside the dragon's belly," adding, "There's not one thing we can do in those marbled halls and domed capitols that can equal what's done when Jesus touches the lives of a sinner." The most basic unit of government is not the city council, quorum court or state legislature, Huckabee said. "It is Mom and Dad raising kids and teaching them respect for authority, others and God." The nation has descended gradually into crisis, Huckabee said, and repairing the damage needs to be gradual, too. He said the solution is simple: faith in Christ. Huckabee recalled the five occasions he's had to sit by the phone on the eve of an execution. "It's the greatest sense of helplessness and despair you can imagine to know we've exhausted all help and hope here on earth for that person." He also spoke of his early misconceptions of his duties as a pastor. "In one of the first churches I was assigned to, I thought I was supposed to be the captain of a warship leading the congregation into a battle against spiritual darkness," he said. "But they wanted the captain of the Love Boat. They just wanted everybody to be happy. It was not about how many people were won to Christ or how many teens were pulled away from drugs or how many marriages were saved. Instead, it was about the seniors having a great trip going to watch the fall leaves change, the teen-agers going to a better summer camp than the church across town." Huckabee concluded his speech by recalling his 10th birthday, when he accepted Christ. "I went to Vacation Bible School for all the wrong reasons -- I was told they'd give me all the cookies I could eat and all the Kool-Aid I could drink. But that day I got something better than cookies and Kool-Aid. I got the Savior. "I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ." Before Huckabee spoke, more than 350 copies of his new book, Kids Who Kill: Confronting our Culture of Violence, had been placed in reporters' press boxes in the convention center press room. The slick cover of the book is a grim one -- a black-and-white, blurry photograph of a young boy pointing a gun at the reader. The most prominent part of the photograph is the round barrel of the gun. At the top of the book, this question is posed: "Are we reaping what we've sown?" The book was co-written by Dr. George Grant, director of the King's Meadow Study Center and a contributor to World magazine. The back cover states: "No more hand-wringing, no more finger-pointing. No more sound bites." It also makes a reference to the Jonesboro school shootings. Huckabee has recently been criticized by opponents claiming he has capitalized on the shootings with the publication of his book. The back cover states: "Just after lunch on March 24, 1998, four school children and a teacher were murdered by two students, ages thirteen and eleven, at an Arkansas middle school. Governor Mike Huckabee was informed of the tragedy en route from Washington, D.C. By the time he arrived, the news media were already waiting -- already polling the pundits and drawing conclusions based on the sketchiest information. The quest for quick answers has robbed us of the truth. Until now." The paperback is published by Broadman & Holman, a Nashville, Tenn., arm of the Baptist Sunday School Board. It retails for $11.99. Publicists for the book said last week they didn't expect it to arrive at the convention until today. Huckabee and his wife, Janet, left Salt Lake City immediately after his speech, and the governor did not hold a book signing at the convention. In fact, Huckabee didn't know the books had made it to the convention, said editors of the biweekly Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine who visited with the governor shortly before his speech. Huckabee, governor since 1996, is a former president of the Arkansas Baptist Convention. He has authored one other book, Character is the Issue: How People with Integrity Can Revolutionize America, which was first publicly announced at the 1997 Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas a year ago and released last September. Other books given to reporters at the convention Sunday included a how-to boycott book aimed at the Walt Disney Co. by Richard D. Land titled Sending a Message to Mickey: The ABC's of Making Your Voice Heard at Disney. The back cover features an outline of the famous mouse's round ears and the words: "He who has ears, let him hear." The other book was Mormonism Unmasked by R. Philip Roberts, who examines the beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

http://www.ardemgaz.com/prev/jonesboro/afhuckabee08.asp

HIllary Clinton: Unstoppable

As far as I am concerned, I think the majority of Americans already feel that Hillary Clinton is the President.

I was talking with some people the other day that said they felt she might as well be President without an election, because as far as they were concerned, this President(Bush) is so bad, they prefer to just simply ignore that he exists, and just look forward to America's first female President and a fresh, new comfortable USA that is run properly, taxed equally and is fair to all in general.

Yes. It's a woman's world because racist, bigoted, Religious Zealots have oppressed the world for as long as they could... The time for change is now... In some respects, just as " Mother Nature" takes care of the world's weather needs, so shall Mother President when the USA needs a firm, well thought out plan to cure its ills and foster its new beginning.

I could think of different women to take charge of the USA, but for now, our best choice is Hillary for many reasons. She isn't a partisan hack, she understands world affairs, is well traveled, understands foreign leader's needs and is just enough of a Bitch to scare White, Overly-Religious Men.

C3

America's new Desert... The Southeast.

As I have stated in the recent past, there are things that the South, but specifically Atlanta must deal with.

Original Blog Post:
http://americathestolen.blogspot.com/2007/05/southeast-to-become-desert-or-possibly.html

There are those who back the Rush Limbaugh view of life, " Environmentalist Whackos" are ruining America. Well I would like to know just where those Whackos are who are ruining America because there is one simple question I need answered: " Why did you give building permits to all of these neighborhoods and businesses without first consulting Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and Pat Robertson about getting God, Jesus and Mother Nature to agree to send us more water?"

New News:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/weather/10/17/
southerndraught.ap/index.html

Apparently, politicians knew that Atlanta's water system was in jeopardy because in 1996 when I interviewed the Upper Chattahooche River Keeper during a Radio Station Promotion for Z-93 (no defunct) I was told the following: " You don't want to live here in 10-15 years because there will be no river and no lake to speak of. Atlanta will dry up and blow away because the water system can not handle the unmanaged growth and sprawl. Atlanta will be America's first failed city due to water rights. "

Stupid me. I just bought a Condo (2 miles from the river) and somehow, I missed the fact that 3 weeks after my purchase Lake Lanier would be within 81 days of going dry. How did I miss this? I missed it because I did not know that George Bush's EPA, and Army Corp Of Engineers had a plan to build new Nuclear Power Plants in order to supply power to America.

I also did not know that Desalination Plants would be in the works and that Bechtel and Halliburton were first on the list to establish their business here in the south. Here we go again with another Bush Team, Republican plan to make money at things most precious to living: Water.

All over America, Bottling plants like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, MillerCoors, and others are scurrying to build fresh water distribution facilities to SELL water at over 5 dollars per gallon to Americans. Thats our fault. We buy it. We consume more bottled water than any other country, per capita.

Because of the stupidity and the greed, as the Bible says, if you are a reader and believe thereof, we as Americans are suffering because we are most concerned with Abortion, Banning Gay Marriage, and making sure Bars close before midnight, than we are about the very things that affect our everyday life.... Poor Planning and overbuilding.

We are in DEEP trouble here in the South and I just bought a one-way ticket to my own demise when I purchased Real Estate here. Its something I said I would never do, but I did. I did it because I never once thought about the fact that these morons would let the lake go dry. I forgot about the lessons of Katrina and New Orleans. I forgot about the Greed that we are experiencing because of the current Republican run country.

You need 3 things to live. Food, Shelter and Water. So far, the greed from both Democrats and Republicans have nearly destroyed our ability to have any of the above.

The South will Rise again: as an empty Desert.

Pay back is a hell, isn't it?

C3

Cheney in 1994 talks about why we shouldn't invade Iraq... he was right, 100%

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENbElb5-xY


After you watch this... Ask yourself if Bush was willing to have Americans Killed in order to win 2 terms as President because he thinks this is a game he wants to win... or if, potentially, Bush is part of the threat against America and Cheney is his cold-hearted minion that supports him...

Lest we, of course, forget about Rumsfeld and all the other supporters they have brainwashed.


C3

Giving it to the Republicans over Chinese Imports

Mr. Chambliss / Isakson,

Regarding all of the imports from China lately, which seem to be helping to destroy the US economy with cheap and dangerous goods: Don't you think its time to introduce legislation to enforce inspection laws and import laws against China?
Why are we allowing the Communists to control our lives through cheap manufacturing and importation? Would we have ever let Communist Russia do this? Would we let Cuba do this?

What are you and Congress afraid of when it comes to battling the Communist Chinese? These people are threatening our economic security and our health, yet you allow this behavior to continue and refuse to protect the American public.

I thought the Republican party stood to protect America, but it seems that you and your cohorts are just allowing us to be sold down the Yhang-Tze.
How do you plan to respond these issues?

Thanks,
C3

Bush Takes over the Country. This time, I'm not kidding.

If this doesn't scare you to death, I dont know what is....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlB966zQIZ4