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Month: April 2007

Democratic Senators Protecting Big Oil

Democratic Senators Protecting Big Oil

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Arianna Huffington’s blog has the disturbing follow up to the scandal of Congress and big oil’s love affair. See my report of 2/19/07 for the original report of the huge gift the lame duck Republican congress gave big oil by not charging for their government leases. The Democrats promised to fix this outrageous $10 Billion dollar windfall the Republican Congress had provided. A bill was passed in the house which which would require the oil industry to pay royalties from…

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Vacation Report From the Golden Princess

Vacation Report From the Golden Princess

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It’s Easter Sunday on the Golden Princess cruise ship. We are docked at Mazatlan, Mexico. This is a commercial fishing port located on a peninsula at the bottom of the Sierra Madre mountains. I was impressed to read that this city exports some 40 million pounds of shrimp every year. We are tied up in the commercial dock area after  cruise from Puerto Vallarta. We got off the ship there and took a taxi to old town where we did…

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Vacation Report Aboard Ship

Vacation Report Aboard Ship

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We checked out of our hotel and were driven to the pier to be tendered to the Golden Princess at anchor in the harbor. Our luggage, too many bags, was loaded and we went to the ship. This passenger ship is 950 feet long (three football fields) and carries 2,600 passengers. Since this is Easter vacation, most of the passengers appear to be children of all ages who are everywhere. Our state room is in the aft section of the…

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The National Law Journal  reports that immigration judges are continuing to demonstrate inappropriate and unjudicial conduct as I´ve previously reported about. See post for 3/2/07 Two Circuits, the 7th & 8th criticized two more immigration judges for their conduct. In the 7th circuit, Judge Craig Zerbe rejected an immigrants claim of religious persecution and death threats. In doing so, this judge used phrases like "essentially zealots" and other inappropriate comments. He accused them of contributing to their own problems by…

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Ford Pays $40 Milllion to Its CEO in his First Four Months

Ford Pays $40 Milllion to Its CEO in his First Four Months

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The Associated Press reports another corporate CEO gross overpayment, a subject I´ve complained about so many times in the past. In a filing with the federal government, Ford disclosed it paid its CEO Alan Mulally a staggering $39.1 million dollars during the first four months of his term as CEO. So, what did Mr. Mulally do to earn this windfall? Ford, as the second biggest automaker, lost $12.7 Billion, yes,"billion" in 2006 so it couldn´t be his job performance in…

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Vacation Report From Zihuatanejo

Vacation Report From Zihuatanejo

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We are staying in Zihuatanejo at a wonderful hill side hotel overlooking the bay as I indicated in my first report. Today we took a taxi to Ixtapa located about a fifteen minute taxi ride away. This was our first visit to this town about ten miles away, but it´s not really a town at all. It was created by the federal government in the 1970`s as resort center and it is a ¨state of the art disco" tourist type…

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Wednesday Vacation Report

Wednesday Vacation Report

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Wednesday April 4, 2007 My wife Lita and I have flown from Seattle to Zihuatanejo, Mexico to stay at the Casa Que Canta for a few days before boarding a cruise ship to meet our entire office and their families for our annual office retreat. We´ve not been here before. It resembles a sleepy Mexican fishing village on a beautiful bay, but it has some 80,000 inhabitants. The bay has numerous boats of all sizes bobbing up and down on…

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Bush Administration & EPA Ordered to Enforce the Clean Air Act –

Bush Administration & EPA Ordered to Enforce the Clean Air Act –

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The U.S. Supreme Court case of Massachusetts vs EPA has been described as one of the most important environmental cases to ever come before the United States Supreme Court dealing with global warming. The case involves the thirty six year old federal Clean Air Act. The act provides for regulation of "any air pollutants" from vehicles "that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health of welfare" and defines "welfare" as including effects on climate and weather. A group of…

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Drug Companies Illegally Market Off Label Use of Their Products

Drug Companies Illegally Market Off Label Use of Their Products

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The National Law Journal, in an article by Tresa Baldas, reports the illegal promotion of "off label" use of products by pharmaceutical companies. An "off label" use is the prescription of a drug by a physician for a use which it was not approved or intended. For example, a drug manufactured as an antidepressant might be prescribed by a doctor to treat pain or a drug manufactured for an unrelated use might be prescribed by a physician to treat cancer…

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Bush Once Again Nominates Susan Dudley, William Wehrum & Alex Beehler – Enemies of the Environment

Bush Once Again Nominates Susan Dudley, William Wehrum & Alex Beehler – Enemies of the Environment

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Susan Dudley is typical of George Bush’s nomination of anti regulatory and anti environmental zealots to head important agencies responsible to control big oil and big business in their greed for profit at the expense of our planet. His appointees are selected as people who are expected to undermine  the function of these agencies and allow industry to do what they want. This is a person who opposed EPA plans for tougher public health standards for smog; who opposed cleaner…

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