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Of course, these bio remedies are not being used. Can we all acknowledge now that BP poisoned the World intentionally? Three warehouses full of microbes that eat oil, folks posting to youtube on the use of grasses to soak up the oil, all of it, and the grasses roll to shore, collect them and have it contained, and where it lands, use the microbes, which would have left behind only fish food. Microbes worked in the water too. Sad, very sad. Very intentional. Are we going to get to the bottom of responsibility? If we do not, they will continue. We could have been all green with energy at least 10 years ago, look at China and what they did in only ONE year! We, the People have to be diligent, or lose it all. May God go with us!

We have a brief follow-up to our remarks of yesterday [basically, that we're so disappointed about the most important missing item (of many) from the legislation being discussed here]. Before we comment, however, here is a continuous excerpt from David M. Herszenhorn's article in the NY Times this morning: NYT THIS MORNING: "Even Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut and chairman of the banking committee who was a main author of the bill, acknowledged that Americans will probably not know for years — perhaps not until the next financial crisis strikes — if the response by Congress this year was sufficient, or falls short despite the best intentions. 'We won’t know the full results of what we have done until the very institutions we have created, the regulations we have suggested and provided for are actually tested,' Mr. Dodd said in a floor speech. 'We can’t legislate wisdom or passion. We can’t legislate competency. All we can do is create the structures and hope that good people will be appointed who will attract other good people — people who will make careers and listen and see to it that never again do we go through what we have gone through.' Passage of the bill would herald the end of more than a generation in which the prevailing posture of Washington toward the financial industry was largely one of hands-off admiration, evidenced by steady deregulation. While the measure DOES NOT FULLY RESTORE THE TOUGHEST RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED AFTER THE GREAT DEPRESSION, it is a clear turning point, highlighting a new distrust of Wall Street, fear of the increasing complexity of technology-driven markets, and renewed reliance on GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT THE LITTLE GUY." (EMPHASIS added) NOTE: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 [passed by Congress in veto-proof form on November 4, 1999 (House 83.2% Yea & Senate 90% Yea) and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999] conflicts with the anti-stupidity Articles, Sections & Clauses of this Constitution for the United States of America ― Repealed those portions of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 that prohibited consolidating the operations of commercial banks (deposit banks), investment banks, securities firms and insurance companies into financial services conglomerates...thereby precipitating the subprime mortgage-backed securities meltdown of 2007-09 and still counting. RHETORICAL QUESTIONS: There are two particular photos that we wish we could include in our comments here...of the signing of the CSA a.k.a. the G-L-B Act. They are two photos that have been circulating on the internet since 1999. In those "deliriously happy" photos (which perhaps this web log's facilitator might wish to publish). 1. If (retiring democrat senator) Mr. Dodd (middle rear, photos) had not voted for the Congressional Stupidity Act (CSA) of 1999 (i.e., G-L-B), would he have been in a better position in 2007-10 to more easily shepherd financial regulatory reform, and actually reverse the anti-Glass-Steagall Act stupidity provisions of G-L-B? 2. If (retired federal reserve chairman) Mr. Greenspan (left front, photos) had not been so supportive of the CSA of 1999 (i.e., G-L-B), would he have been in a better position in 2007-10 to explain why the U.S. economy tanked during the Bush administration (2001-2009)---and how he could have been so very wrong in the first place? 3. If (2007-10 republican house minority leader) Mr. Boehner (far right front, photos) had not voted for the CSA of 1999 (i.e., G-L-B), would he have been in a better position in 2007-10 to more easily explain his voting against financial regulatory reform that in the end apparently does not reverse the anti-Glass-Steagall Act stupidity provisions of G-L-B? CLOSING OBSERVATION ABOUT MR. DODD's APPEARANCE: Well...perhaps Mr. Dodd himself doesn't appear to be "deliriously" happy in 1999 (as Clinton, Greenspan, Gramm, Leach, Boehner et al all appear to be)...but we're willing to bet that Senator Dodd was at least "quietly" happy. OKJack™Group™ Middle & Working Class Disabled American Veterans We Paid the Dues that Aren’t Required!™