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While Vice President Joe Biden saluted the sacrifices of the men and women of America’s fighting forces at the nation’s most hallowed burial ground at Arlington National Cemetery, other smaller celebrations were held across the country on Memorial Day 2010. Click here or on the image of the flags to see a photo essay from a new Veterans Memorial dedicated Monday morning in Center Point, Alabama.
A John Wathen Video
A look into the bayou life in Southern Louisiana. Mike and Tracy take us on a trip into their lives on Bayou Barataria.
BP’s massive oil slick will change, forever, the environment and way of life here, Wathen reports.
Mike tells Obama to “Quit acting like you work for BP!”
Wathen urges people to share and circulate this video until the president hears the message from real human beings here, not just “Terrible Tony” of the “BP Shuffle!”
Don’t Forget to Vote the Day After Memorial Day
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The Big Picture
by Glynn Wilson
It’s been hard to think about routine politics these past few weeks as the news hole has been eaten almost exclusively by BP and Halliburton’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It has turned out to be a disaster of epic magnitude just like I reported a full month before the mainstream media finally admitted that the Gulf gusher tops Valdez as the worst environmental disaster in US. history.
But there is an election coming up this Tuesday, the day after Memorial Day. And since elections do matter, we need to spend a few minutes talking about the primary race for governor in Alabama, along with a couple of Congressional races.
According to the latest poll from Rasmussen, the Alabama race for governor was too close to call with a week to go. Not sure what moron designed this poll, or just decided what to report about it, but they asked about general election matchups — not primary races. So the poll is only of limited utility at this point.
The main result is sort of interesting, however, in that no candidate in either the Republican or the Democratic Parties are gaining the support from a majority of Alabama voters. It’s pretty easy to see why. There’s no rock star in any election coming up in Alabama. There is no clear, charismatic front runner who could possibly begin to transform Alabama from a good-ole-boy spoils system into a true democratic government built on merit.
Both Democratic hopefuls trail three of the top Republicans in the race, according to a survey of 500 likely Alabama voters interviewed May 25, which is what you would expect in such a conservative, red state — in the absence of a charismatic figure like former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.
Thanks to Bayoukeeper
Recorded on May 26, 2010 using a Flip Video camcorder.
Obama Pledges to Take Responsibility
“We’re going to do everything in our power to protect our natural resources, compensate those who have been harmed, rebuild what has been damaged, and help this region persevere like it has done so many times before,” Obama pledged.
White House Web page on Deepwater Horizon
We don’t know yet…
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But it looks to me like it has five leads now instead of three.
Timelapse Imagery from the MODIS Instrument on NASA’s Terra and Aqua Satellites
Two NASA satellites are capturing images of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which began April 20, 2010 with the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. This short video reveals a space-based view of the burning oil rig and, later, the ensuing oil spill through May 24. The oil slick appears grayish-beige in the image and changes due to changing weather, currents and use of oil dispersing chemicals.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says the head of the troubled agency that oversees offshore drilling has resigned.
Salazar announced the news Thursday at a congressional hearing where Minerals Management Service Director Elizabeth Birnbaum was scheduled to testify, according to AP. She did not appear.
Birnbaum and her agency have endured scathing criticism in the weeks since the Gulf oil spill over alleged lax oversight of drilling and what President Barack Obama has called an overly cozy relationship with industry.
Her departure came just hours before a news conference where Obama plans to address the spill and announce new safety protocols and an extension of a deepwater drilling moratorium.
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