Lynn Hughes

We as a nation look back at the decisions we have made and see the errs of our ways.

We are engaged with big business and big business keeps destroying our country and we keep paying them to do so. If we look at the amount of subsidies that we give these companies and compare it to the welfare that we give to our citizens it pales in comparison. Then we have to clean up after these corporations again and again and still we continue.

We are engaged in wars in foreign lands and yet we refuse to make a decision on how handle our own internal immigration battle.

The hard decisions have to be made either through legislation or through process but they will be made. We will never move forward until we face the issues of the past.

~ sealdadeal4me H/P

Where is your anger and outrage at the following people Sen. Lisa Murkowski who blocked a bill to increase the liability cap for oil spills from $75 million to $10 billion? Or the politicians who have strong ties to the oil industry who voted to kill this bill? Where is your outrage at BP, who wants all the lawsuits heard in Texas with a particular judge?

Facing more than 100 lawsuits after its Gulf of Mexico oil spill killed 11 workers and threatened four coastal states, oil giant BP is asking the courts to place every pre-trial issue in the hands of a single federal judge in Houston.

That judge, U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes, has traveled the world giving lectures on ethics for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, a professional association and research group that works with BP and other oil companies. The organization pays his travel expenses.

~ danchi H/P

BP wants Houston judge with oil ties to hear spill cases - Judge Lynn Hughes

"They are recommending that the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation appoint U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin. Scheindlin presided over settlement of some 200 lawsuits brought against BP and other oil companies over a toxic additive called MTBE that contaminated drinking supplies nationally – and she has no oil and gas investments, according to her financial disclosure forms."

She sounds like a good choice to me. I take it BP doesn't approve of her.