In the wake of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (which, while stopped, is
still wreaking havoc and will almost certainly be doing so for years), one of the most shocking revelations was of the gifts and other perks given to regulators of the Minerals Management Service from oil companies.
This was in addition to 2008 revelation of "a sex, drugs and illegal gifts scandal at MMS."
While things didn't go that far for the BLM in Farmington, gifts were exchanged, according to the a report that the Farmington Daily-Times wrote about today.
The report, obtained by an environmental group through a records request, says former Farmington district manager Steve Henke took gifts from Williams Exploration and Production-golf tickets, lodging and meals-and solicited about $8,000 in donations from the company for his son's youth baseball teams.
Henke was also accused of misusing about $1,000 in BLM travel funds to attend the 2007 PGA Championship in Oklahoma as a guest of Williams E&P. In 2009, he attended the Masters Golf Tournament in Georgia with friends from the company but reimbursed them for some expenses.
A friend of mine sent this article to me. Francis Schaeffer is the son of Frank Schaeffer and wrote the book, "Crazy for God". He was heavily involved, along with his father, in the far Christian right's anti abortion movement. I am currently reading this book, and I felt the need to share this piece with other readers on this site.
Glenn Beck and the 9/12 Marchers: Subversives From Within
Who are these people?! Where do they come from?! Ordinary Americans might wonder why anyone would stoop so low as to follow Glenn Beck, Fox News and Dick Armey (and their corporate sponsors masquerading as "FreedomWorks") as they organize their "9/12 March On Washington" to cynically exploit the 9/11 attack.
Patriotic Americans might question the organizer's aim to provide a media forum for dimwitted right wingers to scream "Liar!" "Socialist!" "Antichrist!" "Muslim!" "Death Panels!" "He's not an American!" and so on and on and on about the commander in chief charged with defending us from further attacks. And some people might even cry "shame on you!" to the more mainstream Republicans participating that include Dick Armey of FreedomWorks, as well as GOP Reps. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Mike Pence of Indiana, Tom Price of Georgia, and South Carolina GOP Sen.
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