The Lawyers are coming...the Lawyers are coming!!!

Really?  Watch out for the red part below…implication:  the taxpayers will by default be paying for the cleanup…unless “the attorneys” save us from the evil oil companies!  Quick question….is BP too big to fail?

 

Attorney General Holder Dispatches Justice Department Team to Monitor British Petroleum Oil Spill

Apr 30 01:12 PM US/Eastern

 

WASHINGTON, April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that he is dispatching a team of attorneys from multiple divisions within the Justice Department to New Orleans to meet with the U.S. Attorney and response teams and to monitor the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

"The British Petroleum oil spill has already cost lives and created a major environmental incident," said Attorney General Holder. "The Justice Department stands ready to make available every resource at our disposal to vigorously enforce the laws that protect the people who work and reside near the Gulf, the wildlife, the environment and the American taxpayers."

The team will be led by Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, and Tony West, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, and will include relevant United States Attorneys. The combined group from the Department plans to make a site visit and meet with representatives from federal agencies working on the response.

A coordinated response continues with a comprehensive oil well intervention and spill-response plan following the April 22, 2010 sinking of the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drilling rig 130 miles southeast of New Orleans. More than 1,000 personnel from federal, state and local agencies are involved in the response effort both on and offshore, with additional resources being mobilized as needed.

SOURCE U.S. Department of Justice

 

 

What could go wrong...

Really?  This is what we are heading towards?  Brought to you straight from California…coming to a Booger King near you!!

Santa Clara County says no to fast-food toys

Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

No toy for you, Junior.

Not if you live in unincorporated Santa Clara County, where the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban restaurants from giving away toys with children's meals that exceed set levels of calories, fat, salt and sugar.

The ordinance, which the board passed by a 3-2 vote, is believed to be the first of its kind in the nation. The target is the fast-food industry and what critics call its practice of marketing unhealthful food to children and fueling an epidemic of obesity among the young.

"This ordinance breaks the link between unhealthy food and prizes," said the law's author, Supervisor Ken Yeager. "Obviously, toys in and of themselves do not make children obese. But it is unfair to parents and children to use toys to capture the tastes of children when they are young and get them hooked on eating high-sugar, high-fat foods early in life."

$1,000 fine for violations

Representatives for the California Restaurant Association, whose members include chains that opposed the ordinance, have 90 days to offer an alternative to the legislation. Violations under the version the board approved Tuesday would be punishable by fines of as much as $1,000 for each meal sold with a toy.

Yeager said he hopes the law will inspire cities and counties across the country to follow suit like "ripples that create a wave."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/28/MNLA1D5QFV.DTL#ixzz0mWK8KRYF

 

Boston Marathon

One of the perks of living in Hopkinton is the fact you get to be one of the few people to watch the start of the Boston Marathon. They pretty much block all the roads leading into town about 5:30am ... which explains why I was not at work today ... there was no way for me to get to work.

Kade really enjoyed the whole thing. He was really into seeing the start and understanding everything. His school (Center School) is actually about 50 yards from the start line...so for the week leading up to the big race ... they teach the kids about Patriots' day (the race is always on Patriots day) and the Boston Marathon. They even have runners from Kenya and other places come int an talk about their home countries and why they race.

To be honest, it was really quite amazing to see. There were about 25,000 runners in the race this year and almost all of Hopkinton was on the Green. I think we ran into just about everyone we know in town over at the Fried Dough stand....yeah...that's right...we all celebrated the runners by wolfing down some Fried Dough at 10:30 in the morning! The worst part of it all...we showed up right at 10:00am when the elite men's field was starting...so we got to see the winner Kenyan (Robert Cheruiyot) head off down the hill towards Boston. By the time we were finished watching the next heat head out, eat our fried dough, play on the playground, walk back to the car, drive home and turn on the TV...Robert was just crossing the finish line in Boston (2hrs 5 mins later)! That was really amazing! Anyway, here are some pics...

Easter (78 photos), by Jennifer Cavagnaro

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Great Grandparents Visit (30 photos), by Jennifer Cavagnaro

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Bath time Surprise

Quick one:  Last night I was giving the kids a bath. 

 

Kade: “I am proud of my wiener!”

Mom: “Do you know what a wiener is?”

Kade: “A hot dog….I am proud of my hot dog!”

 

Jen is convinced that I coached him on this…but alas I cannot take credit.