"ASS TO KICK"?, The White House visit and compensation.........

Do you think that being invited to the White House will help the families who lost men in the oil rig explosion?
Is it just a photo opportunity for Mr. Obama because he has been under such criticism for his handling of the oil rig spill or do you think you would feel consoled by this gesture? I'm curious.
The Washington Post reported :"Loved ones are trying to come to terms not just with lives lost, and no bodies to recover, but with what feels like the country's collective skipping from dead to gone. There was no national pause to honor the victims, like the one for the 29 West Virginia coal miners who died last month, though both miners and riggers work to fuel the country."
There really was no 'national pause', was there...so maybe the White House visit will help, but this is LOVED ONES gone FOREVER.......

Also, from this article, I found information regarding how much families will get after a loved one has died within 3 miles from the shores: Damages under DOHSA are determined based upon the actual or projected value of the financial benefit that would have been received from the decedent. Under this theory, dependent children can recover for the value of the care and guidance they would have received from the decedent parent. A spouse can recover for the actual value of the financial contribution the decedent would have made to the family had he lived, less any amount determined to have provided for the care and maintenance of the decedent personally. Therefore, the recovery can be reduced by the amount of resources deemed to provide for the consumption and needs of the decedent had he lived.
Some of the widows from the oil rig explosion were testifying Monday trying to repeal that law and get more money. The amount doesn't seem adequate to me, how about you? This kind of activism makes sense to me, especially if this will encourage companies to only perform with the highest of safety regulations... but, when I heard about the White House visit, it immediately hit me as superficial or just plain awkward.......Got any thoughts on the White House visit or this appeal for more compensation??

UPDATE: I saw a quick snip of news this morning of Obama being beeped...he said "Kick in the ASS"? On TELEVISION? Oh, I FOUND IT HERE. What a low moment in presidencies....he's sure lowering the bar, isn't he. What a message to decent kids. I grieve.
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"LAW OF THE SEA TREATY?" Heard of it yet? You ready for this....?

Why are we DOING this kind of thing? Did the Left have a whole drawer full of "hate America first" legislation, old treaties, laws, etc., that it couldn't live without all these years and figured "now's the time!"? WHY? Check this out from the article:

"The Senate is gearing up to ratify a Nixon-era U.N. treaty meant to create universal laws to govern the seas -- a treaty critics say will create a massive U.N. bureaucracy that could even claim powers over American waterways.

LOST -- the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, also called the Law of the Sea Treaty -- regulates all things oceanic, from fishing rights, navigation lanes and environmental concerns to what lies beneath: the seabed's oil and mineral wealth that companies hope to explore and exploit in coming years.

But critics say the treaty, which declares the sea and its bounty the "universal heritage of mankind," would redistribute American profits and have a reach extending into rivers and streams all the way up the mighty Mississippi."

Now, get a load of THIS:

"You have to pay royalties on the value of anything you extract (from the deep seabed), those royalties to be distributed as the new bureaucracy sees fit, primarily to landlocked countries and underdeveloped countries," said Steven Groves, a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. American money would also go to fund the International Seabed Authority, which Groves warned "would have the potential to become the most massive U.N. bureaucracy on the planet." (z: "..to landlocked and underdeveloped countries? whaaaat??)

"The whole theory of the treaty is that the world's oceans and everything below them are the common heritage of mankind," said Groves. "Very socialist.""

What good could possibly come from THIS? For American, that is....if anybody still cares.

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