MERRY CHRISTMAS

Special Greetings to you

Original message from Clayton and friends

I will be making a conscious effort to wish everyone

A Merry Christmas this year ...

My way of saying that I am celebrating

The birth Of Jesus Christ.

To one and All...

A special poem fit for Christmas

From : Alfred

New Christmas Poem

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS,

HE LIVED ALL ALONE,

IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE

MADE OF PLASTER AND STONE.

I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY

WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE,

AND TO SEE JUST WHO

IN THIS HOME DID LIVE.

I LOOKED ALL ABOUT,

A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE,

NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS,

NOT EVEN A TREE.

NO STOCKING BY THE MANTLE,

JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND;

ON THE WALL HUNG PICTURES

OF FAR DISTANT LANDS.

WITH MEDALS AND BADGES,

AWARDS OF ALL KINDS,

A SOBER THOUGHT

CAME THROUGH MY MIND.

FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT,

IT WAS DARK AND DREARY,

I FOUND THE HOME OF A SOLDIER,

ONCE I COULD SEE CLEARLY.

THE SOLDIER LAY SLEEPING,

SILENT AND ALONE,

CURLED UP ON THE FLOOR

IN THIS ONE BEDROOM HOME.

THE FACE WAS SO GENTLE,

THE ROOM IN SUCH DISORDER,

NOT HOW I PICTURED

A UNITED STATES SOLDIER.

WAS THIS THE HERO

OF WHOM I'D JUST READ?

CURLED UP ON A PONCHO,

THE FLOOR FOR A BED?

I REALIZED THE FAMILIES

THAT I SAW THIS NIGHT,

OWED THEIR LIVES TO THESE SOLDIERS

WHO WERE WILLING TO FIGHT.

SOON ROUND THE WORLD,

THE CHILDREN WOULD PLAY,

AND GROWNUPS WOULD CELEBRATE

A BRIGHT CHRISTMAS DAY.

THEY ALL ENJOYED FREEDOM

EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR,

BECAUSE OF THE SOLDIERS,

LIKE THE ONE LYING HERE.

I COULDN'T HELP WONDER

HOW MANY LAY ALONE,

ON A COLD CHRISTMAS EVE

IN A LAND FAR FROM HOME.

THE VERY THOUGHT

BROUGHT A TEAR TO MY EYE,

I DROPPED TO MY KNEES

AND STARTED TO CRY.

THE SOLDIER AWAKENED

AND I HEARD A ROUGH VOICE,

'SANTA DON'T CRY,

THIS LIFE IS MY CHOICE;

I FIGHT FOR FREEDOM,

I DON'T ASK FOR MORE,

MY LIFE IS MY GOD,

MY COUNTRY, MY CORPS.'

THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER

AND DRIFTED TO SLEEP,

I COULDN'T CONTROL IT,

I CONTINUED TO WEEP.

I KEPT WATCH FOR HOURS,

SO SILENT AND STILL

AND WE BOTH SHIVERED

FROM THE COLD NIGHT'S CHILL.

I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE

ON THAT COLD, DARK, NIGHT,

THIS GUARDIAN OF HONOR

SO WILLING TO FIGHT.

THEN THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER,

WITH A VOICE SOFT AND PURE,

WHISPERED, 'CARRY ON SANTA,

IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY, ALL IS SECURE.'

ONE LOOK AT MY WATCH,

AND I KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.

'MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIEND,!

AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT.'

PLEASE. Would you do me the kind favor of sending this to as many people as you can? Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to our U.S. service men,women, and Canadian Forces for our being able to celebrate these festivities.

Let's try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we

owe. Make people stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed themselves for us. Please, do your small part to plant this small seed.

The TRUTH will set you FREE.

Study: Dolphins In Oiled Areas of Gulf “Very Sick”

                                                                                from Wildlife Promise
1 12/18/2013 // By Lacey McCormick

// BP oil spill, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, South Central Regional Center, Wildlife

A new peer-reviewed study makes the strongest case to date that the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster is harming dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico.

As part of the official investigation into impacts of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, a team of scientists did comprehensive physicals on dolphins in Barataria Bay in 2011, a heavily-oiled area of the Louisiana coast. Nearly half the dolphins studied were very ill; seventeen percent of the dolphins were not expected to survive.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the lead agency conducting the research:

The publication details the first evidence that dolphins in heavily oiled areas are exhibiting injuries consistent with toxic effects observed in laboratory studies of mammals exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons. The dolphin health study concludes that the health effects seen in the Barataria Bay dolphins are significant and likely will lead to reduced survival and ability to reproduce.

The findings were deeply troubling to Dr. Lori Schwacke, the lead author of the study and a veteran of a number of similar studies of dolphin health. She stated, “I’ve never seen such a high prevalence of very sick animals.”

A dolphin is observed with oil on its skin on August 5, 2010, in Barataria Bay, La. Photo: Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries/Mandy Tumlin.

Researchers found that dolphins in Louisiana’s Barataria Bay have unusual lung damage, including masses in the lungs, as well as adrenal hormone abnormalities. Among the study’s findings:

 …moderate to severe lung disease was five times more likely in the Barataria Bay dolphins, with symptoms including lung masses and consolidation. The researchers also found that 25 percent of the Barataria Bay dolphins were significantly underweight and the population overall had very low levels of adrenal hormones, which are critical for responding to stress.

In a statement quoted in the Times-Picayune, a BP spokesperson argued these symptoms “have been seen in other dolphin mortality events that have been related to contaminants and conditions found in the northern Gulf.”

But the study’s lead researchers argued that these symptoms are in fact quite unusual and are unlikely to be related to other, more common contaminants found in the Gulf :

We found that the levels of these pollutants in Barataria Bay dolphins were actually lower than the levels in Sarasota Bay dolphins. The levels from Barataria Bay dolphins were also low compared to previously reported levels in dolphins from a number of other coastal sites in the southeastern U.S. Therefore, we don’t think that the health effects we saw can be attributed to these other pollutants that we looked at.

NOAA has been investigating an ongoing wave of dolphin deaths across the northern Gulf of Mexico since February 2010. This is the longest such investigation in the past two decades and it includes the greatest number of stranded dolphins ever found in the Gulf of Mexico.

 Make sure BP’s fines are used to restore habitat for dolphins and other wildlife in the Gulf!

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Special Greetings to you

Original message from Clayton and friends

I will be making a conscious effort to wish everyone

A Merry Christmas this year ...

My way of saying that I am celebrating

The birth Of Jesus Christ.

To one and All...

A special poem fit for Christmas

From : Alfred

New Christmas Poem

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS,

HE LIVED ALL ALONE,

IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE

MADE OF PLASTER AND STONE.

I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY

WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE,

AND TO SEE JUST WHO

IN THIS HOME DID LIVE.

I LOOKED ALL ABOUT,

A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE,

NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS,

NOT EVEN A TREE.

NO STOCKING BY THE MANTLE,

JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND;

ON THE WALL HUNG PICTURES

OF FAR DISTANT LANDS.

WITH MEDALS AND BADGES,

AWARDS OF ALL KINDS,

A SOBER THOUGHT

CAME THROUGH MY MIND.

FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT,

IT WAS DARK AND DREARY,

I FOUND THE HOME OF A SOLDIER,

ONCE I COULD SEE CLEARLY.

THE SOLDIER LAY SLEEPING,

SILENT AND ALONE,

CURLED UP ON THE FLOOR

IN THIS ONE BEDROOM HOME.

THE FACE WAS SO GENTLE,

THE ROOM IN SUCH DISORDER,

NOT HOW I PICTURED

A UNITED STATES SOLDIER.

WAS THIS THE HERO

OF WHOM I'D JUST READ?

CURLED UP ON A PONCHO,

THE FLOOR FOR A BED?

I REALIZED THE FAMILIES

THAT I SAW THIS NIGHT,

OWED THEIR LIVES TO THESE SOLDIERS

WHO WERE WILLING TO FIGHT.

SOON ROUND THE WORLD,

THE CHILDREN WOULD PLAY,

AND GROWNUPS WOULD CELEBRATE

A BRIGHT CHRISTMAS DAY.

THEY ALL ENJOYED FREEDOM

EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR,

BECAUSE OF THE SOLDIERS,

LIKE THE ONE LYING HERE.

I COULDN'T HELP WONDER

HOW MANY LAY ALONE,

ON A COLD CHRISTMAS EVE

IN A LAND FAR FROM HOME.

THE VERY THOUGHT

BROUGHT A TEAR TO MY EYE,

I DROPPED TO MY KNEES

AND STARTED TO CRY.

THE SOLDIER AWAKENED

AND I HEARD A ROUGH VOICE,

'SANTA DON'T CRY,

THIS LIFE IS MY CHOICE;

I FIGHT FOR FREEDOM,

I DON'T ASK FOR MORE,

MY LIFE IS MY GOD,

MY COUNTRY, MY CORPS.'

THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER

AND DRIFTED TO SLEEP,

I COULDN'T CONTROL IT,

I CONTINUED TO WEEP.

I KEPT WATCH FOR HOURS,

SO SILENT AND STILL

AND WE BOTH SHIVERED

FROM THE COLD NIGHT'S CHILL.

I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE

ON THAT COLD, DARK, NIGHT,

THIS GUARDIAN OF HONOR

SO WILLING TO FIGHT.

THEN THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER,

WITH A VOICE SOFT AND PURE,

WHISPERED, 'CARRY ON SANTA,

IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY, ALL IS SECURE.'

ONE LOOK AT MY WATCH,

AND I KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.

'MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIEND,!

AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT.'

PLEASE. Would you do me the kind favor of sending this to as many people as you can? Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to our U.S. service men,women, and Canadian Forces for our being able to celebrate these festivities.

Let's try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we

owe. Make people stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed themselves for us. Please, do your small part to plant this small seed.

FROM : Alfred Clayton

The TRUTH will set you FREE.

Wall Street is about to give themselves $94.11 Billion

“Wall Street is about to give themselves $94.11 Billion – with a B – in holiday bonuses, even as they continue to dodge jail time for their ongoing crime spree!”₁

HUH? Wall Street megabanks forced ten million people out of their homes due to the foreclosure crisis, while spending 2013 dodging the law for the blatant financial fraud that left folks homeless.₂

HOW? Ten banks kicked off 2013 by paying $8.5 billion to settle complaints that they improperly foreclosed on homeowners₃; in the summer, Bank of America was charged with rewarding employees who pushed the MOST people into foreclosure₄; and then JPMorgan Chase rounded off the year by paying $13BN in fines to make fraud complaints go away.₅

WHY? That $91.44 Billion a year could go a very long way towards undoing the vast damage done by Wall Street’s megabanks that have engaged in megafraud, not to mention go quite a long way towards curbing American homelessness in general.

How insane is our Wall Street bonus situation? Wall Street bankers are running out of ideas of how to spend the money. That’s not a joke: the Financial Times publishes “How To Spend It” magazine to help stumped Wall Street bankers figure out what to do with their fat bonus checks.

Megabankers might not spend too much time outside of the financial district, but we do, and we know that bankers are unbelievably unpopular right now. [link to Hayes piece] So, we’re asking them to do the right thing: give their bonuses to the people they made homeless. It doesn’t take a genius to know this is good PR – it’s a win/win for the banks!

Are you the kind of nerd, like us, who wants more details and sources? Read on!

We weren’t joking about $91.44 Billion putting us on the road to ending homelessness for good.

Seriously: The National Affordable Housing Trust is a program that, if funded for $30 billion a year for 10 years, could END homelessness in America. [bit.ly/trustfundforhomes] The banks could pay for the first two years of funding with one year of bonuses alone!₆ Meanwhile, public housing – y’know, the place that the foreclosed have largely been pushed into? – has needed $21 Billion in repairs for a long time.₇ That means $10.44 Billion left over – more than enough bonuses for every Wall Street banker to take many, many, many trips to Disney World, or whatever Wall Street bankers spend their money on. (Ahem.)

Sources:

1. Wall St. Bonuses Over All Are Predicted to Rise 5 to 10%, New York Times.
2. The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High-Level Executives Been Prosecuted?, NY Review of Books.
USA Today: Ten banks settle foreclosure charges for $8.5 billion
3. Bank of America Bribed Employees Into Screwing Homeowners, Because Finance Is Boring.
4. Alexis Breaks Down The $13 Billion Chase Settlement.
5. Support for MID Reform Grows as NLIHC Proposal Receives National Media Attention, National Low Income Housing Coalition.
6. It’s Hard to Tell Who Hates Public Housing More: Democrats or Republicans, Disorderly Conduct.

- See more at: http://other98.com/wall-street-give-your-bonuses-to-the-people-you-made-homeless/#sthash.FjTviRAX.dpuf

9,826 signatures out of our goal of 10,000

The petition reads:

Dear Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America:

We call on you to help the folks that you Scrooged out of their homes and end the homelessness crisis you created. Donate your $91.44 Billion in holiday bonuses to undo the damage you’ve done.

Sincerely,

[your name here]

Complete the following to sign - we'll pass on the message.

First Name

Last Name

Email

Zip

- See more at: http://other98.com/wall-street-give-your-bonuses-to-the-people-you-made-homeless/#sthash.FjTviRAX.dpuf


The TRUTH will set you FREE.

DECEMBER 9, 2013 MAUGHAN REPLY

MR. JAMES MAUGHAN REPLY  ON MY 

E-MAIL DATED NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Maughan, James@Waterboards	Dec 9 (4 days ago)
to me

Mr. Buensuceso,

As I have stated a couple of times previously, we have sent you back the original documents that you sent to our office.  I have not responded to your two previous emails because you keep asking the same questions that I have answered several times.  In this email you state that you are compelled to elevate the issue to my superior.  You attempted to email Liz Haven but I am sorry to inform you that you had the wrong email address for Liz Haven.  I am also writing to inform you that Liz Haven has taken a new position and I am the Acting Deputy Director for the Division of Financial Assistance.  I directly report to Jonathan Bishop, Chief Deputy Director, of the Water Boards.  I will inform him of issues you are raising as I did previously with Liz Haven.

Again I am sorry you think that we are withholding anything from you.  I assure you that we are not.  If you would just send us the information we requested several time previously (transcripts of classes you have taken to earn your degree).  I am sure we could process your application.  Without that happening there is nothing else we can do at this point.

I wish you the best in your endeavors.

James Maughan

Acting Deputy Director,  Division of Financial Assistance

916-341-5694

jmaughan@waterboards.ca.

ANTONIO L. BUENSUCESO's   RESPONSE  to 
MAUGHAN' s DECEMBER 9, 2013 E-MAIL

December  16,  2013


Mr. James Maughan

Assistant Deputy Director

Division of Financial Assistance

Phone: 916-341-5694

Email: jmaughan@waterboards.ca.gov

Mail address:  1001 I Street, 16th Floor

Sacramento, CA 95814

 SUBJECT : Continuing demand for the return of  the original educational credentials                     as evaluated by ERES and comments why  a circle mark was wrap around                     the word  "PHILIPPINES" as shown in the returned exact copy  (photocopy)                   of my original educational credentials.

Copy of the credential with discriminatory circular mark around the word "PHILIPPINES".

Dear Mr. James Maughan,

Good morning.

Thank you for responding to my letter.  And,  I would like to know the correct e-mail addresses of Ms Liz Haven and Mr Jonathan Bishop. I would wish them to read the e-mail communication between us to bear witness on how much pain, misery and hopelessness I am experiencing dealing with you, your employees  and your office.

With all due respect, you are dead seriously lying again in saying that, you have sent me back the original documents that I sent to your office. The following is my documentary evidence to show that you are cheating and lying:

On JUNE  26, 2013, you wrote me an E-mail  informing me that you are sending back to me the original copies of my application documents through certified mail as I requested and I gave you thanks for your prompt response though "prompt" is obviously inappropriate in view of the duration of time I have persistently requested for it before you came to a decision to return them back to me. Please see the  "RECORDS OF MY PERSISTENT REQUEST" and determine by yourself that the word "prompt" is obviously inappropriate.

On JULY  1, 2013, I wrote an E-MAIL letter of protest for the fact that the documents in the certified mail dated JUNE  26, 2013 you sent me are just photo copies of the original document.  You informed me that you have sent me all the ORIGINAL copies of my application documents AS I REQUESTED but you send me back  but all photocopies. BY ALL MEANS YOU KNOW HOW ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS differ from PHOTOCOPIED DOCUMENTS. You are cheating and lying.

On JULY 5, 2013  You sent an  E-mail explanation, here, you admitted that  those documents are exact same documents that I sent to your office, meaning the documents which you sent me are exact copies of the original.  Therefore, the original copies are still with your office which you are refusing to return. 

Worse, Mr Wes Wilkinson, Ms Anna Hernandez and you refused to sign my educational credentials as proof that the three of you have conscientiously examined the educational documents and determined that my Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering did not meet the minimum 6 educational point requirement for Grade 1 operator certification examination  and hid behind the stamp of the Office of Operator Certification to avoid personal culpability and accountability, and/or civil or criminal liability, if neutral third party opinion supports filing formal charges against you, your office and employees.

Worst, asking me several times to send my college transcript of records to you where it is shown clearly on the denial letter from Ms Anna Hernandez that certificates of completion is enough document for educational requirement. What else could be better than the educational credentials evaluated by ERES ? ERES have professionally evaluated my educational transcript of records for you. By insisting and asking me to send my transcript of records to you, for you  to determine wether I meet the minimum 6 educational points requirement for Grade 1 operator certification examination has no legs to stand on. This only strengthen my belief that you are doing this to me as a gesture of discrimination. Again, certificates of completion is enough document for the  requirement on educational credentials.

HENCE, I wrote the succeeding demand letter  for the return of my original educational credentials as evaluated by ERES with the signatures of the three of you.

JULY 8, 2013   MAUGHAN REFUSED TO RETURN MY ORIGINAL ERES

                      EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS 

JULY 18, 2013  RESEND JULY 8, 2012 E-MAIL TO MAUGHAN

JULY 22, 2013   MAUGHAN SEEKING AN EASY WAY OUT through

                              telephone communications.

AUGUST 30,  2013  " We have nothing else to give you"..said Maughan

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013  discriminatory circle mark wrap 

                                          around the word "PHILIPPINES"

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013   E-mail to Mr. James Maughan,  where

                                  Mr Maughan unleashed a plethora of
                                  incredible alibis.

OCTOBER 30, 2013  E-mail to Mr. James Maughan

                                      Mr. Maughan denies and seems hiding.

NOVEMBER 30, 2013   If  not responded I will write to Ms Liz Haven.

DECEMBER 9, 2013  Mr  Maughan responded and his response
                                        E-mail shown at the beginning.

My prayers remain. Please return back to me the original educational 
credentials which I submitted and received by Ms Debbie Zuccala with
the signatures of Ms Anna Hernandez, Mr Wes Wilkinson and of course
your signature.

Thank you very much.

Yours faithfully,

Antonio L. Buensuceso Jr.

The TRUTH will set you FREE.