What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
BP Still Using Dispersant It Was Told to Drop – NYTimes.com
These guys are really something.
BP’s first priority is to camouflage the amount of oil that has been spilled and control the press as much as possible. Period.
Sure the US government is in charge down there. Sure it is. Keep telling yourself that. Clearly they don’t feel any real pressure from the US to change anything they are doing.
I’m watching a press conference on CNN right now. The Coast Guard guy keeps saying something about how BP has the means of production and they should be the ones cleaning up the site.
Clearly that’s not working, dumb ass.
I don’t think he really see the gravity of the solution. He sounds like a BP employee. He sounds like the government isn’t able to clean up the oil spill and they don’t even have the knowledge to be able to direct BP in any meaningful way.
Palin accuses Obama of being in bed with Big Oil – Yahoo! News
How did we get to a situation where I agree with Sarah Palin?
On the subject of Big Oil?
I have fallen through the rabbit hole.
BP or U.S.: Who’s In Charge Here? – The Early Show – CBS News
Why the hell are we in a situation where that is a question???
Worries rise as La.’s state bird faces risk – USATODAY.com
The symbolism is delicious.
Nature Conservancy faces potential backlash from ties with BP
I wish I was surprised by the extensiveness of the spin factory’s reach.
Instead I’m just a little nauseous.
Despite Obama’s Moratorium, Drilling Projects Move Ahead – NYTimes.com
….that would be because he is a lying, two-faced corpoarate shill.
U.S. Was Not Ready For Major Oil Spill – WSJ.com
No shit, Sherlock….
I guess I shouldn’t complain.
At least someone is saying it.
AP IMPACT: Bad cement jobs plague offshore rigs – Yahoo! News
Finding this article was hard work. Like a lot of articles about this disaster that pop up and then become nearly un-google-able within an hour.
BBC News – US warns it may ‘push BP aside’ on Gulf oil clean-up
Gasp, the government is threatening to do its job!
Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible – USATODAY.com##
Nature has a way of helping the situation,” said BP spokesman John Curry.
Well, thank heavens. At least they have a plan. Sitting back and letting nature takes it course and have oil seep into shellfish beds, reefs, and coastline from Texas to Maine. Can’t wait!
Cleaning Oil-Soaked Wetlands May Be Impossible
crews may have to just do nothing
Seriously? Do nothing? We’re not resourceful enough to rise to the occasion and come up with some creative way to alleviate some of the damage? No one in the Obama brain trust has any ideas outside the box? Oh, wait they’re letting BP handle this because BP is obviously being really forthright and doing such a good job of mitigating damage.
Texas textbook war: ‘Slavery’ or ‘Atlantic triangular trade’? – CSMonitor.com
All I can think of is Palestinian school kids who learn math from text books that use guns as items being counted in the examples.
We’re raising an entire state populations to be the epitome of everything that is bad and just down-right embarrassing about white people. Super…. Maybe we should make an exception and let them secede. I guess that would be sort of disrespectful to Lincoln though.
How the hell do you fix a problem like that?
The administration’s response to the spill has been “lackadaisical” and (the administration) …was “naive” to trust BP to manage the massive clean-up effort.
Thank you. The media coverage and administration’s comments from start to finish have been pretty surreal. Nice to hear that I’m not the only person on the planet who was thinking it.
A month after Gulf oil spill, why is BP still in charge? – USATODAY.com
How about why were they in charge in the first place?
Oil giant BP concedes Gulf spill is bigger than estimated – USATODAY.com
They are ruining the ocean for generations. I hate those guys.
BP revises amount of oil being removed from Gulf | Business | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
Motherfuckers…
Obama, the shining beacon of progress.
Obama, the environmentalist.
Obama, who cares for the little guy and the working man.
Obama, unbeholden to corporate interests like big oil.
Yeah, right….
Obama Mandates Rules to Raise Fuel Standards – NYTimes.com
Is the timing of this announcement supposed to soften environmentalists like myself in our growling disapproval of this Obama administration’s enviornmental stewardship in light of their non-response to the Gulf Oil spill?
Maybe I’m just being cynical.
BP Oil Spill: Kevin Costner’s Oil Extractor Machine For Gulf Clean Up – ABC News
This whole thing is becoming kinda surreal. I like Field of Dreams as much as next guy but seriously, we’re bringing in Kevin Costner? Seriously?
EPA asks BP to use less toxic dispersant on oil spill – chicagotribune.com
“We are reviewing four alternative dispersants, using information in the public domain,” Mark Salt, a BP spokesman, said Thursday in a telephone interview from Houston.
Oh-my-ghod… They’re freaking googling for an answer. They really have no freaking idea what they are doing, do they?
1 Month Later, Numbers Just Get Worse for Gulf – CBS News
Spill, baby, Spill: an overview.
BP accused of cover-up | Reuters
Whhha, whhhaaa, what???!
A cover-up?
What possible motivation could they have to telling the government, public and media bold-faced lies since the spill began?
I would have snarky comment about how this isn’t news but this is the only article I’ve seen to mention a cover-up so I guess instead I have to give Reuters props.
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