I don’t believe there is enough dispersents in the
world for what is going on down there now.

A big liberal blot

I can’t help but wonder how long before Pat Robertson or some other religious wing-nutter comes out blaming the blow out on gays and atheism.

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fat freddy,

thanks for that link. most precious.

jimnp72,

I am just waiting and looking to see who will
eventually give bp the pass their lobbyists are bribing for and
that includes the fool in the white house, who would seemingly
NOT do so so that would not have a bearing on his chance for
another term, if he ever thought he had one with his record
since inauguration time.

But bp does have the advantage of a congress that won’t do their
job, the president in some shape or fashion, and then the
supreme john roberts court and his fellow federalist henchmen
who have the tricks in the bag that will let a litigation flounder
for decades before anything would happen to bp, and
oh yeah, the government departments depending on a huge
influx of criminal bribe dollars coming their way to obstruct and
obfuscate any legal wranglings.

And besides the disaster of the dangers of unfettered free market capitalism what should stand out and what should bear paying attention to is how lobbying is used to effect changes in favor of corporate interests which lobbying is just a cute quaint legal sounding term for criminal bribery which creates 2 sets of criminals, the person lobbying, called influence peddling and criminal bribery, of an elected official or government employee and then it makes the elected official or government employee a criminal by accepting a bribe for personal gain and power. When this is really recognized for what it is, surely the people’s outrage should grow even more intense.  But I doubt it will.

I just wonder when blackwater will show up.

hey Sameosamo

I’m sure you are thrilled as I am to see the brave Mitch Mconnel coming to poor
bp’s aid and vigorously defending their 75 million liability cap. Cant have his oil
stocks go down now, can we?

Let’s be very clear, here. It is not “greed” that is to blame here. The prevailing attitudes amongst these big, monopolistic corporations is arrogance, and complacency. The accumulation of wealth is just a reinforcement of these attitudes. Money and profits are merely a “scorecard”. Too big to fail means too big to manage, and too big to regulate. This breeds incompetence and corruption on the part of the internal bureaucracies of the firm and the regulators. 

On a related note, if you know proper fucking booming, you are probably a fucking pussy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx8kMXufu3w

Can’t believe they have no plans for underwater emergencies, did it never occur that such a break could happen, that is what is most surprising. When Saddam Hussein set the oil fields of Kuwait on fire, we had experts in within days putting them out, guys like Red`Adair..
We need to get government off our backs and onto the backs of these corporations. Mostly to blame is Wall Street and their obsession with every increasing profits, which leads to employees with no health care, environmental concerns ignored, etc.
Are those who work in Wall Street without a conscience or are they sociopaths.

And you know what?
Everybody will jump up and down, scream bloody murder;
blame will spread faster than the Black Plague in
Europe and…
Nothing meaningful will happen and the media will find
the next thing to capture our ire and it will just go
on and on and on…
You are the only one who can change your life; change
really does start with you.
So whataya gona do?
I thought so…

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There is one goddamn thing that the criminally controlled
mainstream media WON’T be able to hide and cover up once the
full import of this disaster is reckoned. All anyone will have to
do is go down to the gulf coast and see the horror of what
unregulated and unfettered corporate interests will do. And it
isn’t over yet because these ecological terrorists will use their
criminal bribers, lobbyists and lawyers, to seek and most likely
attain little or NO accountability for their irresponiblility in the
lust for higher profits. All of them are much deserving of hard
time and costly financial penalties for what is happening in the
gulf of mexico.

And any elected person or employee of our government needs
to be held complicit if there is any amount of ‘forgiveness’ or
favoritism of bp for their disaster and those government
personages need to be handled just as harshly as the whole of
bp should be.

And if the scotus happens to step in and ‘help’ bp, then it is
time to really go after those bastards as their agendas will surely
be noticeable of favoring this corporation if they try a sweeping
‘pass’ for bp.

There is more than enough blame to go around with this monstrous disaster of incalculable dimensions. Yes, BP is a British company. But all the permits were issued in the US, and prostitutes encouraging them to ‘drill, baby, drill!’ are located right here also. Many of them are elected officials. Others are bureaucrats in both Federal and State Governments

Then, there are those purists who insist their hands are clean because they just invest in these Criminal Corporations. They need the big returns to ensure their retirement, pay for the 2nd home, send the kids to college, etc etc etc.

There is lots to think about when you consider this. I’d suggest those of you who are religious might start by contemplating the sins of greed and gluttony, and the wages of those sins. The secularists, like me, might reconsider the need for firing squads and summary judgments against financial criminals. Then there is the whole definition of ‘eco-terrorist’...

It appears the Southeast will have to change its entire economy and way of life. It would help if the rest of us would do the same, altho that is unlikely given our ‘need’ for more and more ‘stuff’.

Who’s depressed?

There should be a bunch in jail right now !!!!

BP’s oil disaster= America’s Chernobyl. Yup.

what a senseless tragedy.
I keep thinking of Jimmy Carter and how the repubs ridiculed him for his advocacy
for sustainable energy. he wanted us to change our ways , imagine if research, as
opposed to relentless obstruction by the energy giants , had been allowed to go
forward. Those of you old enough remember them gleefully kicking the solar
panels off of the white house roof when reagan took office. assholes thanx a lot

PP The Planetary Polluters from the UK are hard at work doing what they do best ,and that’s wreak the planet ‘Mother Earth ’ in their quest to promote Imperialism and Capititalist greed ,which by the way
translates into -Control-.Very little has changed since the First World War and the new found value of OIL on the global stage ,the Brits realized the importance of crude as a replacement to coal and what Mesopotamia had to offer ,Kuwait should ring a bell and yes ;good old Winston comes to mind along with the illustrious RAF and their spread of democracy ,in what now is known as a blossoming business venture
in Iraq. Anthony of Kut Al Amara is still proud ,after all its all about the Legacy -stupid.

Just might be time to sell the condo in Ft. Lauderdale….
What if we convert the nuclear subs to diesel and they could cruise underwater
clean up patterns in the gulf and do something useful.

Sad to even think that allowing this reservoir to empty itself as
being the only way to…. hell, it is already an disastrous
nightmare that will not be fixed in our life times and surely will
render a substantial part of the planet a hazardous waste site.

It would be hard to believe that a corporation as bp or any
corporation to so flippantly disregard their responsibility in their
greed for more profits and less or NO accountability. Seizing
and breaking up bp should never be discarded as a reasonable
action to take against this most insidious group.