A recent film, originally airing April 22nd on Discovery Planet Green, documents the impact of the oil spill on Gulf residents… “You go out in the water and think everything’s okay, but it’s not. You close your eyes and you don’t hear any seagulls, there’s no fish jumping.” “I’ve been in the bayou my whole life, and I ain’t ever seen so much dead stuff as … Continue reading Stories From the Gulf: Living with the Oil Disaster
Okay, so first we acknowledge the obvious: Lawyers being lawyers, and British Petroleum having long since given up that whole “making things right,” and “actions, not words” schtick – at least in reality – of course BP is going to try to use every legal maneuver to pay as little as possible to anyone. Their company’s in trouble now that the Rosneft deal looks blown so yeah, … Continue reading Here come the lawyers…a day in Judge Barbier’s court…
“I sent an email to President Obama saying, ‘You are a fucking traitor,’ using those words… ‘You’re a traitor, you allowed foreign boots on our soil telling our military — in this case the coastguard — what they can and could not do, and telling us, the citizens of the United States, what we could or could not do’.” – Peter Fonda So said the … Continue reading He said it…
Hello… Yes, I still kill people for a living. But today, let’s talk about life, and family…you might think that since I spend time ending lives I have no respect for life, but you’d be wrong…I do, I respect the hell out of a lot of people though when I don’t, well…you can guess the rest but I’m here today to echo a convo I … Continue reading For the New Orleans Assassin, it’s all about family…
Hey, I thought this whole oil spill deal was all kinda, you know…over. At least that’s the impression I got watching all them there sparkly British Petroleum commercials, but man, over the past two days, the news has been flying pretty serious again in the Gulf, and between you, me, the courts and the water…I think this has just begun…Maybe I just got distracted by … Continue reading And so it begins: Year Two…
And now, a word from our sponsors… Sleigh Bells – Treats The hidden subtext? Obviously… Well, hello again MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and FoxNews! Welcome back, so glad you have a budget, no…please, tell us how we should feel…what we should think…how to behave…the proper response to misfortune…how gracious we should all be…yes, we have someone who will cry on camera…yes, we can show … Continue reading And now, a word from our sponsors…the mainstream media returns for the anniversary version…
It would appear a pattern is developing in this great land of ours. Simply put, we begin with a tragedy, then we have an investigation which discovers the governmental agencies designed to prevent such tragedies either fell down on the job or didn’t care, and even worse, the fail-safe for the agency that didn’t do their job is woefully unprepared to handle the mess created. … Continue reading So, they’ll get it right this time? Oil spills, mine disasters, levees and forgetfulness…
So, as I commented two days ago, Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange fired off an angry letter to Ken Feinberg, the BP paid administrator of BP’s compensation fund outlining several objections he had with the process, chief among them being the snail’s pace and meager size of the payments, the lack of transparency in the process, and the stress this is causing to the citizens of his state. Mr. Strange demanded … Continue reading Feinberg fights back? An answer to his answer to the Strange letter…
What a week… Lot of news from the Gulf these past few days…so this morning, I kinda stepped back a bit and cleared the mind before taking a look at this whole mess from the outside…especially in light of a reader comment I received yesterday, who asked what people can do to keep the pressure on British Petroleum and the GCCF. But before I get to … Continue reading Stepping back and looking in…what to do now?
So, let’s take a look at a few recent headlines, shall we? From the Tri-Parish Times, tar balls are again seen coming ashore on Elmer’s Island. The Louisiana Bucket Brigade’s Peter Brabeck, an environmental monitor, spotted the new oil deposits and called them “the worst instance of oil contamination since the BP oil spill.” From the newsstar.com, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries expert said … Continue reading How best to fight the oil? Umm, I dunno, and it seems BP/NOAA trying to keep it that way…
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