1. To those who have passed, the ones we know of, and those we don’t…rest well. 2. To those still struggling to get through this…all the best to you and your families. 3. To those trying to ease their consciences with public relations spin and lies to the press…rot in your hypocrisy. Help out someone who needs it… Have a nice day. – Drake Continue reading Three simple notes on an anniversary…
From the St. Petersburg Times: “Lenny Stamos, owner of Beach Cyclists in St. Pete Beach, said he sent in five years of sales tax returns to document his $34,000 loss for last summer. The agency turned down his emergency claim for insufficient documentation, he said. He’s represented by a lawyer. “My wife and I borrowed $30,000 on our credit cards to keep the business going,” … Continue reading People continue to be left behind by the GCCF…
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…
From Danielle Thomas, an attorney with a legal aid group, who has been assisting people with their GCCF claims: “These people are still really, really hurting…bills are coming due, or they’re already way past due. They’re borrowing from friends and families. There are people living out of cars with their children… It’s unbearable for people.” From Ken Feinberg, administrator of the BP fund: “I’m doing … Continue reading Feinberg, “We’re achieving what BP and the administration want to see done.”
Via American Zombie…(oops) Meet Capt. Louis Bayhi… Before the spill he had a lucrative business, his health and the health of his family, a home, cars…but now, he’s lost his house, his vehicles and he and his family are staying at a relative’s. He’s also sick, and so are his daughters who came to swim in the waters around Grand Isle, after he was assured … Continue reading Things are not alright…in the words of Capt. Louis Bayhi…
Bob Dudley, presiding over the British Petroleum shareholders meeting, read aloud the names of the eleven men who died on the Deepwater Horizon, and then spoke of , “working hard to earn back trust…through our actions, not just our words…” – Oh, and he proceeded to mock an activist shareholder, Antonia Juhasz, who read a letter written by the father of one of the men killed, saying … Continue reading Another BP shareholder meeting, another load of Dudley
I’d buy a ticket, hell, I’d even buy a few shares of British Petroleum stock just so I could get in the door to watch, and then set them on fire during the middle of the meeting: From the Independent… “Annual general meetings are sometimes stormy affairs, but the tempest swirling around the London AGM of the oil giant BP this morning looks unprecedented. At … Continue reading Have Fun Bob! BP Shareholder Meeting Today…
“The idea that there’s some sort of conspiracy to force people to take the Quick Payment is totally false… mounting a soap box and making that argument is no substitute for taking a close look at the statistics, reviewing the claims and seeing what is going on here.” So says Ken Feinberg in response to Mississippi Attorney General Hood’s district court filing where Hood requested … Continue reading From the mouths of babes…where Feinberg throws another tantrum…
Where Barack Obama and the vast majority of Congress remain mute, the Attorneys General across the Gulf Coast continue to call it like they see it, and they see Feinberg and the GCCF putting the screws to the Gulf Coast, at the behest of British Petroleum who has been screwing them all along: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood wrote, in his second legal brief on … Continue reading And the Attorneys General continue the attack on Feinberg and the GCCF…
Oh, and you’re not needed anymore here… Earlier this year, Kenneth Feinberg reached out to former US Rep, Ahn ” Joseph” Cao to serve as a liaison to Vietnamese coastal and fishing communities, and apparently Cao made the mistake of taking his role too seriously. Ah yes, the tale of two stories… From Feinberg, a man with serious credibility issues: “We appreciate all that former … Continue reading Feinberg tells Cao to stop being so available to claimants…
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