Barack Obama, you're a liar.

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

Dalen Wrote:

Just got back into town, and have avoided the news for the past 3 days. I come home and read this shit...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/31/louisi ... tml?hpt=C1

gd it, this pisses me off.

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

http://www.businessinsider.com/lmrp--risks-2010-5

Kingfish · **Posted:** Mon May 31, 2010 10:10 pm

Dalen Wrote:

Just got back into town, and have avoided the news for the past 3 days. I come home and read this shit...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/31/louisi ... tml?hpt=C1

Dalen this story will break your heart.

My mom is a counselor at an elementary school. A couple of days ago, a 3rd grade girl came up to her and told her, "My parents canceled by birthday party because my dad is a charter fisherman and we can't afford it now." I think about that girl every time I read/see a story about this.

Dalen · **Posted:** Mon May 31, 2010 10:30 pm

Kingfish Wrote:

Dalen Wrote:

Just got back into town, and have avoided the news for the past 3 days. I come home and read this shit...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/31/louisi ... tml?hpt=C1

Dalen this story will break your heart.

My mom is a counselor at an elementary school. A couple of days ago, a 3rd grade girl came up to her and told her, "My parents canceled by birthday party because my dad is a charter fisherman and we can't afford it now." I think about that girl every time I read/see a story about this.

exactly right. i think a lot of people don't take into account how this is going to affect these coastal families for years, shit, decades to come. fucking tragic man.

ShamWow! · **Posted:** Mon May 31, 2010 11:23 pm

If BP were smart, they'd take some of their windfall profits from the last five years and establish a small business relief fund. Make no-interest loans against the claims they'll eventually have to pay. If they try to hold their purse strings too tight, Pelosi and Reid are going to strip them bare. Unfortunately, when that happens, none of the money will go where it's needed most.

robotboy · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:08 am

this one guy i know literally had no idea that this oil spill happened. i mean, thats hard to do

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:55 am

Does he work at BP?

tentoze · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 10:04 am

ShamWow! Wrote:

If BP were smart, they'd take some of their windfall profits from the last five years and establish a small business relief fund. Make no-interest loans against the claims they'll eventually have to pay. If they try to hold their purse strings too tight, Pelosi and Reid are going to strip them bare. Unfortunately, when that happens, none of the money will go where it's needed most.

Why on earth would they do that when they can drag it out in the courts until God Come Thursday? See also Exxon Valdez.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:12 am

Interesting opinion piece

Quote:

According to BP, the Maconda oil field in which the Deep Water Horizon was drilling contained an estimated 50 to 100 million barrels of oil. This may seem like a lot, unless one pauses to make a simple calculation. With a world-wide liquid fuel consumption of about 85 million barrels per day, this entire oil field could over its entire life-span provide only 14 to 28 total hours of world energy capability. In the light of the sort of basic math that neither our journalists nor our government sees important enough to share, if they’ve even performed it themselves, this sort of off-shore oil quest seems a bit desperate. This desperation instead looks pathetic and just plain depressing if you take enough time to note that the total amount of oil spilled as of today would have provided enough of the world’s oil supply to last about 11 minutes. Consider the overall loss of marine wild-life and local livelihood lost and perhaps irreparably damaged for a few minutes of energy.

discostu · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:41 pm

Saint Wrote:

Dalen Wrote:

Just got back into town, and have avoided the news for the past 3 days. I come home and read this shit...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/31/louisi ... tml?hpt=C1

gd it, this pisses me off.

Capt. Sean Lanier Wrote:

As far as the U.S. government taking a more active role -- Lanier says, no way.

"They're good at running armies and making highways. I just wish they'd stay out of it, 'cause they usually screw up something worse than what is," he says.

Keep yr gummint hands off my gummint-protected marshlands!!

Thee Incident · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 6:32 pm

Dave Vitter, sticking up for the little guy.

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/06 ... z0pdgcy2zR

Oh, wait.

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:58 pm

Dave Vitter thinks all that petroleum looks like poop & wonders why we havn't diapered the Gulf, yet.

ShamWow! · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:59 pm

tentoze Wrote:

ShamWow! Wrote:

If BP were smart, they'd take some of their windfall profits from the last five years and establish a small business relief fund. Make no-interest loans against the claims they'll eventually have to pay. If they try to hold their purse strings too tight, Pelosi and Reid are going to strip them bare. Unfortunately, when that happens, none of the money will go where it's needed most.

Why on earth would they do that when they can drag it out in the courts until God Come Thursday? See also Exxon Valdez.

ShamWow! Wrote:

against the claims they'll eventually have to pay

It wouldn't add much to their eventual out of pocket costs, and it would buy them some much-needed goodwill.

The Exxon Valdez didn't crash in an environment where folks' economic hardships had been stoked by anti-corporation rhetoric (the Feds have already launched a criminal investigation). There's blood in the water (amidst the gallons of crude) and BP should be looking for any shark repellant they can find.

tentoze · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:58 pm

ShamWow! Wrote:

tentoze Wrote:

ShamWow! Wrote:

If BP were smart, they'd take some of their windfall profits from the last five years and establish a small business relief fund. Make no-interest loans against the claims they'll eventually have to pay. If they try to hold their purse strings too tight, Pelosi and Reid are going to strip them bare. Unfortunately, when that happens, none of the money will go where it's needed most.

Why on earth would they do that when they can drag it out in the courts until God Come Thursday? See also Exxon Valdez.

ShamWow! Wrote:

against the claims they'll eventually have to pay

It wouldn't add much to their eventual out of pocket costs, and it would buy them some much-needed goodwill.

Since no one can possibly know what BP's "eventual out of pocket costs" might end up being, it does nothing to answer the question posed. As for the postulated "much-needed goodwill", I'd really like to think you weren't being serious in that remark. The rat bastard head of BP stated publicly today that he "just wants his life back." Good will? Good grief.

Quote:

The Exxon Valdez didn't crash in an environment where folks' economic hardships had been stoked by anti-corporation rhetoric (the Feds have already launched a criminal investigation). There's blood in the water (amidst the gallons of crude) and BP should be looking for any shark repellant they can find.

There SHOULD be a criminal investigation. Human beings died, and a determination must be made as to whether or not either BP or Transocean were criminally negligent in the construction, operation, or maintenance of the Deepwater Horizon rig.

As for the impact of Exxon Valdez on folks' economic hardships, smart money says that the families of locals who committed suicide in the aftermath of the incident had, and continue to have, no love for Exxon. And the litigation continues. And continues. And continues.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

Interesting opinion piece

Quote:

According to BP, the Maconda oil field in which the Deep Water Horizon was drilling contained an estimated 50 to 100 million barrels of oil. This may seem like a lot, unless one pauses to make a simple calculation. With a world-wide liquid fuel consumption of about 85 million barrels per day, this entire oil field could over its entire life-span provide only 14 to 28 total hours of world energy capability. In the light of the sort of basic math that neither our journalists nor our government sees important enough to share, if they’ve even performed it themselves, this sort of off-shore oil quest seems a bit desperate. This desperation instead looks pathetic and just plain depressing if you take enough time to note that the total amount of oil spilled as of today would have provided enough of the world’s oil supply to last about 11 minutes. Consider the overall loss of marine wild-life and local livelihood lost and perhaps irreparably damaged for a few minutes of energy.

jesus h christ. of course nothing will change until we completely run out of oil.

tentoze · **Posted:** Wed Jun 02, 2010 8:36 pm

From: http://thelensnola.org/2010/05/24/five-years-after-katrina-the-return-of-disaster-capitalism/

"BP representative Hugh Depland said that while the company wasn’t sure exactly when more workers would be hired, the $239 billion company was spending “a lot of money, time and effort to bring this event to a close.” And to those worried restaurateurs facing rising prices for shrimp and oysters? In the words of fellow BP rep Randy Prescott: “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.”"

His office phone number is (713)323-4093 and his email is randy.prescott@bp.com.

Kingfish · **Posted:** Wed Jun 02, 2010 9:31 pm

tentoze Wrote:

From: http://thelensnola.org/2010/05/24/five-years-after-katrina-the-return-of-disaster-capitalism/

"BP representative Hugh Depland said that while the company wasn’t sure exactly when more workers would be hired, the $239 billion company was spending “a lot of money, time and effort to bring this event to a close.” And to those worried restaurateurs facing rising prices for shrimp and oysters? In the words of fellow BP rep Randy Prescott: “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.”"

His office phone number is (713)323-4093 and his email is randy.prescott@bp.com.

It's not the only but it provides like 40% of the nation's domestic shrimp. What a stupid thing to say.

Dalen · **Posted:** Thu Jun 03, 2010 8:52 am

tentoze Wrote:

And to those worried restaurateurs facing rising prices for shrimp and oysters? In the words of fellow BP rep Randy Prescott: “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.”"

His office phone number is (713)323-4093 and his email is randy.prescott@bp.com.

this is telling of what some of the folks at BP must really think about the Gulf. truly fucked up.

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:16 am

Dalen Wrote:

tentoze Wrote:

And to those worried restaurateurs facing rising prices for shrimp and oysters? In the words of fellow BP rep Randy Prescott: “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.”"

His office phone number is (713)323-4093 and his email is randy.prescott@bp.com.

this is telling of what some of the folks at BP must really think about the Gulf. truly fucked up.

Dalen, this is where all your & LooG's gloating about making so much money you could own us ends up.

Everything is cash to someone like a BP exec. Nothing more.

tentoze · **Posted:** Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:29 am

MAX TARDCORE Wrote:

Dalen Wrote:

tentoze Wrote:

And to those worried restaurateurs facing rising prices for shrimp and oysters? In the words of fellow BP rep Randy Prescott: “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.”"

His office phone number is (713)323-4093 and his email is randy.prescott@bp.com.

this is telling of what some of the folks at BP must really think about the Gulf. truly fucked up.

Dalen, this is where all your & LooG's gloating about making so much money you could own us ends up.

Attention Dalen & Loogar- You rich fuckers kill the Gulf of Mexico and we gwine rise up, break dese chains, and skin y'all alive. Fo' sho'..

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Thu Jun 03, 2010 12:49 pm

tentoze Wrote:

MAX TARDCORE Wrote:

Dalen Wrote:

tentoze Wrote:

And to those worried restaurateurs facing rising prices for shrimp and oysters? In the words of fellow BP rep Randy Prescott: “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.”"

His office phone number is (713)323-4093 and his email is randy.prescott@bp.com.

this is telling of what some of the folks at BP must really think about the Gulf. truly fucked up.

Dalen, this is where all your & LooG's gloating about making so much money you could own us ends up.

Attention Dalen & Loogar- You rich fuckers kill the Gulf of Mexico and we gwine rise up, break dese chains, and skin y'all alive. Fo' sho'..

Just remember, I'm like Big Jim Folsom - the little man's big friend.

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 03, 2010 2:27 pm

Do they have boats in the water that are vacuuming up the oil? Can't they just bend the pipe up with one of their robots to put a kink in it like a garden hose?

This shit is ridiculous.

toots · **Posted:** Thu Jun 03, 2010 2:30 pm

"put a sock in it"

-mom

robotboy · **Posted:** Thu Jun 03, 2010 2:32 pm

did anyone call that number

shaMoxie · **Posted:** Thu Jun 03, 2010 2:38 pm

timmyjoe42 Wrote:

Do they have boats in the water that are vacuuming up the oil? Can't they just bend the pipe up with one of their robots to put a kink in it like a garden hose?

This shit is ridiculous.

are you really an architect or engineer? like constanza-style?

Barack Obama, you're a liar.

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