Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Sunday, August 1, 2010

"Feel Free to Poison the Gulf of Mexico, BP"

That would seem to have been the official attitude of the Coast Guard, which has taken the attitude throughout the BP Oil Spill of "whatever you guys at BP want to do is all right with us."
The Coast Guard approved dozens of requests by BP to spread hundreds of thousands of gallons of surface oil dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico despite the Environmental Protection Agency’s directive on May 26 that they should be used only rarely, according to documents and correspondence analyzed by a Congressional subcommittee.
Between allowing BP to forbid the use of safety gear, decide who can fly where and who can see what, the Coast Guard has been operating as though it were a subsidiary of British Petroleum, rather than an agency of the U.S. Government.

BP's overuse of dispersants means that the oil, instead of being seen as large globs and goops that might have been picked up by skimmers, is now entering the Gulf's food chain. They've done a bang-up job of poisoning the Gulf.

1 comment:

Nangleator said...

We should have foreseen that a branch of the U.S. military would throw in with a foreign corporation...

Okay, I guess we can be forgiven for not seeing this coming.

But it would be nice to arrange it so all Gulf Coasties had to restrict their diet to seafood caught in the gulf for the next two years.

If duty and loyalty and a fucking paycheck isn't enough to motivate them to protect us, perhaps they could be convinced if their own lives were on the line.