Subject: Telling it like it is!!!!
Telling it like it is!!!!
Subject: In High Dudgeon
If it wasn't for the very real, disastrous effects that can be expected from the vast and still spreading oil slick in the Gulf, the handling of this debacle by the Administration would make for high comedy. It's like, you don't have to be an idiot to work for this crowd, but it helps. You could think of it as a sort of a job enhancement quality.
Frantic locals, like Gov. Bobby Jindal, asking for permission from the EPA to build berms, or artificial barrier islands, to prevent the oil from reaching the environmentally sensitive shores of Louisiana have been stonewalled. After stalling for weeks, they OK'd just six, not the 24 or so that were requested. That's like using a condom with multiple holes in it-what's the point?
No, the geniuses at EPA have to do a study-you believe this?-yeah, they want to make sure that their plans are environmentally sound. Unlike the gigantic oil spill that's almost there. I mean, these people must be friggin' morons. Does anyone there understand what an emergency is?
And speaking of morons, after acknowledging that BP is the only entity that actually has any expertise (or appropriate equipment) in this situation, just how smart is it to announce that the Attorney General is going to launch a criminal investigation, while the crisis is still ongoing and while BP is still needed to stop the gushing leak? Great psychology.
This is a guy who somehow dismissed the actual voter intimidation by two Black Panthers, that everyone saw on TV, yet wants to investigate the new Arizona law enforcing the law on illegal immigration (before he actually read the statute, by his own admission) for possible civil rights violations.
This is a guy who can't find his ass with both hands and a map!
And no one is pointing out the obvious - none of this would be happening if the oil rig was not 40 plus miles offshore and over a mile deep, under crushing pressures that preclude the use of divers and most submersibles. If it had been on dry land, this ruptured pipe would have been shut down in about two hours. Not even mentioned in a news story, except maybe on page 43.
And why aren't there dozens of ships surrounding the giant oil slick, sucking it up with vacuums for processing and storage, while eliminating the oil from the water?
And wasn't this BP the same outfit that the regulators in Washington, D.C. Just presented with a safety award?
Is there a brain, or one marginally competent person in this entire Administration?
Obviously, a self evident and rhetorical question.
And these are the same assholes that want to be (and now ARE) in charge of our health care. I don't know about you, but that thought scares the living Hell out of me.
Sorry to be in high dudgeon, but every so often, the idiocy levels rise to the boiling point and (you should pardon the expression) spill over. At that point, I have to vent, or blow up.
Look, this is not an ideological dispute; it's not a Democratic, Republican, left or right, liberal or conservative issue. Neither is it the usual example of environmental wretched excess. This is a real, honest-to-God disaster.
And we need some competent people to do the right thing, decisively, without worrying about which way the political winds are blowing. Accidents happen. That's a fact of life. But, it's how we deal with accidents that defines who we are.
Subject: In High Dudgeon
If it wasn't for the very real, disastrous effects that can be expected from the vast and still spreading oil slick in the Gulf, the handling of this debacle by the Administration would make for high comedy. It's like, you don't have to be an idiot to work for this crowd, but it helps. You could think of it as a sort of a job enhancement quality.
Frantic locals, like Gov. Bobby Jindal, asking for permission from the EPA to build berms, or artificial barrier islands, to prevent the oil from reaching the environmentally sensitive shores of Louisiana have been stonewalled. After stalling for weeks, they OK'd just six, not the 24 or so that were requested. That's like using a condom with multiple holes in it-what's the point?
No, the geniuses at EPA have to do a study-you believe this?-yeah, they want to make sure that their plans are environmentally sound. Unlike the gigantic oil spill that's almost there. I mean, these people must be friggin' morons. Does anyone there understand what an emergency is?
And speaking of morons, after acknowledging that BP is the only entity that actually has any expertise (or appropriate equipment) in this situation, just how smart is it to announce that the Attorney General is going to launch a criminal investigation, while the crisis is still ongoing and while BP is still needed to stop the gushing leak? Great psychology.
This is a guy who somehow dismissed the actual voter intimidation by two Black Panthers, that everyone saw on TV, yet wants to investigate the new Arizona law enforcing the law on illegal immigration (before he actually read the statute, by his own admission) for possible civil rights violations.
This is a guy who can't find his ass with both hands and a map!
And no one is pointing out the obvious - none of this would be happening if the oil rig was not 40 plus miles offshore and over a mile deep, under crushing pressures that preclude the use of divers and most submersibles. If it had been on dry land, this ruptured pipe would have been shut down in about two hours. Not even mentioned in a news story, except maybe on page 43.
And why aren't there dozens of ships surrounding the giant oil slick, sucking it up with vacuums for processing and storage, while eliminating the oil from the water?
And wasn't this BP the same outfit that the regulators in Washington, D.C. Just presented with a safety award?
Is there a brain, or one marginally competent person in this entire Administration?
Obviously, a self evident and rhetorical question.
And these are the same assholes that want to be (and now ARE) in charge of our health care. I don't know about you, but that thought scares the living Hell out of me.
Sorry to be in high dudgeon, but every so often, the idiocy levels rise to the boiling point and (you should pardon the expression) spill over. At that point, I have to vent, or blow up.
Look, this is not an ideological dispute; it's not a Democratic, Republican, left or right, liberal or conservative issue. Neither is it the usual example of environmental wretched excess. This is a real, honest-to-God disaster.
And we need some competent people to do the right thing, decisively, without worrying about which way the political winds are blowing. Accidents happen. That's a fact of life. But, it's how we deal with accidents that defines who we are.
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Oh fun.
And speaking of morons, after acknowledging that BP is the only entity that actually has any expertise (or appropriate equipment) in this situation, just how smart is it to announce that the Attorney General is going to launch a criminal investigation, while the crisis is still ongoing and while BP is still needed to stop the gushing leak? Great psychology.
Indeed, we wouldn't want BP to think that they might actually get held responsible for their actions. That would just be crazy.
This is a guy who somehow dismissed the actual voter intimidation by two Black Panthers, that everyone saw on TV,
Again with this crap? There were 2 black guys loitering outside one polling place. When they were asked to leave, they left. No charges for voter intimidation were filed because (gasp!) no voters had actually been intimated! Yet somehow these two evil masterminds threw the election to Obama. Magic.
And no one is pointing out the obvious - none of this would be happening if the oil rig was not 40 plus miles offshore and over a mile deep, under crushing pressures that preclude the use of divers and most submersibles.
Um, ok? And if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bicycle. What's the fucking point? Who held the gun to BP's head and said they had to go and drill this oil from this well and make a huge profit off it? Poor dears, all they wanted to do was drill for non existent oil on dry land.
Of course the real point is that this thing wouldn't have exploded if the rig had the safety shut off mechanism, which of course it didn't because BP didn't want it.
And why aren't there dozens of ships surrounding the giant oil slick, sucking it up with vacuums for processing and storage, while eliminating the oil from the water?
And why isn't Aqua man commanding the creatures of the deep to go plug the oil leak?
Look, this is not an ideological dispute; it's not a Democratic, Republican, left or right, liberal or conservative issue
Except of course that I'm a raging right wing conservative Republican.
And these are the same assholes that want to be (and now ARE) in charge of our health care. I don't know about you, but that thought scares the living Hell out of me.
News alert! I'm in charge of my health care, and you are in charge of yours.
Loved the Aquaman comment.
"Frantic locals, like Gov. Bobby Jindal, asking for permission from the EPA to build berms, or artificial barrier islands, to prevent the oil from reaching the environmentally sensitive shores of Louisiana have been stonewalled."
I wonder how he feels claiming that one of the big examples of government waste was researching how to help prevent natural disasters like volcanoes.
"And wasn't this BP the same outfit that the regulators in Washington, D.C. Just presented with a safety award?"
And we're you the same asshole chanting "drill baby, drill" at campaign rallies 18 months ago?
You should only drill on land and ruin that.
This is a lot of "stream of consciousness" babble. Some stuff I agree with, but a lot of it is "teh stoopid." And then in the middle we get treated to rants on topics unrelated to the oil volcano crisis - to whit, the AZ immigration law & the pathetic claim about scary black dudes allegedly intimidating voters (except they didn't).
Wish this loser could stick to one topic. And yes, I think my response could be summed up similarly to first Anon post: I thought the free market took care of everything. So why are you whining about the horrible job the gov't allegedly is doing???
And if you're unhappy with how this is all proceeding: fine. Good. Then stick to the topic and come up with some solutions. How ELSE would you like things handled, other than to NOT have the EPA involved?
A lot of this is just complaining about how horrid BHO is. What did Bush ever do that was any better?
I agree that Obama isn't doing the greatest job. I'm not that happy either. But I also don't run around shrieking that "market" is better position to "handle" this kind of crisis, as Republics do on a regular basis.
I want a stronger govt with firmer regulatory practices like we *used to* have before Bush installed all of his corporate cronies in the agencies to cozy up to big business and let them do... just what BP is doing.
IF you don't like what you're seeing, then THINK a little about what went wrong and led to this disaster, and HOW could things be handled differently going forward???
My vote is to re-strengthen the Fed Agencies, LIKE the EPA, OSHA, MMS, FDA - as they used to be - and have them do their jobs. A LOT of this disaster may have been avoided if MMS had been doing the job they were originally supposed to do.
I would personally also like to see Ken Salazar booted out and replaced with someone more progressive and less of a crony to BigOil.
Is anyone else wondering who the intended audience for this nonsense is?
The article is far too foamy-at-the-mouth ranting, to rife with non-sequitors, and generally just to idiotic to convince any intellegent people.
But I'm pretty sure the hardcore Republican base doesn't know what fancy-pants words like "debacle", "statute", "preclude" [sic], "rhetorical", "wretched", or a bunch of the other big words, mean. I'm also pretty sure the hardcore Republican base can't decipher the marginally complex sentence structure in which some of this screed is written.
So who IS this author aiming at?
Propaganda FAIL.
"Telling it like it is" = "This guy/girl is batshit insane and/or has no idea what he/she is talking about"
"This is not a Democratic/liberal or Republican/conservative thing" = "I am definitely an extreme conservative bashing on Democrats."
Typical gov't doubletalk. BO wants to find some butt to kick but yet BP has him in their back pocket. Check out this story.....http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/rahm_emanuel_lived_rent_free_i.html
@ Anon
Typical conservative deflection. The oil industry gives far more to Republicans, who are eager to carry its water. Or oil, as it were. The lax regulation which led to the BP spill can be directly traced to the buddy buddy relationship between Big Oil and W.
I agree that there are issues with BHO's relationship with BP, and I am a died-in-the-wool bleedy edge liberal/progressive. It does seem to me as if almost ALL of our govt is bought off by the corporations, possibly including BHO.
So: I'm fine to shout this out.
But I also wholeheartedly agree with the last Anon post. MMS is a big JOKE since W stuffed that agency with hookers 'n blow coporate cronies. I agree that the problem is NOW Obama's, and I'm disappointed in his lack of clean-up effort with that agency.
But: the difference between me and conservatives is that I DO call out crappy work/behavior/ethics and what have you, no matter WHO is in office. Conservatives? Not a chance. Witness the UNENDING stream of knee-jerk b.s. whining, complaining and victimizing in these rightwing email forwards - most of them really stupid, and most of them written by rightwing corporate think-tanks.
ALL citizens would be well advised to OPEN their eyes no matter who is in office and QUESTION strongly what's going on and who's doing what to whom and about what.
I agree that too many democratic voters get lazy and complacent, too, and too agreeable if it's a Dem admin. That said, we do NOT see an unending stream of knee-jerk anti-right propoganda flowing forth from the left. Doesn't happen. Democratic voters and liberals are much more likely to QUESTION what's going on, no matter who is in office.
Our fed. regulatory agencies were gutted, one and all, and rendered into corporate crony kingdoms by the Bush Admin. I am disappointed that BHO has not done more to rectify this situation and install more qualified and less corporately indebted staffers.
What is the solution from the right? Mostly what I hear is to just GUT the agencies altogether and let the so-called "free market" take care of itself.
IF conservatives are unhappy with the oil volcano and how BHO is handling the situation: fine. But then start by looking at what happened with Mines & Mineral Safety under Bush. And go on from there.
I WELCOME a LOYAL opposition, but that means doing some homework, not just parroting out Rush & Glenn's stupid rightwing talking points and congratulating yourself for a "job well done."
Look, this is not an ideological dispute;
Yes it is.
it's not a Democratic, Republican, left or right, liberal or conservative issue.
Yes it is.
Neither is it the usual example of environmental wretched excess.
Yes it is.
This is a real, honest-to-God disaster.
God had nothing to do with it.
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