The Gulf Oil Spill

[fusilierb]

I'm also very much like you len, which is why I didn't take any offense to what you said. Insensitive yes, but parody and laughter are all we have sometimes in the face of absolute dejection, New Orleans in particular gets this safety valve which is why we had one of the best Mardi Gras' ever right after Katrina. Your comments didn't particularly offend me and I'm living in ground zero, but they did reflect a general ambivalence that is pretty prevalent in todays world. I get it, cause I share it with you.

This oil spill should infuriate and incite everyone in this country. The cover ups and BS government positioning should make you want to laugh with disgust. But this is a big deal, its real and its hurting a lot of people and is going to hurt a lot worse before its over.

It's an outrage that should wake us all up and should never be tolerated again. It seems like we have no control in this absurd world we live in. But fury and anger always beats the weak minded. Get angry and get pissed. And don't let their games make you ambivalent to the fact that we don't have to tolerate their BS.
B

PS. BP's stock is down 40%. I think we can do much better than that folks.

[mojobone]

Hear, hear. Let's all get stinkin' rich and buy a Tesla. Oh, wait, most electricity's from coal....hokay, change of plans; time to invent the hydrogen economy, cuz the alternative's nuclear. (notice how I didn't say "nucular", heh)

[fusilierb]

I'm totally down with hydrogen. I saw this show a few years ago, don't remember the name but Allen Alda hosts it) and they interviewed this old man in Germany or somewhere close who had managed to capture a hydrogen reaction in a solid. Hydrogen is scary as a gas cause it tends to explode and cars tend to wreck into each other. But this guy had managed to make the frame of the car out of "some sort of witchcraft" that actually held the hydrogen in a solid form and could store it in a solid frame (rigid enough to actually build a car around) and convert it into drivable energy (again through more witchcraft). He built this car in his garage and it WORKED. He drove it to the "expo" and Allen Alda drove it. It worked!!!

Nuclear, no such a big fan of. It's a great idea until something goes wrong. Kind of like deep drilling.
B

[mojobone]

Well, actually, the tech's pretty mature; the problem is what to do with the waste, heh.

[fusilierb]

Well, actually, the tech's pretty mature; the problem is what to do with the waste, heh.

I've actually heard retards say that we should shoot it to the moon. And by retards, I mean highly educated fools.

Now that's a lovely moon tonight dear.

[mojobone]

Well, it's not nice to say, "retards", but even I gotta admit "developmentally differently abled" is kind of a mouthful. (and I used to work with fill-in-the-politically-correct-term kids) (is it still okay to call 'em kids?)

[fusilierb]

Oh yeah, I forgot I'm not in my house. Sorry. My bad. Developmentally challenged for sure. Got to learn to remember the difference between facebook and Taxi forums. Or more truly, should never drink and drive computers. Dangerous!

[t4mh]

I think I'll just bow out of the whole energy discussion...
Keith

[2lane]

Hey Chits, great lyrics. BP's A$$ sucks oily gulf water....oily,thanks to them BTW!
Cool song......uke girl
Steve

[squids]

Oh, and chants out to Jen who's in our area too......jes hopin it can somehow stay our way and not drift ova to Florida or anywhere else. And no storms. Please.

I'm afraid that the news is gonna get a lot worse before it gets better on this one. It just hit Dauphin Island today and is moving towards Florida. Louisiana's already been taking on oil for three weeks now. The storms are going to be very active this year, which is going to complicate the relief well, to say the very least. There is never a good time for a catastrophe, but we were finally really starting to rebound from Katrina here, so the timing is especially depressing.

Keep your head high. Keep being mad. And keep fighting. Once they finally figure out how to stop this damned thing, we'll do whatever we have to to clean up our shores. I just hope that the wildlife is as resilient as the people are. The two are extremely interdependent in my state. This is one for the record books. It's gonna be a long slow road to recover from this, both ecologically and economically and mentally and emotionally.

We have to, as a species, get serious about alternative energy or we're going to destroy everything that sustains us on this planet.

B

It hit shore here today. I honestly am at a loss. I don't think I can safely allow my kids to stay here if they're gonna be burning off shore like they've been (about every four days these days) if they're gonna do it daily. If a hurricane hits, the oil will go where the rain/surge go. I'll have to let the bank take the house and I'll still owe the SBA 40 grand.

I can't figure out what the hell to do, Bryan. I'm almost outta mad. I don't get why this isn't considered a national disaster, why there aren't more military here, why my governor keeps saying it isn't so bad or that it won't hit when it is and it did. Are all the politicians jes gone crazy now or is it jes me?

Brokenhearted, lost squids