What, exactly, is with the extremist right wing in this country and all the talk of animals and shootin’ guns and teeth-barin’ metaphors?
Posts Tagged ‘ oil spill ’
Congressmen say the darndest things…
Let’s look this up in Politics for Dummies. Yep, there it is…page 174: “A good political strategy is ALWAYS taking up for major multinational corporations who are responsible for the worst environmental and social disaster in the history of the United States.”
“Moral equivalent of war.”
Given the immoral state of war – particularly over the last decade – maybe the destruction of the Gulf of Mexico really is the moral equivalent of war.
There’s gold in them thar Afghan hills!!
BREAKING NEWS: U.S. officials say $1 trillion worth of minerals have been found in the mountains and dry lake beds of Afghanistan! In a related announcement, U.S. officials say the new U.S. colony of Afghanistan will be renamed, Pandora, and a team from Halliburton and Massey Mining will begin immediately extracting the Unobtanium from...
Fight back: use less oil! PACE is an answer.
The Florida Legislature adopted in its 2010 session a new PACE initiative allowing Florida counties and cities to develop pools of money from which property owners can borrow to make energy efficient and hurricane-hardening improvements to homes and buildings.
Kick-ass primaries, whomp!
Big Oil is still kicking the Gulf of Mexico's ass but it was another primary election day across ‘Murka, yesterday, and that bright shiny object has everyone’s attention. Whomp, there it is...
Under siege by a foreign corporation…
The bad news is we’re now officially under siege by a foreign oil corporation and being held hostage by its greed, incompetence and general disdain for humankind and Mother Earth. But the good news is…oh, wait, there isn’t any good news.
Junk shots all over the place!
BP or “Beyond Petroleum-and-into-destroying-one-of-the-world’s-great-oceans” will get a visit today from President Obama. He will, no doubt, kick their corporate ass before donning his Aquaman suit, swimming down 5,000 feet and plugging the volcano himself with one of the whale carcasses he may find.
Stupid is as stupid votes…
It’s one thing to be really mush-brained but think you have all the answers and put them out there in public for all the world to see and hear. But it’s a whole other level of dumbass to go out there in public and defend dumbass, blame it one someone else or – especially...
Seize BP…
Why has the U.S. government not seized the assets of those companies? Why have they not been shut down? Why have the assets of BP, Transocean & Halliburton not be placed into a trust to immediately begin saving the Gulf’s wildlife and provide assistance to the hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents...
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