And then there’s the ongoing, unparalleled (until the Gulf turned to tar) disaster in Nigeria.

I’d forgotten about the history of Amoco. Those were the good ol’ days of overseas environmental disasters and falling facades. Nice recap.

All of the people in this country stuck their heads in the sand about the dangers of oil production decades ago. Of course, now folks in the Gulf have pulled their heads out long enough to discover they’re being covered in crude.

So long as the disaster is happening somewhere else, Americans only seem to care about it as long as charities ask for donations to help remedy its effects. In some respects, the Gulf mess is a blessing in disguise if it finally motivates us to get off the pump once and for all.

Well said. Am a little concerned with the anti-brit, stuff beging said. Multi-nationals are just that. Even with British Petroleum.

Jefferson foresaw all of it:

“Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”

All the Rage

My audio is off and I can’t find my headphones. Later, I must check out that video with the sound on, LOL! Without it, it’s just… disturbing…

Oh gosh, please do not confuse the Americans. If a company is called British Petroleum it must be English….it says so it it’s name. KInda like French fries. They must come from France right? And all that pottery you have on your table that comes from China, right? And Irish sweaters, they are all made in Ireland. Americans are very simplistic, not very well educated and downright bloody idiots when it comes to thinking things through. That is why creationism is so widely accepted here, evolution is way too complicated to understand.

America is a dumbed down country populated by walking zombies kept in place by Franken foods (that is not French by the way), lousy education, a corrupt political system and slave wages creating stressed out people with no time for anything but work, work, work.

Yeah, I hate the way Americans generalize about other countries. They all seem to do that too.

Good morning, pups. Prof. Krugman is off today, so all we have is The Pasty Little Putz. He’s produced a thing called “No Mystique About Feminism” in which he says the victories of so many Republican women in the primaries is a victory for feminism. Or the ability to buy elections…

Here he is.

The coffee and tea are ready, and the biscuits are out of the oven. I’m headed out to the garden to water, seeing as it’s too freaking hot to do it in the evening now. It was 100.4° in the shade yesterday afternoon, and we’re looking at more of the same for the next few days. Have a great day.

You lucky! I wish you could send some of that hot weather up here to Michigan! We’re having our usual cool spring weather.

NW Indiana has been cool and rainy, too. LOTS of rain.

Yes, those dirty Americans always generalizing about other countries.

Ever notice how efficient nature is, just enough never more.

Ever wonder weather nature had a purpose in the mechanism of that which we call the “earth” for oil, other than to fuel FUVs and heat Mc Mansions ?

Oil is natures perfect insulator and lubricant and before we extract the very last drop we should try and understand the mechanics of the earths systems use of oil rather than drain the tank first.

Someday we’ll wish we had the 3 million gallons a day burnt up in the deserts of Iraq for show and tell or shock and awl or something important.

Have a great day Attaturk and all…

Good morning.

In some respects, the Gulf mess is a blessing in disguise if it finally motivates us to get off the pump once and for all

I’m not seeing any evidence that we’ll change.

Good morning, all. We saw a new print of Brazil last night.
The background of a repressive national security state which tries to distract the masses with consumer trinkets, but is based on failing technology seemed oddly familiar.

If Obama ever came out with a 10-year program to wean us off oil, I would rejoice but I don’t see it ever happening. I’m not hearing it from anyone. Band aids, here and there, but we need a goal to motivate us. In my little community, we are set to start a wind farm. It’s been a long time in the planning stage but we’re finally set to start construction. Why isn’t this being coordinated at the national level?

Why isn’t this being coordinated at the national level?

It is. In China.

Good morning all.

Golly gee, look what the U.S. empire found in Afghanistan. Would coulda anticipated?

Someone at NPR must have read the NYTimes this morning.

We must have been too busy doing exploratory mining to have the time to train the Afgan police and military so our troops can come home.

Yeah, Nobody’s talking about Trinidad Tobago,or St. Thomas or any of the other Caribbean Islands (The Caribbean!) now what Mexico thinks of this or the folks in the Yucatan…need I go on?
I don’t remember the names of the huge hurricanes that came thru the Gulf a few years ago after the summer of Rita, that slammed into Belize twice in a month. but I do remember my neocon brother crowing that that weren’t any!

That’s when I realized that anything that happens outside this country…doesn’t happen for alot of people; hell, if it happens in the next county it doesn’t signify.
And we call ourselves “globalized”!

Well,that settles it! we’re staying…for the Afghani PEOPLE, of course.
I thought we were fighting a war over there not looking for minerals. Silly me!

“Peace and democracy” is code for Minerals and Oil.

Yes and capitalism IS democracy, don’t you know? :::::sigh:::::

lol – and what did you just do? One of the great things about America is that it is such a melting pot you’d be hard pressed to find a consensus of opinion about anything.

I charitably choose to see your comment as snark. Have a great day

Yes, it was snark, and I did have a great day.