Tag Archives: Gulf of Mexico

Turtles want their lives back too, you self-obsessed asshole

The quote, for those of you who don’t recognize it, is from Tony Hayward, the President of BP, who, I believe, said it in complete seriousness, as though he felt that people should feel sorry for his plight. With all the focus on dead dolphins and sea turtles, like the one pictured above, I think […]

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Throwing oil and shaving heads

According to recent reports, the amount of crude oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico may be ten times more than was first estimated, or up to 70,000 barrels a day. In spite of this, Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP, the company responsible for the spill, seems to be of the opinion that it’s […]

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Castro on the oil spill

I wouldn’t call myself a fan of Fidel Castro, but it’s hard to disagree with him on the current oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and what it illustrates. Here’s what he had to say in a statement released yesterday: This disaster “shows how little governments can do against those who control the capital, […]

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Plug the hole with Rush!

Locked in heated battle with Sarah Palin for leadership of the delusional Tea Party wing of the Republican party, Rush Limbaugh went for broke today, suggesting not only that the recent BP oil spill was the work of a radical environmentalist, but also that the ocean would somehow remediate the environmental disaster itself. Here, if […]

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Drill Baby Drill… or maybe not

I’ve been looking all over the web to see if Sarah “Drill Baby Drill” Palin has mentioned the catastrophic crude oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, but I haven’t been able to find anything. Word is, the oil, which is pouring into the Gulf at a rate of 210,000 gallons a day, will reach […]

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