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Schumer Tells a Fairy Tale

Posted by Brendan on May 17th, 2011 filed in calling bullshit, hack, oil

Chuck Schumer thinks you’re stupid:
Hi,
New Yorkers and people across America are paying over $4 a gallon for gas. Should we give Big Oil another few billion dollars on top of that, too?
That’s what we’re doing right now in the form of huge taxpayer-funded subsidies, and it has to change.
Taxpayers currently spot Big Oil over $2,000,000,000 [...]

Dear Senator Merkley: Stop Wasting My Fucking Time

Posted by Brendan on April 29th, 2011 filed in calling bullshit, economy, oil, politics

Email from the AM, purportedly by Jeff Merkely, Oregon Democrat:
brendan -
Yesterday, the price of regular gasoline in Oregon hit $3.90 a gallon – and $4.30 for diesel. And while our families and small businesses are struggling to keep up with these skyrocketing fuel prices, the world’s biggest oil companies are posting billions in profits.
Just [...]

QOTD

Posted by Brendan on March 20th, 2011 filed in Democratic Idiocy, calling bullshit, nincompoopery, oil, right wing dingalings, war, wtf??

Bill Hangley, on FB:
Can’t build a road. Can’t fix a bridge. Can’t lay train tracks. Can’t pay teachers. Can’t help you with college. Can’t patrol Wall Street. Can’t raise taxes. Can’t protect entitlements. Can’t find Bin Laden. Can’t end the two wars we already started. Bomb Libya? Sure, we can do that.
I’ll add that if, [...]

BP Disaster: Not Over, Not Even Close to Over, Not GOING to be Over Anytime Soon

Posted by Brendan on September 17th, 2010 filed in anger, environment, food security, oil, politics, pollution, wtf??, youtube

Via.
You’re going to be sick.

Reminder: Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster is Ongoing

Posted by Brendan on July 27th, 2010 filed in corporate deadbeats, environment, oil, satire, snark, youtube

we just have a little media blackout oh look shiny thing!

Thank You Kindra Arnesen for Exposing BP’s Lies

Posted by Brendan on July 6th, 2010 filed in big business as usual, blogs, calling bullshit, direct action, economy, environment, oil, politics, pollution, youtube

Via Susie:
What BP is claiming is that if fishermen choose not to talk part in the oil spill cleanup, BP will consider that as potential income declined and deduct it from their claims.
In other words, if you didn’t want to risk your health and expose yourself to their toxic waste, you’re going to suffer financially [...]

A Response to “Fuck You, Us”.

Posted by Brendan on June 30th, 2010 filed in criticism, culture, economy, environment, oil, politics

Sex Pistols, “No One Is Innocent”

Alex: “And fuck you, us. We’re the ones consuming all that oil.”
You’ll have to pardon me for lifting a response I made in comments to a full-on post, but I’ve been seeing this theme going around a lot recently. And while I respect where it comes from, I reject it [...]

Coast Guard: Complicit in Hiding the Oil Disaster?

Posted by Brendan on June 30th, 2010 filed in calling bullshit, environment, extinction, oil, politics

from my journalist friend in Louisiana:
DATE: June 29, 2010 21:28:45 CST
Coast Guard establishes safety zone around all Deepwater Horizon protective boom, operations in Southeast, La.
Key contact numbers
* Report oiled shoreline or request volunteer information: (866) 448-5816
* Submit alternative response technology, services or products: (281) 366-5511
[...]

Amateur Flyover Video: BP Slick Covers Dolphins and Whales

Posted by Brendan on June 29th, 2010 filed in anger, big business as usual, calling bullshit, corporate deadbeats, crime, economy, extinction, international, obituary, oil, politics, pollution, pure evil, youtube

Around the 6:33 mark, the narrator/filmer, John Wathen, comes to a pod of 36 dolphins stranded in oil, “struggling just to breathe”. Another 18 are discovered later, and then A GODDMAN FUCKING SPERM WHALE TRAPPED IN OIL UP TO ITS GODDAMN BLOWHOLE. “Across his back we could see red patches of crude as if [...]