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How Does One Say “BP” in Japanese?
Because god-damn, it sure looks a lot like BP with nukes instead of oil.
Tokyo Electric Power Company began dumping more than 11,000 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Monday, mostly to make room in storage containers for increasing amounts of far more contaminated runoff. The [...]
Open Letter #2: Senator Casey, Why Did You Vote Against Pennsylvania’s Infrastructure?
Senator Casey:
As I have discussed in previous emails and calls to your office, your decision to support the president’s extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans was a bad idea. I did not know that it actually endangered Pennsylvania residents however: why did you, a senator whose state is plagued with crumbling [...]
The Rent is Too Damn High Party
ya know, people are having a good laugh at this guy, but honestly, i cannot find one thing i disagree with him on.
more here. Is Jimmy McMillan crazy? Probably, but he’s a much nicer form of crazy than those awful teabagger people, who want kids to starve, people to get sick and die, and the [...]
Read More..>>BP Disaster: Not Over, Not Even Close to Over, Not GOING to be Over Anytime Soon
Via.
You’re going to be sick.
Thank You Kindra Arnesen for Exposing BP’s Lies
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 [...]
Amateur Flyover Video: BP Slick Covers Dolphins and Whales
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 [...]
Read More..>>When You’ve Lost Hitler, You’ve Really Messed UP
I never get tired of these re-dubbed Hitler videos.
Read More..>>“Ponies and Balloons”
Via Susie Madrak:
I was invited the following week to go behind “enemy lines.” They gave me, of all people, security clearance to go into the base of operations meetings in Venice, Louisiana eight days in. Open door invitation to sit like a fly on the wall. Can you believe it? It’s really going on. They [...]
Read More..>>Deepwater Horizon CYA
A friend of mine from high school who will go unnamed has been forwarding me the daily PR releases from BP and from Deepwater Horizon, the rig that exploded and is pouring millions of gallons of crude oil into our waters. The PRs are as hilarious as they are infuriating as they are sad.
I’m [...]
BP: Fun With Screen Shots
Just a quick update to the post below: using If It Was My Home, I sited the oil spill in Kent, where Royal Asshole Tony Hayward makes his home. Then I zoomed out to get a fuller view:
As you can see, most of southern England is destroyed, including the English Channel. Belgium’s coastline [...]
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