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stubbornness doesnt wash when it could have been fixable..

Somebody mentioned the Dutch offered their help but the US refused. I didn't know anything about that, until I came across this story:

http://www.financialpost.com/Avertible%20catastrophe/3203808/story.html#

Holy fuck what a bunch of stubborn idiots.

why refuse help?

fucking eejits.

i did kinda lose my shit there.... 

[MMS]

What the fuck is the British government to do about this?

Who's to blame? The company, the de-regulation (by Bush, NOT Obama) and the MMS

It's a private company. What Brittan has to do with it is beyond me.
BP itself, not Brittan, needs to be held responsible and accountable for their mismanagement of their rigs/wells/facilities and apparent inability to create a clean up response.
It's their fucking fault, not the UK, not Obama.

It's BP you want. If you want to point another finger, try the MMS. Where they should have been regulating and managing they were snorting blow off each others asses with their dicks in someone else's mouth.

The oil is headed here. There's no fucking stopping it cause nobody fucking thought of the "what if" and if they did for a split second they shrugged it off and said "fuck it, PROFITS people, PROFITS". There's nothing we can do, the beaches are fucked, fishing is fucked and I have to live with this shit. Don't tell me I'm too far inland to care, cause I fucking do weather I'm landlocked or not, I'm an hour and a half away from either coast and it's MY state no matter how much I hate this place. I'm pissed. PISSED. The beaches are one of the very VERY few things this place has to offer and they're fucked. The whole economy here will suffer, not just the coast. Trust me.
DAMN IT!

Thanks a lot BP. And FUCK YOU.

THIS.

I think it would be funny to write a massive petition to the UK government for this. Thousands of names. The "Fuck You" David Cameron would reply with would be lulzy, about as funny as all the people who started questioning his and the other Tories stance on the proposition.

There is of course precedent for Governments being held at least partly responsible for Companies registered in their domain, not entirely sure if it's ever worked that way for a Company who has pretty much the same amount of money in its coffers as its "Government" does though...

Also, you could always send a letter to the one and only Green MP in Parliament, who I'm sure would welcome any means of getting her name AND her message across the headlines.

Her name is Caroline Lucas, she is the MP for Brighton Pavillion.

The economic and environmental cost of the spill is staggeringly fucking disgusting, but as the ENTIRE WORLD ECONOMY is geared towards the consumption of fossil fuels every single one of us is over a barrel of fucking crude on this one. BP itself has more money in its coffers than the ENTIRE BRITISH GOVERNMENT!  (as Payne pointed out)

So, what is the long term correct motorcycle? We need to wean the world off of oil before it runs out, need to change the way the First World runs, and figure out how to switch us all over to a green economy before the fossil fuels run out. First we need to figure out how the fuck we can sustain our current lifestyles in the First World without oil, otherwise we are not going to do shit, our addiction to a convienient life isnt going to change easily.

Biofuels are not a good solution, seeing as it doesn't reduce carbon emissions, and actually takes up valuable space that needs to be used for food production in the third world, and they seem to be shipped by diesel run tankers as it is, so a complete waste of fucking time.  We need to be ploughing as much money as possible into sustainable energy and cold fusion generators.

The small changes are easy for some of us, but my mum still wont sort out the recycling even tho there is a proper bin out front of her house and everything so first easy step doesnt seem to be sinking in for some, so my next point seems to be asking the fucking impossible.  See, the big changes that we all need to make on a national level will not be addressed in time to stop the human race falling into a complete Mad Max-esque clusterfuck when climate change or oilfail gets the better of us.  Society is at stake here, and we sit on our collective arses and laugh at tree hugging hippies. 

With the rapidly expanding population of the planet in the Third World countries we're fighting a losing battle, as why should the developing world stop developing industrially? Everyone wants a better quality of life, right?  Population control is a massive factor, and it has been found that when women are properly educated family sizes shrink, so invest in female education, women gain economic power and ambition and don't want to have as many kids.

The main issue here is how the world economy is geared towards reliance on fossil fuels, how industry and investments work, and we simply haven't been paying enough practical attention on how to fix these issues. We need more research, more skilled labour in green technology, plus education on these fields for the future but unless the ones controlling the fiscal systems see the long term benefit over the short term buck, we aren't going to see a way of sustaining our lifestyles in a clean way in time to avert disaster. As we have seen from the economic crisis, this isn't how the system currently operates. We need change in the way banking works, in the way we invest towards the long term goal of running society off of green fuel options. I think we aren't going to make it in time.

We are a very self destructive bunch of hairless apes, and instead of slinging poop over the latest environmental disaster we should, (as well as focusing on the cleanup) be discussing the long term options and how to implement them, which is the big picture in the BP oil spill crisis that seems to have been overlooked. This makes me really fucking angry, as well as Dubya not signing the Kyoto treaty, seeing as a quarter of the world's carbon emissions come from the US, which in 2000 had 5% of the world's population. The human race seems incapable of taking responsibility for its actions and providing a solution for the future, and this makes me sad and very fucking angry.

Love, one angry eco hippy, trying to think practically into the long view.

all the tracks seem to  be identical... not that i can listen to that amount of fart joke.

This newb is GOING PLACES!

FERCA= PAESIOR, not n00b, new account.

Marvin

trip, going the places I tyhought were a little too cheesy.

 

the tory government here will do fuck all. Hell trhey are so hell bent on reducing the deficit that they are cutting certain benefits that means it no longer makes sense for single parents in the UK to get into work if they can...

however... i found this list on the Scotsman website, on what the American government COULD'VE done bit didnt.  

but these are 10 things that should have been done by Obama.

Since his strategy dealing with the spill seems lacking thus far, Redstate editor Erick Erickson has compiled a Top 10 list of things to alleviate the disaster that Obama could have done but didn't.
1. Accepted help from the Netherlands when they offered it shortly after the accident. The Dutch, experienced in the oil business, offered prompt help for oil skimming booms and plans to create barriers to stop the oil from infiltrating into wetland areas.
2. Suspended the Jones Act, as President Bush did after Katrina, to allow foreign vessels into American waters to assist with recovery without having to swap ships and transfer equipment onto American flagged vessels.
3. Suspended the Davis-Bacon prevailing wage laws, as President Bush did after Katrina, to allow rapid deployment of new workers to help with containment efforts.
4. Suspended FEMA contracting and bidding rules, as President Bush did after Katrina, to allow a more rapid assignment of contracts to assist with the recovery effort.
5. Allowed coastal governors to immediately begin dredging to create barrier islands.
6. Talked to BP's CEO to establish initial metrics for progress to gauge BP's response so the federal government would have ascertainable metrics to determine when federal intervention was needed. Heck, he should have talked to BP's CEO period.
7. Not imposed a blanket deep water drilling moratorium, further crippling economies in coastal communities.
8. Talked to experts about how to fix the problem instead of trying to figure out whose "ass to kick."
9. Not waited to act lest he be seen as owning the situation. Guess what? He owns it now so why is he still on the golf course?
10. Not have wasted time trying to blame the accident on George Bush before diving in to take responsibility.

BP MAY be a british registered company, but Transocean, the company who's rig blew is AMERICAN, is it not...

Things have been fucked from the beginning, true, BUT I am not sure what statute of british law would give us some way of booting BP up the arse, and besides, David Cameron is too concerned with the impact it could have on british private pensions.

But people expect OUR govenrment to wade in when yours cant pull its finger out of its ass, amirite?

BP is an INTERNATIONAL company with INTERNATIONAL shareholders, and our government are hell bent on reducing public spending.

good luck with the anti british bullshit.

whatever the second born's name is, he HAS to has a t-shirt saying "Eris is my big sister"

what, Mayhem went all litigious?

FFS! 

the Stilton was a happy deal, in the supermarket they discount 35% if it's on the "best before" date ... but really what's blue cheese going to do, get extra mouldy?

and for Suu... well the entire point of the toast sandwich was the Stilton of course. BUT!! Maybe you're not allergic to goat cheese? Cause in that case I have another awesome recipe which has the blueberry jam, soft goat cheese, walnuts and fresh spinach leaves (inna baguette, I had it, but anything works). Which is also great. And if you're allergic to walnuts, they are optional-ish. But a bit of strong tasting cheese isn't.

mmm must try the goats cheese version, without the walnuts.

I ATE A FEW OUNCES OF HONEYDEW MELON YESTERDAY.

DOES THAT COUNT?

WHERE IS YOUR FUCKING ODE TO MELON???

melons hate me, bastards make my face swell

Achilles.

Rowan.

Hey guise, wanna know what?

My parents have a papaya tree. MOTHERFUCKING PAPAYAS.



Ever see the fucking size of a papaya? HOLY FUCK they're like a GODDAMN rugby ball, FUCK!



And look at all those GODDAMN SEEDS. You can grow a whole GODDAMN orchard of fucking papayas with those fuckers! SHIT!

i AM SO GODDAMNED JEALOUS!

Papaya juice and spiced rum FTW!

I got mine a couple days after the PM saying it was sent... i need to buy hideous writing paper and a freakish feminine ink colour to make Rog's eyes hurt.

i have no printer nad horrid handwriting but i will find something....