We Support The Oil Spill

[Cramulus]

Are you sick of the BP oil spill? I'm not. I love it. So I'm going to break lockstep from you spags and come out in favor of it.

Here are some reasons why:

• The value of non-waterfront property is going up
• It's nice to finally score a point in the great game of Man vs Nature
• The ocean is now filled with cool slime monsters
• Fuck the Atlantic
• Animal population control. The sea was getting too crowded anyway.
• More profit for exxon mobil

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

• Fuck the Atlantic

[Jenne]

  Love this.  Needs to be made into new internet meme. 

[Cramulus]

why do you guys love the oil spill?

[AFK]

More of the velvety southern drawl of Haley Barbour

[Jenne]

...You took all the greatest and best reasons, Cram.  I esp like the "fuck the Atlantic" one, but then I can see the Pacific from my backdoor, so there's some bias there, I believe.

I just applaud the thinking here, the in-your-face turnaboutism, tongue in cheek reverse psychology.  /the brilliance goes without saying

I wish I had something original to say about this, but I'm knee-deep in ETS schtick, so that could be why.  Or I'm just too banal for words in general.

[Richter]

The looks on people's faces when I tactfully play "Smoke on the water"

[Cramulus]

The looks on people's faces when I tactfully play "Smoke on the water"

[Doktor Howl]

why do you guys love the oil spill?

Watching retirees from the Midwest die when they can't make it to their spawning ground.

[Jenne]

Ok, found one:

That there's now a martini on tap called "the Oil Spill"?

[-Kel-]

i love it for shit like this...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/17/joe-barton-apology-shaked_n_616220.html

After Republican Rep. Joe Barton issued an apology to BP CEO Tony Hayward at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday -- calling the Obama administration's efforts to hold the oil giant accountable a "shakedown" -- lawmakers on both sides of the aisle swiftly responded to the Texas congressman's remarks by demanding he step down as the ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

[Jenne]

i love it for shit like this...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/17/joe-barton-apology-shaked_n_616220.html

After Republican Rep. Joe Barton issued an apology to BP CEO Tony Hayward at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday -- calling the Obama administration's efforts to hold the oil giant accountable a "shakedown" -- lawmakers on both sides of the aisle swiftly responded to the Texas congressman's remarks by demanding he step down as the ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Ok, that is win, I agree.

I think I'm just better at being a spectator at this kind of sport.

[Doktor Howl]

Well, you can hardly blame him.  BP bought him fair & square, and now it's time to collect on those campaign contributions.

[Requia ☣]

BP doesn't give campaign donations anymore (they stopped in 2002).  So the guy wasn't even properly paid for.

[Doktor Howl]

BP doesn't give campaign donations anymore (they stopped in 2002).  So the guy wasn't even properly paid for.

Tell me another one, Requia.  They're funneling money somehow.  NO oil company walks around without a congressman or 20 in their pocket.