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From MSNBC

explosion triggered a major offshore oil spill. Armed with absorbers and dispersants, more than 500 fishing boats were deployed Monday to help contain the slick.

China Oil Spill

Do we need oil so badly that we are willing to turn the entire planet into one big oil puddle. Oil Producers no matter where they are need to stop counting their profits for a couple of minutes and pay attention to the mess they are making and the long term repercussions.

Screw the world wide oil pigs and the politicians who allow them to do this.

So at least temporarily the oil hole has been plugged, unfortunately there is a shitload of oil already in the Gulf of Mexico to clean up. I am still cynical about the outcome, I think they have screwed up the seafood biz around here for quite a while. Specifically my favorite Oysters.

Oh well Life goes on, life is like war endless hours boredom interupted by moments of tragedy and terror.

I had a great fourth of July, I was in Mobile at my sister’s place, the pool is a nice addition, We had our yearly fireworks show, out did ourselves with an hour long show. I won’t tell you what I spent, in my mind it was worth it. There is nothing more appropriate to celebrate our nation’s birthday than blowin’ shit up.

I had to reinstall my computer over vacation, it started doing that windows blue screen thing. My computer is kind of like my love life, after a couple of years of use it gets unstable. While rebuilding my music library for my ipod I went retro putting a lot of stuff I grew up with on it. The Band, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Van Morrison. I haven’t listened to that stuff in years, I must say hearing it again takes me back and comforts me.

I drew Federal Jury Duty, The summons says from Aug 10 to Feb 10, I guess the long time period is due to the Holidays. I don’t have a problem doing my civic duty but there is a lot of crap in the Federal courts right now that I would rather not have anything to do with. If called to serve I will do so willingly and responsibly. Not that I really have a choice, there is no opt out.

A couple of reposts the Mississippi Gulf Coast April 2008

I have taken a few days off from the blogging, lack of time and just a general state of stressed out has kept me from making the time to post.

After getting the initial anger over BP’s destruction of the Gulf of Mexico I haven’t had much to say about it. Fact is the next big news coming from this disaster will be when the stop the flow. Until then we can’t really get a handle on how much damage has been done and what it will take to clean it up. I am not optimistic about the long term when it comes to the mess.

As a state I am torn acout our behavior. On the one hand we have big oil which to steal a term from some Chigago Bears fans is finishing what Katrina started. Governor Christ of Florida is for the moratorium on deep water drilling and of course Piyush Amrit “Bobby” Jindal wants it to continue. It is an big part of what is left of the southern part of the states economy. Of course getting off oil is probably going to be harder that getting a crack head to stop smokin’. I think the state needs to diversify it’s economy a little better. But that takes education which seems to be pretty low on the totem poll around here. It’s the old cut off your nose to spite your face philosophy that we live by here.

On a personal front I have been suffering from severe headaches for the last three or four days. Las night it just went away, not sure what the cause was I think it was stress related and the fact that I will be on vacation next week seemed to trigger the releif. I feel pretty good today. Hope to post more over the next week on some topics other that BP’s attempt to destroy the planet. Like I said there really isn’t any news until they stop the flow.

I am of the opinion that as a nation and a state we need to start finding alternatives to oil. Of course it won’t happen overnight.

The drilling moratorium has really put the hurt on the Louisiana economy. It’s a double whammy for us with two of south Louisiana’s major industries crippled. I am not totaly against the deep water drilling halt, I think that it needs to be looked at to make sure that incidents like the Deep Horizon don’t happen and if they do happen that there is a way to fix it before it destroys the environment.

The above post was supposed to publish yesterday but an automatic upgrade of ATT connection manager hosed my computer and it took me a couple of hours to make it right again.

The point I wm trying to make about the Deep water drilling halt is that if there is no way to stop the oil after an accident then screw it it’s not worth it in my opinion. COnvince me that BOP’s are enough of a safety net. Any additional costs involved in drilling safely should not be passed on to consumers the porfits in the oil business are nothing less than obscene.

Name one politician who has been bought and sold by big oil, How about Joe Barton of Texas ( Go Figure ) apologizing to Tony “The Planet Killer” Hayward calling the President getting a 20 billion dollar relief fund a shakedown. Screw That!!

From NPR:

Horton has received $100,470 in campaign donations from oil and gas interests since the beginning of 2009, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The same group reported that since 1990, political action committees of the oil and gas industry and people who worked for it have given more than $1.4 million to Barton’s campaigns, the most of any House member during that period.

The real problem is that our Government has been bought by Big Business. I have no problem with capitalism as long as the playing field is level.

I had to laugh when I read the article about the concrete in and around the sculpture garden in Armstrong Park that Ex-mayor Ray Nagin claims as a legacy of his adminitration.

The new Mayor had a few comments about the problem with the project.

From TP:

“This project is just another example of a deal the Nagin administration improperly executed,” Landrieu said. “It was ill-conceived and is fraught with problems. This project is under serious review. The people of New Orleans deserve better. We will work diligently to fix it.”

I will miss our ex-mayor he was such a joy to beat up on. I am glad there is still something to blog about when it comes to Ray Ray. His true legacy to me is his awful respnonse during and after the K diasater five years ago. I will always affectionately remember our ex-mayor as the coward of Katrina.