OIL SPILL UPDATE

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Some estimates of the daily output gushing

into the ocean 5,000 ft. below the surface are now

over 200,000 gallons per day - and higher.

The U.S. military has entered the scenario,

as the disaster will enter a new phase this weekend,

when at least some oil will begin to arrive

at the coastal islands and marshes

off the Louisiana coast.

Burning off the oil, dispersion techniques,

the placement of enormous containment booms,

and planning for bird and amphibian rescue efforts,

are all currently underway.

British Petroleum, operator of the rig,

has an absolutely pathetic track record

for safety (the lack thereof), accidents,

and miscellaneous stupidity,

but a gorgeous balance sheet -

a trading market whore masquerading

as the Money-Queen of the British Empire,

that ancient pile of shit the Americans kicked

the hell out of here, back when, as they say,

and drove back to Jolly Olde England, for

some tea, and time to think up new strategies.

"By George, I've GOT IT, old chap!

Let's get into this off-shore oil thing!

Why, what with our connections with

Senator Blowhard and Congressman Scumbag,

we could make a sultan's ransom!!!

And who's the worst for it, tell me?

Rule, Britannia! Rule the waves!!!"

Capitalistic slut-pigs from hell.

Dickens had it all correct.

None of these people stand a chance,

not in the BIG picture,

not unless they start acting like Ebenezer,

the reformed version. Fat chance.

This time, WHIP 'EM!! HARD!!! HARDER!!!!

The Brits like that kind of stuff.

"You've been so naughty, naughty, naughty!

I'll have to spank you now, oh my!!

Pull down your soiled shorts, so little

Bobby's nannie can do what she must!"

(short pause here)

"Oh My, My!! I just love your profit margin!!!

Is it always this BIG??"

But switch the riding crop to federal fines.

BP should pay, and pay, and pay, and...

until that profit margin becomes a little limp,

deflated, tiny thing that more suits the general image

the world has of the Brits and Queen-lovers,

with all of their social/psycho/sexual problems.

They're screwed up, and have been for centuries.

BP is just the latest in a long line of pigs.

Talk to Saint Thomas Becket.

Talk to Gandhi.

Talk to the Irish.

Read more here:

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http://oilonthebeach.blogspot.com/

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OIL DRILLING PLATFORM DISASTER

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The oil spill coming from 5,000 ft. below the surface

is the light gray irregular shape off the coast near the

Mississippi delta - now about 40 miles away from

the Delta and Breton National Wildlife Refuges.

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Bad place, bad time. One of the nation's most fragile ecosystems, southern Louisiana and the Mississippi delta region, is under threat of being "gooified" by the oil spill, gushing 42,000 gallons a day, right during breeding season for shore-birds and other waterfowl, fish, and  amphibians.  British Petroleum, operator of the aptly named drilling platform "Deepwater Horizon," (the rig's horizon is deep in deepwater now) yesterday reported record earnings of 5.6 billiondollars in the first three months of the year.

"I say old chap, good show, and all that -

just an absolutely stunning performance!

Bravo!!"

The brown pelican, which not long ago got removed

from the "endangered" list, is a major character

in these islands and coastal byways. It was efforts made

for the brown pelicans' welfare and survival over

a hundred years ago in Florida that led to

the establishment of the

national wildlife refuge system.

Breton is the second oldest refuge in the

system, created in 1904.

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Editor's Note:

An update to this post was added days after

this was published, with further info.

See it here:
http://maninthemaze.blogspot.com/2010/04/oil-spill-update.html
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