good call, tio. every little bit helps
gosh golly god damn, Going to look for that book today thanks!~
i would love to go clean up some fucking spills, i already work with toxic chemicals all the time, color photog. chem., love to get my hands dirtier cleaning up some of that shit.
I god a new whip the other day, free and abandoned in the campus district, check my new wheels:
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Personally I get more worked up when I hear B.P. making it so hard for those effected to get more than $5,000.00, when their livelihoods have been ruined, and five grand is a small fraction of the revenue they generated to run their business.
It may be arguable there were “accidents” which happened in regards to the oil spill, but it seems to be the negative side of human nature that is increasing the problem.
The biggest problem with these giant multinational corporations is GREED.
They rake in hufuckinmungous profits but are too cheap to do the job right.
Perhaps this will finally be the wake up call the nation needs to wean ourselves off the oil tit and make these greedy buggers accountable.
I would really like to have a few minutes alone with that ignorant smug pommie prick Tony Hayward.
Among Hayward's bizarre statements since the accident:
On April 29, The New York Times reported that Hayward, apparently exasperated, turned to fellow executives in his London office and asked, “What the hell did we do to deserve this?" (A possible answer might be the company's 760 safety violations over the last three years. ExxonMobil, in contrast, has had just one.)
On May 14, Hayward attempted to persuade The Guardian that "the Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume."
Only a few days later, he told Sky News that "the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest." That might surprise the many scientists who see the spill as a true environmental calamity, the full extent of which remains unclear.
On May 30, Hayward was less bullish and decided to play the sympathy card. He told the Today show that "there’s no one who wants this over more than I do. I would like my life back." (He has since apologized for those remarks.)
On May 31, he told the world that ecosystem-threatening underwater oil plumes—consisting of droplets of partially dissolved oil suspended in water that many scientists have observed—do not exist. He said simply, "There aren't any plumes."
On June 1, Hayward responded to claims that cleanup workers were being sickened by the fumes from the oil they were exposed to by suggesting another possible, non-oil-spill cause. When nine workers fell ill, according to Yahoo News, he told CNN that "food poisoning is clearly a big issue."
Tony Hayward ~ “I would like my life back.”
I loved that one. Tony, this IS your life ass-hole. You earned every misery and torment you suffer… and it can never be enough to balance the scales.
If volunteer spill cleanup were an option, you’d still be wise to stay as far away from that toxic disaster as possible. As it stands, volunteers are not allowed to have any contact with oil whatsoever - only paid and trained workers. http://www.pnj.com/article/99999999/NEWS10/100503013/Gulf-oil-spill-How-to-volunteer-for-cleanup.
Employment agencies in the area are swamped with calls in response to cleanup jobs (8hr Hazmat training included) that pay $15-20/hr. Doesn’t sound like much, but you have to realize that the areas being affected by the spill are comprized of the poorest, least educated, and most generally down-trodden and expendable folk in the country (aside from Mexicans).
They’ll get their $15/hr ($10 after taxes), along with various forms of cancer, respiratory, neurological, gastointestinal, epidermal . . .who knows what other types of problems. Ya can’t get that money though until you sign the waiver first . . .
Looks like this summer here on the Gulf Coast will be a celebration of Wal-marts
and White Castles . . .Best Buys and Popeyes . . .platinum teeth and plenty of reef(er) . . .‘bove-ground pools filled with ice-cold Natty Ice Light between freshly painted 87’ Camaros. . .
Yeah, can’t help but to be a bit cynical about the situation while knowing most peoples’ attitudes in the area about conservation, the environment, animal rights etc. Not saying that people who care don’t exist here, but they are the extreme minority.
