Yes, the sadness is crushing.

Those stupid clucks that chant drill baby drill are a bunch of whinney losers who ain’t seen nothing all their pea brained life.

I urge all you drill baby drill clacking clucks to pick up your oil laced fat arses and hike on down to Louisana to clean up beaches. Don’t forget to bring some baby wipes for your snotty dirty brown noses.

Your drill baby drill chant is just plain stoooooopid. And you look like fools without a clue. Nevermind that it sounds like your sucking up to big oil corporate ick.

Quyana for letting me rant.
Nice piece of writing by the way. I haven’t been able to watch news reports of the gulf ‘spill’ and maybe now I can stomach it. This piece says that someone else feels the horror of a spill. Today, my visions are way back in Prince William Sound and the trees. I used to live there. My life was a good one. My little family was happy and healthy. But when I see news reports of the oil slicks in the gulf, I swear I can smell North Slope crude sloshing along Prine William Sounds shores. And the horror of looking up at branches of trees and realizing they are shinny with oil, is a memory that just won’t go away. (the wind had picked up a few days after the Exxon Valdez spill and frothed up the crude. It made bubbles and they floated up, popping in the trees and leaving behind their shiny icky film.

NOW…what can we DO about righting all that is wrong?

We’ve made a start.

But, there’s got to be a way to TRULY harness the power of this SERIES of TUBES to take back the rightness – the reality and the humanity – that the greedy have so blindly and – WRONGLY – taken away.

Let’s keep chinking away at those bricks in the wall…

You NAILED it!

NOW…what can we DO about righting all that is wrong?

We’ve made a start.

But, there’s got to be a way to TRULY harness the power of this SERIES of TUBES to take back the rightness – the reality and the humanity – that the greedy have so blindly and – WRONGLY – taken away.

Let’s keep chinking away at those bricks in the wall…

I don’t think that the actual government response would have been much different — you put out the booms, you drop the dispersants — but it would have been nice just once to see a reaction like “Under control? Prove that”, since everyone with supra-algal mentality knows that the first reaction of any corporation to a possible problem is “No sweat, we’ve got it under control”.

It’s a sad, sad situation. I suspect that it’s gonna kill the Delta wetlands, which haven’t been in the greatest shape in recent years, anyhow. And then we’re deep into side-effects.

Ach, now I’m getting depressed. Think again. There is still a lot of Earth left. Concentrate on preserving what remains; only remember what is lost.

Conservatives love to bleat about government give-aways to poor people and the entitlement welfare mentality of those who receive public assistance.The unsaid reality is that we – the people – have been subsidizing big oil since the very beginning. They have never paid more than a fraction of the true cost of developing petroleum energy reserves. And yet they complain that subsidies to develop alternative energy sources (solar, wind, etc) place them in a position of unfair disadvantage. THAT is the biggest entitlement mentality around. They’ve been getting unrecognized government subsidies for so long, they don’t think they can live without them.

Recognition of corporate ‘personhood’ my a**. It’s high time we, the people, remembered that regulations of corporate behavior are essential to protect ourselves against pure, unbridled greed. The tea baggers talk about taking our country back – from the blacks, the gay, the Democrats, from OTHER. In reality we need to take it back from the bottomless pockets of the multinational corporations and their corporatist Republican lap dogs in Congress.