Thinking about the whole chain reaction financially about Gulf coast people. You are a fishing company or charter business and there are the losses in income. Then, no checks from BP (or a fraction of what you are losing). As most of us do when maoney is tight, we stop services, don't buy anything that is non-essential. So, if you pay a gardener, you stop that service. He or she loses many of their customers. The local market you shop in begins to feel business slowing. You stop your cable or even internet. No more new clothes or going out to dinner or taking in a movie. Forget those home improvements you wanted to do. The folks that work in all related industries are affected in this chain. The company that cans your fish lays off workers. Boats are docked, employees laid off. Recreational and vacation businesses are seeing huge losses. On and on. And this in the midst of the biggest recession for decades and after hurricanes that the recovery for haver not been fully reached! So, when it hits more state bays and beach areas.....

Now.... look at the goods and services that depend on the goods and services of the gulf fare in this that are not even in the Gulf!

Oh, it's happening at Faux Newz. That's to be expected - they're just manipulative idiots. I thought that you were referring to, you know, actual news stuff (though I have to use the term loosely these days) from actual news places or from people who actually think and stuff. Even the racism is to be expected.

I used to work in a maritime related field - Exxon, BP and most of the other oil companies were in my membership. From the sidelines, I couldn't begin to tell you about the frustration in watching them get away with the things they did ... corruption in this field doesn't begin to describe it.

Exxon was supposed to pay the locals for their losses, and managed to skirt around it. They didn't pay close to what they were supposed to ... after twenty years of appeals, they ended up paying a little more than the cost of 'cleanup'. It's outrageous. And Alaska still suffers from the spill - twenty years later - and that spill wasn't as big as this one.

Ugh.

Doonesbury is a "must read" today.....linkyloo

mayonnaise used to clean turtles at hospital -
 

I thought this was pretty funny. And sometimes you need that.

certainly captured the polarization of this country ...
thanks for that HSIN!

It totally captures the hypocrisy of the right...

And Standard Oil had a spill in Utah this weekend!

Official: Oil spill hasn't reached Great Salt Lake

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/13/AR2010061302595.html


First estimates given were in the 400-500 gallon range.... but, now it looks like 21000! Sound familiar?

500 barrels (42 gallons per barrel)............that shit happens all the time.......all the time.......it just never makes the news.....

It's only making the news because it makes folks watch CNN, Fake News, etc.........I promise if BP and the Gulf were not in the news no one.........no one........would even know this happened.....

Why have we turned down offers from the Dutch to come over and suck up the oil so that it wouldn’t have had to turn into an ecological holocaust? Three days after BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, the Netherlands offered to help. Ships could have set about clearing the oil using Dutch sweeping arms, but the US government didn’t take up the offer. Why?

Why are we ignoring the fact that dispersant merely acted to submerge the oil creating giant underwater plumes stretching for miles and making clean up impossible? And why is the media ignoring that BP was allowed to run the show (literally a show) and manipulate the public as to how much oil was actually coming out of that pipe? (And, STILL does as a matter of fact.) First it was 5,000 and now it’s 50,000 barrels per day. Who knows? Let's have a press conference! :seeingstars:

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but:
Mar. 17,2010
BP CEO Hayward sells 223,288 shares.
April 12,2010
Halliburton pays 232 million after spill to company "Boots&Coots"
This month
SEC investigating shorts placed on TransOcean stocks days before explosion.
Today
Folks are getting arrested for taking pictures, and reporters are prevented from doing their jobs...OUTRAGED!

BP refused the Dutch offer of help. The US government did not refuse help. BP is in charge not the government.

Some parts of the mainstream media are ignoring the plumes. Rachel Maddow (for one) has not been ignoring the plumes or the horrific response to maintaining and replacing the various types of booms BP keeps proudly telling you how much boom they have laid out. Putting boom in the water and then walking away is not a response.

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Gas has dropped about 11 cents a gallon since oil began spewing out of the well head.

Gas prices normally go up in the summer and prior to this disaster was going up. Now prices have dropped.

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popcorn....

msdemeanor address the stock issue in a previous post in this thread There is nothing going on about that.

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this post was brought to you by an independent also...........since CA passed the stupidest open primary law anywhere it matters not what political party you belong to.......