On the heels of Rush Limbaugh suggesting actual sabotage by environmentalists, Sarah Palin is joining the cause in blaming environmentalists for the oil spill by British Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico.
Palin blamed “misguided radicalism” of environmentalists (as opposed presumably to “guided radicalism” of conservatives) for the disaster. She suggested that, if only these poor struggling oil companies were allowed to drill in wildlife reserves and close to our shores, they would not have to seek oil in the deep ocean.
She added “[t]his is a message to extreme ‘environmentalists’ who hypocritically protest domestic energy production offshore and onshore. There is nothing ‘clean and green’ about your efforts. With your non-sensical efforts to lock up safer drilling areas, all you’re doing is outsourcing energy development, which makes us more controlled by foreign countries, less safe, and less prosperous on a dirtier planet . . . Your hypocrisy is showing. You’re not preventing environmental hazards; you’re outsourcing them and making drilling more dangerous.”
In the meantime, members of Congress and oil lobbyists are demanding that the moratorium on drilling be lifted immediately.
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BIL and Former Federal LEO, I’m glad Michio Kaku is getting invited to television programs beyond The Discovery Channel and The History Channel. He’s a favorite of mine also and speaks with such clear prose that he can make even the most complicated subjects clear to we non-scientists. Between KO and MK no viewer that sees that segment will ever forget the take-away guidance is “The Three Stooges with nukes”.
Earth to Sarah Palin. Come in Sarah Palin:
We extreme enviros have already been blamed weeks ago. Apparently, we in cooperation with Obama and Kim Jong boardeda submarine and blasted poor innocent BPs oil well in order to create a geyser of oil that would completely destroy the ecological integrity of the Gulf of Mexico in order to use that the oil slick as an object lesson for all the less enlightened Americans busy burning up fossil fules. ‘See, you benighted over consuming fools? See, you anti-earth sinners? Your wicked oil consumption forced us to do this!’
Yeah, you’re about 5 weeks late on that. But your take that its because of us that oil production is outsourced to places like Nigeria (that’s a state in the country of Africa doncha know) is incorrect. BP and the others want all the world to let them drill and pollute. For example, BP wants Canada to let them drill under the Arctic Ocean without any environmental safeguards like having a disaster crew on hand for the inevitable spills, leaks, and oil geysers.
Sarah Palin, the only reason there is such a mess in Nigeria and other Third World countries (and soon to include those other the Gulf states from Texas to Florida) is because people with your mindset think only America deserves all the earth’s resources and deserves them now at whatever the cost whether it be eternal war or eternal pollution or both.
Slarti,
While I am more critical of Obama because of his failures to prosecute Cheney for blatant treason and his failure to dispense with the Patriot Act and restore habeas corpus, after looking at the presentation FFLEO was kind enough to provide I will have to agree with your assessment that the drilling depth issue was one of the many time bombs left ticking by the Bush Criminal Cabal.
Now would be a good time to bring back tarring and feathering for the BP execs… They’re even brits!
Make em look like the birds on the oil-slicked beaches…
L-Katz,
Good video.
Slartibartfast,
Fair enough. Even when we disagree—regardless of the degree or characterization—you are always professional while employing critical thinking skills, reason, and logic—traits you possess which no person has grounds to question.
LK,
Great clip! I’m a big fan of Prof. Kaku. If anyone deserves the mantle of “Scientist Best Brining Science to the Non-Scientist in Plain Language” – a mantle best worn in my lifetime by the late Carl Sagan – it’s Michio Kaku. “Imagine the Three Stooges with nukes.” I laughed so hard I snorted ginger ale!
rc,
Great post. You’ve been on a roll this week.
Bdaman: “Although the Obama administration has ruled out a nuke option, one has to wonder why.”
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Maybe this is why:
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Woosty’s still a Cat: “hows that for a spew”
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Pretty good actually. Unfortunately ‘they’ don’t see the pain inflicted because they just take the profit and move on, not looking back. The Tony Howard’s of the world don’t get paid to have a conscience, they get paid to make a profit for their shareholders.
Buddha,
Well, that thought is going to put me off gumbo for a while… As usual, you’re right, though.
Slarti,
While I like the idea, I don’t want him dead and that would be the net result – some coonass would have him stuffed and mounted within a week. Or made into gumbo. You can put anything in gumbo but making one out of Tony would be a waste of good roux.
I want his self-serving narcissistic myopic criminal self to suffer in direct proportion to the suffering his incompetence and greed is and will continue to cause in both the American public and the environment. The only way to do that is to take away his money and his freedom in toto.
Remember, “an eye for an eye” isn’t about revenge. It’s about parity in the dispensation of justice. Equity requires he be stripped of that which he holds so dear – money and corporatist “power”.
I want Tony Hayward to find out first hand the alternative uses for grape jelly in prison.
Buddha,
Come on, we don’t want to keep Tony in captivity. He should be released into the wild – on a barrier island in Louisiana…
I just wanted Tony Hayward fired for his callous incompetence.
Now? I want his head on a stick.
BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil spill.
Tony Hayward! Thanks for showing just what a lying fascist you are. I hope you choke on every dime you’ve ever made. Preferably in prison.
Amended to add.
When at college, I shared digs with a lad who’s Dad was quite high up at BP – his only bosses were the company directors. This was before privatisation.
This guy had just spent 4 years on loan to the Malaysians showing them how to set up and run an oil company – a little outfit called Petronas.
So there was a time when BP was not only seen as competent, but as being amongst the most competent.
Bdaman,
You’re welcome.
FFLEO,
I think that you and I disagree on relative terms rather than fundamentally. What I mean is that I can agree that President Obama shares some of the blame and that he was naive about off-shore drilling, the statement that he is ‘almost equally to blame’ strikes me as over-the-top hyperbole. While President Obama is far from perfect (and many, if not most, of his actions or inactions that you lament I agree with you on) the differences between him and President Bush are vast. Additionally, I doubt that anyone (whatever their positions and intentions) could have done much more than President Obama in the present toxic political environment. I act as an apologist for the president not because I think that he is the perfect messiah, but because I think he is turning the ship of state (generally) in the right direction and I see the alternative as returning to the Republican policies that got us into this mess (which I believe is tantamount to national suicide). I want to give the president a solid liberal majority in both houses (instead of a bunch of blue dog corporate lackeys) in order to achieve the rapid reforms that I think are necessary to avert disaster. One trait that I share with the president is pragmatism, so I will continue to look for ways that I can help improve and reform things within the existing system and reject proposed paths that I might agree with more ideologically (like third party candidates) which I see as not viable.
BP used to be a nationalised company until thatcher flogged it for next to nowt in the late 80’s.
It would be a bit of a dead end to speculate whether or not this disaster would have ocurred had it remained in state hands, so I shan’t.
But I never thought I’d be relieved that BP is no longer owned by the UK tax payer. Never in a million years.
Funny old world.
http://www.americanprogress.org//issues/2010/06/oil_timeline.html
I’m so angry I can hardly believe it. This is no time for politics…in fact I believe politics as we know it is really very much to blame for this disaster and many others over the past decade…including the war. People are being hurt. Actively. And the political response is like watching a corrupt football game. Our courts are blowing the corporations who are interpreting (correctly) the favoritism as carte blanche to fill thier greedy viagra driven appetites.
Meanwhile the decent citizens are working more and more for less and less…till they drop dead trying to secure just an ounce of a sliver of some decent bit of a thought for their kids to MAYBE be able to have a reasonable life.
Whats the real bottom line? Who, or what, is holding our government hostage? I want to know.
…and I’d really like to see some cleaning up out there instead of a clusterfuck of deflated drifting booms.
There is a very interesting article on the front page of today’s NY Times that explains how much of this disaster came about. It’s a good read.