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Time's up. No more Bullshit.
Author: Raine    Date: 06/10/2010 12:51:19

While the Gulf is crumbling, people in Washington and Mississippi have been trying to hold hearings to get to the bottom of what caused the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to explode and crash to the floor of the sea. Yesterday, we found out that Admiral Thad Allen has issued a 72 hour deadline for BP to present updated plans for the battling the oil spill:
The US tightened pressure Wednesday on BP, setting a 72-hour deadline for the battered British energy titan to present updated plans for battling the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, charged with leading the government's response to the nation's worst environmental disaster, demanded BP produce records of compensation claims filed by individuals and businesses.

The orders in official letters betrayed a sense of growing mistrust between BP and President Barack Obama's administration more than seven weeks after a blowout on the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig sparked the disaster.
What the consequences are for not meeting that deadline are not known, and that's a problem, considering that BP, Halliburton, and Transocean have decided to skip Mississippi hearings scheduled for the disaster. From Think progress:
I regret that we are unable to accommodate your invitation to participate Wednesday or Thursday in the hearing of the Mississippi House of Representatives Select Committee on the Gulf Coast Disaster.

We at BP take very seriously the desire of the Select Committee to gather information on the circumstances on the Mississippi coast relative to the oil spill. We are committed to meeting regularly with stakeholders along the Gulf Coast and to providing briefings for government officials on a regular basis, and we will continue to remain engaged in this way. When we meet with the Committee, it will be important for us to have appropriate BP representatives who are implementing the strategic response plan for Mississippi and working in the Mississippi Gulf Coast area. Unfortunately, the appropriate individuals are not available this week. We would be pleased to work with the Select Committee to identify a day in the near future for another meeting of the Committee — either in Jackson or on the Coast where the Committee also can visit incident response operations.

A BP spokesperson told the AP that the “many of the company’s executives” would be in Washington, DC. According to the Biloxi Sun Herald, both Transocean and Halliburton were also no shows.
It's well documented that when these CEO's gave Senate testimony on Capitol hill, a month ago -- it was nothing more than a dismal game of pointing fingers. Now it appears they are simply stonewalling not only the recovery efforts, but also efforts by both Federal and State governments to get to the bottom of what happened.

In all seriousness here, it's not like any of these CEO's are actually getting their hands dirty trying to clean up the mess, and I mean that literally and metaphorically. It's time for someone to be held accountable, and if they refuse to do so willingly, then it is time for either a state Attorney General or Eric Holder to issue subpoenas and have them testify under oath.

At this point, NONE of these CEO's should be making requests for any government official to meet with them when they feel they they are ready, nor should they be suggesting places to meet. It's arrogant and insulting to the people who need answers, and need to know when they can start putting their lives back together. They don't get to set the timetable here.

They all may be very pleased at the efforts, but I am not. No one is, except maybe the CEO of Freedomworks and Liz Cheney. It's been 52 days -- I want to see the RIGHT people lose their jobs at this point, people like Tony Haywood, and not the people who rely on the Gulf of Mexico for their livelihood. If the CEO's of these corporations can't do that, they should go to jail for contempt. And why not? Diane Wilson went to jail for an oil spill:
Diane Wilson, a Texas shrimper and activist, has been arrested for pouring oil on herself during a senate energy hearing.
[snip]

"I am seeing the destruction of my community and I am outraged," Wilson said in a statement released by Codepink following her arrest. "I am also seeing elected representatives like Senator Lisa Murkowski blocking BP from being legally responsible to pay for this catastrophe.... This is outrageous. How dare she side with big oil over the American people who have been so devastated by this man-made disaster?"

Wilson, who claims to be a fourth-generation shrimper, has been protesting and writing about pollution in the Gulf for years.

"We want people to call Senator Murkowski's office and tell her to stop supporting big oil and support a healthy environment and American livelihoods instead," said Codepink co-founder Medea Benjamin, who was with Wilson at the hearing. "BP CEO Tony Hayward should be in jail, not a distraught shrimper!"
Enough bullshit - I want answers, not just for this disaster, but for all of the Corporate Malfeasance. Many of our laws ARE broken but I know we have a few laying around that we can utilize to get some sort of justice. Finding out everything is critical to knowing how and what needs to be done to strengthen our laws in a way that this never happens again.

It's brought the Gulf to it's knees, and possibly our entire way of life. Animals are dying miserable torturous deaths. The land is being poisoned. People have fallen ill. If that doesn't deserve to be answered on OUR timetable, then they deserve to go jail.

and
Raine



 

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Comment by wickedpam on 06/10/2010 12:54:54
Morning



Blogging from home - taking a few vacation days

Comment by Raine on 06/10/2010 12:59:27
Quote by wickedpam:

Morning



Blogging from home - taking a few vacation days


Nice! looks like you are going to have perfect weather!

Comment by wickedpam on 06/10/2010 13:10:47
looks like it - now I just need to stay hidden from certain neighbors

Comment by TriSec on 06/10/2010 13:14:07
So I’m listening to the BBC this morning….they are complaining about how far BP’s stock price has fallen, and they think the President has gone too far with his rhetoric. “I won’t dignify his comments by repeating them here on live radio”.



Wah.



Pay up, biatches!







Regarding this: "Unfortunately, the appropriate individuals are not available this week."



One word....Subpoena.



Comment by Raine on 06/10/2010 13:14:58




I don;t know if I should laugh or cry. I do appreciate the macabre humor, tho.

Comment by Raine on 06/10/2010 13:17:36
Quote by TriSec:

So I’m listening to the BBC this morning….they are complaining about how far BP’s stock price has fallen, and they think the President has gone too far with his rhetoric. “I won’t dignify his comments by repeating them here on live radio”.



Wah.



Pay up, biatches!







Regarding this: "Unfortunately, the appropriate individuals are not available this week."



One word....Subpoena.

well I kinda expanded on that theme...



Comment by wickedpam on 06/10/2010 13:24:00
Quote by Raine:





I don;t know if I should laugh or cry. I do appreciate the macabre humor, tho.






pretty dead on if you ask me

Comment by BobR on 06/10/2010 13:33:45
Quote by Raine:





I don;t know if I should laugh or cry. I do appreciate the macabre humor, tho.


I'm doing both

Comment by Raine on 06/10/2010 13:34:50
She really is quite a mean girl... Watch Carly.





Comment by Scoopster on 06/10/2010 13:55:22
Morning all!



I think the meanness suits her.. Ever since her hair started growing back she looks more and more like Leona Helmsley.

Comment by wickedpam on 06/10/2010 14:22:39
think I'm gonna run out before anyone gets wind of me being home - I'll check in later :D

Comment by Will in Chicago on 06/10/2010 14:25:43
Good morning, bloggers!!!



Raine, thank you for a great blog. I have NO Faith in BP, and I think that the administration perhaps erred in not pressuring the corporation a bit early. Of course, the administration has responded to the crisis but there are limits to what they can do without experts and equipment.



I hope that everyone is doing well today.

Comment by TriSec on 06/10/2010 14:37:12




Pfft.





Comment by Raine on 06/10/2010 14:39:21
Quote by Will in Chicago:

Good morning, bloggers!!!



Raine, thank you for a great blog. I have NO Faith in BP, and I think that the administration perhaps erred in not pressuring the corporation a bit early. Of course, the administration has responded to the crisis but there are limits to what they can do without experts and equipment.



I hope that everyone is doing well today.


Will I have not trusted BP from the very Start. I wrote: Crudely Speaking it's pale by comparison.

Comment by velveeta jones on 06/10/2010 15:07:46
Morning all.

Sorry I've not been around much. Big doings around here. More on that later.



Hugs all around.





Comment by BobR on 06/10/2010 15:19:21
Quote by Raine:

She really is quite a mean girl... Watch Carly.





The part about Boxer was very little, and at the very end. I thought her comments about Sean Hannity were MUCH more interesting...

Comment by livingonli on 06/10/2010 15:30:30
Good morning everyone. Didn't sleep so well last night so I am a little groggy. I really want to see these oil company criminals put away for what they have done if they can't fix it.

Comment by Raine on 06/10/2010 15:43:12
Quote by velveeta jones:

Morning all.

Sorry I've not been around much. Big doings around here. More on that later.



Hugs all around.



well I really hope that everything is ok. back atcha.



Comment by velveeta jones on 06/10/2010 15:52:26
Quote by Raine:

Quote by velveeta jones:

Morning all.

Sorry I've not been around much. Big doings around here. More on that later.



Hugs all around.



well I really hope that everything is ok. back atcha.



Just life.

Today I will be having some sort of face peeling to remove skin cancer. Hey! Maybe when they peel it off I'll come out looking like Halle Berry!!! Or, I could look like Helen Thomas. Ug.

Comment by Raine on 06/10/2010 15:52:44
Reality:



Carly fiorinia thinks Barbara Boxer hair is *so yesterday* but would be more than glad to fire 10,000 people all over again.



Nice to know the Marie Antoinette candidate has her priorities all in the right place.

Comment by clintster on 06/10/2010 15:52:45
Oh dear, the WASPy Fiorina talk is driving me crazy.



Consuela... (clap clap) another Bloody Mary, por favor!

Comment by Raine on 06/10/2010 15:54:05
Quote by velveeta jones:

Just life.

Today I will be having some sort of face peeling to remove skin cancer. Hey! Maybe when they peel it off I'll come out looking like Halle Berry!!! Or, I could look like Helen Thomas. Ug.
Oh hell, Vel.



I want you to come out looking like, well -- YOU.



Comment by Will in Chicago on 06/10/2010 16:00:13
Quote by velveeta jones:

Quote by Raine:

Quote by velveeta jones:

Morning all.

Sorry I've not been around much. Big doings around here. More on that later.



Hugs all around.



well I really hope that everything is ok. back atcha.



Just life.

Today I will be having some sort of face peeling to remove skin cancer. Hey! Maybe when they peel it off I'll come out looking like Halle Berry!!! Or, I could look like Helen Thomas. Ug.




I hope that all goes well, VJ. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.



With the right treatments, people can look like themselves after skin cancer. VJ, what you have sounds less severe than what my Mom faced some years back when she had skin cancer and some reconstructive plastic surgery. She looks great now. Hang in there.



Comment by velveeta jones on 06/10/2010 16:03:13
Quote by Will in Chicago:

Quote by velveeta jones:

Quote by Raine:

Quote by velveeta jones:

Morning all.

Sorry I've not been around much. Big doings around here. More on that later.



Hugs all around.



well I really hope that everything is ok. back atcha.



Just life.

Today I will be having some sort of face peeling to remove skin cancer. Hey! Maybe when they peel it off I'll come out looking like Halle Berry!!! Or, I could look like Helen Thomas. Ug.




I hope that all goes well, VJ. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.



With the right treatments, people can look like themselves after skin cancer. VJ, what you have sounds less severe than what my Mom faced some years back when she had skin cancer and some reconstructive plastic surgery. She looks great now. Hang in there.





Oh yeah, they definitely caught it early.

Comment by velveeta jones on 06/10/2010 16:04:08
Quote by clintster:

Oh dear, the WASPy Fiorina talk is driving me crazy.



Consuela... (clap clap) another Bloody Mary, por favor!








Comment by livingonli on 06/10/2010 16:06:20
I have heard on MSNBC that the iPad has been hacked and that a number of celebrity and bigwig e-mails have been exposed. Could be some fun reading. Maybe will see Carly Fiorina's plans for Cali and the country.

Comment by Raine on 06/10/2010 16:32:45
Regarding the issue with the White house and Labor Unions and the fued post Arkansas, I wanted to write soemthing today, but I am glad I didn't.



This person said it FAR better than I could EVER have.



Internecine Drama and Obama



It is WELL worth the read. No one is innocent in this game.



editorial from me: And as much as I despise Lincoln -- Halter being painted as a progressive just isn't. He was better than the DINO.



While I understand WHY Unions did this, after the Public option debacle, I will never understand the logic of doing this in a state that has one of the smallest union enrollments? .
But what about the unions -- which were much more active in Arkansas than they were in Pennsylvania (where, in fact, many of them endorsed Arlen Specter, although lukewarmly)? Unfortunately, they're not much help in Arkansas. In fact, Arkansas has the lowest fraction of union members from among the 50 states -- just 4.2 percent of the overall population, or 8 percent of the Democratic primary electorate, according to 2008 exit polling. In Pennsylvania, by contrast, 19 percent of Democratic primary voters in 2008 were members of unions.
I will say I find it strange that Sestak won in Pa, and Obama took heat for the win, while Lincoln won in Arkansas, and it's still Obama's fault.



I cringed at that anonymous comment. but I think there is far more to this whole debacle than meets the eye.

Comment by Raine on 06/10/2010 16:49:25
Boehner want the Taxpayers to bail out BP



And my eye is twitching again.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 06/10/2010 17:03:13
Quote by Raine:

Boehner want the Taxpayers to bail out BP



And my eye is twitching again.




I guess we know why the Oompa-Loompa exiled Boehner.





http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa213/FourFreedoms/Meetup08/oompa_loompaCrooksandliars.jpg


Comment by Will in Chicago on 06/10/2010 17:04:51
Could someone resize the image? I thought that it would resize automatically.

Comment by livingonli on 06/10/2010 17:30:08
The Boner needs more spray-on in a can.

Comment by Raine on 06/10/2010 17:39:31
Quote by Will in Chicago:

Could someone resize the image? I thought that it would resize automatically.


I that image.

Comment by Raine on 06/10/2010 17:46:56
Done, Will.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 06/10/2010 18:00:27
Quote by Raine:

Quote by Will in Chicago:

Could someone resize the image? I thought that it would resize automatically.


I that image.




Yes, and it shows some of the absurdness of Boehner. Why should we take a man seriously when he uses a fake tanning product that makes him look like a character from a children's film? At least it is not as bad as this rogues gallery:







http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/rogues.jpg


Comment by Raine on 06/10/2010 18:19:13
What blows me away with people like Boehner is that they really are not for American people. They aren't even acting like they are with comments like this. let's take a quick look to the back in time machine (also known as the inntertubes):
House Republican leader John Boehner, Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, and Alabama Representative Spencer Bachus, have all criticized aspects of the aid package being crafted by Democrats in the House and Senate.



``I don't know of a single Republican who is willing to support'' the auto bailout, Democrat Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said yesterday, adding that he would be careful about bringing up any measure that might fail.





and this.



he deserves to rot in a tanning bed.

Comment by livingonli on 06/10/2010 18:26:46
Somewhere I am waiting for Eartha Kitt to utter a cat-related pun.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 06/10/2010 18:27:01
Raine, Thom Hartmann has said that many conservatives traditionally see corporations as superior to human beings in terms of morality. So, perhaps Boehner is supporting those he considers to be real people.

Comment by BobR on 06/10/2010 18:32:53
:pops head above surface: AIR!!... AIR!!....



:sinks below again:





Comment by Raine on 06/10/2010 18:46:18
Quote by Will in Chicago:

Raine, Thom Hartmann has said that many conservatives traditionally see corporations as superior to human beings in terms of morality. So, perhaps Boehner is supporting those he considers to be real people.


And with this I agree... But what I really want to know, and I mean this question honestly, will the Tea Party start protesting him? The chamber of Commerce has COMPLETELY made it clear that Boehner is his puppet in this case.



if they and all the other libertarians and uber conservatives really and truly mean what they say, Boehner has now entered the land of 'too liberal' for them and should be protested as such.



And, in this case NO BP does not deserve a bailout. BP has raped this nation one too many times. (and I do not use that word lightly.)

Comment by Will in Chicago on 06/10/2010 19:02:09
Quote by livingonli:

Somewhere I am waiting for Eartha Kitt to utter a cat-related pun.




Sadly, the great Eartha Kitt is no longer with us. However, I think that she might say something like this:



http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7BhcH-_Lqw/SVRKcd1QiZI/AAAAAAAACO4/GitdleqdF0E/s400/Eartha.bmp




"Stop pussyfooting around BP and take the steps to end this CAT-tastrophe." (Sorry, but I could not resist.)



Comment by Will in Chicago on 06/10/2010 19:10:08
Quote by Raine:

Quote by Will in Chicago:

Raine, Thom Hartmann has said that many conservatives traditionally see corporations as superior to human beings in terms of morality. So, perhaps Boehner is supporting those he considers to be real people.


And with this I agree... But what I really want to know, and I mean this question honestly, will the Tea Party start protesting him? The chamber of Commerce has COMPLETELY made it clear that Boehner is his puppet in this case.



if they and all the other libertarians and uber conservatives really and truly mean what they say, Boehner has now entered the land of 'too liberal' for them and should be protested as such.



And, in this case NO BP does not deserve a bailout. BP has raped this nation one too many times. (and I do not use that word lightly.)




The chances of the teabaggers protesting Boehner's statements are about as likely as the following:





http://files.myopera.com/velmu/blog/hell.jpg




http://blindapeseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/hellfrozenover.jpg


Comment by Raine on 06/10/2010 19:16:37
YEah, you are right Will. The hypocrisy just slays me.





Comment by IzzyBitz on 06/10/2010 20:06:39
Quote by livingonli:

I have heard on MSNBC that the iPad has been hacked and that a number of celebrity and bigwig e-mails have been exposed. Could be some fun reading. Maybe will see Carly Fiorina's plans for Cali and the country.




I just wish Carly had said something more disgraceful, to the point where she had to step down. Sonofabitch. Now she'll be on high alert after the handlers get done with her.



Just got a look at Palin's new twins. WOW! Milfy McMilferson!

Comment by BobR on 06/10/2010 20:36:35
finally able to breathe again. Holy crap, today was crazy...

Comment by livingonli on 06/10/2010 21:13:10
Quote by IzzyBitz:

Quote by livingonli:

I have heard on MSNBC that the iPad has been hacked and that a number of celebrity and bigwig e-mails have been exposed. Could be some fun reading. Maybe will see Carly Fiorina's plans for Cali and the country.




I just wish Carly had said something more disgraceful, to the point where she had to step down. Sonofabitch. Now she'll be on high alert after the handlers get done with her.



Just got a look at Palin's new twins. WOW! Milfy McMilferson!


They are bigger than her brain.



Comment by TriSec on 06/11/2010 00:34:00
http://www.nba.com/media/celtics/lucky_figure_300437.png




Beat LA.



Comment by trojanrabbit on 06/11/2010 00:35:46
Do any of these environmental groups have the ability to take some of this oil with the dispersants and drop it on each of the BP board members' estates?



Then drop a good load on The Boner.