As I've already stated many times, I am a big Obama supporter, but the truth of the matter is... this IS Obama's Katrina.

It makes me sad everytime I think about this. It's such a disgusting display of what happens when pathetic humans get too greedy.

:mad: Greedy Pathetic Humans - GPH - QFT! :mad:

So what's going to happen? They're just going to let it all empty out? How many gallons were in there and how much longer would it take to empty if nothing is done sooner?

Scumbags the lot of them.
They rather let nature die then spend some extra money on preventing shit like this.
People should hang for this.

If Obama doesn't harness the momentum of the recent and absurd supreme court decision that corporations should be treated as individual citizens, coupled with the recent coal mining disaster (based upon greed, deregulation and a lack of oversight), coupled with the BP oil disaster (also based upon greed, deregulation and a lack of oversight) to finally force a new direction regarding our energy policies, along with new regulations regarding overreaching corporate influence and power, then he is not embracing "the urgency of now" - a phrase he often referenced in his speeches.

If he can't use the above, to stage a sea-shift, then he is either incapable to lead, or maybe it is already just too late to prevent our country from being fully owned by corporations, and even the President of the United States is nothing more than a powerless actor in a cynical game of deception.

this, just... sucks =(

Good point. People who really want to help, can do so. People who complain about "no being able to help because the government isn't giving them directions" don't really want to help....

The Fox is in-charge of the hen house....

Do you think the US government has the know-how to fix this problem??

BP should be able to fix it.

Its weird how every problem that comes up is the President's fault.

Aliens from the crab nebula attacked Earth. Obama hasnt done shit!

This is BP's business - They should have the expertise to fix this problem. Their slow actions either says they dont give a shit OR the dont know how to fix it. BP should be held responsible and should foot the ENTIRE bill. For Rand Paul to say putting BP on blast was "un-American" is nonsense.

::tears::

http://www.ch33rs.com/pics/bp-oil-spill.html

If you are wondering why the government hasn't taken over yet here is your answer-

"The Oil Pollution Act, signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, restricts government involvement in oil spills to a supervisory role. The law was designed to avoid the situation that followed the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, in which the government was left to clean up a private company?s mess and then had to sue the company to recover costs.

The same act restricts the liability of oil companies to $75 million, although they remain fully responsible for completing the clean up. That?s why BP is required to clean up its own mess."

http://blogs.wsj.com/capitaljournal/...-relationship/

Not that I think it would matter anyways. Navy Seals aren't great at stopping underwater oil volcanoes and the navy doesn't really have anything short of a nuke that would even be able to handle this situation. So there is your answer. The reason the government can't "take things over" is because it's against the law.

^^^what he said

who exactly in the world let alone the american administration has more expertise with oil wells 1 mile under the sea than BP? if there was someone out there with the answer to fix this now, he would have been hired.

and for everyone who thinks that BP don't care about fixing it, you've got to be joking. it's cost them over half a billion dollars so far just for the clean up and that's just the tip of the iceberg, there'll be compensation claims, £30billion (approx US $50billion) has been wiped of its share price allready, and there reputation is in the shitter.

Thats for this info. :thumbsup

If you have a few minutes please watch this video!

I have always been amazed by the stories that are investigated and presented on the Rachel Maddow Show.

Perplexing how often her small cable show manages to trump the bigger players when it comes to poignant matters.

Makes you wonder: Is her investigative team that great, or are most news outlets controlled by so many corporate interests that they can not report on controversial topics with the same level of impunity?



https://youtube.com/watch?v=x9A36A3GTcY

load of retards, they probably did it on purpose

BFT3K said it all... Again welcome to the end....

The platform sunk, its sitting on the bottom of the ocean..

and this should piss everyone off

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/...052510.article




So 21 years later and BP is still incompetent