BP Stands for Butt Plugs

by Eco.Soul.Intellectual

When the US Administration allows BP to mine for oil off the Gulf Coast again, we will all need to purchase butt plugs.

We are all fucked.

As hundreds of dolphins are dying, crabs are walking cross-eyed in thick murky oil at the bottom of the sea, and thousands of miles of shore going up to the Carolinas have petroleum residue in its sand, BP will set up shop again.

Protecting the free trade market in America comes at too high of a cost.

A billion dollars in recompense, but a billion organisms have been gravely affected. BP, please kiss my ass, after you rip it, again.

In Pursuit of Energy Independence

Rep. Joe Barton's apology to BP, and Judge Martin Leach-Cross Feldman's decision to overturn Obama's six month moratorium on deep water drilling, hasn't fazed me one bit. Yes both of these men are tied to the oil industry in some way or another. But hey, as far as elected officials and policy makers go, who isn't? This is yet another example of why the stated goal of Energy Independence is pretty much like a hunt for the ever elusive Unicorns:

Day Forty Four: Isn't it time to call in Aquaman and MacGuyver to stop this?

"Y'all gon' make me lose my mind up in HERE, up in here." - DMX

Nope, the title of this post isn't the name of one of the next up and coming soon to be defunct R&B group by my man Diddy. It actually represents just how many days (as I type this post) that that oil is being dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. And the big question on the minds of everyone, is when will it all end?

Now the president has been taking a beating from just about everybody on this one; similarly, BP has as well in the court of public opinion. But, just as you and I know, every "disaster" has to have a face. And in this case, that face just happens to be Barack Obama's.

Getting in on the act recently was one of his unlikely supporters, Colin Powell:

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that President Barack Obama has moved too slowly in asserting leadership over the Gulf spill response - and the time has come for a "comprehensive and total attack" on the problem.

Powell, speaking to Jake Tapper on ABC's "This Week," said he believed the military could be deployed in greater numbers to help deal with the clean-up , but that they would be of limited help.

Powell, an Obama supporter in the 2008 presidential campaign said: "The president correctly said the other day that he's been monitoring and following and has essentially been on top of it from the beginning, but that impression was not conveyed to the American people, and the comprehensive speech he gave the other day I think he would have been better served and the nation would have been better served if he had given it a few weeks earlier.”

"I have watched a number of these kinds of crises come and go…and in every instance what I have sort of learned from all these is that the national government the federal government, the president has to get involved as quickly as possible," Powell added. "If you don’t, public opinion starts to drag you, the media pushes you.” (source)

I firmly respect Powell, and I always have. And on this one - unlike some of the Republican nutjobs who  offer criticisms of Obama's handling of this situation - Colin Powell makes a heck of a lot of sense.  The president has lost some political capital in the eyes of the public, and the folks over at Fox News. And it is for this very reason, that the president now has to "show and prove," as we say in the streets.

The Tragic and Untold Story of The Somali Pirates

Last April, I wrote about my thoughts on the Somali pirates and the media hype surrounding their situation. I'd read that piracy was pumping some serious life blood into the coast of Somalia before, but in that very post, I linked to an article by Time that was eye-opening for me.

And the beat goes on...

I was hoping that more people would jump in, but it seems not a lot of people care. I'm not giving up on this because I always find media hype as it relates to minorities to be disingenious and misleading in many ways.

I'm not taking the bait on these guys, and I wasn't from day one. It takes some serious balls to go up against a tanker, and I don't think it's anyone's idea of a real good time, when they could be doing other things. But then I got to thinking... What else is there for them to do? It's not like we left them any fish or anything:

As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died.
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At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia's seas of their greatest resource: seafood.

I'm riding for the pirates because they've been robbed of a decent life, not just by their corrupt government, but by so-called First World countries insistent on pillaging the Somalian coast regardless of the well-being of the people of Somalia.

Of course, the media--and the world--gobbles it up and chucks it up to a case of "thieving negroes" who don't want to work for their own. How can they work for it, when they've been robbed of everything they could work for?

This is a perfect example of how ignorance among the masses can be the greatest tool a sinister operation, country or corporation used to continue the subhuman treatment of people of color.

Here's Mr. Hari's GREAT piece on the Somali pirates and the sad, yet untold, reality: Click here.