tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post1491992128531277193..comments2024-03-16T08:04:53.086-05:00Comments on Dredd Blog: Democracy School & Too-Big-To-Jail - 2Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-78452847526922907852010-05-17T06:16:32.200-05:002010-05-17T06:16:32.200-05:00The volcano in Iceland is acting up again. So far ...The volcano in Iceland is acting up again. So far the pilots and airlines have not taken chances with lives of passengers.<br /><br />Some airports are not allowing flights until it clears up.<br /><br />The global warming volcano rides again as BP leaks poison into the equation ... what do they want ... more volcano eruptions, rising oceans, civilization endangered ... probably all of the above?Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673418865926403671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-50257796903308865852010-05-16T19:34:37.168-05:002010-05-16T19:34:37.168-05:00Sixty Minutes is interviewing one of the surviving...<i>Sixty Minutes</i> is interviewing one of the surviving rig workers as I speak. He's srongly implying criminal malfeasance on the part of BP and/or onboard management in the interests of hurrying the drilling process. Probably nothing more than most people expected. Even so, making anything stick legally will no doubt be a multi-year, multi-hundreds of millions of dollars proposition - see the Exxon Valdez case for that if you have any doubts. <br /><br />Just another case where "we the people" got fucked in the ass by corporate America/World. Unfortunately, it'll be far from the last. Watch the coming months for the multitudinous excuses/reasons why offered up by assorted special interests and/or beltway politicians. Wait and see, this will all be papered over by fall, and after an appropriate amount of furrowed brow and hand wringing, all will be gradually forgotten (think of a cat covering its shit in the cat box), and life will return to normal here in first world USA. That's what we in the first world do - CONSUME EVERYTHING IN OUR PATH! - including ourselves if necessary.NowhereManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12745173041874539711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-1819826085378107662010-05-16T12:00:09.344-05:002010-05-16T12:00:09.344-05:00The type of employer should not matter when it com...The type of employer should not matter when it comes to criminal mistreatment of workers.<br /><br />The working class folks are not garbage to be thrown in the dumpster of life because demented oil barons fancy themselves better than the rest of us.<br /><br />Right?Randyhttp://artwanted.com/artist.cfm?artid=3388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-34027589152696949072010-05-16T11:49:14.656-05:002010-05-16T11:49:14.656-05:00Quite frankly, I'm less sympathetic with the r...Quite frankly, I'm less sympathetic with the rig workers - they were paid and chose to be there afterall - than I am for the wildlife and the countless number of people who will either die directly or have their lives forever altered for the worse by the lasting pernicious effects of this spill. Many of those will never even be noted or perhaps even know that they have been negatively affected. This will truly be a multi-generational gift that keeps on giving. Thanks BP!<br /><br />On the plus side, NASCAR continues on as usual today, so the grand illusion continues unabated. Imagine the amount of oil consumed in one NASCAR event alone. Consider the oil consumed in getting the teams, the cars, the fans (often in motor homes) to and from the event, as well as the direct use of fuel, tires, and lubricants in the race itself.<br /><br />Perhaps some wily entrepreneur in the future will come up with something where we just pool several million barrels of raw crude in a stadium and set fire to it for amusement. Seems like an altogether straighter path to the ultimate goal: to burn through the rest of the world's supply as quickly as possible.NowhereManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12745173041874539711noreply@blogger.com