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Obviously — obviously — every single effort BP makes to try to stop the entire contents of the earth from barfing up into the Gulf of Mexico will fail, and miserably. This is making the Obama administration look bad, as they are supposed to be “in charge” but it’s not really their fault (except in the total-failure-of-regulation and lapses-in-containment senses) and they can’t just brush aside BP and do things themselves because, uh, capitalism? Anyway, eventually once you piss off the Obama administration, they set their “heavy,” Eric Holder, onto you, and then YOUR SHIT GETS FUCKED UP. That’s right, it’s time for a strongly worded press conference in which the possibility of “malfeasance” charges are floated! All sorts of terrible lobsterback monsters are going to prison (or will have to pay modest fines, whatever). [WP] - Hawaiian Democrat Ed Case, who has screwed up multiple elections for the Democrats, has finally announced that he has stopped doing so, after shaming Hawaii by handing Barack Obama’s personal House seat to some Republican. [KITV]
- It’s primary day in Alabama, aka America’s Greatest Producer Of Hilarious Campaign Ads! In addition to comical wingnuts on YouTube, the election has also featured Artur Davis, an African-American congressman, running for the Democratic nomination for governor without buddying up to various civil rights organizations. We’ll see how that goes! (And don’t worry, Alabama is one of those states where primaries in which nobody gets 50 percent of the vote go to a runoff, so there will be weeks of hilarious campaign ads to come.) [NYT]
- AIG, having not screwed the American taxpayer in literally months, is balking at a sale of one of its Hong Kong divisions that could pay back some of the government aid it received. This is because AIG has suddenly decided that it is an institution that is in some way valuable, rather than a criminal syndicate that should have all of its property seized and sold at auction while its employees beaten with sticks. [NYT]
IT'S MORNING IN AMERICA
June 1, 2010
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“This is because AIG has suddenly decided that it is an institution that is in some way valuable, rathern than a criminal syndicate that should have all of its property seized and sold at auction while its employees beaten with sticks.”
Also applies to BP. Though “tar and feathering” might be more appropriate and hilarious, after the beating with sticks.
Those guys look Boered.
Why do you build me up Fruhlinger just to let me down and mess me around?
Yes, use the US America’s ultimate weapon… the lawyers… that is till BP whips out its lawyers and nobody wins except, well, lawyers. Yay?
I’m hoping for massive fines (till the Supremes fuck it up) and community service aka cleaning up the clusterfuck their cheapness and greed made. From the looks of it, it will be a life sentence. Sure it won’t be the same as “pound me in the ass” federal prison, but so what! Cleaning up oil soaked dirt and dead birds isn’t a day at the beach. Plus that shit is toxic. Breathing those fumes constantly isn’t going to help the delicate internals of pampered (not in a Vitter way) BP execubots.
I believe that’s The album cover for “Absolutely Right” by The Five Man Electrical Band, circa 1972.
It wasn’t that long ago that Karl Marx lost all credibility and capitalism looked good. Now what?
[re=588204]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Worst of all, he never posts, Manchu, when he says he will.
Can someone please explain to me how the wingtards managed to twist the oil spill into how this is now “Obama’s Iranian Hostage Crisis?” See, just like Carter! Democrats in this country simply cannot be Presidents, the media just colludes with the right wing and destroys them.
“Evil, Bloated Plutocrats Losing Favor With Some Americans”
so now everyone will finally get fed up and take to the streets in mass protest, right????
Actually , for prison garb, that’s an absolutely fabulous ensemble for that era. You can’t see it, but the back pantaloon sports an elegant zipper entry to the mysterious anus.
Uh–I know it was a vacation day yesterday and everything, but aren’t you maybe missing one story?
If only! They’ll get off.
Hm, did anybody go to jail for the recent financial Great Dip? I expect slammer fine-time is equally unlikely for the Great Spill.
Well, you start cleaning it up, and the wingnuts get to scream about Big Guvmunt interfering in free enterprise. You don’t, and the wingnuts get to scream about how Guvmunt can’t do anything right: just look how much it polluted the Gulf.
As for AIG, typos aside (a beatern is a rare bird that flies over arctic waters in a sleaveless t-shirt), this is another one of those completely fuck-the-consumer bits of magic of the corporation. It’s our money when they want it, but it’s their money when we want it back. We get to decide what to do, when they’re threatening to destroy our 401(k)’s (because of the invention of the 401(k), which eliminated the company pension in favor of flushing the whole nation’s retirement into the stock market, thus turning the entire nation into a group ready to “venture” its capital), but they get to decide what to do when it’s a question of how to allocate money so as to best create risk.
It’s the corporation and the stock market. I see little need for stock based exchanges except actual venture capital. Anyone not wishing, fully, to risk 100%, shouldn’t be forced, but we’re all forced. Pwned by HW Bush.
[re=588204]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Yeah, the Supreme Court Reputards (SCROTUS) will fuck the
poochchicken no doubt if anything gets their way.Case closed in Hawaii? We’ll wait to see on that one.
AIG looked around and saw that BP was actually beating them in terms of fucking over the public for fun and profit, so they’ve decided it’s time to get back in the game.
[re=588211]Way Cool Larry[/re]: I’m waiting for some actual class warfare here; like the French or Russian revolutions.
Rich people going to jail for screwing poor people ?
Good Christ, if we start down that road our jails will be full of bankers and politicians, they’ll be no room for the dusky folk and so that’s purely unconstitutional in the US America, never-gonna-happen.
What you flaming libtards need to remember is BP didn’t spill the oil, they liberated it. It’s petrochemical emancipation, not an environmental nightmare.
This is a windfall for poor folk everywhere, for just $19.95 you can have the new Ronco ‘Home Refractory’ to make your own gasoline from free-range crude oil. But wait, there’s more! The first 500 orders will recieve the Ronco ‘Home Oil Tanker’ with ergonomic handle to collect 5 gallons of free oil from your nearest beach! When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!
It’s safe to say that the BP delegation has done everything it can to become an ongoing plot thread on Treme.
I don’t see what everybody is so worried about. BP assures us that the leak will be stopped by the end of August, during the middle of hurricane season.
Geologically speaking, that’s like a cosmic second.
[re=588222]plowman[/re]: And when life gives you goo, make sure you sue!
[re=588204]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Never happen. That oil’ll really fuck up your manicure. They’ll get some newly unemployed fisherman for the actual squeegeeing/lung poisoning.
I just find the whole “Blame Obamer!” thing particularly repulsive combined with the talk of “Obama’s Katrina”, considering the historical precedent, especially when republicans literally demand that he leave washington and help clean up with his bare hands (again, see Katrina, for comparison). I think he’s probably done about as well as he could, given the political liabilities involved in the early weeks when everyone thought this would be “solved” and we could go back to raping mother earth, in the vagina, for her precious, precious oil.
[re=588217]Geogre[/re]:
Not enough Obamer involvement: “Obama’s Katrina”
Too much Obamer (in wetsuit ,etc): “Obama’s Mission Accomplished”
There’s enough Dubya fuckups for a lifetime of Demoncratic presidencies.
Can’t see their teeth so they may not be British . Especially since they are wearing stars and stripes suits .
Has no-one suggested stringing one of those booms from Key West to Cuba thence the Yucatan . To keep the tar away from Britain AND slow down the mexs on their route to freaking the Arizonites .
[re=588212]El Pinche[/re]: “Do these horizontal stripes make my butt look guilty?”
[re=588204]ManchuCandidate[/re]: So is Buttercup Josh’s new nickname?
[re=588276]Mad Brahms[/re]: Bush’s 20th Katrina!
Hawaiian Democrat Ed Case, who has screwed up multiple elections for the Democrats, has finally announced that he has stopped doing so, after shaming Hawaii by handing Barack Obama’s personal House seat to some Republican.
So, we have a new Secretary of the Navy?
[re=588204]ManchuCandidate[/re]: If the sentence the top 1000 executives of BP to five years of cleaning up beaches and working with the poor in Louisiana and Alabama without any pay, I would believe in justice.
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