Comments on: Beyond Petroleum?

By: Maitri

Maitri — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:17:40 +0000

Quimbob,

The world goes through one Macondo-sized reservoir in ONE DAY.

By: Quimbob

Quimbob — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:51:42 +0000

If you make it to the end, the song shifts focus to BPs enablers – us.
By my bistro math the oil that has creamed the coasts of the gulf & everything inside it – we would have burned through it in less than a week.

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:10:21 +0000

I only made it 37 seconds. ;-(

By: heatherly

heatherly — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:40:15 +0000

i wept through the entirety of watching this, except for one little part where i giggled but i don’t remember where and i’m not watching it again to find out. to have lived in such a time of scintillating wonders and galvanizing horrors – i do wonder what the last 200 years will look like in the history books for our grandchildren.

By: mardiclaw

mardiclaw — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:13:32 +0000

oh yeah, then I drove off, came back later and picked them up. She was there, GLARING at him, he was uncomfortable… then went through the same routine.

she said again. “get out the way”

we loaded up, and drove off.

By: mardiclaw

mardiclaw — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:12:02 +0000

yes blackwater.
not only are street names like halliburton common in grande isle, but blackwater? / halliburton?

my encounter at the jewish community center was me and my two landladies in their eighties… I took them up to apply for fema. pulled up to the handicapped entrance, pulled out the wheelchairs, and blackwater came up and said… “you can’t park here”. I said “handicapped”, he said
“you don’t have handicapped plates”… I unfolded the wheelchairs, ignored him, opened the doors, put Flo and Glo in their chairs, and started to wheel them in. He said, “you can’t park here”….

Miss Gloria, in her early eighties replied….”young man, get out of the way, and show some respect… I’m in a wheelchair, and your in my way.”

assholes.

By: D. Macku

D. Macku — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:48:03 +0000

I could only watch 56 seconds.

By: Loki

Loki — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:59:09 +0000

Blackwater mercenaries? You mean like this excerpt from my post in December ’05, four months after Katrina and the levee failure?

“These are the guys stationed at the Jewish community center on St Charles guarding the FEMA workers. I know this is a disaster area, but I have watched one of these mercs spend 45 minutes (by my watch) standing over an elderly man and his wife with his hand on his gun trying to intimidate them. The young man could not have been more than thirty at the oldest, and sported a “macho,” demeanor and a mistaken idea that standing six inches from someone and assuming a threatening posture is the way to treat a disaster victim (or ANY US citizen for that matter). Read up on these guys, they should not be deployed stateside. Period.”

From http://humidcity.com/2005/12/05/toxic-mercenaries/

By: mardiclaw

mardiclaw — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:21:52 +0000

oh blackwater…
that has several meanings…

By: classicgrrl

classicgrrl — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:49:40 +0000

I don’t have any words Loki. I guess thats why I haven’t posted either. Just kinda of feel helpless.

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