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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 02:19 PM
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Protests during hearings to investigate explosion of BP's oil drilling platform - pics

KENNER, LA - MAY 11: An unidentified protester holds up a sign during a hearing by the Coast Guard and the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service May 11, 2010 in Kenner, Louisiana. The hearing was being held to investigate the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform off the Louisiana coast April 20 causing a continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.


KENNER, LA - MAY 11: An unidentified protester holds up a sign during a hearing by the Coast Guard and the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service May 11, 2010 in Kenner, Louisiana. The hearing was being held to investigate the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform off the Louisiana coast April 20 causing a continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.


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President and Chairman of BP America Inc. Lamar McKay (foreground), is pictured alongside protesters before a Senate Energy and Natural Resources hearing on the accident in the Gulf of Mexico involving the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon in Washington, May 11, 2010. U.S. lawmakers start two days of hearings in Washington on the deadly drilling rig explosion and the oil spill that threatens an economic and ecological catastrophe on U.S. Gulf shores.


A protester demonstrates behind Lamar McKay, Chairman and President of BP America, as he waits to testify before a Senate Energy and Natural Resources hearing on the accident in the Gulf of Mexico involving the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon in Washington, May 11, 2010. U.S. lawmakers start two days of hearings in Washington on the deadly drilling rig explosion and the oil spill that threatens an economic and ecological catastrophe on U.S. Gulf shores.


WASHINGTON - MAY 11: A protester holds a sign near Lamar McKay, president and chairman of BP America, during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on May 11, 2010 in Washington, DC. The committee is hearing testimony on the accident in the Gulf of Mexico involving the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon.



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lamp_shade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 02:20 PM
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1. The Pink People.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 02:25 PM
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2. I can't help noticing that the signs are all spelled correctly.
Hmm...
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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 05:30 PM
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7. : )
;)

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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 02:25 PM
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3. Tighe and Medea
God job!
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 02:28 PM
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4. The last one goes right up there with the pic of Condi
and the red handed woman.

Saving them all for scrapbook. Thanks.
K%R
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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 05:29 PM
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6. Yep.
He made sure he was seen.

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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 02:28 PM
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5. "Spill Baby Spill" says it all. Great pics, thanks...n/t
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