I am convinced that BP's entire response to the Gulf disaster to

[rzemanfl]

date has been about saving the well, not saving the Gulf of Mexico. They tried everything they could think of short of killing the well head, which they should have tried three weeks ago-instead they are planning on trying that a week from now.

There is nothing too severe to mete out as punishment for this fiasco. Where is Vlad the Impaler when you need him?

[XemaSab]

1. Vlad the Impaler?

I was thinking of something more like Jeffrey Dahmer.

[rzemanfl]

12. Google Vlad. Dahmer was an amateur compared to Vlad. n /t

[XemaSab]

16. But did Vlad inject acid into the brains of his victims in order to create sex zombies?

I think not.

[rzemanfl]

18. I don't think that hypodermic needles were around in Vlad's

time.

[RC]

2. Question: The BP boss that got the upper hand and caused this mess, is he

still alive or is was he one of the eleven who died?

[ljm2002]

8. Wondering that myself...

...I suspect the person who was interviewed on 60 Minutes will know who it was and whether he survived. If he survived, here's hoping the rest of his life is a living hell, preferably as he serves a life sentence without parole.

[liberal N proud]

3. Greedy bastards

I completely agree

[MiniMe]

4. I posted something similiar yesterday

They are calling the pipe they installed a success, but it is only bringing up something like 1% of the oil spilling up. And all the efforts they have made so far involve trying to bring the oil up to the surface. While I would rather have it coming up to the surface in a controlled manner rather than spilling out into the Gulf, I would much rather have the spill stopped altogether. I think BP should stand for Beyond Pathetic.

[rzemanfl]

14. Did you see the video? It looks virtually worthless to me. As

some wit here, whose name I forgot, said "I drink your foaming milkshake with my tiny cocktail straw."

[90-percent]

5. the eleven dead

Thom Hartmann suggests that BP got to the families immediately with hush money and now we have 11 families that may have some corporate funded security, without their breadwinners, but at the cost of never being able to tell the world the circumstances of their loved one's death.

It is merely a possibility Thom suggests. It fit's into the way big oil does business, though....

Have any of my DU mates seen anything from the families anywhere?

-90% Jimmy

[Angry Dragon]

6. Have not seen any names anywhere

yet alone what jobs or positions they held

[lostnfound]

11. Here are the names (and a bit of personal info)

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/may2010/oilr-m01.shtml

• Adam Weise, who was mourned at a vigil attended by hundreds of people in his community of Yorktown, Texas, last week. “Adam was my baby, just 24 years old,” the man’s mother, Arlene Weise told reporters.

• Aaron Dale Burkeen, a 37-year-old resident of Neshoba County, near Philadelphia, Mississippi. A local paper reported that Burkeen was responsible for getting the other crew members to safety before leaving, but was unable to get off the rig in time. He is survived by a wife and two children, ages 14 and 6.

• Donald Clark, 49, of Newellton, Louisiana, was scheduled to leave the rig on April 21, the day after the explosion.

• Roy Kemp, 27, Jonesville, Louisiana, leaves behind two daughters, one three years old, the other three months old, and his wife, Tracy.

• Jason Anderson, of Bay City, Texas, also leaves behind two children.

• Stephen Curtis, 39, of Georgetown, Louisiana, is also survived by two children. He had been working in the oil industry for 17 years, following in the footsteps of his father, Howard, who worked as a diver-welder for 34 years.

• Gordon Jones, 28, of Louisiana, leaves behind a son and a pregnant wife, Michelle.

• Blair Manuel, 56, of Gonzales, Louisiana, worked as a chemical engineer on the rig. He had three daughters and was engaged to be married.

• Dewey Revette, 48, from State Line, Mississippi, worked for Transocean for 29 years as a driller, and was also a father.

• Shane Roshto, 22, was from Franklin County, Mississippi. His widow, Natalie Roshto, has also launched a lawsuit against Transocean, BP, and Halliburton

• Karl Kleppinger, 38, leaves a wife and 17 year old son.

[Angry Dragon]

17. Thank you

[90-percent]

19. Thank you for the info

Here's a money quote from your article:

Gordon said that in the immediate aftermath of the explosion survivors were held offshore and not allowed to talk to their families until 3:00 in the morning on Thursday, 29 hours after the blast.

“The company lawyers took statements from them and would not let them talk to their families,” Gordon said. “So for about 17 hours they played around with these guys. They’re not even admitting they did it.”


Now, your next challenge, should you decide to accept it, is to go into the bowels of American Corporate Main Stream Media and see if you find any mention of the fact that the survivors were prevented from talking to their families for 28 hours after the blast by their employer?

This despicable inhuman corporate behavior must have the light of our MSM shone upon it to expose the corporations for what they are. And what they are is medieval in their greed and complete lack of respect for their fellow human beings.

-90% Jimmy

[ljm2002]

9. Legally, though, hush money can't work...

...if any of them are subpoenaed, they are obliged to reveal anything they know about criminal acts, hush money or not.

I was surprised to see the guy on 60 Minutes. He will have signed a confidentiality agreement, and by speaking out he is almost certainly violating it. I suspect that after what he went through, including jumping 100 feet down into oily and burning waters, still not knowing whether he would live or die, may have made him not give a damn about that particular piece of paper. Looked to me like his motivation to go on the program was to get some truth out there in front of the inevitable BP public relations barrage and liefest. More power to him.

[Toucano]

7. I suspect it is at least, AT LEAST, too high on their list of priorities.

When you're on the hook for only 75 million dollars and a new well costs 350 million to drill, there's a motivation to save access to the oil.


The deck is stacked the wrong way.

[IcyPeas]

10. BP's response has been "extraordinarily successful"

http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/18/oil-tony-hayward-business-energy-hayward.html?boxes=businesschannelsections


Tony Hayward says this all might help the oil industry. (no. really)

http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/18/energy-bp-oil-petro-tony-hayward-slick-performance.html?boxes=businesschannellighttop

[spanone]

13. i heard a bp exec on npr today say the environmental impact will be minimum

they have lied since the beginning and continue

[rzemanfl]

15. Maybe at his house in Vail, as long as he doesn't want a shrimp

cocktail.