smacky and bucky

So BP should be praised for "keeping their word" and cleaning up the disaster they caused? This is a banner ad from some random site. The embedded video in it is a grizzled shrimper saying nice things about BP.

Did I mention that BP wants to start drilling in the Gulf of Mexico again? This is the start of their PR push to sway public opinion. I'm sure much MORE money is being spent on oil company lobbyists to grease politicians (*cough*republicans*cough*) to get votes to allow drilling to recommence. Next year is an election year, and folks have to raise a ton of money to pay for campaigns, so why not use oil money to fund it? See how it's a rancid snake eating itself? And the regular middle class sits on the outside of this spectacle, being told it's the fault of illegal aliens, terrorists, and Planned Parenthood that our country is in the state its in.

Sorry. Work is uber-stressful at the moment (a rare occurrence for me) and I'm just pissed that BP (and the congressmen they fund) wants business as usual and for the regular folks to just shut up and get out of the way of "progress." Meanwhile we're paying about $4 a gallon for gas and being told it's because we're funding public television and NPR! But we can't let the Bush tax cuts expire. That would hurt the economy! What a crock! You know the deficit (which is ALL you hear about any more) would be cut in HALF if we just sucked it up and let the tax cuts expire? But no, that view will not get you elected. The problem MUST be welfare leeches. And not the fact that we spend more on military spending than any other country on the planet or that we're actively fighting two or three wars or that we continue to maintain a HUGE military presence in Japan, Germany, South Korea, and so on.