{"id":185249,"date":"2011-08-24T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/24\/remember-when-obama-ran-these-fers-over-the-coals-remember-when-bp-execs-were-clapped-in-irons-and-given-life-sentences-for-crimes-against-humanity\/"},"modified":"2011-08-24T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T23:59:00","slug":"remember-when-obama-ran-these-fers-over-the-coals-remember-when-bp-execs-were-clapped-in-irons-and-given-life-sentences-for-crimes-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/24\/remember-when-obama-ran-these-fers-over-the-coals-remember-when-bp-execs-were-clapped-in-irons-and-given-life-sentences-for-crimes-against-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember when Obama ran these f%$#ers over the coals? Remember when BP execs were clapped in irons and given life sentences for crimes against humanity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Me neither<\/i>.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In case you are wondering, why yes, the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/live\/2011\/08\/deepwater_trouble_on_the_horiz.html\">Deepwater Horizon is spilling oil again<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Oil is once again fouling the Gulf of Mexico around the Deepwater Horizon well, which was capped a little over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of small, circular patches of oily sheen dotted the surface within a mile of the wellhead. With just a bare sheen present over about a quarter-mile, the scene was a far cry from the massive slick that covered the Gulf last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Floating in a boat near the well site, Press-Register reporters watched blobs of oil rise to the surface and bloom into iridescent yellow patches. Those patches quickly expanded into rainbow sheens 4 to 5 feet across.<\/p>\n<p>Each expanding bloom released a pronounced and pungent petroleum smell. Most of the oil was located in a patch about 50 yards wide and a quarter of a mile long.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because playing nice with the least safety conscious energy company in the western world is such a winning strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Not feeling that &#8220;Audacity of Hope&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There is a difference between dealing with people who merely disagree with you, and dealing with evil ratf%$#s who will destroy everything for a few pennies.<\/p>\n<p>BP&#8217;s upper management is clearly the latter, and dealing with them as the former just makes things worse.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">H\/T JR at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a> for the title and the first line.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me neither.* In case you are wondering, why yes, the Deepwater Horizon is spilling oil again: Oil is once again fouling the Gulf of Mexico around the Deepwater Horizon well, which was capped a little over a year ago. Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of small, circular patches of oily sheen dotted the surface within a mile &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1078,1135,1079],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-disaster","category-energy","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}