{"id":187846,"date":"2011-02-18T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/18\/not-enough-bullets-67\/"},"modified":"2011-02-18T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T01:49:00","slug":"not-enough-bullets-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/18\/not-enough-bullets-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Enough Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img216.imageshack.us\/img216\/4520\/15qdr938609019.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" \/>So, BP is whining because it thinks that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/18\/us\/18bp.html?_r=2&amp;hp\">Ken Feinberg&#8217;s slow walking of meager settlements is too generous<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>In the eight months since Kenneth R. Feinberg took over the $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, he has been attacked by many of those filing claims and by coastal state politicians who argue that the process is opaque, arbitrary and slow. Many of them have also argued that Mr. Feinberg\u2019s recently published estimates of future damage to those in the gulf are too optimistic, and thus his offer of compensation in a final settlement is too low.<\/p>\n<p>Now he is getting complaints from another quarter: BP.<\/p>\n<p>The oil giant is arguing that if anything, Mr. Feinberg\u2019s proposed settlements are too generous. The planned payments far exceed the extent of likely future damages because they overstate the potential for future losses, the company insists in a strongly worded 24-page document that was posted on the fund\u2019s Web site Thursday morning. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And after that, BP murdered its parents, and asked for mercy because it was an orphan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, BP is whining because it thinks that Ken Feinberg&#8217;s slow walking of meager settlements is too generous: In the eight months since Kenneth R. Feinberg took over the $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, he has been attacked by many of those filing claims and by coastal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1135,969],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-energy","category-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187846"}],"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=187846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}