Ivan Betinov wrote:So we're going to hang some government safety inspectors and paid-off apparatchiks?

If I haven't noticed before, please forgive me. These state issued glasses are a pain.

Leninka wrote:What a gorgeous hat, RR! If I haven't noticed before, please forgive me. These state issued glasses are a pain.

It is an actual fact that the oil spill did not start until after the oil platform sunk.

There is a growing body of evidence that the Coast Guard and fire team handling the blaze on the platform made a series of mistakes that contributed to the oil spill. In fact, in one of the first lawsuits filed, the plaintiffs aren't even going after British Petroleum, but are instead going after the fire crew alleging the crews should have ignored orders from the Coast Guard.

“It was the flooding of the Deepwater Horizon and the resulting sinking of the rig that directly caused the piping to break and begin spewing millions of gallons of oil into the ocean,” Lloyd Frischhertz and Gerald Maples, lawyers for the spill victims, said in a complaint filed in federal court in New Orleans.

The lawsuit doesn't seek damages from BP, rig-owner Transocean Ltd. or the U.S. Coast Guard, which helped direct the firefighting effort. The plaintiffs claim the fireboats violated industry standard procedures that warn against using water cannons to attack pressurized oil fires aboard marine vessels.

The Center for Public Integrity has an investigative report out that backs this up, but implicates the Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard has gathered evidence it failed to follow its own firefighting policy during the Deepwater Horizon disaster and is investigating whether the chaotic spraying of tons of salt water by private boats contributed to sinking the ill-fated oil rig, according to interviews and documents.

Coast Guard officials told the Center for Public Integrity that the service does not have the expertise to fight an oil rig fire and that its response to the April 20 explosion may have broken the service's own rules by failing to ensure a firefighting expert supervised the half-dozen private boats that answered the Deepwater Horizon's distress call to fight the blaze.

Comrade Whoopie wrote:Thanks for the video Buffoon, that was soooo racist. Not one person of coloreds took part.

Comrade Whoopie wrote:Buffoon, I worry that there may come a day when the accusation of racism only evokes defiant laughter from the accused. What will we do then? We need some new way to shame people into silence.

And what if they start countering our unsubstantiated accusation of racism by hurling back an unsubstantiated accusation that we're pedophiles? I mean, I'd rather be thought of as a racist than a pedophile. What then?

(I knew it was a mistake to support Roman Polanski)

Commissar_Elliott wrote:Hey everyone! Let's play the poetic justice game. How should BP get the ax: Death by drowning, death by tar (or in this case, oil) and feathers, death by destruction of business, or death by famine? Add others if you want.
Hey everyone! Let's play the poetic justice game. How should Brad Pitt get the ax? Death by bad publicity, death by bankruptcy or death by aging (not necessarily death by old age), feel free to add more.

Boris Badanoff wrote:
Glorius Comrade Elliott!


Has the Pitt not already decidedly aged (Curious Case of Benjamin button)?


As for death by bankruptcy, he is investing heavily in the "Chocolate City" of our former esteemed comrade Nagy, so I see a promising future for negative equity there!


So that leaves only option as bad publicity. I am confident that the Brad can handle that as well!

Commissar_Elliott wrote:

Boris Badanoff wrote:
Glorius Comrade Elliott!


Has the Pitt not already decidedly aged (Curious Case of Benjamin button)?


As for death by bankruptcy, he is investing heavily in the "Chocolate City" of our former esteemed comrade Nagy, so I see a promising future for negative equity there!


So that leaves only option as bad publicity. I am confident that the Brad can handle that as well!

Hmm. . . so many choices, but I can't decide myself. Which do you propose comrade Boris?

Fraulein Pulloskies wrote:I am thinking Brady boy speaks better when he is saying nothing. All this death talk, why, someone is likely to start calling all of us Nazi's or something.

If I haven't noticed before, please forgive me. These state issued glasses are a pain.

gasph!! LENINKA, I must think of denouncing you!! Glorious, government provided, Obamo willed glasses can not be a pain!! The sun must have reflected off of Comrade Ivan's jar and given you temporary headaching!