05.02.10

Biblical Fail

Posted in Stumble and Fail, Why the World Doesn't Need US at 8:32 am by George Smith

Quote from website: Good news, lads! Good news! … Thanks to you today I work for Halliburton, a company which is perfectly inline with my values.

Pssst, I added the “Good news, lads!” bit. The rest is real, though.

This blog deals with a sizeable number of montebanks in the national security business who regularly predict attacks by American enemies which result in catastrophes of Biblical proportion.

And then there are real world Biblical catastrophes which have no relationship with the fictions the former like to peddle.

It’s a symbol of systemic US dysfunction at almost every level, from simple comprehension and critical thinking about subjects to the national leadership which has made all the wrong decisions, seeing fit to cede all authority and regulation to corporate power.

When the best one can come up with are containment booms and silly talk about chemical dispersant, as if the latter is some magic wand which can be applied to an oil slick, we know the holster’s empty and the gun jammed.

Quotes:

At a town hall meeting in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, Mayor Stan Wright warned fishermen in the audience that outbursts would be met with arrest. The fishermen were told that they were not allowed to ask questions.

Stifle your questions and anger. Don’t demand BP bosses be lynched. What fine leadership qualities this shows.

Crews worked through Friday night to dispense 3,000 gallons of sub-surface dispersant, officials said.

About 1.6 million gallons of oil have spilled since the explosion, the Coast Guard said.

Since journalists have no idea about simple chemistry and mass action, they have only an inkling of how pathetic this reads.

And the President — who probably thought he was doing something clever by latching onto the Republican position on drilling — is now inconveniently seen as being on the wrong side with the rest of the rascals.

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