By marfdrat on April 27, 2011
Margaret Wente of the Globe and Mail has a good piece on the condition of the Gulf of Mexico one year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Despite the media’s doom and gloom predictions, and insistence on portraying every aspect of the spill as “disaster,” that’s not what happened. In some ways, in fact, the [...]
Posted in Eco-Bullsh*t | Tagged BP, deepwater horizon, DFOaLG, disaster narrative, eco-bullshit, fishing industry, Gulf of Mexico, gulf oil spill, lamestream media, obama, Oil spill, sharks, snapper, Tony Hayward |
By marfdrat on October 28, 2010
(H/T to Patriot Post for the link) I searched around on some of the lamestream media sites, and could find no reporting on this story. Not surprising. Seems lots and lots of folks are anxious to slop at that $20 billion trough that Obama (DfOaLG*) “encouraged” BP to set up for Gulf oil spill claims. So [...]
Posted in Economics & Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, BP, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Kenneth Feinberg |
By marfdrat on July 20, 2010
From the Onion — America’s Finest News Source: Obama’s Fifth Gulf Coast Visit Really Helps a Lot NEW ORLEANS—Critics were silenced today after President Barack Obama’s fifth visit to the Gulf Coast vastly improved the devastated region. While at the site of the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the president walked on a beach, [...]
Posted in Me gusta | Tagged Barack Obama, BP, Louisiana, Oil spill |
By marfdrat on June 21, 2010
John Hayward -Doctor Zero- is an excellent writer. His June 18 post describes in vivid, but painful terms the utter incompetence of the insatiable money-eating leviathan that is our federal government. As Obama and his cronies deflect blame and extract slush funding from BP, action in the Gulf meanders along with something short of a [...]
Posted in Economics & Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, Bart Stupak, BP, incompetence, leviathan, waste |
By marfdrat on June 15, 2010
this isn’t Communist anywhere. Ed Schultz from over at PMSNBC, hopes that Obama will “go all dictator” on BP, and pick a dollar figure to make them pay, and then “don’t let off until they pay”, or something. Hey Ed, in case you forgot, we are a country of laws, and not of men. The [...]
Posted in Etc. | Tagged BP, Economics, Friedrich von Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, United States, useful idiots |
By marfdrat on June 1, 2010
There’s no denying the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a big mess, and it has impacted (and will continue to impact) a lot of people. Here’s a graph that puts the size of the spill in perspective. Click on the image to view the full-size image. I find the bar titled “Every [...]
Posted in Etc. | Tagged BP, Economics, oil |
