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i hope it happens too. but i dont see any obvious way from here to there. but maybe today was a bad day to judge by given that there was a fire on a drilling ship so bp stopped collecting oil...which perhaps explains the immense clouds of oil one could see on the multiple feed platforms. but i hope there's tons we don't know and that something can happen.
the main difference between invading iraq and addressing this oil disaster is that the us had the technology and a bad plan in iraq where with the oil spill the us has neither the technology nor a plan because the set-up relied on the corporate sector to tell the us what the technologies needed to be because they made the plan. this is a fundamental reason why this is such a clusterfuck. i don't really see going on television and talking all Presidential about this changes anything. it doesn't. it's a pep talk and, in a sense, a capitulation to the right.
which i was glad to see obama go after and blame squarely for the regulatory fiasco that both enabled this oil spill and prevented anything like a co-ordinated effective strategy to deal with it.
but it still is what it is, a monumental disaster.
and i dunno...a pep talk?....i suppose there may be people who it affected. i wonder where they are.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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