There is a Gulf in Spill Coverage

 

We have a disaster of unfathomable consequences happening off our Gulf coast, and the lead story this morning is a couple of Pakistanis might have lent a few get away bucks to the bad news bomber?  Come on.  Where is the outrage?  I know, I know, this has nothing to do with God, gays, or guns, but it is more than worthy of increased national attention.  If it helps to create an evangelical environmental frenzy, go ahead, blame it on the homos.  As a card carrying member, I give you permission.  Where is Pat Robertson when you need him?  I’m sure there is a televangelist out there somewhere that is channeling Jerry Falwell.  I’ll serve it up for you.  This oil rig explosion is the vengeful act of God in retaliation to an alternative lifestyle living, civil rights seeking, abomination to nature that wants to eliminate the 2nd Amendment rights of every red-blooded Bubba in America.  Now, there is your sensational headline, Fox News, fucking do something.

Take 5 minutes and look at what is happening while British Petroleum is tipping its hydrated “top hat” at the problem. 

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Our federal government and the culprit oil company keep telling us it is difficult to estimate the amount of oil pouring from the ocean floor.  Well, no pun intended, but any crude public school education using a few universally accepted math equations with flow rate, pressure, and area, can calculate how much oil is poisoning this fragile ecosystem. Independent estimates from Purdue University and the University of California indicate that the undersurface BP disaster is welling up the equivalent of two Exxon Valdeze tankers a week…or about three million gallons a day.  But not to worry, BP said the first adjacent relief well should be completed in three months.

Perhaps we need Shepard Smith to return to the Louisiana coast and cut through the bullshit and the spin as he did during Hurricane Katrina.  People are dying down here now, too, but it’s a slow death of livelihood and tradition.  Third generation fishermen are cashing oil clean-up checks from BP in the amount of $5,000, a trip that used to net them $150,000 in catch from the now closed shrimping zones.  How long will this last?  The experimental chemical dispersants being used to clump oil into globs that sink to the bottom of the ocean could have the potential of devastating bottom dwelling animal species for decades. Let’s ask Barbara Bush how that’s working out for them, shall we?

Bottom line, this is a disaster of epic proportions.  All right, if it will garner more attention, let’s call it Biblical proportions.  An already fragile economy and tradition are teetering on the brink of destruction.  This is a plague on both Houses.  And while Washington will reluctantly point an accusatory finger, it will all the while try to avoid biting the corporate hand that feeds it.  The nature of the Gulf needs our help and the media needs to quit covering collective political asses, and start covering the story.