TERROR FROM ACROSS THE POND: LET'S DECLARE WAR ON BP!
I'm an angry man. I go to bed angry and wake up angry. I'm angry when things go my way; angrier still when they don't. But nothing has ever set my blood to boilin' like watching former oil exec John Hofmeister spew his own brand of high-grade corporate BS on Larry King's show earlier this week. Mr. Hofmeister, a former president of Shell Oil, and author of "Why We Hate the Oil Companies" -- (LOL!) had the unmitigated gall to tell Larry (and an absolutely apoplectic James Carville) that we shouldn't be focusing on one li'l ol' well that leaked; (even if it turned the entire Gulf into toxic soup) but rather on the 35,000 that didn't!
Now, I've heard of having brass cojones, but Mr. Hofmeister must be able to play "When the Saints Go Marching in" with his set. I'd like to echo Mr. Carville's response: "Did I hear you right???" Well Mr. Hofmeister, you do have a point. One ecological cataclysm in 35,000 starts certainly ain't a bad record. Not if you're playing the percentages. (Along with human life, the local economy, and an entire ecosystem.) Hey, it's a perfectly legitimate point: Provided of course you're a greedy, souless, mealymouthed corporate bloodsucker who talks out of his sphincter. Ok Mr. Hofmeister, lemme see if I get your logic: Let's say I commit a murder. I could go before the court and make the case that while there are some seven billion people on the planet, I only took the life of one! One out of seven billion!!! Pretty good record -- wouldn't ya say?? Hell, maybe I could even argue that rather than locking me away for life, the court should actually present me with a plaque for being such a conscientious citizen! Don't you agree Mr. Hofmeister? Course you might feel differently if that one person murdered happened to be your wife, or child, or best friend. Then you might see things in a different light -- might see the actual human tragedy, rather than percentages. But hey! Why split hairs?
You're a filthy pig Hofmeister. You and all your big oil corporate cronies: Your corrupt, tea-drinking counterparts at BP, and the scumbags at the MMS who accepted their "gifts" to look the other way when safety measures that would've prevented the current disaster weren't implemented. 9/11 pales in comparison to the damage you and your ilk have inflicted upon the American people. You are the real terrorists. It's not Radical Islam or creeping socialism we truly need to fear: It's big corporations that are destroying this country; polluting the planet, poisoning our children, and decimating the working class. Bernie Madoff got 150 years for his crimes. You and your cronies should be locked away until your corpses turn to dust -- given prison sentences so long your disgraced great grandchildren will have to finish serving them out.
Ask not why we hate the oil companies Mr. Hofmeister. We hate 'em because of assholes like you!
Now, I've heard of having brass cojones, but Mr. Hofmeister must be able to play "When the Saints Go Marching in" with his set. I'd like to echo Mr. Carville's response: "Did I hear you right???" Well Mr. Hofmeister, you do have a point. One ecological cataclysm in 35,000 starts certainly ain't a bad record. Not if you're playing the percentages. (Along with human life, the local economy, and an entire ecosystem.) Hey, it's a perfectly legitimate point: Provided of course you're a greedy, souless, mealymouthed corporate bloodsucker who talks out of his sphincter. Ok Mr. Hofmeister, lemme see if I get your logic: Let's say I commit a murder. I could go before the court and make the case that while there are some seven billion people on the planet, I only took the life of one! One out of seven billion!!! Pretty good record -- wouldn't ya say?? Hell, maybe I could even argue that rather than locking me away for life, the court should actually present me with a plaque for being such a conscientious citizen! Don't you agree Mr. Hofmeister? Course you might feel differently if that one person murdered happened to be your wife, or child, or best friend. Then you might see things in a different light -- might see the actual human tragedy, rather than percentages. But hey! Why split hairs?
You're a filthy pig Hofmeister. You and all your big oil corporate cronies: Your corrupt, tea-drinking counterparts at BP, and the scumbags at the MMS who accepted their "gifts" to look the other way when safety measures that would've prevented the current disaster weren't implemented. 9/11 pales in comparison to the damage you and your ilk have inflicted upon the American people. You are the real terrorists. It's not Radical Islam or creeping socialism we truly need to fear: It's big corporations that are destroying this country; polluting the planet, poisoning our children, and decimating the working class. Bernie Madoff got 150 years for his crimes. You and your cronies should be locked away until your corpses turn to dust -- given prison sentences so long your disgraced great grandchildren will have to finish serving them out.
Ask not why we hate the oil companies Mr. Hofmeister. We hate 'em because of assholes like you!
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