At the end of her show last night, Rachel laid it out clearly. The booming is a joke, and the place is disgusting and stinky.

Oil companies are the richest corps in the world, yet they are using BAMBOO STICKS to hold booms in place.

I WAS ENRAGED.

Rachel delivers the facts so compassionately and directly. She is the one to watch.

without a flotation vest???

Come on, girl!

I expect more from you.

Maybe it's under her shirt???

Thanks for finally posting on this!

To the booming expert on video 2 - tell it like it is sistah! Fuck all the incompetent fucks!

Too bad BP didn't cut back the shareholder's dividend just 1%, they might have had enough to properly boom this spill. As it is, with a 15% stock price drop and likely to tank, maybe BP should have done a better job at planning and preparing for disaster. To them disaster only means financial, not ecological.

In the Gulf and Eastern seaboard feel about offshore drilling now.
Wait till it gets into the Chesapeake Bay. They'll be bummed when they lose all their oysters. No more for the country club.
Do you think they'll notice now?

Rachel did an amazing job, as usual, uncovering all the BP/Oil biz crap and just reported the FACTS... Funny how those little tidbits drive republican politicians out of their collective minds!!!

BUT, the other point here is that during Rachel's coverage last evening - AT THE SAME TIME - the Guardian UK Newspaper (probably one of the last newspaper that tries to tell most of the truth) was announcing that BP was ignoring what the US was asking of them and PAYING OUT $ 10 BILLION to their shareholders for the quarter.. $ 10 BILLION!!!

Are these people mad or just the classic wanker???

My daughter is 10 and is quite curious about 'bad words' and why, if they're bad, do they exist?

Without going into the specific words, I've explained that no word is bad by itself. It has all to do with context. That said, bad words are _very_ good at bringing attention to something that needs it. They are like "super exclamation points" that can be used almost anywhere in a sentence. They shock and irritate people into listening. They are useful, nay, necessary to the language and even you, someday, will use one or two.

When the time comes that I'm ready to include specific words into a future talk, I'm going to use that clip.

It is fucking brilliant

The booms only work in best of conditions by keeping oil that floats behind the boom. When dispersant break up the oil into the little globules that sink below the surface, a boom can no longer contain oil, because the oil just passes below the skirt that is suspended by the floatation portion of the boom.

The best way to prevent oil on beaches is to ban offshore drilling. find altrernatives to the use of oil.

The oil orgy is over. We've burned through about half of conventional oil reserves estimated at about 2 trillion barrels. We've burned through the "easy" oil and the rest of it is in remote places, deep water, or sour heavy crude and its extraction will pose more and more environmental hazards. We don't give a shit anymore, just give us another hit of that oil and look the other way. Who wouldn't want a new SUV with heated leather seats and a kickass stereo?

BP is typical of the wham, bam, thank you ma'am mentality of the oil companies. They don't want to be bothered cleaning up a "fucking" mess. An earlier video from an airplane showed boats dropping booms into the water haphazardly. There was obviously no plan or coordination, just a show.

BP has to be terminated. It's name should become a dirty word. It's leaders who are culpable should serve hard time. The fact that these thugs are going around the Gulf like a law unto themselves is especially galling. Bastards.