>> ^shponglefan:

How do people this obviously retarded get into positions of power?


Sad to say, voted in by the people of the same wavelength?

>> ^shponglefan:

How do people this obviously retarded get into positions of power?


This dude was a judge... Honestly, people like this call into question the validity of an education being any indicator towards intelligence.

I'm just...soo tired of idiots like Anderson Cooper giving these people a voice. Don't have them on, talk about something real, this is just bringing attention to morons.

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This is pretty much an identical interview to the one Hitchens did with Anderson Cooper the other day. I wish people would think of more interesting questions to ask him -- more about the memoir he just wrote, especially. Not this bullshit, "do you care if people pray about you", "will you turn religious on your deathbed". All nonsense.

This is a partial of http://videosift.com/video/Anderson-Cooper-Govt-Bans-Press-From-Filming-BP-Oil-Spill

The first 4 minutes.

My only thought on this is that if they admit it now, after months, when people get ill later....there will be proof to go back on and say they knew it was dangerous and didn't alert people soon enough. If they play the game you see all the CEOs playing "I don't recall" "I wasn't aware" "Im deaf dumb and blind" during Congressional hearings, they stand a chance of being able to blame it on the very people they are denying access to study the side effects and such of this. It almost sounds like a conspiracy nut explanation, but I can't see the point in not telling people that this stuff can give them cancer 10 years down the line and that they shouldn't be letting their kids play in the water where the oil may be present.


>> ^NordlichReiter:

>> ^Porksandwich:
And they still aren't telling people that exposure to this shit can make them sick, 65 foot rule sounds like a way to deny people treatment when they get sick from exposure. Because damn near everyone has a cell phone with a camera...so if you end up exposed, you had photographic equipment on you when it happened. So you broke the law, and since you became injured/ill because you broke the law...you can only blame yourself.

Now that's an argument I can get behind. The argument that the 65 foot rule is because there are hazardous chemicals, oil and or corexit, being used. Not because they arbitrarily need to create safe zones, and media personnel are simply hampering their efforts.
But, Proksandwich, that would require BP and Government officials admit that there are hazardous chemicals in use; which are a direct danger to living things.

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>> ^Porksandwich:

And they still aren't telling people that exposure to this shit can make them sick, 65 foot rule sounds like a way to deny people treatment when they get sick from exposure. Because damn near everyone has a cell phone with a camera...so if you end up exposed, you had photographic equipment on you when it happened. So you broke the law, and since you became injured/ill because you broke the law...you can only blame yourself.


Now that's an argument I can get behind. The argument that the 65 foot rule is because there are hazardous chemicals, oil and or corexit, being used. Not because they arbitrarily need to create safe zones, and media personnel are simply hampering their efforts.

But, Proksandwich, that would require BP and Government officials admit that there are hazardous chemicals in use; which are a direct danger to living things.

>> ^srd:

Ah come on. 65 feet is plenty with TV cameras. 300 feet is over the top and I would be able to understand. But do you REALLY need to stick your TV camera up a stressed out oiled birds beak to get the images needed to penetrate the jaded mind-shell of the average TV viewer who is happily munching his TV dinner, exhilirated in his induced 30 second outrage? And do you need to get closer than 65 feet to a clean up boat to shoot it? Maybe you'd be interfering with their work if you're any closer? And not just one, but a whole flock of journalists in boats.
You're behaving as if a media black out was being enforced - and all that's happening is getting the media to give a little room. So what?


40 Thousand dollar fine, and Class D felony charges. Pretty much says, "Fuck you 1st ammendment." As if the media being two feet from boom on the beach is a problem. Perhaps you weren't watching the same video as I was. But it's not just a water 65ft rule. It's also for beaches too, if not by extension but by use. If a boater cannot get to an island that is affected by oil because of the rule, then they cannot photograph the impact it has having on said beach.

It's not the rule itself, or the numbers. It's a matter of principle. If you can't understand that, go read a constitution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers#United_States:_three_branches

The Media should be up the cleanup crew's, coast guard's asses with a flashlight and magnetic probe, after all that's exactly what we expect of them.

The article below is beside the point, but interesting nonetheless.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/26/the-missing-oil-spill-photos.html

If you can get through the sticky molasses that make up the political system to a place where you can actually have an influence, then by all means go for it. You (we) need more politicians who don't politick so much and say what's actually on their minds. We need more Weiners, Greysons and Pauls.

The sad thing is you'll have to swear allegiance to a supreme creator, lobbyists, special interests and whatnot to ever get near having an actual influence. So to get forward you have to betray your principles and lie your way forward.

Does the end justify the means?

In reply to this comment by JiggaJonson:
Yes, it's a bit scary actually. I'm out of a job and debating going back to school to get my masters in political science in the hopes of eventually being a politician. It's not what i want to do exactly but maybe that's why i'd be good for the job.

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
On your way to a fascist state, eh? Freedom of the press is slowly going down the drain.

*fear *talks

Yes, it's a bit scary actually. I'm out of a job and debating going back to school to get my masters in political science in the hopes of eventually being a politician. It's not what i want to do exactly but maybe that's why i'd be good for the job.

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
On your way to a fascist state, eh? Freedom of the press is slowly going down the drain.

*fear *talks

>> ^NordlichReiter:

I've got a theory hypothesis.
They can't stop the oil spill, that's given. Now, given the government's actions they are preparing for the long-hawl. Going out on a limb, into speculation, I think the executive branch and its Plutocratic backing are worried that they won't be able to successfully drill a relief well. Or worse, the relief well doesn't work?
I just did a google search on "Will a relief well work?" Nothing but optimism. Blind optimism is no good, they need to be prepared for when that shit doesn't work. That begs the question, has anyone prepared for when the relief well doesn't work?
What if, in the process of drilling the relief well BP fucks up?
This video is an example of damage control, and the control of information. Someone in the Judicial Branch or Congress better fucking wake up. They need to reign the executive branch in, and smack 'em around a bit.


Ya, been reading about that too. Now estimates are potentially a year out for a relief well. Buy that time, the ecology of the entire gulf and the east coast of the united states could be dead, for centuries.