hey bp... thanks for nada

The plot thickens in Louisiana... along with oil seeping into some of the most sensitive areas which (up to this point) were nesting areas for multitudes of brown pelicans and other bird species.
Alas, no more...

Anyone familiar with the Valdez oil spill in 1989 (I spoke of this in an earlier posting) knows that environmentally sensitive areas take decades to resurrect from a major spill. Unfortunately, we failed to understand this lesson after the Exxon Valdez spilled nearly 11 million gallons into Prince William Sound. Over 20 years later, the destruction wrought by that spill is still impacting the area, having covered 1,300 miles of coast and 11,000 square miles of ocean. Worse, the impact on animal species will take much longer, if it ever comes back.

If mankind completely disappeared from the face of the planet, perhaps other animals species would at last regroup from the damage we humans continually rain upon the earth.

Was there not a passage in the bible that gives humans dominion over other animals (along with a caveat)? We humans should learn to tread a bit more carefully on our planet... Tragically however, I believe this advice would fall on deaf ears since few in power seem to be listening.

After doing some research this evening I discovered much to my surprise that Tony Hayward (BP's supreme buffoon) was stepping down as CEO. I'm really not sure if this is good, or bad news. Granted, he will get his life back (just what he’s wanted since this environmental fiasco of biblical proportions began...) However, I want to see him in shiny stainless-steel cuffs and I wonder if I will live long enough to see this become a reality.

Even worse, Sarah Palin is again front and center, blaming those who have attempted to save her and her ilk from destroying themselves and our environment even further... comments posted on Palin’s blog are disturbing and should not be read by/to very small children, or those with sensitive dispositions...

“With [environmentalists'] nonsensical efforts to lock up safer drilling areas, all you're doing is outsourcing energy development, which makes us more controlled by foreign countries, less safe, and less prosperous on a dirtier planet. ... You're not preventing environmental hazards; you're outsourcing them and making drilling more dangerous. Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.”

I would like to point out to Palin... oil emanating from American soil or American oceans is already controlled by foreign powers, and any suggestion on Palin's part that we control our own (un)natural resources is incredibly naive and baseless.

What this spill does prove is, any drilling near sensitive areas will ultimately destroy those areas, along with any wild (or otherwise) life in the immediate area. As a friend pointed out, the gulf has now become a “dead zone.”

And with that, God help us all...

AP photo published on the Huffington Post. They say a picture is worth a thousand words... I say the outrage created by pictures from the spill should at long last push for legislation prohibiting this kind of environmental destruction.