I'll start off to say, this is not snark, and this is typical me: not a very well written diary, but one that needs writing in the short time I have, so follow me below the fold...
I'm really angry right now. A lot of stuff pisses me off about the US, because all this shit holds us back from the great great country we COULD be...The Party of No (AKA the Rethugs, the Repugnants, etc...) pisses me off daily, and I need to check my blood pressure often...but I'm all digressing, let me get to my REAL point...
I'm here to talk about the BP oil spill in the Gulf. Let's face it folks, it doesn't turn sexy until tomorrow, when the first fingers start to wash ashore at the head of the Mississippi delta. Then, it will only get worse from there, details of which I'll leave to others. Today on NPR, I heard that estimates were revised up from 1000 barrels a day leaking to 5000 barrels. By the way, these are estimates: we just don't fucking know a damn thing about how much is leaking. We don't fucking know.
Now, what's going to happen is the long term economic and environmental destruction of the entire Gulf...because let's face it, they won't be able to cap that fucker for months, if at all...and it will leak on and on and on and on. I've really heard barely a peep about it so far...just some faint stories here and there, but let's face it: Katrina fucked up the City of NOLA for, maybe 5 to 10 years? Pffff, what a pittance! This oil spill has a 25 year MINIMUM impact, and it all starts tomorrow.
Let's not forget, though: hurricane Season is nigh on us, and a lot of those suckers LOVE the Gulf. What havoc will that wreak? I haven't a clue, but it is just not going to be pretty.
What else can I say? We know greed and big oil money is the root of all of this. That's a no-brainer. The millionaires and billionaires will once again escape ANY responsibility for this.
I might get raked over the coals at Kos for saying this, but I'm afraid this is the moment when we see the REAL Democratic Party come out. We already know President Obama has moved forward on "Drill Baby Drill" and okayed even more offshore drilling. Some diaries and writers here have called that a tactical move: fair enough...but thanks, I'll remain a pragmatic progressive until I see us move as quickly fucking away as possible from a petroleum-based lifestyle. Ronald Reagan helped to set up this catastrophe by steering us away from alternative energy in the fucked up 80s.
I'm angry beyond words. I'm saddened, too, well beyond words. We are about to witness wide scale, long term, possibly irreversible catastrophic destruction of several major industries, and several species of flora and fauna. No one will be held responsible, because money talks and bullshit walks and that's the American way.
Why do we continue to fuck up the potential greatness of our country for short term greed?