So there were the senate hearings, lightening strike, fire on board a recovery vessel, credit rating from hell, Brazil reviewing a $7bn deal with BP, BP shelling out for a bit of kit owned by Kevin Kostner, and my personal favourite the Belgian help offered for the Gulf is not allowed to help because they are johnny foreigners.
According to the Lloyd’s List (don’t ask why I have a copy to read):
The Belgian dredging giant Jan de Nul offered to bring an early end to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill by deploying its fallpipe vessel Simon Stevino, which has a much broader pipe than the funnel currently being used by BP. However, a law that restricts coastal traffic to US built and flagged vessels has frustrated their offer of help.
Barrack O-fuck-face, set aside the protectionist piece of shite Jones Act for them to help. Either you want this cleaned up or you don’t, personally I don’t give a shit, but stop beating BP for not being responsive enough when you won’t let people with legitimate offers of help actually provide it.
Something else that also tickled me today was that people are wanting Tony Blair to run BP. Obviously not British people as they remember what a shit job he did running a country. Maybe when Barrack O-fuck-face doesn’t get elected he can have a job in one of BP petrol stations, cleaning windscreens or something.
On a lighter note this new iPhone game has an amusing slice of hypocrital irony. There are specific terms in the Apple developers guide that say you cannot hate a specific entity (human or company) and since every bad thing that has happened to the US since September 11 is BP’s fault, this is obviously a case of Apple siding with the BP Blame Storm community. Or… (for the hypocrisy bit) you are not allowed to club seals but you can drown ducks… why?
