Friday, June 18, 2010

we'll start surreal friday here at ravings this way:

because i guess with him, it's more than ok to pollute our mother earth AND fuck over the people of alabama, mississippi, florida and yes, even HIS texas. that's not to say the people of mexico and the whole east coast (as well as goddess only knows where else) won't get fucked by bp either. i like to CHOOSE who fucks ME over and bp ain't on my list

Republican apologizes to BP over White House 'shakedown'

Texan criticizes compensation fund

By Sheldon Alberts, Canwest News Service

Embattled BP CEO Tony Hayward arrived on Capitol Hill on Thursday ready to deliver an apology for the economic and environmental calamity being caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Perhaps no one was more surprised than Hayward, then, when one of his congressional interrogators began apologizing to him.

During an occasionally bizarre but rarely dull day of questions, accusations and artful dodges, Texas Republican Joe Barton overshadowed the star witness at a congressional hearing Thursday into the Deepwater Horizon disaster by condemning a $20-billion compensation fund for oil spill victims as a White House "shakedown" of BP...........