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There’s Just Not Enough BP in My Daily Diet

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It seems you can’t go two feet these days without another BP story innundating us with its importance over our daily lives. And it just keeps getting worse.  Turns out a lot more oil may have been flowing than we first imagined.  And of course, the lawyers are starting to sniff the waters to see if they can make a gazillion dollars out of suing everyone and their brother. And then in the New York Times, there was an interesting story about how Great Britain is throwing a hissy fit because the United States is getting all angry at BP, and somehow that means we’re saying bad things about the Britains.

Okay, I’m sorry I have to do this, but some things need to be put into perspective, and who else to do this but a world famous blogger like me who has a site where everyone reads it on a constant basis. Okay, no one reads my blog, but just to make my stuffed animals happy, I have a few comments to make.

1. BP is screwd. Sorry, but you were the guys who owned the rig that caused all the problems, and is STILL causing all of the problems. You haven’t fixed it. You didn’t prepare for it. And I’m sorry, but everyone is just a bit angry at you right now because you’ve KILLED THE ENTIRE GULF WITH YOUR STUPID OIL DISASTER. Oh sorry, it’s not a disaster because a “disaster” is limited on one small geographical location, being of limited impact. You’ve caused a CATASTROPHE! Sorry that we’re now hurting your feelings, but you have done your part to bring about the destruction of all human civilization. You don’t get a free pass on that kind of shit.

2. The lawyers. Wish they weren’t going to do what they’re going to do, but like the cartoon characters say: They’re not evil; they’re just drawn that way. Or like the scorpion says to the turtle before he stings him and they both drown: “It’s in my nature.” Lawyers will jump on the nearest ambulance and sue in their best interest. Sorry, but it’s what happens.

3. Great Britain. Really? You think this is about YOU? No, it’s not. It’s about a stupid company that happens to be headquartered in your country. Sorry if you think that angry Americans are now being unfair to you, but you know, sometimes it really isn’t about you. Americans are angry at BP because it doesn’t serve any purpose to be angry at the oil. Someone is responsible, and guess what? That culprit IS BP. So, if you think Americans are angry at you, get over it, or go fuck yourselves. Whatever you need to do. Because honestly, Americans aren’t angry at people from Great Britain UNTIL they start making it about themselves. The article shows all attempts at trying to deflect blame away from BP with this “well, shit happens, so stop being angry”. If that’s the stance you take, then Americans are going to start pointing fingers at Britains, and THEN you’ll know America is angry. Ask a bunch of Republican Guard soldiers in Iraq what it’s like when Americans are mad and lash out at the nearest thing available, even if there’s no apparent reason for doing so (like thinking Iraqis were responsible for 911). Give Americans a good reason to be angry, and those cruise missiles you see making parking lots out of your residential districts will explain why it’s not a good idea to pick a fight when one isn’t really being offered in the first place. Just saying, so shut the fuck up and stop acting all victim like when no one was pointing fingers at you in the first place.

As for BP, however, good luck on deflecting any angry Americans. Seems your only chance right now is a bunch of stupid, overly sensitive Britains standing in between you and those angry Americans.

The whole BP catastrophe is one of those things that is going to be very interesting in how it plays out. I find it amazing that anyone would even think that BP is going to come out of this without being the recipient of legal carpet bombing before this is all over. I even read how BP is trying to hold the US government to the law (that they are only responsible for about 75 million dollars of damage). Good luck on making that stick. If BP manages to escape through a legal maneuver, I expect to see serious amounts of wrath of hegemony upon them in all sorts of manners. If they play any stupid legalistic trick, just watch what happens when the ambulance chasers catch up with them; not a single politician in all of America will come to their defense, which will lead to the biggest sinkhole short of the Gulf of Mexico.

May Wrap-Up

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Just thought I would take some time to do a little bit of a wrap-up of things going on, including the news.

1. My job. Well, I haven’t lost it yet, but it’s never really going well. I like the people I work with, and I tend to deliver whatever is desired from me, but it’s one of those jobs where you just get the feeling every day that it just isn’t working out, and no matter what you do, it probably never will. It’s unfortunate, but I really need to find something stable that doesn’t make me feel like it’s going to end tomorrow on a whim that I can do nothing to avoid.

2. My writing. Nothing seems to be happening. I send stuff out, and if I ever get a response, it’s a generic, no thanks. It’s really frustrating, and I really don’t know what to do about it. It’s like I’m forever on the outside looking in to a great place where everyone is writing lots of fun stuff. People who come out of the place engage me in conversation, but I’m never allowed inside, almost as if there’s a conspiracy to keep me outside but no one on the inside knows anything about it.

3. Stickman. I’d produce more of Stickman, but it’s really hard to try to bring humor to the rest of the world when you get the impression the rest of the world doesn’t care, doesn’t really want it, and you’re just wasting your time. Or at least it feels that way.

4. My life in general. It feels like I’m constantly in limbo land, and I can’t find a way out of it. I don’t feel I’m where I need to be, but I don’t know where I need to be either. There’s really no one significant in my life, so I don’t have that to look upon as a solution to anything, or even as a journey towards any place. If I had to use one word to describe the feeling, it’s “blah”. Really blah, if I needed two words.

General topics:

5. The Guild Season 3. If you have never seen this series, and you happen to be a computer gamer, especially one who plays MMOs, this series is for you. It’s put out by Felicia Day, and it’s manufactured by a bunch of Internet happy people (meaning, without a lot of commercial backing), and it’s funny. It misses every now and then, but it does deliver. I recommend it.

6. Survivors (the British import series). Another interesting show. I recommend it. It’s another one of those shows that doesn’t appear to have been backed by a very large commercial enterprise. Either that, or it was backed by a commercial enterprise that seriously sucks because its production values are very amateurish. But it’s quality of show is very high. The writing is good, the acting is surprisingly not bad, and the premise is quite original and fresh. It is also very daring in its material, which has shocked me a few times because it really feels like some show that had been made in the 1970s, but with a sense of 2010 in mind. As a matter of fact, I just checked, and it WAS produced in the 1970s, so that explains that. But another one I recommend.

7. Sandra Bullock and her husband. Every now and then something in the news causes me to want to make a comment. Well, recently, Jesse James went on Nightline and said that he cheated on Sandra Bullock because he was abused as a child. Today, the father announced that Jesse was lying, that he never abused him. Well, my thought on this, having no knowledge of said events, is that abusers rarely ever admit they abused anyone. And in many cases, the spouse will also claim there was no abuse because no one wants to believe that something happened under their noses. But having said that, it’s a stupid reason to use as an excuse as for why you cheated on your wife. Any excuse is a stupid excuse because cheating is just that…cheating. I’d never have gotten married to anyone if I ever imagined once that I would be cheating on my future wife. And once I was married, cheating is NEVER an option. Why so many people can feel that there is justification for whatever reason is beyond me. I even heard one person say his wife cheated on him so now he has a blank check to do the same. It just doesn’t make any sense to me. Maybe it’s why I’m rarely in a relationship. They never make a lot of sense to me.

8. LOST. It was great. Great ending. Great show.

9. The iPad. Um, is it a netbook? A laptop? An oversized iPod? I’m not sure. But it isn’t enough of a substantial product to get me to want to buy one yet. I need something like it that I can really use to write a novel on and feel comfortable with it. It’s almost there. Why wouldn’t I buy one? In order to use its 3G network, I have to pay AT&T more money. I already pay them to use it with my iPhone. If they can’t lump those two together, they’re ripping me off. Not buying it for that. I don’t hang out at wi fi spots enough to use it otherwise. No word processor that I could find on it when I was looking at it at the Apple Store. Or maybe there was one. I don’t know. The guy who worked there was so impressed with himself that he worked there that he spent the entire time trying to score with some hot chick that was looking at an iPhone that I couldn’t get anyone to help me except for the one guy who “thought” he might be able to guess. Not a hard sell for me.

10. BPs oil disaster. Clean it up. Well, cap it off and then clean it up. I don’t want to hear about how you’re thinking you can do it. Just do it. As for Obama’s involvement, I don’t care. Get BP to fix it or call in the Marines. Or Flipper. I don’t care. Fix it. Or get Red Adair to fix it.

11. North Korea. Not sure what to say there. Our foreign policy was written in shortly after the First World War. We haven’t changed it since. Not sure why we’re under the impression that things are going to get better if we keep doing the same things that haven’t worked before. Didn’t Einstein have something to say about that and insanity?

That’s all for now. Some days, it just doesn’t feel worth it to continue, but then I remember that there’s still another episode of LOST to air before doing something stupid. Oh wait, the show ended. The networks better come up with something soon, or I’m cashing my ticket out of here.