Thursday, May 27, 2010

Thursday Stuff

K.O. meets with the father and brother of Gordon Jones, one of the 11 Deepwater Horzion rig workers who was killed when it exploded and sank...

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...and Rachel Maddow asks "did the 'Top Kill' work," and presents some truly nightmarish details on the size of some of the underwater plumes, as well as an interview with U.S. House Dem Charlie Melancon...

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...and I'm not eaxctly sure why Maddow was cut off at 4:28 in this clip, in which she makes the case that oil companies, over the course of 30 or so years, haven't done a damn thing to make drilling for oil more safe...

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...and in the midst of some thoroughly un-festive circumstances, I'd still like to wish a happy 65th birthday to Canadian music icon Bruce Cockburn (from the, "you tore me out of myself alive" department); he wrote this song in response to our involvement in Central America in the '80s, but after we eventually fix the mess in the Gulf, I'd like to see similar expressions of outrage aimed at our politicians and supposed business "masters of the universe" responsible, and I don't care what their political allegiance is.

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