Do the Six Guys with Shovels n Hefty Bags, fill you with confidence about the Gulf Cleanup?

[ShamelessHussy]

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Can we not even afford to put on a better show?

Is it because we are stretched to thin, losing 2 wars with 2 of the weakest nations on the planet?

And the banksters stealing all our money?

Is this how we go out?

[mikelgb]

1. honestly, can't they put on a better show? why even bother?

[dkofos]

2. Why bother with the bunny suit if you're not going wear some type of respirator??

[DJ13]

3. Is this how we go out?

TS Eliot - The Hollow Men

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

[Scuba]

4. about as much as the 'water wings' booms did

[damntexdem]

5. Uh, this is a selected shot. What else is happening?

This picture alone tells us NOTHING about what is being done. I know that not enough is being done, but this picture is not evidence of that.

[ShamelessHussy]

7. still looking for the armada of skimmer ships, and army of workers on shore

I will post them when I find a link

:hi:

[SoCalDem]

11. Skimmers work in localized calm waters..not in open sea with currents

and then there is the emulsified glop UNDER the surface that's drifting around killing everything in its path...no skimming that :cry:

[ShamelessHussy]

13. It works in both... though one may be more ideal than the other, it is still worth doin

yeah, and someone needs to ORDER them to STOP using dispersants, that is simply poisonous PR :argh:

[JuniperLea]

6. Central Casting could have provided better... eom

[Donnachaidh]

8. those cheesy white coats will rip inside of a couple of hours

and where are the face masks for these guys -- seriously?

[SoCalDem]

9. Where do the bags full of oily sand , go?

Landfills? where they can leach back into the water table? or reclaimed by BP so they can wring every last drop of their precious oil? :puke:

[ShamelessHussy]

10. I wonder how much you could get for a 5 gallon bucket full? If they let folks recycle it they might

get an army on scene :bounce:

[Donnachaidh]

15. and who is going to cover the medical costs of that *army*?

I seriously doubt any money they made would cover the treatment of the side effects from breathing that crap in.

[ShamelessHussy]

18. BP

and they should have hazmat suits and respirators

[boppers]

12. 20,000 people.

That's how many are currently working the problem.

Not six.

Push-headline FAIL.

[ShamelessHussy]

14. got any pictures?

please send them to BP's and the Fed's PR team, they DESPERATELY need them... especially ones that show the ARMADA of skimmers :bounce:

I hear they got a hot-line for good tips... where is that link to their PR site again?

[boppers]

16. GIYF

[ShamelessHussy]

17. pitiful (nt)

[hobbit709]

19. None of those people are actually DOING something.