Another Setback...

These setbacks are so commonplace, it is the norm.
This week BP was supposed to cap the well again- AND even get 1 of the 2 relief wells online...
Newscasters spread this news like it was a done deal, very confident about stopping the leakage by Friday!!!
YEAH!!!!!

(but then)

"UMMMM..... ERRRRR.........AHHHHH...... Sorry to say it folks, we were maybe overconfident? We need to do more tests before we try it out..."

HOW CAN WE LET THEM KEEP FUDGING AROUND?!?!??! You know, if we juts torpedoed the hole, or gave them a deadline (fix it by X-date or we will torpedo it...)) We could feel good about giving them, like, 100 chances before we scrapped their little malfunctioning business operation...

I don't know about you,
But I'm all for it....

Post from BoingBoing.net

Photographer Jane Fulton Alt's latest series is called Crude Awakening. She writes on her web site:

Living on the shores of Lake Michigan, I am acutely aware of the disastrous toll the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has taken on all forms of life, especially as our beaches opened to the 2010 swimming season. This environmental, social and economic catastrophe highlights a much larger problem that has inflicted untold suffering as we exploit the earth's resources worldwide.

We are all responsible for leading lives that create demand for unsustainable energy. We are also all responsible for the solution and we must work together to protect the balance of life.

(... as usual, boingboing is keeping us informed about artists who dare to push, to try and make people think ... thank you!!!)

Gulf Oil Game

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/offers/00000001-0000-4000-8000-000058550553?partner=RSS
It was bound to happen, it is only $1, and I think you have to own an X-BOX to get it, but ...

... well....

... it's still disaster capitalism.

I DO LIKE that it features TORPEDOes, however, at least video game developers know 'what's up'...

Official Google Blog: Mapping the Gulf oil spill in Google Earth

Official Google Blog: Mapping the Gulf oil spill in Google Earth

3 million dollar solution....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_48_torpedo

Guess what dum dums, I can get on the internets and solve your worst problems within the hour.
Hire me Mr. Government human resources man!

(didn't you hire that dude from HOUSE?)

This torp is 'only' 3 mil, but it will do exactly what is required- seal the GULF OIL volcano with -no- nuclear payload.

Of course, being the genius that I am, I insist on a 9 million dollar discretionary budget -

(so I can fire 3 of them if I need to)...

JUST LOOK at the specs on the RIGHTHAND column of this WIkiPEdiA article... This is PUBLIC info? If it is available to me, it MUST BE available to the president and his advisers, you know, those jackass ostriches with their head buried in the ground (maybe the leak will go away if we ignore it?)


Spend the 9 mil.

Torpedo
The
Hole...

Of course I already think you're a collection of idiots (a leak that last 2 moths and you're, all, like, well, we thought BP would solve it... ummmm... errrr....) , but do you really want to run a re-election campaign when EVERYONE thinks you're an idiot collective???

Nope.

WAH GAH, WAH GAH Are You DOWN With The Slickness

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10492086.stm

Guess what?
The oil is coming to you! This tracker predicts what will happen to the East Coast in the next few months...
Hey politicians- maybe THEN you'll be ready to advocate for Torping-the-Hole, when it's on YOUR DOORSTEP.

Mark my words, if it makes its way to CANADA's shores- THEY'LL torp the hole FOR US.


(and they're pacifists!)

LAUNCH time!!!

The TV blinks to life, a roll of color and sound replace the black screen-

"... And in other news, today the President pulled up his socks, became a man, and LAUNCHED A TORPEDO to seal the oil well in the Gulf.

A grateful nation has already elected him to his second term... 3 years early... Out of sheer gratitude for his forthright, direct solution to one of our world's gravest environmental disasters."



(... and then little Nicholas woke up...)