Once yer used up you'll be: Sealed and abandoned

The US Energy Administration just wants you to know offshore drilling is easy to explain, all the big equipment is cool, and, don't worry, the industry is taking every precaution to make sure nothing could possibly ever go wrong.
"Offshore oil producers are always taking precautions to prevent pollution, spills and significant changes to the ocean environment. Since 1975, drilling in the EEZ has had a safety record of 99.999% meaning that only .001% of the oil produced has been spilled. Offshore rigs are even designed to withstand hurricanes"
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=oil_offshore#tab2

I'm so convinced.

Is .001% of 600 million barrels p/y (the total U.S. figure) an acceptable amount of crude to pour into the ocean? This week's offshore fire/explosion/sinking is spilling 5000 barrels per day (21,000 gallons) right now. 11 crew workers are dead and the oil slick can be seen from space. Disaster crews did a controlled burn yesterday to try to prevent the oil from getting to the coast.

How bizarre is all this considering that the U.S. exports 1.6 million barrels per day (that's a 2008 number and it's A LOT. And it was up about 30% from the previous year)? So many desperate appeals for our need to relieve ourselves from the need for foreign oil. So great, supposedly, that we should violate nature reserves to get at oil so inaccessible that it takes 5-7 or more years to extract it once its location has been discovered. It seems like a farce. I wonder what the official explanation is. I'm trying to find it. I suspect that it's disgusting vulgar greed.

The Obama administration is supposedly now reconsidering the expansion of offshore drilling that they authorized a couple weeks ago.

I've been doing much research about oil lately for my free-job and it's swimming in my mind, so I thought I'd share a little bit here. Anyways, check out this ostrich trying to eat a baby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMO40vic-c0. I'm gonna paint it this weekend, you bet your bottom dollar.

I don't understand

why I look at the newspaper today and see a tiny blip about Obama extending the Patriot Act for another year. What the hell? Shouldn't there be an uproar? That's Bush's signature bullshit. Our honeymoon is over and no one cares. Look at the dumb blip. At least Alternet will always be there to tell me what I need to hear during these hard times: http://5z8.info/barely-legal_k6h8u_rickroll

for example, one of the comments on the Alternet clip, coherently elucidating upon the real truth:

"To all of the other "CRIMINAL CONGRESSMEN" who have commited TREASON against the AMERICAN PEOPLE, your time will come very soon. When that day comes, you WILL BE TRIED FOR TREASON AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. When found GUILTY of TREASON, YOU WILL BE EXECUTED. THAT WILL BE THAT. THEN, YOU ALL WILL BE GONE FOREVER AND AMERICA AND THE WORLD WILL SMILE. IN PEACE."

I am aware that the comic is missing a word.

Thanks for the fancy paper

I deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed it.

Que es mas macho?

So this is happening now. I read about it in the news on New Years Eve. It's weird how not-secret this secret society is...

First section text: "The secretive men-only society won state approval for a logging plan allowing the group to harvest as much as 1.7 million board feet of timber a year"

Second section text: "The logging plan, argues the 130-year-old club believed to have included every republican president since Herbert Hoover, will help reduce fire risks and help reserve its 2,700 acre Russian River encampment to a natural state."

Third section text: "But really... They just need the felled redwoods for their depraved secret republican bacchanalian sex raves. The will build a 10 story tall phallic representation of a composite of every penis in this year's group and it is required by tradition to be made from the redwood tree. Because it's the best. They trees are held together with millions of third world foreskins for authenticity."

A message from the president

A few suspect statements from the president recently that may contribute to evidence that he is using the council of certain diasporic emissary from the Arkestra

where he at?

About a year ago a created the above document that connects the dots between some very extraordinary entities that dwell in the Oakland/Emeryville area.
Since then, one of these has been MIA, nowhere to be found. This is very curious and alarming, but I do have some ideas about where he may be. One significant event that has transpired between then and now is Barack Obama becoming president, which, of course, is a huge milestone for African American people.
I believe that this man may have sensed a patriotic call to duty and joined Barack Obama in the whitehouse to help lead this country at a time when it needs it most. War in at least three countries, economic crisis, and a complete and degrading estrangement from the funk. More about this arrangement to come. I may be using this medium: http://www.weirdcrap.com/chick/intro.html