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Life on a BP deep water platform: "After safety, the one thing on almost everyone’s mind is how to keep the oil and gas flowing at the best possible rate."

Other tidbits from the BP web site:

These are manmade structures at sea, and every centimetre of space has been designed to provide workers with safety, the tools they need and perhaps, after a hard day’s work, a few comforts.

To work here you need to wear a safety helmet, earplugs, protective clothing and plastic glasses.

If watching a movie or sporting event on satellite TV isn’t enough to fill the rest periods, the sea offers its own entertainments. There might be whales to watch, or sea lions or migrating birds.

People come and go frequently from a platform...

Whatever we do, wherever we do it, we always strive to preserve and improve the surrounding environment...

We also recognise the need to constantly look at and improve our own organization. So, for example, we work to rigorous health and safety standards...

We hold all new projects to a set of environmental requirements.

We deliver on our promises through continuous improvement and safe, reliable operations.

Our reputation, and therefore our future as a business, depends on each of us, everywhere, every day, taking personal responsibility for the conduct of BP’s business.

We also regularly invite our customers, shareholders, suppliers and others to tell us what they think of BP.

Be my guest: Tell 'em what you think...

You can't beat a station wagon full of nuns: Distributor Cap tears Pat Buchanan a new one (not that Pat needs it)...

Mrs. Williams and children "at promise"...

Thanks John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas. This one is at your door. So is this racist drivel:


The ad is courtesy of Americans for Job Security, a murky, euphemistic group that refuses to identify its members:

Our members are businesses, business leaders and entrepreneurs from around the country. AJS does not disclose or discuss its membership further than this.

They go so far as to not disclose the identity of their board, either, and yet they're allowed to spend unlimited money on political campaigns.

The ad also is a page of an old and depiscable conservative playbook: It pits the unemployed of Arkansas against the poor of Bangalore, which has a per capita income of $690 (that's right: $690). I've got think that the real enemy of both are the phantom members of Americans for Job Security, who hide their identities behind the robes of the Supreme Court and chortle with contempt at working people...

Dirty minded Texas Republican uses the right's obsession with porn to kill funding for scientific research and math and science jobs. What's the matter, Ralph? Afraid that if kids learn to add it all up, they won't see it your way?...

Saul Friedman says that government health care works everywhere it's been tried...

Christian Soldiers Dept: If Jesus won't protect you from Satan, a handy sidearm will do the job just fine...

Teabaggers oppose the American people in the name of liberty. What's next? The Fourteenth Amendment? Given the leeway, these people would strip the Constitution they profess to love down the the Second and Tenth Amendments...

GOP senators: TARP worked but -- get this -- the nuances are lost among the tumult and the shouting. According one senator of the party who has made exaggeration, dissembling, and blunt force its political life's blood:

If you can get above all the hyperbolization and misrepresentation and get the facts out, I think you can be very effective...

"The laws are intended to make people fearful"...

SUNDAY PLAYLIST
Time to Get Alone...

Just A Song: Natalie Merchant and "Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience"...

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

30 Days Out reviews Peter Frampton, the Court Yard Hounds (i.e., the Dixie Chicks minus Natalie Maines), Shelby Lynne, and Graham Parker...


PHOTO GALLERY
Decatur Street pirate...

Aerial image of the BP/Halliburton Oil Spill...

Shadow Shot Sunday...

Cedar waxwing along Hazard Road...

You never knew what I loved in you; I don't know what you loved in me. Maybe the picture of somebody you were hoping I might be. This one goes out to the good folks at BP/Halliburton: