Its associated with a big arse oil spill.  Man O Man...what a royal F'ing mess. The largest oil spill in US history. The tragedy is just at the tip of the iceberg if that shioot is not cleaned up some way some how. Just imagine hurricane season in the gulf............just imagine what the heyl is gonna happen when the temperatures start to soar down there.....That shiots is going to be blazing and burning up everything in its path. I am sorry but I simply can not recall...during my life time...this many tragedies...catastrophes happening one after another like this here....its pretty scary. Well...you know what they say......about this time and what we are living in.....   fill in the blank here. 

That oil is a HUGE mess,  It just keeps getting worse every single day.  Hopefully that mud will do something.  
 
It is going to really mess up a lot of people businesses, goodness I just can't believe how long it's been spewing.  It is just crazy.

There has always been catastrophes some worse some not as bad, but things do seem to be going to **** as of late I gotta agree. 

It is going to really mess up a lot of people businesses, goodness I just can't believe how long it's been spewing.  It is just crazy.

You are so right Lee....businesses are definitely going to be impacted. If I might make light of a bad situation for a moment....only one possible good thing can come out of it....won't have to be hearing folks mispronounce the word...shrimps too often, " Uncle Bubba are you putting some
skeerimps  on the grill tonight."   Heyl....not only are seafood prices gonna go sky high....but most folks might be scared to eat them mofos for fear of getting food poisoning....yep...just when we thought the economy was on an upswing.....I see the stock market going down...down down baby...unless a miracle happens and fast.

I agree MD..But my question is... AFTER and IF they stop this spill, how are they going to remove the thousands of gallons that already spilled?

It's not only affecting business that rely on the oceans for business, but it will eventually affect our daily living drastically- especially if that oil hits and gets where it shouldn't.

Well....they might have to consult Kevin Costner...yeah the actor....he is endorsing a machine that is out there that can separate oil from water or so they say.

Kevin Costner's oil solution: 'He built it, so let him come'

May 26, 2010 | 12:55 pm As the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues to spark dialogue from our passionate readers both begging for answers and demanding swifter action, comments continue to pour in from readers about our Kevin Costner blog post.

The actor has been overseeing the building of oil separation machines in the event of an oil leak on the same magnitude of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, according to the New York Times. Hollywood credentials aside, Costner is offering a bit more action than we’ve seen -- and hey, should we really care about his movies anyway?

Though dozens of comments poured in, reader Robert Hansford offered a perfect quote to sum up Costner's planned efforts:

“Forget about an excuse.- We live here in a world economy dominated by people who dominated resources.- With a growing population this means competition, and poor judgement.- i.e. filming expensive and wasteful movies, including ones that use exorbitant amounts of water, in order to generate income, as we have all been trained now to seek comfort over progress. If Kevin decided to spend his time and money on a machine that would clean up oil spills ... that's awesome.- Let him in there.- He built it, so let him come.- It'd be good for everyone involved, especially if the claims that the machines would work could be confirmed by reputable figures in science and environment. Jobs too I suppose."

-- Gerrick D. Kennedy

Seriously....they need to be out there scooping that shioot up with spoons if they have to...why just stand there and look at it...like a bunch of freaking dumbos. I swear those folks at BP are just conspiring to save their own wallets.

Even more insane is the curent cap of 75 million in clean up costs for oil companies.   They should be responsible for every penny of this massive clean up.  They keep all the profit so they should bear all the costs of their cluster fkcu.  The battle is on to change that cap into the billions where it should be.  It will be a hard fight.   Start emailing your elected officials and put those costs where they belong.  We will pay the price in more ways than one.  Let BP bear the clean up costs.

Wow.....did not know there was a cap.....definitely should not be a cap for gross negligence. They know that their shiott was raggedy....trying to save a few dollas...... now they should have to pay up.

Ok - ms'no cap' - so what if it bankrupts BP and all of it's X-thousands of employees no longer have jobs?

What's your fix for THAT - while we have the answer for everything........

I'm just saying - it's great to be all indignant and righteous on the theory of a thing, but let's consider FULL scope - it would be unreasonable and impossible for any one entitiy to shoulder the costs - government included.

Well....I am just looking at it from this perspective. I wonder if more large corporations....I am talking airlines, oil companies etc.. etc... would be more responsible...ie. doing their regular maintenance on equipment etc, employee training, ensuring that folks are sober on the job etc etc...heyll...turn the dayum thing off...if they see the engine light come on (preventative cost savings up front) if they knew there was no cap or bail out for negligence or overspending and that they might have to shoulder more responsibility for screw ups.  I sure don't want to see anybody lose their jobs....but isn't that what going to happen to thousand of others put out of work because their industry is a bust because of this spillage.  Heyl...I just think that everyone...from the little man...on up to the federal gubment should be responsible for thier own mistakes.... but for real...bottom line...no matter who screws up...the taxpayers will all have to stand in line...to dig deeper into their pockets.  I don't' know what the solution is....but I bet if that money had to come out of salaries starting at the top first and run on down.... folks making some decisions might be a tad more conscientious....I know I would be if I was in that boat.  A company that goes belly up...does send a very strong message though.  

Let's take the recent banking meltdown as an example - shall we?

Now - following your suggestion of no cap - the banks who got the bailout would have collapsed, to 'send a message' - and then where would fiscal USA be?  Instead - gov't stepped in - and while it's not been the step that everybody says was the best and perfect - we are not all destitute and deprived - struggling like hell - but not totally destroyed.

So - you already know BP will be hit with a serious hurt behind all this - and best believe regulations are coming so hard and furious it'll be a long time before anyone spills extra virgin olive oil at an italian resturant - but there are so many 'on the verge of broken' things in this country - you're just focused on this because it's the squeaky wheel.

wanna take it REAL far? let's go to perhaps the workers were undertrained - let's say they are fundamentally undereducated coming from a public school system that leaves them disadvantaged - let's further surmise that because of their status, they, like most mid to low socioeconomic brethren, do not have the courage to stand for what they know to be right or wrong (if they know enough to see it) and in the interest of keeping their paycheck, they let the wrongs go - queue the snowball effect to their supervisors, managers and the whole company.

Now - why are they like that? Take it to the US system of creating a paradigm in which everyone is beholden to debt until death - there was more than one person who KNEW this was destined to happen, but they just prayed it wasn't until THEIR check was cashed, cause they needed their livelihood.  Think the New Orleans Levees were a fluke?  NOT - but rather than be fired and face a chance of trying to pay for your life at a lesser level than what you made, or not at all.  We are built on a system that forecasts costs to future generations - nothing anyone does NOW is being paid by us NOW - it's our kids who will have to face it - and it's their dreams that have to be scaled back and curtailed to accomodate what must be paid for.

Example - no more NASA, we need the $$ to fix the economy - could have spent the money making NASA more efficient and up to date, but hey - we chose cheap mortgages.