more fear mongering

MORE FEAR MONGERING


Well, it’s one of those days again. I at first thought I might write something useful and wise, but then reason prevailed and I decided to stick to the tried and true fear mongering. If I got you used to something instructional you might think that is the norm. If I just slather on the fear and panic in a thick creamy sauce of paranoia, then it isn’t too far of a leap to hate and ranting. Which I do quite well, thank you very much. A minion e-mailed me with some extra juicy sphincter tingling news on the Gulf coast oil spill. Please keep in mind that this is just your regular rumor mill news rather than a factual, twice confirmed, boots on the ground report. Here at the Bison Compound we pride ourselves on our frugal business model. Which means we don’t actually spend a whole lot of money of fact checking. As opposed to the three major TV networks which not only report the news fresh from the Bureau Of Truth And Justice And Homeland Worship but they also spend a lot of money creating their own news such as motor vehicle gas tanks exploding. Of course, as more and more people are laid off from big media payrolls, but still the CEO can’t afford his second mansion in the Hamptons, my model will be emulated a lot more.

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Okay, the report is that the oil rig sunk and is resting on top of the pipe that is spewing oil. The original problem seems to be that the pressure from the well was so high that it blew out the equipment that usually controls the flow. If this is the case it might be argued that the whole disaster was more along the lines of an act of God rather than negligence on the part of BP. Whatever. The point is that all that wreckage is now in the way, and under a heck of a lot of water. Everyone is now of the mind that the twenty thousand barrel a day ( or whatever it is ) leak is now going to pollute all the oceans, or if we manage to torch the sucker it will cause a lot of atmospheric pollution which will add to the volcanic ash. Ok, the last concern is mine. But others should be worried about it. I have no idea what the effects will be. Talk to a Earth Hugger and you might think all the oceans will stop producing plankton and all our oxygen stops being produced. I don’t think our oceans were that that pristine before this event, so how much more can they be polluted? Anyway, let’s add a real concern to the list here.

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Most people could care less about pollution. If there is a buck to be made from it, most people would vote for an acid infusion into their water supply. And I don’t just mean the corporate big wigs. Take the average voter, and add a few good paying jobs into their district. They won’t even qualify for the job, since they dropped out of college with a sixth grade education. But either they can daydream of winning the labor lottery or they realize that other neighbors working there help to keep the whole area from being one carload of Crips away from a ghetto. You suck up the poison and shut up about it ( one in a thousand get to use an ambulance chaser to play the Litigation Lottery which hopefully they can win before their organs melt down into a cancerous slime ). People will kill themselves with poison for a buck. So pollution is a minor concern to your average Joe. But what if this hits them in the wallet quite soon? You will once again ignore me when I remind you that the cheap and easy oil is long gone. We have no choice but to now pump the expensive and hard to reach. This deep water rig wasn’t an oddity, it is the norm.

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So, if Obammy gets all stupid with BP, insisting they give up all their profits to clean up the oil ( or, far more likely, pay fines to the states who get fouled beaches which they will use for other things like civil servant pensions rather than clean up- and that list of states might grow if the currents take the slick up the Atlantic coast ), that means every other deep rig operator now has to worry about increased insurance costs. Also, new ventures for drilling might be canceled. Which means that the supply of oil is further constrained. More corn is used for ethanol and fewer green shoots grow out of Obammy’s ass as the price of oil goes up some more. All because the governments want more money to further control us and to hide the fact that they make more profit off of oil than the oil companies do. And to deflect blame from the banks for screwing up the economy ( lack of oil would have done it, but the banks rushed things along in order to squeeze the last of the blood from the turnip so the Big Bankers could build their concrete bunkers in South America to flee the American collapse ).

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This would all be drama enough, a great lesson is unintended consequences and how the currentPerfect Storm is so much fun to view, without throwing in yet another infrastructure collapse in Boston with their water supply ( plus, the amateur attempt of whichever CIA operator used the wrong kind of fertilizer in the “terrorist” bomb-he must of looked up the recipe in “The Anarchists Cookbook” rather than the Army manual on improvised explosives ). Almost one percent of the population of the US is boiling their water to be able to drink it. And you thought that the recent elections made us look like a Third World country.

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