big bags of money?

Agreed!!!

Murder is money. No profit without makeing a killing somewhere. I believe many dynasties have started with a gun or a knife in an alley just waiting for easy targets to walk near.

There was a story posted last week that I commented on, in regards to rumblings from Holder's DOJ that they were supposedly still considering criminal charges against BP for the disaster. This was what my comment to that. I think it is still appropos to this story.

If this truly comes to pass, I will applaud the DOJ and Eric Holder. Unfortunately, at this point I am cautious and skeptical. Holder's track record is far from stellar when it comes to holding any corporations accountable civilly or criminally. I've got to believe that this is some sort of leverage move on Holder's part, but when it is all said and done, without much teeth. I was privvy to a lot of information in regards to the BP oil spill as during the time the spill was at the center of most news cycles, I was a regular on a blog associated with a progressive radio show featuring Bobby Kennedy Jr. and a partner with the law firm that were the lead attorneys representing the Gulf fishermen, Mike Papantonio, a frequent guest contributor on Ed Schultz' radio and TV program. In the first few months of the disaster, it was a weekly subject on the show until it gradually faded from even their radar. After the initial hopefulness and promise of the victims of the spill receiving financial justice, that too faded. Papantonio initially hailed the deal that Obama brokered with BP to put $20 Billion into escrow to cover victims loss of their livelihood, until he realized that the $20 Billion would be a drop in the bucket before it was all over and the $20 Billion would never ever fully find itself into the hands of deserving victims. You might recognize the fellow who BP HIRED to dole out the cash to the victims HE decided were worthy of a settlement, Kenneth Feinberg, the same Kenneth Feinberg who was so generous with the 9/11 victims' families settlements. NOT. The litigations that were set to go to trial, were supposed to be delayed until this month until all the required due diligence was performed and BP could be sufficiently nailed to the wall. As far as I know, there's still been nothing but crickets in regards to those cases going forward too. So, to say the least, I don't hold out too much hope that this story will have any happy endings for anyone decimated in the Gulf or any accountability for the law breakers who proliferate this sad saga.

Excellent comment Leen.... +^d!!!!

Thanks, KB.

Good on you. Ocasionally in the past the powers that be have made motions toward outlawing peasent sex entirely . Unless granted a special permit first. Somrting like the attempt at eugenics in USA. after world war one. Read a book called MAKING MEN MORAL My uncle Jack was locked up most of his young short life because of that. They le t him out long enough to die in the army fighting germans in France. Last anyone in the family saw of him he was dead in a ditch along the road with hundreds of other casualties that my dad said always seemed to be beside the road. Dad was the gunner in a halftrack that was part of an armored colum that advanced into Germany and destroyed alot of towns and villages with all the civilians still in them. Poor dad spent the next 50 years just waiting to die himself. He never fully recovered or escaped the memory of all the wemon and children he saw when his halftrack was security accompaning the negotiators and inturpreters demanding full immediate cooperation. If they did not seem to get enough cooperation the colum used artillery to level the town. The next day the collum moved on and there was no town left. But anyway, when dad saw jack in the ditch Jack had sargents stripes on his uniform and the family had been told that jack was no good so often by authorities that dad thought his brother could not make sargent . He hesitated to long . Never did stop for his one and only dead brother in the ditch . When Jack was young there was an attempt to reduce "undesierable" pregnancies by simply locking up young people deamed poor or otherwise undesirerable so they could not have babies. Just read the book. MAKING MEN MORALE. It was used as part of some school coarses at arizona state university. My point is that they respect no boundaries . They are like farmers raising chickens. no respect for us peasents. Just chickens to them. Chickens will not get a nywhere by protesting in front of farmers. I have to stop ranting.

""I'd stay away from the bouillabaisse."

I'm not getting an image here. Link?

These guys all make over $250,000 a year.

They just got a BIG tax cut.

I hope all of the cute little rats drown. Nice work :)

ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!!!!

Have you noticed how the "safety standards" keep changing as the situations get worse and worse.

"................is no threat to human health........"

"................will degrade and disappear..........."

".................is a freak, one time event that could not possibly happen again......"

blah, blah, blah....................go back to sleep.

It seems to me that, other than the terminologies inserted into the blanks-------we are hearing exactly the same newscasts about the nuclear reactors in Japan that we heard about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

You know it.