Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 10, 2010

I guess BP shouldn’t be using words like “callous disregard” or “lack of humanity” or “criminal conspiracy” either.

Hey Sheik, you’re the reincarnation of Frank Zappa, ain’t you?

BP = Biggest Polluter!

That’s great, GEE1A!

Thank you from South Louisiana !!!

BP= Better Pay

Keep your mouth shut, Lew I will not make a political statement no matter what GT says today. Tomorrow,—–

Hey I guess BP bashing makes a change from Toyota bashing, just think of all that bailout money the US Government can recoup from hitting the foreign companies… Seems odd that you never see the rig owners (Halliburton) being taken to task or the drilling company (Transocean)… Opps, am I being a bit biased

Hey I guess BP bashing makes a change from Toyota bashing, just think of all that bailout money the US Government can recoup from hitting the foreign companies… Seems odd that you never see the rig owners (Halliburton) being taken to task or the drilling company (Transocean)… Opps, am I being a bit biased

BP = Bought Politicians

What’s really funny in this whole (literal) mess is that people tend to forget that the State of Louisiana, and to a somewhat lesser extent Mississippi and Alabama, were bought off a long time ago by the revenues paid by the offshore oil wells. (Really, how do you think the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans was financed?) Now faced with the possibility of losing well paying jobs on the rigs and the support businesses which goes along with them, right on cue many of the good citizens in Louisiana are beginning to rise to the defense of BP and ask in effect, “Heck, do we really need those wetlands?”

pity birds and fish can’t speak with their mouths so full of Bloody Piss.

CLARK KENT: I listened to it yesterday. Do you recall that they made similar reports about PTSD a few years ago? It seems that the military (under either administration) is stonewalling all of it’s casualties.

As for today’s strip, where can I get a BP hardhat? Motorcycle Helmet? Ball cap?

It’s green.

Words are all anyone can really throw at it until they get relief wells in. Let’s avoid the word “Hurricane” and go from there.

New definition of leadership as Media Awareness is beginning to bit our most media aware Prez in the behind.

You mean the Israeli defense of the country they were partitioned and have been nice enough to try to share civilly with folks who won’t compromise and want to kill them at every turn? That “apartheid” , horace?

“Hot Tap” – Duke’s delirious. It seems he’s confusing his late night entertainment with BP’s lingo…

garyrmn: they’re perhaps not going after Halliburton and Trans-Ocean as much because there’s at least some evidence that both of these companies warned that the well was having problems, that the process of closing it up (until it’s re-opened for production) should be slowed down… and they were overruled by BP executives aboard the platform. There are some eerie parallels with the decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger back in ‘85, when the engineers said “don’t” and the excutives overruled them.

freeholder1: you have a very strange definition of “share.”

The White House should ban the chemical dispersant Corexent which is 4 times more toxic than the oil. There are natural solutions like Sea Brat which the White House doesn’t condone because then Exxon, which makes Corexent, would lose money and share value.

Duke cuts to the meat. BP = BS

BP=Big P—-k(something sharp)

BP=Bloated Pork

BP = “Blame Petroleum”. But we’re the ones who keep the oil companies in business because of our personal addictions to their products, and so we’re the bloated ones. Is orur petroleum drug problem the fault of the pushers, or of the addicts?

It’s kinda disingenuous to write nasty things about a company while guzzling down their products at the same time. See that LCD screen in front of you? It’s even money that it was made by BP Plastics.

BP = BS

Glad to see the share price recovered most of recent big drop… rumors that Chinese interested in buying BPs now vastly undervalued assets. Can’t help feeling that would do neither pelicans nor pensioners any good.

‘I guess BP shouldn’t be using words like “callous disregard” or “lack of humanity” or “criminal conspiracy” either.’

Since we still don’t know the root causes, I wouldn’t use them either.

Okay, maybe I’d use “lack of humanity” per the cleanup angle instead of the root causes angle, regarding this story:

‘Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help.

‘It was willing to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms, and it proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands.

‘The response from the Obama administration and BP, which are coordinating the cleanup: “The embassy got a nice letter from the administration that said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’” said Geert Visser, consul general for the Netherlands in Houston.

‘Now, almost seven weeks later, as the oil spewing from the battered well spreads across the Gulf and soils pristine beaches and coastline, BP and our government have reconsidered.’

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/steffy/7043272.html

BP stockholders should immediately fire the BP CEO and anyone else who had a hand in this decision. Unfortunately, the US doesn’t have recall elections at the federal level.

Did Trudeau take a subtle shot at Obama in the third panel? Obama has words regarding the issue of finding blame, but none regarding the cleanup issue - which shows a gross lack of attention to the latter. (We can do both cleanup and blame-seeking - it doesn’t have to be either/or.)

Maybe this guy is right comparing this to Putin’s handling of the Kursk.

http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/13496.html

How foolish all the people sound who talk as if BP wanted this to happen.

Puddle – right on!! – I though I was the only one who had thought of the analogy to the Challenger “accident”

BP = Beyond Pollution (Way beyond pollution!!!!!)

Don’t know how much Obama can do now, but the time for action was in straightening out the Regulations Industry mess left by the last 4 administrations. Too little, too late now.

BP=Blame Pelicans

Unless it’s a phony story, I heard that the Brevard County (Fla.) Manatees baseball team will now call batting practice “hitting rehearsal” to avoid having to use the initials B.P.

Gee, when I go to my doctor, I hope he doesn’t forget to check my blood pressure.

pbarnrob’s got it!!!