tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post6137189306215389932..comments2024-01-05T02:53:03.358-06:00Comments on American Zombie: Sorry if we're being crude old chap...Jason Brad Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-57429285990494642082010-06-18T12:36:14.784-05:002010-06-18T12:36:14.784-05:00First up, let me say I think this guy is a douche ...First up, let me say I think this guy is a douche bag. <br /><br />I agree wholeheartedly with all the people blowing raspberries at him. <br /><br />I agree with the people who roll their eyes when greeny lefties say that "this is all of our faults" in a way that ends up equalizing the responsibility and letting BP and the politicians who messed up the regulatory process off the hook. <br /><br />It is mostly their fault, and I hope heads roll.<br /><br />I do have a "Yes, but" feeling about this, however. <br /><br />I made life choices to live without a car, to build a life where all my basic needs could be met within walking and cycling distance. <br /><br />I made a choice not to invest my money in companies with shitty environmental records.<br /><br />I made a choice not to run up huge debts I could not pay off. <br /><br />Some of these choices had my family and friends rolling their eyes at me and considering me unsuccessful or impoverished, this while they lived off student loans and credit cards.<br /><br />It took me longer to do my degree, it will take me longer to do my grad work. I won't own my house until I can actually afford it.<br /><br />I know lots of people like me, and people who have much more integrity than I do. <br /><br />I feel angry that when we were making reality based choices that acknowledged that the possibility of this kind of armageddon was built into the wasteful choices of the mainstream, we were laughed at for our attempts to be ethical. <br /><br />And now these beautiful creatures and places we wanted to protect are dying, and all those assh*les I know who still live fifty miles from their work, driving back and forth in air conditioned SUVs, are bitching about EVIL BP, the same way they called the Iraq war "just too bad", as if their ugly, wasteful choices had nothing to do with the death and destruction.<br /><br />BP and the politicians are more responsible than the average person, but it pisses me off that if the President had asked for Americans to make the kinds of sacrifices that the Greatest Generation did during WW II, the rationing and the conservation, but this time to get off foreign oil, the fat assed majority would have ignored him or told him to suck it. <br /> <br />I bet all those ordinary brits who had their pensions invested in BP are freaking out.<br /><br />They thought they were entitled to those pensions, and they didn't inquire too deeply into what sort of business practices were producing that rate of return. <br /><br />Half the people freaking out about what is happening to the Gulf are totally implicated in its destruction, living wasteful, greedy lives with no thought of how unsustainable and murderous their particular "American Dreams" have been. <br /><br />I bet if it were Americans with their pensions invested in Union Carbide or some evil mining company, the same self pitying whines would be coming out of those Americans if it looked as if they might lose the money and security they were buying for themselves at someone else's expense.<br /><br />How many of the people bitching about these Brits have their own money invested in companies that my be just as bad, polluting rivers in Chile or funding wars in the Congo? <br /><br />Bitch away, by all means, but before you start throwing stones, consider moving out of that glass house, right?<br /><br />My sorrow about what is happening is leading me to consider my own life again, to see where I can cut and change things to opt even further out of the prevailing madness. This time, I figure I can't make my life smaller, I have to step up my game, earn some more, buy the house, and go off grid. <br /><br />That will be a stretch for me, but I guess I'll do it.<br /><br /> I want BP held accountable, but I also want my mother-in-law to change how she lives. I don't want to hear her self-pitying sorrow about the Gulf if she's not going to stop wasting oil. She pisses me off as much as this British fucktard does. <br /><br />BP and the politicians are responsible for this, but so are we.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-73178325633246553552010-06-11T21:54:36.902-05:002010-06-11T21:54:36.902-05:00Bravo! Colbert had this on his show last night. I ...Bravo! Colbert had this on his show last night. I just sat there astonished as the quote from that snide asshole sat on the screen. I actually thought it was something from the Onion for a second or two, then I realized this guy actually said that. I'm still shaking my head in amazement.Samhttp://www.nolaslate.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-68435012256931429782010-06-11T10:30:14.990-05:002010-06-11T10:30:14.990-05:00Well said, well said.
If our President were invol...Well said, well said.<br /><br />If our President were involved in nationalist populism of the worst sort, as they claim, the press wouldn't have so much trouble taking pictures of the damage.Cousin Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04445894373136726700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-67270419366495384412010-06-11T10:11:41.105-05:002010-06-11T10:11:41.105-05:00Agreed.Agreed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-60017738674836113952010-06-10T19:52:45.539-05:002010-06-10T19:52:45.539-05:00The best part of an American upset of England on S...The best part of an American upset of England on Saturday would not be the win, but the fact that 90% of Americans couldn't give a shit less either way, and the English would know it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01113800021599508021noreply@blogger.com