{"id":6299,"date":"2010-06-11T12:55:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6299"},"modified":"2010-06-11T12:56:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T19:56:12","slug":"things-that-are-good-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/06\/11\/things-that-are-good-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Things that are good to know."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the poe-news\u00c2\u00a0message board&#8217;s news story on BP buying up Search Engine Search phrases&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This picture is not from the Gulf of Mexico (those are korean workers).<\/p>\n<p><em>Out of the first 6 pictures, only one has anything to do with the BP oil disaster (a sad oil soaked bird, from a website that never mentions BP or Gulf of Mexico), 3 are of people cleaning the mess, saving the world, getting things back to normal, and one is a cute cartoon of a sad seal.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m glad at least this one keeps coming up when you look for BP in google images<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Seal is mis-reported, it&#8217;s actually an otter.<\/p>\n<p>This leads to <a href=\"http:\/\/seminal.firedoglake.com\/diary\/49170\">a weird conundrum, though<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>In its emergency plans in the event of an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP made clear it knows how to save &#8220;seals, sea otters, and walruses&#8221; in the Gulf waters. The only problem is, no such animals live in the Gulf.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Indeed, it appears BP literally copied and pasted emergency response plans to apply to any spill in the world, regardless of the reality of the local ecosystems. While &#8220;seals, sea otters, and walruses&#8221; are a concern for oil spills in colder waters, there are none of those animals in the Gulf.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Homeland Security Wire <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/homelandsecuritynewswire.com\/bps-emergency-plan-gulf-discusses-impact-seals-sea-otters-and-walruses\"><em>noticed the errors<\/em><\/a><em> after a report from USA Today highlighted other aspects of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2010-05-17-oil-plan_N.htm\"><em>BP\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s total lack of preparation<\/em><\/a><em> in the event of a disaster as catastrophic as that in the Gulf.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><em>BP\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 582-page emergency-response never anticipated an oil spill as large as the one now gushing on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico; a closer reading shows the document was not much than a boilerplate, cut-and-paste job used by BP from region to region; in a section titled &#8220;Sensitive Biological &amp; Human-Use Resources,&#8221; the emergency plan lists &#8220;seals, sea otters and walruses&#8221; as animals that could be impacted by a Gulf of Mexico spill \u00e2\u20ac\u201d even though no such animals live in the Gulf; the plan was approved in July by the federal Minerals Management Service (MMS), a toothless agency accused by lawmakers of being in the pocket of the oil industry.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyway&#8230; I suggest typing in various animals of sea animals, whether indigenous to the Gulf of Mexico, with or without &#8220;BP&#8221;, and see what shows up &#8212; if BP swallowed up various animal searches in their mad purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the poe-news\u00c2\u00a0message board&#8217;s news story on BP buying up Search Engine Search phrases&#8230; This picture is not from the Gulf of Mexico (those are korean workers). Out of the first 6 pictures, only one has anything to do with the BP oil disaster (a sad oil soaked bird, from a website that never mentions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6301,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions\/6301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}