News Item: Benzene in Gulf air is now 3000 ppb
                      ~ 0-4 ppb is EPA "Safe".

BP's Top-Kill

 Who knew when BP said, "Top Kill" ~
  alleged to plug the errant well,
   that we humans were their target too...
     a billion gallons in the brew.
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 Who knew within the oil sludge,
   Was a President who would not budge...
     who would not lead his people free
      from breathing all this chemistry.
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 It's More than oil for our cars,
   More than coast line that was ours
     More than birds' feet stuck in tars,
       It's Korporate Kollusion.
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 It's Benzene in the air we breathe
   A President we can't believe,
     A company bent to deceive,
       a thousand parts per illusion.
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 Who's Corporate Karma is so feeble,
   Who Carries "Top Kill" to the people?
     BP, like India's Union Carbide
       'To the valley of death 10,000 ride.
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 Oil disbursed or humans scattered,
   To BP all that really mattered
     Is to disburse the claims
       of all you "little people."
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 So Hayward gets a golden 'chute
   and runs away with all his loot.

 Our president should get the boot
   from all us little people.

     -- Greg Molenaar -- June 2010
         New London, MN

Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:21:11 AM

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128064058

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128008826

"Into the Valley of Death rode the 600".
WIKI: The Charge of the Light Brigade was a disastrous charge of British cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War. It is best remembered as the subject of a famous poem entitled The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, whose lines have made the charge a symbol of warfare at both its most courageous and its most tragic. 

Then, war is Crimean-al.  -- gm

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