J'accuse on neglecting to recuse!

Judge Martin Leach-Cross "Drill, Baby, Drill" Feldman
Did you know that Judge Martin Feldman who overturned Barack Obama's offshore drilling moratorium owns tens of thousands of dollars worth of stock in drilling companies?

Now you do.
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Tony! Toni! Toné!

The four minute version of BP CEO Tony Hayward's testimony:

BP Chairman: "We care about the small people"

It's not just the tea-baggers who are beyond parody. Witness BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg after today's meeting with President Obama:

"We care about the small people," Svanberg said. "Big oil company people think we don't care, we do care about the small people."

How big of him.
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" And we pray that a hand may guide us through the storm towards a brighter day."

Um, President Obama. I think folks are looking for you to be that hand and we're still not seeing it after this speech.

Just saying...
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No Bailouts for BP Rally Photos/Coverage

KDKA TV video @
http://kdka.com/video/?id=73157@kdka.dayport.com
As mentioned here, there was a rally yesterday in downtown Pittsburgh to protest BP.

The rally was hosted by the local chapters of MoveOn.org, Sierra Club and PennEnvironment.


Mellon Square, Pittsburgh, PA

Unfortunately, my camera is slowly dying and it took forever to "warm up" so no photos of City Paper talk show host Lynn Cullen or KDKA's Jon Delano. But, you can see Lynn interviewed in the link above.

As Lynn said on her show yesterday, she wanted to find some ray of light and so hoped that the BP Oil mega clusterfuck (my phrase, not hers) could be a "teachable moment." She spoke about the co-dependent relationship that we have with oil and how we've made a deal with the devil. She also mentioned an article in this week's City Paper about the dangers of drilling in the Marcellus Shale fields (of which we were all standing above).

It was raining cats and dogs leading up to the rally and for the first ten or fifteen minutes, so kudos to all those who braved the weather.

Randy Francisco, Sierra Club and Robert King, MoveOn
Joy Sabl gets creative as an oil-covered bird

Frack off!
(More photos after the jump)

Stop All Bailouts of BP Rally! Tomorrow in Pgh

WHERE: Mellon Square (the corner of William Penn Place and 6th St., Downtown) 529 - 540 Smithfield St., Pittsburgh, PA 15219 (Map)

WHEN: Wednesday, June 9th, 12:00 PM

WHAT: "Join MoveOn and PennEnvironment in calling on Congress to stop all bailouts of BP and Big Oil with taxpayer money. That means BP, not taxpayers, need to pay every penny to clean up their disaster in the Gulf. In addition, Congress is considering another gift to Big Oil at the public's expense this week by voting to further delaying action on global warming at Big Oil's request. A new report will show that this will cost Pennsylvanians money at the gas pump and increase our dependence on oil, all for the sake of Big Oil's profit margin. We'll also call on Congress to support strong campaign finance and ethics reforms -- so that Congress starts working for the 98% of us who aren't represented by DC lobbyists."

RSVP: Here

Facebook Page: Here

UPDATE: Oil Spill Vigil in Irwin Tonight!
Island by Dunkin Donuts, Route 30 and 10th.
Irwin, PA 15642
Tuesday, June 8th, 7:00 PM
RSVP Here
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Avert your eyes

Louisiana's East Grand Terre Island
While BP has capped the well, oil is still gushing out. You can view it live here.

You can view more death and destruction that BP doesn't want you to see or hear about here.