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9 replies on “Amazing how cute kitties can explain everything…even the BP oil spill”
In a year or two or three, when the lawsuits pile up and BP begins fighting every demand with armies of lawyers, people will be shocked, SHOCKED!, that BP is trying to weasel out of its stated obligations.
I’ve seen this movie, I know how it ends.
Cute video.
It sort of reminds me of this cartoon.
http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2010/06/09/
These cats need a good asskicking
@The Gregarious Misanthrope #1
Ive had just about enough of your weasel bashing, Sir!
🙂
Right now I wish we could have a “Hitler responds to the BP oil spill”.
Funny video. Kitties know the best what exactly happen about the oil spill.
(Coincidentally, yesterday I perused,”Asking Awkward Questions with Baby Animals” and “Breaking Bad News with Baby Animals”!) The clip confirms what I’ve always suspected: tabby kittehs are *slightly* less evil than the other varieties.
Loss control materials are occasionally “crap”. I remember putting in a list of them in a database once upon a time and chuckling because “walnut shells” was on there.
The petroleum engineers assured me that was only the tip of the iceberg. Golf balls are used as are things like fishing nets to stop things from coming out of the hole.