1 | jamesfirecat Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:27:18pm |
Dear god, can you guys believe that stuff about the other companies plans for how to deal with a oil well disaster?
3 | freetoken Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:32:26pm |
Hilarious how he dissects the oil companies' plans. Stewart has really risen above his competitors this past year or so.
4 | jamesfirecat Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:34:29pm |
re: #3 freetoken
Hilarious how he dissects the oil companies' plans. Stewart has really risen above his competitors this past year or so.
Who exactly is his competition? Besides Stephen Colbert of course...
5 | darthstar Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:36:50pm |
re: #4 jamesfirecat
Who exactly is his competition? Besides Stephen Colbert of course...
Fox, CNN, MSNBC...
6 | Kronocide Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:36:53pm |
re: #1 jamesfirecat
Dear god, can you guys believe that stuff about the other companies plans for how to deal with a oil well disaster?
At least they're consistent and uniform.
7 | freetoken Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:37:14pm |
re: #4 jamesfirecat
yeah, I suppose Colbert is his main "competition", but Stewart is funnier than many of the comedy shows on TV.
8 | Sand Panda Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:37:21pm |
Video isn't available outside the US. Anybody have any link love?
9 | darthstar Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:37:48pm |
re: #8 Sand Panda
Video isn't available outside the US. Anybody have any link love?
Try comedycentral.com
11 | darthstar Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:38:42pm |
re: #2 brookly red
One question? does not BP have insurance?
They do...they also own the insurance company they use.
12 | jamesfirecat Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:39:31pm |
"No Steve don't shoot! I'm the only one who knows how to clean up oil spills in the gulf!"
13 | Slap Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:39:51pm |
Apologies if this got posted several days ago, but under the general heading of teeing off on BP, this bit of (sadly) comic relief:
14 | jamesfirecat Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:39:54pm |
re: #11 darthstar
They do...they also own the insurance company they use.
Wait... how does that even work? Do they end up owing themselves money?
15 | Kragar Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:40:55pm |
Disdainful Asshole Digest probably has a really big GOP subscriber base.
16 | darthstar Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:41:06pm |
re: #14 jamesfirecat
Wait... how does that even work? Do they end up owing themselves money?
They write off the expenses, and also get to claim them as revenue.
17 | darthstar Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:41:47pm |
re: #15 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Disdainful Asshole Digest probably has a really big GOP subscriber base.
And a centerfold of Glenn Beck wearing nothing but baby oil.
18 | Kragar Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:42:34pm |
19 | reine.de.tout Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:43:36pm |
heh.
Actually, the representatives from the other companies were answering truthfully.
BP has long been known in the biz as being technology idiots.
20 | Targetpractice Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:43:39pm |
re: #17 darthstar
And a centerfold of Glenn Beck wearing nothing but baby oil.
...
*Grabs drill and bottle of brain bleach*
21 | darthstar Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:44:36pm |
re: #18 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
You son of a bitch.
Even brain-bleach won't get that image out of your mind.
Holy crap...Algeria has a penalty kick from 20 yards coming.
22 | jamesfirecat Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:45:35pm |
re: #16 darthstar
They write off the expenses, and also get to claim them as revenue.
My head just exploded....
23 | Kragar Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:45:49pm |
re: #21 darthstar
Even brain-bleach won't get that image out of your mind.
Holy crap...Algeria has a penalty kick from 20 yards coming.
The Ann Coulter/Pat Buchanan Femdom bondage scene was worse.
24 | Cato the Elder Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:45:52pm |
re: #19 reine.de.tout
heh.
Actually, the representatives from the other companies were answering truthfully.
BP has long been known in the biz as being technology idiots.
So that's why their spill-prevention information is exactly the same as BP's?
Hmm.
Comforted, I am not.
25 | Targetpractice Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:46:22pm |
26 | Cato the Elder Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:49:54pm |
Joe Barton, Mr. Oil Money to the tune of $1.4 million dollars, thinks it's a damn shame for a private company to be expected to pay for their gigantic turd in the punchbowl, because that thar money could be used to reelect him for another round of protecting corporate CEOs from the small people.
27 | reine.de.tout Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:49:55pm |
re: #24 Cato the Elder
So that's why their spill-prevention information is exactly the same as BP's?
Hmm.
Comforted, I am not.
The other companies have not gotten to that point, have they?
Just BP.
28 | Bubblehead II Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:50:14pm |
re: #6 BigPapa
At least they're consistent and uniform.
They probably all bought it from the same company.
/Disasters-R-Us
29 | Dancing along the light of day Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:50:16pm |
30 | Cato the Elder Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:50:35pm |
re: #27 reine.de.tout
The other companies have not gotten to that point, have they?
Just BP.
Dumb luck, probably.
31 | blueraven Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:51:14pm |
re: #24 Cato the Elder
So that's why their spill-prevention information is exactly the same as BP's?
Hmm.
Comforted, I am not.
They all pretty much admitted to congress that they have no real plan in place to handle a catastrophic oil leak like Deep Horizon.
Scary.
32 | Killgore Trout Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:51:29pm |
33 | Bubblehead II Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:53:42pm |
re: #32 Killgore Trout
The Sharks smell blood from a self inflicted wound.
34 | reine.de.tout Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:53:54pm |
35 | reine.de.tout Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:55:58pm |
re: #19 reine.de.tout
heh.
Actually, the representatives from the other companies were answering truthfully.
BP has long been known in the biz as being technology idiots.
The other companies would not have taken a failed negative test showing a bad cement job and concluded that the cement job was OK.
Which is one question that Mr. Hayward was not asked about, and it was an important one.
It happens regularly.
36 | Fozzie Bear Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:57:27pm |
re: #35 reine.de.tout
The other companies would not have taken a failed negative test showing a bad cement job and concluded that the cement job was OK.
Which is one question that Mr. Hayward was not asked about, and it was an important one.
It happens regularly.
I sure hope this is the kind of thing brought up at a criminal trial.
37 | SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jun 18, 2010 1:03:30pm |
re: #2 brookly red
One question? does not BP have insurance?
I'm not sure there's enough insurance in the world to pay for the Gulf of Mexico.
38 | reine.de.tout Fri, Jun 18, 2010 1:06:33pm |
re: #36 Fozzie Bear
I sure hope this is the kind of thing brought up at a criminal trial.
I do too.
And another point -
Schlumberger had employees out there to run some tests. BP decided the tests were not needed, and planned to send the folks back in on the next day's flight.
Schlumberger chartered a helicopter to go out and pick up their employees that day.
Those flights are expensive and usually will make stops at several rigs, dropping people off, picking people up. For a company to charter a helicopter to get its employees off the rig that day, when they know the employees will be sent in the next day at another company's expense - well, I've never heard of that being done. Schlumberger, I think, must have known something was off.
39 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jun 18, 2010 1:31:20pm |
Has this been circulated yet?
40 | Jaerik Fri, Jun 18, 2010 5:32:28pm |
I'm surprised Stewart did such a long segment on the dead contact info guy, which, I mean... okay, so contact lists rot. Yes, they should have been on top of it, but that seems like a (barely) understandable oversight.
However, even funnier, is that all of these companies' plans weren't just cut and pasted from each other. They were cut and pasted from their disaster plans for Alaska. They talk about plans to reduce a Gulf spill's impact on local wildlife. You know, like walruses.