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No comparison with past major oil spills.

These are average tax rates, of course, which average the tax breaks for the rich into the totals. However since teabaggers and talk-radio fans are constantly encouraged to identify with the rich, and that they will also be rich someday, then they don’t have much room to complain if the tax burden is regressive on […]

This one is from a worker who was on the rig. He called in to right-wing radio host Mark Levin’s show in order to dispel lies being spread in the wingnutosphere that the government was involved in the explosion in some way. Here’s the perspective of a fisherman who saw the explosion from the water. […]

There are multiple versions of this AP story on the web. Read this version, which details the number of BP executives and also describes the scene at the moment of explosion, for some reason later stories alter or omit these sections. Halliburton engineers removed a safety fluid too early, according to this Times-Picayune story, causing […]

We’re talking about the Minerals Management Service, the organization that in an official report was identified as a cesspool of drugs, drinking and actual sex with the industry they were supposed to be regulating. Bush’s “regulators” were literally in bed with the oil company personnel.