updated 8-26-10
Archive for July, 2010
Sherrod controversy posts
July 22, 2010Video: How oil-eating microbes work
July 22, 2010July 22, 2010
Day 94
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Excellent video explaining “bioremediation” — the use of naturally occurring microbes to decompose spilled oil.
Was used in Galveston Bay spill to clean the marshes and aquatic breeding grounds. 6 weeks later, in the areas the microbes were used, the “grasses flourished”. The results were cut and dry — the areas where microbes were used were visually clean and wildlife had returned – the others not.
Do not understand why they aren’t being used since they exist in nature for this exact purpose and do not have any side effects and eventually serve as food for the returning marine life and die once they run out of food – oil.
Wonder if they have ever been used with dispersants and whether they would work on them as well. Wonder if anyone is working on a microbe that can specifically degrade the dispersants.
Video produced by the Texas General Land Office
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As oil flowed into the marshy areas, clean up was begun. But workers quickly found standard skimmers, booms, and sorbent materials hardly worked at all. And, just walking through the wetlands can harm the grasses almost as much as the toxic oil.
Dispersants could not be used because they also were toxic to wildlife and plants.
He references the Texas Oil Spill Response Act of 1991:
The legislation gives Texas authority to protect coastal waters and adjacent shorelines through prevention of spills and discharges by monitoring and planning, to promptly respond in the event of spills and discharges, and to provide funding for activities and collection of claims from oil spills and discharges.
WordPress happily promoting ads for BP
July 22, 2010July 22, 2010
Google, Bing, Yahoo and You Tube all are doing it – so why not WordPress?
When are they going to realize that all these ads do is infuriate folks?
July 22: BP spill cam screenshots
July 22, 2010
Compare BP OIL spread map: July 21, June 21, May 21
July 22, 2010
Ted
July 22, 2010Hey Ted. I am shocked anyone noticed. Yes I’ve posted about half what I ordinarily do each month because of the problems with WordPress. There are well over 30 posts all ready to publish in the drafts that I didn’t post because I was tired of WP adding ads to each and every post that had to do with barry’s birth certificate and the ongoing BP OIL pollution of the Gulf. And here we are a few days after we paid to stop the ads and I can’t add media content or edit or add tags or add new categories and the loading takes forever. So I’m using a not as secure a computer to post which I am not fond of for obvious reasons.
Don’t know what you are specifically looking for about the Sherrod issue. [Sherrod posts] Wonder if she has googled herself. NAACP president should resign. What I heard him say on AC 360 show she has no intention of coming clean or owning what he did to Ms Sherrod – nor for that matter does barry. The NAACP’s third statement was more laughable than the first and did they upload a third version of Sherrod’s speech? No idea. Didn’t watch anything today – couldn’t bear to listen to all those talking heads blame everything on Breitbart and FOX when they were not the ones who forced her to resign and they were not the ones who found Ms Sherrod’s behavior “shameful” and “appalling”.
Ms Sherrod’s new job should not be with barry’s administration. She should take over for Mr Jealous.
[Who on earth picked that name?]
Let me know. Leave a comment – it won’t be posted. I do have Gibbs’ comments from the press briefing that I’ll post next.
CNN: WH contacted USDA – thinks case needs to reviewed
July 21, 2010July 21, 2010
CNN’s American Morning – unnamed WH official’s comment re: taking another look at Ms Sherrod’s firing.
We’re not sure what the ultimate result will be, but it’s clear with new info through the full speech a longer look needed to be taken. The White House contacted the Department last might about the case and agreed, based on new evidence, that it should be reviewed.
Ms Sherrod: FOX, Tea Party “are obviously racists” (video/text)
July 21, 2010July 20, 201o
Here’s the video and the transcript so there is no misunderstand what Ms Sherrod said.
CNN Rick’s List
(2:20 – 3:35)
SANCHEZ: It — it sounds like you did. But just for the record, before we leave this, because I want to make sure I have you on the record here, given what you’re saying, that, in fact, if we listen to the — the entire speech, we would get the context that you are not a racist and were not using institutional racism, then how do you explain the fact that the only part of the speech we received or was broadcast yesterday, not by CNN, but by others, was, in fact, that part? What do you…
SHERROD: You know, I can’t vouch for how FOX and the Tea Party wanted to — to present that. I don’t know. You know, since I’m not a racist, I can’t understand what racists would be looking for, you know? And if that’s what racists were looking for, they knew it, because they are obviously racists.
SANCHEZ: So, you’re saying the people who edited that tape and presented it in the way that they did were looking to make a point, and you’re saying that they probably had racist tendencies?
SHERROD: That’s right. That’s exactly what I’m saying.
Rick Sanchez, Ms Sherrod, Mr & Mrs Spooner (video/text)
July 21, 2010July 20, 2010
Hey Jake. I’m having trouble with WP again. So if something is off – let me know. I’m going to post this (hopefully) and one more and then sign out for a while.
Here Rick Sanchez speaks with Ms Sherrod and the “white farmers” Mrs Eloise and Mr Roger Spooner, who don’t come off the least bit “superior”. I have yet to hear Ms Sherrod say anything to the Spooners about portraying Mr Spooner as a “superior” acting racist. I have yet to even hear that aspect be asked about…why?
CNN – Rick’s List
RELEVANT TRANSCRIPT FOLLOWS
WH denies involvement in Sherrod firing, Sherrod says they were (video/text)
July 21, 2010July 20, 2010
WordPress is messed up again and it has taken over 12 hours to get these posts posted.
Rick’s List
Rick Sanchez spoke with Ms Sherrod, who is adamant the WH was behind her resignation. Included are Secy Vilsack’s on camera comments. Sanchez also spoke with the farmers in question: Mr Roger and Mrs Eloise Spooner.
It seems the final straw was Glenn Beck – whose show Ms Sherrod was to be on.
SANCHEZ: Did she [agriculture undersecretary Cheryl Cook] tell you that the White House wanted you out –
SHERROD: Yes.
SANCHEZ: — because a right-wing commentator was about to do a story about you?
SHERROD: The last time when I asked her, when she told me, I said, “Cheryl, what happened?” She said, “Well, when Glenn Beck said you would be on his show tonight, that did it.“
Explains why Beck is so adamant about helping Ms Sherrod get her job back.
But the most revealing part of the interview came right after the video segment below. Ms Sherrod explains what happened to her father when she was just 17.
SANCHEZ: Let me ask you this question, because I raised this a while ago when Brooke Baldwin was here. And we were just wondering. There may be some people out there who would say we just learned that your father was killed, murdered by the KKK?
SHERROD: Murdered. No, by a white farmer in the county that I grew up in and the county where we live.
SANCHEZ: Was that a racist murder? Would you classify it as such?
SHERROD: Yes. And that it happened, and there were witnesses. And the grand jury refused to indict him.
SANCHEZ: Is that — how have you been able to do with that throughout your life?
SHERROD: You know, what I did — what I had to do was turn that into a positive. And I did it by devoting my life to working for change. I made a commitment on the night my father died that I would not leave the South, and I would stay here and work to make a difference. That’s what the last 45 years have been like.
How much did the NAACP look into the murder of her father?
And then Ms Sherrod let loose on Roland Martin. Praise the Lord! Would love to find the video.
SHERROD: You know, I don’t want to get into an argument with him [Martin], because he’s clearly from a different world. He doesn’t have any experience with the world I’ve lived in. So I don’t think we can agree on anything.
CNN – Rick’s List
RELEVANT TRANSCRIPT FOLLOWS
Suzanne Malveaux: WH “did not pressure [Sherrod] or the USDA over the resignation”
July 21, 2010July 20, 2010
Suzanne Malveaux, one of our correspondents, is reporting this from the White House. The White House ” — did not pressure her or the USDA over the resignation. It was the secretary’s decision, as he has said.”
WordPress messed up again
July 21, 2010Can’t take it anymore. WordPress is completely messed up – even though we paid them the $27.97 to stop them from making money off our posts by adding ads. Can’t embed media content, can’t add tags or new categories or check revisions…Will check later to see if it is fixed.
TPM, WaPo, Politico: WH officials deny WH involvement in Sherrod resignation
July 21, 2010July 20, 2010
Friends of barry bloggers TPM (Rachel Slajda), Greg Sargent (Plum Line, Washington Post) and Ben Smith (Politico) all write they were notified by unnamed White House “officials” who denied White House involvement in Secretary Vilsack’s call for Ms Sherrod’s resignation.
[All emphasis added.]
The White House has also denied any involvement, but says it supports Vilsack’s decision.
When the department heard about the video yesterday afternoon, they immediately put Sherrod on administrative leave, according to the official. Then, officials called Vilsack, who asked if Sherrod was willing to resign. According to the official, Sherrod said yes.The official said Sherrod had a chance to explain herself. But her explanation — that her story is “about getting beyond the issue of race” — had little effect.
“The comments create a situation that make it really hard for her to do her job,” said the official, explaining as Vilsack did in an earlier statement that the agency is struggling to overcome a perception of racism. And it doesn’t matter that Sherrod apparently ended up helping the white farmer. “The issue is the comments that she made.“
A White House official told me just now that the White House backs Vilsack’s decision — but that it was Vilsack’s alone. The official said the White House — contrary to the Sherrod’s charge — did not pressure the Department to fire her.
How is continuing to trash what Ms Sherrod says going to make this go away?
Just listen to her words from yesterday morning and ask yourself if she is telling the truth.
A White House official insists that the White House didn’t pressure Shirley Sherrod to resign, or pressure USDA chief Tom Vilsack to fire her, over the Andrew Breitbart video allegedly showing her claiming she didn’t help a white farmer 24 years ago because of racial reasons.
“We did not pressure USDA or Ms. Sherrod,” the White House official emails me.
And Sargent went on to say:
Some have been claiming that the firing shows the White House allowed itself to be led around by the nose by Breitbart. And this quote from a White House official may not quiet the criticism, perhaps understandably, since it’s anonymous.
Whatever the White House role, if Vilsack canned this woman based on the strength of the Breitbart video alone, before the facts were in — and we don’t know for certain that it happened this way, though it certainly appears so — that’s appalling on its own.
And why is it not appalling that the NAACP condemned Ms Sherrod based on the very same Breitbart video, which, by the way, was from an NAACP event?
Secy Vilsack re: Ms Sherrod’s firing, denies WH involvement (video/text)
July 21, 2010July 20, 2010
No matter what anyone says – barry appointed Secy Vilsack and barry is ultimately responsible for everything Vilsack does. And, really, on what planet would a white cabinet member ask a black employee to resign because of racial comments without asking his boss – “the first black president”?
TOM VILSACK, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE statement issued by Stephanie Chan, press secretary, press assistant office of communication, USDA via CNN:
Yesterday, I asked for and accepted Ms. Sherrod’s resignation for two reasons. First, for the past 18 months, we have been working to turn the page on the sordid civil rights record at USDA and this controversy could make it more difficult to move forward on correcting injustices.
Second, state rural development directors make many decisions and are often called to use their discretion. The controversy surrounding her comments would create situations where her decisions, rightly or wrongly, would be called into question making it difficult for her to bring jobs to Georgia.
Our policy is clear. There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA and we strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person. We have a duty to ensure that when we provide services to the American people we do so in an equitable manner. But equally important is our duty to instill confidence in the American people that we are fair service providers.
Mr Vilsack on video from Rick’s List.
CNN via TPM
VILSACK: This is obviously a very difficult circumstance for all concerned. But when you’re the State rural development director, your principal job is to try to develop job growth in the state of Georgia. And unfortunately, the statements and the context of the statements created a circumstance where, in the future, if people were not satisfied with the decisions that the rural development director made, they could attribute the decision to a wide variety of reasons that weren’t necessarily related to the job.
I didn’t speak with anybody [blinks] at the White House.
When I saw the statements and the context of the statements, I determined that it would make it difficult for her to do her job as the rural development director, and it would potentially compromise our capacity to close the chapter on civil rights cases.
I didn’t want anything to jeopardize her job in terms of getting the job done and getting people to work in Georgia. And I certainly didn’t want us to have a controversy making it more difficult to turn the page.
So I made this decision. It’s my decision. Nobody from the White House contacted me about this at all.
CNN’s Tony Harris, Ms Sherrod, Mrs Spooner (video/text)
July 21, 2010July 20, 2010
updated
The most curious part of the entire issue is that the “superior” whitey farmer and his wife – the Spooners – came to Ms Sherrod’s aid — not the NAACP or “the first black president”.
Ms Sherrod appeared on video on CNN with Tony Harris and raised even more questions. The video is not complete according to the transcript – I did not see it LIVE like I heard Ms Sherrod this morning – but I am operating under the assumption the transcript is legitimate.
Which brings up the question: Why did CNN actively edit the tape?
Why did they choose to leave out Ms Sherrod’s statement that her father was murdered by a white man?
Why wouldn’t that account for what she brought to her encounter with the white farmer and why was it not part of the ‘teaching moment” the NAACP referred to?
Instead the NAACP wrote this:
The NAACP also has long championed and embraced transformation by people who have move beyond racial bias. Most notably, we have done so for late Alabama Governor George Wallace and late US Senator Robert Byrd–each a man who had associated with and supported white supremacists and their cause before embracing civil rights for all.
Why did they bring up the whiteys when the story is allegedly about Ms Sherrod’s own transformation and move past racial bias?
It’s unclear from this interview how much Ms Sherrod is actually owning what she did because she insists she did not discriminate against the white farmer – Mr Spooner – and that she was under no obligation to help him. And even after the Spooners came to her aid (unsolicited, it appears) and even after Ms Sherrod inaccurately says Mrs Spooner is a widow (Mr Spooner is alive and well) – Ms Sherrod doesn’t take back her comment that Mr Spooner acted “superior” to her.
So, how much of Ms Sherrod’s (in)action was caused by the Spooners actual behavior towards her vs the Spooners non-black skin color vs Ms Sherrod’s assumptions about whiteys from her own experience as a black woman growing up in the South?
Until that is made clear, including the circumstances surrounding the death of Ms Sherrod’s father, the story is not over.
Nor will the NAACP be off the hook for the audience’s obvious delight (March 2010 – not 1986) at Ms Sherrod’s tale until they address it – as promised – which they did not in their 3rd statement.
CNN’s edited version of Mr Harris’ interview with Ms Sherrod and Mrs Spooner, a list of Ms Sherrod’s inconsistent statements and the full CNN transcript follow.
NAACP blames FOX, Brietbart and others for their own rush to judgment (statements 1, 2, 3)
July 20, 2010July 20, 2010
The NAACP’s backtrack is actually worse than their initial statement. They blame FOX and Breitbart (and a multitude of others) for making a judgment on an incomplete tape, which is exactly what the NAACP voluntarily chose to do themselves. It’s ludicrous.
Here’s the NAACP’s statement #1, which TPM reported “appears to have been removed from the organization’s web site”.
From CNN’s American Morning as read by John Roberts and Kiran Chetry.
NAACP statement #1 [emphasis added]
Benjamin Todd Jealous, President & CEO NAACP:
Racism is about the abuse of power. Sherrod had it in her position at USDA. We are appalled by her actions, just as we are with abuses of power against farmers of color and female farmers.Her actions were shameful.
While she went on to explain in the story she ultimately realized her mistake, as well as the common predicament of working people of all races, she gave no indication she attempted to right the wrong she did to this man.
The reaction from many in the audience is disturbing.
We will be looking into the behavior of NAACP representatives at this local event and take any appropriate action.
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Updated: USDA Shirley Sherrod admits to not fully helping farmer because he was white (video)
July 20, 2010July 20, 2010
*updated
Source: CNN’s American Morning
SHIRLEY SHERROD, Director of Rural Development for Georgia (appointed by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on July 25, 2009), was forced to resign because of comments she made at an official NAACP event in March.
NAACP said nothing – even though the audience very clearly heard what she was saying – until the you tube video surfaced.
I don’t yet know who unearthed it but I would guess folks went through NAACP available tapes like the did with Jeremiah Wright. Will update.
*Huffington Post is reporting that the video surfaced yesterday on BigGovernment.com (Andrew Breitbart) and then was aired on FOX.
March 27, 2010
NAACP 20th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet
Ms Sherrod tells NAACP audience how she withheld “the full force” of what she could do from a whitey farmer because he was a whitey. So she sent the whitey farmer to “one of them” [whitey lawyer] so that “one of his own kind” would help the whitey farmer. Why? So the whitey farmer couldn’t report her for not helping him. [See story update below]
HereticsCrusade
Hand transcription from the video follows.
Video: “Kill the Ground Zero Mosque”
July 20, 2010July 20, 2010
Ret Lt Gen William Boykin: 9-11 mosque “will increase the recruiting to the jihadist cause exponentially”
July 19, 2010July 19, 2010
Tiger’s f-word tirade at the British Open (video)
July 19, 2010July 19, 2010
Another spoiled professional athlete.
Saturday, after Woods missed a putt on 13th, he ripped off a few f-words as he walked off the green. One track mind it seems…
Profanity warning.
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Have to give it to proper Brit Peter Alliss for trying to talk over Tiger’s tirade.
Woods (what I can hear):
Tiger, why the f-ck did you do that? F-cking….f-ck….goddammit…
Other broadcaster:
He is running hot. With a 5-par to come, Tiger needs to get moving.
Woods was caught on an open mic at the Masters this year as well (video) just 42 holes after he promised to be “more respectful of the game” and to “tone down my negative outbursts”.
Dwayne Wade, 2-3 Miami losses, World Trade “coming down again”
July 19, 2010July 19, 2010
*updated
Michael Jordan re: Wade, James, Bosh
Dwayne Wade gave an interview with NBA Fanhouse yesterday (before his annual charity basketball game) where he mentioned the World Trade Center in reference to 2-3 Miami losses.
Allegedly, the original quote was allegedly misquoted as:
DWAYNE WADE: We’re going to be wearing a bullseye. But that’s what you play for.
If we lose a couple in a row this season, it will be like the World Trade (Center) is coming down again.
And this is the corrected quote via NBA Fanhouse:
DWAYNE WADE: We’re going to be wearing a bullseye. But that’s what you play for. We enjoy the bullseye. Plus, there’s going to be times when we lose 2-3 games in a row, and it seems like the world has crashed down.
You all (media) are going to make it seem like the World Trade is coming down again, but it’s not going to be nothing but a couple basketball games.
What’s the difference?
He compared losing 2-3 basketball games to a Muslim act of war on the USA where close to 3000 people were murdered. Losing all 81 games would not compare the the loss of even one human being – nor would all 3 blowhards suffering career ending injuries.
The fact they are nitpicking about who he said would think it would be like the “World Trade coming down again” just shows he doesn’t get the fact that nothing done on the basketball court could compare to 9-11.
Nor does it mitigate the fact that the comparison and the words ‘World Trade coming down’ came out of Wade’s own mouth – not the media’s.
Who would even have such a comparison in their vocabulary?
Bottom line – Wade made the connection between basketball losses to loss of human life – not the media.
And what does it say of the “reporter” who quoted Wade without making sure he got the quote right (if in fact he did get it wrong)?
Why wouldn’t the reporter have immediately asked for a clarification?
It shows the reporter didn’t find anything wrong with comparing basketball losses to an act of war.
And where is the audio/video of Wade saying whatever it was he said?
How else was it corrected?
That’s the part of the story that needs further investigation.
In an interview yesterday, I attempted to explain how some people may view the Miami Heat losing a few basketball games in a row during the upcoming season. It appears that my reference to the World Trade Center has been either inaccurately reported or taken completely out of context. I was simply trying to say that losing a few basketball games should not be compared to a real catastrophe. While it was certainly not my intention, I sincerely apologize to anyone who found my reference to the World Trade Center to be insensitive or offensive.
Can’t even admit that such words should never have been uttered.
Wade is supposed to be on Jay Leno tonite – pre-scheduled.
*Update: Wade was on Jay Leno but neither Leno nor Wade brought it up.
Leno did ask Wade when he found out and Wade said just a couple minutes before via the mass email that was sent out.
LENO: Did you ever think you three would be playing together?
WADE: Uh, no. Not in my, uh, wildest dreams.
LENO: So where were you when you first heard?
WADE: Uhm. [raises his eyebrow and leans forward] Well I was at Prime 112 in Miami – we had a little private room – just like everybody else I was in front of the TV.
LENO: Wait – wait are you telling me you found out the same day?
WADE: Found out the same day–
LENO: As I found out?
WADE: as you found out.
Everyone in the world knows that’s a lie. Would he really have been out at a restaurant if he didn’t know James was going to Miami? He ends up giving it away when he said Pat Riley was behind it all. No way Riley would have pursued the deal unless Wade knew about it and okayed it. Where was Riley celebrating?
Sources: NBC 5, SBNation, NBA Fanhouse [emphasis added]
Michael Jordan re: James, Wade, Bosh
July 19, 2010July 29, 2010
Dwayne Wade “World Trade coming down again”
*updated
NBC 5 News video
Michael Jordan comments on the Miami trio (LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh).
MJ: Just in hindsight - I would have never called up Larry, called up Magic and say, ‘Hey, let’s get together and play on one team’.
But things are different. I can’t say that’s a bad thing. That’s an opportunity these kids have today.
In all honesty, I was trying to beat those guys – I don’t know if they would have been on my team.
Sportsmanship, hard work, love of the game vs money, celebrity and bragging rights.
Imagine Johnson, Bird or Jordan not showing up to thank the fans like James didn’t.
*ESPN Charles Barkley’s thoughts on James’ decision to be #2 on Wade’s team:
He’ll never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to.
There would have been something honorable about staying in Cleveland and trying to win it as ‘The Man’ … LeBron, if he would’ve in Cleveland, and if he could’ve got a championship there, it would have been over the top for his legacy, just one in Cleveland. No matter how many he wins in Miami, it clearly is Dwyane Wade’s team.
James chose to be #2 to Wade rather than come to Chicago and face Jordan’s legacy one on one. [Wade also chose to stay in Miami rather than come to his home town of Chicago and challenge Jordan's legacy.] And on top of that, James pretended he was interested in other teams, including the Bulls, when it had been a done deal (between the three) for a long time. That ridiculous ego-feeding press conference on ESPN is the real James’ legacy.
Why isn’t BP telling us the actual flow rate?
July 19, 2010July 19, 2010
The well has been capped for over 72 hours.
Adm Allen mentioned “undetermined anomalies at the well head” and a “seep a distance from the well” but no one has admitted that the well does not have integrity.
I’m not a math/physics person, but don’t they have the necessary variables to determine the actual real time flow rate if it truly is a closed system?
Adm Allen letter to BP mentions “detected seep a distance from the well”
July 18, 2010July 18, 2010
Day 90
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The well has been capped since July 15 1425 CST and the question is: Is there a leak or not?
2319 screenshot
Earlier today, BP COO DOUG SUTTLES:
We’re not seeing any problems at this point with the shut-in.
We’re just taking this day by day. Nobody wants to see any more oil go into the gulf, but clearly we have to make sure we don’t make the situation worse.
We will continue integrity tests all the way until we get the well killed. There is no target to return the well to flow.
While we are pleased that no oil is currently being released into the Gulf of Mexico and want to take all appropriate action to keep it that way, it is important that all decisions are driven by the science. Ultimately, we must insure no irreversible damage is done which could cause uncontrolled leakage from numerous points on the sea floor.
And then there is this letter posted today on the response site from Adm Allen to BP’s Managing Director Bob Dudley in which Allen mentioned a “seep a distance from the well and undetermined anomalies at the well head” detected during the testing and instructed Dudley to provide him (Allen) with detailed plans on uncapping the well.
Why wasn’t this already laid out before the testing began?
When exactly was this “seep” detected and did they know about it before the capping?
Can’t get past the timing of the capping while barry’s on vacation. Yesterday, it sounded like Adm Allen already knew there was a leak when he used the word “ongoing”.
Full letter follows – emphasis added.
Cartoon: Swiss asylum for sex offenders?
July 18, 2010July 18, 2010
Pedophilia should never be part of a punch line but the way convicted child rapist Roman Polanski has been “punished” is a joke.
(John Cole / The Scranton (PA) Times, Politicalcartoons.com)
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BP brands
July 18, 2010Jake – here are BP brands right off the BP site. Follow links for more individual brand info.
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With fuels and stations, Aral is one of the most trusted brands in Germany
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Arco
A regional leader, Arco brings cleaner, low-cost fuels to the US west coast
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Castrol
Castrol is one of the world’s top motor oils and specialist lubricants brand
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ampm
This convenience shops brand in the western USA has a strong personality
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Wild Bean Cafe
Our high-concept cafe offers affordable and fresh coffee, foods and meals
Cartoon: NAACP, Tea Party & the MSM
July 18, 2010July 18, 2010
(Mike Lester / The Rome News-Tribune, Politicalcartoons)
Day 90: 114K claims, $201M paid by BP
July 18, 2010July 18, 2010
Day 90
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BP CLAIMS AS OF JULY 16
Total claims submitted = 114K
Total money disbursed = $201M
More than 32K claimants have received at least one payment in the last 10 weeks
Fishermen = $32M
Shrimpers = $18M
Supporting occupations (deckhands/seafood plants) = $77M
17K claims are currently being evaluated
61K claims not enough info to process
Were sent letter asking them to contact BP
48K people/businesses filed a claim without providing sufficient supporting documentation
13K claimants unreachable by phone
4K claims are duplicates, erroneous or have been withdrawn
BP has received 22K claims in the last 2 weeks and added 200 more people to handle claims
Claims team = 1500 folks in 36 offices along the Gulf
To file a claim:
1-800-440-0858
TTY device 1-800-573-8249
Already filed a claim and not happy with BP’s resolution:
Coast Guard (800) 280-7118
All available avenues of assistance:
www.disasterassistance.gov.
