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BP bigwigs should pay
n If oil giant British Petroleum somehow manages to stay in business for, say, another six months or so, given the public relations disaster that went with the largest oil spill in history, it will prove to be a bigger accomplishment than merely plugging the oil pipe leak that has ruined the Gulf Coast waters and is now threatening Florida, especially the Everglades.
n Here's hoping BP stays in business long enough to pay for the cleanup, with another hope: The bigwigs responsible for the spill should be made to stay in prison for as long as it takes to restore the environmental damage their company caused.
n Hey, wait! Maybe the CEO and his subordinates should be sentenced to help clean the oil off the sea birds as work-release inmates. It'll give them time to think about the cause and effect of what BP did by cutting corners.
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n Those so-called robo-calls are more annoying than the television commercials that are almost endless during the last month of the campaigns. That has to stop, or I'm going back to watching our automatic washer run through all the cycles.
n Nellie is a longtime friend, who, like most women, enjoys talking on the phone, but those robo-calls leave no room for feedback when the calls are answered.
n Hanging up is your only defense, other than putting your name and phone number on a no-call list, from which the politicians cleverly exempted themselves.
n Who are these people, anyhow? They are merely princes and princesses? Our after-hours lives have been restored since the passage of the no-call list.
n Nellie is circulating petitions. Your signature will help passage.
n I'm betting on Nellie Chester to get the do-not-call list expanded to include the ruling class.
n In the wake of Major League Baseball's most serious gaffe since team owners pretended there was not a drug problem in the league, look for instant replay to finally become a tool to help umpires call the best game they can. Clearly, a perfect game - no hits, no runs, no nothing but batters walking back to their seat on the bench - was spoiled forever by a blown call. Tsk, tsk.
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Government regulators : 6/5/2010
I agree BP bigwigs should pay. I also suggest the government which is supposed to be enforcing regulations should also pay. It appears myriad disasters are largely the result of lack of governing. The politicians are more adept at passing legislation than enforcing it ! It's probably not true, but I sometimes get the impression the taxpayers are being "set-up". Taxpayers are always the ones hurt because our government can't govern it's way out of a paper bag !
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