fourth of july

one holiday that as a child? I loved. as an adult? I've had good ones, I've had bad. lately in the last few years? I just don't get too excited. Maybe its cause I see things changing, and so much innocence lost, or maybe its cause I just am angry with the way politics are, or maybe its cause I'm not a flag waving, patriotic person. Not to say that I don't support the troops, but I don't support the troops going to war, so somebody can profit from it.

Since that fateful day that I went through that Hurricane, I've changed my views of government, and the response to the people. I've seen a new president arise, and then fall down and submit to the "powers that be"... in other words, I voted for change, and instead, got another politician. Seems like Louisiana is still a "colony" of the US... and they don't care if they kill the entire state, to get that precious oil.

I felt that the response to katrina, in many ways, reflected the fact that we are an oil state. they care about the oil, but not the people. Well, now they've really reassured me of this, by not responding to the gusher from the get go.

BP gets to hire mercenaries? WTF? I feel like a wave of refugee coming on again, in the country that I was born and raised in, only the third world of the US, (meaning louisiana) still isn't treated with any respect... OR revenues, from the rape of this beautiful state, so that a bunch of Oil Hookers can get rich.

I can only imagine the price of gas, if we had allowed McSame and Palin take over our country. That thought still frightens me...

I see James Carville come out swinging. I see Bobby Jindahl spewing a bunch of BS, and pretending he's doing something, while his friends profit from a sand berm, that won't last more than a few hours if we get a "big one". I see Billy Nungessar speak great lengths of truth, yet shuffled into a corner, and used by big corporate newstations, to make him look silly. When in fact, he has some legitimate things to say. I see Anderson Cooper standing in the quarter showing the country a bunch of drivel over and over, much like katrina footage, soon to become oil spill fatigue. I see the news crews spinning this, I hear that Haley Barbour claims there's no oil on his beaches, I see the pictures of the same beaches, and now hear that they're fining folks for taking them. cover up? yes... how DO you cover that up? Ask anyone in Alaska about the Exxon Valdez...

So much negativity, even the christian network is using it to sell the end of the world, the oceans on fire, the sea has turned black. Hmmmm. Is oil the antichrist? or are the oil barons of the earth, the antichrist?

Rachel Maddow is about the only one I've seen who has said anything honest... and has gotten in a boat and shown america. Hardball touches on it. John Stewart, and Steven Colbert, touch on it. Even Bill Maher, has come out swinging.

yet... its still gushing. its still killing... and now? its getting closer to Lake Ponchartrain.

What kind of response effort is this?

anyway, back to the fourth of july.
kinda hard to be patriotic, when all you see is people who don't give a damn about the very people who drill for this, who fish the oceans to provide food for your dinner table. Killing an ecosystem so fragile, that we become even more vulnerable to storms...

but the one patriotic thing I can do? Is speak my mind.
and there you have it. I'm very unhappy about the last five years. I've seen a country that cannot respond to the very people who make it what it is.

Next time I vote? I hope there's someone new out there, I hope the revolution will be televised, I hope people wake up... but somehow? I think Louisiana fatigue will have replaced the truth. A truth that the "idiot box" "big brother" has hidden from the modern day couch potato american.

happy fifth of july.

Oil RIG paintings

I've gone on a mission. so far, the avenue pub, the hi ho lounge, and the corner muse all have oil rig paintings... the one at the avenue pub? will be part of their benefit in august for shrimpers and fishermens families... the one at the hi ho? will be for sale on my new website, coming on line here within a week or so. The one at corner muse? is for viewing pleasure, if you'd like to purchase it? show me a donation to the gulfrestoration network for $100, and its yours. The Verti Marte benefit for employees, will be this week, go to antoines annex 513 royal, to purchase raffle tickets, or make a bid on it.

up and coming viewings, NOLA brewing will be receiving one, st roch tavern, schiro's, and of course, THE SKULL CLUB already has one.

If you'd like to display one of these, please leave me a message, and we'll work it out. As long as the money collected goes to my charities of choice... tri state bird rescue, or gulf restoration network. thanks... scroll down to see one of them. OIL RIG / FLAG of louisiana

imagine that

WOW, what a day of reading blogs, and information. From the callousness of that jerk from texas saying that President Obama is sticking it to the wrong folks, and apologizing to BP, to Michelle Bachman standing behind him. What is up with people who think like this? I know, I know, they're funded by big oil. But really? To be so clouded by greed, that you can't see the sky through the clouds?

Who works these rigs? "The Little People". Without them, do you think you'd get a piece of the pie? By not being responsible, ya think its okay to "enslave" people for your greed? To leave things a mess? I mean, as a bartender, I leave things the way I'd like to find them when I come in. Is that a philosophy of bar etiquette? and not in daily life? Really, anyone who thinks like this? Has a BIG OILY TEET they're sucking on. They suck, so does BP.

Then there's the idea that so much oil is being taken from the ground beneath, that it will all collapse and cause a HUGE tsunami, taking out the entire state of florida, and parts of the gulf, and large parts of the world. really? All this done on purpose because someone thinks the footprint of humans needs to shrink? WOW... thats rich.

How bout the terrorists posting that they'll send bombs to set the sea aflame? Aren't we already lighting those fires? How bout those who believe that this is the end of the world? I mean really!

WOW all that from one little oil spill that could.

I seem to be in places where things happen. They have always come out positive, no matter what the odds were. I think the state of Louisiana is screwed on so many levels, mostly economically, then environmentally... I dread finding out that we won't see CASH MONEY for all the wrongs by a system of OIL thieves... leaving us vulnerable, leaving us polluted, leaving us EVEN poorer than before.

I pray for the revenues, and hope some lawyer sues for back revenues... I pray that BP and Halliburton and all those who think they're search for oil, was worth more than the living culture of Louisiana, all find an oily end to their greed... as in a new green energy for everyone to participate in...

Is it the end of the world? I thought there would be tons of suffering worldwide. I watch tv, seems like thats goin on. I wonder whats next. tornadoes, flooding in the midwest, hurricanes, tsunami's, and global financial crisis. War, famine, pestilence... wow... all kinds of good things on the horizon.

Personally? I think we're about to see a new beginning... and an end. Those who see a new beginning, know what I'm talking about. Those who believe in this? aren't sitting round with a tea bag on our hat, we're sipping tea, and talking about solutions. We also RANT, but in the end, its all for the greater good of mankind. This answer that the generation behind will save us? doesn't work for me. What works for me, is being proactive, and trying to make change, or do something good for people.

take heed. the world is changing. sometimes we see things getting worse before better. so in these times of change... remember that.

wow, dead fish in bay jenny.

really? yeah... the bottom of the big fish food chain just started floating to the surface. In the meantime, people make videos of birds who AREN'T going to make it. So WRING their necks you sicko! they're suffering, and your giving me suffer fatigue. I'm all about saving the birds? but the ratio? is very small for those who live, after trying to save them. ONE PERCENT! those that still live, mainly die from injesting the oil, or have liver failure, or more. Its really enough to make you just want to WRING a BP exec neck!

OIL SHEEN LITE and other misuses of the modern media.

I get a phone call from home... (portland, oregon) Is that Oil spill hitting land yet? YOUR KIDDIN ME, I answer...

not kidding. Yup, again, the media picks and chooses who they support or don't. big Brother has arrived, in case you haven't realized it yet. There are millions of people out there so brain washed, that they might not even KNOW, we have a spill... and just in case you didn't know this? there's another one they're hiding in ALASKA. all while the country worries about the "epidemic" in arizona, the end of the season of "Lost", and of course "Dancing with the Stars".

I'm beginning to think I might see the beginning of the end of the world. My mother certainly thinks so. Our conversation was emotional, and she didn't ask me when I was leaving, she just point blank said she thinks they're trying to OIL US AWAY.

I remember my Oregon basics, a state so green, and so very clean, and the descent from there to other states that didn't recycle, and then to Louisiana, where you can put the garbage can under their feet, and they still throw it on the ground... all the while joking that we're sinking and its landfill. WELL, you might get your wish, DRILL SPILL KILL Toxic LANDFILL....

welcome to the chernobyl of the gulf states. I don't think I'm exxagerating either, I think the amount of dispersant that mr BP aka BIG PRICK is forcing into our eco system? will cause cancers for generations. AND mr big prick is profiting from it as well. its his product, and its illegal in his country. How bout we fill a face mask with it, and force him to breath it? THATS how mad I am.

When I see those birds? When I see the sea turtles, dolphins, redfish, shrimp and crabs all suffocating? I just want to see Louisiana CUT OFF the OIL TEET to not only big prick, but to the entire country... WHERE ARE THOSE OIL REVENUES? WE should be making MONEY off this, NOT the other way around, but then again, the carpetbagger seems to be one in the same as big brother, corporate america, and the OIL WHORES.

Seize the assets NOW of BP AND HALLIBURTON... Go out and inspect these rigs.... Fine them if they aren't safe! ELEVEN people DIED!

end offshore drilling, until you can change the laws, regulate it, fix it, and end privatized profits... SEND THE OIL INDUSTRY GASHOLES a message.

the mississippi delta cannot take this... we have poisened our land, our water, and now possibly the eco system of the keys, and beyond. The time is NOW... to think GREEN for a better future, and opportunity to create a whole new industry, in this time of depression.