Thursday, May 20, 2010

Ain't Capitalism Great?

Tonight while I prepared a healthy meal for my man (I'm having cake), the TV news told me that the amount of oil flooding the Gulf of Mexico (shouldn't it be sent back to its own country now?) was much much greater than BP has acknowledged.  Folks, cut those people some flack, they've been busy assembling a huge squad of top-notch lawyers and really haven't had time to study the video of the oil gushing out unabated.  I bet they are totally bummed out at the idea of all those lost profits.

So, after the report ended and we went to commercial, a big bottle of Dawn dish detergent showed up on the screen.  Then people washing oil-coated birds.  Then happy talk and music showing how easy it is to clean an oil-slicked bird with Dawn.  Great stuff.  Let's all run out and buy some just in case oil-coated birds was up on the shores of the James River.  Or maybe they want us to send Dawn care packages to the Gulf coast states.

It's good to know that the American profit machine rolls on.  Make hay while the sun shines.  And the oil flows.

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