Boycott BP GAS!
Oil-Backed Pelicans
Hello Bill,
I watched some of the CBS “evening news” with Katie C two evenings ago. She had a segment where she is flying over the Gulf in a chopper with the BP “recovery” operations in the background. I forget what she was saying but I will be slow to forget the irony of CBS burning thousands of gallons of jet fuel to get the video. Am I a lone wolf here? Has anyone else noticed that “Drive, Baby, Drive”; “Fly, Baby, Fly”; “Travel, Baby, Travel”; translates to “Drill, Baby, Drill”; and every now and then, “Leak, Baby, Leak”; “Contaminate, Baby, Contaminate”; “Blame, Baby, Blame”; and finally, “War, Baby, War; ?
I would have been “impressed” if Katie C. had said, on the air, “we have eliminated our normal helicopter coverage of the massive oil contamination in the Gulf in order to reduce the consumption of oil in the US.” I would be equally “impressed” if anyone in a position of large influence adopted a similar position.
You probably think I’m nuts… but thanks, nonetheless,
Gary Ferguson
Editor’s Note: Have you noticed that Taosenos all boycott BP gas?
Heat Wave: The Cook, the Coach, the Curriculum, the Coop and the Rockers
The burner is still on low but cooks in the kitchen at CRAB Hall are turning up the gas. Well, we hear there’s one less cook at TMS—fired for alleged malpractice. But is it true or just personal, due to neurotic nutrition policy? The one-time cook, whose hubby is a member of the local media, also worked as nanny-cook for a high profile politico. Could be scandalous fun!
“They†also say a high profile THS AD has been sacked twice: Once as AD, once as BB Coach. Branch clarifies the rumors for the record below:
“Actually I have 2 options…half time a.d.. and half time elem. p.e. or full time elem. p.e……as far as the coaching goes I took the kids to team camps for three successive weekends THIS MONTH, had open gym three days a week starting in mid-April up until monday of this week, held a fundamental basketball camp for kids raising over $1300 for the program.”
“THEN I RECEIVE A PHONE CALL FROM THE SUPT. WHILE ON VACATION, NO LESS, AND I AM TOLD THAT THE COACHING POSITION WILL BE ADVERTISED…..I GUESS WITH THE BUDGET ISSUES THE DISTRICT IS FACING….GETTING THIS MUCH WORK OUT OF ME FOR FREE IS A BARGAIN . WHAT DO YOU THINK? WOULD YOU SAY THIS ACT IS PROFESSIONALLY UNETHICAL AND IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE KIDS??†(Sent by Verizon Mobile phone.) Yet James is a Man of Hope: He says, “One more thought: GOD NEVER CLOSES ONE DOOR WITHOUT OPENING ANOTHER…….”
Will the new Super create a curriculum committee focused on knowledge and education or continue to pursue the policies of incoherence and failing AYP? Why aren’t high paid level three teachers mentoring level one teachers? The admin pays for private contractors to train teachers, who have been (allegedly) trained by four-year colleges, to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. The public doesn’t understand CRAB Hall fat cat policy.
The summer is getting hotter behind the air-conditioned doors at the Coop. Next week, the trustees meet. The Coop board has already re-organized and, according to insiders, disenfranchised their most populous district i.e. Taos, District One. Not one rep was named to the executive committee. Activists want a policy of “one person†and “one vote.†The culture at the Coop will not change until activists find supporters to “Take Back Your Coop.â€
Grass roots organizers say they have plans for the next Coop election: “We have nothing else to do but watch and wait.†Coop members and the mainstream press might continue to ignore annual meetings and the anti-democratic trustees but the Padre Martinez Institute has a Message for Ortega and the Medina minders: “Valdez is Coming.â€
Just as the war in Afghanistan—“Graveyard of Empires†has been compared to the horrors of Vietnam, so the corporate media has behaved similarly—tepidly–in the ongoing debate about policy. Now, the rebirth of Rolling Stone, like Amy Goodman on radio, has become a powerful force. The Stone has rolled over on the banking swindle, oil disaster in the gulf, and now General Stanley McChrystal. See links below.
Matt Taibbi’s (The Great American Bubble Machine)
Tim Dickinson’s (The Spill, the Scandal and the President)
Michael Hastings’ (The Runaway General)
From Mark Twain in “Roughing It†to Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing†of the establishment, there has been a tradition of roughhouse journalism in the western U.S. With humor, colorful language, and the populist press, the west was made and the eastern establishment—not to mention Chamber of Commerce apologists—unmade. RIP: You have nothing left to lose.