Guess Al Qaeda’s fund raising efforts must have suffered from the entire free world trying to shut them down for the past 10 years, and perhaps the global recession however, apparently undeterred they have a new effort; media. We see the Reality TV show every day and they have a well established brand, so why not extend it to other media?
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Tony looked like a strong, smart capable there but for the grace of god go anyone else guy. Do you think the Chairman who no one new until this week should have stayed behind the curtain and left his Hayward punching bag nailed up there awhile longer, or has he judged it just right and can ride in and be the hero? We’ll see. As good as any reality show and BP is paying all the production costs. Well the gulf coast and 11 oil workers and their family’s are paying too, but what price entertainment.
According to Sky News, BP’s Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg has said BP CEO Tony Hayward has been relieved of command of day to day operations in the Gulf.
This comes just hours after Hayward had to stand trial before the U.S. House of Representatives for his firm’s errors in the build up to the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.
Hayward has been under increasing public scrutiny for how he has handled the crisis, particularly in terms of PR.
BP’s stock is rising on the news.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader comes out
this Christmas! (in 3D!!)
Last night I went to Cambod-Ican, a Cambodian restaurant with an American twist (explains the name). I had the Vegetarian Curry Roll and Crispy Noodles with tofu – easily one of the best meals I've had!
http://media.www.theduquesneduke.com/media/storage/paper1278/news/2008/01/17/Features/The-CambodIcan.Man-3155873.shtml
Yesterday, Brian and I played with little John. He’s getting HUGE and I now understand why adults always used to say “oh my gosh you’ve gotten so big”. He can say some things like “hi” “bye” “a ball” and “where’s boo?” In reference to his dog, bunny. Very cute. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
I voted Democrat. I don’t think this is really your table, everyone should be able to use it because everyone should have a table and its not right that you have one and others don’t. Where’s my dinner.
Does your first day at a “career-type” job mean you’re officially an adult?
It certainly means there is less time to spend on the couch watching Jersey Girls and other mind numbing TV. At a younger age there were endless hours of Pippi; “They need only read the tales of Pippi Longstocking — the fiercely independent and cheerfully kooky 9-year-old who has been a soul mate to generations of children longing to color outside the lines”. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/weekinreview/23ryan.html?emc=eta1#
Time to move onto Stieg Larsson books Megan. Mind numbing literature is much more socially acceptable, hence adult, than TV. Or there is the movie.
Ms USA candidates have an opinion on deepwater drilling. So much more current than world peace.
“At last week’s Miss USA pageant, Virginia’s 21-year-old Samantha Casey answered a question about the leak: “I think that there are a lot that are responsible. I’m not going to say that they are entirely responsible, but I do think they need to take the responsibility for what happened. But at the same time, I think we need to figure out better ways of finding alternative energy fuels and reducing our dependency on oil in general.”
No worries. Soon we’ll get lost in the more interesting debate as to whether Ms V. had cosmetic work done to enhance her…….chances, and who paid for it.
That’s encouraging. You can’t count picking it off the beach in Florida and Ireland from the BP oil spill, because those are identified reserves. Maybe we’ll use clean coal instead. ugh.
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