Two Videos from The Gulf of Mexico: One to Weep Over, One to Curse

I want to stop looking at these things. Really I do.



But the more we close our eyes, the worse things get.



And I will not be an accomplice or an enabler, when it comes to the life of my Mother.

Weeping Mother Earth Tries to Protect Her Sea Life from Oil Leak, As Obama Rushes to Lift Ban on Whaling

It grows more difficult to watch by the hour....



Please, Mr. President. For once ... do what you promised!

H/T to Zoia Vas for both the photo, and the video link above.

"Just When We’d Rather Remain Comfortably Speciest, Love Impels Us To Recognize The Souls of Animals." (Will Louisiana Need to Name a New State Bird?)

Sadly,some seem to thinks so.

The Krewe of Dead Pelicans parade

"Just when we’d rather remain comfortably speciest, love impels us to recognize the souls of animals." - Rev. Tom Owen-Towle

H/T to Dakinikat for links to the video and her own photos.

"Let's face it: this has been the toughest year and a half since any year and a half since the 1930s." Oh really, Mr. Obama? Really???

[Really, now? Worse than the period surrounding December 7, 1941 and September 11, 2001? Worse than what Gerald Ford faced after the resignation of Richard Nixon and Watergate, which constituted the worse constitutional scandal in our history and tore the country apart? Worse than what Ronald Reagan faced after Jimmy Carter (when interest rates were 22 percent, inflation was more than 13 percent, and Reagan faced something entirely new under the sun, "stagflation")? Worse than 1968, when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were assassinated and there was rioting in our streets? Worse than what LBJ faced during Vietnam -- a war which eventually claimed more than 58,000 lives? Worse than what John Kennedy faced in the Bay of Pigs and in the Cuban Missile Crisis, when we and the Soviet Union edged up to the brink of nuclear war? Worse than what Franklin Roosevelt faced on the eve of the Normandy invasion? Worse than what Bush faced in Iraq in 2006, when that nation was on the edge of civil war, or when the financial system collapsed in the last months of his presidency? Worse than what Truman faced in defeating imperial Japan, in reconstructing post-war Europe, and in responding to North Korea's invasion of South Korea? ]

"Thin Skinned" is putting it mildly.

H/T to Womanstate for the link.

Tweety Wakes Up to the "Idiotic Cerebral Meritocracy" he Crammed Down the Throats of the American Electorate