As the hearts of millions break, forced evacuations begin, drinking water supplies for millions are endangered, and an already beleaguered ecosystem meets another threat from a million gallons of crude oil reaching Lake Michigan, Mayor Daley of Chicago concocts the brilliant plan to play politics to keep his money flowing. He's using the Michigan oil spill as leverage against the state of Michigan to keep the Chicago locks open even as the threat of Asian carps entering the lakes from the other side threatens to permanently....PERMANENTLY alter the ecosystem and biodiversity of the Great Lakes.
Mayor Daley of Chicago can BLOW ME.
Two days ago a burst oil pipeline near Kalamazoo, MI leaked 1 million gallons of oil which has reached the Kalamazoo river, and now officials are scrambling to keep it from flowing into Lake Michigan. A million gallons...flowing out of the Saugatuck harbor just forty miles from my house and more importantly our drinking water intake.
I sure am glad a local group just raised half a million bucks to protect our lake from...........WIND TURBINES!! Thanks. Thanks. Just...thanks.
I'd like a nice tall glass of Sense Of Scale for my friends here, mixed with some double distilled Shut The Fuck Up.
Shit.
Daley's argument, as oil oozes its way to Lake Michigan on one end and and Asian Carp are just a micron away from the lake on the Other End is that OIL is WORSE than CARP.
Mayor Richard Daley today went on the offensive in his battle with Michigan, saying a Kalamazoo River oil spill trumps Asian carp when it comes to threats to Lake Michigan.
--http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
And he seems to be making not so veiled threats against Michigan for this spill, as obvious leverage to get Michigan to drop its federal legal case to make Chicago close the goddamn locks to keep Asian carps from entering the great lakes..and if you don't know why that's a problem... a BIG god damned problem...read this.
Just trust me, it's a problem.
Think of it this way. Two thousand years from now, nobody will have a fucking clue this oil spill in Lake Michigan ever took place, but Asian carps will still be swimming around the Great Lakes.
So....like...Mayor Daley playing this stupid little game to save his town a couple extra sheckles from shipping revenue while an entire ecosystem and a four BILLION dollar fishing industry hangs in the balance...let's just say he can go fuck himself, because in his stupid fucking little rich man power maniac world nobody fucking wins but him in his useless, fucked up lifetime and he can just blow me...
Oil spill, invasive species...it's all shit. It's all shit raining from the goddamn sky.
Daley can blow me, the minerals management system can blow me, Enbridge Energy Partners can blow me. Shit man, just harvest me and my childrens' damn organs and get it over with. Assholes.