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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 09:39 AM
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BP Pledges To Continue Being Huge Profitable Corporation
LONDON—Embattled BP officials assured the public Thursday that despite the setbacks of the past month, the company was still "fiercely committed" to remaining an enormously powerful moneymaking industrial conglomerate. "We promise the good people of Louisiana or Texas or wherever that this horrific oil spill will not, even for a moment, stop us from pursuing unspeakably massive profits," BP spokesman Reginald Clacton-Thorpe told reporters. "We are even now working around the clock to make this historic PR disaster as painless for us as possible." Clacton-Thorpe stressed that "neither the terrible errors of our past nor the inevitably worse ones of our future" would affect that ultimate mission.


http://www.theonion.com/articles/bp-pledges-to-continue-being-huge-profitable-corpo,17510/
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vi5 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 09:46 AM
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1. This is sadly only slightly satirical.....
..and more accurately real life. Which is made worse by the fact that this is pretty much how the majority of our elected officials view things as well.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 09:49 AM
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3. The most accurate thing I've read about this whole mess...n/t
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 09:47 AM
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2. Truth hurts.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 09:56 AM
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4. Oh yeah...n/t
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 09:59 AM
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5. ". . .inevitably worse ones of our future". Gotta love The Onion. nt
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