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I have a bias against accents, and I like a well-spoken and level-headed person. The reality is that I backed the wrong horse early in this situation. Billy Nungesser is a fucking God among men. Billy obsessed over the boom. The boom. He spent every single night with the boats and setting up the boom. He was so proud of the work they had done, you could just hear it in his voice. This is not a guy who can hide his emotions. (I listen to every nugget of local news on this spill every single day) One day Billy reported a sheen that was at a particular spot in the Gulf. They plotted it on their GPS and then went back the next day. The next day it was gone. "This oil isn't following any rules," (I paraphrase), "You think it's coming in, and then it goes back out into the gulf." Unfortunately, his assessment was overly hopeful. The particular oil patch he saw didn't recede. It submerged and became invisible. A few days later he sounded like he was close to tears. "I don't know what the point was of all of this boom," he choked, "How do you stop something that is coming in underwater?" And just like that, when you thought he was on the ground and defeated, he got back up and started fist-fighting with reality again. He started fighting for the clean-up effort, for the barrier islands, for the different options now that the boom had proven a cruel joke. It's hard to understand unless you listen and read every day. This man is fighting unlike anybody else in the word. He cares -- intensely. Yesterday I heard Billy Nungesser talk about Obama. I heard genuine hope in his voice. He said that when Obama got down here and actually saw the reality of the marsh, that Obama would make heads roll and then things would really happen. "He is an intelligent man, and he is being shielded by his advisors," (I paraphrase), "And when he finally gets down here and sees the reality that is hitting the marsh, he is going to make things happen. I saw the look in his eyes when he came down here last time, and I believe that he is committed to doing all it takes to fix this situation." (Paraphrasing because I'm too lazy to look up the quote) I am afraid that three hours spent doing photo-ops on the beach doesn't quite prepare a world leader to make the proper decisions. It gives me no joy that Billy's hope was for naught, and that Obama is far more concerned about polls and appearances and Energy Legislation than the reality we are facing in the marsh. Fun fact for you non-locals: Oil has been sitting on the shores for 5 days now, and the federal government won't let us clean it up because we don't have the proper training. So, this drink's for you Billy Nungesser. You have earned my eternal respect, and I would vote for you to fill any elected office. Permalink to this post. |
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I'm pretty sure this is my 50th comic, but I'm too tired to make a new section. Plus I had a two week gap since the last one. It is entirely possible that I have run out of "comic juice," and that this endeavor with suffer the Fuck Fish Fate. Permalink to this post. |
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