Yup :thumbsup

Im going to take it one step further. People like Al Gore would stop jet setting around the world, driving in limos backed by guards driving SUVs, buy homes you never set foot in ect.

Amen, crimes of humanity. They have done worse over time but this should show without a doubt how fucked up they are.

of China. Sounds like he wants to kill CEOs that make mistakes. I wonder if Brad wants to kill the people that issued the permit to drill that deep and not in shallow water like BP wanted.

I hope Sally Struthers weighs in on the subject. I heard she has a lot of pull too.

NO Thanks......... Please keep him, send Angelina's younger sister instead:winkwink:

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as far as brad pitt goes-
http://www.makeitrightnola.org/

Like i said, he is only an actor. If he ever gets voted into a postion of power then its only because he is famous. He is a layman and his opinion is as worthwhile as yours or mine, no more than that.

Valid point to a degree.

However, there are some mistakes that are not excusable.

If I drink and drive a couple of times I lose the right to drive my car. That's the rule. If I don't like it, I don't have to drive but that's not going to stop millions from driving and 100s of 1000s from driving drunk.

If I beat my kid or even spank him just a little too hard, I can lose my child to the state. But I'll still spank my child when I need to.

If I get caught picking up a street hooker in some cities, they literally confiscate my car and I lose it forever. That didn't stop me from going on the creep.

If you get 3 felonies, you go to prison FOR LIFE. Yet people keep committing felony crime.

Rules are rules. If you fuck up and cross the lines, you lose. That's not North Korea talking, that is the USA and they impose those same rules on normal citizens. You can bet your ASS if you or I dumped all that oil into the gulf, we would at the very least go to prison.

Harsh rules will not grind business to a halt. They will just be more careful, and if they screw up, they lose the right to work that job. I'm all for it.

okay, now take the time to read what i posted- "...the entire episode has nothing to do with where the company is from...its what they did, or allowed to happen thru criminal negligence."
that being said everything happened under bp's watch and it was a bp well and thus a bp disaster. you could break down the parts and literally find hundreds of companies involved but one company, bp, oversaw it all.

hardly. you have an extreme disconnect to people who actually are doing things in the name of social justice. pitt has done a hell of alot for people in louisiana, spending millions in his own money for the cause.
people there see him "putting his money where is mouth is" and he is highly regarded for doing so.

Dude, seriously, get off Brad Pitts nuts.

Who asked him for anything...

So? Bono does his "bit" and has pull but he's still an uneducated prick who chestbeats about whatever he believes in whether he is right or wrong. It seems to me that Brad Pitt is exactly the same. I see nothing that says his opinion is any more educated than the next person.

does his opinion need to be more educated than the next person?
this is not rocket science.
read the news.
get informed.
bp caused a major environmental disaster through criminal negligence.
this is a fact.

he's making a valid point based upon what he and millions of other people now know.

end of story.

No, he is following what hes been told by the american media, like most americans here. I find it hard to believe how demonized BP have been over this, especially when so many american companies were deeply involved in causing this ecological disaster.

I'm also (not too) suprised at how two-faced you americans have been over this, just count how many oil spills have happening over the last few years that involve american oil companies that havent caused an outcry. BTW there are some HUGE spills in africa that havent been fixed for years but i dont suppose that matters?

People forgot to tell Brad Pitt and Bono, that is the only possible it aint fixed yet.

People tend to get up in arms when shit hits the fan in their own back yard. It's not exactly an American-only trait. Do you honestly believe that the British would react any differently if the roles were reversed?

Furthermore, it's absurd to assert, in any way, that BP is being demonized because they are foreigners. Most Americans really don't give a rats ass. Thanks for the Beatles, though. :thumbsup