WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST?

OIL SPILLS


In November 1988, the American-owned Odyssey drilling rig burst into flames and split in two off the coast of Novia Scotia. The accident killed one person and poured 43 million gallons of oil into the sea.
132,000 Tons spilled


On April 11, 1991. The M/T Haven, a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC), suffered a huge explosion off the coast of Genoa, Italy.Six crew members were killed, and the Mediterranean coasts of Italy and France remained polluted for the next 12 years..
144,000 Tons spilled.


On March 16, 1978, the Amoco Cadiz supertanker wrecked off the coast of Portsall, France. Ultimately, 240 miles of France’s Brittany coast suffered oil damage, with millions of dead mollusks and sea urchins washing ashore. This was the first time images of oil-coated sea birds were seen by the world.
223,000 Tons spilled


On August 6, 1983, a fire broke out aboard the Spanish tanker Castillo de Bellver, causing a massive explosion that spilled 78 million gallons of oil off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. A shift in winds pushed the oil offshore, minimizing the disaster’s environmental effects.
252,000 Tons spilled


On May 28, 1991 The Liberian supertanker ABT Summer exploded off the coast of Angola.killing five crew members. Millions of gallons of oil leaked into the Atlantic Ocean.
260,000 Tons spilled


On February 10, 1983, at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, an oil tanker collided with the Nowruz platform in the Persian Gulf. The slick caught fire when Iraqi planes attacked, and it took Iranian workers more than six months to cap the well. Eleven people died in the process.
260,000 Tons spilled


In March 1992, 88 million gallons of oil spilled from a well in Fergana Valley, a densely populated industrial and agricultural zone in Uzbekistan. It remains the largest inland oil spill in history.
285,000 Tons spilled


On July 19, 1979, two gigantic supertankers collided off the Caribbean island of Little Tobago during a tropical rainstorm. The accident killed 26 crew members and dumped millions of gallons of crude oil into the sea.The Atlantic Empress and the Aegean Captain.
287,000 Tons spilled


On June 3, 1979 The exploratory oil well Ixtoc I exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, spewing 140 million gallons of oil into the open sea. It took control experts more than nine months to cap the spill and begin cleanup. Thousands of endangered sea turtles were airlifted to safety when the oil slick encroached upon their nesting site.
454,000-480,000 Tons spilled


In January 1991, Iraqi forces deliberately released more than 240 million gallons of crude oil into the Persian Gulf in an attempt to thwart an amphibious landing by the U.S. Marines. The resulting oil slick ravaged the area’s marine ecosystem, killing thousands of seabirds and endangering other wildlife. To date, it remains the worst disaster of its kind.
1,360,000-1,500,000 Tons spilled


On April 20, 2010, an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon, a large drilling rig leased by the oil company BP, killed 11 crew members and set off a massive blaze. The burning rig sank two days later into the Gulf of Mexico, unleashing a toxic gush of oil that has continued to leak at an alarming—and perhaps unprecedented—rate.
????????? Tons spilled


 

 BP OIL HISTORY

1909, as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Ltd. It was renamed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Ltd., in 1935 and changed its name to the British Petroleum Company Limited in 1954. The name British Petroleum Company PLC was adopted in 1982. After merging with Amoco in 1998, the corporation took the name BP Amoco before assuming the name BP PLC in 2000. The company's headquarters are in London.


In 1914 the British government became the company's principal stockholder and remained so. Effective January 1, 1955, British Petroleum became a holding company. Beginning in 1977 the British government reduced its ownership of British Petroleum by selling shares to the public, and in the late 1980s the government turned over British Petroleum entirely to private ownership by selling its remaining shares. This cleared the way for British Petroleum to acquire Britoil PLC, an independent oil company that produced oil from the North Sea fields.


Alaska's Prudhoe Bay and in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea, where, in 1965, British Petroleum made the first commercial discovery of natural gas and, in 1970, the first discovery of a major oil field. Beginning in 1970, BP merged its assets in the United States with those of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio), in which BP acquired a controlling interest. In 1987 BP acquired the remainder of the Standard Oil Company for almost $8 billion, thereby reinforcing its position as one of the world's leading oil companies. In merging with U.S. oil giant Amoco in 1998, the newly created BP Amoco became the largest petroleum concern in the world.!


It operates convenience stores and filling stations through brands such as BP, Aral, ARCO, and AM/PM


I WAS TAUGHT TO LOOK BACK AT THE PAST TO DETERMINE AWAY OF AVOIDING FUTURE MISTAKES!

WHATS HAPPENING TO OUR WORLD?

B.P. OIL
AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, AS A MEMBER OF THIS WORLD
I DEMAND THAT ALL DRILLING SITES HAVE A RELEASE LINE
ALREADY DRILLED PART WAY. I ALSO DEMAND THAT YOU ARE
UP FRONT AND TRUTHFUL WITH US!

WHERES OUR COMMON SENSE?

   







      

Thomas Paine was the author of a very important pamphlet called Common Sense that was published in 1776. He wrote a compelling argument for independence from Great Britain. His pamphlet convinced many colonists and founding fathers of the wisdom of open rebellion against the British if necessary. Further, he published another pamphlet called The Crisis during the Revolutionary War that helped spur on the soldiers to fight.

i sometimes want to revolt against things that are going on
in our country. i sometimes wonder what happened to us?
i sometimes wonder what we could do to get back on the
right track.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BIRDIE HOUSE?

Now the birdie house had electricity a couple of bedrooms, a kitchen a bathroom and a living room.the porch was huge and screened in. now there were rules and sorta the way things went there.My drampy had the only allowed tv in his room,which at that time was black and white he only watched the news. You never entered unless he himself asked you to, I don't remember even my parents ever going in there. the kitchen was small but the BBQ outside could hold enough for twenty people!only two neighbors on that road,the family that lived across the dirt road as you came in and the old man down the road where it spilt into two.
drampy did the barbecuing no exceptions.the property was huge, well to us kids it was.and we had full run of it.

Behind the cabin was more dense than up front,that was kept clear and mowed . On the far side my nanner had a garden we were not allowed to be around unless we were helping her. Now back on the side you entered from by the BBQ there was a cement foundation that also been screened in with two picnic tables and a roof.This was ours we could play out there all day, i remember in the rain being out there thinking what a wonderful man my dramps was because he had made this for us! He would have us do things out there gather different types of leaves and bark and look them up,bugs and creatures he taught their names and what they did . I remember once my brother Scott and i went with nanner and drampy and when we got there drampy did his check of the property and sure enough he had caught a skunk in a trap. Now he explained to get close enough to release the skunk it would spray, and of course if he shot it it would spray.He wasn't trying to catch the skunk so it should not die because of human error. We were sent to the porch with nanner and we each got our own soda pop bottle that in its self was a biggie.My drampy then went to release it knowing full well what was about to happen!

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BIRDIE HOUSE?

WHEN I WAS YOUNGER WE SPENT CERTAIN HOLIDAYS DOING THINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE. FOR EXAMPLE WE WOULD SPEND MEMORIAL DAY WITH OUR DRAMPY AND NANNER.
MY GRANDFATHER WAS A PROUD MAN. HE HAD SERVED HIS TIME FOR HIS COUNTRY,HE WAS A STATE TROOPER THEN HE WORKED FOR THE POST OFFICE UNTIL HE RETIRED  AGAIN. HE WAS MARRIED OVER FIFTY YEARS,THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN.
HE PURCHASED A HOME,  THEN LATER HE AND A BUDDY A HUNTING AND FISHING PARTNER, PURCHASED A  CABIN AND LAND IN THE COUNTRY.THIS WAS   THE BIRDIE HOUSE .THE BEST PLACE OF MY LIFE! EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS PLACE WAS PERFECT,NANNER AND DRAMPY WERE THE MOST LOVING FAIR TRUST WORTHY,LEVEL TEMPERED GROWN UPS I EVER KNEW. EVERY MINUTE WITH THEM WAS LIKE CHRISTMAS NOT LIKE GIFTS, JUST KNOWING EVERYTHING WOULD BE OK , YOU CAN BE A KID WE GOT IT.  OK BACK TO THE BIRDIE HOUSE EVEN GETTING THERE WAS SOMETHING,IT WAS A DRIVE MAYBE AN HOUR,PROBABLY NOT .NANNER DIDN'T DRIVE,
NEVER, NEVER EVEN HAD A LICENSE. SHE DIDN'T GO EVERY TIME SOMETIMES IT WAS JUST DRAMPY, YOU KNEW YOU WERE SPECIAL WE YOU WENT WITH JUST HIM!
NOW RIGHT BEFORE YOU'D GET THERE THERE WAS THIS HILL,IT WAS A HILL,NOW BY THE BEACH WE HAD A ROLLER COASTER YOU WAITED YOUR WHOLE LITTLE LIFE TO BE BIG ENOUGH TO RIDE IT BUT THIS HILL WAY BIGGER THAN THAT .MY DRAMPY WOULD ALWAYS SLOW DOWN AS WE APPROACHED AND ANNOUNCE THAT EVERYONE NEEDED
TO HOLD ON TO THEIR HATS WOOOOO DOWN WE WOULD GO THE WINDOWS ROLLED DOWN THE AIR RUSHING THRU  THEN YOUR STOMACH WOULD DO THAT LITTLE THING.
,AND WE BE ON WAY BACK UP! NOW WE WERE CLOSE THE DIRT ROAD WITH THE STONE  MARKERS WAS JUST AHEAD IT WAS A RIGHT TURN ALWAYS A RIGHT TURN PAST JUST MAYBE ONE OTHER HOUSE  DOWN THE CRACKLY ROAD AND THEN THERE IT WAS A RIGHT TURN STOP  UNLOCK THE GATE GET BACK IN WE WERE THERE.

WHAT HAPPENED TO BEING AN AMERICAN ?

LETS HELP EACH OTHER,BECAUSE ITS THE RIGHT THING TO DO!

LETS MAKE SURE EVERYONE IN OUR COUNTRY IS TREATED DECENTLY AT ALL TIMES BY AMERICANS!

THAT MAKES THE RIGHT COUNTRY AMERICA!

WHAT HAPPENED TO FAKE BOOBS?

i remember my great grandma, we were young at that time i think my mother was pregnant. she, my great grandma
could only babysit once in awhile she was old,round,looked like she had whiskers and always snapping a kitchen towel at us. well us me and my two brothers,i was the oldest, guess i still am? anyways there were all boy,now my great grandma
always wore one of those house dresses, well thats what they told us they were,they kind with big pockets,low fronts
since everything was going south anyways! now she was kinda different we had a great aunt bunny she was strange,no really,and we would have to kiss her goodbye on holidays yuck!!! she had whiskers and big lips ok !! we had a relative who would take her dentures out oh my gosh we would roll for what seemed hours! but great grandma had a fake boob no other way to say it, it was a fake boob! now my brothers were like three and six, now dont let the number three give you any preset ideas he was more like an eight year old !! my great grandma would bend over, when your little you always seem to be on the floor,she would bend down slowly, the crack of her breast would begin to show, then the top of her bra and boom out would come the fake boob it would sometimes bounce off the hard wood floor and off it went my brothers always seem to get their hands on it before she could. and the chase was off my brothers laughing running ,my great grandma yelling ,chasing them threating every thing you could imagine! i remember thinking that it almost looked like barbie that fleshy color they use for her. also it was filled with some watery liquid, we always wondered what it was!well as luck seems to go when your little,one time my parents came thru the door while this chase in the living room dining area was going on, furniture everywhere nick nacks. my father,his face you must understand that he was balding on the top of his head and when he got mad, really mad his face would turn red and the color would spread upwards to the very top of his head.he would yell but you really could not make out what he was saying, you just knew at that point were all getting it. we had embarrassed him to a point of scratching at his pride. breast cancer was not really ever discussed back then,i remembering we would try and figure how my great grandma lost her breast? no i mean lost,we were young ! she was so casual about it some times she didnt even wear it.( i always thought it was because of my brothers),other times it would fall on to the kitchen counter or the ironing board and she would just pick it up and plop it back in! sometimes on the way out the door she would have to turn back and go get it! well that was the way it use to be forty years ago,sure things are different now ...