Fish Kill / Fish Kill Story. One of these things is not like the other.

[TalkingDog]

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/huge_fish_kill_reported_in_pla.html

Photographs the parish distributed of the area shows an enormous amount of dead fish floating atop the water

The fish kill was reported to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries and the cause has not yet been determined, the parish said. The fish were found in an area that has been impacted by the oil from the BP oil spill, the parish said.

The dead fish include pogies, redfish, drum, crabs, shrimp and freshwater eel, the parish said.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100913/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_contracts_3

The federal government hired a New Orleans man for $18,000 to appraise whether news stories about its actions in the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama administration, which was keenly sensitive to comparisons between its response and former President George W. Bush's much-maligned reaction to Hurricane Katrina.

The government also spent $10,000 for just over three minutes of video showing a routine offshore rig inspection for news organizations but couldn't say whether any ran the footage. And it awarded a $216,625 no-bid contract for a survey of seabirds to an environmental group that has criticized what it calls the "extreme anti-conservation record" of Sarah Palin, a possible 2012 rival to President Barack Obama.

The contracts were among hundreds reviewed by The Associated Press as the government begins to provide an early glimpse at federal spending since the Gulf disaster in April. While most of the contracts don't raise alarms, some could provide ammunition for critics of government waste.


In one of them no money is spent and something happens.

In the other one, money is spent for nothing to happen.

[ensho]

1. good grief, what an awful thing to see

and the killing continues

[TalkingDog]

2. And seemingly nobody cares. n/t

[TalkingDog]

3. Guess I should have posted a video n/t