Sick Gulf residents continue to blame BP

[Dover]

Many people living near the site of the BP oil spill have reported a long list of similar health problems.

Scroll down the page:
http://english.aljazeera.net/Services/Search/?q=gulf%20oil%20spill%2C%20bp

edit: to fix link

[ixion]

1. the article has been scrubbed

imagine that.

[Syrinx]

2. as they should

But as ixion noted, the article seems to have disappeared. Your link takes me to their front page. And I didn't see any mention of this story there. :(

[Dover]

3. Try this link

and scroll down.

http://english.aljazeera.net/Services/Search/?q=gulf%20oil%20spill%2C%20bp

[Syrinx]

4. thanks, that worked

"I have critically high levels of chemicals in my body," 33-year-old Steven Aguinaga of Hazlehurst, Mississippi told Al Jazeera. "Yesterday I went to see another doctor to get my blood test results and the nurse said she didn't know how I even got there."

Aguinaga and his close friend Merrick Vallian went swimming at Fort Walton Beach, Florida, in July 2010.

"I swam underwater, then found I had orange slick stuff all over me," Aguinaga said. "At that time I had no knowledge of what dispersants were, but within a few hours, we were drained of energy and not feeling good. I've been extremely sick ever since."

BP's oil disaster last summer gushed at least 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, causing the largest accidental marine oil spill in history - and the largest environmental disaster in US history. Compounding the problem, BP has admitted to using at least 1.9 million gallons toxic dispersants, including one chemical that has been banned in the UK.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/03/201138152955897442.html

[Dover]

5. Just imagine how the fish feel! And the fish are being sold without restraint

and deemed "safe". I'll bet many restaurants were given some great discounts in order to jump start sales again. We can't count on
the government to protect our health, that's a given. And remember that the air was deemed "safe" in NYC after 911 and soldiers have
been fed similar lies when illegal chemicals were used in battle. Representative government is nonexistent....unless you are a corporation
like BP that is. I got sick to my stomach when Obama and his family went to the Gulf and posed for the cameras with full plates of Gulf seafood.
Mmmmm good!

[Syrinx]

6. I'm with you

The election will come down to bad, or even infinitely worse. And that's even if our votes matter in the first place.

I'm still going to vote on election day, but our choices ain't exactly ripe.

[newspeak]

12. what's a few people getting sick or some people losing their livelihood

haven't you heard, the reason we are in an economic mess is too much regulation!!!! The repugs told me so.

[SpiralHawk]

7. Hearing first hand from people who live near the Gulf, it is plain that lies are...

...still the order of the day about the ongoing devastation.

[panzerfaust]

8. and continue to vote Republican

[JoeyT]

11. Yeah, remember when the Republicans marginalized the toxicity of the spill?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zNnqH9km2FI/TGloAU4eIgI/AAAAAAAACP0/UXNxCSSM09Q/s1600/President+Obama+Goes+Swimming.jpg

Not to mention you have no idea how any of those people voted. Empathy: It's not a difficult concept.

[midnight]

9. K&R

[ensho]

10. it is true that they are sick and sicker living by the Gulf of Death

a number of DUers think life in and by the G of D is just peachy keen. its not.