Maid's outfeit, mah ass, yer goin' down, Sheriff!

Hey Team Bill! Check out the week’s totals!

Team Bill still leads but you don’t want to see our vampire wearing a French maid’s outfit, right? So, let’s get busy and raise more money for GulfAid! I dunno about you, but I can’t wait to see Alexander Skarsgard wearing a “Bill’s Other Blonde” T-shirt. Please donate to GulfAid! Remember, Aem and I will be at Barrel Oak Winery in Delaplane, Virginia this Sunday from 1-5 p.m. for a special GulfAid fund raiser. We’d love to meet you!

We also need your ideas for the winner’s and loser’s T-shirt slogan, so please keep the ideas coming!

We’re proud to show you that we’re now listed on GulfAid’s donors page on their Web site. This is ALL OF YOU who’ve donated so much and so generously to Stephen Moyer’s chosen cause.

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All y’all have done a FANTASTIC job of supporting the Battle of the Fang! Both teams are blown away by your generosity to GulfAid and SOS Children’s Village. BIG SMOOCHIES.

Please keep up the momentum and help us beat back the Sheriff’s advances by donating to GulfAid. The oil is not gone, despite what BP and the mainstream media would like us to believe. This myth is compounded by BP’s recent firing of 10,000 oil cleanup workers, according to Mother Jones.

“On July 13, the Deepwater Horizon Joint Command was reporting 46,000 responders. On July 23, it was down to 30,000, and the numbers have hovered around the low 30s since. Included in this tally are some Coast Guard and National Guard staff, but BP and subcontractors comprise the vast majority. … In Grand Isle, Louisiana, cleanup workers (none of whom can be named; you know this drill by now) say their coworkers were either told to go home for Tropical Storm Bonnie and then never called back or fired in a massive and sudden drug test.’

“The scaleback is set to continue. Supervisors say they’re supposed to break down to just a ‘skeleton crew’ by the end of September, so hopefully the media myth that there’s no more oil anywhere comes true. ‘Everything still changes day to day,’ the supervisor told me. ‘You don’t know when a bunch of oil’s gonna pop up.’”

That oil has popped up in nearly every coastal national park, as reported by the National Parks Conservation Association. NPCA President Tom Kiernan and others from the organization recently toured Gulf Islands National Seashore to survey the damage.

David Helvarg, writing for the Huffington Post describes BP’s attempts to make the oil go away:

“It will take years of study to determine the impacts of the BP disaster on the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystem. My fear is that if Florida’s tourist beaches aren’t heavily oiled (as they appear not to be for now), and if the mainstream media no longer feels it has to “feed the beast,” (as a CNN producer put it) then the long term impacts of the spill on the Gulf’s habitat and marine wildlife and those whose livelihoods depend on them may be ignored and forgotten. Consider how other long-term and larger disasters degrading our ocean commons are being ignored. These include plastic, urban and agricultural runoff pollution, climate linked sea-level rise, acidification and arctic melting, loss of habitat (including Louisiana’s shredding wetlands) and industrial overfishing for the global seafood market.’

“Maybe if Snooki and the Situation from Jersey Shore were as oil covered as a flock of Louisiana Pelicans or Lindsey Lohan’s flesh was as saturated with leaked methane as it’s been with alcohol or BP’s Bob Dudley admitted he was a True Blood vampire we’d be able to retain public interest in this unfinished disaster. Still, for people of the Gulf and beyond who understand what it means to have your life linked to a living sea, BP’s impacts won’t be going away anytime soon, or probably anytime in our lifetimes.”

Please donate to GulfAid.

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