Hungry Even For Hair-Brained Ideas...

Just Keep the Oil Off Our Shores!
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A couple weeks ago, I mentioned that some farmers had a good idea of using tons of straw to sop up the spilled oil in the gulf. The advantage of that unusual idea was that the truckloads of messy straw could then theoretically be used as fuel. A few days after posting that clip, I was getting a haircut at Sports Clips and noticed a sign on the wall telling us that our hair on the floor was being sent to the gulf to help soak up the spill. Lots of hair salons and pet stores in the area are doing this. Here’s how the idea supposedly works.


Unfortunately (or perhaps wisely), the idea was rejected by BP.

Don’t get me wrong, BP may have many good reasons for not wanting to put tons of human hair stuffed into used panty hose into an already messed-up gulf. One reason that comes immediately to mind is that what do you do with the heavy, oily, stretchy hair-balls once you manage to pull them from the water? Unlike the straw idea, we certainly can’t burn these gloppy, gross string beans. Have you ever smelled burning hair. Yuk! This may very well be a matter of good intentions run amuck. It may be a hair-brained idea.

A new problem has resulted: After four weeks of good intentions, there are now warehouses all along the gulf stuffed full of these giant nylon-hair sausages.

Meanwhile, a west Michigan company just announced yesterday that it landed a bid to make 2,000 miles of standard “oil spill boom,” the yellow floating type we see on TV. The company hired 50 new employees in 24 hours and may need to hire 20 more. Two questions remain: will the standard “boom” work better than the miles of donated “hair sausages” that will not be used? And why in the world is a company just now getting the bid to make 2,000 miles of boom? Why did this not happen a month ago? Regardless of when or whether ever BP will stop this leak, one thing we have known for nearly 50 days is that we have a spill to contain.

Why wait a month to order the needed supplies? That is the part of this situation that, in my opinion, falls squarely at Obama’s feet. I wouldn't put it as bluntly as Dick Morris did, but I do think this will be Obama's "Katrina." If not, the media owes former President Bush a huge explanation for why they were harder on him during a much more complicated crisis (involving hundreds of thousands of evacuated victims) than they have yet been on Obama during this gulf spill disaster.
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This is a time for "We the People"
Not "Me the President"

Here’s what CNN reports that director Spike Lee said about his man Obama:

In the weeks since an oil rig exploded and later sank into the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama has dealt with the tragedy with his signature cool, calm and collected approach. But with the oil still gushing in what is now the worst spill in U.S. history and the environmental devastation coming ashore, the president is becoming a target of the anger that was originally directed only at BP.

"One time, go off!" director Spike Lee urged on CNN's "AC 360°." "If there's any one time to go off, this is it, because this is a disaster."

Lee's sentiment echoes the frustration of people who want to see Obama get loud, take charge and inspire them like he did during his presidential run.

Recalling then-candidate Obama's ability to rouse crowds into chants of "Yes, we can," presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said, "There was a feeling he was going to be one of these presidents that moved us with words the way John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan did in recent decades."

Instead, Obama has presented himself as the unflappable president, with the engineer-like approach of Jimmy Carter and the legislative astuteness of Lyndon Johnson, Brinkley said.”

Spike, if Obama "goes off," he will simply look like a spoiled child and not a man in charge. Here’s why: Reagan spoke from his heart with core values shared by his fellow American’s. Obama is “Joe Cool.” Remember this skit about how cool he is? Reagan, on the other hand, reminded millions that our country is about “We the People” while Obama campainged as “Me the President” and failed to deliver.