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" Remember when British Petroleum&amp;#039;s pigheaded greed and casual contempt for the safety of anyone else on the planet pretty much wrecked the Gulf of Mexico? That&amp;#039;s one of those things that&amp;#039;s passed from the collective consciousness because there are Secret Service hookers and Seamus Romney to occupy our tiny little minds. And, anyway, every day on my Facebook page, I get updates about the American Olympic athletes that BP is helping to sponsor with all that money that should have been wrung out of it a million at a time in fines and contempt citations. Yeah, what&amp;#039;s Dwyane Wade doing when he implies that the Olympics are all about money, anyway? Well, the local sea life apparently isn&amp;#039;t quite as lucky as we are. Chemicals never forget.... Darla Rooks, a lifelong fisherperson from Port Sulfur, Louisiana, told Al Jazeera she is finding crabs &amp;quot;with holes in their shells, shells with all the points burned off so all the spikes on their shells and claws are gone, misshapen shells, and crabs that are dying from within ... they are still alive, but you open them up and they smell like they&amp;#039;ve been dead for a week&amp;quot;. Rooks is also finding eyeless shrimp, shrimp with abnormal growths, female shrimp with their babies still attached to them, and shrimp with oiled gills. &amp;quot;We also seeing eyeless fish, and fish lacking even eye-sockets, and fish with lesions, fish without covers over their gills, and others with large pink masses hanging off their eyes and gills.&amp;quot; And here&amp;#039;s the official response from the adminstration of Governor Bobby Jindal, presidential timber: &amp;quot;Gulf seafood has consistently tested lower than the safety thresholds established by the FDA for the levels of oil and dispersant contamination that would pose a risk to human health,&amp;quot; the statement reads. &amp;quot;Louisiana seafood continues to go through extensive testing to ensure that seafood is safe for human consumption. More than 3,000 composite samples of seafood, sediment and water have been tested in Louisiana since the start of the spill.&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;m certainly convinced. What do shrimp have to look at, anyway? Have fun at the crab shack tonight. PLUS: Much More on the Spill &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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