MooPig Site Review :: "Oil Spilling Out 5,000 Barrels a Day into Gulf of Mexico -- YIKES!"

Who's Who on a Biologist's BIO-List?
Retrieved by Pat Darnell and Friends | [SOURCE]

EXCERPT | By Ashley Hayes, CNN April 30, 2010 HERE
" ...More than 400 species are threatened by the spill, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Thursday, citing the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

"When you stop and begin considering everything that this could impact, it really is stunning," Karen Foote, biologist administrator with the department, told the newspaper.

" ...According to a 1998 study by Louisiana State University, more than 500 million birds fly over the Gulf and enter the United States along coastal areas in Louisiana and Texas each spring.

The barrier islands east of Louisiana's Lake Pontchartrain have still not recovered from the blow dealt by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Bossart said, and a spill such as this one could seriously threaten their recovery.

' ..."I think at this point it would be wrong to say it's catastrophic, because it really hasn't hit any area except out in the Gulf proper," he said. But "it's certainly a very serious thing" that could pose a long-term environmental challenge.'

[(Sources Unknown) Pictured here are Gulf Coast animals to be affected by oil spills: from plankton to bobcats, .... Yes, Loggerhead Turtles too ... No joke.]

[Read Entire Article HERE ...]

Shopping Clubs Cage Matches: COSTCO Opens a can of Whup Ass

Costco Crushes Sam's and BJ's
by Shawn Ward, Geezeo Co-Founder for MainStreet.com

Costco, BJs, and Sam’s Club are wholesale shopping clubs and warehouse stores that offer their members a lot of benefits. However, I haven’t been in any of them for years, so it’s a good time to consider them as a means of containing my growing grocery bills. With what’s going on in the economy right now, I’m willing to investigate new strategies to help slim down my budget!

In my case, I’ll probably have to work hard, [that is] to keep deals I don’t need, ..from hopping into my cart! If I go for the bulk bags of flour and sugar or the massive carton of pasta, then I’d have to plan where to store these goodies in my space-limited house. Also, I need to make sure I can’t get the necessities on my list at a cheaper price from area grocery stores or Amazon.com. Still, buying in bulk is a well-known cost saving strategy, so overall I’m definitely interested in exploring more of what these warehouse stores have to offer shoppers.(A Look At Costco, Sam’s Club and Other Wholesale Shopping Clubs, by Millie Kay G. on October 12, 2008 HERE)

-- or t'is it the Time of the Season for Giving ...a Good punch to the chops of your local shopping club service employee.. YIKES! [really -- don't punch anyone, okay?]?


Comment by Mad Customer: [SOURCE] The Costco stores in the valley (Phoenix AZ) operate this same scam. They always try to use the analogy of ‘It’s like a gym membership …’. They train their employees to say the same analogy (Last year, several Costco employees used the same analogy …hmmmmm.). This is completely ridiculous. Believe me, you are not the first person that has called Costco on this unfair and deceptive business practice.

kchieff 11:14:31 AM Dec 07 2008
I love this quote:"One problem for Wall Street is that Costco pays its workers much better than archrival Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT ) does and analysts worry that Costco's operating expenses could get out of hand. "At Costco, it's better to be an employee or a customer than a shareholder," says Deutsche Bank (DB ) analyst Bill Dreher. "