America’s Revenge
The Environment Agency have been called to Southampton to investigate a leak in a pipeline controlled by American oil giants Exxon (Esso to Brits). It is believed this Yankee oil could be seeping into the English channel. Will the coalition now embark on a sustained trashing of Exxon’s share price? Guido can’t quite see Dave going round demanding to know “whose ass to kick”.
UPDATE : Exxon have got in touch:
In view of your latest blog and comment that oil could be seeping into the English channel, please find attached a statement from Esso on the spill last night at Fawley marine terminal. The amount of oil released is estimated at 20 barrels.
Statement 5 – Oil Spill at Fawley Marine Terminal
Monday 21 June 2010
We can confirm that at 9.20 pm on Sunday 20 June there was a release of oil from a pipeline at the company’s Marine Terminal at Fawley.
The incident happened whilst a ship was being unloaded. The offloading was immediately stopped and the pipeline valve closed. We are collecting
any residual oil from the leak site until the pipe can be drained completely. The amount of oil released is estimated at 20 barrels.We immediately deployed our local oil spill response procedures and informed the Harbour Master and the relevant environmental agencies.
KICK ASS
I think Obama said he had to be told by Fishermen whose ass to kick.
We don’t have any fishermen.
Dave will be directionless.
I can vouch it is true I was sailing by there on Saturday. Obama had better get this cleaned up fast so I can get my life back.
I’m in Braintree, Essex. Where do I send my claim?
Hold on OH, this was clearly just a brief practice run. Suggest you wait for the real thing to happen as there is no point in wasting your cash on 2 postage stamps is there?
He should ask the Spanish.
Bum bum bum bum esso blue
Put a tiger in your tank
National Ben’s Hole was always good for a bit of extra mileage in the 1960s.
OT
American fleet accompanied by Israeli warships headed through the Suez towards the Red Sea.
show down time with Iran?
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/06/19/Report-US-fleet-allowed-through-Suez/UPI-79431276991163/
“It’s a joy ride with Super National whether it’s rainy or fine”…………………
Oh ze Esso sign meenz appy motering . . . not any more it don’t.
ah petrol was 2s 1d a gallon,those were the days
I’m going well, I’m going Shell
Liar, I’m 55 and I remember the Esso blue ads
Hello Joe! Guesso who?
It is international Karma. The two countries who lied the most to go to war in the Gulf for oil, now find that oil in the Gulf is their biggest problem!!!
Agreed
That should be:
It is international Karma. The two countries who lied the most to go to war in the Gulf for oil, now find that their own oil in their own Gulf is their biggest problem!!!
we ‘re not fucking Yanks. we know theres two different Gulfs in that
Brit, do not take my clarification personally. That clarification I posted was for the yanks that do stray here from time to time.
There were many Americans who thought that the gulf wars against Iraq took place in the Gulf of Mexico, after all.
I asked my brother to bring back some tortillas from the gulf and all I got was this shi’ite T-Shirt.
*snort*
Top post, Smig
Twenty barrels? That’s not a leak, it’s a dribble.
About 1000 gallons.
Some dribble
Not even Gordon on a bad day managed that much
Compared to the Gulf of Mexico spill, it’s a dribble.
Sue them for every penny they’ve got – and lets set up a kangaroo court to pre-judge them whilst we are at it – yankee b*stards
What an absurd number of “fuck the yanks” comments. If this applies to all of us, then you people can suck my septic cock.
Now I go posting comments to earn an honest bob,
For a windowlicking ‘merkin its an interesting job.
Now it’s a job that just suits me,
A windowlicker you would be,
If you could post with smiles and glee
When I’m lickin’ windows.
Oilspilling ‘merkins,
You should hear them whine and whinge,
They’re so fat because they binge,
When I’m lickin’ windows.
Perhaps you are slowly begiinning to learn that the rest of the world does not appreciate your warmongering arrogance as you trample over everyone else thinking nothing matter outside US. And I hope iot is Septic and drops off shortly
If you are indeed British, “Arsehole” that’s a rich load of shit. Or have you forgotten the British Empire? Ok, so maybe you have — it’s been awhile since you lot had any influence over anyone. I am American and I left my country for political reasons BEFORE any wars were waged. And anyone who blames an entire country’s citizens for the actions of its government is both a moron and a Hunt.
hoon, cůnt, same thing.
When it leaks 100,000 barrels a day? When it destroys all the fishing around Cornwall?
And when in the midst of that the CEO of Esso goes to a yacht race to see his own boat race?
And when the Chairman of Esso refers to all of the people in your country as ‘small people’?
Then you can get upset.
For now you just sound a bit out of touch with the sheer overwhelming reality of what’s actually going on in the Gulf of Mexico.
You’re better than that, Guido.
Want to comment on what Occidental and Shell are doing, too?
We’ve been forgotten by America – they paid us US$470 million for 25,000 dead yet Obama wants US$20 billion at least for 11 dead and some prawn fishermen’s wages.
What a CNUT Obama is
Of course, it’s different.
As was, one is sure, Bhopal.
Pass the wedge, caddy, it needs further driving in.
the fishing was terrible in bhopal before the leaks
I understand the tea served in Bhopal tastes a bit acrid and doesn’t actually need any tea leaves to look like tea!
But who cares, I am an American who lives in Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York and also own houses in Vero Beach, Florida and Greenwich, Connecticut. I also feign to be deaf and senile when confronted by activists about the Bhopal disaster.
You’ll be with me shortly for a long taster of how hot coals can be
If the septics don’t want the oil, I suggest to BP to sell it to someone else.
Then the ‘merkins can go ask Palin to drill in Alaska.
It’s about time the yanks shat in their own backyard instead of everyone elses.
Yeah, cuz everyone knows there’s no drilling going on in Alaska. Never has been. Never will be. Never.
In fact, those awful Merkins have never drilled in their own country. Miserable twats. No drilling going on there. Never has been. Never will be. Never.
Nobody knows the true extent of the Gulf of Mexico spill.
There are massively conflicting reports from on the one hand, “a bad but manageable spill that will be capped soon and we will all have forgotten about it in the next 5 – 10 years.”
to
“the dispersants BP are using are evaporating and forming toxic clouds that will cause massively toxic rain to fall and kill ALL microbial life and all life in the food-chain above that too, across the entire eastern USA.”
The conspiracy sites are having a field day of paranoia and alarm, as are the climate alarmists who are enjoying joining in, as are the Anti-Americans and the Anti-British.
The one thing that is lost in all the cacophony and fear based hype is the truth.
Journalists are not being allowed into the area. But then neither are many clean-up crews who have offered their time, expertise and equipment. Many clean up ships have been impounded and we have no idea why.
There is no verifiable truth getting out into the public domain.
Obama is certainly NOT going to let this fiasco and catastrophe go to waste. He will milk-it for all he can get out of it.
“kill ALL microbial life and all life in the food-chain above that too, across the entire eastern USA”
That reminds me of a joke about ten thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean.
Death to the oil guzzlers
Mmmm oil. Better than gravy on lard pies. I love lard pies, me.
Does thee remember that time I punched that farmer? That impressed the ladies back at the office. Got me some action off of that there Tracy lass.
To carry on from before:
The other scare is that somehow the oil is also highly radioactive.
So we have deadly toxic clouds ready to kill all life in the eastern USA and we have radioactive oil which will kill everything else, and that which it does not kill, will presumably, mutate into monsters that will kill us all.
And if we survive that, then the coming solar-storm will unleash a solar flare so intense that it will ignite the oil (down into the earth’s mantle) unleashing an explosion do huge that it risks cracking the very earth in two and kill us all.
And if we survive that, then the economic apocalypse that all this death and destruction will cause, will cause us to starve to death.
OH And this is all deliberate and caused, on purpose, by the new world order Satanist bankers who are doing this as their depopulation plan so that they can live in peace on the global plantation.
The conspiracy sites (comics) are out-doing themselves over this scare.
It all sounds like utter bullshit to me.
BP has got its side, Barry Omaha has got his side of the story, and somewhere in between is the truth.
The joy of a blame culture. I bet the lawyers are rubbing their hands with glee over this.
Work this scenario up into a Superhero before the boys and girls at Marvel or DC comics can. Remember – they’ve got to get new concepts ‘greenlit’ (or is ‘greenlighted’ the correct usage) by layers of middle management now they’ve got shareholders to answer to: you’re just a hungry cartoonist with an idea to sell…
Stop panicking. Everything is radioactive to some extent.
There are two common isotopes of carbon, carbon 12 and carbon 14. Carbon 14 is radioactive (a bit – not much), and is present in all carbon compounds – oil, coal, carbon-based life forms. Assessing the ratio of carbon 12 to carbon 14 is how radio-carbon dating works.
Is the oil radioactive? Yes, a bit. But it’s less radioactive than you and me, and significantly less radioactive than the plaster on the walls of your living room.
So – no need to panic.
A good start on plugging that damned hole. Except, like shit, they tend to float.
The shit sticks and burns like fuck when they use it in weapons
When’s Cameron going golfing?
He’s trying to get a twosome scheduled with Captain Kick-ass. He’ll have to get in the queue though. There are plenty of two-bit dictators in front of him, and Captain Kick-ass can only find time for two or three games a week. He’s terribly busy focusing like a laser on that little spill thingy in the Gulf.
That new slick must be one hell of a big fucker
Never heard of pouring oil on troubled waters?.
So which bright spark released the SBS to even things up a touch? Great idea! We must now demand that EXXON place on one side 40 trillion dollars to cover the clean up and compensate all the users of the Channel, the bathers and all the TV and radio audiences who will have to put up with all the coverage and political comment when they could be watching Wane Rooney throwing his toys out of his pram again!!
Fuck all the Yanks
I want compensation. I am in Birmingham and I am sure that the smell is making me ill. I am sure Esso can afford to send me a million or so.
Evacuate the south coast,and the french can do their coast too.
“I want compensation. I am in Birmingham”
You’ll get twice as much if you’ve been unlucky enough to end up in West Brom.
There’s nothing wrong with West Bromwich!
Certainly less than there was before you left it, yes…
I live in Birmingham, Alabama and I am sure I am affected by this Exxon leak too.
I want my share of the $20bn from BP and I am confident that my main man , Obama The Messiah will force Exxon to cough up too.
This is a sure-fired great scheme to get the Good Ol’ US of A going again and pay off my mortgage I took out but could not afford.
Calm down; it was just me going for a swim.
Were you swimming in Southampton last year?
Come on! Admit it! You fouled the pool!
http://www.citylocal.co.uk/Southampton/news-in-Southampton/Council-Swimming-Pool-set-for-temporary-closure-47088/
Looking forward to Guardian live webchat at 3pm. Do join in http://bit\ly/cxts5f
At least McDoom isn’t still in office. That Hunt would just throw a Nokia at someone and then appear in the Commons like a dribbling mong to ramble some semi-coherent bullshit about something being “the right thing to do”, before going off to get one of his carers to replace his soiled underwear.
Did someone mention an ass to lick?
Wassup motherfuckaz? Check dis shit, dawg. We aint takin no shizzle from you limies. Give us any shit and I’ll reach for my uzi to pop a cap in yo ass. I’m off to get me some hot boot-ay. Peace out, bitchez.
Hey Barry Hoosain!
You had enough of picking tarballs yet? And to think that cotton was tough on the fingers, eh?
Ya awl know I’s doing good fer a black fella
I’m going to be booting bottoms on this one.
Tricky subject if you went to Eton.
Wasn’t this a story from March 2009? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7924680.stm
I’d do whatever Bush and Cheney tell me to do.
We’re coming home, we’re coming home, we’re coming, England’s coming home.
Bring Kruggerands with you.
Your 100k per week club salaries will be worthless by the time the domestic season kicks off.
Please don’t bother. I only wanted a tiny shit and now look what you’ve done.
That’s our rice ration fucked (Portugal 7-NK 0) and the chicken dinner on kim il Sungs birthday.
Gordon Brown would know what to do!
Or Blair. I seem to remember he has a “slick” PR machine
All that oil reminds me of chicken drenched in black bean sauce. I’m famished!
The walls of my room are lovely and soft.
Not as lovely and soft as my ‘friend’ from Canterbury’s rug.
I’m stroking it right now.
Is her rug neatly trimmed? And does it have a fresh fragrance?
no very rough and has a distinct leak somewhere
Overdone it with the turkey baster.
Canterbury mis-heard and thought she asked for a bowser.
Carina TRIMingham. So well named
Perhaps we should bring in the Russians. They are good at stopping oil supplies.
How many muzees does it take to change a lightbulb?
What’s a lightbulb?
hang an american … doesnt matter who. its not like Obama gave much of a toss who he found as a foreign scapegoat.
Is Ruby Wax around? Can’t stand that gobby Hunt.
Around? She hasn’t got a waist, it’s an equator.
Boom! boom!
When I die, the mother-in-law said she’d dance on my grave.
Fair enough, said I, I’m getting buried at sea.
I’ve got oil in my underpanties.
No, Gordon. That’s soil.
I rang up to see if I could get some benefits for my dog.
The man said “Sorry Sir, you can’t get benefits for pets”
I replied “But he’s black, smells, doesn’t work and can’t speak a word of English”
My benefits come through on Monday
Afternoon, sir. I like the cut of your jib but that “joke” is illegal, sir. Please walk this way, but without the exaggerated mincing. Over.
Well worth reading this on Transocean the company that has caused the BP spill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transocean
They have a very poor safety record and they are American!
Extract from Wikipaedia.
On May 14, 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama stated, “…executives of BP and Transocean and Halliburton falling over each other to point the finger of blame at somebody else,” when referring to the congressional hearings held during the continued flow of oil in the Gulf of Mexico resulting from an oil rig platform explosion. “The American people could not have been impressed with that display, and I certainly wasn’t.”
Is it just possible that our media has taken Obama’s comments out of context, removed any balancing comment and dleiberately painted Obama as antiBritish because it suited their agenda?
Perish the thought.
With the help and assistance of BP’s PR machinery?
He forgot to mention that ultimately it’s all Bush’s fault. Everything bad that happens is, you know.
Captain Kick-ass has repeatedly fallen all over himself to mention Bush any time anything goes wrong. Joltin’ Joe Biden has told us the same thing too.
Jeez, get with the program guys.
Maybe Obama should go and kick his own “ass” now.
We should get those numpties Bart Stupak (not a proper name) & Henry Waxman to testify to an extremely hostile and partisan court – prefereably with all the questions coming from Sun or Mail readers – although I doubt either of them are brave enough to venture outside of US
A facebook court.Oh dreams
Now would be the time to do it with the Cubs loo</Bsing 12 nothing o the Angels.
Say Hello to the Angels!
What was missing from Obama’s diatribes was mention of the involvement of the American partners in the well, Halliburton and Transocean (who were both (allegedly) intimately involved in operations and equipment maintenance); and any discussion of who was responsible for the decisions which led up to the accident.
There is now another company (Anadarko) which apparantly has a financial interest in the well and is now trying to duck out of the financial obligations that come with high reward, high risk investments.
One thing is certain; there will come a time when an American oil giant is in BP’s position and Obama will get his reward.
Except any American firm in BP’s position would just hire a team of lawyers, write a cheque for the $75m (or whatever the law says they must pay – assuming it’s less than the real cost) and tell the other country to go fuck themselves. Which is precisely what BP should do to America and Omaha.
Isn’t Omaha what Barack calls his mummy or is that the latest place they think he first appeared as The Messiah? ;o)
BP probably weren’t even operating the rig – Transocean probably supplied the drill crew. Anything to do with servicing the BOP would have been run by an American company, haliburton or Cameron or Baker Tools. The spill is extremely unfortunate, but the blame certainly isn’t all on BP’s part.
I suspect in future, deepwater wells probably wont be allowed to go into the production phase untill a relief well has been drilled and capped on standby.
Struck me that there appears not to have been any contingency plan or fail safe backup in place for a blow out (esp in deep water), its not as if this hasn’t happened before, Yanks just pissed that the shit has floated under their own doorstep for once. Who ‘regulated’ elf and safety in the oil industry in America O’Bummer?, you could try blaming the Burning Bush.
You got that right
Is it a good time to post a link to the “Jones Act”?
We should start a Facebook group like this for the ignorant to rant on: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-BP/119101198107726
The one thing I have learned about “protest” groups on facebook is that the collective IQ of the members never raises above 10!
There is occasionally a single person who knows what they are talking about, but they are rare and shouted down and outnumbered by people who insist on writing in the almost totally illegible L337 TXT language.
Even when the intelligent person raises a point in agreement with the protest, if it is legible, cogent, well thought out and well written, it is hounded.
It really worries me that a lot of the people on these groups are eligible to vote.
I recall reading about the wisdom of groups, that there is a meeting of minds that finds the wisdom in any group of people, that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and this allows the group to solve issues and find wisdom.
Facebook is the opposite in action as it tends to sink to the lowest level of the group and logic, wisdom, reason and articulation are lost.
If you want a giggle go have a read of the threads on the Facebook Democracy UK forum.
More windowlickers and lefty apologists than you can shake a stick at.
The most noise comes from the shallow end of the pool!
a bit like this blog
A Facebook mob is still a mob.
The mob intellect is switched off and emotions rule the actions. You are either with the mob or against it; there is no third way and no possibility of discussion, debate, or reasoned argument.
we need a mass debate perhaps and discuss the first thing that comes up
Obviously Hayward hit this with his yacht
I bet it was his Howard Keel …fnar fnar!
Death to oil spills! And Death to anything else that we decide Death to.
And please give me benefits please.
Oh, Ahmad, you don’t have to say please. You can have whatever you wish. Please don’t say I’m an islamophobe. Pleeeeease.
May I shine your sandals?
It is of course ironic that the worst polluter in the northern hemisphere is in fact the country that is complaining most about the horrific pollution of its own creation on its own doorstep.
The fact is that all Governments enjoy the loot from oil deposits, their agencies make the safety rules for oil companies to follow, and should police those same rules objectively.
Many in the US know full well BP are not wholly to blame, it’s only the incompetents and the corrupt in the US administration that want to present it that way!
The only loser is the planet, and us, for having a gutless unelected PM who has no mandate, just like the last!
well fuck off to another planet you plank
I’ll third that **PUFF PUFF TOKE COUGH**
Feed me. Now.
Splooge all over me.
At least buy me a drink first.
where would you like it splooging first ?
I sank to my knees, lowered his zip, took out his semi erect penis and felt it grow in my mouth. I sucked him long and hard. Took it right to the back of my throat and finally when he’d given me a huge dollop of extra thick cream, he said; “Thanks David, but there was no need. Your husband settled the milk bill last night.”
oooooooooooooooooooooer….er…..gulp….oooooooooooooooer…book him danone
I love these occasional bodice-rippers
Plagiarist………… FF:::FF:FF Fetch a cloth Gordon!
Okay Dave, time for the UK to get serious over Google’s infringement of privacy laws. I think a few thousand pounds each for every UK citizen affected by their breach of the Data Protection Act should settle the BP account.
Don’t you?
Is it just me or does Claire Balding look like a sex changed Ed Balls ?
“I’m a lady”
We can now reveal that Yvette Cooper is Willie Carson in drag.
Saw the liebour party mouthpiece aka the BBC had Mrs Balls on this morning and gave prominence to the ramblings of two-jags as if it was gospel.
Quick reminder: who was it that left this country totally fucked and drowning in debt?
the Corporation “is into denial about the change of government and that’s why Peter (Mandelson) is still taken so seriously here”. The Deep Throat goes on to point out that “Alastair Campbell can more or less dictate when he appears and there are people here who genuinely thought it was a coup that we managed to get Lord Prescott to host Have I Got News for You.” Janet Daley, DT 21 June 2010
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/janetdaley/100044210/has-the-bbc-noticed-the-change-in-government/
So it isn’t us imagining it. The remarks in the comments section seem to agree.
I really wanted that little jockey with the gappy teeth to punch her in the mouth when she mocked him on live telly.
Fucking ugly, fat, hypocritical, lint licking, spiteful twat!
I don’t like Claire Balding.
She is yet another fucking carpet muncher!
So much for positive discrimination in the media. They should be forced to recruit straights only for at least the next decade.
Fucking hell.
This could be worth a listen.remember he is being hunted by the US Gestapo for having the shit on them.
Wikileaks: Julian speaking to EU Parliamentarians 06-21-2010 – live stream available 830am EST
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1107401/pg1
Not live yet.
http://www.alde.eu/en/details/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnewstt_news=23424&cHash=137ca875fb
Two cows are stood in a field.
One says “Moo.”
The other says “You bastard, I was going to say that!”
Another cow said “baaa! (I’m learning a foriegn language)”
Notice the BBC never told us this one.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/06/21/2010062101166.html
I expect BP will function quite well, even with faulty American equipment while Hayward has a day off sailing. The biggie is, how will America manage to get by when their “ass kicking ijut” is playing golf?
I never bothered to turn up when bloated corpses were floating around in the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana.
We can – but you’re not funny
Neither is tat but we all roll around pretending to laugh
He’s one of ours, so we have to laugh
tat is the best incentive I ever had to do that pile of ironing that Mr. nell never does
20 fucking barrels, FFS.
I leave more oil stuck to the side of my sink after a ‘Polish shower’.
Speaking of oil spills, I was a bit bored wating for Lady S to get ready and was watching a re-run of Dallas the other night and decided to play dr*nk-along-a-Sue-Ellen – Each time she had a snorter I had one with her, I was well p*issed by the second lot of adverts.
By ‘eck she could sup!
Back to Humpin Huhne for a moment. As I recall, everyone including the great hypocrite himself, noted how noble Laws acted in resigning swiftly, and not hanging on, so bringing his government into disrepute hoping his scandal would wash away. No, it was only the ministers in the evil previous administration who did that – everything’s different now.
It’s all within the rules!
Well, cover me in salad dressing and call me Daisy, if it isn’t another oil spill. I’ve made a few spills of my own in my time!
sounds like 20 billion quids worth of damages from Exxon then and the chairman and directors up against a commons committe
I had a spill on a young intern’s dress once, that cost America about €20 billion.
Tell me about it, lad! Except for the $20billion. More like £5 and a Kit-Kat in my case.
Listen you fat slob take yourself off to the ermine fitters and get your arse lined ready for the initiation ceremony when you join us.
‘ey, lad! My lass is blowing me vuvuzela! I’ll get to me own special fitters later. They’re called High & Mighty and specialise in gents of a healthy proportion.
20 barrels of oil? That’s less than what is released when Capello shakes his head.
Right I’m off to the garage to fill up with petrol then down to Lidl to stock up with B0oze, then to the post office to get £15k of interest free indexed linked savings certificates.
bring us a bag of chips on your way back
Mates condoms are 2 for £10 in Sainsbury
24 johnnies for a tenner – bargain!
They’re free from your family planning clinic. Shag your way to tax break-even.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7843752/India-to-press-for-extradition-of-Bhopal-gas-leak-boss.html
Fuck me Guido your site is read afar.
Poor old Pavlos getting the scare treatment. Just wait until one of them fucking south Africans come before me.
I never realised it was a criminal offence in South Africa to actively look for a public convenience before doing a dump.
Or to wear an orange dress.
Strange penal code, South Africa appears to have.
The next world cup England are involved in, I’m going to invent a car flag that can fly at half mast …
That way I can get another 2 weeks of use and not feel robbed of 2 quid
Me Mar just said Liverpool cemetary’s sent the fee back for the family grave saying they don’t want any fucking losers burying there.
There aren’t so many around this week. Should all be gone come thursday morning. It’s no fun riding a bike when they come past with a rush of air and a flick on the ear.
Total Rubbish
Keith Vaz was just enjoying a swim#
20 barrels of ghee is a normal disharge for Keith
Obama will be visiting Bhopal soon to see how ‘people of colour’ are coping with Neo-Colonialist polluters who flee to First World mansions leaving pollution in their wake without going to jail nor depositing $20 billion in the “Community Chest”
see venables has been downloading kiddie porn.
Does this mean we can pillage US shipping now
“We immediately deployed our local oil spill response procedures and informed the Harbour Master and the relevant environmental agencies”.
That’ll be a guy with a mop & bucket then & you’ll have left a note on the office window no doubt
Are there any Yanks on here if so can I have your address so’s I can come roond & leave a deposit in yer garden
I’m a Yank, Scott. I have a wonderful garden and am need of many deposits. My address is 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Bring your friends.
I forgot to add that I grow my own vegetables. One of them even became Vice President. Another is now Speaker of the House.