Gulf oil spill spreading; almost 50 miles long and 40 miles wide
An slick of oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig off the coast of Louisiana, shown here in an aerial photograph taken Monday, is still several days from landfall, experts say. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Boy, so far this isn’t looking good…..
NEW ORLEANS — Coast Guard officials said Monday afternoon that the oil spill near Louisiana was now covering an area in the Gulf of Mexico of 48 miles by 39 miles at its widest points, and they have been unable to engage a mechanism that could shut off the well thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface….
The Coast Guard also said in a statement Monday that an aircrew from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service spotted sperm whales in the vicinity of the oil spill on Sunday.
“The unified command is monitoring the situation and is working closely with officials from Fish and Wildlife, National Marine Fisheries Service and NOAA to understand the impact the spill and response activities may have on whales and other marine wildlife in the area,” the statement said.
Officials determined through weather patterns that the sheen of oil and water would remain at least 30 miles from shore at least until Tuesday. But states along the Gulf Coast have been warned to be on alert….
Doug Helton, a fisheries biologist who coordinates oil spill responses for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, said the oil emanating from the riser was taking the shape of a giant ice cream cone as it drifted toward the surface. He said there were no reports of dead animals yet, although that was expected to change if the leaks were not sealed.
BP, the oil field lease holder, says it has dispatched 32 spill-response vessels (skimmers, tugs, barges, recovery vessels) and five aircraft to the scene to try to control the spread of oil. “In Houma, La. where the field operations response is being coordinated, almost 500 personnel on- and offshore have already been deployed to coordinate the oil spill response,” the company said.
And as the Wall Street Journal notes, BP’s efforts are being closely watched by others with a lot at stake in the outcome:
“The rest of the oil and gas industry will no doubt be supporting BP in this endeavor. If the oil slick reaches the shore it will turn what is already a human tragedy into an environmental disaster. This could have consequences for the Obama administration’s plans to open the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic seaboard to oil drilling.
“This is inevitably going to give environmentalists a stronger weapon to question whether operations like this should be expanded,” said another London-based industry analyst.
“The Gulf of Mexico had very tight regulations anyway to mitigate against any type of explosion. What else can they do? It’s difficult to see,” he said. Green groups will argue that, “if you demonstrably can’t prevent this from taking place, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it,” he said.”
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April 26th, 2010
11:07 pm
LD:
The little organisms produce octane.
Goodnight to you too.
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
11:10 pm
@@,
“You always need to command the board…sitting in wait with nuthin’ to do.”
Funny…I don’t remember me telling all the people on here they needed to say something about the 11 missing workers…hmmm.
“Haven’t heard the first leftist, here, mention them though.”
“Not a passing thought, unless of course….”
“Not one word from jay since the tragedy. Not one expression of concern from you leftists. “
Bruno
April 26th, 2010
11:14 pm
“As far as McCain, he was thrown under the bus as being an “old white man” by the youth and first timer voters”
Well, to be honest, Freeman, there is some truth in that. His best days were clearly behind him, and I’m speaking as a supporter. My opinion is that the Republicans kind of pulled a “Bob Dole” in that regard–he became the heir apparent by default in a year when the negative backlash from the preceding administration almost guaranteed defeat from the outset.
“But after watching her for a few weeks it was obvious she was, to be gracious about it, not ready for prime time.”
jc and AmVet–I full agree, as I believe any other honest person should. I’m still puzzled by those who think she still has a place at the table. And jc, you are excluded from my 10:38 comment–that is when you’re not going for the easy slander.
Logical Dude
April 26th, 2010
11:17 pm
Bruno,
As dangerous as Plutionium-239 is, and other radioactive materials, these amounts are miniscule compared to the amount of weakly radioactive bi-products. Clothes, containers, waste water, concrete, and other bi-products are also in need of disposal. These things will also be radioactive for a very long time.
If only Apple could create a “de-radioactivate” app. . .
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the Liar Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
April 26th, 2010
11:24 pm
It’s like a plane crash, they happen from time to time. Do we stop flying? But, that doesn’t mean we should give up on drilling in the US. Why be held hostage by the middle east? DRILL BABY DRILL!
Bruno
April 26th, 2010
11:24 pm
“These things will also be radioactive for a very long time.”
Certainly, hope I didn’t imply that the problem was limited to P-239. To my “engineering mind”, nuclear fission, and even fusion, come across as messy solutions to energy production. The vast energy of the ocean seems so much more tranquil to me. That is where I’m placing my hope, to exploit the relatively unlimited and renewable heat sink that comprise nearly 70% of the surface of the planet.
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
11:24 pm
Bruno,
“I full agree, as I believe any other honest person should”
Especially when he could have tapped women such as Kay Bailey Hutchison, Elizabeth Dole or even Condoleezza Rice (though Rice might have been a bit of liability as well).
All intelligent, proven politicians who happen to be women who could have filled the vacuum many women felt Clinton left.
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
11:26 pm
“t’s like a plane crash, they happen from time to time. Do we stop flying? ”
We have the NTSB investigate it, we learn from it, and we pass AD’s and/or regulation so we never let it happen again if it is a plane crash…
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
11:29 pm
Bruno,
Plus Condi already had the wardrobe…
http://badattitudes.com/MT/archives/RiceBoots.jpg
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the Liar Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
April 26th, 2010
11:33 pm
jewcowboy
What do you mean “we never let it happen again”? Plane crashes happen every year. You can’t stop them, pilot error, birds, old planes, terrorists.
Logical Dude
April 26th, 2010
11:33 pm
Bruno,
I understood you used Plutonium as an example for the half-life numbers. That’s one of those things I don’t keep in my head. (gotta look it up) But most people just think we need to get rid of the left over Uranium, Plutonium, and daughter elements. I was introducing that, along with stuff most people don’t think about (but since you know the half-life of Plutonium, I figured you knew that part as well).
So for each ton of highly radioactive waste, there’s probably 100 tons of lowly radioactive waste.
(extremely round numbers, could be 10 times, could be 1000, I just don’t know for sure)
@@,
little organisms that create octane out of CO2 is pretty awesome. That rings a bell from the Discovery channel or somewhere. but it sounds like you need huge huge huge organism farms to create enough methane to match a moderate natural gas well.
Freeman
April 26th, 2010
11:36 pm
“here are plenty of negative news stories about those subjects…”
Jewcowboy: Where?
“My opinion is that the Republicans kind of pulled a “Bob Dole” in that regard–he became the heir apparent by default in a year when the negative backlash from the preceding administration almost guaranteed defeat from the outset. ”
Actually McCain was labeled a RINO and a lot of conservatives either sat the election out or held their noses and voted for him. That’s the fact. And of course that Palin situation didn’t help. Look no further than his current standing in Arizona and the Republican challenger for his Senate seat.
“We have the NTSB investigate it, we learn from it, and we pass AD’s and/or regulation so we never let it happen again if it is a plane crash…”
jewcowboy: yet plane crashes continue to happen like that Delta ASA Connection CRJ-200 takeoff crash in Kentucky several years ago where both pilots didn’t get that they were on a 3,000 foot runway instead of the main 5000+ runway due to construction.
And then we have mechanical failures and tails snapping off like the America Airlines Airbus A300 crash in Queens NY.
Freeman
April 26th, 2010
11:39 pm
“Plane crashes happen every year. You can’t stop them, pilot error, birds, old planes, terrorists.”
Dude. Don’t you realize that the FAA is supposed to stop birds from flying into jet engines and prevent a rivet from popping out of an engine mount?
Bruno
April 26th, 2010
11:41 pm
“Plus Condi already had the wardrobe…”
Don’t know your take on it, considering your preferences are different from mine, but I’m betting Condi might be a hot roll in the hay.
“That’s one of those things I don’t keep in my head. (gotta look it up)”
LOL–Can’t claim to know it by heart, but I did recall that it was greater than 10,000 years which was what motivated me to recheck:
http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/issues/nuclear-energy-&-waste/nuclear-energy-fact-sheet.htm
Did you attend a science college? You seem very comfortable discussing technical issues.
Logical Dude
April 26th, 2010
11:44 pm
Freeman,
“Actually McCain was labeled a RINO”
I feel that there was a national backlash against Bush/Cheney, and McCain was the most outspoken about it, so he received the nomination from the majority of Republicans who felt the dismayed at the direction the party was taking. McCain was aiming at the center, when everyone else was running as far right as they could. Everyone else split their vote, while McCain took the majority.
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
11:45 pm
mmm,
“What do you mean “we never let it happen again”?
In Sept. 1963 SwissAir flight SR306 took off from Zurich in fog to Rome and crashed 19 miles after takeoff…the reason: the pilots used the engines to dissipate the fog on the runway leading to the brakes over heating and causing the tires to catch fire after the plane took off…that has never happened since 1963…
That is what I mean by never…investigate…find the cause…and make it so this will not happen again.
Bruno
April 26th, 2010
11:46 pm
“Actually McCain was labeled a RINO and a lot of conservatives either sat the election out or held their noses and voted for him. That’s the fact.”
I don’t have any numbers, but I think the Repubs came out in decent numbers. What was different this time was the overwhelming Democratic turnout. Young people and “minorities” turned out in record numbers.
Freeman and Logical Dude–I don’t know if both of you are new here, but I sincerely hope you come back and contribute again. I get a lot out of both of your posts, a refreshing change from the insult-a-second Libs who dominate the board with their stupid quips.
Logical Dude
April 26th, 2010
11:47 pm
Bruno,
“Did you attend a science college?”
Well, the University of Alabama, if that counts LOL
Studied Aerospace Engineering before transferring over to Physics & Astronomy. (BS)
So, yes, I know a little more than the average bear about radioactivity and shooting stuff into space.
Bruno
April 26th, 2010
11:49 pm
Alright, jc, here’s a song dedication your way. Hope it’s associated with a good memory in some way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSaC-YbSDpo
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the Liar Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
April 26th, 2010
11:49 pm
jewcowboy
I’m not sure the 50 year plane is still in service, but I’m fine with that, however accidents will ALWAYS happen.
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
11:52 pm
Freeman,
“And then we have mechanical failures and tails snapping off like the America Airlines Airbus A300 crash in Queens NY.”
And has that happened since? No, because the NTSB investigated…found the pilot of Flight 587 overused the rudder controls contrary to specs causing the failure. AA changed their pilot simulation training based on the NTSB’s finding…and no more A300’s from AA falling from the sky due to rudder damage.
Bruno
April 26th, 2010
11:52 pm
“Studied Aerospace Engineering before transferring over to Physics & Astronomy.”
Did you make a career out of it? For me, science is primarily a hobby. I attended a school called Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA in the late 70s, but left to pursue a career in health care.
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the Liar Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
April 26th, 2010
11:53 pm
Freeman
Dude. Don’t you realize that the FAA is supposed to stop birds from flying into jet engines and prevent a rivet from popping out of an engine mount?
Well, I guess they do a piss poor job, just like most government run
entities.
Logical Dude
April 26th, 2010
11:54 pm
Bruno,
I’m not new here, but since I work, I usually don’t get to post during the day. Most times, when I post, I’m wayyyy at the bottom, so I’m not sure how many people see the posts.
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
11:55 pm
Bruno @ 11.49,
nice…for you and Logical Dude:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_tVZFZ5PR4
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
11:57 pm
mmm,
“I’m not sure the 50 year plane is still in service, but I’m fine with that, however accidents will ALWAYS happen.”
Yes they will…just make sure they don’t happen the same way twice.
Bruno
April 26th, 2010
11:58 pm
On the Physics side, I’ve got several books by Richard Feynman on my shelves along with “The Road To Reality” by Roger Penrose. I bought a few Hawkings books out of curiosity, but don’t really care for his writing style. For Astronomy, I rely on several courses from the Teaching Company including a nice one from Alex Filippenko. Highly recommended unless you are very advanced.
Logical Dude
April 27th, 2010
12:03 am
Jewcowboy, LOL thanks for that!
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the Liar Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
April 27th, 2010
12:04 am
jewcowboy
Yeah, like taking off your shoes at the airport and scanning 90 year old ladies. I’m for some good old fashioned profiling. When black and white males and females start blowing up planes, get back with me.
Bruno
April 27th, 2010
12:04 am
“nice…for you and Logical Dude”
LOL–It might sound cruel, but one of the reasons I eschewed a career in science is due to all the weird people you end up hanging around with. No offense to any weird people on board tonight, of course.
jewcowboy
April 27th, 2010
12:05 am
Freeman,
“Dude. Don’t you realize that the FAA is supposed to stop birds from flying into jet engines and prevent a rivet from popping out of an engine mount?”
Yes they are…you should check out what they use at JFK to scare away geese…interesting read by the way:
http://www.amazon.com/Airport-James-Kaplan/dp/0688149545
And, yes, they do make sure the oldest fleet of planes in the western world keeps the rivets from popping…and do an amazing job at considering they chronically understaffed and over burdened…
jewcowboy
April 27th, 2010
12:07 am
mmm,
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/03/24/terrorists-use-explosives-breast-implants-crash-planes-experts-warn/
Bruno
April 27th, 2010
12:08 am
Actually, while at HMC, this song came out and seemed to describe the scene well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8rUe1E0olY
One of my classmates was Tony Li, who made CISCO billions of dollars:
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=53523
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the Liar Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
April 27th, 2010
12:13 am
jewcowboy
Like I said, show me the black or white male or female terrorist first.
jewcowboy
April 27th, 2010
12:17 am
mmm,
“Like I said, show me the black or white male or female terrorist first.”
Here you go:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/10/colleen-larose-jihad-jane-charges
jewcowboy
April 27th, 2010
12:18 am
mmm
And here is another:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh
jewcowboy
April 27th, 2010
12:21 am
mmm,
And another:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-6221055-504083.html
Freeman
April 27th, 2010
12:21 am
“And has that happened since? No, because the NTSB investigated…found the pilot of Flight 587 overused the rudder controls contrary to specs causing the failure. ”
Well that’s obvious jewcowboy. I take note that you didn’t have much to say about that pilot error in Kentucky. But your point is duly noted….like that American Airlines DC-10 crash in Chicago in the late ’70s where an engine maintenance snafu caused the left engine to rip away on takeoff and kill the slats. Or that United DC-10 Sioux City crash landing after engine two had an unconstrained engine failure and blew out the hydraulics.
Amazing how it takes a crash to learn, no?
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the Liar Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
April 27th, 2010
12:22 am
jewcowboy
Timothy McVeigh WASN’T on a plane, neither was David Koresh.
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the Liar Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
April 27th, 2010
12:26 am
jewcowboy
You are really reaching – I don’t believe Joe Stack went thru airport security.
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jewcowboy
April 27th, 2010
12:27 am
Freeman,
“like that American Airlines DC-10 crash in Chicago in the late ’70s”
That crash and the one in Paris, both avoidable, killed off an amazing and revolutionary aircraft.
jewcowboy
April 27th, 2010
12:29 am
mmm,
“jewcowboy
Like I said, show me the black or white male or female terrorist first.”
You said to show you a white or black male or female terrorist. I did. All terrorists are not Arab.
Bruno
April 27th, 2010
12:30 am
Later, guys.
jewcowboy
April 27th, 2010
12:31 am
mmm,
“When black and white males and females start blowing up planes, get back with me.”
Or are for advocating letting black and white go through minimal security until one does blow up an aircraft?
jewcowboy
April 27th, 2010
12:32 am
Bruno,
Later Bruno…nice chatting with you. I’m out as well.
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the Liar Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
April 27th, 2010
12:32 am
jewcowboy
No, but the ones bringing down the planes sure are – that was MY point. I said airports shold profile.
I believe the government already watches the Timothy McVeigh’s of the world.
Freeman
April 27th, 2010
12:56 am
‘That crash and the one in Paris, both avoidable, killed off an amazing and revolutionary aircraft.”
My uncle flew both the DC-10 and it’s successor the MD-11. It had design flaws from the beginning and there’s a reason why airlines like Delta dumped the MD-11. It was sketchy on landing flares due to the tail design, and that FexEd crash in Tokyo proved how unforgiving it was on a bad day in the office.
Been fun. G’nite.
Freeman
April 27th, 2010
1:04 am
FexEd? No. FedEx.
vince neil
April 27th, 2010
4:07 am
oil is not man made and it comes out of the ground naturally in many places…..and to all you smug stupid prius driving, cloth bag shopping at Publix hippies……….what happens to the batteries in your stupid hybrids after 100k miles?…..Just sayin here!
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin....
April 27th, 2010
5:03 am
In reality, the bill changes little in the way the House does business. For example, it places no limit on how much lobbyists can spend courting their friends in elective office. Three-hundred-dollar meals, $200 golf rounds, free tickets to the Masters and other sporting events — it’s all still legal. -Bookman
So is he talking about obozo or the Georgia state legislature?
Just sayin….
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin....
April 27th, 2010
6:03 am
Why do the socialists lie so much?-
But when Mr. Whitacre says GM has paid back the bailout money in full, he means not the entire $49.5 billion–the loan and the equity. In fact, he avoids all mention of that figure in his column. He means only the $6.7 billion loan amount.
Oh yeah, because the truth kills them, just sayin….
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin....
April 27th, 2010
6:17 am
Yet precisely because Stewart is viewed as the Lion of the Liberal Media, his wimpy response to an actual threat from a group presenting itself as just one more face of Islamic terror serves as a reminder of exactly why so many millions of Americans have come to mistrust President Obama or in fact any liberal when it comes to responding to America’s enemies. After all the touchy-feely Obama outreach to Iran — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad just continues to build his nuclear bombs anyway. Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry travel to Syria to make nice — but long range Scud missiles will go to Hezbollah anyway. And so on. Electing Obama was presented as the change that would make precisely this kind of threat to South Park go away. Oops.
There is nothing new here, really. Same thin soup, different bowl. Neville Chamberlain hosts The Daily Show. -AmSpec
Boo!, cowards.
There ain't no hypocrites around here, no sir.
April 27th, 2010
6:30 am
a refreshing change from the insult-a-second Libs who dominate the board with their stupid quips
Uh huh.
TaxPayer
April 27th, 2010
6:52 am
… Both companies failed to provide a competent crew, failed to properly supervise its employees and failed to provide Rushto with a safe place to work, according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The lawsuit also names oil-services giant Halliburton as a defendant, claiming that the company “prior to the explosion, was engaged in cementing operations of the well and well cap and, upon information and belief, improperly and negligently performed these duties, which was a cause of the explosion… “
Florida Chamber of Commerce
April 27th, 2010
7:01 am
Come visit Destin’s beautiful black sands beaches. And take home a free sample while you’re at it.
USinUK
April 27th, 2010
7:05 am
totally off-topic, but in response to the top story about the kid who died in the back of the car …
… how many times to we have to read these stories before we stiffen the penalties against these parents??? this is criminal negligence. period. and I’m sick of reading about kids baking to death because their parents “forgot they were in the back seat”
BP executive
April 27th, 2010
7:06 am
Do we still have those commercials with the animals playing happily around our facilities? We might need to start showing those more. A lot more. We’ve got an image to maintain. Is Sarah Palin available to do an ad for us.
Normal
April 27th, 2010
7:08 am
AmSpec…
Louisiana Real Estate Agent
April 27th, 2010
7:10 am
Prime sites for oil refineries for sale. Readily available raw materials for your operation. You can literally walk right out the door and scoop it up. Free processing lessons available from Canada’s tar sands industry. Co-sponsored by Exxon, a world-renowned expert in the field.
Normal
April 27th, 2010
7:14 am
Soory about the above, folks…Whiner is just too funny in the mortning.
Happy, happy Tuesday to all y’all…
USinUK
April 27th, 2010
7:05 am
I agree totally. These parents should be publically horsewhipped.
Does this kind of thing go on much across the pond?
Normal
April 27th, 2010
7:16 am
BP executive,
Put Sarah in a red, white and blue bikini, and have her do a pole dance on a rig with an oily drill post…
stands for decibels
April 27th, 2010
7:17 am
Stewart is viewed as the Lion of the Liberal Media
I had no idea that a cheezy little cable-tv comedy sketch show had right wingers so terrified.
stands for decibels
April 27th, 2010
7:19 am
Or, put another way:
STEWART: You’re on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls.
Louisiana Real Estate Agent
April 27th, 2010
7:20 am
Put Sarah in a red, white and blue bikini, and have her do a pole dance on a rig with an oily drill post…
Do you mind if we use that idea too. We need something to boost real estate sales down here. Times are tough and people are resorting to all sorts of “activities” just to make ends meet.
TaxPayer
April 27th, 2010
7:22 am
Jon Stewart is the man. THE one true source of fair and balanced reporting on cable. That’s what has the FOXy people so skeered.
USinUK
April 27th, 2010
7:29 am
Jon Stewart — when he criticizes Obama, he’s credible … when he criticizes the GOP, he’s the “Lion of the Liberal Media”
(of course, the fact that he’s on Comedy Central … let me say that again … COMEDY CENTRAL … seems to elude them)
Normal – we don’t get the high temps here that you do in the States – I can’t remember reading of situations like this since I’ve been here (4 years on Sat)
Soothsayer
April 27th, 2010
7:30 am
What could possibly go wrong?
stands for decibels
April 27th, 2010
7:31 am
THE one true source of fair and balanced reporting on cable.
While I too enjoy this ensemble’s work, I respectfully disagree.
TDS is not tasked with being “fair and balanced” (although I think they often achieve a laudable degree of fairness when they skewer left- and right-wing stupidity). TDS is tasked with making people laugh. Period.
And another thing–the program’s primary focus is not politicians–it is how politicians (and other newsmakers) are shaped by the media. Essentially, TDS makes fun of TeeVee news. That’s it.
That’s the entire show, that is its entire agenda.
Yes, it has become popular enough that The Daily Show actually becomes the story at times and the comedy becomes sufficiently meta that it seems as if it’s bigger than that. But it isn’t; if it ever became so full of itself that it was, truly, abut more than its actual mission, it would cease to be funny.
(I realize this is about the 27th time I’ve made some variant of this point, but I feel it needs to be said now and again.)
stands for decibels
April 27th, 2010
7:32 am
(4 years on Sat)
Do you celebrate, or quietly mourn? (I hope it’s the former…)
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin....
April 27th, 2010
7:32 am
Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure that the liberal tendency to be brave in the face of little old church ladies while cowering in fear of Muslim fanatics extends across all of the dummycrat legions, with Jon Stewart being your spineless representative, um, just sayin…
USinUK
April 27th, 2010
7:34 am
dB – this time of year, I soooooo miss the dogwoods and azaleas …
USinUK
April 27th, 2010
7:37 am
whiner (and his ilk) seem to confuse “Orange Alert!! Orange Alert! DefCon PoopyPants!! Duct Tape and Plastic Sheeting!!” with courage …
Rightwing Troll
April 27th, 2010
7:41 am
How many “rightists” here have openly mourned for those poor brave oil welling souls in the gulf?
Show of hands? Anybody? Beuller?…
Oh wait, I see @@ was “mourning” thier losses three posts before she started denigrating “leftists” for not mourning them…
Highly suspect… more Crocodile tears… again….
Outhouse GoKart
April 27th, 2010
7:43 am
Accidents are gonna happen. BP will do whats right to clean up the oil. I have faith in them.
Normal
April 27th, 2010
7:44 am
Whiner JUST has to be a sarcasm expert. He really can’t believe what he’s saying. He’s got to be a right wing version of Scrooge McDuck.
Rightwing Troll
April 27th, 2010
7:46 am
Andy talking about bravery… hehe… Then original porch dog who hides under the porch and barks all day, the man who sees fear in every person who’s skin color contains a bit of pigment, the man so full of false bravado he would shoot any strange mexican or Barney Frank on sight (no questions asked), talking about bravery. (more like he’s run screaming into the night at the sight of Bawney)
Remember the video of the tee nuts protesting, Andy was the guy throwing dollars at the other guy in a wheelchair, and here he stands yelling something about Jon Stewart and church ladies and bravery…
Normal
April 27th, 2010
7:46 am
Anybody mourn this guy?
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/homeless-good-samaritan-left-495303.html
The Carnivore
April 27th, 2010
7:47 am
1800 square miles? Write an article when it gets to 100,000 square miles, not now.
Rightwing Troll
April 27th, 2010
7:48 am
BP will do what’s right to clean it up enough to keep the EPA off thier backs. The government and insurance companies will have to handle the rest.
Soothsayer
April 27th, 2010
7:48 am
Oil leaking from sunken rig spreads north
Normal
April 27th, 2010
7:48 am
Whiner’s theme song is “Loony Tunes”.
stands for decibels
April 27th, 2010
7:48 am
Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong
Ain’t enough hours in the day for that, Andy.
USinUK
April 27th, 2010
7:52 am
Normal – 7:44 – I thought that was Mallard Filmore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallard_Fillmore
stands for decibels
April 27th, 2010
7:52 am
@@ was “mourning” their losses three posts before she started denigrating “leftists” for not mourning them…
I was going to let that be, but her comment was especially bizarre given that the very first comment on this thread was from AmVet specifically mourning the human loss.
Anyway, Loseranna sheets upstairs.
stands for decibels
April 27th, 2010
7:53 am
one last thing:
I thought that was Mallard Filmore
Naw, Whiner and Scrooge McDuck are occasionally funny.
Sarah
April 27th, 2010
7:54 am
I’m just gonna have to throw me a hissy fit and go shoot me some more caribou if one more person asks me how that deregulation thingy is going. You betcha.
Soothsayer
April 27th, 2010
7:56 am
NASA satellite image reveals massive oil spill>
A newly released NASA satellite image reveals oil leaking from the BP oil rig that sank after it exploded April 20, 2010. The explosion killed 11 workers.
The images, captured on April 25 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite and the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite, show a large oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. An estimated 42,000 gallons of oil are leaking per day into the Gulf.
Scroll down to the photograph.
Soothsayer
April 27th, 2010
7:59 am
Here is a great photo to help you put this into perspective. Notice how the slick is trending toward the N.E. corner of the Gulf. Unfortunately this is where the most popular Florida beaches are.
Soothsayer
April 27th, 2010
8:04 am
Here’s a photo of the actual oil leaking from the riser.
Chris Broe
April 27th, 2010
8:50 am
Kill the Spill?
TnGelding
April 27th, 2010
10:01 am
It couldn’t have happened at a worse time, just when some sanity was being introduced into energy policy. But I’ve walked on oil stained beaches, and it isn’t pleasant. I’m very conflicted on off-shore drilling.
thebob.bob
April 27th, 2010
12:45 pm
Where’s Sarah Palin? Where are the Virginian Republicans and Tea Party members chanting, Drill baby, drill!!
Conservation. Increase the gas tax to pay for alternative, more efficient transportation, stop subsidizing the oil companies. Or pick tar balls off your feet at the beach, shovel up the dead, oiled carcasses of poisoned sea life and kiss your shellfish goodbye. Choose.
Karlin Barlin
April 28th, 2010
11:50 am
Quote from above:
“So yes, environmentalists and east and west coast Democrats will point to this and say “halt.”
But I’ll bet they won’t offer any alternatives.”
Are you SERIOUS? We green types have been SHOUTING for investments in renewable energy and improved efficiency where we use energy. Together those WILL supply half of America’s energy needs within 10 years if we put the kind of investment into renewable as are going into oil drilling.
The $Billion offshore wells, the $Trillion oil wars, and a dozen $100 Million clean ups – putting that kind of money into renewables would cover half of America’s energy needs.
AND THEN… renewable energy installations provide better returns over the lifetime operation, but nobody wants to talk about that economic ADVANTAGE of renewable energy.
If there is a global catastrophe such as war or economic collapse, any nation will be better off having more renewable energy installation that will allways be there to provide precious electricity [whereas oil could be difficult to keep flowing]
bill
May 1st, 2010
12:12 pm
why not put napalm on the oil as it will burn hotter.
Andrew
May 3rd, 2010
4:06 pm
This is stupid and deff. should have never happend!!