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Gulf of Mexico spill may hit coast this weekend

Please don't get huffy. The idea that conservatives always go along with environmental regulations except in a few cases is ridiculous. I guess I'll have to go dig up news stories now. Give me some time.

The Queen of huffiness has spoken! :rofl
 
Most of us who live on the gulf and are impacted by this would suggest that those of you who want to use this mess as a way to bash the other party should feel free to step in front of a bus.

:2wave:

Hope that was perfectly clear. ;)

WE ARE NOT YOUR ****ING PINATA.

I feel your pain. And I was feeling it quite soon after the rig sunk as I knew what was coming next. Too bad the first responders didn't just let the rig burn. The weight of the water from the fireboats is said to have caused the rig to sink.
 
Well, it's mid-day Monday, and still no oil slick on the coasts. When and where is this supposed to wash ashore again?

This is one of the most nebulous events in a long time. I've read where there is absolutely no way to tell how much oil is leaking at the ocean floor, yet everybody seems to know. I've read where it's headed for Louisiana, no..Texas, no....Florida. No one knows how or why it exploded, and BP won't take respnsibility.

This thing is just floating out there with no answers, pardon the pun.
 
Here is a bit of good news...hopefully.

<Jeff Childs, a deputy incident commander for BP, said in a briefing with Alabama officials that the company successfully shut a set of hydraulic shears known as annular rams, helping to clamp the ruptured pipe and block the leaking oil.>


BP official: 'We've significantly cut the flow' of oil from damaged rig | al.com

Let's hope that this is true. However, given BP's previous flawed "estimates," their credibility is VERY questionable.
 
Well, it's mid-day Monday, and still no oil slick on the coasts. When and where is this supposed to wash ashore again?

This is one of the most nebulous events in a long time. I've read where there is absolutely no way to tell how much oil is leaking at the ocean floor, yet everybody seems to know. I've read where it's headed for Louisiana, no..Texas, no....Florida. No one knows how or why it exploded, and BP won't take respnsibility.

This thing is just floating out there with no answers, pardon the pun.

Wow. This was a compelling contribution.
 
At least I really look like my avatar, though, instead of having some fake cartoon character that Dav has the hots for in it.

It's for a good cause though.
 
Nor what he ate for breakfast either, and where, geographically speaking, the components of that breakfast came from. :mrgreen:

However waiting 8 days before he did anything.....
 
I haven't smelled the oil for a couple of days.

I guess they must have capped off the well and cleaned up all the oil that was
spilled.

Some things work out right.:2razz:
 
let's see what that republican disaster expert, michael brown, had to say about the lake palin oil spill
Michael Brown, former President George W. Bush's infamous FEMA chief, claimed yesterday that President Obama is using the Gulf oil spill to play politics -- and positing that Obama waited for the oil spill to worsen so he could shut down offshore drilling.

"This is exactly what they want, because now he can pander to the environmentalists and say, 'I'm gonna shut it down because it's too dangerous,'" Brown told Fox's Neil Cavuto. "This president has never supported Big Oil, he's never supported offshore drilling, and now he has an excuse to shut it back down."

Brown's comments ring strange because Obama actually announced earlier this year that he was expanding the allowed zones for offshore work, much to the consternation of his supporters. The former Bush official resigned in the wake of his tepid response to Hurricane Katrina and questions about his resume.

Brown isn't the only one making waves with his comments during the Gulf spill.

In a 30-minute speech to a Republican crowd in Kansas City Saturday, onetime Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin dubbed the gulf spill "very tragic," but added: “I want our country to be able to trust the oil industry.”
fact is stranger than fiction. this is too funny to make up
great job, brownie!


Michael Brown: Obama let oil spill get worse on purpose | Raw Story
 
Obama and his ilk are rubbing their hands together over this. They will milk this as an anti-oil opportunity as long as they can.

ooops
somebody does not seem to recognize that michael brown is the former horse judge, appointed by dubya bin lyin, who failed in the fema efforts to assist new orleans
but i am willing to read how you have determined that he is an Obama adherent, as he is rubbing his hands together over this

ready, set, post
 
I'm no huge Obama fan, but frankly, I trust the Democrats to protect the environment more than the Republicans. If Bush was still in office he would be busy trying to downplay the dangers of drilling. He would be patting Big Oil on their backs with a wink, wink and a secret handshake...
 
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