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'Top kill' method 'slows BP oil leak' in Gulf of Mexico [edited]

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WRAPUP 2-No end in sight as Gulf oil spill hits Day 40 | Reuters

the pressure is so great which is expelling all that oil, it's blowing out whatever mud is pushed down there as well

there's also some fear that if we do cap this thing, all that building up pressure might precipitate an explosion

this is really, really, really bad

comparisons to chernobyl are not far fetched

"obama under fire for slow response" is reuters' sub headline

oh, boy, is he ever

and it's certainly not chatroomers doing him all this damage

why did they turn off the live feed?

until you see that turned back on there will be no resolution

where are the cleanup workers, where's the head start on the cleanup?

how in the world can he justify no massive clean up on the qt

carville's gone ballistic, he's a local, y'know (and committed clintonista)

BP Oil Spill Becoming Political Headache for Obama? Some Democrats Slam White House Response - ABC News

last nite on cnn, the ragin cajun said he was out on the waters with plaquemines parish prez billy nungesser and in miles of inspecting THEY SAW NOTHING

our political leadership has put in place AS OF DAY FORTY exactly ZERO in the way of CLEANING UP this MESS

unbelievable

on day 38 (thursday) the political pressure on the president became so preponderant he was compelled to perform his first press conference in THREE HUNDRED AND NINE DAYS

that's the "daddy, did you plug the leak" recital which will go down in history

it was a disaster

his entire purpose was to portray to the people his determination, resolve, on-top-of-it-ness that, apparently, had slipped away

yet when he was asked about mms director birnbaum's removal, accomplished that very morning in anticipation of the great event, our nonplussed president reported that he didn't know why she was let go, if she was let go

he's losing the press

politico, msnbc's morning regular:



but then, there's really no other way to report it, it was that bad

this is NOT the way americans expect or need their president to behave, act, y'know, IN A CRISIS

he TRANSPARENTLY has no idea what he's doing

so he WENT ON VACATION

he actually, when asked a followup by the ny times jackie calmes about, y'know, how could you claim ignorace about what underlay the removal of ms birnbaum, the prez put forth, "i had a whole bunch of other stuff going on"

you know what he was doing that morning, day 38, while the oil was bleeding and the mms was being dismembered

he was being presented his very own o-bama #1 b-ball jersey by the duke blue devils in the rose garden

indeed, the doofus has rightly received tons of criticism for his executive ITINERARY these 40 days of death in the gulf

The Presidential Planner - Political Punch

President Obama under fire for BP spill response - Glenn Thrush and Josh Gerstein and Manu Raju - POLITICO.com

vacations and fundraisers and state dinners, a sitdown with marv albert and golf

he reveals he IN HIS GUT simply does not get it

what once looked cool now comes off as cold

napolitano went to the opera yesterday

gotterdammerung, presumably?

the new york times today, saturday, reports pessimistically---three junk shots as well as hours of top kill have not succeeded

Effort to Plug Well Faces Another Setback - NYTimes.com

there's talk of returning to the containment vessel approach

on friday, chris matthews, a pennsylvanian but, like carville, another lib who's all over the prez on this, interviewed coast guard commander thad allen, the #1 boot on the ground if not on bp's neck in the gulf

matthews asked obama's top guy, do you have enough mud to continue this top kill effort for the foreseeable

allen didn't know

matthews asked obama's top guy, can you use tankers to vacuum millions of gallons of water and oil which you can then separate and dispose of

the coast guard, it was clear to chrissy's entire audience, had never really thought of that

in his next segment, tho, matthews questioned a professor from lsu

the academic, in stark contrast to the bureacrat, knew exactly what he was about

the tanker idea was unworkable he explained as those vessels become so laden with mixture they're almost immovable

oy

meanwhile, barack hussein obama is just the type of guy who, if you criticize him about lack of effective leadership here, will ATTACK YOU

the gulf is dying, the oil is still bleeding, there's no end in sight, the president is on vacation

40 days, 6 hours, 29 minutes, 14 seconds...

pray

Your posts would be legible if you could dress up the formatting and grammar a bit. I don't care so much about starting sentences with lower case letters as I can speak lolcat also, but if you would organize your thoughts into a linear sequence and then place them is paragraph format, 4-6 sentences per paragraph, I would appreciate it.
 
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Your posts would be legible if you could dress up the formatting and grammar a bit. I don't care so much about starting sentences with lower case letters as I can speak lolcat also, but if you would organize your thoughts into a linear sequence and then place them is paragraph format, 4-6 sentences per paragraph, I would appreciate it.

Interesting. We all see things through different perspectives. ;)

The style Prof uses is certainly unconventional. But for me makes for a easy flowing read. Along the lines of watching a stream of consciousness outta somebody's thoughts.

(Ok then. So here's the poop, Prof man. You're gonna need to starting double posting. Once in each format. Realize that may be a little time consuming, but a fella does what a fella's gotta do...)



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thanks, let's leave discussions of syntax to the midgets

cuz big stuff is going down

"frustration and fury greet obama in the gulf," wapo (washington post), this morning

Obama Pledges to Push on Stopping Leak - WSJ.com

the federal response has been "uncoordinated and undirected," undeniably

where's the cleanup

where are the booms, where are the berms

why was jindal told no

La. Won't Wait For Federal OK To Erect Sand Berms - New Orleans News Story - WDSU New Orleans

40 days, 8 hours, 17 minutes, 47 seconds...
 
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thanks, let's leave discussions of syntax to the midgets

cuz big stuff is going down

"frustration and fury greet obama in the gulf," wapo (washington post), this morning

Obama Pledges to Push on Stopping Leak - WSJ.com

the federal response has been "uncoordinated and undirected," undeniably

where's the cleanup

where are the booms, where are the berms

why was jindal told no

La. Won't Wait For Federal OK To Erect Sand Berms - New Orleans News Story - WDSU New Orleans

40 days, 8 hours, 17 minutes, 47 seconds...


He thanked me!!

And then he called me a midget. :cool:



(i am not worthy, i am not worthy.....:mrgreen:)


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you're no midget, friend
 
Re: BREAKING NEWS: US coastguard says BP has stopped flow of oil and gas from leakin

Here is the latest...sadly.


<HOUSTON — BP engineers failed again to plug the gushing oil well on Saturday, a technician working on the project said, representing yet another setback in a series of unsuccessful procedures the company has tried a mile under the sea to stem the flow spreading into the Gulf of Mexico.>

Effort to Plug Well Faces Another Setback - NYTimes.com
 
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See how well they can be adapted?
Could be used just as easily for his and Democrats love of illegal aliens.
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How about we stay on topic?
 
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They said on the news that whats coming out of the well now is mostly the mud, but I watched the live web cam and if it was heavy drilling mud it would not be rising to the surface like it is. It would be dropping back to the ocean floor and it ain't.
 
Re: BREAKING NEWS: US coastguard says BP has stopped flow of oil and gas from leakin

Here is the latest...sadly.


<HOUSTON — BP engineers failed again to plug the gushing oil well on Saturday, a technician working on the project said, representing yet another setback in a series of unsuccessful procedures the company has tried a mile under the sea to stem the flow spreading into the Gulf of Mexico.>

Effort to Plug Well Faces Another Setback - NYTimes.com

Please stop trying to deliberately misrepresent the project as though BP is making a new effort every day and continually failing.

This is one continuous, days long project. It was made known in the beginning that it would take time to pump enough heavy mud into the well and for it to set under that pressure and temperature fluctuation.

They said at the beginning that success couldn't be measured until late Sunday at the earliest, no ****ing **** they aren't don by mid-day Saturday :roll:
 
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They said on the news that whats coming out of the well now is mostly the mud, but I watched the live web cam and if it was heavy drilling mud it would not be rising to the surface like it is. It would be dropping back to the ocean floor and it ain't.

Link to evidence of your claim or you're just spewing more alarmist bs.
 
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Please stop trying to deliberately misrepresent the project as though BP is making a new effort every day and continually failing.

This is one continuous, days long project. It was made known in the beginning that it would take time to pump enough heavy mud into the well and for it to set under that pressure and temperature fluctuation.

They said at the beginning that success couldn't be measured until late Sunday at the earliest, no ****ing **** they aren't don by mid-day Saturday :roll:

How is this misrepresenting something when all he said was, "Here is the latest...sadly.?? Your view and feelings are not the only legitimate one's here Jerry. Time to go sit in the corner and take the purple "chill pill".
 
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How is this misrepresenting something when all he said was, "Here is the latest...sadly.?? Your view and feelings are not the only legitimate one's here Jerry. Time to go sit in the corner and take the purple "chill pill".

It's not news, and one's motivations show in what they choose to post.
 
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Please stop trying to deliberately misrepresent the project as though BP is making a new effort every day and continually failing.

This is one continuous, days long project. It was made known in the beginning that it would take time to pump enough heavy mud into the well and for it to set under that pressure and temperature fluctuation.

They said at the beginning that success couldn't be measured until late Sunday at the earliest, no ****ing **** they aren't don by mid-day Saturday :roll:

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The key words in your post is” they say”, they being BP. :roll:
 
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The key words in your post is” they say”, they being BP. :roll:

...and the Army Core of Engeneers, and other oil companies, and the Coast Guard....
 
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Bad news

'Top kill' fails to stop flow of oil, BP says

- BP's "top kill" attempt to stop the flow of oil from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico failed, the company's chief operating officer said Saturday.

The oil giant has tried for days to stop the the largest oil spill in U.S. history by pumping heavy, mudlike drilling fluid into a ruptured oil well, a method known as "top kill."

The next option is to place a custom-built cap known as the "lower marine riser package" over the leak, the company's chief operating officer, Doug Suttles said. BP crews were working Saturday to ready the materials for that option should it become necessary, he said.

"We've been prepping that all along in case we need to move to that option," he said. "People want to know which technique is going to work, and I don't know."

And if "lower marine riser package" were to fail, he said, BP engineers would try placing a second blowout preventer on top of the first, which failed to cut of the oil flow after the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig. The failed blowout preventer is a 48-foot-tall, 450-ton apparatus that sits atop the well 5,000 feet underwater.
 
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And if "lower marine riser package" were to fail, he said, BP engineers would try placing a second blowout preventer on top of the first, which failed to cut of the oil flow after the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig. The failed blowout preventer is a 48-foot-tall, 450-ton apparatus that sits atop the well 5,000 feet underwater.


What did I just ****ing say?

I was wondering why they can't service the BOP's seals, refill it's hydraulics and then activate it. I mean the damn thing tried to close, it just couldn't because of a leak. I'm no engineer but it seems to me that a hydraulic leak on a piece of equipment should be faster/better/cheaper than plugging the well.

Alternatively, BOPs are designed to stack on top of each other. Can't they attach another BOP unit to this stack and flip the switch?
 
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Link to evidence of your claim or you're just spewing more alarmist bs.

Watch the video, Slick. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the stuff coming out of the pipe is lighter than water. Alarmist bias? You really are a piece of work, aren't you?
 
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Watch the video, Slick. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the stuff coming out of the pipe is lighter than water. Alarmist bias? You really are a piece of work, aren't you?
Hehe, "Slick", nice pun.


The water density that pressure produces means even nuclear submarines are "lighter than water".

Perhaps you should learn something about buoyancy, and also how unequal pressure can move objects.
 
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Well umm...hasnt BP said that it didnt work? And I dont know...it sure looked like the same steady flow of brown stuff they have described as the oil for the last 37 days...

so...high five!
 
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Well umm...hasnt BP said that it didnt work? And I dont know...it sure looked like the same steady flow of brown stuff they have described as the oil for the last 37 days...

so...high five!

Yes. Apparently, the effort has failed.
 
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Hehe, "Slick", nice pun.


The water density that pressure produces means even nuclear submarines are "lighter than water".

Perhaps you should learn something about buoyancy, and also how unequal pressure can move objects.

You don't have a clue about bouyancy,r pressure or water density. Submarines are lighter than water at the surface too. They float until their ballast tanks are filled. A piece of steel has the same bouyancy at any depth. Water is a incompressible fluid.

http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Water/density.html
 
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You don't have a clue about bouyancy,r pressure or water density. Submarines are lighter than water at the surface too. They float until their ballast tanks are filled. A piece of steel has the same bouyancy at any depth. Water is a incompressible fluid.

Oh good, you Googled something. Keep on going, I'm sure with time you might actually have something to post.

You do know that the "mud" being used is oil based, right?
 
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Oh good, you Googled something. Keep on going, I'm sure with time you might actually have something to post.

You do know that the "mud" being used is oil based, right?

I gave you a link because you always ask for one. Where do you get your information, anyway? You are wrong about just about everything. It's like you just make things up hoping no one will challenge you. You have proven you know absolutely nothing about this subject so you might as well move on to another thread.
Please do some research before you make even a bigger fool of yourself.
 
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I gave you a link because you always ask for one. Where do you get your information, anyway? You are wrong about just about everything. It's like you just make things up hoping no one will challenge you. You have proven you know absolutely nothing about this subject so you might as well move on to another thread.
Please do some research before you make even a bigger fool of yourself.

It's like you have a list of lines and you roll on a random table to determine which lines go into a post :lol:

The last time you tried to demonstrate how I was wrong you were quickly silenced. Care to go again :rofl
 
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