By GottaLaff
Via a Yahoo e-mail alert:
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) Documents: Oil rig's deadly blast triggered by methane gas bubble, series of safety failures.
By GottaLaff
Heckuva quote, Mary:
"He was a fool when he stepped off the plane in Louisiana 4½ years ago, and unfortunately for him, he apparently still is."
-- Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), quoted by Politico, on the attempted comeback of former FEMA Director Michael Brown.
By GottaLaff
I saw this in my L.A. Times this morning. Well done, Ed Stein:
Looks more like it's the oil industry's Katrina. Rasmussen even. Via Greg-
4* How do you rate President Obama’s response to the major oil leak off Lousiana’s coast – excellent, good, fair or poor?
20% Excellent
23% Good
28% Fair
26% Poor
3% Not sure
5* How do you rate the response of the companies associated with the oil rig accident to the major oil leak off Louisiana’s coast – excellent, good, fair or poor?
6% Excellent
23% Good
40% Fair
28% Poor
3% Not sure
It's a start.
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard says BP PLC has managed to cap one of three leaks at a deepwater oil well, but the work is not expected to reduce the overall flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class David Mosley says the work Tuesday night should reduce the number of leak points that need to be fixed on the ocean floor. BP officials have said that fewer leaks will make it easier to drop a containment box on the breach.
Wow, everything I heard made it sound like it would be at least a month or so before this would be ready. Good work.
PORT FOURCHON, La. — The company BP PLC hired to build concrete and steel containment boxes says the first one will be completed within 48 hours.
Spokesman John Curry said Monday that BP hopes to have the 98-ton box in the water by week's end to cover the main leak at the well site. A second backup box, also topped with a metal dome, is under construction.
(snip)
Jason Holvey, a marine engineer working for Wild Well Control, says smaller, similar containment devices have been used in the Gulf, but in shallow waters. He says they were used after Hurricane Katrina to channel oil to the surface that had spilled from platforms.
By GottaLaff
I previously posted about BP's horrific Oil Volcano being "Big Oil's Katrina".
Editorial cartoonist extraordinaire, J.D. Crowe, has another name for it, and has graciously permitted me to post his work, "Black Katrina", which is powerful and beautifully executed:
A hurricane, as devastating as it is to humans and physical structures, is an act of natural cleansing. An earthy enema. An oil spill is poison. A man-made, toxic rape of Mother Nature.
By GottaLaff
It's as clear as a bell now. We should never bathe again. I'm sure Boss Limpdong doesn't. Yes, according to him, water's equivalent is a gooey oil gush. Water is toxic. It obviously isn't the oil volcano that's killing wildlife and ruining what's left of our economy:
"The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is."
-- Rush Limbaugh, quoted by the St. Petersburg Times, arguing that a cleanup of the oil spill off the Lousiana coast is unnecessary.
By GottaLaff
Tazzz over at DailyKos has graciously given me permission to cross-post her work here at TPC.
We're done with the media pushing Rushpublic memes. Time to start one of our own:
The arrows are added to get you right to the point. No, No, No, No, NO! Ugh.TODAY - May 02, 2010
Obama visits gulf ecological disaster
--->The president reassures crews as he tries to prevent the oil spill from turning into his Katrina.<--- 'All hands on deck'
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By GottaLaff
In an earlier post, I mentioned how some in the media (Gee, guess who?) are pushing the meme that the Gulf oil catastrophe is "Obama's Katrina". Wrong. It's a memorable catch phrase, but it's inaccurate, to say the least. But that won't stop them from perpetuating the lies. It never has, it never will.
While BP was the first responder, the Coast Guard reacted right away to the situation and deployed 70 vessels and 1 million feet of boom for possible service, Napolitano said.
Salazar noted that the Obama administration has ordered inspections of "blowout preventers" on other Gulf rigs. The government's job was to "keep the boot on the neck" of BP to ensure it meets its obligations in stopping the spill, dealing with the oil slick and paying for all costs and damages.
President Obama headed to Louisiana on Sunday to see for himself the growing oil slick from a damaged offshore well that threatens the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Michael Shear counts the ways that the Gulf oil spill isn’t Katrina:The gulf oil spill is no Katrina, in which 1,836 people died amid the near total devastation of one of America’s great cities…
Unlike Katrina, there has been no obvious failures of government, no images to compare to the Superdome or the flooded streets of St. Bernard Parish. And unlike Katrina, there is an easy target for blame in the current oil spill: the oil giant BP, which by law is the “responsible party” and must pay for all of the costs of the cleanup.
By GottaLaff
First:
Please note that posting could be light today. Paddy is gone for a few hours, I'm on no sleep and have a huge video project ahead of me that got a bigger response than I ever expected, and that's a good thing. Between editing and Paddy's absence, things will be a little slower today.
With that, join me in watching Marco Rubio partake in the new GOP dance craze that I call the McCain Flip Flop:
The oil rig disaster has caused problems for the Republican candidate Marco Rubio, a drilling proponent. In 2008, Rubio told Newt Gingrich’s big oil front group American Solutions for Winning the Future that he was proud to join the “drill here, drill now, pay less effort.” (Rubio also promoted drilling In a spanish-language endorsement.)
Now, Rubio is waffling on drilling.
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