Comments on: There Is No Lower Limit

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 22 May 2010 22:37:20 +0000

In reply to hipparchia. After that sealed bid debacle they have apparently decided to walk on the path of righteousness for a while. I am confident that after the next election it will be business as usual.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 22 May 2010 22:04:16 +0000

I guarantee you that people in the Escambia County government have more than a layman’s knowledge of “conflict of interest” and they have the court records from the trials of local officials to prove it.

😆 yes, we’re very good at that here.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 21 May 2010 21:56:57 +0000

When you put it that way, Badtux, especially when I think about the Coast Guard threatening CBS with arrest for doing their job, I have to agree. The US government is interfering with the relief effort, just like Katrina.

All intelligent people get a little flustered when faced with the “Rand” level of stupid, Juanita, and considering that he is running for Jim Bunning’s seat, I won’t be a bit surprised to see a whacko win. The man doesn’t know when to shut up.

By: JuanitaM

JuanitaM — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:54:22 +0000

Ooops! I know Rand Paul is just a candidate – not elected yet. You guys know what I meant. He irritated me so much, I forgot myself. 😳

By: JuanitaM

JuanitaM — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:45:10 +0000

Rand Paul has just this week been elected, and this is the first thing he comes out with? This was not JUST an accident as he suggests. If BP had handled the well according to good engineering safety practices, it could have been preventable. Worst case, had there been a blow up, the flow could have been cut off in something resembling a reasonable time frame. Bad enough by itself, but not this nightmare.

Not everyone understands the biology and interaction required by the smaller plankton and bacterial life of the oceans, but when they start seeing dolphins, birds, and other larger wildlife start lining the coasts, they get it fairly well. By then, Mr. Paul may wish he’d done a little tongue-biting of his own.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:15:21 +0000

I have to admit that Rush Limbaugh was right when he coined this spill “Obama’s Katrina” (I’m biting my tongue making that admission, but true is true). As with Katrina, the problem wasn’t what caused the disaster, but, rather, the aftermath — which has proven to be nothing but spin, obfuscation, use of Federal force to keep media and first responders out, and otherwise utterly incompetent obstructionism. I’m surprised we haven’t had a “Heckuva job, Brownie!” moment out of Obama yet, given the similarities.

Thing is, the Bushies were being evil because, well, they were evil. They weren’t doing it for the profit of a foreign corporation. Obama, on the other hand, seems to care more about the British and their precious sensibilities (and cash!) than about America and Americans here… which makes this doubly hard to swallow. I may need a new tongue in a few days…

– Badtux the Tongue-biting Penguin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:51:19 +0000

Tuna, shrimp, oysters, red snapper, grouper, crawfish, and the list goes on. At this point the “cure” may be worse than the “disease”, as they are conducting a chemical experiment in the Gulf.

We understand the process in the upper Gulf, but we know almost nothing about the deep Gulf. The natural processes that eliminate the oil in shallow water, may not even exist in the colder, less saline, deep Gulf.

By: fallenmonk

fallenmonk — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:46:06 +0000

The sad thing is that when you have that much money to throw around it today's world you make your own reality. BP will do what's right for BP and you can damn well be sure that it will be 180 degrees out from what is best for the environment and the people most badly hurt by this predictable disaster. Very little of the news is focusing on the long term effects and how long it is going to take to even assess the whole scope of this mess. Some of this deep water oil that has been treated with chemicals probably won't appear on the surface for years and then it will be in the Atlantic somewhere. .-= last blog ..Inside Job =-.