the big picture

too bad the gov (led by the most amaatrurish administration since Carter) didn't have the booms
that they were supposed to have on hand and couldn't follow the taxpayor funded plan to burn off the oil before it spread. we knoe spills happen. the gov blew it. of well, we better stop drilling and only buy oil from other countries that are even more accident prone and less able to deal with spills.

booms don't work... they are just mainly for show.

sad that the last administration was so deep in throat with the oil companies that they relaxed regulation...

just like the coal mines and the banks...

Booms don't work.


this is a failure of corporations not government.

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couldn't follow the taxpayor funded plan to burn off the oil before it spread.

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explain please oh genius teabagger how one can burn off oil that is streaming from the bottom of the gulf.


this is not Obama's Katrina you silly fuck

well, you flip a bic when it's at the surface. it's in the bureaurat plan which the bureaucrats failed to follow.

now here's a few questions for you. why did the bureaucrats give waivers so the BP rig wouldn't require normal inspections. why did they give the rig a safety award? were they high? I know, let's ignore all that and bash the private sector. the important thing about idiot government people who've never accomplished anything in their entire lives is that their hearts are in the right place. right, dummy?

Yeah, really won't the hurricanes take care of this? Churn all that oil up and dump it on the coast. Then a power line come down, and the entire Gulf coast is set ablaze. The good lord failed to wipe New Orleans off the map w/a flood, so here come the fire and brimstone. No government can fight GOD. If the US wasn't so fag friendly, none of this would have happened.

If you would like to help stop the coming end of days, then join my church, declare your hatred of fags and send money. It is god's will.

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I've long had the opinion that we need to allow drilling, but we need to make the oil companies use some of the enormous profits for ecological stuff. Of course, that would include safety and spill preparedness, along with big chunks of funding for national parks and forests, wildlife preserves, etc. Mankind is not going to let that oil sit there forever.

We need to nuke the well shut. Russians have done this a couple times. It is a viable option.

Blame? Plenty to go around. Bush appointees are still around, allowing self-regulation. I knew there would be a time gap to undo this infiltration of right wing C students. Obama sure hasn't been aggressive about it, though. Somebody sure dropped the ball, with the new team not looking at something this big. And, the response has been very lame.

War rages on, DADT is still in effect, Gitmo is still there, the rich are still getting richer while the poor are still starving, and the middle class is disappearing. Health care reform was a watered down joke. Obama needs to push hard for progressive changes, and start taking decisive action. He needs to start filling positions with competent people. Enough of being cozy with corporations and Republicans, he needs to do what is correct to move us forward.

I say nuke 'er shut, put strict safety scrutiny on drilling (and nuclear power) and charge a hefty lease fee.

Looks like Elaborator wisely decided to bail on the thread. He's as clueless as on the subject the Odumba administration that just appointed a commission to look into the oil spill because it doesn't know what else to do. No doubt this commission will work to further villainize BP and give cover to the stumbling gov't libtards. Yay for assigning blame! Just the type of leadership we need!

This is why the oil industry should be nationalized. Then responsibility sticks right to the government from the get go instead of wading through bullshit later. How long till we have to bailout the companies that insured this mess? Nationalize the oil industry, and use the profits to fund health insurance for all.

Well, he believes in 8-balls of LSD...

Random nonsense. Random Nonsense. Random nonsense. WAAAAAA OBAMA. Random nonsense. Random non sense. WAAAAAA BUSH. Random nonsense. Random nonsense.

Citgo (Venezuela) is the one I was thinking of as an example of a nationalization *failure*. Look at the company again: it's declined substantially since Hugo Mugabe took over, almost as badly as Pemex. He's proving the old saying that the best way to make a small fortune is to start with a large fortune.

I'm sure all of the people in Venzuelan slums are cheering Hugo's decision to subsidize the poor New Englanders.

One this in this news cycle amazes me. You get people boycotting Arizona, for trying to enforce immigration laws, but you don't hear anyone calling for boycotts of BP gas stations for letting this crap get out of hand.

My mom said she saw a stat on TV of the drilling violations of the oil companies. BP had 157, second place had 7 or 8.

NYC lefties don't drive??

She couldn't have been rubbing one out, there hasn't been any Entenmann's in the house for a week.

And no doubt the head of any government department is incompetent. If they knew what they were doing, they wouldn't have had to use politics to get a job. They all get told what to say and take the fall when needed. They are in every administration, and are probably too full of themselves to realize they are there to get fucked. Look at Bernie Kerik. Someone finally did a background check when he is up for a job, and the dipshit gets locked up.

Really Coke, you aren't worth the chicken shit they made you out of. You are a bad parody of everything stereotypically republican. You are to republicans what Dave Chapelle's crackhead character was to black people. You give the humans of the bunch a bad name.

Now go get yourself a pig hooker, in a city no one gives a shit about, and pay her to tell you how smart and good in bed you are. You pathetic fuck.

Let's see - not republican (I'm libertarian), not in a podunk town (in Chicago), don't hire pig hookers (I often indulge in touring porn star escorts), not dumb (well, duhh?) etc etc. Way to be wrong on every point.


Your simplistic worldview is amusing. Everyone with an important gov't job is incompetent because they're there due to politics? They'd all turn out to be like Bernie Keric if investigated? These are the kinds of generalities you'd get if you asked a 10 year-old to write an essay about what's wrong with the gov't.

I'm sure writing an essay isn't in the top 10 things you'd ask a 10 year old to do. You are always talking about children, Lou must be right about your pedo leanings.

Hilarious.

Yesterday, I visited Caminada Bay in Grand Isle, Louisiana -- one of the first places to feel the devastation wrought by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While I was here, at Camerdelle's Live Bait shop, I met with a group of local residents and small business owners.

Folks like Floyd Lasseigne, a fourth-generation oyster fisherman. This is the time of year when he ordinarily earns a lot of his income. But his oyster bed has likely been destroyed by the spill.

Terry Vegas had a similar story. He quit the 8th grade to become a shrimper with his grandfather. Ever since, he's earned his living during shrimping season -- working long, grueling days so that he could earn enough money to support himself year-round. But today, the waters where he has worked are closed. And every day, as the spill worsens, he loses hope that he will be able to return to the life he built.

Here, this spill has not just damaged livelihoods. It has upended whole communities. And the fury people feel is not just about the money they have lost. It is about the wrenching recognition that this time their lives may never be the same.

These people work hard. They meet their responsibilities. But now because of a manmade catastrophe -- one that is not their fault and beyond their control -- their lives have been thrown into turmoil. It is brutally unfair. And what I told these men and women is that I will stand with the people of the Gulf Coast until they are again made whole.

That is why, from the beginning, we have worked to deploy every tool at our disposal to respond to this crisis. Today, there are more than 20,000 people working around the clock to contain and clean up this spill. I have authorized 17,500 National Guard troops to participate in the response. More than 1,900 vessels are aiding in the containment and cleanup effort. We have convened hundreds of top scientists and engineers from around the world. This is the largest response to an environmental disaster of this kind in the history of our country.

We have also ordered BP to pay economic injury claims, and this week, the federal government sent BP a preliminary bill for $69 million to pay back American taxpayers for some of the costs of the response so far. In addition, after an emergency safety review, we are putting in place aggressive new operating standards for offshore drilling. And I have appointed a bipartisan commission to look into the causes of this spill. If laws are inadequate, they will be changed. If oversight was lacking, it will be strengthened. And if laws were broken, those responsible will be brought to justice.

These are hard times in Louisiana and across the Gulf Coast, an area that has already seen more than its fair share of troubles. The people of this region have met this terrible catastrophe with seemingly boundless strength and character in defense of their way of life. What we owe them is a commitment by our nation to match the resilience they have shown. That is our mission. And it is one we will fulfill.

Thank you

60 Minutes occasionally hits a home run.

"The Blowout", a double-length interview with a survivor of Deepwater Horizon.

Part I: he details the shortcuts undertaken by BP.

Part II: he explains his own personal survivor story which involves a 100-foot dive into a flaming ocean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLJHTTOSkpg