03 June 2010

Heartbreaking Photos of Wildlife Dying To Live With the BP Oil Gusher

There is no way to embed the slideshow from Huffington Post. So, all I can do is link you to "Crimes Against Nature" . . . a heartbreaking answer to all the jerks such as Brit Hume, Haley Barbour and other Neo-Con/Libertarian/Tea Party yodelers who kept asking, "Where's the oil?"

Click here fo
r "Crimes Against Nature" - "Gulf Oil Spill - Animals In Peril".

Sarah Palin Twists Logic . . . And Her Panties . . . In Her Recent Tweet About "Drill, Baby, Drill"

Check this out: Sarah Palin says the oil spill is the fault of Progressive environmentalists.

See, Sarah Palin leaves this tweet on Twitter yesterday:

"Extreme Greenies: see now why we push "drill, baby, drill" of known reserves & promising finds in safe onshore places like ANWR? Now do you get it?"


While Sarah was tripping over her tongue with her panties down to her ankles, leave it to Rachel Maddow to wade in to explain what Palin is trying to do: Palin wants to blame the Deepwater Horizon Disaster on Environmentalists. (By the way, this is the new meme of the Republican Shout Radio and Shout TV Machine.)And her tweet implies the disaster would not have happened had we listened to her and simply "drilled, baby, drilled" onshore in say ANWR.

But that's where Palin, once again, becomes separated from the truth.

Let's briefly set you up for the clip you are about to see and which will make you shake your head, yet again, at the hypocrites in the GOP . . . especially Sarah Palin . . .



Rachel Maddow starts out this video clip with a great edited speech from President Obama who tells it like it is when he talks about the agenda pushed by his opponents, ". . . more tax breaks for the wealthy, and fewer rules for corporations."

President Obama says, "If you are a Wall Street Bank, or Insurance Company, or an Oil Company, you pretty much get to play by your own rules, regardless of the consequences for everybody else."

The President continues, ". . . And now we have a choice as a Nation: we can return to the failed Economic policies of the past, or we can keep building a stronger future. We can go backward, or we can keep moving forward." After which the President says he wants to keep moving forward, and he believes Americans wish to keep moving forward. When his speech concludes, you hear moronic booing in the background.

As Rachel Maddow points out, when you are no longer the party in power, you don't really have one figure head to counter a President who speaks so well. But as Ms. Maddow points out, the Republicans do have Sarah Palin and her twitter account.

At which point Maddow shows a shot of the actual Palin tweet on her monitor. Right afterwards, Maddow deciphers how Palin is telegraphing how she, Palin, was all for drill, baby, drill on land. And then Maddow simply plays one video clip after another which totally destroys Palin, and John McCain, and Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani . . . all of whom, Ladies and Gentlemen, left a trail of videotaped speeches where they all, time an again, said America should be "drill, baby, drill" not only on land but offshore and even "deep waters" offshore.

Just watch the video. Let's see Palin back away from her own videotaped speeches on the campaign trail. And let's see Romney, McCain and Giuliani all shed more crocodile tears for the Gulf of Mexico residents suffering because the GOP, the Party Which Wrecked America, would not regulate the Big Oil companies which pimped their Party.

How The Oil Spill Has Turned Hypocritical Republicans Into New Age Pro-Environmentalists, Pro-Regulationists, Pro-Big Governmentalists, Etc., Etc..

See the hypocrites run like little piggies to the Mainstream Media Trough and claim the territory which used to belong to Progressives.

One of my favorite utterances in this video clip was the line, "There are no Libertarians in a crisis."


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02 June 2010

Oil Slick Spreading Toward Florida Panhandle After Already Hitting Alabama and Mississippi


Latest news has oil already hitting beaches in both Mississippi and Alabama with an estimated time of arrival on the first Pensacola Beach in Florida sometime later today.

From a Press Association release earlier this morning:

An oil slick from the Gulf of Mexico leak was confirmed a few miles off the Florida coast today as the impact of the disaster spreads.

Officials are saying it could hit the white sands of Pensacola Beach later on Wednesday.

Escambia County officials started putting out booms on Tuesday and making other plans for the arrival of the oil which has already impacted on 125 miles of the Louisiana coastline.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour says oil is hitting the state for the first time.

Mr Barbour said a two-mile strand of caramel-coloured oil has been found on Petit Bois Island, a barrier island near the Mississippi-Alabama border. The discovery means Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi have all been hit by oil.

Mr Barbour says vessels will be dispatched to clean up the oil. Officials believe the strand broke off a patch of oil on Sunday south of nearby Horn Island

Note to Watchworld regulars: Haley Barbour is the same politician who just last week expressed little concern for the oil spill. He assured his state citizens the oil spill was breaking up, was 75 miles from Mississippi, was moving westward, and the oil which was washing up in Louisiana was not that toxic as it was breaking up and was just more messy than anything. Suddenly, Barbour went silent over this past weekend. Now the oil has arrived. Now he's eyes wide open.

Also contained in the Press Release is the news that Avatar director James Cameron is offering help to fight the oil disaster:

Meanwhile, federal officials are hoping blockbuster movie director James Cameron can help them come up with ideas on how to stop the disastrous spill in the Gulf.

The Avatar and Titanic director was among a group of scientists and other experts who met officials from the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies for a brainstorming session on stopping the massive oil leak. Canadian-born Cameron is considered an expert on underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies.

More than 20 scientists, engineers and technical experts attended the meeting, which also included representatives of the Energy Department, Coast Guard and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

Private groups represented include the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; Oceanographic Institute at Harbor Branch, Florida Atlantic University; University of California at Santa Barbara; Nuytco Research Limited; World Wildlife Fund; and the University of California at Berkeley.

If only Mr. Cameron could call up the Navi who could bring their healing power to our ailing portion of the planet.


In another headline this morning on the Huffington Post website which read in huge cap letters "FL-OIL-RIDA: BP Oil Spill Close To Florida: Oil Sheen Spotted Nine Miles From Pensacola Beach" we read the oil is just offshore from Pensacola Beach's white sands. We also read how their request for aid from BP has gone unanswered for the past 3 weeks:

Escambia County officials started putting out boom Tuesday and making other plans for the arrival of the oil. Crude has already been reported along barrier islands in Alabama and Mississippi, and it has impacted some 125 miles of Louisiana coastline.

Fla. officials say their request for about $150,000 from BP to buy sifting machines and a tractor to help remove oil from the beach's famous white sands has lingered unanswered for more than three weeks.

Santa Rosa Island Authority executive director W.A. "Buck" Lee says he is fed up with delays from the unified command center in Mobile, Ala.

Now who here still doesn't believe we're possibly heading into a Double Dip Recession and a continuing crash in Keys Real Estate?

Stay tuned,

Rock

01 June 2010

Estimated Gallons Leaked Widget

Big Oil's Groundhog Day of "Deja Vu Land" As Produced by Rachel Maddow

Rachel Maddow completely destroys Big Oil's claim that they've gotten better at drilling for oil offshore. Maddow and her production team put together video clips from a big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico during 1979. The similarities between it and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Catastrophe of today will make you shake your head in disbelief.

Maddow asserts at the close of her show that oil companies have gotten better in only one respect of drilling: going deeper. The 1979 rig blowout in the Gulf was only in 200 feet of water. On the other hand, Maddow says Big Oil has gotten no better at containing the risks of an oil rig failure, as they are still using tried and failed methods from 31 years ago to try and stop today's leak which is 5,000 feet below the surface.

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