Posted on 08/01/2010 11:24:17 AM PDT by Beloved Levinite
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Not dying fast enough to suit Dark Lord Obama. Why do you think he ran interference for so long?
I wish some good Jedi would come along and put Obama in his place.
The problem is that all these industries are coming back and the spill will be a small blimp on the radar of time. The percieved danger, over-hyped damages and over-reaction of the government / media are a far more threat to the person livelihood than the spill.
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Everyone seems to be calling the Deepwater Horizon spill the worst environmental disaster ever, but rumors of the Gulf’s death may be greatly exaggerated, writes Michael Grunwald of TIME. While there could be long-term ramifications from the spill, the damage so far actually looks pretty modest. It’s killed less than 1% as many birds as the Exxon Valdez spill, for example, and the region’s fish and shrimp have so far tested clean.
As for Louisiana’s marshes, the spill affected only about 350 acres of wetlands that were already disappearing at a rate of 15,000 acres a year thanks to oil and gas industry pipelines. One LSU professor likens the spill to “a sunburn on a cancer patient.” This is lighter crude than the Exxon spilled, experts explain, and Mississippi river currents are keeping it off the coast. “We’re not seeing catastrophic impacts,” says one marine scientist. “There’s a lot of hype, but no evidence to justify it.”
BC, consider the source.
“Our Soul Is Dying”
Shouldn’t that be “Our Sole Isn’t Dying After All”
I know, I hate it when I have to quote Time... arg... but the fact remands, the bacteria is gobbling and breaking up the oil at a surprisingly fast rate, almost all fisheries tested clean, skim boats can’t find oil, etc...
What most of the clowns and global alarmist forget is that we had our greatest environmental disaster and the world didn’t even notice. It was called World War II, firebomb cities spewing tons upon tons of pollutions, oil well fires, refineries ablaze, hundreds of oil tankers sunk, atomic bombs, poison gases release, the list goes on and on... The earth just said oh well and fixed itself.
When this first happened I ask people if they remembered the much larger gulf spill in 1979. They said, “What the heck are you talking about?” I said point taken.
JUST WONDERING How did the admin arrive at $20 billion without the benefit of a full investigation of the causes and without a final solution for the problem? How come the $20B agreement between Ohaha and BP was not published?
WH Meeting with BP executives in the Roosevelt Room; taken and released June 16.
(L-R): BP CEO Tony Hayward, BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg, BP General Counsel Rupert Bondy, BP Managing Director Robert Dudley, Senior Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett, Labor Secy Hilda Solis, Attorney General Eric Holder, Biden, Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Rahm Emanuel also attended.
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The buzz is Joe Biden was tapped as the point man----and reportedly told BP---"you give us $20B or we'll take it from you." Biden is the person to watch like a hawk w/ $20B campaign funds floating around.
Keep in mind Ohaha put Biden in charge of the $2 trillion stimulus pkg and that millions in stimulus are being hidden in the states for endangered Dems (unused portions then wire-transferred offshore to numbered accounts?) Read on.
Offshore fraudster had links to fund run by relatives of Biden
Reuters on Yahoo.com | 2/23/09 | BY Ajay Kamalakaran
EXCERPT --- A fund of hedge funds run by two members of VP Joe Biden's family was marketed exclusively by firms controlled by Texas financier Allen Stanford, charged by regulators with an $8 billion fraud, the Wall Street Journal said.
The $50 million fund was jointly branded between the Bidens' Paradigm Global Advisors LLC and a Stanford Financial Group entity, and was known as the Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund, the paper said.
Stanford-related companies marketed the fund to investors and also invested about $2.7 million of their own money in the fund, the paper said, citing a lawyer for Paradigm.
Paradigm Global Advisors is owned through a holding company by the vice president's son, Hunter, and Joe Biden's brother, James, according to the paper. Paradigm's attorney, Marc LoPresti, who represents Hunter Biden and James Biden, as well as Paradigm, told the paper he did not know which Stanford entity invested the roughly $2.7 million. He told the paper the Bidens never met or communicated with Stanford.
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"Luckily" endangered Dems have the $20 billion "campaign donation" Ohaha and Biden extorted from BP.
As one who lives in LA., I have seen the economic devastation in this state, since the 0ness has been elected. Car dealerships closed, because they (as reported) supported different points of view. Car manufacturing plants closed and not re-opened, even after government ‘seizure’. Foreclosures are increasing. International Paper mills shut and locked. Michaud NASA performing a jazz funeral, for the LAST fuel tank for the space shuttle, now pondering its new political direction. The oil spill has put a ‘taint’ on all the sport-fishing, shrimp trawling, oyster bed farms, and not to mention freshwater crawfish and catfish from the creep of contaminants, now told to be ‘over-toxic’. We may be 49th in the ranks, but you just killed us all!
Please read this back to me, after the next major hurricane, and tell me there is no impact, them!
Wow! You actually believe the crap that come out of Time Magazine? I have a bridge to sell you.
If all the fisheries test clean, why are there no commercial fishermen running boats? Why do the area restaurants have to fly in seafood from the east coast? You clearly don’t know what you are talking about, but I’m not surprised since you get all your information from liberal press who are trying to make this into an obama success story.
We are on our way to the Gulf Coast for a week on the oil free CLEAN beaches and they have been that way almost all summer according to the friends who vacationed before us.
NO! I did read countless stories that the gulf is healing much faster than expected from a host of sources. At most in five years the gulf spill be forgotten.
If you compare the hyperbole of the media when the spill was happening the gulf would be a toxic wasteland with no chance of recovery. All non-sense. Very little of the gulf is currently affected and in a few years it will be almost impossible to detect that it happened.
The earth is a thousand times more resilient than we give it credit for.
Right now...it looks like maybe the gulf accident will leave a lesser scar than the Valdez...
Warm water is the Gulf's friend.
Hurricanes have absolutely nothing to do with the gulf spill. And as far as Katrina is concerned, the levies broke due to mismanagement of funds.
It was only a human disaster because of inept state and city officials. No state or city response since they sat on their hands and waited for a federal response.
The major bridge into the city was still functional and working, they had over 100 school buses to cart people to safety or bring supplies 10 miles from the stadium. Stupidest thing I ever seen.
Except when corexit is used.
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