WEll the LA Times is reporting that the spill is plugged. Well that was before the speech. Speech is over....
it went awry almost to the very second that The One claimed that he was “in charge”.
So why do we have the rest of the media out there claiming “It worked!?” Oh, I guess they were just feeling overly exhuberant from the Street Punk’s presser.
Cut to the control room celebration scene with the one skeptical tech starting at his computer monitor with a frown on his face and shaking his head ever so slightly. Then he looks up and says, "Jim, I think you better take a look at this.".
the truth is gushing out
The Live Feed still shows oil leaking like crazy...
0bama's latest inane, Narcissistic rambling.
What is: "Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?"
If they have fractured the bed formation.....which was a worry......it’s the relief wells or nothing. Just damn.
This rather incomplete article bodes potential serious ill for the procedure. An earlier article, posted here on FR, the link for which I do not have, stated that successful mud injection could be easier said than done because the mud might be leaking out of the bore through cracks in brittle rock formations, in which case the mud would be essentially consumed trying to fill a nearly infinite void. One of the problems with this well, also mentioned in an earlier article, is that BP sped up drilling to reduce costs and started cracking brittle formations. If that speed drilling and accompanying cracking continued until the day of the blowout, then a lot of the mud just might be wasted, meaning the plugging will take a lot longer than hoped for.
This could be bad.
I’ve been following the discussion over here:
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6516#more
Some real problems it sounds like...
Obamie claiming credit jinxed the whole thing.
I think it is fair speculation that this attempt has not been successful, yet. Based on everything I’ve read today and observed, a very small amount of the mud being pumped, has actually been forced down the well. There is nothing conclusive that I’ve seen or read, to suggest that the attempt has been successful. It remains an open question.
I saved my applause when the media was immediately reporting it to be a success and I will save my tears as the media starts screaming FAILURE!
The “MFM” knows this is THE TOP story and they are all very eager to be the FIRST with the latest scoop.
Before they even started, BP said it would take awhile and there would be stuff spewing for awhile, colors changing, etc.
Can we now say it’s Obama’s fault?
“I take responsibility. It is my job to make sure that everything is done to shut this down,” Obama declared
Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?’
Did anyone else catch the whole statement from the news conference??...here it is. Look carefully at the last sentence.
OBAMA: When I woke up this morning, and I’m shaving and Malia knocks on my bathroom door and she peeks in her head, and she says, “Did you plug the hole yet, daddy?” Because I think everybody understands that, you know, when — when we are fouling the earth like this, it has concrete implications not just for this generation but for future generations. I grew up in Hawaii where the ocean is sacred.
He says he “grew up” in Hawaii. Normally someone would say they were “born and raised” unless they were born somewhere else, then they say they “grew up.” Is this a slip of the tongue that he was only “raised” by Grampa Dunham but born elsewhere???????