BP is cutting the riser right now!

BP.com ^ | 05/31/2010 | BP

[omega4179]

Very interesting.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

How’s a sumbitch that can’t stop an illegal alien think he’s gonna stop a damn tar ball.

"Touch my balls and I'll kill you"

[Repeal The 17th]

“...Get out. I didn’t know that...”
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The expression from long ago was...
“She looked like she had a a yo-yo in her britches.”

[fanfan]

Thanks for the ping, HKMk23.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...what is going on?...”
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No action tonight...
Waiting for the engineers to tweak some valves, I think...

[ArmstedFragg]

Did you see our President, today, say the cap is holding?

Apparently no one told him it’s not attached to anything.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

LMAO! That’s funny!

[Pan_Yan]

I did not see it, but I am not suprised. He’s not too good with facts or physical laws and stuff like that. Now if you asked him about unicorns or communist successes he’d be able to talk all day.

[bert]

It can be well argued that he has no desire to stop the Mexicans or the oil spill. Both can be used to political advantage

[Repeal The 17th]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100604/pl_afp/usoilpollutionobamabp_20100604213533
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Obama fired a seething warning to BP Friday, warning the oil giant must not go cheap on Gulf of Mexico disaster victims if it pays billions of dollars in share dividends.

Obama, who has been criticized for not showing enough emotion over the worst environmental disaster in US history, showed flashes of obvious anger as he hammered BP, which operated the Deepwater Horizon rig which exploded in April.

Obama said ... “The fact BP can pay a 10.5 billion dollar dividend payment is indicative of how much money these folks have been making.”

BP has yet to say whether it will pay its normal dividend to share holders but is coming under increasing political pressure in the United States to skip the payment.

[Repeal The 17th]

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/06/04/2010-06-04_obama_takes_swing_at_bp_during_latest_gulf_visit_to_review_oil_spill.html
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The President made his third trip to the Louisiana coast Friday since the April 20 offshore rig explosion that killed 11 workers and ignited the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Obama sounded upbeat, citing progress in BP’s effort to combat the spill it started, but cautioned it’s “way too early to be optimistic.”

The President, however, ripped the British oil giant for blowing cash on advertising and dividends for shareholders.

“What I don’t want to hear is when they’re spending that kind of money on their shareholders and spending that kind of money on TV advertising that they’re nickeling and diming fishermen or small businesses here in the Gulf who are having a hard time,” he said.

[bert]

That means a little leakage, that is positive pressure around the gasket prevents water entry and the resultant problems.

Thanks for the informative and well written post.

[Pan_Yan]

That would explain the official BP 'tweet from an hour ago:

BP takes full responsibility for responding to #oilspill and will compensate for all legitimate claims. Submit a claim: http://bit.ly/cEzLTT

[bert]

Here’s the gist of an e mail from Lamar taking the Messiah to task. The unassailable conclusion....It is the President’s failure. He has not met his responsibility and his passing the buck today exascerbates that failure.

Sen. Lamar Alexander added his voice to the rising chorus of anger over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.) (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The Tennessee Republican, the ranking member on the Appropriations Committee’s panel on the interior and environment, said Sunday that a 1990 law puts the onus on the president to clean up oil spills, suggesting President Barack Obama as well as BP are to blame for the failure to plug the gushing well. The law was passed after the Exxon Valdez spill damaged a stretch of Alaska’s coastline.

In an appearance on C-SPAN’s Newsmakers program, Alexander said that responding to an oil spill and protecting the Gulf Coast is “the president’s responsibility.” He added: “So I think that it’s my responsibility as a member of Congress to ask the question, ‘What was the president’s plan and where are the personnel and equipment necessary to implement that plan?’”

Just how far he’ll get with that argument is unclear. Administration officials and many others outside government have acknowledged that federal agencies lack the equipment and expertise to plug the leaking well.

In recent days, however, the administration has sought to convey that it is calling the shots amid accusations that officials haven’t responded aggressively enough to what experts say is the nation’s largest oil spill.
Lamar........
Obama, at a press conference Friday, said it was “simply not true” that the federal government was allowing BP to make all the decisions. And White House Energy Czar Carol Browner, on NBC’s “Meet The Press” today, portrayed the government as assertive in its interactions with BP. She said the government demanded that BP halt its “top kill” procedure this weekend after becoming concerned the operation was putting too much pressure on the well, suggesting worries about a bigger blowout.

[Pan_Yan]

And the 'tweet' right before that one:

BP has announced it will make a second payment to Gulf individuals and businesses, bringing claims payments to $84mil: http://bit.ly/ap4M7Q

[Repeal The 17th]

I stole that.
I did not author it.

[Pan_Yan]

... and their last Facebook entry:

BP has announced it will be sending a second advance payment during June to individuals and businesses along the Gulf Coast to compensate for the loss of income or net profit due to the cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon Incident in the Gulf of Mexico. With the second advance payments, BP will have spent about $84 million for loss of income or net profit through June.

[Pan_Yan]

What just happened? All the feeds have been cut.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

The President, however, ripped the British oil giant for blowing cash on advertising and dividends for shareholders. “What I don’t want to hear is when they’re spending that kind of money on their shareholders and spending that kind of money on TV advertising that they’re nickeling and diming fishermen or small businesses here in the Gulf who are having a hard time,” he said.

Hey Bomber!

BP is doing everything it can to stop the gusher, but there were many things which you could have done to contain and dispatch the spill...they were either prohibited or left undone.

Now the devastating effects of the spill have been maximized and for what purpose? Your political gain.

You will be held responsible for the environmental and fiscal damage done to America's south coast.

[Repeal The 17th]

Me too.

[Pan_Yan]

The only one that I found still running was the channel 5 feed. However, when I was looking at it someone’s mouse came on the screen, moved the feed over, paused it, then turned it back on. Now they’ve stopped it as well.