Legal Lessons for the Gulf from Alaska
http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/55659/legal-lessons-gulf-alaska/greg-pollowitz
May 16, 2010 10:00 AM By Greg Pollowitz
Washington Post [HEADLINE]:
“How to sue an oil company: Tips for the gulf from a veteran of the Valdez spill” By Brian O’Neill Sunday, May 16, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/07/AR2010050702253.html
I heard an interesting quote from a BP executive on Friday — to the effect of “the future of drilling as we know it has been changed.” Lawsuits are going to happen and I’m in favor of all legitimate claims, but the story that I think is still missing here is that BP — and all other oil companies and drillers — are still trying to figure out why the “fail-safe” mechanisms failed. It would make a lot of sense for the pro-drilling folks to be more aggressive on figuring out what went wrong than the anti-drilling folks.
Obama’s Tireless Efforts On the Basketball Court and Golf Course Cause BP to Successfully Insert New Pipe to Siphon Oil to Surface
By Doug Powers • May 16, 2010 03:06 PM
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/05/16/obamas-tireless-efforts/
I’ll leave it to Chris Matthews to find a way to link the two, but first, the potentially good news:
Engineers trying to stop an oil leak deep below the surface of Gulf of Mexico have successfully inserted a mile-long pipe to siphon oil from the disastrous spill, British Petroleum said Sunday.
BP says they are now capturing some of the leaking oil, and hopfully all of it eventually.
President Obama was notified, but only after bees swarmed his motorcade on the way to chur… er, I mean, on the way to play basketball:
Keith Olbermann has dismissed the swarm as racist “Beebaggers” upset at the health care bill.
Congressman Clyburn was in the car and claims to have heard at least two of the bees buzzing racial slurs, though news footage doesn’t as yet support that claim.
As luck would have it, smoke has a calming effect on bees, so all the president had to do was roll down the window and the bees slowly headed back to Michelle’s garden.
And if shooting hoops wasn’t enough, yesterday Obama spent majority of his Saturday trying to plug up the oil leak by jamming golf balls into every hole in the ground he could find:
And it might have worked!
If BP’s latest effort doesn’t go as well as expected, the administration’s going to offer the stubborn leak a Medal for Courageous Restraint and see if that’s enough to get it to stop.
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