Posted on 06/24/2010 9:23:10 PM PDT by GonzoII
"...God only knows what that is"
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Thanks for the ping!
The clip resolution was not satisfactory enough for a high confidence opinion, but I have a sense that there could have been hydrocarbons in sufficient quantity to to affect normal wave breaking characteristics due to the affect that they would have on surface tension. For example, deliberate dumping of fuel oil into rough seas has been done some number of times in emergency conditions in order to calm breaking waves and make rescue or other aid possible.
Habibi’s No. 34 here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2541317/posts states it well.
“Like most natural/unnatural systems, the variables can confound those seeking easy answers. Be very careful about buying into simple environmental theories about the situation at an early stage. Right now, the Ludite environmental opportunists are regurgitating whatever comes into their technically feeble brains. For good or ill, accurate environmental answers are not going to come for a long time. Right now you’re seeing PC-PR spin that's only produced by organizations trying to push particular agendas that have little to do with reality. In months, or years, we’ll actually know some of the answers as to how Corexit works in this particular environment. Those who profess to know the answers at this early stage are not to be trusted, but it is interesting to pick apart their agenda driven mantras that are trying to pass off as scientific knowledge.”
ridiculous ...we are all gonna die...ahhhhh!!!!
HIDEOUS.
Yes and now.
There are and have been sincere folks in such organizations. Though they have become guilty of worshiping the created vs the Creator.
These blokes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2
however, who helped set up and push such groups have insured that they have increasingly done the job for which they, and the feminist movement, and the ‘gay’ movement and the black movement and the Chicano movemen
were created for—
TO FRACTURE AND HELP DESTROY OUR SOCIETY, CULTURE, WAY OF LIFE, OUR COUNTRY.
FWIW, I think the blue collar Rats that have always argued the Rat party is for the little guy are starting to wake up and see this is the most incompetent, elitist liberal ever elected. The mess in the Gulf makes the point.
A real leader takes charge, breaks the various issues down into groups, gets people moving on them and seeks input from anybody and everybody. Instead all we've seen is bureaucratic paralysis, or worse bureaucratic stonewalling when others are more dynamic and willing to take charge, ie. Gov. Jindal being stopped at every turn.
I don’t know what the problem is. I’m thinking seriously of opening a spa in Florida and will be looking for partners.
“Feeling low on energy? Have a bath in a barrel of crude oil Azerbaijan has found a therapeutic use for its excess supply of oil. Wrapped in a white bathrobe, a women stares out the window of the Naftalan clinic at the carcass of a yellow Lada balanced on four piles of bricks. It is an unlikely place for a spa retreat but she travelled 1,800 miles to the Azeri capital of Baku for 10 days of massages and baths - using not mud, nor seaweed, but crude oil.
The attendant beckons. She strips and enters a ceramic-tiled room. She grabs hold of the ornate bath handle and lowers her body into 35 gallons of black gold - as much as a barrel. Orangey filaments swirl about on the surface, sticking to the enamel and to the hair on her skin. The smell from the 40°C bath makes our heads spin.
If you strain your eyes, you can just about make out the tankers plying the Caspian Sea, transporting the light crude that Azerbaijan exports to the world. But the oil used here gushes out of the Earth at Naftalan, a small town 160 miles north-west of the capital.
“Naftalan is too heavy for the industry,” Dr Alif Zulfugar, the manager of this unlikely spa, explains. “It is used only for healing purposes. It doesn’t get treated in any way. It passes directly from the source to our tankers and then into our basins.” Clients flock to the clinic from all over the former Soviet states, and increasingly from the Emirates and even Europe.
Marco Polo mentioned the virtues of Azeri oil in the 13th century. In The Travels, he wrote of a “fountain from which oil springs in great abundance ... not edible but good for burning and to treat men and animals with mange, and camels with hives and ulcers”.
In the pale blue corridors of the clinic, the yellow skin and slow gait of a woman indicate that she has just emerged from a bath. Tatiana Shabunin is a dermatologist and she is keeping her husband company during his treatment.
She discovered Naftalan oil in her textbooks while at medical school in Moscow and has come out of professional curiosity and “for sheer pleasure”.
Others come for medicinal reasons. The crude is said to heal the skin, treating conditions like eczema and psoriasis; the joints, easing rheumatism and arthritis; and the nerves. “Over 100 problems in all,” Dr Zulfugar says.
However, the oil is almost 50 per cent naphthalene, a hydrocarbon commonly used as a moth repellent. This poses a problem because EU regulations deem it a potentially carcinogenic substance.
The doctor shrugs off these concerns, saying the limited exposure of eight to 12 minutes in the bath, and not more than one bath a day during a 10-day treatment, means his patients are not at risk. Millions of patients have used the Naftalan baths, he says.
In their 1980s heyday, 75,000 people visited the crude spas each year. That torrent became a trickle in 1988 when war broke out between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians in nearby Nagorno-Karabakh. Five of the six Soviet-era resorts became refugee shelters.
Azerbaijan has since experienced a new petroleum boom, emerging as a key transit route for oil from Central Asia to Europe. Gross domestic product grew more than 20 per cent a year on average between 2003 and 2007, making the economy one of the world’s fastest growing. The country is so awash in oil that people are literally swimming in it - and Baku is cashing in.
“Look at this hill,” says Hikmat Ibrahimov, the founder of the clinic. “When we started, there was nothing here.” Today it boasts a power station, restaurants and cranes, many cranes.
In 2002, Mr Ibrahimov pulled off a coup by obtaining the right to transport the crude from the remote plains of the hinterlands to the very rich Azeri capital. “With President Aliev’s help,” he dutifully adds. Construction started on a second clinic this winter.
In the VIP bathroom, the 18-year-old bathboy, Ismael, helps the Russian rafter to the shower for her 30-minute scrubdown. It will take Ismael three months to earn the £300 pounds it costs for a 10-day treatment. He jokes that his client will be taking a few drops of black gold back to Siberia as a souvenir: Her saturated skin will ooze crude oil for two or three days to come.”
"oil...good for burning and to treat men and animals with mange, and camels with hives and ulcers”
Camels with ulcers, certainly, but men with mange?
When mange occurs in humans, it is called scabies. It is fairly common in colder third world countries.
AMEN! All liberals are hypocrites because politics always comes before truth, and the socialistic end justifies any corrupted means.
LOL!
Just don’t hold a lighted flame too close to your drinking water down in Florida.
I was at Pensacola Beach yesterday and ate supper at a beachfront restaurant while witnessing the giant photo op of a clean up.
Funny that the only beaches that were closed were the only beaches that would support the caravans of buses and media trucks. Just a half mile away the beaches were open and people swimming.
Was the beach clean where you were? Just asking about level of pollution.
I love those white sands.
Panama City was spotless.
The beaches from Navarre to Portofino near Pcola Beach were good.
Pcola seemed to have some crud wash ashore but it was hard to tell if the clean up crews left because the media left or if the media left because the cleaning crews left.
Compared to Ivan and Katrina (so far) the hurricanes did far more damage.
Thanks for this info.
My daughter just closed on a rental unit in Destin this week. Good timing, huh?
Should be fine imo.
Thanks. I haven’t talked to her since Monday night. As of that time, they had only had one cancellation.
Thanks for the ping, and you're right. I've never seen anything like that before. To my knowledge Zero still hasn't signed the waiver for the Jones Act yet so all those skimmers could still be just sitting there waiting.
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