Posted on 06/30/2010 3:13:44 PM PDT by Willie Green
No worries. Captain Kick Ass will get on it, as soon as he gives his big immigration speech tomorrow and plays a few rounds of golf.
Perhaps Sergeant Smart Ass can be of assistance at this time?
It is one of the most effective ways to get rid of the oil. As for blocking the wildlife rescue crews, the last thing they need is some Sea Shepard hippies burning their little pinkey finger and suing BP to block yet another clean-up method.
No evidence that any turtles were ACTUALLY being harmed?
SWEET!
Can I get some Ranch Dressing with that?
Carefully read, the article does not claim a single sea turtle has been burned. All you get from these enviros is horsesh*t.
BP has the worst safety record of any oil company operating in the US.
BP contributed to Obama.
Need I say more?
OK, I don’t really know, but do the booms have nets under them? Sea turtles can swim, and I don’t understand why they can’t just swim underneath and get away. This seems a little bogus to me, but I’m willing to be educated.
“Mama, the tuna tastes different lately”
Tarter sauce is better
If the oil isn’t contained and eliminated off shore, people will suffer onshore. That is a significantly larger issue than whether a few turtles (birds or fish also)are killed in the process of keeping the oil from reaching shore. Besides, there are reported to be seven different flavors of meat in a turtle.
Any Octopuss in the Gulf? Maybe some Calimari.
any turtle the can’t figure out “swim down” or “turn around” probably isn’t doing the gene pool a lot of good anyway.
also, all that oil in a confined space would have likely doomed any turtles that were caught, long before the fires were set.
however, until I see some unwashed long-hair waiving a fried turtle corpse in front of a camera, I’m going to remain incredulous of these claims.
Carefully read, the article does not claim a single sea turtle has been burned.Click on the YouTube link that was provided: eyewitness testimony from a boat captain who saw it.
I believe octopi are more deep ocean dwellers because they prefer the dark and cold of the deep water.
In any event, I neither like nor eat fish.
After spending a few minutes today looking out over the Gulf from the Ocean Springs fishing pier (in the driving rain) at the foot of Lake Mars Road, I believe the concern over loss of a couple turtles is about as lame as the concern over the snail darter fish.
A far greater loss is the shrimp, oysters and fish that our good fisherman have relied upon to feed their families and us for generations. Likewise the offshore workers. No one seems to give a rats ass for them including (more like especially) the African fellow.
He needs to be removed from office.
A few fried turtles will save many thousands more that do not die from oil ingestion.
Burn a few turtles maybe save a few birds near the shore. Who knows but I’d guess any turtles caught in the pool of crude are destined to die anyway.
http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/seaturtles/turtle%20factsheets/kemps-ridley-sea-turtle.htm
RANGE AND POPULATION LEVEL: The range of the Kemp’s ridley includes the Gulf coasts of Mexico and the U.S., and the Atlantic coast of North America as far north as Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Most Kemp’s ridleys nest on the coastal beaches of the Mexican states of Tamaulipas and Veracruz, although a very small number of Kemp’s ridleys nest consistently at Padre Island National Seashore, Texas. Hatchlings, after leaving the nesting beach, are believed to become entrained in eddies within the Gulf of Mexico, where they are dispersed within the Gulf and Atlantic by oceanic surface currents until they reach about 20 cm in length, at which size they enter coastal shallow water habitats.
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Is that anything like “no animals were harmed in the making of this motion picture”?
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