Posted on 05/01/2010 3:52:35 AM PDT by Scanian
The disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill pushed into the Mississippi River Delta yesterday with high winds and rough seas complicating efforts to slow the toxic sludge's spread, as the first oil-slicked animals were found amid fears of an environmental nightmare.
Experts prepared for the worst as choppy seas threatened to force the goop deep into the marshlands along Louisiana's southern coast over the weekend and push oily water over the booms put in place to contain it.
"It's of grave concern," said David Kennedy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "I am frightened. This is a very, very big thing. And the efforts that are going to be required to do anything about it, especially if it continues on, are just mind-boggling."
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It’s Obama’s fault.
Dont be ridiculous.
hehe! I do believe this is the very first time I’ve seen that, and I’m in complete agreement!
Obama’s Katrina!
Exactly, it's Bush's fault.
Odds are, we’ll see videos of some idiots trying to scrub oily nutrias and re-release them, when Louisiana would love to exterminate every one of the damned giant rats.
That’s right...how do we know he didn’t have that well blown the same way they said Bush and Cheney had the New Orleans levees blown?
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