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Pledges of “transparency” in the government’s handling of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are as murky as the oil itself. Despite a promise a month ago from Thad Allen, the incident commander overseeing the BP oil spill response, that “media will have uninhibited access anywhere we’re doing operations,” that’s not how the situation is playing out. The Coast Guard has issued rules that prohibit anyone — including reporters and photographers — from getting within 65 feet of any response vessel or boom deployed on land or water. Allen doesn’t see that as a violation of his “uninhibited...

The Gulf Oil Spill is working wonders for Obama. He gets a $20 Billion slush fund from BP for he and his friends to spread around and gives BP a media blackout to do (or not do ) what they want. Yet the biggest prize of all is still to come. The US government has a little known Immigration rule called " TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS RENEWALS". This is a way to allow illegals to stay in the US if their country is recovering from a natural disaster. It has been abused in recent times by illegals. Now look at a...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US government Wednesday launched a new website to give information on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, moving away from the portal jointly run with oil giant BP. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the top government official handling the spill, said the site wwww.RestoreTheGulf.gov was "designed to serve as a one-stop repository for news, data and operational updates related to administration-wide efforts to stop the BP oil leak." The website aims to provide "even greater transparency and openness about the BP oil spill, our historic response, the tools available to assist Gulf Coast communities, and plans...

I love it! When I wrote this essay: Does EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Want to Kill White Americans? (When incompetence is not longer believable) I was concerned about being too outrageous, knowing I would certainly be accused or racism and spinning tin-foil-hat conspiracy theories. So I was surprised, hell I was overjoyed, to find others – people with much bigger reputations than mine like Paul Rubin writing in the Wall Street Journal, and Paul Driessen at Townhall.com who were coming to the same conclusion. Here's one man's experience when he went to the Gulf coast to help:

After all, the same accusation – with the races reversed - was made about George Bush and white people after hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and the MSM treated the accusation seriously and with respect. In fact, Bush was accused of "terrorism" - blowing up the levees around New Orleans - so that blacks would be driven out. So why should we not ask if Lisa Jackson, whose focus is “environmental justice” not be suspected that her version of environmental justice demands that white people on the Gulf Coast should live on polluted shores, be deprived of jobs, driven...

Plaintiffs' attorneys are scrambling to avoid being frozen out by a $20 billion fund aimed at compensating Gulf of Mexico oil-spill victims outside of court. The attorneys had hoped litigation against BP PLC and other companies involved in the spill would net them tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars in fees. Many quickly turned their attention to the spill in April from what was then the mass tort of the moment, suits against Toyota Motor Corp. tied to unintended acceleration. But the legal landscape shifted dramatically earlier this month when BP agreed to create a $20 billion...

Is 70 the Gulf Coast's lucky number? That's how many days since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that it took President Obama to accept foreign help in cleaning up the Gulf mess. Finally, on Tuesday, the State Department said it will accept assistance from some of the 27 countries and six international organizations that have offered to combat the spill. It was a grudging acceptance -- fewer than half the offers will be taken up -- and that's a curious reluctance from a president who allegedly wants to make international cooperation his hallmark. Not to mention someone who professed such...

The BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill is turning out to be one of, if not the, greatest ecological disasters of all time. Exxon Valdez, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island may end up looking like minor incidents compared to this disaster. Since April 20th oil and toxic elements have been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. While no one expected an instant solution they did expect a rapid response and a lot of concern from their government. Many were perplexed by President Obama’s initial lack of response. Even after his visit weeks after the accident there were signals pointing to...

In sharp contrast to Dutch preparedness before the fact and the Dutch instinct to dive into action once an emergency becomes apparent, witness the American reaction to the Dutch offer of help. The U.S. government responded with "Thanks but no thanks," remarked Visser, despite BP's desire to bring in the Dutch equipment and despite the no-lose nature of the Dutch offer --the Dutch government offered the use of its equipment at no charge. Even after the U.S. refused, the Dutch kept their vessels on standby, hoping the Americans would come round. By May 5, the U.S. had not come round....

How U.S. labour and environmental rules blocked Dutch spill-cleanup technology Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off. Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality. The Dutch fall into the first group. Three days after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, the Netherlands offered the U.S. government ships equipped to handle a major spill, one much larger than the BP spill that then appeared to be underway. “Our system can handle 400 cubic metres...

As FEMA and other government agencies prepare for what is now being called the worst oil spill disaster in history, plans to evacuate the Tampa Bay area are in place. The plans would be announced in the event of a controlled burn of surface oil in the Gulf of Mexico, or if wind or other conditions are expected to take toxic fumes through Tampa Bay. This practice has been used by the US Forestry service, when fire and smoke threaten the health and well being of people. The elderly and those with respiratory problems would be more susceptible to health...

Bad news concerning the Gulf oil disaster continues to come from WMR's federal government sources in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Emergency planners are dealing with a prospective "dead zone" within a 200 mile radius from the Deepwater Horizon disaster datum in the Gulf. A looming environmental and population displacement disaster is brewing in the Gulf. The oil dispersant used by BP, Corexit 9500, is seen by FEMA sources as mixing with evaporated water from the Gulf and absorbed by rain clouds producing toxic precipitation that threatens to continue killling marine and...

In the Gulf where it was born,Lived an oil spill that fouled the sea,And they tried to end its life,But they were useless, BP, So He golfed and took vacation,Then He ate to get his fill,And the crisis spun out of control,And now we call it His oil spill,

This idea is very simple..... 1. Get a massive commercial construction dumpster 2. Turn it upside down, cut a hole in the center and attach a massive pipe 3. Lower it over the oil leak 4. A boat is at the surface waiting to capture the oil

When BO sits down with Gen. Stanley McChrystal today for a beer summit over the Afghanistan war chief’s loose lips, he’ll just be trying to knock me off the front pages. On the one hand, I’m impressed with the swift and bold action he’s taking with McChrystal. If criticizing BO was all it took to get his prompt attention, I would have started this blog a lot sooner than three weeks ago. Then maybe the effort to kick my *** would be a lot further along. But the fact is, even if BO manages to give McChrystal a pink slip...

Alan Colmes (yes he’s still around) decided that he found himself a ‘gotcha‘ moment after Governor Palin sent the following message on Twitter Sunday: "Gulf disaster needs divine intervention as man's efforts have been futile. Gulf lawmakers designate today Day of Prayer for solution/miracle." He posted the following on his blog, “Liberaland” titled “Sarah Palin’s Gulf Solution: “Divine Intervention”: When President Obama invoked God during his prime time speech, he was criticized for going in that direction. But will the critics be as ardent in response to Sarah Palin’s statement that what is needed is “divine intervention”? Bill O’Reilly pointedly...

I'm beginning to convince myself that BO has forgotten all about being a "really good one-term president." He wants to be number 1, all right. No doubt about it ... but he's looking for a top finish at the bottom, to be lower than Jimmy Carter, the worst president ever – until now.The parallels are striking, until you examine them further. Then you find out BO is so far in front, if there were a 10-run rule in presidential stupidity, the umpires would stop the game and declare BO winner.

Yesterday, Joe Scarborough and Jack Welch ribbed Mika Brzezinski for her reading of White House talking points on the oil spill. But after bloggers including this one reported Mika's admission that she was "working with the White House" on the matter, Scarborough has this morning gone all Sir Galahad. The Morning Joe host said he wasn't going to "call them names," but then went on to mockingly imitate bloggers fulminating through their Cheetos. View video here.

President Obama has repeatedly said his Administration is doing everything in its power to expedite the oil clean-up and mitigate the damage. But in the two weeks immediately after the spill, 13 foreign governments reached out and offered their assistance. The U.S. response? Thanks, but no thanks. Or at least that's how Geert Visser, consul general for the Netherlands in Houston, described the U.S. answer. The State Department phrased it slightly differently: "While there is no need right now that the U.S. cannot meet, the U.S. Coast Guard is assessing these offers of assistance to see if there will be...

Tyrone Benton, a technician on the Deepwater Horizon , claims that he told both BP and the rig operator of a problem that existed with a piece of equipment blamed by many for causing the oil spill. Benton says he gave the warning weeks before the explosion, and that the problem was not fixed. He claims he spotted a leak on the rigs Blowout Preventor (BOP) which is used to shut the well down if an accident occurs. Benton told the BBC’s Panorama program that both BP and Transocean, the company that owns the rig, were told of the fault...