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In his May 28th interview with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton and Lori Rothman, Matt Simmons of energy investment bank Simmons & Company, provides some stunning revelations on what is really occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, and proposes that the only effective way to contain the leak is to relieve BP, bring in the military, and do what the Russians have done on comparable occasions, namely explode nuclear weapons within the wellbore. [....] In addition to his radical solution, Simmons also points out that "Top Kill" is a sideshow and the real problem is 5 to 7 miles away, where a...

Game over. The New York Times has the smoking gun. BP internal documents show they knew the risk of using thin casing in high pressure, lied to MMS.

President Obama said at his BP press conference that when he was shaving the other day, his daughter Malia asked him, "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" If Obama wanted to give her a quick lesson in how the world works, he might have said: "No, dear, that's beyond my capacity. I can't stop oil from gushing from a well 5,000 feet beneath the ocean's surface. Now, did you do your homework?" Malia can be forgiven for not understanding the limits on her daddy's power. She's 11 years old. What's everyone else's excuse? If the presidency of the United...

<p>If President Obama's press conference yesterday was designed to calm grow ing public concerns over his adminis tration's mishandling of the Gulf oil spill, it didn't work.</p> <p>BP's deep-water oil rig exploded and oil began gushing into the Gulf on April 20.</p>

According to the U.S. Coast Guard, the top-kill was successful, and the oil leak in the Gulf is now contained. Now we'll get to see how the Obama administration mitigates the damage. So far their strategy has been to do nothing and blame George W. Bush, so I guess it's gymnastics time, as the Obamatons contort themselves and logic to figure out the next political angle on this disaster...

"Community Organizer" is just a fancy way of saying "B.S. Artist." And the DUmmies are now discovering that The One is a first class B.S. Artist. Yeah, the Gulf of Mexico has been filling up with oil for about 35 days and the biggest response from Obama so far is that he is talking hoops with Marv Albert. I kid you not. But should we be surprised? Here is a guy who barely, if ever, even attended a class at Columbia University. What did he DO at Harvard? Well, he got elected editor of Harvard Law Review but he...

Here is video of Fox News' Shepard Smith yesterday giving a personal commentary at the end of his broadcast where he blasted BP Executive Tony Hayward for having said he expects lots of lawsuits against his company because "this is America - there will be frivolous lawsuits." Smith launched into an indignant pounding of Hayward, for also having apparently said the oil leak in the Gulf is "a relatively small leak" compared to the amount of water in the Gulf. "Mr. Hayward, that Gulf is the source of life for millions upon millions of people, and plants, and other creatures...

This is the video of the Deepwater Horizon BP Rig leak. For those who want to bypass the news services, it has been blogged here. With MANY THANKS to both FixedNewsChannel and YouTube.

WASHINGTON, May 5 (UPI) -- BP said Wednesday it had capped one of three leaks from its damaged Gulf of Mexico well and it might be able to seal the well in as little as two weeks. BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward told the Houston Chronicle the company was considering an untested approach he called "top kill," which involves reconfiguring equipment to pump heavy fluids into the well to stop the flow and create a permanent seal. The method involves using the blowout preventer that failed when an explosion crippled the Deepwater Horizon well, triggering a fire that has...

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...