Ya sure that pic isn’t for the remake of “Deep Throat?”

To quote Olberman :that woman is an idiot !

Just what kind of drilling are we talking about ?

That must be some retainer she’s on.

So how much money do you suppose the “industry” is dropping into her numbered, off-shore account?

Now yer just gonna hafta use yer own imagination. *g*

I didn’t need that image this early in the day, but it sure is too F-n funny. Ha!

It’s not polite to make fun of retarded people for being retarded.

Also, considering this woman has exactly fuck-all ability, authority, or capacity to functionally address this issue; who gives a flying fuck what she thinks about it?

So that’s what Sarah means when she says “drill baby drill” to Roger Ailes?

who gives a flying fuck what she thinks about it?

The rubes who attend her rallies.

Talk about images early in the day. That’s fugly.

Maybe we’ll get really lucky and Glenn Beck will diagram it on his crazy board. heh…

Eat shit, baby, eat shit.

But for some of her tea party worshipping minions, she has quite the eff-ability quotient, if you get my drift. And isn’t that the point of Bible Spice??? As some have said, if the Snowbilly Grifter was older, or heavier or not very attractive, she wouldn’t be where she is. I hate to sound sexist, but seriously, facts are facts.

As far as Palin shilling for Halliburton and BP: did you expect anything else? Blubber Limbaugh has bascially found some way to excoriate the dfh Eco-”Nazis” in some weird way that only Limpballs can. So what would you expect from Jabba Aisles gold bikini’ed PR girl on a dog chain?

“I want our country to be able to trust the oil industry.”

Yeah, good luck with that.

Who hold how many political offices? Run how many major enterprises?

Christ, if she were actually still the Governor of Alaska there’d be something here, as it stands it’s just, “Man look at how stupid those people are, pffft. Idiots. Sure glad they’re not in charge, otherwise nothing useful would get done…. err wait a minute.”

A far more appropriate Alaska woman to speak about the spill and the oil industry is Riki Ott. Here she is on Democracy Now this morning.

Prolly not many but they and their friends donate and vote and that’s all the pols are lookin’ at.

“I want our country to be able to trust the oil industry.”

…and the mining industry, and the banking industry, and the news industry, etc, etc…

Not in my lifetime.

At 42,000 gallons per day, how long would this spill have to continue to be the worst oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico?

Since the estimates are now at least five times that (i.e., 210,000 gallons per day instead of 42,000), not all that long

Try 210,000 – 220,000 gallons a day. Estimate is 5000 barrels/day. Barrel = 42 gallons. I’ll go out on a limb and say the spill rate is greater than 5000 barrels/day, just because I don’t believe BP or the govt.

What I get for gettin’ carried away. Whatcha drinkin’?

Drill for Sarah, not for oil.

Most of the readers at the Orange Satan think the federal response has been just peachy. While I’m sure it’s been way better than what we would have gotten under Bush, it’s way past time to stop using the Bush yardstick to judge success. He set the bar so low as to render all such comparisons meaningless.

Check news websites. There is a news blackout on oil spill stories.

Have you seen the graphic at the top of HuffPo? Slideshow with one showing the area of the spill. Good chance this will kill the Gulf because these clueless assholes are tryin’ shit never tried before. 1.4M+ gallons a week on the surface. How long will it take? Motherfuckers.

Had the pleasure of eating at a true, old-school FL seafood restaurant up in the Panhandle Saturday. Chatting with the owner over drinks, he told me he fully expects to be closed next week, and out of business the week after next. Place has been there for 50 years.

Palin doesn’t want anything more than what Obama wants.

The job loss as a result of the oil spill will likely wipe out the puny number of jobs created by Mr. Bipartisan. Doin a heck of a job, Barry.

I’ll go out on a limb and say the spill rate is greater than 5000 barrels/day, just because I don’t believe BP or the govt.

I agree. Further, if the wellhead blows out completely, it could get way uglier in a hurry.

Problem with govt response is they don’t have anybody who knows how to do anything about it. All concerned, govt and Big Oil, are clueless. They’re at the “sure hope this works” stage and not even out of the gate yet.

Palin doesn’t want anything more than what Obama wants has.

Fixed.

Back to work.

Namaste

Where’s Brownie when you really need him? He’d do a heckuva job.

Really? I haven’t noticed that at all. Here, here, and here are the first three places I looked at traditional media wise. Maybe you’re trying to make a point but I’m not getting it.

That’s so sad and he won’t be the last one. I can’t even imagine what it will do to places in NO.

Good the more Sarah talks about oil the more it helps us in every state that gets hit by an oil spill.

That’s because it “could never happen in a million years” or at least that what BP said when they applied for the permit and the feds lapped it up. THAT’S why the response has been terrible. Because it was preventable.

Surely Obama must have a bipartisan plan to solve the problem. His ego likely believes all he has to do is walk on the Gulf waters and turn the oil into Dr. Pepper.

The solution, once again, is duct tape. Placed firmly over the eyes and ears.

Palin doesn’t want anything more than what Obama wants.

Exactly. Only one of them has any power at the moment. Only one of them has actually put in motion plans to start drilling along the East Coast.

Right? And don’t forget over the victims’ mouths.

Thanks for that, although the whole fucking thing is so fucking sad…

Meanwhile, Big Oil is investing heavily in another Republican Senator futures–according to the financial disclosure forms of the ND Governor who would be Senator come November.

While many North Dakotans went to AZ for the winter, Hoeven went to Houston and picked up the oil checks.

I agree – there is no news blackout on spill coverage.

Some spills get covered more than others. The Jiyeh power station spill in 2006 was worse than this is, and was the last huge oil spill catastrophe before the current Gulf event. It was pretty much blacked out while it was happening. And still is.

Well of course they’re not going to cover that one! They never really mentioned annihilating civilians with phosphorous either. Bad for relations and it might cause people in this country to demand that we stop paying for genocide.

Thanks for the correction. I must have grabbed an early estimate from HuffingtonPost.

“I want our country to be able to trust the oil industry.”

Well, hell, so do I, Sarah. So what do we have to do to turn the oil industry into something that can be trusted?

I’m waiting for Orahma to come along and tell us how nobody could have foreseen this catastrophe.

Meanwhile, Big Oil is investing heavily in another Republican Senator futures–according to the financial disclosure forms of the ND Governor who would be Senator come November.

Amazing huh? The prospects are terrifying. If only the Democrats had some kind authority to reign in Big Oil, and produce a plan for reconfiguring our dependence on it socially and economically.

We need to work extra hard to make sure the Democrats finally regain the Presidency and a majority in both houses of Congress! Then at least we’ll have the allies we need in government to push forward some significant changes and solutions to our problems! I only hope that a completely impotent minority of right-wing noise machines doesn’t fundamentally arrest control through their magnificent irrelevance, and gum up the works.

Right Blue Texan?

If not mistaken the a” Democrats” had the WH and a majority in Congress. Remind me what difference that made?

My apologies, not dripping with enough sarcasm for you?

Peachy? Not ONE fire boom near the scene.

Since I live only about a four-to-five hours drive away from the Florida Panhandle, this oil spill, which can be better described as an oil eruption, has me weeping more than most of you here. I weep as I think about the untold amounts of death and destruction sweeping across the Gulf. I weep as I think about all of its wildlife being soaked and poisoned to death by oil. And no amount of money in the world can ever replace the incredible beauty of its beaches and the incredible taste of its seafood. :’-(

And even though Dick Cheney managed to beat the rap for creating a needless war in Iraq, I was hoping that I’d have the pleasure of seeing him and other warfare-driven, welfare Queens at Halliburton all behind bars, wearing orange jumpsuits, eating baloney sandwiches and drinking kool-aid for improperly cementing this ultra-deepwater oil rig to the sea floor. But upon further examination, I’ve come to see that the culprits in this catastrophe go far deeper and much broader than Dick Cheney and Halliburton: the Bush Administration’s unwillingness to require all deepwater oil rigs to have emergency shut-off valves, called blowout preventers, and British Petroleum’s as well as Transocean’s unwillingness to play it safe by having these valves installed on their oil rigs in the Gulf.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704423504575212031417936798.html

That is f’ing priceless. The company the makes the things is located in Illinois and Florida, and the Fed’s, nor the private oil companies operating here, actually have any on hand.

I stand by my general worldview. We are the stupidest richest country in the world, and the reasons for both are the same. Geopolitical isolation. Being straddled by two huge oceans, and two uninterested and relatively stable border-nations, means that we have no competition, and we have no accountability.

Would you believe 26,000 barrels per day?

http://blog.skytruth.org/2010/05/gulf-oil-spill-new-spill-rate.html

It’s no longer a headline story. It is slipping in importance as the slick spreads. The change is gradual, but it’s there. This story should be #1. Period.

“I want our country to be able to trust the oil industry.”

I want our country to be able to mistrust Sarah Palin.

I can’t stop thinking about all the beautiful dolphins I’ve seen in those Gulf waters. Each one worth ten oilmen, IMO.

Or at least ignore her.

Jason Rosenbaum has a fresh cross-post up: Obama Administration to break promise and cave to telecoms, leave the Internet unprotected?

Why do we need to trust any industry?

Haven’t seen the HuffPo one but the New Orleans newspaper Saturday evening had an animated graphic that I linked to on facebook that showed how the spill has changed shape and gotten larger, just in the first 3 days – kinda scared to go check it again and see how much worse it is now

Here’s the NOLA.com link. The animation is down a little from the top of the page.

Also – the New York Times now admits Obama is a liar – in so many words – by printing the fact that the Obama line “BP will pay for all” is a bit limited by a law that say that other than clean up costs BP orders, its liability – to folks like the fisherman, home owners, etc. – is limited to $75 million under the Valdez law.

Re Obama’s “BP will pay,” I think this is a direct result of bailout disgust.

Obama also said:

“Your government will do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to stop this crisis.”

He should have added:

But we won’t do much of anything to regulate an industry that gives Congress so much money that we do whatever the hell they want.

I think Sarah Palin’s remarks pale in comparison to “Rainbow Sheen” Mary Landrieu. From Karl Grossman at Counterpunch:

“She gave the huge oil slick in the Gulf a rainbow hue. ‘What’s important about this sheen is that 97% of it is a rainbow sheen,’ she said in the Senate. ‘Only 3% contains emulsified crude…So it is important to understand that, while this is an unprecedented disaster—the oil slick is wide and covers a large section of ocean—97% of it is an extremely thin sheen of relatively light oil on the surface.’”
Of course, Ms Landrieu has taken $574,000 from 2000 to 2008, making her especially partial to the “rainbow sheen” on the ocean.
http://www.counterpunch.org/

Her “rainbow sheen” is really a coating of crude oil a micron or two thick. It isn’t much until you remember how much that works out to when you pick it all back up, and that it doesn’t evaporate, and that it doesn’t just “go away” but has to be cleaned up. The most realistic estimates I’ve seen (http://blog.skytruth.org/) would put the current spill at close to 15 million gallons of crude. I suspect that the Exxon Valdez spill was a “rainbow sheen” over most of its area as well. Didn’t really make a bit of difference to the $8 billion it cost to clean it up, did it?

i’m running to the closet!

“I want our country to be able to trust the oil industry.”

Well, hell, so do I, Sarah. So what do we have to do to turn the oil industry into something that can be trusted?

well, i’ll take it over, reverse engineer it and we can get our public transportation systems back.

Here’s a sickening response from a commenter at the N.Y. Times:

I believe that nature will help resolve the ecological damage that this oil spill will cause. The oil will disperse over a wide area. It will fully spread over the Louisiana marshland. It will wash up on the beaches from Mississippi to Alabama to Florida and the Keys. The currents will even spread it up the Eastern seaboard to Georgia, South Carolina and beyond. This oil will be washing up onto the Eastern coast for years to come.

Compared to how oil benefits our economy, this is a small price to pay. Oil heats our schools and makes our medicines. We can’t shoot ourselves in the foot just because a few fish die. Conservative like me understand this. Liberals want us to go back to living in caves and dying of simple infections. This is the world that we have made. Learn to love it.

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/us/03spill.html?permid=244#comment244

Frighteningly sad. I suppose he doesn’t understand that this won’t be just a few fish, but that the entire coast will be poisoned by this for years to come, businesses that generate employment, taxes and products for him and his will no longer be there, and the rare and endangered species impacted by this may be driven right over the edge into extinction. Or maybe he does, and just doesn’t care. Either way, it’s frightening.

When the progressives park their cars, they will sound credible.

Given the dearth of public transport in many parts of the country, even progressives tend to not be able to go carless completely

So we drive (sometimes in fear of our lives from the folks who tailgate with their gas-guzzling SUVs), our often much smaller and fuel efficient cars.

But nice strawman.

They have zero capoacity to learn, because it would require admitting they were wrong, and they can’t handle that. Not ever.

Gov. Sarah Palin is cool, calm, consistent, & courageous.