So, about that plugged oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico that was the Disaster of the Summer last year? It is leaking again, a lot, and despite days/weeks of the usual lies from BP and the BP enabling agents of the federal and state governments, the Mobile Press Register‘s independent scientific review of the “new” oil spill samples proves that the stuff is gushing out of last year’s glory hole again.
MOBILE, Alabama — Scientific analysis has confirmed that oil bubbling up above BP’s sealed Deepwater Horizon well in recent days is a chemical match for the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that spewed into the Gulf last summer.
The Press-Register collected samples of the oil about a mile from the well site on Tuesday and provided them to Ed Overton and Scott Miles, chemists with Louisiana State University.
Because we were running a little short on American Disasters this week …. [AL.com via ace business/politics (same thing) reporter Lizzie O'Leary]
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Joe Barton immediately apologized to BP again.
Idiots at BP have put more birds in oil than Colonial Sanders.
WIN!
I'll second Baconz. Win
Eric Cantor will be happy to fund the cleanup of this disaster, as long as we cut the MMS/Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.
Hope and/or Change, emm-effers!!!
P.S. Oops, I see that my tag headline is not gaining the kind of upfists that would get me to the promised land (aka 120 pee points).
Therefore, I wish to reiterate that this is all George Bush's fault, and B.P's., and Obama couldn't do a damned thing about it because Republicans in Congress, that's why, and anyone who points out the facts is just a firebagger.
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Remember when 100p was a big deal?
Well no, me neither.
Hey, dammit, stop moving the goalposts. I just finally got into that club. I can't afford to comment full time; someone has to yell at the staff here.
What happens at 120?
I'm more interested in 420.
Sara Benincasa becomes your friend on Twitter.
I hope that's some kind of sex move. "What did you do last night?" "Oh, we stayed in and she became my friend on Twitter."
This is why we can't have nice things, but Benincasa has only herself to blame.
Spill here, spill now!
That's what she said.
That's what who said?
You wouldn't know her. Met her at Niagara Falls. She lives in Canada.
I used to live in Niagara Falls.
Because we were running a little short on American Disasters
Which is why three's a charm to undo the oil-saturating damage. Just need to fenagle a volcano eruption somehow, say around Ecuador-way, and "we'll lava ya clean"
Mt. Rainier's due any year now.
I say it's Yellowstone Caldera Time.
geez ken, can't you quit your bitching and just be thankful to live in a country where mr. pibb is cheap and plentiful?
Needz moar terra butt plugs.
You spill with the Oil wells you have not with the ones you wish you had.
If Obama would have continued the ban on deep-water drilling, like the teabuggers wanted him to, this disaster never would have happened.
Brain sploxion
This really pisses me the fuck off for several reasons.
1) I'm semi-successfull and can afford a car but do not own one because I live in the city and ride a bike. This saves me alot, and gives me a work out 2 times a day. I also have a sense of pride when I tell people that I AM actually putting my money where mouth is in regards to our planet.
2) The greed of the oil industry and it's influence in the body politik is ruining this WORLD! (yes I used the word WORLD)
3) I fucking love seafood as much as I love bacon and I fucking hate that neither I nor my children will EVER eat a shrimp out of the Gulf in our life time without it having a slight hint of Pennzoil 5w-30!
FUCKITY FUCK FUCK!!
(this comment is 100% snark free)
I hear ya. I grew up in Florida and the gulf was a big part of my life…one of the few happy parts of an otherwise miserable childhood. The whole BP thing has given me an enormous sad.
Geez. Another fracking bike hugger.
(Good on you!)
Yeah. Pittsburgh is improving it's bike access in the city which is nice. I got run off the road into a heavy iron trash receptical a few years back by a SUV. I wasn't so much pissed that I almost broke my collar bone, or that the person didn't stop. I was pissed that they were cranking Meatloaf at the time. Serioulsy who listens to Paradise by the Dashboard Lights at 70 Bizillion decibals?
Denver/Boulder is (are?) pretty supportive for bikers and I try to give them space and access. But I have to admit that I'm a little tiny bit peeved when an arrogant rider in second skin attire seems to think rules of the road do not apply to him (it is always a him) and I have to slam on the brakes in order not to mess up my car.
Glad only your ear drums were seriously injured.
I laugh at those people. They need "special gear" to ride. Which is a riot because they are 75lbs overweight and I usually pass them up.
Wow, you commute by bike in hilly Pittsburgh (aka my hometown)?!? You must have thighs of steel…so to speak…
Well, me. But I don't generally ride cyclists off the road while doing it.
Isn't Hurricane Ali a bike hugger too? Replete with a green blog?
Either way you guys shall inherit the earth.
Will poor Tony Hayward never get his life back? You people are horrible.
Oh no, Obama's Katrina III.
Perfect.
And the dream of hurricanes raining down fire is reborn! http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/477645/Fi...
This is all Jimmy Buffett's fault.
Too bad its happening during the yacht racing season, or Tony Hayward would be right on top of that.
For all the shit I give my state, our beach was my favorite of any I had ever been to, and it was something I was very proud of – the white sand just made me incredibly happy and it was beautiful and it was in the place I am embarrassed of more than anything. Now it is gone. My best friend's dolphin cruise business was destroyed – her boat was LITERALLY destroyed by bp's vessels of opportunity program and then bp called it operator error. I can't eat my favorite food or let my kids play in the fucking water. It is horrible.
Fuck this I'm getting drunk.
Happy after 2 on a Friday. I've been with my kids alone all week while the hubs is in Texas where the company he works for paid Karl Motherfucking Rove to speak and my husband had to sign the check to the Speaker's Bureau. I hate everybody.
I hear there are some vacancies in NYC this weekend, if you want to get away.
Your husband hangs out with some real low-life scum, eh?
Yes. Yes he does.
I was stationed at Eglin for a year, and shared a house on the beach. Most freaking amazing white sand beach in the imaginable universe. I know it's selfish, but the notion of oil nuggets there just makes me crazy.
That really sucks. But it seems the gonads of conscience are made of carbon fiber, some are just made of sturdier bits. I personally love, just looooove working for a co that makes chemical and nuke plants, hooray. Yours are simply carbon fiber coated titanium.
And fuck bp in the eye for tainting my next trip to acme oysters in N.O.!
Are you boomeranging from internet withdrawal?
Baby steps, Ken.
This is horrible — those poor people at BP deserve an apology for newspapers and scientists constantly bugging them about their leaky well. Hey, they had no idea what they were doing and were hoping if they did it fast and cheap nobody would notice, okay? Happy now?
Oil well leaks are so 2010. Give me earthquakes and hurricanes any time. And I mean any time.
For FUCKS SAKE! FUCKING MORONS!!
BP stopped the leak. No one said they had to make sure it didn't start again!
This makes me feel so bad that I want to take my Dodge Ram pickup with the turbocharged Cummins Diesel engine down to the Shell to put about 60 gallons in it (and get some Coleman oil for the stove and the lantern) and hook up my 5th-wheel trailer to the bed, and throw a couple of dirtbikes on the back and head on down to the lake where I keep my bass boat. I'll go out on the lake and zoom around at 60 miles an hour, trying to hit fish on the head with lures as I swivel around in my Aeron chair on the rear deck.
Then I'll feel better until I remember I left the air conditioning on at home all weekend, even though the fridge in the garage would've kept my Keystone cold enough for when I got back.
Fuck yeah!!!
Haven't you haters heard??? BP is a person too!
BTW what does a drunk walrus have in common with a BP Engineer? A: They're both out looking for a tight seal
BP is a person, too; a person I'd like to punch in the nuts repeatedly, but guess what? No nuts.
Prediction: Tony Hayward WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO DO with this latest leak. It's all about getting his life back. Again.
How come I want to vomit into my mouth every time I see Cantor on teevee? He was just on and was "reassuring" people that the government will find the money for clean up. Huh, just what I thought……..He is lying.
What, David Vitter can't plug this hole?
Someone call Marcus Bachmann. Now there's a man who knows a thing or two about plugging a brown, oily hole.
Now BP is the kind of place that Rupert should have had phone tapped.
Bob? Is that you?
Then it must have been Ruby Falls in scenic Chattanooga Tennesseessee. Bet you haven't been there. If so, maybe it was Wichita Falls. I get my falls mixed up.
Wichita Falls — I was stationed there at one point.
They didn't have any falls there at the time as they had been wiped out by a flood. They got tired of people asking about them as I understand that they built some fake ones next to the river and run with an electric pump. Backwards hydro power — go Texas!
Ruby Falls!?! Is that its stripper name?
Stupid fucking cave falls! How am I supposed to get laid with all these people around keeping me from bending my 'escort' over the railing? I want my six bucks back.
From the cave, to be clear.
So far Wichita Falls has had 90 100-degree days. But no tornadoes so far as I know.
I've never driven through a flatter part of the country than northern Texas. My eyes were bleeding trying to see over the never-ending horizon.
Connie?
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