OT- Obama’s pissed now

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U.S. and BP slow to accept Dutch expertise-

“Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help. It was willing to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms, and it proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands.The response from the Obama administration and BP, which are coordinating the cleanup: The embassy got a nice letter from the administration that said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’” said Geert Visser, consul general for the Netherlands in Houston.”

“Now, almost seven weeks later, as the oil spewing from the battered well spreads across the Gulf and soils pristine beaches and coastline, BP and our government have reconsidered. U.S. ships are being outfitted this week with four pairs of the skimming booms airlifted from the Netherlands and should be deployed within days. Each pair can process 5 million gallons of water a day, removing 20,000 tons of oil and sludge. At that rate, how much more oil could have been removed from the Gulf during the past month? The uncoordinated response to an offer of assistance has become characteristic of this disaster’s response. Too often, BP and the government don’t seem to know what the other is doing, and the response has seemed too slow and too confused. Federal law has also hampered the assistance. The Jones Act, the maritime law that requires all goods be carried in U.S. waters by U.S.-flagged ships, has prevented Dutch ships with spill-fighting equipment from entering U.S. coastal areas.’

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/steffy/7043272.html

“Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr Christopher T. O’Neil said that ‘all qualifying offers of assistance have been accepted.’ But this bureaucratic-speak did not mention that the Jones Act – an isolationist law passed in the 1920s that requires vessels working in American waters to be built and crewed by Americans – disqualified many of the offers of assistance. But Obama could have waived the Jones Act whenever he wanted to.”

All this dithering is destroying the economy in the Gulf region and has destroyed the environment. Guess what. It ain’t over.

“Trouble Brewing: The Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1, and forecasters expect it to be busier than usual. Meanwhile, oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico from the site where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20 and sank two days later in 5,000 feet of water. Since then, oil has been accumulating at the surface. And that could be raising the temperature of the surrounding water, says Kerry Emanuel, a hurricane expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”

“‘You have this black surface, and it’s doing two things,'” Emanuel says. “‘First of all it’s absorbing sunlight. And secondly, it is curtailing evaporation from the Gulf. Evaporation normally helps cool the Gulf waters, Emanuel says.'”

“‘So theoretically, the Gulf underneath this oil slick should be getting hotter than it normally would be.'” And hotter water helps create more powerful hurricanes. It’s hard to know if the water is actually getting hotter, though, because oil prevents satellites from taking accurate temperature readings.”
http://www.vpr.net/npr/127036434/

[Arraya]

Like I said, the sharks smell blood and are circling. BP’s shares are priced expecting the relief wells to work. If they don’t look out…

http://money.canoe.ca/money/business/international/archives/2010/07/20100706-080804.html?
BP ruled out a share issue and talk persisted of sovereign wealth fund interest in the British oil major, boosting its shares on Tuesday even as its Gulf of Mexico oil slick spread to the Texas coast.

On the 78th day after an explosion killed 11 people and burst an oil well which scientists say is gushing up to 60,000 barrels a day, BP shares were trading just off a two-week high, supported by a brokerage upgrade and reassurance that it had no plans to issue shares to help pay for the spill.

American Depositary Receipts in the company were indicated more than 6 percent higher after the Independence Day holiday.

Shares in BP, which had at one stage lost $100 billion in market value, have drawn some support from talk that it is a takeover target and has approached sovereign wealth funds with offers of a stake to ward off hostile bids.

On Tuesday, a source in the United Arab Emirates added to the speculation sparked by weekend press reports, saying that BP executives had held talks with a number of sovereign wealth funds including ones in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Qatar and Singapore.

“BP is seeking a strategic partner so it doesn’t get taken over by other major oil companies such as Exxon and Total,” the source said.

[Arraya]

Like I said, the sharks smell blood and are circling. BP’s shares are priced expecting the relief wells to work. If they don’t look out…

http://money.canoe.ca/money/business/international/archives/2010/07/20100706-080804.html?
BP ruled out a share issue and talk persisted of sovereign wealth fund interest in the British oil major, boosting its shares on Tuesday even as its Gulf of Mexico oil slick spread to the Texas coast.

On the 78th day after an explosion killed 11 people and burst an oil well which scientists say is gushing up to 60,000 barrels a day, BP shares were trading just off a two-week high, supported by a brokerage upgrade and reassurance that it had no plans to issue shares to help pay for the spill.

American Depositary Receipts in the company were indicated more than 6 percent higher after the Independence Day holiday.

Shares in BP, which had at one stage lost $100 billion in market value, have drawn some support from talk that it is a takeover target and has approached sovereign wealth funds with offers of a stake to ward off hostile bids.

On Tuesday, a source in the United Arab Emirates added to the speculation sparked by weekend press reports, saying that BP executives had held talks with a number of sovereign wealth funds including ones in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Qatar and Singapore.

“BP is seeking a strategic partner so it doesn’t get taken over by other major oil companies such as Exxon and Total,” the source said.

[Arraya]

Like I said, the sharks smell blood and are circling. BP’s shares are priced expecting the relief wells to work. If they don’t look out…

http://money.canoe.ca/money/business/international/archives/2010/07/20100706-080804.html?
BP ruled out a share issue and talk persisted of sovereign wealth fund interest in the British oil major, boosting its shares on Tuesday even as its Gulf of Mexico oil slick spread to the Texas coast.

On the 78th day after an explosion killed 11 people and burst an oil well which scientists say is gushing up to 60,000 barrels a day, BP shares were trading just off a two-week high, supported by a brokerage upgrade and reassurance that it had no plans to issue shares to help pay for the spill.

American Depositary Receipts in the company were indicated more than 6 percent higher after the Independence Day holiday.

Shares in BP, which had at one stage lost $100 billion in market value, have drawn some support from talk that it is a takeover target and has approached sovereign wealth funds with offers of a stake to ward off hostile bids.

On Tuesday, a source in the United Arab Emirates added to the speculation sparked by weekend press reports, saying that BP executives had held talks with a number of sovereign wealth funds including ones in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Qatar and Singapore.

“BP is seeking a strategic partner so it doesn’t get taken over by other major oil companies such as Exxon and Total,” the source said.

[Arraya]

Like I said, the sharks smell blood and are circling. BP’s shares are priced expecting the relief wells to work. If they don’t look out…

http://money.canoe.ca/money/business/international/archives/2010/07/20100706-080804.html?
BP ruled out a share issue and talk persisted of sovereign wealth fund interest in the British oil major, boosting its shares on Tuesday even as its Gulf of Mexico oil slick spread to the Texas coast.

On the 78th day after an explosion killed 11 people and burst an oil well which scientists say is gushing up to 60,000 barrels a day, BP shares were trading just off a two-week high, supported by a brokerage upgrade and reassurance that it had no plans to issue shares to help pay for the spill.

American Depositary Receipts in the company were indicated more than 6 percent higher after the Independence Day holiday.

Shares in BP, which had at one stage lost $100 billion in market value, have drawn some support from talk that it is a takeover target and has approached sovereign wealth funds with offers of a stake to ward off hostile bids.

On Tuesday, a source in the United Arab Emirates added to the speculation sparked by weekend press reports, saying that BP executives had held talks with a number of sovereign wealth funds including ones in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Qatar and Singapore.

“BP is seeking a strategic partner so it doesn’t get taken over by other major oil companies such as Exxon and Total,” the source said.

[Arraya]

Like I said, the sharks smell blood and are circling. BP’s shares are priced expecting the relief wells to work. If they don’t look out…

http://money.canoe.ca/money/business/international/archives/2010/07/20100706-080804.html?
BP ruled out a share issue and talk persisted of sovereign wealth fund interest in the British oil major, boosting its shares on Tuesday even as its Gulf of Mexico oil slick spread to the Texas coast.

On the 78th day after an explosion killed 11 people and burst an oil well which scientists say is gushing up to 60,000 barrels a day, BP shares were trading just off a two-week high, supported by a brokerage upgrade and reassurance that it had no plans to issue shares to help pay for the spill.

American Depositary Receipts in the company were indicated more than 6 percent higher after the Independence Day holiday.

Shares in BP, which had at one stage lost $100 billion in market value, have drawn some support from talk that it is a takeover target and has approached sovereign wealth funds with offers of a stake to ward off hostile bids.

On Tuesday, a source in the United Arab Emirates added to the speculation sparked by weekend press reports, saying that BP executives had held talks with a number of sovereign wealth funds including ones in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Qatar and Singapore.

“BP is seeking a strategic partner so it doesn’t get taken over by other major oil companies such as Exxon and Total,” the source said.

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[quote=afx114][quote=flu]One President that hopefully won’t see a second term…..[/quote]

Lets take a straw poll on who will beat him… Newt? Palin? Romney? Cheney Jr? Yet unknown savior of the GOP?[/quote]

Exactly!

Not that I am a fan of Obama…

But I think that Obama may get elected for exactly the same reason we second-termed Bush…

Better to go with the evil you know than that of which you dont!

The GOP can’t get someone decent and reasonable..

On second thought… they did and he LOST last election!

CE

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[quote=afx114][quote=flu]One President that hopefully won’t see a second term…..[/quote]

Lets take a straw poll on who will beat him… Newt? Palin? Romney? Cheney Jr? Yet unknown savior of the GOP?[/quote]

Exactly!

Not that I am a fan of Obama…

But I think that Obama may get elected for exactly the same reason we second-termed Bush…

Better to go with the evil you know than that of which you dont!

The GOP can’t get someone decent and reasonable..

On second thought… they did and he LOST last election!

CE

[CDMA ENG]

[quote=afx114][quote=flu]One President that hopefully won’t see a second term…..[/quote]

Lets take a straw poll on who will beat him… Newt? Palin? Romney? Cheney Jr? Yet unknown savior of the GOP?[/quote]

Exactly!

Not that I am a fan of Obama…

But I think that Obama may get elected for exactly the same reason we second-termed Bush…

Better to go with the evil you know than that of which you dont!

The GOP can’t get someone decent and reasonable..

On second thought… they did and he LOST last election!

CE

[CDMA ENG]

[quote=afx114][quote=flu]One President that hopefully won’t see a second term…..[/quote]

Lets take a straw poll on who will beat him… Newt? Palin? Romney? Cheney Jr? Yet unknown savior of the GOP?[/quote]

Exactly!

Not that I am a fan of Obama…

But I think that Obama may get elected for exactly the same reason we second-termed Bush…

Better to go with the evil you know than that of which you dont!

The GOP can’t get someone decent and reasonable..

On second thought… they did and he LOST last election!

CE

[CDMA ENG]

[quote=afx114][quote=flu]One President that hopefully won’t see a second term…..[/quote]

Lets take a straw poll on who will beat him… Newt? Palin? Romney? Cheney Jr? Yet unknown savior of the GOP?[/quote]

Exactly!

Not that I am a fan of Obama…

But I think that Obama may get elected for exactly the same reason we second-termed Bush…

Better to go with the evil you know than that of which you dont!

The GOP can’t get someone decent and reasonable..

On second thought… they did and he LOST last election!

CE

[briansd1]

[quote=afx114]
Lets take a straw poll on who will beat him… Newt? Palin? Romney? Cheney Jr? Yet unknown savior of the GOP?[/quote]

The GOP will nominate a Tea Partyer.

As everyone already knew, the Tea Party is just the GOP rebranded.

The rebranding was necessary because the old brand is tainted nearly beyond repair.

For some months now, I have been battling against the idea that the Tea Party movement is some brand-new thing in American politics, an independent movement akin to the rebellion led by Ross Perot in the 1990s. Tea Party people, I have been arguing, are simply right-wing Republicans organized under a new banner.

I have not been alone in making this case, of course, and it has been slowly gaining ground, but I hope a new Gallup study will settle the question. Gallup is one of our oldest polling firms and no one’s idea of an agent for the left-wing conspiracy.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/07/surprise_surprise_tea_partyers.html

http://www2.insidenova.com/isn/news/opinion/columns/article/granados_column_the_tea_party_–_gop_by_another_name/60172/

[briansd1]

[quote=afx114]
Lets take a straw poll on who will beat him… Newt? Palin? Romney? Cheney Jr? Yet unknown savior of the GOP?[/quote]

The GOP will nominate a Tea Partyer.

As everyone already knew, the Tea Party is just the GOP rebranded.

The rebranding was necessary because the old brand is tainted nearly beyond repair.

For some months now, I have been battling against the idea that the Tea Party movement is some brand-new thing in American politics, an independent movement akin to the rebellion led by Ross Perot in the 1990s. Tea Party people, I have been arguing, are simply right-wing Republicans organized under a new banner.

I have not been alone in making this case, of course, and it has been slowly gaining ground, but I hope a new Gallup study will settle the question. Gallup is one of our oldest polling firms and no one’s idea of an agent for the left-wing conspiracy.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/07/surprise_surprise_tea_partyers.html

http://www2.insidenova.com/isn/news/opinion/columns/article/granados_column_the_tea_party_–_gop_by_another_name/60172/

[briansd1]

[quote=afx114]
Lets take a straw poll on who will beat him… Newt? Palin? Romney? Cheney Jr? Yet unknown savior of the GOP?[/quote]

The GOP will nominate a Tea Partyer.

As everyone already knew, the Tea Party is just the GOP rebranded.

The rebranding was necessary because the old brand is tainted nearly beyond repair.

For some months now, I have been battling against the idea that the Tea Party movement is some brand-new thing in American politics, an independent movement akin to the rebellion led by Ross Perot in the 1990s. Tea Party people, I have been arguing, are simply right-wing Republicans organized under a new banner.

I have not been alone in making this case, of course, and it has been slowly gaining ground, but I hope a new Gallup study will settle the question. Gallup is one of our oldest polling firms and no one’s idea of an agent for the left-wing conspiracy.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/07/surprise_surprise_tea_partyers.html

http://www2.insidenova.com/isn/news/opinion/columns/article/granados_column_the_tea_party_–_gop_by_another_name/60172/

[briansd1]

[quote=afx114]
Lets take a straw poll on who will beat him… Newt? Palin? Romney? Cheney Jr? Yet unknown savior of the GOP?[/quote]

The GOP will nominate a Tea Partyer.

As everyone already knew, the Tea Party is just the GOP rebranded.

The rebranding was necessary because the old brand is tainted nearly beyond repair.

For some months now, I have been battling against the idea that the Tea Party movement is some brand-new thing in American politics, an independent movement akin to the rebellion led by Ross Perot in the 1990s. Tea Party people, I have been arguing, are simply right-wing Republicans organized under a new banner.

I have not been alone in making this case, of course, and it has been slowly gaining ground, but I hope a new Gallup study will settle the question. Gallup is one of our oldest polling firms and no one’s idea of an agent for the left-wing conspiracy.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/07/surprise_surprise_tea_partyers.html

http://www2.insidenova.com/isn/news/opinion/columns/article/granados_column_the_tea_party_–_gop_by_another_name/60172/

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