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Participant[quote=pri_dk][quote]once the birth pangs and inevitable violence are behind us – we can start over and build something that may actually hold some value for our great-great-grandchildren[/quote]
Why so pessimistic? Do you really think it will take four generations to rebuild civilization? I bet we could do it in a few years! Of course all the “scum-sucking vermin” that run things now will just disappear and you’ll be free to do anything you want. I’ll be sure to stay out of your way, and you make it happen!
And I do agree, it will be so much better the second time around. I mean…what could go wrong?
PS: I didn’t watch Obama’s State of the Union speech, but I promise to hang on to every meaningful word of your speeches when you are queen of the world.[/quote]
Dude, it took us several thousand years to f**k things up this royally. I will gladly start over and hope it only takes us another few thousand years to screw up Planet Earth 2.0 (or whatever version we are currently on) even worse. But being a slave, you probably wouldn’t understand that. So just open your mouth, toss in the blue pill, go back to sleep, and pray that your Messiah can save you from the economic collapse and toxic rains.
90% of the planet – obviously excluding you, slave – is prepared to revolt against the vermin that are currently pulling the strings. Do the math – the odds are not in their favor. When we’ve taken care of the job, you can crawl out of your hole, and we may consider sending a few crumbs your way. LOL.
Although IF I were Queen, you wouldn’t get a single scrap. I’m sure we can find better uses for the food.
Participant[quote=pri_dk][quote]once the birth pangs and inevitable violence are behind us – we can start over and build something that may actually hold some value for our great-great-grandchildren[/quote]
Why so pessimistic? Do you really think it will take four generations to rebuild civilization? I bet we could do it in a few years! Of course all the “scum-sucking vermin” that run things now will just disappear and you’ll be free to do anything you want. I’ll be sure to stay out of your way, and you make it happen!
And I do agree, it will be so much better the second time around. I mean…what could go wrong?
PS: I didn’t watch Obama’s State of the Union speech, but I promise to hang on to every meaningful word of your speeches when you are queen of the world.[/quote]
Dude, it took us several thousand years to f**k things up this royally. I will gladly start over and hope it only takes us another few thousand years to screw up Planet Earth 2.0 (or whatever version we are currently on) even worse. But being a slave, you probably wouldn’t understand that. So just open your mouth, toss in the blue pill, go back to sleep, and pray that your Messiah can save you from the economic collapse and toxic rains.
90% of the planet – obviously excluding you, slave – is prepared to revolt against the vermin that are currently pulling the strings. Do the math – the odds are not in their favor. When we’ve taken care of the job, you can crawl out of your hole, and we may consider sending a few crumbs your way. LOL.
Although IF I were Queen, you wouldn’t get a single scrap. I’m sure we can find better uses for the food.
Participant[quote=pri_dk][quote]once the birth pangs and inevitable violence are behind us – we can start over and build something that may actually hold some value for our great-great-grandchildren[/quote]
Why so pessimistic? Do you really think it will take four generations to rebuild civilization? I bet we could do it in a few years! Of course all the “scum-sucking vermin” that run things now will just disappear and you’ll be free to do anything you want. I’ll be sure to stay out of your way, and you make it happen!
And I do agree, it will be so much better the second time around. I mean…what could go wrong?
PS: I didn’t watch Obama’s State of the Union speech, but I promise to hang on to every meaningful word of your speeches when you are queen of the world.[/quote]
Dude, it took us several thousand years to f**k things up this royally. I will gladly start over and hope it only takes us another few thousand years to screw up Planet Earth 2.0 (or whatever version we are currently on) even worse. But being a slave, you probably wouldn’t understand that. So just open your mouth, toss in the blue pill, go back to sleep, and pray that your Messiah can save you from the economic collapse and toxic rains.
90% of the planet – obviously excluding you, slave – is prepared to revolt against the vermin that are currently pulling the strings. Do the math – the odds are not in their favor. When we’ve taken care of the job, you can crawl out of your hole, and we may consider sending a few crumbs your way. LOL.
Although IF I were Queen, you wouldn’t get a single scrap. I’m sure we can find better uses for the food.
Participant[quote=pri_dk][quote]once the birth pangs and inevitable violence are behind us – we can start over and build something that may actually hold some value for our great-great-grandchildren[/quote]
Why so pessimistic? Do you really think it will take four generations to rebuild civilization? I bet we could do it in a few years! Of course all the “scum-sucking vermin” that run things now will just disappear and you’ll be free to do anything you want. I’ll be sure to stay out of your way, and you make it happen!
And I do agree, it will be so much better the second time around. I mean…what could go wrong?
PS: I didn’t watch Obama’s State of the Union speech, but I promise to hang on to every meaningful word of your speeches when you are queen of the world.[/quote]
Dude, it took us several thousand years to f**k things up this royally. I will gladly start over and hope it only takes us another few thousand years to screw up Planet Earth 2.0 (or whatever version we are currently on) even worse. But being a slave, you probably wouldn’t understand that. So just open your mouth, toss in the blue pill, go back to sleep, and pray that your Messiah can save you from the economic collapse and toxic rains.
90% of the planet – obviously excluding you, slave – is prepared to revolt against the vermin that are currently pulling the strings. Do the math – the odds are not in their favor. When we’ve taken care of the job, you can crawl out of your hole, and we may consider sending a few crumbs your way. LOL.
Although IF I were Queen, you wouldn’t get a single scrap. I’m sure we can find better uses for the food.
Participant[quote=pri_dk]Zeit,
Partypup, in particular, seems to be sure that civilization will end. In fact, it seems that she actually wants society to collapse. I suppose then she will have proof that Obama is a jerk, and that he should have been friendlier toward her when they were college together.[/quote]
@Pri_dk: Amazingly, you have finally said something that I agree with. Bravo! I DO want society to collapse, because it is currently being run by the most savage, egotistic, greedy, scum-sucking vermin that have ever slithered across the face of this earth. Because these vermin are accelerating the efforts to restrain my free will and liberty and are making every possible attempt to churn me and all those I hold dear into poverty and submission. And it makes not a wit of difference to me that I am free to buy iPads and take the occasional trip to Alaska as they corral me into slave status.
So yeah, you’re damn right, I want this b*tch to come down because – once the birth pangs and inevitable violence are behind us – we can start over and build something that may actually hold some value for our great-great-grandchildren. For those like you who are content to remain slaves, I’m sure the thought of not licking someone’s boot and not hanging on every meaningless word of an Obama state of the Union address is positively terrifying. Deal with it, my ostrich-necked friend. The rev**ution is coming.
BTW, I went to law school with Obama, not college. Please pay better attention going forward – your grasp of details is worrisome. And he was perfectly pleasant to me – just boring and empty. Pretty much what you’re getting now. It’s not my fault that you bought the Con 🙂
Oh, and beprepared.com and efoodsdirect.com are great resources to pick up supplies.
…Although I do question whether you will have the common sense to know when to bug out and use them.
Participant[quote=pri_dk]Zeit,
Partypup, in particular, seems to be sure that civilization will end. In fact, it seems that she actually wants society to collapse. I suppose then she will have proof that Obama is a jerk, and that he should have been friendlier toward her when they were college together.[/quote]
@Pri_dk: Amazingly, you have finally said something that I agree with. Bravo! I DO want society to collapse, because it is currently being run by the most savage, egotistic, greedy, scum-sucking vermin that have ever slithered across the face of this earth. Because these vermin are accelerating the efforts to restrain my free will and liberty and are making every possible attempt to churn me and all those I hold dear into poverty and submission. And it makes not a wit of difference to me that I am free to buy iPads and take the occasional trip to Alaska as they corral me into slave status.
So yeah, you’re damn right, I want this b*tch to come down because – once the birth pangs and inevitable violence are behind us – we can start over and build something that may actually hold some value for our great-great-grandchildren. For those like you who are content to remain slaves, I’m sure the thought of not licking someone’s boot and not hanging on every meaningless word of an Obama state of the Union address is positively terrifying. Deal with it, my ostrich-necked friend. The rev**ution is coming.
BTW, I went to law school with Obama, not college. Please pay better attention going forward – your grasp of details is worrisome. And he was perfectly pleasant to me – just boring and empty. Pretty much what you’re getting now. It’s not my fault that you bought the Con 🙂
Oh, and beprepared.com and efoodsdirect.com are great resources to pick up supplies.
…Although I do question whether you will have the common sense to know when to bug out and use them.
Participant[quote=pri_dk]Zeit,
Partypup, in particular, seems to be sure that civilization will end. In fact, it seems that she actually wants society to collapse. I suppose then she will have proof that Obama is a jerk, and that he should have been friendlier toward her when they were college together.[/quote]
@Pri_dk: Amazingly, you have finally said something that I agree with. Bravo! I DO want society to collapse, because it is currently being run by the most savage, egotistic, greedy, scum-sucking vermin that have ever slithered across the face of this earth. Because these vermin are accelerating the efforts to restrain my free will and liberty and are making every possible attempt to churn me and all those I hold dear into poverty and submission. And it makes not a wit of difference to me that I am free to buy iPads and take the occasional trip to Alaska as they corral me into slave status.
So yeah, you’re damn right, I want this b*tch to come down because – once the birth pangs and inevitable violence are behind us – we can start over and build something that may actually hold some value for our great-great-grandchildren. For those like you who are content to remain slaves, I’m sure the thought of not licking someone’s boot and not hanging on every meaningless word of an Obama state of the Union address is positively terrifying. Deal with it, my ostrich-necked friend. The rev**ution is coming.
BTW, I went to law school with Obama, not college. Please pay better attention going forward – your grasp of details is worrisome. And he was perfectly pleasant to me – just boring and empty. Pretty much what you’re getting now. It’s not my fault that you bought the Con 🙂
Oh, and beprepared.com and efoodsdirect.com are great resources to pick up supplies.
…Although I do question whether you will have the common sense to know when to bug out and use them.
Participant[quote=pri_dk]Zeit,
Partypup, in particular, seems to be sure that civilization will end. In fact, it seems that she actually wants society to collapse. I suppose then she will have proof that Obama is a jerk, and that he should have been friendlier toward her when they were college together.[/quote]
@Pri_dk: Amazingly, you have finally said something that I agree with. Bravo! I DO want society to collapse, because it is currently being run by the most savage, egotistic, greedy, scum-sucking vermin that have ever slithered across the face of this earth. Because these vermin are accelerating the efforts to restrain my free will and liberty and are making every possible attempt to churn me and all those I hold dear into poverty and submission. And it makes not a wit of difference to me that I am free to buy iPads and take the occasional trip to Alaska as they corral me into slave status.
So yeah, you’re damn right, I want this b*tch to come down because – once the birth pangs and inevitable violence are behind us – we can start over and build something that may actually hold some value for our great-great-grandchildren. For those like you who are content to remain slaves, I’m sure the thought of not licking someone’s boot and not hanging on every meaningless word of an Obama state of the Union address is positively terrifying. Deal with it, my ostrich-necked friend. The rev**ution is coming.
BTW, I went to law school with Obama, not college. Please pay better attention going forward – your grasp of details is worrisome. And he was perfectly pleasant to me – just boring and empty. Pretty much what you’re getting now. It’s not my fault that you bought the Con 🙂
Oh, and beprepared.com and efoodsdirect.com are great resources to pick up supplies.
…Although I do question whether you will have the common sense to know when to bug out and use them.
Participant[quote=pri_dk]Zeit,
Partypup, in particular, seems to be sure that civilization will end. In fact, it seems that she actually wants society to collapse. I suppose then she will have proof that Obama is a jerk, and that he should have been friendlier toward her when they were college together.[/quote]
@Pri_dk: Amazingly, you have finally said something that I agree with. Bravo! I DO want society to collapse, because it is currently being run by the most savage, egotistic, greedy, scum-sucking vermin that have ever slithered across the face of this earth. Because these vermin are accelerating the efforts to restrain my free will and liberty and are making every possible attempt to churn me and all those I hold dear into poverty and submission. And it makes not a wit of difference to me that I am free to buy iPads and take the occasional trip to Alaska as they corral me into slave status.
So yeah, you’re damn right, I want this b*tch to come down because – once the birth pangs and inevitable violence are behind us – we can start over and build something that may actually hold some value for our great-great-grandchildren. For those like you who are content to remain slaves, I’m sure the thought of not licking someone’s boot and not hanging on every meaningless word of an Obama state of the Union address is positively terrifying. Deal with it, my ostrich-necked friend. The rev**ution is coming.
BTW, I went to law school with Obama, not college. Please pay better attention going forward – your grasp of details is worrisome. And he was perfectly pleasant to me – just boring and empty. Pretty much what you’re getting now. It’s not my fault that you bought the Con 🙂
Oh, and beprepared.com and efoodsdirect.com are great resources to pick up supplies.
…Although I do question whether you will have the common sense to know when to bug out and use them.
Participant[quote=briansd1][quote=Veritas]
Obama is smart not to bash big oil too much otherwise the debate will turn into whether we are turning into socialist Venezuela or France — too quick to nationalize businesses. [/quote]
Seriously, aren’t we all past the point of even thinking that Obama is *smart* about anything?
“Most troubling of all, the government has allowed BP to continue deep-sea production at its Atlantis rig – one of the world’s largest oil platforms. Capable of drawing 200,000 barrels a day from the seafloor, Atlantis is located only 150 miles off the coast of Louisiana, in waters nearly 2,000 feet deeper than BP drilled at Deepwater Horizon. According to congressional documents, the platform lacks required engineering certification for as much as 90 percent of its subsea components – a flaw that internal BP documents reveal could lead to “catastrophic” errors. In a May 19th letter to Salazar, 26 congressmen called for the rig to be shut down immediately. “We are very concerned,” they wrote, “that the tragedy at Deepwater Horizon could foreshadow an accident at BP Atlantis.”
The administration’s response to the looming threat? According to an e-mail to a congressional aide from a staff member at MMS, the agency has had “zero contact” with Atlantis about its safety risks since the Deepwater rig went down.
…
And instead of putting the brakes on new offshore drilling, Salazar immediately throttled it up to record levels. Even though he had scrapped the Bush plan, Salazar put 53 million offshore acres up for lease in the Gulf in his first year alone – an all-time high. The aggressive leasing came as no surprise, given Salazar’s track record. “This guy has a long, long history of promoting offshore oil drilling – that’s his thing,” says Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. “He’s got a highly specific soft spot for offshore oil drilling.” As a senator, Salazar not only steered passage of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act, which opened 8 million acres in the Gulf to drilling, he even criticized President Bush for not forcing oil companies to develop existing leases faster.
…
Nowhere was the absurdity of the policy more evident than in the application that BP submitted for its Deepwater Horizon well only two months after Obama took office. BP claims that a spill is “unlikely” and states that it anticipates “no adverse impacts” to endangered wildlife or fisheries. Should a spill occur, it says, “no significant adverse impacts are expected” for the region’s beaches, wetlands and coastal nesting birds.The company, noting that such elements are “not required” as part of the application, contains no scenario for a potential blowout, and no site-specific plan to respond to a spill. Instead, it cites an Oil Spill Response Plan that it had prepared for the entire Gulf region. Among the sensitive species BP anticipates protecting in the semitropical Gulf? “Walruses” and other cold-water mammals, including sea otters and sea lions. The mistake appears to be the result of a sloppy cut-and-paste job from BP’s drilling plans for the Arctic.Even worse: Among the “primary equipment providers” for “rapid deployment of spill response resources,” BP inexplicably provides the Web address of a Japanese home-shopping network. Such glaring errors expose the 582-page response “plan” as nothing more than a paperwork exercise. “It was clear that nobody read it,” says Ruch, who represents government scientists.
…
Scientists were stunned that NOAA, an agency widely respected for its scientific integrity, appeared to have been co-opted by the White House spin machine. “NOAA has actively pushed back on every fact that has ever come out,” says one ocean scientist who works with the agency. “They’re denying until the facts are so overwhelming, they finally come out and issue an admittance.” Others are furious at the agency for criticizing the work of scientists studying the oil plumes rather than leading them. “Why they didn’t have vessels there right then and start to gather the scientific data on oil and what the impacts are to different organisms is inexcusable,” says a former government marine biologist. “They should have been right on top of that.” Only six weeks into the disaster did the agency finally deploy its own research vessel to investigate the plumes.
This man is either a complete Tool, an idiot, or some combination of both.
All of which I predicted a year before this clown took office. Got Buyer’s Remorse? I’m sure Mother Earth wishes that she’d had an opportunity to vote.
Participant[quote=briansd1][quote=Veritas]
Obama is smart not to bash big oil too much otherwise the debate will turn into whether we are turning into socialist Venezuela or France — too quick to nationalize businesses. [/quote]
Seriously, aren’t we all past the point of even thinking that Obama is *smart* about anything?
“Most troubling of all, the government has allowed BP to continue deep-sea production at its Atlantis rig – one of the world’s largest oil platforms. Capable of drawing 200,000 barrels a day from the seafloor, Atlantis is located only 150 miles off the coast of Louisiana, in waters nearly 2,000 feet deeper than BP drilled at Deepwater Horizon. According to congressional documents, the platform lacks required engineering certification for as much as 90 percent of its subsea components – a flaw that internal BP documents reveal could lead to “catastrophic” errors. In a May 19th letter to Salazar, 26 congressmen called for the rig to be shut down immediately. “We are very concerned,” they wrote, “that the tragedy at Deepwater Horizon could foreshadow an accident at BP Atlantis.”
The administration’s response to the looming threat? According to an e-mail to a congressional aide from a staff member at MMS, the agency has had “zero contact” with Atlantis about its safety risks since the Deepwater rig went down.
…
And instead of putting the brakes on new offshore drilling, Salazar immediately throttled it up to record levels. Even though he had scrapped the Bush plan, Salazar put 53 million offshore acres up for lease in the Gulf in his first year alone – an all-time high. The aggressive leasing came as no surprise, given Salazar’s track record. “This guy has a long, long history of promoting offshore oil drilling – that’s his thing,” says Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. “He’s got a highly specific soft spot for offshore oil drilling.” As a senator, Salazar not only steered passage of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act, which opened 8 million acres in the Gulf to drilling, he even criticized President Bush for not forcing oil companies to develop existing leases faster.
…
Nowhere was the absurdity of the policy more evident than in the application that BP submitted for its Deepwater Horizon well only two months after Obama took office. BP claims that a spill is “unlikely” and states that it anticipates “no adverse impacts” to endangered wildlife or fisheries. Should a spill occur, it says, “no significant adverse impacts are expected” for the region’s beaches, wetlands and coastal nesting birds.The company, noting that such elements are “not required” as part of the application, contains no scenario for a potential blowout, and no site-specific plan to respond to a spill. Instead, it cites an Oil Spill Response Plan that it had prepared for the entire Gulf region. Among the sensitive species BP anticipates protecting in the semitropical Gulf? “Walruses” and other cold-water mammals, including sea otters and sea lions. The mistake appears to be the result of a sloppy cut-and-paste job from BP’s drilling plans for the Arctic.Even worse: Among the “primary equipment providers” for “rapid deployment of spill response resources,” BP inexplicably provides the Web address of a Japanese home-shopping network. Such glaring errors expose the 582-page response “plan” as nothing more than a paperwork exercise. “It was clear that nobody read it,” says Ruch, who represents government scientists.
…
Scientists were stunned that NOAA, an agency widely respected for its scientific integrity, appeared to have been co-opted by the White House spin machine. “NOAA has actively pushed back on every fact that has ever come out,” says one ocean scientist who works with the agency. “They’re denying until the facts are so overwhelming, they finally come out and issue an admittance.” Others are furious at the agency for criticizing the work of scientists studying the oil plumes rather than leading them. “Why they didn’t have vessels there right then and start to gather the scientific data on oil and what the impacts are to different organisms is inexcusable,” says a former government marine biologist. “They should have been right on top of that.” Only six weeks into the disaster did the agency finally deploy its own research vessel to investigate the plumes.
This man is either a complete Tool, an idiot, or some combination of both.
All of which I predicted a year before this clown took office. Got Buyer’s Remorse? I’m sure Mother Earth wishes that she’d had an opportunity to vote.
Participant[quote=briansd1][quote=Veritas]
Obama is smart not to bash big oil too much otherwise the debate will turn into whether we are turning into socialist Venezuela or France — too quick to nationalize businesses. [/quote]
Seriously, aren’t we all past the point of even thinking that Obama is *smart* about anything?
“Most troubling of all, the government has allowed BP to continue deep-sea production at its Atlantis rig – one of the world’s largest oil platforms. Capable of drawing 200,000 barrels a day from the seafloor, Atlantis is located only 150 miles off the coast of Louisiana, in waters nearly 2,000 feet deeper than BP drilled at Deepwater Horizon. According to congressional documents, the platform lacks required engineering certification for as much as 90 percent of its subsea components – a flaw that internal BP documents reveal could lead to “catastrophic” errors. In a May 19th letter to Salazar, 26 congressmen called for the rig to be shut down immediately. “We are very concerned,” they wrote, “that the tragedy at Deepwater Horizon could foreshadow an accident at BP Atlantis.”
The administration’s response to the looming threat? According to an e-mail to a congressional aide from a staff member at MMS, the agency has had “zero contact” with Atlantis about its safety risks since the Deepwater rig went down.
…
And instead of putting the brakes on new offshore drilling, Salazar immediately throttled it up to record levels. Even though he had scrapped the Bush plan, Salazar put 53 million offshore acres up for lease in the Gulf in his first year alone – an all-time high. The aggressive leasing came as no surprise, given Salazar’s track record. “This guy has a long, long history of promoting offshore oil drilling – that’s his thing,” says Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. “He’s got a highly specific soft spot for offshore oil drilling.” As a senator, Salazar not only steered passage of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act, which opened 8 million acres in the Gulf to drilling, he even criticized President Bush for not forcing oil companies to develop existing leases faster.
…
Nowhere was the absurdity of the policy more evident than in the application that BP submitted for its Deepwater Horizon well only two months after Obama took office. BP claims that a spill is “unlikely” and states that it anticipates “no adverse impacts” to endangered wildlife or fisheries. Should a spill occur, it says, “no significant adverse impacts are expected” for the region’s beaches, wetlands and coastal nesting birds.The company, noting that such elements are “not required” as part of the application, contains no scenario for a potential blowout, and no site-specific plan to respond to a spill. Instead, it cites an Oil Spill Response Plan that it had prepared for the entire Gulf region. Among the sensitive species BP anticipates protecting in the semitropical Gulf? “Walruses” and other cold-water mammals, including sea otters and sea lions. The mistake appears to be the result of a sloppy cut-and-paste job from BP’s drilling plans for the Arctic.Even worse: Among the “primary equipment providers” for “rapid deployment of spill response resources,” BP inexplicably provides the Web address of a Japanese home-shopping network. Such glaring errors expose the 582-page response “plan” as nothing more than a paperwork exercise. “It was clear that nobody read it,” says Ruch, who represents government scientists.
…
Scientists were stunned that NOAA, an agency widely respected for its scientific integrity, appeared to have been co-opted by the White House spin machine. “NOAA has actively pushed back on every fact that has ever come out,” says one ocean scientist who works with the agency. “They’re denying until the facts are so overwhelming, they finally come out and issue an admittance.” Others are furious at the agency for criticizing the work of scientists studying the oil plumes rather than leading them. “Why they didn’t have vessels there right then and start to gather the scientific data on oil and what the impacts are to different organisms is inexcusable,” says a former government marine biologist. “They should have been right on top of that.” Only six weeks into the disaster did the agency finally deploy its own research vessel to investigate the plumes.
This man is either a complete Tool, an idiot, or some combination of both.
All of which I predicted a year before this clown took office. Got Buyer’s Remorse? I’m sure Mother Earth wishes that she’d had an opportunity to vote.
Participant[quote=briansd1][quote=Veritas]
Obama is smart not to bash big oil too much otherwise the debate will turn into whether we are turning into socialist Venezuela or France — too quick to nationalize businesses. [/quote]
Seriously, aren’t we all past the point of even thinking that Obama is *smart* about anything?
“Most troubling of all, the government has allowed BP to continue deep-sea production at its Atlantis rig – one of the world’s largest oil platforms. Capable of drawing 200,000 barrels a day from the seafloor, Atlantis is located only 150 miles off the coast of Louisiana, in waters nearly 2,000 feet deeper than BP drilled at Deepwater Horizon. According to congressional documents, the platform lacks required engineering certification for as much as 90 percent of its subsea components – a flaw that internal BP documents reveal could lead to “catastrophic” errors. In a May 19th letter to Salazar, 26 congressmen called for the rig to be shut down immediately. “We are very concerned,” they wrote, “that the tragedy at Deepwater Horizon could foreshadow an accident at BP Atlantis.”
The administration’s response to the looming threat? According to an e-mail to a congressional aide from a staff member at MMS, the agency has had “zero contact” with Atlantis about its safety risks since the Deepwater rig went down.
…
And instead of putting the brakes on new offshore drilling, Salazar immediately throttled it up to record levels. Even though he had scrapped the Bush plan, Salazar put 53 million offshore acres up for lease in the Gulf in his first year alone – an all-time high. The aggressive leasing came as no surprise, given Salazar’s track record. “This guy has a long, long history of promoting offshore oil drilling – that’s his thing,” says Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. “He’s got a highly specific soft spot for offshore oil drilling.” As a senator, Salazar not only steered passage of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act, which opened 8 million acres in the Gulf to drilling, he even criticized President Bush for not forcing oil companies to develop existing leases faster.
…
Nowhere was the absurdity of the policy more evident than in the application that BP submitted for its Deepwater Horizon well only two months after Obama took office. BP claims that a spill is “unlikely” and states that it anticipates “no adverse impacts” to endangered wildlife or fisheries. Should a spill occur, it says, “no significant adverse impacts are expected” for the region’s beaches, wetlands and coastal nesting birds.The company, noting that such elements are “not required” as part of the application, contains no scenario for a potential blowout, and no site-specific plan to respond to a spill. Instead, it cites an Oil Spill Response Plan that it had prepared for the entire Gulf region. Among the sensitive species BP anticipates protecting in the semitropical Gulf? “Walruses” and other cold-water mammals, including sea otters and sea lions. The mistake appears to be the result of a sloppy cut-and-paste job from BP’s drilling plans for the Arctic.Even worse: Among the “primary equipment providers” for “rapid deployment of spill response resources,” BP inexplicably provides the Web address of a Japanese home-shopping network. Such glaring errors expose the 582-page response “plan” as nothing more than a paperwork exercise. “It was clear that nobody read it,” says Ruch, who represents government scientists.
…
Scientists were stunned that NOAA, an agency widely respected for its scientific integrity, appeared to have been co-opted by the White House spin machine. “NOAA has actively pushed back on every fact that has ever come out,” says one ocean scientist who works with the agency. “They’re denying until the facts are so overwhelming, they finally come out and issue an admittance.” Others are furious at the agency for criticizing the work of scientists studying the oil plumes rather than leading them. “Why they didn’t have vessels there right then and start to gather the scientific data on oil and what the impacts are to different organisms is inexcusable,” says a former government marine biologist. “They should have been right on top of that.” Only six weeks into the disaster did the agency finally deploy its own research vessel to investigate the plumes.
This man is either a complete Tool, an idiot, or some combination of both.
All of which I predicted a year before this clown took office. Got Buyer’s Remorse? I’m sure Mother Earth wishes that she’d had an opportunity to vote.
Participant[quote=briansd1][quote=Veritas]
Obama is smart not to bash big oil too much otherwise the debate will turn into whether we are turning into socialist Venezuela or France — too quick to nationalize businesses. [/quote]
Seriously, aren’t we all past the point of even thinking that Obama is *smart* about anything?
“Most troubling of all, the government has allowed BP to continue deep-sea production at its Atlantis rig – one of the world’s largest oil platforms. Capable of drawing 200,000 barrels a day from the seafloor, Atlantis is located only 150 miles off the coast of Louisiana, in waters nearly 2,000 feet deeper than BP drilled at Deepwater Horizon. According to congressional documents, the platform lacks required engineering certification for as much as 90 percent of its subsea components – a flaw that internal BP documents reveal could lead to “catastrophic” errors. In a May 19th letter to Salazar, 26 congressmen called for the rig to be shut down immediately. “We are very concerned,” they wrote, “that the tragedy at Deepwater Horizon could foreshadow an accident at BP Atlantis.”
The administration’s response to the looming threat? According to an e-mail to a congressional aide from a staff member at MMS, the agency has had “zero contact” with Atlantis about its safety risks since the Deepwater rig went down.
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And instead of putting the brakes on new offshore drilling, Salazar immediately throttled it up to record levels. Even though he had scrapped the Bush plan, Salazar put 53 million offshore acres up for lease in the Gulf in his first year alone – an all-time high. The aggressive leasing came as no surprise, given Salazar’s track record. “This guy has a long, long history of promoting offshore oil drilling – that’s his thing,” says Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. “He’s got a highly specific soft spot for offshore oil drilling.” As a senator, Salazar not only steered passage of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act, which opened 8 million acres in the Gulf to drilling, he even criticized President Bush for not forcing oil companies to develop existing leases faster.
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Nowhere was the absurdity of the policy more evident than in the application that BP submitted for its Deepwater Horizon well only two months after Obama took office. BP claims that a spill is “unlikely” and states that it anticipates “no adverse impacts” to endangered wildlife or fisheries. Should a spill occur, it says, “no significant adverse impacts are expected” for the region’s beaches, wetlands and coastal nesting birds.The company, noting that such elements are “not required” as part of the application, contains no scenario for a potential blowout, and no site-specific plan to respond to a spill. Instead, it cites an Oil Spill Response Plan that it had prepared for the entire Gulf region. Among the sensitive species BP anticipates protecting in the semitropical Gulf? “Walruses” and other cold-water mammals, including sea otters and sea lions. The mistake appears to be the result of a sloppy cut-and-paste job from BP’s drilling plans for the Arctic.Even worse: Among the “primary equipment providers” for “rapid deployment of spill response resources,” BP inexplicably provides the Web address of a Japanese home-shopping network. Such glaring errors expose the 582-page response “plan” as nothing more than a paperwork exercise. “It was clear that nobody read it,” says Ruch, who represents government scientists.
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Scientists were stunned that NOAA, an agency widely respected for its scientific integrity, appeared to have been co-opted by the White House spin machine. “NOAA has actively pushed back on every fact that has ever come out,” says one ocean scientist who works with the agency. “They’re denying until the facts are so overwhelming, they finally come out and issue an admittance.” Others are furious at the agency for criticizing the work of scientists studying the oil plumes rather than leading them. “Why they didn’t have vessels there right then and start to gather the scientific data on oil and what the impacts are to different organisms is inexcusable,” says a former government marine biologist. “They should have been right on top of that.” Only six weeks into the disaster did the agency finally deploy its own research vessel to investigate the plumes.
This man is either a complete Tool, an idiot, or some combination of both.
All of which I predicted a year before this clown took office. Got Buyer’s Remorse? I’m sure Mother Earth wishes that she’d had an opportunity to vote.
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