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As much as it pains me to say, Obama deserves some of the blame for this for lifting the moratorium on offshore drilling. Just like with shipping oil, it's not a matter of if, but when environmental disasters like these occur when you allow these kinds of practices to go on.

Those amoral greedy motherfuckers at BP are STILL trying to deregulate offshore drilling practices, even in the Arctic where the environment is way more vulnerable to these kinds of disasters.

BP execs belong in fucking jail.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by JesseoftheNorth.

demon9 beat me by 2 hours, was going to post this myself. pretty sad watching this. It will be a miracle, i think, if we don't lose a few species (to extinction) from this disaster.

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Adding video to channels (News) - requested by marinara.

Sometimes I really fucking hate humans.

related (and unsifted)
http://videosift.com/video/Gulf-Oil-Spill-One-of-Worst-in-US-History

Halliburton did it. They also did same thing in Australia with EXACT SAME foundation problems. Oh yeah, guess who makes the blowout valve thingy??? Cheney's buddies and Bush donors.

The biggest disaster to hit America is Barack Hussein Obama. Oil rig fail? Shit happens. But the non-stop war on the American way of life from the Red House Regime is far more dangerous and insidious than some oil spill that will be forgotten in a year.

And what a Happy Earth Day it was.

"can someone fill me in on why the Blow out preventer did not work ? The B.O.P is in the picture, right above it its leaking, is the bop messed up or non functional or what ? "

Well I am glad I did not post that before watching it all. So mr BP president, WHY OH WHY THE HELL DIDNT THE BOP WORK ? thats the things main job.. thats it only job. When all is said and done and independent investigations are away with , I really hope that its not because of a old bop that bp just did not want to replace. They should have two blow out presenters then !

I heard a conservative radio talkshow host earlier suggest that mother nature has caused just as much pollution through natural means as this event. The argument amounted to looking outside your window at all that dirt everywhere! It never ceases to amaze me the things people will convince themselves about, all based on which side of the party line they stand.

This is a complete aside, but the google maps interface he is using seems pretty slick...I wonder if it is openly available

>> ^quantumushroom:

The biggest disaster to hit America is Barack Hussein Obama. Oil rig fail? Shit happens. But the non-stop war on the American way of life from the Red House Regime is far more dangerous and insidious than some oil spill that will be forgotten in a year.


Good job! Your pointless, mindless rant converted me. You are teh winnar!

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TRUE ! I didn't even register that its a rented Rig, That was pretty lame of me as I do know as I have worked in the field that they are all rented, Precision,Akita all those I sampled from where rented working for a different company to dig their well, that's what the rig does is drill the hole, thats their business, bp just rents them out.. So ! Now I wonder how this will effect Bp's name in the long run, as it seems people do directly blame them.

Animation: Gulf of Mexico oil spill growth and movement
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/gulf_of_mexico_oil_spill_anima.html

Diagram from 4/30/10: Beneath the Oil Slick
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/04/whats_going_on_beneath_the_sea.html

The Times-Picayune Latest News: 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/

>> ^quantumushroom:

The biggest disaster to hit America is Barack Hussein Obama. Oil rig fail? Shit happens. But the non-stop war on the American way of life from the Red House Regime is far more dangerous and insidious than some oil spill that will be forgotten in a year.


Rofl, half of America could disappear in to the San Andreas fault and you'd still be bitching about Obama.

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"And here you find civilized man. Civilized man refused to adapt himself to his environment; instead, he adapted his environment to suit him. So he built cities, roads, vehicles, machinery, and he put up power lines to run his labour-saving devices. But somehow he didn't know where to stop. The more he improved his surroundings to make life easier, the more complicated he made it."

This disaster keeps seeming worse and worse. Damage estimates keep being surpassed, and every day is a whole new nightmare for the local ecology.

http://videosift.com/video/Coast-Guard-Now-Estimates-1-6-Million-Gallons-of-Oil-Spilled

>> ^JesseoftheNorth:

As much as it pains me to say, Obama deserves some of the blame for this for lifting the moratorium on offshore drilling.


Obama lifted the moratorium on offshore drilling a month ago. I don't think they've thrown up any new oil rigs in that span of time. Though it does show just how unwise his plans were. Which is why he reinstated the suspension on new drilling.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8654138.stm

>> ^quantumushroom:

The biggest disaster to hit America is Barack Hussein Obama. Oil rig fail? Shit happens. But the non-stop war on the American way of life from the Red House Regime is far more dangerous and insidious than some oil spill that will be forgotten in a year.


It's like someone hired you full time to inject as much retard into a post as possible. People with an undergrad degree and a PHD thesis in retard cannot come up with better stuff than you.

Part of Obama's motivation to go along with lifting that moratorium was to ease the demand for foreign oil, and therefore ease pressure on the military to maintain the oil empire, including the wars in the mid-east. I don't think it would be fair place much blame on him directly for any of those problems.

But that doesn't mean the blame game isn't going on...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8655259.stm>> ^entr0py:

>> ^JesseoftheNorth:
As much as it pains me to say, Obama deserves some of the blame for this for lifting the moratorium on offshore drilling.

Obama lifted the moratorium on offshore drilling a month ago. I don't think they've thrown up any new oil rigs in that span of time. Though it does show just how unwise his plans were. Which is why he reinstated the suspension on new drilling.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8654138.stm

>> ^quantumushroom:

The biggest disaster to hit America is Barack Hussein Obama. Oil rig fail? Shit happens. But the non-stop war on the American way of life from the Red House Regime is far more dangerous and insidious than some oil spill that will be forgotten in a year.


Thank you for reminding us all just what an asshole troll you are.

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>> ^BoneRemake:
"can someone fill me in on why the Blow out preventer did not work ? The B.O.P is in the picture, right above it its leaking, is the bop messed up or non functional or what ? "
Well I am glad I did not post that before watching it all. So mr BP president, WHY OH WHY THE HELL DIDNT THE BOP WORK ? thats the things main job.. thats it only job. When all is said and done and independent investigations are away with , I really hope that its not because of a old bop that bp just did not want to replace. They should have two blow out presenters then !


BP doesn't produce the Blow-out preventers, they just use the ones that were on Transoceans rig, which Transocean placed on their rig. If you are going to blame this all on a blowout preventor fail, find the source of who makes the BOP that was used on the rig. Not only that, but do you know how hard it is to simply replace a BOP when it is in that deep of water? Not to mention the fact that they didn't know it would not work. Many of the workers on those kind of rigs say that the rigs managed by BP are some of the safest in the industry.


As for another earlier comment, "Those amoral greedy motherfuckers at BP are STILL trying to deregulate offshore drilling practices, even in the Arctic where the environment is way more vulnerable to these kinds of disasters."
Can you provide some evidence? And if its true, I'm sure the entire industry feels the same way. Don't just pick one company.


Furthermore, this rig wasn't even BP's. It is owned by Transocean. BP was essentially renting it to help them drill the well. BP has spent millions of dollars trying to clean this up, because they felt it was their duty since they were renting it. Putting all the blame on them is unfair.


You're inadvertantly falling for their racket- BP rents the rig precisely because it allows them to minimize liability and provide a level of deniability for their responsibility when- and I do stress when- these types of disasters occur. It is very exactly fair to blame them for this catastrophe, but don't shed a tear for poor BP. The US's tax laws will allow them to write off every penny of the clean-up costs.

>> ^quantumushroom:

The biggest disaster to hit America is Barack Hussein Obama. Oil rig fail? Shit happens. But the non-stop war on the American way of life from the Red House Regime is far more dangerous and insidious than some oil spill that will be forgotten in a year.


Middle Aged Men With Swords Hacking Meat? More like Obama hacking the constitution with a hammer and sickle. Am I right quantum? Am I right?

Oh wait, wrong thread.

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