It's worse than we know
POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Friday, August 29, 2025 14:55
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Just watched the most sobering t.v. I hope to ever watch. Bigger than 9/11.... on the Gulf oil disaster.
I can't mince words here folks....it's bad. Beyond what we've been told.
Even if the " top kill " attempt works, the damage is far beyond what they're telling us.
But the top kill won't work. It'll be August before a 2nd well can be drilled, to finally shut this nightmare down. And that's what it is.... an actual, real life nightmare.
Get to the coast and white beaches of the Gulf now, while you can. It'll be the last time in our life time we'll see them like this.
* Checked out CNN, and it's doing an unbelievably awesome job, with life feeds of the gusher, and Bobby Jindhal going to TOWN, ratting off hard, real life specifics of all that the State has done, while waiting for FEMA assholes to do SOMETHING!! The PEOPLE of LA aren't sitting around , waiting for others to come to their aid. It may be too little, too late, but at least they're doing something.
The Gulf coast is dying, literally, and bureaucrats and regulators are gearing up for the long holiday weekend. 
Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first."
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I have to credit CNN.
Their coverage is so wall to wall on this, I've had to turn it off.
Too damn depressing to see everyone ( BP, Gov't ) point fingers, make promises and literally N O T H I N G is being done. The marshes, the wetlands in LA are dying. No boats out there for weeks on end, nothing being done, they won't allow LA to at least TRY to save her shoreline.....
Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first."
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Bye to the Gulf wildlife...
The laughing Chrisisall
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Pretty much a cluster-fuck of epic proportions on all fronts.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Louisiana Native and Chief political aid to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has had it with the President. In a newsclip, viewed on CTV Televison today, he angrily told Obama: Man put somebody in charge, we're dieing down here.
Last Thursday, he told CNNs Anderson Cooper that the administration's response to the spill has been "lackadaisical" and that Obama was "naive" to trust BP to manage the massive clean-up effort.
"I think they actually believe that BP has some kind of a good motivation here," he said. "They're naive! BP is trying to save money, save everything they can... They won't tell us anything, and oddly enough, the government seems to be going along with it! Somebody has got to, like shake them and say, 'These people don't wish you well! They're going to take you down!'"
"I'm as good a Democrat as most people, and I think this administration has done some good things. They are risking everything by this 'go along with BP' strategy they have that seems like, lackadaisical on this, and Doug is right, they seem like they're inconvenienced by this, this is some giant thing getting in their way and somehow or another, if you let BP handle it, it'll all go away. It's not going away. It's growing out there. It is a disaster of the first magnitude, and they've got to go to Plan B.
"Chris Matthews, who is a staunch Obama reporter is quoted as saying:
"The President scares me," he said. "When is he actually going to do something? And I worry; I know he doesn't want to take ownership of it. I know politics. He said the minute he says, 'I'm in charge,' he takes the blame, but somebody has to. It's in our interest."
*edit * - Just saw the CEO of BP come on and give a brief update on the top kill progress. It was a piece of pure fiction. If you ever get a chance to see a video clip, you'd swear you were watching some bad BBC sci-fi flick. He gave less than any level of competence or believability. Essentially he said, it'd be 24 hours before we know anything, and that any increase or decrease in the plume of oil shooting out shouldn't be seen as any indication that it is or isn't working. ( 'shooting' is my word )
Watch Anderson Cooper's 360 tonight..... everyone.
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So you think the government should be in charge of fixing the corporations fuck-ups, huh?
You want Obama to take the blame, take the responsibility, FOR BP'S DISASTER. And it's not like you or your buddies would EVER try to run on the sound bite of him taking the blame, right?
What is it that you imagine the government CAN do in this case? What expertise do you expect the federal government to have to cap a well, protect a shoreline from sludge in the water?
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
So you think the government should be in charge of fixing the corporations fuck-ups, huh?
I think you should go fuck yourself, is what I think.
The Federal Gov't is showing it can't handled -anything. Billions of our tax $$'s, and what do we get ? All the bureaucracies, all the agencies, all the dept. heads and all the mountains of regulations have amounted to dick.
NOTHING is going on in the way of protection or prevention of the marsh lands. Not by the Gov't, not by the Coast Guard, no one is doing a god damn thing, save for the locals who were completely deluged with this disaster.
Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first."
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Hello,
I am observing two things here:
1) The anti-Obama camp has figured out that this is a Katrina-Plus problem that has the potential to smear the President in a more profound way than the levies, property damage, police actions, government inactions, and deaths in Louisiana smeared Bush.
2) They are right. This is a major ecological disaster. It could change life in the ocean, the coast, and even parts of Europe depending on where the Gulf stream spreads the wealth.
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
"You can lose a quark you don't girth." -Dreamtrove's words to live by, translated by Ipad
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Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
So you think the government should be in charge of fixing the corporations fuck-ups, huh?
You want Obama to take the blame, take the responsibility, FOR BP'S DISASTER. And it's not like you or your buddies would EVER try to run on the sound bite of him taking the blame, right?
What is it that you imagine the government CAN do in this case? What expertise do you expect the federal government to have to cap a well, protect a shoreline from sludge in the water?
And had Obama taken over sooner, Rappy would have been screamin' about communism and squashing free enterprise....
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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It's not so much anti-Obama, but anti Federal Gov't. It's inept beyond comprehension.
There are literally no haz-mat boats, workers, ANYTHING going on in the wetlands.
Where there should be boaters, fisherman and birds, there is nothing.
Nothing but dead grass and oil soaked wetlands.
It's quiet. Still. Dead.
And it's only going to get worse.
A lot worse.
Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first."
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