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Any of this sound familiar?: "... a major deepwater oil spill could start with a fire on a drilling rig, prove hard to stop and cause extensive damage to fish eggs and wetlands because there were few good ways to capture oil underwater.Regaining well control in deep water may be a problem since it could require the operator to cap and control well flow at the seabed in greater water depthsSpills in deep water may...

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour:"Barbour described the oil as "weathered, emulsified, caramel-colored mousse, like the food mousse." "Once it gets to this stage, it's not poisonous," Barbour said. "But if a small animal got coated enough with it, it could smother it. But if you got enough toothpaste on you, you couldn't breathe."What. An. Idiot....

A word of caution up front, the images which follow are disturbing, heartbreaking, and enraging. But they are images that should be seen by everyone. Everyone in this country needs to see what's happening along the Gulf Coast. Everyone including that half-term, half-wit, vapid, addle-brained, twit who screams "drill, baby, drill" and all her equally mindless followers. They should be forced to look at these images every day. I post them along with some words...

That question, asked by a BP contract worker who took reporters from the New York Daily News into areas BP wants to keep off-limits, and this accompanying photo of a decomposing dolphin on Queen Bess Island, put in a nutshell the unfolding environmental nightmare along the Gulf Coast.  How do you write a check for something like this?"When we found this dolphin it was filled with oil. Oil was just pouring out of it....

Has there ever been a more insensitive, arrogant, obnoxious, jackass than BP CEO Tony Hayward? He makes the Wall Street banksters look like Mother Teresa by comparison, not an easy task to say the least. From his "very modest impact" statement, to the denial of giant undersea plumes of oil despite what several other scientific organizations have observed, to saying that fishermen hired to help with the clean-up are getting sick because of food poisoning,...

This is what President Obama's critics have been reduced to-George Will yesterday on This Week saying the president is "being unfairly blamed" for his response to the Deepwater Horizon fiasco, but on the other hand "it sort of serves him right." From Media Matters:I used to have some degree of respect for George Will. He was one of the few remaining voices on the right who, on occasion, made some reasonable, rational arguments. Now he's...

Chillax, as my boys say. This is only tangentially about quantum physics. Time really is relative. When you are the general public waiting on someone in a position to act during a catastrophe -- like the BP oil spill - time and the parties involved seem to move like frozen molasses. When you are a parent, an entire year, or decade, or lifetime can go by at Gaussian blur speed. When you work for...

Is this what BP CEO Tony Hayward meant when he said "the overall environmental impact of this will be very, very modest?" Video from CBS News shows oil beginning to come ashore in the coastal marshes of Louisiana:<br />And it's only the beginning. This chart from McClatchy shows what could happen now that oil is starting to reach the Gulf of Mexico's loop current:Meanwhile, a CBS news crew was threatened with arrest for attempting to...

Leave it to our Governor:"Texas Gov. Rick Perry Monday offered a stern warning against halting oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of a massive oil leak, and he raised the question of whether the explosion was an "act of God."The Republican governor, speaking at the Chamber of Commerce in Washington, warned against a "a knee-jerk reaction" to the spill and said the government doesn't know what caused the leak, which took...

December 20, 2009   Representative John Culberson, 7th District514 Longworth Building Washington DC 20515-4307   10000 Memorial Drive, Suite 620 Houston, TX  77024-3490   Dear Representative Culberson:   Thank you for your response to my letter expressing my opinion on health care reform with another of your empty, partisan, form letters written by someone on your staff. I truly appreciate the time it took one of your minions to add me to the distribution...