Guard watches coast for oil slick's first wave

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Originally Posted by Mattyk

Haven't we heard reports about BP's contributions to Obama?

PolitiFact | BP liked Obama, but oil stained Palin's hands too

Funny how they have to throw Palin and McCain into that article. First off Palin is not in office so we cannot judge her because we don't know what her response would have been. As Governor of Alaska Palin actually went after big oil to get a cut of the oil profits comming out of Alaska.

Palin Boosted Oil-Company Taxes While Alaska Had Budget Surplus - Bloomberg.com

[MTK]

Palin was the one calling Obama out, so it's only natural to point out that her hands aren't exactly clean in all of this.

[joethiesmanfan]

Crying tears of pain at the cost of drill baby drill. No one was crying when they built that oil pipeline through the watrer supply of that Nigerian village. Karma is a B.

[joethiesmanfan]

Let's pray on it. Seems like the right forgot about praying this time. This is the type stuff you pray for. You don't pray to rule the world or to kill a president.

[GMScud]

Originally Posted by joethiesmanfan

Let's pray on it. Seems like the right forgot about praying this time. This is the type stuff you pray for. You don't pray to rule the world or to kill a president.

Huh? Some of your posts are really good. Others are head scratchers.

[joethiesmanfan]

Originally Posted by GMScud

Huh? Some of your posts are really good. Others are head scratchers.

Point is: Man and science can't fix this. It is time to pray. The right are always claiming to be so religous and righteous. For an event like this oil spill we must pray. Man has bit off more than man can chew. We are not advanced enough yet for this resource.

[Slingin Sammy 33]

Originally Posted by joethiesmanfan

Point is: Man and science can't fix this. It is time to pray. The right are always claiming to be so religous and righteous. For an event like this oil spill we must pray. Man has bit off more than man can chew. We are not advanced enough yet for this resource.

I would sure hope everyone on both sides of the aisle is saying a few prayers about this.

But it will be man and science that do fix this problem....a little "luck" for the non-religious, or divine intervention certainly couldn't hurt though.

[MTK]

What if there's no God? Then we're just F'd I guess.

Not to open a huge can of worms or anything.

[joethiesmanfan]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

What if there's no God? Then we're just F'd I guess.

Not to open a huge can of worms or anything.

I know there is a god I have been to Miami beach, from what I saw the one diety really really really favors Cuba.

[Hog1]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

What if there's no God? Then we're just F'd I guess.

Not to open a huge can of worms or anything.

THAT'S humor!

[MTK]

So much for that top kill eh?

[GMScud]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

So much for that top kill eh?

I officially despise BP at this point.

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I just wonder why for the first time they are going to try and put a cap/valve on the pipe. It seems like that would have been one of the first things they would have tried after the fire was put out. I guess maybe Obama thought of that after he went down there and played in the sand for a few minutes.

[CRedskinsRule]

I'm sure you are just picking at Obama cuz it's fun to do, but they are trying these things based on 2 basic criteria: 1) resource availability and 2) probability of success.

They have started the process of the relief wells, the only thing that has a 100% probability of success. I find myself in amazing agreement with JTF on this part, any drills in environmentally challenging or protected areas ought to be required to have a relief drill built at the same time as the original well. That would be the right regulation to come out of this disaster.

The Top Kill only had a 60% chance, so they held off.

The new cutting operation has a better percent chance, i believe, but they had to wait for specialty tools to be available.

This situation is tragic, but it's not like people aren't trying to get it stopped.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

I'm sure you are just picking at Obama cuz it's fun to do, but they are trying these things based on 2 basic criteria: 1) resource availability and 2) probability of success.

They have started the process of the relief wells, the only thing that has a 100% probability of success. I find myself in amazing agreement with JTF on this part, any drills in environmentally challenging or protected areas ought to be required to have a relief drill built at the same time as the original well. That would be the right regulation to come out of this disaster.

The Top Kill only had a 60% chance, so they held off.

The new cutting operation has a better percent chance, i believe, but they had to wait for specialty tools to be available.

This situation is tragic, but it's not like people aren't trying to get it stopped.

We had to wait on the tool to become available? Is there another event bigger then this that needed the saw even more? Maybe they had to wait for the person to return it to Lowes so we could rent the tool.

I also agree with JTF about the second well. If you would have told me that a well could fail and it would take us months to cap that well I would have laughed at you.