Let me make this real clear. BP is not going to be able to solve their problems at this deep water site. WILL NOT BE ABLE TO.

The issue currently existing with the 'hydrates' is an issue ALSO inherent to methane.

The 'methane clathrate' at the site is causing the issue with the extraction of the oil.  It is my opinion the entire field in this location is heavily laden with methane and this will be a continuing problem regardless of any plans to stop the leak.  Another well head won't make any difference either. 

The reason there are three holes rather than one is because of the continued instability with the methane field that has been cut loose now that there is a breech to the field.

This is NOT an oil site, this is a methane field.  The reason the oil is rushing out with such force is because it is under high pressure from the methane gas.  The issues that BP is encountering with this field is going to continue to be an issue for its entire existence.

While there are other geological issues that accompany 'gushers' there is a gas component that is like a propellant.  The high content of methane at this site will continue to cause real problems.  I don't believe it will ever be a 'safe' field to drill.

No drill site is usually compromised by escaping oil under high pressure with high level of methane in the area as well.  To continue to believe this is a manageable site is ridiculous and completely foolish.  

The coastal costs are not prudent to continue this charade.  The Petroleum Industry has no interest in the coastal economy of the Gulf Coast and it will continue to experiment with solutions while the oil continues to surface and the danger to regional and global circulation becomes greater and greater.

BP should cut its losses and allow the USA Navy to formulate a solution to this crisis.

This is not going to resolve with conventional methods.

The reason the deaths occurred may have been ACCOMPANIED by lack of application of industry standards, but, there is a lot more at work here than simply industry negligence and poor practice.  We are looking at an industry in the sunset of its existence and willing to take chances with life and 'content' in order to find some sort of profitability when in fact it should have been shut down a decade or more ago.

The entire crisis is related to the 'denial' by the West to come to terms with its dependence on fossil fuels.  It is time to end it and bring this tragedy to a close.

It is an unmanageable emergency and needs to be brought to an end.

Case in point, the Petroleum Industry does NOT have engineers and oceanographers that are the Brightest Bulbs in the Box.

My money is still on torpedoes.  That is not going to change.

That said, the government seems to think that environmentalists, conservationists and oceanographers always go to the highest bidder.

"W"rong  !

People involved with the well being of this planet are NOT involved with toxic industries.  They are far more moral than that.

The people that are the smartest and best centered on the well being of this planet and its oceans and its fisheries are opposition to the industries and ALWAYS are in consultant to the government in activism and in positions within academia and the government such as NOAA and NASA and the US Forest Service.

So, that said, British Petroleum has a decision to make and that is they are going to do the right thing and blow the ruptures of the planet closed or they are going to continue in an ineffective and untested manner at a depth they should have never drilled in the first place.

That said, there is a roll by the USA military and federal and State governments to demand a quick resolve to a set of circumstances that are out of control and have been from the beginning.

British Petroleum and Halliburton have breached EVERY safety standard in the industry and killed eleven people while doing it. 

Eminent Domaine comes into play here and it is time to call this what it is.  It is a corrupt government structure that has allowed this level of negligence and the federal government needs to take up the responsible position and recall the rights to the leases that surround this tragedy. 

The USA military needs to have war games at 5000 feet down and close the rupture to the planet. 

There are currently eleven people dead and entire coastal economy on the way to being destroyed for an indeterment length of time and I am calling it half a century recovery, if at all.

Enough!!!

I have held this point of view from the beginning and I will not be changing it.

Haliiburton has prepared this concrete structure to use at the cost of who knows how many millions of dollars and NEVER took into account the EXTREME conditions at 5000 feet down.  Where did they think they were engineering this structure to be placed, at the surface, in the tropics, with full sunlight and temperatures exceeding 60 degrees Fahrenheit?

Halliburton has NO CLUE what it is doing and this is suppose to be state of  the art.

THAT SHOULD BE TELLING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS ACROSS THE GLOBE SOMETHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are limits to going into deep spaces of the planet and this is one of them !

"Morning Papers" - Its Origins

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

Does anyone have pictures of Sarah Palin hanging out with her minority friends?

Race and Equal Opportunity - Unknown:

Palin's views on affirmative action, civil rights bills, and other issues pertaining to racial justice are not yet clear.

You know, like pictures of her opening her office in Harlem?

Something like that?

Anything that indicates she actually is sensitive to issues of minorities.

Are her positions on anything clear and backed up by solid and sound policy that is REAL? 

Good night.

Supports a path to citizenship, but no amnesty for illegals. (Oct 2008)

Bush Fence Failed to Keep Arizona Protected

With over a billion dollars in "border security funds" (click title to entry - thank you) allocated by Congress, private companies are carrying out the biggest hoax of all—a $31.5 million dollar, seven-mile border fence at Sasabe, Arizona. The project has been whitewashed by a slim environmental assessment that obligingly finds "No Significant Impact....

...Never shy about injecting divisive rhetoric into any public debate, the patron saint of political foolishness, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, has attempted to dismiss the Arizona immigration law’s potential for racial profiling.

Palin has asserted that, “There is no ability or opportunity in there for racial profiling…shame on the lame stream media again for turning this into something that it is not.”

For those of you out there still undecided about this issue, I suggest you use my personal barometer. Whatever Sarah Palin believes and feels the need to make public, think and support the opposite.

Only then can you be assured that you are actually normal and intelligent.

http://www.sfltimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4372&Itemid=188

Some dictators hate America & what we stand for. (Oct 2008)

That might be true.

CIA’s final report: No WMD found in Iraq  (click title to entry - thank you)

Recommends freeing detainees held for weapons knowledge

updated 9:24 p.m. ET, Mon., April 25, 2005

WASHINGTON - In his final word, the CIA’s top weapons inspector in Iraq said Monday that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction has “gone as far as feasible” and has found nothing, closing an investigation into the purported programs of Saddam Hussein that were used to justify the 2003 invasion.

“After more than 18 months, the WMD investigation and debriefing of the WMD-related detainees has been exhausted,” wrote Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group, in an addendum to the final report he issued last fall.

“As matters now stand, the WMD investigation has gone as far as feasible.”

Analyze potential costs associated with climate change. (Oct 2006)

October 30, 2006 

Unchecked Global Warming a Massive Threat to US and Global Economies

Unchecked Global Warming a Massive Threat to US and Global Economies

WASHINGTON—A major new report on the economics of climate change released today has the potential to alter the terms of the US global warming debate, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. The report, prepared for the British government by Sir Nicholas Stern, a former Chief Economist and Vice-President of the World Bank, concludes that the world economy faces the threat of a massive economic depression if urgent action is not taken to limit the damaging impacts of unconstrained global warming.

The report also demonstrates that the costs of reducing emissions of the heat-trapping gases that are causing climate change are much more modest than some claim. While the economic cost of global warming could be as much as 20 percent of world gross domestic product (GDP) each year, an investment of just one percent of annual GDP by 2050 could reduce emissions significantly and head off the worst projected impacts of climate change. The report looks at the net present value of implementing strong mitigation policies and finds that the benefits of such action exceed the costs by $2.5 trillion annually...

Palin was an appointee under Murkowski to  "The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission."   Did she exercise any type of understanding of Global Warming there?  No, it was there she found scandal enough to propel her to the Governorship of the State.  

Project Map

http://www.thealaskapipelineproject.com/project_map

It was within this commission she wrangled a Trans Canada position for a gas pipeline for Alaska.  Does she understand today the brevity of the issue?  

No.

Does she care the Union of Concerned Scientists actually took her question serious enough to answer the question of what costs will impact the USA by doing nothing?

No, she doesn't care. Does she care about the brevity of any of her statements or actions?  

No.  It is all a big game to her.  She does not take seriously the brain trust of the USA in determining policies.  Yet, she is considered a competent public figure. 

Global warming denier Sarah Palin to appear at ‘Oil Palace’ in Texas. 

 Sarah Palin will soon take her rightful place as the queen of the Oil Palace. Event organizers in Tyler, TX announced that Palin will be speaking at the 60,000 square foot arena on June 24, following earlier appearances by her Fox News colleagues Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.  In fact, “people who have tickets for Beck, who is coming to the Oil Palace April 24, will have priority in buying tickets for Palin’s appearance.” It’s a fitting venue for Palin, who has referred to global warming science as “snake oil.” This morning, Palin doubled down with this Facebook posting:

The man-made global warming hysteria isn’t based on sound science, and the Obama administration’s energy policy isn’t based on sound economics. If the climategate revelations teach us anything, it’s that we need to cool down the rhetoric and fire up our common sense.

That’s the kind of rhetoric that seems fitting for the Oil Palace.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/19/palin-oil-palace/

She denied NINE, not one but nine assessments regarding the Polar Bear.  Did Sarah perform a study herself or have an assessment that stated differently?  Nah.  The Polar Bear got in the way of her rhetoric.  That's all.  Everything that matters isn't important when it comes to 'Agenda First Palin.'

Palin Fought Polar Bear Protections

Governor Discounted the Findings of Nine Recent USGS Studies

By JUSTIN ROOD

Aug. 31, 2008

...In defending her position, Palin has discounted the findings of nine recent U.S. Geological Survey studies which concluded that the polar bear's habitat is threatened by global warming, and the animals could be extinct before this century ends....

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5689165&page=1

I’m a feminist; equal rights for women. (Sep 2008)

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which was signed into law on Jan. 29, 2009, restores the protection against pay discrimination that was stripped away by the Supreme Court’s decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. The Act reinstates prior law and helps to ensure that individuals subjected to unlawful pay discrimination are able to effectively assert their rights under federal anti-discrimination laws.... (click title to entry - thank you)

Palin on Ledbetter.

"I’m absolutely for equal pay for equal work. The Ledbetter pay act--it was gonna turn into a boon for trial lawyers who, I believe, could have taken advantage of women who [would] allege discrimination many, many years ago. Thankfully, there are laws on the books, there have been since 1963, that no woman could be discriminated against in the workplace in terms of anything, but especially in terms of pay. So, thankfully we have the laws on the books and they better be enforced."

Where does that statement make sense?  She endorses old laws 'already on the books' that facilitated the Ledbetter v. Goodyear decision, but, she rhetorically states she believes in equal pay.

Palin flies in the fact of pure unadulterated logic to facilitate rhetoric.  That is leadership?  Where?  There is no leadership here.  

First understanding that government is not perfect is to realize when it works for people and when it doesn't.  If Sarah Palin cannot discern when government is acting adversely toward a citizen or citizens she endangers the rights of every American.  She certainly impales equality in a way that no one before her has, with the exception of perhaps Clarence Thomas and Bob Packwood.  "You've come a long way, babe."

Hillary put 18 million cracks in glass ceiling. (Sep 2008) 

So.  Pouting? 

No state-mandated religion, but public faith is ok

What is the difference?  If public displays of religious symbols are allowed, what is the difference between an officially mandated religion and a casual inference?

If government at any level provides a 'peep hole' of preference to religion at its core, there is no separation of church and state.

This is dangerous business.  It is a slippery slope and it is treated by Republicans as if it is a real issue.  It isn't.

The citizens of the USA are allowed to practice whatever faith they choose in the way they choose it.  This isn't even an issue. 

Creating a 'Designer Issue' is about compromising the USA Constitution, it isn't about impingement of government on personal rights.  IF ANYTHING, the insistence by the Republicans that the USA should 'help people be religious' is an impingement on personal rights.  

The Republicans are Anti-Civil Rights, from race to sexual identity to religious freedom. 

Sarah Palin's 'Christian Nation' Remarks Spark Debate

Advocates of Church-State Separation Say Palin Is Distorting Founders' Intent

But two groups dedicated to the separation of church and state are now speaking out against her, arguing that she is misreading the founders' intent. 

"It's incredibly hypocritical that Sarah Palin, who disapproves of government involvement in just about anything, now suddenly wants the government to help people be religious," Barry Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, told ABC News. 

"It is wildly inconsistent with her views on limited government to get the government involved in matters of faith."...

Use my daughter Bristol as a teaching tool for others. (Oct 2008)

This is simply "W"rong.  It was wrong to display a young woman expecting her first child out of wedlock as a role model.  And to consider that her mother employed her as a teaching tool is exploitation beyond any form of morality.

The problem with Sarah Palin's activism is that she sincerely motivates people to follow her.  She obviously has an agenda and that is to find alliances that will support her in a career.  A political career.

Has the Sarah bubble burst?  

She turned on her own political network in the Tea Baggers and decided to endorse a Republican with significant financial ties.

“She’s not a career politician,” added Ms. Palin, the former Alaska governor. “She’s a businesswoman who has run a major corporation. She knows how to really incentivize job creation.”  (click title to entry - thank you)

Sarah is a 'flip-flopper' when 'sniffing the wind' means lots and lots of money.  She is corrupt and worships the 'money god' and nothing else.  I have never witnessed a mother that actually allowed her daughter to be a 'display' for Pro-Life at one of the most delicate times of her life. 

I am suppose to admire this?  This is ambition?  No.

(Economic) Restraint of last two years should continue in tough times. (Jan 2009)

The Republican Rhetoric doesn't make sense based on past performance of the Bush/Cheney economy.

So, let's start there.

What bothers me about any of these dynamics is that there is an entire news network dedicated to electing into office 'the Republican' no matter the costs to the country.

The Bush Years consisted of a faux economy accompanied by two wars of which one had no legitimacy.

We know for a fact the years of the GOP outlined here was due to chronic funding of the economy by the USA Treasury.  

This was the report by the Federal Reserve Board regarding 2007.  This was the year before the national elections and it preceded the global economic collapse of 2008.  Yet, nothing was done with this information as the election would overshadow any prudent decision making regarding the obviously impending collapse.  And Sarah?  She didn't have a clue.

...The financial turmoil did not appear to leave much of a mark on overall economic activity in the third quarter. Real GDP rose at an annual rate of nearly 5 percent, as solid gains in consumer spending, business investment, and exports more than offset the continuing drag from residential investment. In the fourth quarter, however, economic activity decelerated significantly, and the economy seems to have entered 2008 with little forward momentum....

...In the labor market, private hiring slowed sharply in late 2007 and January 2008. The increase in the price index for total personal consumption expenditures (PCE) picked up to 3-1/2 percent in 2007 as a result of sizable increases in food and energy prices. Core PCE inflation, though uneven over the course of the year, averaged a bit more than 2 percent during 2007 as a whole, a little less than the increase posted in 2006....

What does all that mean?  It means the purchasing power of the USA Dollar was waning as the economy became weaker and weaker.  Even in the year 2007 and into early 2008 it was known that the economy was tanking, yet, no one did a thing.

Does anyone besides me see the danger in a government based in rhetoric for the purpose of controlling the outcome to elections?  

The rhetoric at the time was that the Republicans brought 7 years of incredible growth to the USA.  Seven years of huge government spending accompanied by national security issues, "W"rongful wars and increasing USA debt.  And where was that debt financed under Bush/Cheney?  But, yet, they claim they are patriotic Americans right up to the point where they sell the 'credit rating' of the USA to the highest foreign bidder.

Anyone ever hear of US Treasury Bills or US Savings Bonds?  Anyone?  Maybe those Day Traders?

Treasury Direct

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/products.htm

FactCheck: No, Alaska doesn't deny federal stimulus help. (Nov 2009)

The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is seeking applications from organizations under the Recovery Act Local Youth Mentoring Initiative. Does your organization or ministry qualify? Read the guidelines here.

http://www.urbanministry.org/recovery-act-grant-available-mentoring-programs





So, Mrs. Palin recognizes that Wall Street in no way is going to improve the circumstances for the citizens of Alaska, but, yet she disses the President for rescuing the country from certain collapse.

The RNC - The Rhetorical National Committee

No effective policies, tons and tons of moral turpitude, but, they are a party to contend with.  Really?

$19.7 million through the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund to address the
backlog of drinking water infrastructure needs

$23.8 million through the Clean Water State Revolving Fund to address the
backlog of clean water infrastructure needs

$175.5 million in Highway Funding to be used on activities eligible under the
Federal-aid Highway Program’s Surface Transportation Program and could also include
rail and port infrastructure activities at the discretion of the states

$41.6 million in Transit Formula Funding for investments in mass transit

$3.3 million through the Public Housing Capital Fund to enable local public
housing agencies to address a national $32 billion backlog in capital needs – especially
those improving energy efficiency in aging developments – in this critical element of the
nation’s affordable housing infrastructure

$4.3 million in HOME Funding to enable state and local government, in partnership
with community-based organizations, to acquire, construct, and rehabilitate affordable
housing and provide rental assistance to poor families

$1.9 million through the Homelessness Prevention Fund to be used for
prevention activities, which include: short or medium-term rental assistance, first and
last month’s rental payment, or utility payments. As such, most of this funding will go
directly into the economy of local communities, as the funds will be used to pay housing
and other associated costs in the private market

$33 million for Special Education Part B State Grants to help improve
educational outcomes for individuals with disabilities, raising the federal contribution to
nearly 40 percent, the level established when the law was authorized more than 30 years
ago

$3.1 million in education technology funds to purchase up-to-date computers and
software and provide professional

$41.1 million for Title I Education for the Disadvantaged to help close the
achievement gap and enable disadvantaged students to reach their potential

$4.3 million in State Employment Service Grants to match unemployed
individuals to job openings through state employment service agencies and allow Alaska
to provide customized reemployment services

$3.3 million in Dislocated Workers State Grants, particularly for grants that
support immediate strategies for regions and communities to meet their need for skilled
workers, as well as longer-term plans to build targeted industry clusters with better
training and a more productive workforce

$1.7 million for Department of Labor’s Adult State Grants

$4 million for Department of Labor’s Youth State Grants

$1.6 million for Vocational Rehabilitation to help individuals with disabilities
prepare for and sustain gainful employment

$28.6 million through the State Energy Program

$18.5 million through the Weatherization Assistance Program

$153,090 for National School Lunch Program Equipment Assistance

$236,572 through the Emergency Food Assistance Program

$44.8 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits
(formerly Food Stamps)

$254,764 for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program, which provides grants to
nonprofit and faith-based organizations at the local level to supplement their programs
for emergency food and shelter to provide for the immediate needs of the homeless

$4 million in Child Care and Development Block Grants to provide quality child
care services for in low-income families who increasingly are unable to afford the high
cost of day care

$1.3 million for Head Start to allow additional children to participate in this program,
which provides development, educational, health, nutritional, social and other activities
that prepare children to succeed in school

$3.7 million in Community Services Block Grants to local community action
agencies for services to the growing numbers of low-income families hurt by the
economic crisis, such as housing and mortgage counseling, jobs skills training, food
pantry assistance, as well as benefits outreach and enrollment

$500,000 for Senior Meals Programs to help senior meals programs cope with
steep increases in food and fuel costs. Many programs are reducing meal deliveries to
seniors or closing meal sites

$9.6 million in Byrne/JAG grants to support law enforcement efforts

$ 223,984for crime victims compensation and assistance

$484,330 in Internet Crimes Against Children Grants to help law enforcement
agencies enhance their investigative response to offenders who use the Internet, online
communication systems, or other computer technology to sexually exploit children

$870,590 in Violence Against Women Grants for victim services programs to
improve the criminal justice system’s response to violent crimes against women and to
assist victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking who are
in need of transitional housing, short-term housing assistance, and related support
services

FactCheck: Praised Bush $700B bailout; opposed Obama's $787B. (Nov 2009)

...Since its inception the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has provided important financing to small, rural communities in South Dakota and across the nation through USDA Rural Development programs totaling $75.8 million. Without USDA Rural Development's assistance, these small, rural communities would not be able to afford this infrastructure....(click title to entry - thank you)

Her husband is a fisherman.  Fishermen are small businesses.  Yet, there is no support for small business anywhere in the T.A.R.P. funds, but, there are provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Does this make sense? 

Mrs. Palin doesn't seem to 'get it.'  There are many things Mrs. Palin doesn't seem to 'get.' 

So, Sarah is all about Wall Street.  

In being a rhetorical Right Wing Republican she throws any and all responsibility to a huge entity that is too big to fail, hence, dooming the American people to nothing short of plutocracy.  She believes the USA Treasury is suppose to exist to support wars and Wall Street.

Every place one looks to understand why the Republicans insist on 'rhetoric' rather than policy it equates to 'dummying down' the electorate to be able to control the outcomes.  There is no other reason.  In that understanding, lies the 'esteem' to which the Republicans value the electorate.  The USA electorate to any Republican is nothing ore than chattel to the plutocracy.

The Prawn Broker Restaurant Group

http://www.prawnbroker.com/

...The Washington, D.C.-based conservation group Oceana has said officials need to determine what is killing the turtles quickly. Some experts have speculated they may have eaten fish contaminated by the oil spill.

"It's a good question," BP spokesman Steve Rinehart said. "Is the oil killing these turtles or not?"...

 http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/shrimpers_being_investigated_i.html

Who's side is Palin on anyway?  The side of the people that treat her like a Super Star or the companies that practice their businesses with abandon at the cost of the citizens of this country?

Opposes embryonic stem cell research. (Aug 2008)

...Parents who carry the gene, or who have family histories of the disease, can use PGD (preimplantation genetic diagnosis) to avoid having an affected child. A separate analysis identifies a group of different diseases caused by the wrong chromosome number, such as Down's syndrome, or abnormalities that lead to miscarriage. PGD has emerged as a tool for parents whose only other option would be to test abnormalities during fetal development. In most cases, PGD enables the family to avoid the difficult decision of whether or not to end a late stage pregnancy....

http://www.pgdcenter.com/

Why would any rational woman ever attempt to disrupt science that would enhance opportunities for parenting and the best of child outcomes?

Someone want to explain that?  Probably not.  The Right Wing will state, "I oppose stem cell research," but, in the same breath advocate Pro Life on any terms.

These messages are compartmentalized to carry a political rhetoric with potential to actually do harm to children.  

Mr. and Mrs. Palin understand what it is to raise a child with Down's Syndrome.  I do not criticize them for giving birth to a child with a disorder.  BUT, why do these people 'of means' actually advocate the end of the one branch of science that can make Down's Syndrome obsolete.

Today in the year 2010, any couple can afford genetic counseling at some level to detect any potential for birth defects or an unsuccessful pregnancy.  Does the American family have to continue to live in the Medieval Ages when women were chattel and children 'an unpredictable arrival?'  Do we?  Either we recognize this antiquated political agenda for what it is, or we doom our children to the unkindness of political rhetoric.

 

Where do these Right Wing ideas come from in regard to 'acceptable moral social content' regarding aggression and violence?

While mayor, Wasilla charged rape victims for rape kits. (Sep 2008) 

A rape kit is a tool of law enforcement.  It is absolutely necessary for the conviction of a rapist.  To demand a woman, THE VICTIM, to be responsible for the cost of a Rape Kit is detrimental to the woman, the police, the prosecutor and THE LAW.  

I mean, why not just let the rapist walk, okay?  A rape kit is NOT a medical treatment and quite frankly even if it was, the 'Victim Witness Law' of most states would cover it and the therapy for recovery after the crime was committed. 

Moral Turpitude is the basis of Ethic Standards

A phrase used in criminal law to describe conduct that is considered contrary to community standards of justice, honesty, or good morals.

Crimes involving moral turpitude have an inherent quality of baseness, vileness, or depravity with respect to a person's duty to another or to society in general. Examples include rape, forgery, robbery, and solicitation by prostitutes.

Many jurisdictions impose penalties, such as deportation of aliens and disbarment of attorneys, following convictions of crimes involving moral turpitude.

It's Saturday Night

"Under my Thumb" by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

Under my thumb
The girl who once had me down
Under my thumb
The girl who once pushed me around

 

It's down to me
The difference in the clothes she wears
Down to me, the change has come,
She's under my thumb

 

Ain't it the truth babe?

 

Under my thumb
The squirmin' dog who's just had her day
Under my thumb
A girl who has just changed her ways

 

It's down to me, yes it is
The way she does just what she's told
Down to me, the change has come
She's under my thumb
Ah, ah, say it's alright

 

Under my thumb
A siamese cat of a girl
Under my thumb
She's the sweetest, hmmm, pet in the world

 

It's down to me
The way she talks when she's spoken to
Down to me, the change has come,
She's under my thumb
Ah, take it easy babe
Yeah

 

It's down to me, oh yeah
The way she talks when she's spoken to
Down to me, the change has come,
She's under my thumb
Yeah, it feels alright

 

Under my thumb
Her eyes are just kept to herself
Under my thumb, well I
I can still look at someone else

 

It's down to me, oh that's what I said
The way she talks when she's spoken to
Down to me, the change has come,
She's under my thumb
Say, it's alright.

 

Say it's all...
Say it's all...

 

Take it easy babe
Take it easy babe
Feels alright
Take it, take it easy babe.

Report: Mud safety barrier was removed before well was plugged

Tuesday, April 11

10 a.m.: Hearing on the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig accident, at the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. 

 

2:30 p.m.: BP PLC /quotes/comstock/13*!bp/quotes/nls/bp (BP 49.06, -1.27, -2.53%) /quotes/comstock/13*!rig/quotes/nls/rig (RIG 68.01, -1.69, -2.42%) America Chairman and President Lamar McKay, Transocean Ltd. President and Chief Executive Steven Newman and others testify on the Gulf oil spill's environmental impacts, at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. 

 

Wednesday, April 12 

10 a.m.: Hearing on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, at the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. 

May 07, 2010  (click title to entry - thank you)

...In order to properly cap a well, drillers rely on three lines of defense to protect themselves from an explosive blowout: a column of heavy mud in the well itself and in the drilling riser that runs up to the rig; at least two cement plugs that fit in the well with a column of mud between them; and a blowout preventer that is supposed to seal the well if the mud and plugs all fail.
In the case of the Deepwater Horizon, Scott Bickford, a lawyer for a rig worker who survived the explosions, said the mud was being extracted from the riser before the top cement cap was in place, and a statement by cementing contractor Halliburton confirmed the top cap was not installed.
If all of the mud had still been present, it would have helped push back against the gas burping up toward the rig, though it might not have held it back indefinitely....

This is only part of the picture.  There is a lot more wrong than that. 

The way we think about our natural resources has to change.  The fisheries have to come first.  Without a food supply the nation is in ruins.  That priority has to take precedent over any Wall Street idea of fun.


Norway has a strong cultural fishing influence for its people's existence.  While the waters off Norway, and realizing they still value whaling, are very different than any of the characteristics of the Gulf of Mexico, it has a way of thinking about its natural resources that sets priorities to put fisheries first.

We are not Norway, but, we are a people that need protection from exploitation of our natural world and natural resources.

The precautionary principle (section 9)

 

In other words, if there aren't guarantees to the citizens of the USA to insure their livelihoods, then there is no green light to the Petroleum Industry ! 

 

Basically, NOT  ONE  MORE  OIL  CONTAMINATION of the USA fisheries and shorelines.  

 

NOT ONE.  

 

Leases get pulled and NEVER reinstated to any company or any 'relative/subsidiary/reorganization' of any company. 

 

When a decision is made in the absence of adequate information on the impacts it may have on the natural environment, the aim shall be to avoid possible significant damage to biological, geological or landscape diversity. If there is a risk of serious or irreversible damage to such diversity, lack of knowledge shall not be used as a reason for postponing or not introducing management measures.

We now know that 'lack of knowledge' is a huge issue and one of national security !  Lack of knowledge is substandard to any policy !

The principle that cumulative environmental effects must be assessed (section 10)

 

Any pressure on an ecosystem shall be assessed on the basis of the cumulative environmental effects on the ecosystem now or in the future.

 http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/md/documents-and-publications/government-propositions-and-reports-/Reports-to-the-Storting-white-papers-2/2008-2009/report-no-37-2008-2009-to-the-storting/7.html?id=577947

DO NOT remove the tether from the BP Concrete Oil Containment Structure.

There is entire process that has to take place to 'realign' successful access to that drill site in order to permanently secure this mess if this is to go forward under a lease from the USA.

The concrete structure is currently covered in oil and sea water and sediment and has to withstand huge psi.  It would not take much even in the way of 'wave dynamics' to upset the structure and it will become unrecoverable.

A permanent tether to maintain its underwater stability will have to remain in order to secure it at all.  A special ship will have to remain permanently in place in order to have the structure survive any process of storms and hurricanes.

A positioning system, supported by 12 powerful thrusters, uses computers to maintain the ship over a specific location while drilling in water depths up to 8,200 meters (5 miles). The ship can suspend as much as 9,150 meters of pipe to obtain core samples. The 400-ton heave compensator keeps the drill string stable relative to the ocean floor.

JOIDES Resolution Tour: JOIDES Resolution  (click title to entry - thank you)

 

http://www-odp.tamu.edu/public/onboardJOIDES.html

The Joides Resolution is a special ship with powerful positioning engines that will maintain a GPS locatiion to support a 'sediment' drilling operation for taking core samples.  This type of positioning capacity will maintain a tether without disrupting its stability.

These ships have incredible capacity for stability in any hurricane.  I doubt it would survive a Cat 4, but, Oceanography experts at the University of Rhode Island would have all the information the USA Navy and Coast Guard would need.

I would advocate the USA Navy be in contact with the Oceanography Department at the University of Rhode Island.and ask for their guidance in regard to this project.  They are among the best in the world.

If this structure works it cannot be 'at risk' for disruption for any reason.  Thank you.

Obama oil response: aggressive as crisis unfolded

By H. JOSEF HEBERT AND ERICA WERNER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS

WASHINGTON -- It was a two-day trip to the Midwest to talk about jobs and clean energy. President Barack Obama didn't mention the drama unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, where oil was gushing from a broken well pipe a mile beneath the sea.

The situation hadn't become a priority. Soon it would.

On the return to Washington aboard Air Force One, Obama learned the spill had become more worrisome. A third break was discovered at the destroyed well pipe on the ocean floor 40 miles from Louisiana's precious coastal marshes. Federal scientists believed at least 5,000 barrels of oil a day were being released - five times more than original estimates....

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1151ap_us_gulf_oil_spill_obamas_response.html

Joking !  Right?  

You mean the discovery of methane went along with the rupture into Earth to find 'the gusher.'  

This was new?  

No.  

This is what 'goes on' with the Petroleum Industry and why the bozos have no control of the BEST outcome for fisheries.

"Gee whiz, boss, we hit a methane bubble."  As if they weren't cheering because they did.

The question is not that they hit a methane bubble, it is WHY they cannot control the outcome of such an event that cost lives, livelihoods and an entire economy of the Gulf Coast of the USA.  THAT is the question.  This 'report' is nothing.  It simply states the obvious and does not seek to answer the real issue as to why this industry lacks insight into its own faults.

This cannot be allowed to continue!

Deepwater Horizon blast triggered by methane bubble, report shows

Investigation reveals accident on Gulf of Mexico rig was caused when gas escaped from oil well before exploding

guardian.co.uk, Saturday 8 May 2010 13.36 BST  

David Batty and agencies 

...A report into last month's blast said the gas escaped from the oil well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding.

The sequence of events, described in the interviews with rig workers, provides the most detailed account of the blast that killed 11 workers and led to more than 3 million gallons of crude oil pouring into the Gulf.

Segments of the interviews conducted during BP's internal investigation were described in detail to the Associated Press by Robert Bea, a University of California Berkeley engineering professor who serves on a National Academy of Engineering panel on oil pipeline safety. He also worked for BP as a risk assessment consultant during the 1990s. He received the details from industry friends seeking his expert opinion....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/08/deepwater-horizon-blast-methane-bubble


...Injured workers and families of the 11 individuals missing and presumed dead after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and then sank have filed personal injury or wrongful death suits. Shrimpers, charter fishing boats and others who engage in business along the Gulf Coast have filed individual suits or class actions in which they allege damages to their livelihoods... 

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202457882495&Gulf_Coast_Oil_Rig_Disaster_Sets_Off_Gusher_of_Work_for_Attorneys