Jerry Moran and Georgianne Nienaber are in trouble, because they took pictures that BP wouldn’t like. What particularly irks me is that they are in trouble with the US Government, the Coast Guard specifically, and are facing felony charges for photographing scenes like a doomed dolphin swimming in oil (Moran) or a pelican wading in crude (Nienaber).
This stinks to high heaven, but you don’t have to tell poor Flipper here that.
Hiya, Moose!
Welcome to SUMMER!
Thought we could use a new open thread, a couple of articles on BP, and a bit of randomness. Soooooo… I’m sending mail, so give me some action, mooses!
It’s not anybody’s fault! These things just happen! Government certainly shouldn’t dictate what companies do, anyway, the market will determine whether or not oil spills are important.
The Great Rand Paul, liberator.
Jack the silence barrier, bring the noise.
Well (no pun intended), BP managed to shove something up their greasy hole today (pun very specifically intended). This is something many have suggested that they should do since the burning and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon on April 20. The leak has not stopped, but at the moment some oil is being collected by a ship located above the site of the wreckage. There is no word that this effort will contain all of the leak until new wells are drilled this summer, but something is better than nothing.
The official line is that the leak had been running at 5,000 barrels (200,000 gallons) per day, though estimates by outside sources put it at up to 70,000 barrels (2,800,000 gallons) per day. To date, therefore, the accident has released between 5,200,000 gallons (half of the Exxon Valdez spill) to 72,800,000 million gallons (seven times the Exxon Valdez) into the Gulf of Mexico.
Well, the Tin Man’s Hat didn’t work, so BP is onto – as Rick Sanchez puts it – somewhere between Plan B and Plan G.
Politics has gone dormant – as attested by the slow pace of political blogs these days – and as one of those paying less attention I find myself unsubscribing from many of the political mailing lists I had been on for the past year or two (I particularly don’t care what Michael Steele and the Party Formerly Known as Republicans have to say).
What about you all? Life more interesting than politics? Got any good surfing stories to tell?
Consider this a particularly slippery open thread.