Oily words can't hide the sticky truth~Jarvis DeBerry
~"It is what it is" is one of the most vacuous phrases going, but those who use it sound profound compared to folks who try to make what is what it ain't. For the last five years the people of New Orleans and South Louisiana have had a pretty good idea of what it is. It was faulty engineering during Hurricane Katrina. It's been the destruction of our coast and the idling of our fishermen after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig.
~BP Cheif Doug "The Bug" UnSuttles still carney-barks: "It's not the Flow Rate! Don't look at the oil! Watch Us! See the Ponies and Balloons!"
~Description of BPPR's stated tactic: "Ponies and Balloons"


Ponies and Balloons! by Horatio Algeranon
~Ponies and Balloons!
"The flow doesn't matter"
Ponies and balloons!
"Just idle chatter"
~Ponies and Balloons!
"We're pretty certain"
Ponies and balloons!
"The top kill's workin"
~Ponies and Balloons!
"We're collecting the bulk"
Ponies and balloons!
"So don't you sulk"
~Ponies and balloons!
"It's all over-stated"
Ponies and balloons! "Mis-overestimated"
~Ponies and balloons! "Mum's the word"
Ponies and balloons! "About the oilican bird"
~Ponies and balloons! "There are no plumes"
Ponies and balloons! "Or toxic fumes"
~Ponies and balloons! "We've got y'all covered"
Ponies and balloons! "As you mighta discovered"
~Ponies and balloons! "No press blackout"
Phonies and buffoons! "Without a doubt"

PROFILES IN COURAGE: Forget Sarah Palin. Run The Gulf's Kindra Arnesen for President!
~Mac McKinney
~Editilla Crowtellas~Screw running this woman as President though, I'd much rather have chere in charge of the Office Of Oil Industry Intelligence (OOOII)! You'tink I'm kidding?

Oil pushes ashore from Panhandle to Mississippi
~A quarter mile of Florida’s Pensacola Beach was closed yesterday, as crude from the BP Oil washed ashore.

Aerial Photos Document Oil Spill's Impact on Marshlands
~kerrymaloney Calling all Gulf Coast Photogs http://bit.ly/bTb5CI One week to enter

During oil spill, scientists get their 15 minutes of fame
~Since the April 20 oil rig explosion and subsequent well leak, reporters have turned to academics who hold advanced degrees in fields most people can't even comprehend to explain the situation. They face several challenges in trying to help the nonscientific community understand the spill and its consequences. "Most of us aren't the most extroverted people in the world," said Susan Ustin, a professor of environmental and resource science at University of California, Davis. "We're not used to being in the center of attention, and most of us have a fear of putting our foot in our mouth."
~But...What Would Ivor Say? WWIS??
~"The damage from the oil coming ashore is overstated", "The oil has impacted only tens of miles" ~Ivor van Heerden, NPR, June 5th, 2010. (4min 36sec fame:)
~Editilla just gotta axe~
"Tens of Miles"? How about 26,053 square miles of the Gulf?

BPirates get help from former Clinton disaster expert
~Po'Bo Dudley DooWrong, BP's new PEO (Punk Exec Off) for their oil crime public relations, says he asked James Witt to go to New Orleans to review what the company is doing and how it can improve its response to its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
~Po'Bo Dudley DooWrong,
New head BP PEO of Gulf spill cleanup (and Michael Brownie Brown Look'A'Like) says he's concerned Americans are rushing to judgment! Waaaaa!

Missing in Oil Spill Crisis: Info on Endagered Species, Worker Safety Regs~GHN

Giving them the Feldman Part 1
~Slabbed explores a few earlier cases involving the little guy versus big business in Louisiana’s Eastern District Federal Courts as we tie in litigation against Big Oil to the post Katrina litigation against Big Insurance.
~They're on a roll at slabbed~Anita Lee

Jindal needs to engage in more than a war of words
~Mark Moseley~The Lens

There's magic in the air
~American Zombie
~I was on Bourbon Street last night, and I swear to Papa Legba, it was raining beer, whiskey and strange, multi-colored, plastic orbs fastened to strings! I looked up to the heavens and saw a vision of Mother Mary's bosom in the sky, as if she was symbolically nurturing every one below.

~Jalapnik.com mentions, however that "The effects of seawater emulsification and the introduction of BP's dispersant of choice, Corexit 9500, may be allowing some degree of evaporation into the water cycle."
~BP’s oil spill-fighting dispersant of choice is Corexit 9500. It has been banned in Europe for good reason. Corexit 9500 is one of the most environmentally enduring, toxic chemical dispersants ever created to battle an oil spill. Add to that the millions of gallons of oil that have been burned, releasing even more toxins into the atmosphere, and you have a recipe for something much worse than acid rain.
~Remember how Katrina ripped all the way to Ohio.
And of course there was Rita (at right) and Gustav.
All had similar land tracks.

~SkyTruth Check out SkyTruth map of Gulf oil infrastructure on the Rachel Maddow show yesterday - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#37913267

Caribbean system likely to become a tropical depression in next 2 days
93L near tropical depression strength~Wunderblog

State unhappy with SBA loans
~Gary Perilloux

Get help sifting through ideas for BP oil spill cleanup
~Shreveport Times

“Ninth Ward,” the New Orleans- style bar in New York City
~Kevin Allman, Gambit