Next step could increase oil gush
2nd RELIEF WELL SUSPENDED
---BP Executives Still At Large
~The Advocate~ BP’s latest plan to capture oil from a massive leak in the Gulf of Mexico could result in a temporary increase of up to 20 percent in the oil flow until the containment dome is in place, government scientists said Monday.
Also Monday, U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., gave Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive officer, until Friday to provide proof that there are no underwater oil plumes. Hayward has denied the existence of the plumes while scientists say they’ve found them in the Gulf. In another development, BP admitted that drilling on the second relief well was still suspended even though reports on the Deepwater Horizon’s federal response website say it’s continuing.
~Editilla Press'A'rillas~STOP THE PRESSES!
What!?! Stop saying BP is drilling this Relief Well and it will be done by August --THAT "STILL" AIN'T HAPPENING! BP has been apparently lying about that too. Stop helping BP sell this as something for which to look forward. It Isn't Happening and it Will Not Happen during Tropical Storms over 45 mph. Get Real Main Stream Media. We aren't going to play nice this time with you selling us out again by Paying Forward the Corporate NPR.

Gov. Bobby Jindal to attend barrier island berm meeting

Fishermen: “THE LOUISIANA OIL SPILL – IT’S A WAR”
~West Jefferson Medical Center set up a 12-cot first-aid tent Saturday on Grand Isle for spill cleanup workers.

US Military BOWS DOWN LOW ...Before Queen BP Oil Spill

Hurricane Season Officially ON
NHC Tropical Weather Outlook
~Oil Painting: Gyre~Photograph by Michael DeMocker

If there is one news story that sums up the post Katrina experience… ~slabbed

LA Attorney General seeks cash, power to hire outside lawyers in fight against Gulf oil spill
~Bill Barrow~"You've got to hire experts now," he said in an interview last week, explaining that evidence of damage changes every day. "You want your people on the ground now. ... And BP is already out there trying to hire some of the same experts. (And) you've got to get the best lawyers. They're going to have lawyers that charge $1,000 an hour. I want something close to a level playing field."

Gulf disaster not slowing oil companies to offshore drilling
Chris Kromm, Facing South

The Niger Delta's Half A Century Of Oil Catastrophes ~Foxessa

We are the world we are the Gulf
~Green Heritage News
~A darker possibly oil covered pelican takes off near the South Pass of the Mississippi River by the Gulf of Mexico Monday.
Matthew Hinton, The Times-Picayune

The Oil Spill is Not Like Katrina
~Alyssa Battistoni

Superfund: Contracting Opps in the BP Oil Spill

Why Obama Should Put BP Under Temporary Receivership
~Robert Reich

US expands Gulf fishing ban; states brace for oil
~Federal Fisheries Closures Today

BP Chief MFKR wants life back! Poor wittle baby Tony Coward cries Alligator Tears to News Media ~Dirty Coast
~“We’re sorry for the massive "disruption" it’s caused their lives. There’s no one who wants this over more than I do. I would like my life back.”
~Editilla Scrowtellas~Be careful what you ask for, Tony.
Somebody arrest this motherfucker, put us out of our misery.
~Special Thanks Youz~Horatio Algeranon

Bitch Please Whine Flu Spreads!
Mike Mullens, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says the US Military isn't up to facing down this oil spill either!

Fisherman files restraining order against BP~A fisherman who was hospitalized after becoming ill while cleaning up oil in the Gulf of Mexico has filed a temporary restraining order in federal court against oil company BP. John Wutsell Jr., is asking BP to give the workers masks and not harass workers who publicly voice their health concerns.
The restraining order requests that BP refrain from "altering, testing or destroying clothing or any other evidence or potential evidence" when workers become ill.

Expose’ – Following the Corexit Money Trail~Bayou Child

BP's new method to reduce oil could temporarily increase it 20 percent~Green Heritage News

Top kill's failure means BP Oil Spill will only get worse
~"It's all lose, lose, lose here," said Rick Steiner, a retired University of Alaska marine scientist who's familiar with both the current Gulf oil spill and the Exxon Valdez disaster two decades ago. "The failure of the top kill really magnified this disaster exponentially," he said. "I think there's a realistic probability that this enormous amount of oil will keep coming out for a couple months. This disaster just got enormously worse."
~BPGlobalPR Free $25 t-shirts for @healthygulf here: www.streetgiant.bigcartel.com - shirts start shipping this week... or at least by August.

And while Phil waxes nonsensical let’s not forget to record the musings of MS’s Teletubby in charge ~slabbed
~Folks, you are not misreading the quote dutifully chronicaled by the Sun Herlad’s Karen Nelson, Haley said he trusts the Army Corps of Engineers! Gov. Haley Barbour and DMR Director Bill Walker said Thursday they trust the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers not to allow Louisiana to build any berm or sand barriers east of the mouth of Mississippi River that would cause oil to flow into Mississippi waters. Good thing you trust them Haley because no one down here does.

NOLAFemmes Guest Postess Sandy Rosenthal: Thoughts on the BP Protest
~Special Thanks Youz fo'da Photo!~dlightful

~Big Editilla T'n'Ts to our padnas at Levees Not War


LA Times Grossly Understates NOLA Protest Numbers
~Editilla Notellas~We tried tollin'em.
Sandy Rosenthal tried tollin'em. But the LA Times has Gone Fraidy'Cat and hasn't posted our comments? Y'all Toll'em Too!
So far today they haven't posted Any comments! Yikes! Meeses!
~Allen Johnson/AFP gets closer to da'flow @ 500.
Gambit said 1000. I've heard mostly 500-700. It matters.
That was a Big Crowd! Way more than just a couple hundred.

Demonstrations happening in more than 50 cities June 3 - 5

We've got disaster fatigue, doggone it: A monologue by Manuel Torres
~Struck by two man-made catastrophes in five years -- the failure of federal levees in Katrina and the BP oil spill -- South Louisiana residents have had it.

Hurricane Season Raises New Fears

Tropical Storm Agatha one of the top ten deadliest Eastern Pacific storms on record
~Jeff Masters, Wunderblog

Are we There yet?

Fisherman files restraining order against BP~A fisherman who was hospitalized after becoming ill while cleaning up oil in the Gulf of Mexico has filed a temporary restraining order in federal court against oil company BP.
John Wutsell Jr., is asking BP to give the workers masks and not harass workers who publicly voice their health concerns.
The restraining order requests that BP refrain from "altering, testing or destroying clothing or any other evidence or potential evidence" when workers become ill.

Expose’ – Following the Corexit Money Trail~Bayou Child

Top kill's failure means BP Oil Spill will only get worse
~"It's all lose, lose, lose here," said Rick Steiner, a retired University of Alaska marine scientist who's familiar with both the current Gulf oil spill and the Exxon Valdez disaster two decades ago.
"The failure of the top kill really magnified this disaster exponentially," he said. "I think there's a realistic probability that this enormous amount of oil will keep coming out for a couple months. This disaster just got enormously worse."

NOLAFemmes Guest Postess Sandy Rosenthal: Thoughts on the BP Protest

Dimanche

BP-Bitch Please! New Orleans Protest Rocks Out! We demand the Federal Governement intervene immediately to stop the BP Oil Flood and...700-1000 Show up in the Rain!
PROTEST 1 pm, Sunday May 30, Jackson Square, NOLA
Going to the Protest? Send us your pics IN THE COMMENTS SECTION and we will post them. Or post them all over Twitter and we can snag'em there too.
For example Spike Lee! Thanks youz, cajunboy
~And Hey Youz Gambit! Niiice Crowd!!!

~We Wit'You WDSU!
~Yeah Sophmom!
Here's our NOLAFemmes!
And we seeeeee fofalex!
And Levees.org... Show us yer'War Face!
~Geaux Mags! All Ova da'Goddamn Place!
~Phyllis Montana Leblanc (above)

BPGlobalPR Can't believe we aren't making any $$$ from these "bp cares" shirts. Giving it to @healthygulf UGH! www.streetgiant.bigcartel.com
We see youz Time-Picayunz!
NOLAFemmes List of upcoming #BP #Oilspill Protests Across America: http://tiny.cc/ec3qt #deepwaterhorizon #nola #gulfcoast #oildisaster
Let'em Know What It Means!!!
raynola Do like Dr. John says, everybody send a textile message to your elected officials about this confused mentalism in the Gulf

The Worst Case Scenario
~Humid Beings

St. Bernard looking for boats for skimming operation~Hat Tweet~kareng

Flow rate from pipe could increase after BP's next maneuver~Dennis Persica
~BP unsure how much oil AIN'T in reservoir beneath Gulf spill
~BP Gets Deadly with the Oil Spill Spin Bull Shit: CEO disputes claims of underwater oil plumes in Gulf, says they simply aren't there we aren't kidding!~Cartoon H/T~Climate Progress
~Scientists clash seriously with BP Exec Tony Coward (who is not a scientist at all but a Lying BP Corporate Puke) over undersea oil plumes.
~PETER D. SUTHERLAND is Chair of BP p.l.c. and Goldman Sachs International. He was Director General of the GATT from 1993 to 1995 and Founding Director of the WTO ~Hat Tweet~ John McQuaid

C-SPAN's Washington Journal and Gulf Restoration Network

The National Review and Mother Jones both get Hurricane Katrina wrong~John McQuaid
~Our New Big Herollero on'da Ladder!
~I realize levees are a lot less attention-grabbing than “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job” – or the exotic mechanics of top kills and junk shots, for that matter. But this is an important issue, a significant failure of American knowhow and accountability that has never really been addressed by the government.
That oversight will almost certainly lead to more disasters.
It’s essential context for understanding Katrina, emergency management, and government dysfunction in general.
Don’t leave it out, blogosphere.

Oil spill: Obama's Category 5 disaster~Virginia Pilot
The editorial makes valid points regarding responding to disasters. However, there is no evidence that "the Bush administration - and presidents before him - ignored warnings about the inadequacy of the levees protecting New Orleans."

The wholesale collapse of the federal levee system protecting New Orleans was a surprise to everyone in the city and the nation. While it's true that Ivor van Heerden Deputy Director of LSU Hurricane Center predicted severe flooding due to overtopping, no one foresaw the breaching and failure of the levee system in 53 locations.

William Kohlman, an insurance executive in New Orleans told his clients from 1985 - 2005 that they should buy flood insurance. "But never in my wildest dreams" said Mr. Kohlman, "did I think the entire flood system could break and fail."

This distinction is important because to say the Bush administration ignored warnings about 'inadequate levees' implies that the citizens of New Orleans were stupid for living there and imbeciles for rebuilding. And such disparagement is exactly what happened in the weeks, months and years after the flood.

For this reason, we ask that the Pilot Online take care in phraseology when discussing the horrific flood of New Orleans in 2005.

Sandy Rosenthal
Founder, Levees.org

Oil spill vessels would scatter if tropical storm approaches
~Sheila Grissett
~Emergency planners are asking and struggling to answer questions that were unthinkable before BP's Deepwater Horizon blowout on April 20. In the face of an oncoming storm, how long would it take to clean everything touched by oil -- booms, boats, skimmers, heavy equipment, everything contaminated -- and then get it trailered and hauled away before it's too late.
~Hurricane season begins Tuesday with $5.8 billion (Corps' Costs Est) of work still in progress.
~Fix the Pumps
~State, BP discuss storm planning
~Tropical Storm Agatha, Pacaya volcano kill 15 in Guatemala; oil spill update ~Wunderblog

Crisis Manager Bobby Jindal is on the job~Stephanie Grace


Sunshine is for everyone but Gov. Bobby Jindal ~James Gill

Moratorium puts Port Fouchon's business in jeopardy
~Katherine Schmidt

'Where can I play today?she asks in midnight oily sands
~Green Heritage News
~Oil Painting: Gyre~Michael DeMocker



Radarsat2, 2010-05-29 11:48:24 UTC, ScanSAR Narrow




Q&A: "Federal" official discusses how oil cleanup happens and who pays

4 things the feds should do instead of protecting newspapers
~Steve Buttry ~Hat Tweet~ John McQuaid

Samedi

BP / Gulf Oil Spill - Moving Toward Florida Straits (??) ~SkyTruth
~MODIS / Aqua satellite image, May 27, 2010

BP's ballyhooed "top kill" process fails, forces officials to attempt yet another strategy
~Mark Schleifstein
~Why is Coast Guard Admiral Mary Landry UNDERSTATING OIL COASTAL IMPACT AREA?
This is the Press Conference Download (Audio only) from today's latest BP Fail Announcement. NOTE: This took a little while to download but I gotta a lot of stuff going on too.
Landy's response to the Why of Managing Public Expectation, makes her sound like the Daughter of Dr. Strangelove. I've never heard such complicated double'think bull shit in my life.
Oh No... this is pretty bad. Mary Landry is Very Bad.
My brain has fallen and I can't get up!
~In sum, the testimony so far shows:

• BP's engineer struggling to address problems in the days leading up to the explosion.
• On the day of the explosion, BP had to be persuaded to do tests that suggest issues with the well's cement.
• BP sent home a crew that could do a definitive test on the cement without performing the assessment.
• BP apparently insisted on using nitrogen-infused cement at a depth the rig hadn't ever used it before, over Transocean's objection.
• BP executives have refused to testify.
• This is all set against the backdrop of BP rushing to finish the well.
• BPGlobalPR -FREE BP SUNDAY! Tomorrow only! Come get 1 free thing! Simply come in, select an item, say "thanks bp" to the cashier and leave! #bpcares
  

Louisiana Justice

Federal environmental officials say more than 700 dead animals have been collected in latest Gulf of Mexico wildlife report

62 oiled birds saved; most dead birds not oily

At Pass a Loutre, oil seeps deep into Louisiana marshlands

Tropical Storm Agatha ~NE @ 6mph

Verti Marte burns!~Gambit

Social Aide and Pleasure Club Task Force Second Line Sunday 3-5pm~Red Cotton, Gambit

Limits on access to oiled waters, coast frustrates journalists
~Ted Jackson, a photographer for The Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans, said Saturday that access to the spill "is slowly being strangled off."

Legislators tap attorney general for spill claims~Bloomberg
~Another piece of legislation that would put Louisiana on record as requesting President Barack Obama to use all available resources -- including military forces and martial law, if needed -- to stop the spill will be heard by the committee.

Ex-EPA Officials: Why Isn't BP Under Criminal Investigation?
~David Leopold Hat tip-Humid Beings

BP Criminals In The Gulf ~emptywheel

Witness says drilling mud loss puzzling

Cocodrie is staging area for fight against oil spill~Naomi King

New Yorkers remain on call to rescue animals from Louisiana oil spill disaster
~A pelican tries to clean its oil-slicked wings in Grand Isle, La.

Can Mushrooms Help Clean Up the Gulf Oil Spill?

I'm with da'Zombie: Call Sidney!

Green N.O. Inaugural Meeting: June 3, 2010 3:00-4:30 pm
~Watershed NOLA

Coast Guard is urged to fast-track Lake Borgne protection projects

Expedited Funds, Authorizations Will Help Reduce Impacts of Nation's Largest Oil Disaster

State scientists find flaws in coastal-barrier plan
~Nikki Buskey

Fresh questions raised about chemicals

NWF: BP underestimates acres of wetlands affected by oil spill

Monkeyfister Updates

Track the Black Tide: Send Your Images of the Oil Spill from the Central Gulf Coast ~EDF
~Heading down to the Gulf Coast some time soon? Make sure to take a camera along with you.

New Orleans resident asks for caution in reporting on oil spill
~Carol Forsloff

Letter: Van Heerden’s treatment appalling

Carville: La. needs justice now
~“I’m not going to let people be abandoned,” he said. “That’s not right and you know they’re going to do it if they get half a chance. That BP, you watch, they’re trying to slip out of this thing. They’re going to try every delay, every shyster thing that you can imagine. We’re going to hold them accountable in the civil law, and we’re going to hold them accountable in the criminal law.”
“You’re watching the largest environmental disaster in the history of the United States right in your home state,” he said. “That’s the reality. That’s the world that’s being left to you.”

Obama and the Great Oil Spill
~Vérité Parlant

BP's oil gusher in the Gulf: Spin terminology explained
~"Blowout Preventer" - BP's public relations person who lies to the press to prevent a P.R. blowout from occurring.
A blowout preventer preventer is any member of the press who asks tough questions.

~Special Thanks~ Gil Man Bayou Child

Vendredi

Obviously our President has a firm grasp of The Obvious
"These are the tar balls that everyone's been talking about,'' he said.
~Editilla~ Mr President,
umruh yea'yuh, they certainly weren't talkin'bout yours, or the obvious lack thereof.
"Obviously, until we can stop the flow (of oil from the well) we've got problems.''
~Editilla~ Get off your Obvious BP Dip Stick Mr President,
our problems are not over if your padres somehow finally manage to stanch this gaping wound. Please Stop Trying To Managing Our Expectations. Our big problems haven't even begun OBVIOUSLY!
"Obviously there's some precious wildlife out there.''
~Editilla~ · · — · / · · — / — · · · / · — / · — ·
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BP bused in 100s of temp workers for Obama visit, state official says~Hat Tweet~ Cajun Boy via Judyb1954

BP’s Murky Management of Information~From Louisiana’s tarred beaches to the silty scenes on the seabed a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico, there have been repeated instances in which BP has tried to limit or delay the flow of information to the public on what is clearly now the biggest oil “spill” in United States history. Every time BP delays releasing information on its oil gusher and slick, the company’s credibility sinks a bit lower.

Jindal to Obama: "Don't Make Excuses for BP"~Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal called Friday's meeting with President Obama, "Good, direct, frank." However, he added the Gulf Coast disaster relief effort is in need of much more than talk now.
"We've had a lot of great talks in the last month, with a lot of different people. Now we need action."

Top Kill suspended again, 2 junk shots failed, mud not staying in well, President puts his hands on his hips in fey pusillanimity

Lost as an Easter Egg
~American Zombie

DEFEND PLAQUEMINES
~Karen Gadbois, The Lens

~Visible satellite image of the Gulf of Mexico taken at 2:55pm EDT Thursday May 27, 2010, by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite. Thin streaks of oil can be seen moving southeast and then southwest around the eastern side of the new Loop Current Eddy. Image credit: NASA.

U.S. to halt 33 exploration rigs in deepwater review

Now the Gulf Spill Companies Are In-Fighting Over Insurance

Drilling ban hits rig, oilfield service stocks
~Shares of companies that lease drilling rigs including Transocean Ltd (RIGN.S)(RIG.N) and oilfield services firms like Halliburton Co (HAL.N) fell on Friday on worries about financial fallout from the U.S. government's 6-month ban on new deepwater drilling permits.

~NOAA Expands Fishing Closed Area in Gulf of Mexico

The BP logo contest
~Kevin Allman, Gambit
~The UK chapter of Greenpeace recently had a contest to redesign BP’s iconic green-sunflower logo to something a bit more … appropriate for the times. Dozens of entries, but here are a few we particularly liked.
Turning anger into satiric art: how New Orleans can you get?

The Gulf's silent environmental crisis

Obama’s Half-Truth on the BP Oil Disaster~Tyson Slocum

Obama's oil spill response:
Too much culpability, too much passivity ~Dana Milbank

Judge rules against Ivor Van Heerden, but the Show Ain't Over till the Fat Jury Sings
~Before issuing his ruling though, Judge Brady described the university's behavior in the situation as "beyond unprofessional."
~DefendIvor.org

How did the pumps get from...
~Fix the Pumps

A Fitting Image~Bayou Child
~Sieze BP Campaign Gaining Momentum

May 27th, 2010~News from
United Commercial Fisherman’s Assn.
Contact: Val P. Exnicios (504) 495-9666 or
George Barisich (504) 439-2013 If you need help reaching these contacts, call C. Brylski (504) 460-1468 or H. Harper (504) 289-0499
Counsel for George Barisich, President of the United Commercial Fisherman’s Association, announced today in open court that an agreement has been made with BP in the attorney’s continuing efforts to add transparency and accountability to the claims process.

On behalf of the group, Attorney Val P. Exnicios presented the agreement, which stated:
1. Claimants with lawyers will not be treated any differently than those without;
2. BP will maintain the confidentiality of all claimants financial information; and
3. BP has agreed to hire more multi-lingual translators to process claims.
The motion for court supervision, or alternatively to appoint a special master or special master over claims will be continued on June 4.

The Court also indicated that BP should cooperate with plaintiff’s counsel in determining whom to appoint as the independent mediator that BP announced yesterday would be overseeing claims-payment process for damages caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Mr. Barisich stated, “I am very pleased that my attorneys have been able to advance this case so rapidly.”
On May 15, Plaintiff George Barisich, President of the United Commercial Fisherman’s Association, Inc., submitted a memorandum to the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, in support of his motion to appoint a special master to provide oversight and implementation guidance for the claims processing program initiated by BP to provide emergency interim compensation for the damages caused by the ongoing oil spill.
These documents are available at: www.gulfoildisasterrecovery.com

Blame it on the porn
~Mark Moseley, The Lens

22-mile oil plume under Gulf nears rich waters

Loop Current Eddy cuts off; oil danger to Keys now greatly reduced ~Wunderblog

Chance to buy an island
~Library Chronicles

~Matt Stamey/The Courier~ A worker places absorbent pads in the marsh grass in Lake Barre near Cocodrie, La. on Thursday, May 27, 2010. Crews worked to wipe the grass of oil to prevent it from spreading farther into the marsh. The grass that's already been in contact with oil will die.

Science be damned; Bobby, Buddy and Billy draw a states’ rights line in the sand! ~LaCoastPost

Billly Nungessser, Louisiana BP Oil Spill Folk Hero ~BBuzz

The tort lawyer and the BP oil disaster~Oil giant will have to deal with Louisiana’s ‘firehouse dog’

Smart Pig: BP's OTHER Spill this Week~Greg Palaste

Can BP do the math? Can BP keep its word?~GRN

Gulf Oil Spill: With so many oil resources, can't we just drill somewhere else?
~Gail the Actuary

BP calls Gulf oil leak 'environmental catastrophe' ...like they give a flip?
~Hat Tweet~John McQuaid
~BPGlobalPR~ Can we just start calling it the oilcean and move on please? #bpcares

~Special Thanks~Humid Beings

Coast Guard harass journalists covering BP's oil spill disaster
~On Tuesday, a photographer with the New Orleans Times-Picayune was prevented from flying over the ocean after the plane company was issued with a temporary flight restriction after BP officials learned a member of the press was on board.
~Newsweek: The media blocked from photographing worst-hit oil sites.

Joint hearings resume for 3rd day in Kenner

Alaskan offers Louisiana advice
~Amy Wold
~The Exxon Valdez spill occurred 21 years ago, but it still feels like yesterday, said Gunnar Knapp, professor of economics at the University of Alaska Anchorage Institute of Social and Economic Research.
One lesson is that the oil spill in Alaska raised a number of opportunities and challenges for scientists, he said.
Soon after the oil spill occurred, decision makers wanted answers to basic science questions that no one had been interested in funding before the spill, Knapp said. That meant some of that basic science still needed to be done.
In addition, there is a lot of money at stake after an oil spill, so the conversations between scientists, that need to be done for good science, don’t happen, he said.
“It’s shocking. You find people attacking you and your research because what you find is inconvenient,” Knapp said.

Jus'soz Ya'knowz....Louisiana Sinn Féin
~Hat Tip~KG

"Blue Window with Peonies"
~Polly Jackson

Jeudi

TOP KILL PROBLEM: BP Delays Operation Due To Too Much Leaking Fluid, Obama Sucks BP ahem Diction! Gimp Fool Throws Away Presidency on BP Word

Top Kill Operation halted as BP Gimp'bucket Traitor Fey Admiral Thad The Impaler Allen spins it as: 'a work in progress'
~Editilla gotta toll'ya~ It is past time to furlough this punk. Put him out to pasture, let him go work for British Petroleum as a punked former person or whatever. He is no longer a Person, he is a BP Spinner Bait. He does NOT have our country's best interest in mind, he is about to take a Job with BP. Don't let this fey coward Sell Louisiana Out to BP! As long as the President has this Bitch Punk on the payroll we cannot believe a word coming out of his office. I don't care what he says, how many trips he makes to Louisiana. Thad Allen needs to die an ignoble death, suck it up and go to hell. Get this forking BP Traitor out of the way.
His word alone has bumped up BP shares 7% according to Marketplace. Bull Shit. He works for BP not US.
Photo above right: Thad Allen acting like he has actual balls exiting the big pellipopter after he has sold this country to BP! How did this punk make it up the ladder to command our former heroes the US Coast Guard? Why is he working for BP?
How much longer will we suffer his punk'ass bull shit for BP?

Pouring muscato by a Monet... Oh SNAP!~Louisiana is DYING and there is nothing more important than this? We remember how Journalists handed us George Bush for 8 years after he stole the election in 2000. We remember how the 4th Estate Bowed Down when they stole the election and began setting up this BP Oil Fail. I don't see what else matters as we lose our Louisiana.
I really can't understand this from Journalists. Get this story or go the fuck home and appease your lost souls!

Top Kill Success Reports by fey
BPPR Cmdr Thad 'all hand' Allen
CONTRADICTED
~Coast Guard Lt. Commander Tony Russell said Thursday reports that fey Admiral Thad BPPR Allen, who is overseeing the operation, had called the procedure a success were incorrect.
He said Allen said that the flow of mud was stopping some of the oil and gas but had a ways to go before it proved successful
~LA TIMES~ Reporting from Houma, La. —Engineers have stopped the flow of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico from a gushing BP well, the federal government's top oil-spill commander, U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said Thursday morning.
~WWL First News~"They've stopped the hydrocarbons from coming up," said National Incident Commander Thad Allen. (Listen too)(Does Thad work for BP yet or what?)

Obama brings in his Daughter to illustrate BP Oil Fail... are we forked or what!

Coast Guard approves building one part of state barrier island plan at BP expense
~Corps approves more, but says state must pay for that part in typical Disaster Capitalists Fashion of Bastard Big Business Gimp Lackey Weirdo Horse Shit.
Editilla Calls a Spade an Edge in our Forehead~
Come one, we face catastrophe and yet the Corps of Engineers sees the perfect opportunity to screw us on several projects, not just this one. Notice how they slam the Flash Ads on Nola.com. Notice how they now proffer Option 1 over Option 2. Where the hell is our New Mayor Mitch'mo? Who can protect us from these friggin'Pirates on Leake Street? Who'z watchin'out for NOLA?

All Ova da'Place: Believe Who???
~American Zombie
~Editilla Crucifixionellas~Success My White Ass!
I don't see where anyone should let up of one goddamn second on this catastophe. These mfkrs need ot GO TO JAIL DO NOT PASS GO DO NOT COLLECT $200,000,000 IN DIVIDENDS!
This is as profound as when they Gassed 6 Milion Jews!
How much culture needs to die before this will rate as a...
GODDAMNED HOLOCAUST????

Elizabeth Birnbaum QUITS Under Pressure: MMS Director Is Pushed Out After Gulf Spill
~Still No Word on Deep Sixing BPPR Fey Admiral Thad 'All Hands On My Deck' Allen

NOAA's forecast: a very active, possibly hyperactive Atlantic hurricane season ~Wunderblog

Defend Ivor Van Heerden:
Call to Action ~Beyond Katrina

Bayou Child...gen'rally speaking
Boudreaux, him, one night he went out to de bar to drink wit’ his frinds. He didn’t come home dat night. An’ not de nex’ night either. Finally, his wife Clotile tole her friend Marie.
“Clotile,” says Marie, ” you need to call de sheriff an’ file a missing person report on Boudreaux.”
So Clotile called the sheriff’s department. They asked for a description.
“Mais,” says Clotile, “he’s 6′2″, muscular, blonde, blue eyes, an’ he treats me like a queen.”
After Clotile hung up de phone, Marie says, “Clotile! why you said dat? You know Boudreaux is a little ol’ fat bald brown-eyed coonass wit’ a bad temper.”
“Yeah,” says Clotile, “but if dey bring me de guy I tole dem about, Boudreaux, him, he can STAY gone.”

Despite oil spill woes, many Louisiana seafood festivals will go on~Molly Reid

Dawg Days~Little Queenie