chicken... no head

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The Almighty
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/13/AR2010061304232.html?hpid=topnews

'Like a chicken with its head cut off'.... to me, this exemplifies the feeling I get with regards to the lack of leadership on the Horizon catastrophe.

Four weeks after the nation's worst environmental disaster, the Obama administration saw no need to accept offers of state-of-the-art skimmers, miles of boom or technical assistance from nations around the globe with experience fighting oil spills.
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Never should have taken four weeks.... never.

On May 5, Crowley announced that 13 international offers had been received and that decisions on what to accept would be made "in the next day or two." Two weeks later, the State Department said the government saw no reason to accept any of the offers.
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Wow.... so three + weeks into the disaster... and our State Department still had no clue what to do. Who runs State again?

In some cases, the administration rejected offers because they failed to meet U.S. specifications: The private consortium that serves as Norway's spill-response team uses a chemical dispersant that the Environmental Protection Agency has not approved.
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well by all means... lets wait until the EPA can review what other countries have found to work on oil spills... solid idea...

A plan by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) to create sand berms to keep oil from reaching the coastline originally came from the marine contractor Van Oord and the research institute Deltares, both in the Netherlands. BP pledged $360 million for the plan, but U.S. dredging companies -- which have less than one-fifth of the capacity of Dutch dredging firms -- have objected to foreign companies' participation.
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Oh well... if the American companies who don't have the capacity 'object' to foreign companies assisting in protecting the coast... well then....

Garret Graves, who chairs Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, wrote in an e-mail that state officials "have made it clear to our contractors from the beginning that we want to use American dredges to complete this sand berm as quickly as possible . . . Ultimately, any effort to expedite these berms will be fully considered, but we remain committed to our American companies."
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Perfect sense.... lets play politics with regards to 'only American jobs' by delaying the completion of something that can save so many MORE American jobs.
 
This does seem egregious, but it must have been all of those people saying it was just like seepage for the first month or so...
 
Onceler said:
What's the scoop on that...didn't they already agree?
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NO news yet, they have verbally agreed but that's easily avoided. Obama wants the caaaaash in hand.

I could be wrong but 75M vs 2B sounds like a win for the cajuns if your asking someone at ground zero.
 
Topspin said:
NO news yet, they have verbally agreed but that's easily avoided. Obama wants the caaaaash in hand.

I could be wrong but 75M vs 2B sounds like a win for the cajuns if your asking someone at ground zero.
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2B ain't going to amount to much more than a pee hole in the snow when this disaster is over and done.

BP needs to put up 10-20Billion.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
2B ain't going to amount to much more than a pee hole in the snow when this disaster is over and done.

BP needs to put up 10-20Billion.
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LOLZ's I would love me so 10+B for Louisiana, BP would have be a retarded tea bagger caught ass fucking Jesus on tv to give that much.

Remember, they are only required by law to spend $75M.
 
Topspin said:
LOLZ's I would love me so 10+B for Louisiana, BP would have be a retarded tea bagger caught ass fucking Jesus on tv to give that much.

Remember, they are only required by law to spend $75M.
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You've got ENITER COMMUNITIES destroyed by the negligence of BP.

2 Billion is going to do what? How many tens of thousands of people have had their lives and their community destroyed? Divide that up between everyone effected and all anyone's going to wind up with is a check for $500.00. Yeah, that's going to make it right for everyone whose life has been destroyed by BP.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
You've got ENITER COMMUNITIES destroyed by the negligence of BP.

2 Billion is going to do what? How many tens of thousands of people have had their lives and their community destroyed? Divide that up between everyone effected and all anyone's going to wind up with is a check for $500.00. Yeah, that's going to make it right for everyone whose life has been destroyed by BP.
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did you miss the part where I say they are only required by LAW to pay 75M.
 
Onceler said:
This does seem egregious, but it must have been all of those people saying it was just like seepage for the first month or so...
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Which again is a gross misrepresentation of the seepage discussion. I brought the seepage issue up as a positive reason for off shore drilling. I did not bring it up as a 'this is as bad as the spill' argument. In fact, I clearly stated that the amounts of the natural seeps was equivalent, but spread out over the course of a year rather than in a few weeks.... which is why the spill was worse.

It was a response to the knee jerk reaction by some that we should stop off shore drilling because it 'wasn't worth it'.
 
Onceler said:
Where did I admit that, Yurtsie?

Can you link up?
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by not offering any names or links to "those people" who made the claim

you're making shit up as usual...we all know you're talking about SF's seepage talk, however, we all know that SF never said what you claim and you tried to dishonestly indicate that i also said that, as i know more than anyone....

like i said, i'm glad you admit your lie
 
I kept hearing 48 to 50 million on claims last week. I haven't heard one yet saying over 75M. Not saying they won't, but they have billions of reasons to skip out on the tab.
 
Yurt said:
by not offering any names or links to "those people" who made the claim

you're making shit up as usual...we all know you're talking about SF's seepage talk, however, we all know that SF never said what you claim and you tried to dishonestly indicate that i also said that, as i know more than anyone....

like i said, i'm glad you admit your lie
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Oh...okay. By your own logic, then, thanks for admitting that I never admitted that.

Nice goin', Yurtsie!

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