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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 07:50 PM Original message |
VERY bad news from the Gulf Oil Spill |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 07:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. I bet BP was so shocked to hear this. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:01 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. ... |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:30 PM Response to Reply #9 |
24. lol |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 10:29 AM Response to Reply #1 |
48. I don't think anyone could have anticipated this! |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
2. you think we can get cheney to suck it up, |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 07:56 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. here we see Cheney using a special sign to show us what he thinks of our world: |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
3. DU was right again... sadly... |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 05:42 AM Response to Reply #3 |
30. When they acknowledge 75K to 125K I'll start listening... |
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Spheric (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 08:01 AM Response to Reply #30 |
32. +1 Exactly. |
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tnlefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 10:11 AM Response to Reply #30 |
39. There are no oil plumes... |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 02:03 PM Response to Reply #39 |
53. according to BBC there are "oil plumes" |
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tnlefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 06:16 PM Response to Reply #53 |
65. But, but, but according to Tony Hayward, |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 10:07 PM Response to Reply #65 |
78. whatever |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 10:20 AM Response to Reply #30 |
42. +2 gawd forbid the O admin would fine BP to the max they're responsible for |
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stuntcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
4. sickest ever |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 05:18 AM Response to Reply #4 |
29. we've probably destroyed the earths' climate |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
6. But BP Has The Best Expertise To Fix This Thing |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:02 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. one is not related to the other |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:26 PM Response to Reply #10 |
27. Being Off By 2500% Demonstrates Competence |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 08:53 AM Response to Reply #27 |
34. You do know the flow increased twice after the original accident, don't you? |
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Spheric (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 09:48 AM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Yes, that will be BP's claim. |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 09:58 AM Response to Reply #36 |
38. As I stated, BPs internal documentation was 14,000 bpd initially |
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Spheric (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 10:20 AM Response to Reply #38 |
43. Any ideas on why... |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 10:23 AM Response to Reply #43 |
46. Dunno - lack of knowledge of the methane content was one stated reason |
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Devil_Fish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 05:39 PM Response to Reply #34 |
64. if you read the OP the latest estimant is from before they cut the riser. N/T |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 06:24 PM Response to Reply #64 |
66. Right, it's old news. The new estimate is 40,000 bpd |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 10:36 PM Response to Reply #66 |
80. fresh as "news" can get, like all my OPs are |
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HCE SuiGeneris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:03 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. We've been fed a load of horseshit since the beginning. |
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CountAllVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:07 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. fuckin liars - all of them!! |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 05:03 PM Response to Reply #17 |
62. "PROTEST" is the best word in your post |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 10:17 AM Response to Reply #6 |
41. Then we are truly and thoroughly furked. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 06:36 PM Response to Reply #6 |
69. Are you qualified to advise BP or the Coast Guard on how to handle this? |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 08:45 AM Response to Reply #69 |
81. The Multiple Groups That Correctly Deduced The Spill Rate |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
7. $4300/barrel. Start assessing the fines today. |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:07 PM Response to Reply #7 |
19. Nor should they be the ones to decide how many barrels poured into the water |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:09 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. In this case, the "fox" has admitted to a minimum amount. |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 10:21 AM Response to Reply #7 |
44. no joke---WHAT is Obama waiting for? Slap the fines and the royalites on NOW |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 10:53 AM Response to Reply #44 |
50. I read on the BBC that BP invests in pension funds primarily.... |
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paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 07:48 PM Response to Reply #44 |
76. I think he's afraid of crashing the markets and spawning |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
8. I predicted 30,000 - 40,000 bpd after the cut |
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LisaL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:04 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. I think it was pretty clear the flow was much more than what they |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:03 PM Response to Original message |
11. approximately 53.6 million to 64.3 million gallons of oil have emerged from the well |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:03 PM Response to Original message |
12. Mother Earth is bleeding. |
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Hestia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 07:51 PM Response to Reply #12 |
77. Apocalypso |
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JBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:03 PM Response to Original message |
14. BP will capture a thimble full and still say it's a majority. |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:05 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. they can't the top national scientists are on it now..finally they got the tapes! |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 10:22 AM Response to Reply #16 |
45. Thanks to Rep Markey, and a big kiss for him! |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:10 PM Response to Original message |
21. Did anyone watch the video of BP officials run alongside Baghdad Bob? |
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Spheric (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 10:41 AM Response to Reply #21 |
49. Yes, it would be hilarious if it wasn't so true. |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:11 PM Response to Original message |
22. Oil tanker Condolleezza would say: "Nobody could have imagined this kind of catastrophe." |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
23. So it turns out BP is like any other MegaCorp |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 10:23 AM Response to Reply #23 |
47. They're worse, they have 760 violations outstanding---see Rolling Stone article |
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Gregin Orlando (96 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:41 PM Response to Original message |
25. BP and the whore media in the U.S. have been lying |
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Kermitt Gribble (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 04:38 PM Response to Reply #25 |
61. Great post! |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
26. These fucking guys...these fucking guys. I bet they've been even feeding their |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 11:52 PM Response to Original message |
28. BP tried to fool us in the beginning... |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 06:40 PM Response to Reply #28 |
70. Isn't it the President's job not to be fooled isn't it? n/t |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 08:48 AM Response to Reply #28 |
82. Don't forget the stage when it was "1,000 BBLs a day". (NT) |
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Spheric (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 07:52 AM Response to Original message |
31. This is just another bullshit lie. |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 08:13 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Which is why BP will never capture ALL the spill... |
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Spheric (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 08:58 AM Response to Reply #33 |
35. And why they are denying the existence of the sub-surface plumes scientists are documenting. |
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AnArmyVeteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
37. Us our goddamned Military to PROTECT US for a change!!! |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 10:17 AM Response to Original message |
40. there is absolutely no reason to believe that this or any other info from bp is accurate |
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Stuart G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
51. My outlook, probably wrong, but so was BP's & Obama's..It will become a Dead Sea |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
52. Expropriate now. k&r |
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Poboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
54. Thank you Jefferson's Ghost |
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Towlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
55. That's about enough oil to fill up a football stadium. |
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pleah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
56. I can smell it every morning when I go outside. |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
57. My husband suspects that the military may have the knowhow to cap the thing, but |
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maryf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
58. K&R nt |
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BelgianMadCow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
59. 12-19000 bopd was the range on the LOWER BOUNDS |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
60. aside from the environmental catastrophe, BP is making a mockery of our fed govn't |
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FirstTimeVoterAt37 (380 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
63. I'd only be shocked... |
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cwydro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
67. What a huge surprise! |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 06:34 PM Response to Original message |
68. I think It's more than that, much more. |
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katty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
71. it was VERY BAD news the day it happened-the Horror continues |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
72. Didn't someone here on DU already tell us this? BP is nothing but a lying piece o'shit! |
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frustrated_lefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
73. Thank god, I thought you were going to say Cheney was in charge |
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cwydro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 07:11 PM Response to Original message |
74. Kicking this... |
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democrank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
75. Um, would anyone here have Dick Cheney`s phone number ? |
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NihiloZero (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 10:13 PM Response to Original message |
79. The oil that's washing up on shore now... |
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