God forbid the President sees how really bad the oil spill is.

In Obama's speech yesterday from that beach in Louisiana, he told people not all the beaches were affected and the mess where he was didn't look that bad. Gee, I wonder why?


Parish official: BP shipped in workers for president's visit




(CNN) -- A Gulf Coast official accused BP of shipping workers into Grand Isle, Louisiana, for President Barack Obama's visit to the oil-stricken area Friday and sending them away once the president left the region.

Early Friday morning, "a number of buses brought in approximately 300 to 400 workers that had been recruited all week," Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts told CNN's "Situation Room."

Roberts said the workers were offered $12 an hour to come out to the scene at Grand Isle and work in what he called a "dog and pony show."

But, when Obama departed, so did the workers, he said, adding that he's never seen more than 20 workers at the Grand Isle cleanup site since the effort started.

BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles downplayed the claim Friday evening, telling CNN it is not unusual to see people wrapping up work in the afternoon.

"These individuals are working out in the heat of the sun. These are long days. They start early in the morning and they stop early in the evening," he said. "So the fact that they were leaving the location late in the afternoon was not unusual. It's not associated with the president arriving."

Suttles added that the workers would be back Saturday morning to continue working.

The company hired to provide the cleanup workers told WWL, a New Orleans-based radio station, that it was told to beef up the cleaning work force five days ago.

"No, I did not put extra workers on the job because the president was coming," said Donald Nalty of Environmental Safety and Health, which was contracted by BP to help in the cleanup effort.

An official at the oil cleanup command center told CNN that a temporary busing system had been established to shuttle the growing number of workers because of limited parking and housing accommodations in areas most impacted by the spilled oil. The official said trained responders were putting in 12 to 14-hour days.

Roberts told CNN's Anderson Cooper the hundreds of workers who showed up early Friday wouldn't speak to local emergency management officials.

"The sheriff's office did manage to get one person to speak with them and that individual said they were hired yesterday and told to report to a staging area at 7:30 this morning," Roberts added. "It just doesn't add up."

This is such a mess and I just wish there was some type of honesty in Politics and big business..........I am so disgusted in the current administration and really hope that the people take back this country and someone gets in that really cares about America and helps defend us, not apologize. Obamas spine is like a wet noodle.

You disgrace wet noodles everywhere.

Did you know they are now blaming Reagan for this mess? His deregulation policies are being blamed for this disaster. Are they kidding me?! Seriously. BP didn't follow the REGULATIONS that were already IN PLACE so how on earth can it be Reagan's fault?

And after the Top Fill bullshit failed the president of BP has a presser saying how happy he is with the progress so far. What is he smoking because I want to experience the same fantasy he is having.

Just explode the damn hole into itself like the Russians did when this happened there. It fucking works. Oh wait - if they do that, they have no oil to recover. BUT - they're not recovering anything useful now right?

When did the Russians do that?

I'm going to have to research that for you. Matt mentioned it and when I asked him for details, he said he can't remember but all he knows it did happen in recent history. He said they used a low level nuke to collapse the leak.

I don't see what harm it could do to the ecosystem compared to what is happening now down there. It's fucked for some time to come either way you shut it down.

I did find a few things:

After weeks of BP´s damaged well releasing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Russian newspaper Komsomoloskaya Pravda has suggested the United States use the same strategy they used to seal a number of oil wells - nuclear weapons.

The technique described involves drilling a hole between 25 and 50 metres from the oil well and setting off a customised nuke. Between 1966 and 1981 it was used five times for four successes, with the failure possibly due to bad positioning.

The suggestion is not without its problems, however, as pulling it off in a significant depth of water would provide a significant challenge. In addition, the environmental problems could compound if radiation is accidentally released.

In that debacle of a press conference President Obama tried to claim that he and his staff were in charge from day one and that BP is acting under direction of his people. If that's so then HE and his staff are responsible for the continuing failure to cap the leak.

There are rumblings that both BP and the government failed to follow proper protocols which aggravated the situation.

Read about it

(05-30-2010, 10:33 PM)LH Wrote: I did find a few things:

After weeks of BP´s damaged well releasing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Russian newspaper Komsomoloskaya Pravda has suggested the United States use the same strategy they used to seal a number of oil wells - nuclear weapons.

The technique described involves drilling a hole between 25 and 50 metres from the oil well and setting off a customised nuke. Between 1966 and 1981 it was used five times for four successes, with the failure possibly due to bad positioning.

The suggestion is not without its problems, however, as pulling it off in a significant depth of water would provide a significant challenge. In addition, the environmental problems could compound if radiation is accidentally released.

Oh cool, thanks. I went back outside when I posted to you earlier.
I think we can do the same without using nukes, no? Can't we just ignite a big friggin' bomb down there? For shit's sake, we have those precision missiles and bombs now, I see no reason that we can't adjust it to do minimal damage.

(05-31-2010, 09:51 AM)LKTraz Wrote: In that debacle of a press conference President Obama tried to claim that he and his staff were in charge from day one and that BP is acting under direction of his people. If that's so then HE and his staff are responsible for the continuing failure to cap the leak.

There are rumblings that both BP and the government failed to follow proper protocols which aggravated the situation.

Read about it

BP is in Obama's pocket too. They donated a nice chunk of $$ to his campaign fund. Funny how the bitched about "big oil" being evil but taking their money is AOK by him.

If this was the dreaded and evil George Bush's disaster, the media would be screaming bloody murder and worse. I'm sick of him and his administration blaming someone else. I listen to every speech he makes - well every one that is aired - and he throws a nice line of bullshit and faux indignation to it all. He'll claim full responsibility and then a few sentences later, he's laying the blame elsewhere.