July 7, 2010
Day 79
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Archive for July, 2010
July 7: BP spill cam screenshot
July 7, 2010
NASA image: Oil engulfing barrier islands
July 6, 2010July 6, 2010
Day 78
Imagine what is under the surface.
June 26 – Petit Bois Island (top right – 6 miles long) one of seven barrier islands that, along with some mainland areas of Mississippi and Florida, make up the Gulf Islands National Seashore. Eastern end of Horn Island (top left).
As of June 27, 2010, the entire gulf-facing beachfront of several barrier islands in eastern Mississippi (offshore of Pascagoula) had received a designation of at least “lightly oiled” by the interagency Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Team that is responding to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. A few small stretches of Petit Bois Island had been labeled heavily or moderately oiled.
Image: Jesse Allen, Robert Simmon and NASA EO-1 Team
Text: Rebecca Lindsey/NASA’s Earth Observatory/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
July 4 NASA image of oil spread in Gulf
July 6, 2010
Day 77 total: 113-193M gallons BP OIL polluting the Gulf
July 5, 2010July 5, 2010
Day 77
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A snapshot into the amount of oil released into the Gulf per daily flow rate estimates of 35K, 45K and 60K.
Per day: 35K brls (1470K gals)
Total: 2,685,083 brls (113M gals)
Per day: 45K brls (1890K gals)
Total: 3,452,265 brls (145M gals)
Per day: 60K brls (2520K gals)
Total: 4,603,027 brls (193M) gals
And as bad as this is – it says nothing about the consequences of the over 1M gallons of dispersant used and the methane gas dead zones in the Gulf.
Video: “3 reasons Obama should kick his own ass”
July 5, 2010
Day 77
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ReasonTV spells out 3 reasons barry (the federal govt) should kick his own ass. Problem being barry considers himself separate from the federal govt and Washington.
Written/produced by Meredith Bragg and Nick Gillespie (host).
ReasonTV
Federal government:
1-Owns the property on which the oil well is located
2-Regulates offshore drilling
*3-Capped economic damages of spills at $75M
*Video made before the WH “shakedown” of BP
Hilarious remix of barry’s “whose ass to kick”
July 5: BP spill cam screenshot
July 5, 2010
Cartoon: BP, Happy 4th of July
July 4, 2010
Day 76: Map of oil spread in Gulf
July 4, 2010
June unemployment rate 9.5%
July 4, 2010July 4, 2010
June – no net job creation
650K people gave up looking
Unemployment
April 9.9
May 9.7
June 9.5
Exactly the same as June 2009
Nonfarm Jobs lost: 125K
Census jobs cut: 225K
Private sector job creation
April 218K
May 41K
June 83K
2010 total 593K
Jobless ≥ 27 weeks (seasonally adjusted)
April 6.72M
May same
June same
Since Dec 2007 7.9M jobs have been lost.
Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio to use Gulf seafood in his restaurants
July 3, 2010
Day 75
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American Morning – John Roberts
Top Chef‘s top judge and 5-time James Beard awardee (including 2010) Tom Colicchio has chosen to promote Gulf seafood on his menus in his many restaurants.
He mentions seafood is not usually tested and in this case the seafood coming out of the Gulf is being tested and has thus far been proven untainted. And it’s not like the Gulf fisherman are going to risk any chance of getting their lives and livelihoods back by sending out even one tainted fish.
70% of the Gulf is now open to fishing, including oyster beds.
Select quotes
COLICCHIO: What’s interesting is seafood typically is not tested. It goes from the fishermen to a distributor and gets to restaurants or supermarkets, whatever. There’s no USDA inspections. But the fish coming out of the Gulf now, every bit is being inspected. Since May 5th, I think there has been over 330 samples taken from 11,000 different fish, all of it 100 percent clean.
Why is he doing it?
COLICCHIO: You look at the spill and you have to feel sorry for what’s going on down there with the wildlife and people, the livelihoods. You ask yourself, how can we support them? This is one way to support them.
I talked to people from Louisiana Fish and Game, from NOAA, from the FDA, and they are saying it is clean. And so my feeling is that will he people know it is safe and — I can’t just say it is safe. I want to put it in my restaurants and actually sell it, stand behind it.
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BP OIL contaminated wildlife: Crabs
July 3, 2010
Day 75
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Hey Grace. Took a while to find the credits because the links are only temporary for some reason. Photos taken late May – early June. Found some turtles and dolphins as well.
Pelicans, fish, dragonfly, dispersants, sea turtles
Hermit crabs
Dauphin Island, AL
(John David Mercer/AP/Press Register)
Grand Terre Island, LA
(Charlie Riedel/AP)
East Grand Terre Island, LA
(Charlie Riedel/AP)
Venice, LA
(Charlie Riedel/AP)
Grand Terre Island, LA
(Lee Cleano/Reuters)
Mayor Daley’s gun restrictions pass 45-0
July 2, 2010July 2, 2010
Monday, the Supreme Court decided (5-4) that the Chicago ban on handguns violated the Second Amendment, which affords individuals the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense in one’s home, and that it is applicable to all states through the 14th Amendment. The decision was written by barry’s good friend Justice Alito.
Today, the Chicago City Council passed (45-0) Mayor Richard Daley’s gun restrictions just a day after he proposed them. Problem is freshly store bought handguns are not the majority of weapons killing children in Chicago.
Source of specifics: Clout Street’s John Byrne Hal Dardick
1-New ordinance becomes law in 10 days
2-Potential owner must obtain a Chicago firearms permit
3-Permits: $100, good for 3 yrs, 21 or at least 18 with adult signature
4-Chicago PD has up to 4 months to process the application
5-Applicants must provide evidence of firearms training course (4 hrs classroom/1 hr practice on the range
6-Must carry Illinois firearms card (not sure if this includes fingerprints)
7-Register all guns with the city
8-Registration $15/gun every 3 years
9-No sale of firearms in Chicago
10-No firing ranges in Chicago
11-No assault weapons
12-Ineligible: violent crimes, 2 or more DUIs
13-Illegal gun owners given 90 days after enactment to register guns without penalty
14-Limit of 1 handgun per month per each qualified adult
15-Limit of 1 ready to fire firearm per registered owner in the home – all others must be broken down or have trigger locks
16-Minors present – all guns “must be secured” when not in direct possession of registered owner
17-Possession of firearm allowed only inside the registered owner’s home
18-Outside dwelling (including porch and garage) firearm must be disassembled/incapable of firing and in a proper case.
Don’t know if any of this involves fingerprinting, background and/or mental health history. Not sure if “violent crimes” includes registered sex offenders and convicted child abusers. And not sure why they didn’t mandate guns safes.
Video: AC 360 attempts oystering – channels Forrest Gump
July 2, 2010June 30, 2010
Anderson Cooper learns about oyster farming from oysterman Mitch Jurisich.
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And then AC attempts to harvest some ONE.
Wonder if folks have thought about making those tongs more ergonomic.
July 2: POTUS Approval Index -20
July 2, 2010July 2, 2010
Disapprove 55 – Strongly 44
Approve 45 – Strongly 24
Updated list BP OIL spill posts #2
July 2, 2010NO NEW POSTS ADDED HERE AFTER AUGUST 3 – GO HERE
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Updated 8-3-10
BP posts #1, #2, #3
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Oil spewing from a different damaged wellhead in Gulf (video)
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Spill cam screenshots
May 25, Jun 4+ Air Force 1, Jun 6, Jun 8, Jun 9, Jun 15, Jun 16-19, Jun 21, Jun 23, Jun 25, Jun 28
Jul 1, Jul 5, Jul 7, Jul 10, Jul 12, July 17, July 22, July 28
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Photos
Beauty of the Gulf
Sunset: Perdido Pass, Orange Beach, AL
Port Forchon, LA sunset
BP photo of the day
POTUS at the beach
Massive oil slick at rig site
Flailing bird
Fire on Discovery Enterprise from lightning strike
Which animal is edible?
The Pelican & The Congressman
Is this an omen?
NASA
Oil encroaching wildlife habitats
Mississippi delta oil vs vegetation
Oil engulfing barrier islands
Apr 25, May 4, May 9, May 11, May 17, May 20, May 24, Jun 10, 12, Jun 18, Jun 26, Jul 4
Compare: May 9 & 24
Compare: May 24, Jun 18
Aerial
Open sea
Surface oil slick, dispersants, marsh
NOAA photos
Oil
Aerial & surface oil slick, dispersants, marsh
Oil patties – Gulf Breeze, FL
Suspended in the water column
Oil blobs and boom
Oiled wildlife
Oiled Dragon fly, sea turtle, jelly fish
BP oil-soaked birds
Dead turtle, bird
Oiled Brown pelicans, chicks, eggs
Flailing bird
Dead fish
BP Oil-smothered bird
Day 72: Number of gulf wildlife affected by oil
Crabs
Sea Turtles
Day 94: 19 sea turtles returned to the water (video, pix)
POTUS
At the beach
Day 57
Don’t make me eat that
Gulf signage
SOS
I want my life back
BP, You Killed Our Way of Life
Where’s the Birth Certificate?
How the hell are we supposed to feed our kids?
Bienville Animal Medical Center
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Maps
Map of spread in gulf
Time elapse map tracking oil spread in Gulf
In relation to wildlife refuges
Jun 25 NOAA: Near shore oil spread
Compare spread along shore: May 26, Jun 24
Day 51, 55, 57, 59, 63, 65, 68, 70, 72, 76, 80, 83, 88, 90, 100, 104, 106
Compare: July 2, June 2, May 2
Compare: July 14, June 14, May 14
Compare: Jul 21, Jun 21, May 21
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CEO Tony Hayward
Hayward statement
Hayward: “the overall environmental impacts of this will be very very modest” (video/text)
Hayward explains his “very very modest environmental impact” comment
Hayward: “This is clearly an environmental catastrophe” (video/text)
Hayward: “We’re doing everything we can to stop the damn leak” (video)
Hayward: “Ultimate solution is the relief well” (video)
Hayward: “I want my life back” (video)
Hayward apology re: “I want my life back”
Hayward ad: “I’m deeply sorry” (video)
Hayward: “What BP Is Doing About the Gulf Gusher”
Hayward tweet: “We expect to be judged on the quality of our reponse”
Hayward: it’s food poisoning
Hayward: we’ll be able to capture the “vast majority” of escaping oil
Hayward re: $20B fund
Hayward opening statement (video/text)
Poll: POTUS/BP handling of the Gulf spill
Tony Hayward’s chilling at yacht race
Official: Hayward out, Dudley in
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BP
AC 360: BP managing director Bob Dudley (video/text)
BP COO Doug Suttles capping update (video/text)
Candy Crowley – Bob Dudley (video/text)
BP refuses to change dispersant
BP re: subsea containment methods
Why BP kept the video hidden
BP must pay an estimated $69M to US by July 1
97% OSHA violations for oil refineries handed out to BP
BP brands
BP logo change?
Google helps rehab BP’s image
Friend BP on YouTube
WordPress happily promoting ads for BP
Hypocrisy of CNN re: BP
BP to donate net revenue from spewing well for Gulf wildlife fund
BP Sr VP Kent Wells explains relief well process
BP COO Suttles wants folks to “feel free to share their thoughts and experiences with journalists”
Day 89: Well integrity test continues, intact x 48 hrs
Adm Allen letter to BP mentions “detected seep a distance from the well”
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BP – WH meeting/escrow fund
POTUS re: BP meeting (video/text)
BP Chairman Svanberg statement, Q & A (video/text)
Svanberg re: ‘small people’ comment
Svanberg re: dividends
Hayward re: $20B fund
Bottomline: WH-BP meeting
WH-BP meeting: Did Eric Holder make a deal too?
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BP claims total to date
Jun 13, Jun 19
July 16: 114K claims, $201M paid by BP
Jun 19 oil containment numbers
BP Oil in the Gulf
Day 77: 113-193M gallons BP OIL polluting the Gulf
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BP hearings
Photo: Meet the oil executives
Rep Barton: Escrow fund was a “a $20B shakedown” (video)
Hayward opening statement (video/text)
BP STATIC KILL
‘Static kill’ demonstration (video)
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Cartoons
Why it took so long for barry to show up
“Is it Obama’s Oil Spill Now?”
Oil lobbyists
‘Gulf Water’
BP’s new strategy
“Los Prez” to the rescue
Obamessiah in the Gulf
POTUS finally gets involved
When are they going to plug the damn hole?
Exxon Valdez vs BP
Criminal charges
barry & Big Oil
Spill cam….LIVE!
POTUS Oval Speech
Doug Suttles’ meaning of is
Is this what pelicans mean to BP?
POTUS party line
Greetings from the Gulf
Happy 4th of July
Hurricane season
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POTUS
2008: #1 recipient BP donations = barry
Day 24: gets angry (video/text)
“Summary of the Federal Government’s Role in BP’s Effort to Stop the BP Oil Spill”
Executive Order: National Commission on BP oil spill
Politicizes disaster at Sen Boxer’s fundraiser (video/text)
Did his anecdote sound real? (video/text)
POTUS: “You never heard me say ‘Drill Baby Drill’” (video/text)
May 27 press conference (text)
May 28 POTUS remarks in Lousiana (text)
barry in bed with BP?
Time to hold POTUS responsible
POTUS to make 4th visit to Gulf (video)
POTUS has not ever spoken to Tony Hayward (video/text)
POTUS wants to know “whose ass to kick” (video)
June 8 Today Show (video/text)
Hilarious video remix: “Whose Ass To Kick”
“3 Reasons Obama Should Kick His Own Ass” (video)
The defining moment in barry’s presidency
POTUS chat with UK PM Cameron
POTUS: “I am confident that we’re going to be able to leave the Gulf Coast in better shape than it was before.” (video/text)
POTUS Oval Office speech (text)
POTUS re: BP meeting (video/text)
Child: “I’m not sure he should actually be golfing right now” (video)
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General
Rasmussen: 58% favor offshore drilling
Aid to the US?
Free application: “Oil Reporter”
CNN has LIVE video feed of oil leak
Put Gen Honore in charge of something
Were the BP cleanup workers just photo op props?
Contractor: “I had no idea about the President”
BP Crosstown Cup (Cubs vs Sox)
Day 58: Ass kicking expected to take less than 20 mins
Stop boycotting BP gas stations
Day 72: Number of gulf wildlife affected by oil
Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio to use Gulf seafood in his restaurants (video/text)
“A Whale” will not be deployed
Day 100 by the numbers (video)
How oil-eating microbes work (video) worth watching
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Politicians
Secy Salazar: “We will keep our boot on their neck until the job gets done“
Rep Melancon’s emotional testimony re: oil disaster (video)
NRSC video: “Never Again” Obama and the BP Oil Spill (video)
Candy Crowley – Alabama Gov Bob Riley (video/text)
Pres Clinton re: barry and the BP OIL disaster (video/text)
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MSM
AC 360: Who’s holding WH responsible for slow response?
AC 360 attempts oystering – channels Forrest Gump (video)
Matthews: “When is he actually going to DO something?” (video)
Matthews: “This president is not acting like Commander in Chief” (video/text)
Matthews: “No sense in my heart and head that this White House is in charge”
Matthews rant re: Oval Office speech (video/text)
Chuck Todd re WH non-response to Gulf: “It’s either being stupid, arrogant or ignorant” (video/text)
James Carville: “He just needs to get down here and start doing something!” (video/text)
Eric Holder: “American people will not pay a dime for the cleanup“
Jonjon Alter: “It’s just another one of these messes that President Obama was left to clean up” (video/text)
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Flow of leak
Prof Wereley estimates 70K barrels/day – not 5K (video/text)
USGS official flow rate estimate = 12-19K barrels/day
Day 50: BP releases hi-resolution video of massive gushing (video)
Energy Dept provides online access to BP raw data
Tom Foreman demonstration of the magnitude of flow (video)
Day 57: Flow estimate = 35-60K brls/day
Why isn’t BP telling us the actual flow rate?
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BP jokes
Leno: White House “the slowest moving thing on Earth”
Fallon: “Obama would be the least scary bully of all time”
Fallon re: BP-WH meeting
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Video
Failed dome, gushing oil
Blame game + intial video of underwater leak
National Geographic video preview
BP to continue LIVE video feed during “top kill”
Video explanation of BP’s “capping” procedure
Oil washing ashore LA pelican rookery
Day 50: BP releases hi-resolution video of massive gushing
Day 63: 40 de-oiled pelicans released back to nature
Hilarious video remix: “Whose Ass To Kick”
Day 87: NO oil gushing into Gulf (video)
Day 100 by the numbers (video)
How oil-eating microbes work (video) worth watching
Compare Gulf oil spread: July 2, June 2, May 2
July 2, 2010
Gulf sunset: Port Forchon, LA
July 1, 2010
July 1: BP spill cam screenshot
July 1, 2010
Cartoons: Gen McCrystal firing
July 1, 2010June 29, 2010
These say all that needs be said about the farce that was General McCrystal’s firing.
Mike Lester / The Rome (GA) News-Tribune
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Bob Englehart / The Hartford (CT) Courant
The ‘journalist’ who used anonymous sources and off the record comments deserves his own black eye.
BP Sr VP Kent Wells explains relief well process
July 1, 2010
July 1, 2010
Day 73
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Sr VP Exploration and Development Kent Wells explains the process of drilling the relief well on video using graphics and animation. Best explanation I’ve found. Video doesn’t embed. Worth watching. HERE
Gov Brewer: “Mr President, do your job!”
July 1, 2010July 1, 2010
Arizona Gov Jan Brewer is calling barry’s bluff. Even as he ragged about the bill and his AG threatened to sue (having never read the bill) and his Secy of Homeland Security (who had the bill on her desk) pretended not to know what was in it, no one from the WH had the common decency to respond to Gov Brewer. Only after Gov Brewer spoke with Greta Van Susteren and let it be know no one from the WH had contacted her, was she allowed a WH visitation – June 3.
Comment with video:
Earlier this month, Gov Jan Brewer sat in the Oval Office with President Barack Obama to discuss the critical issue of border security….During their visit, President Obama committed to present details, within two weeks of their meeting, regarding his plans to commit National Guard troops to the Arizona border and commit to spend $500M in additional funds on border security.
The video was posted on June 25. Today, almost a month after he met with Gov Brewer, he gave another SPEECH. And did he lay out any concrete plans? No. He ragged about Republicans.
How much longer are folks going to fall for this charade?
SecureTheBorder
GOV BREWER:
Washington is broken, Mr President. Do your job! Secure our borders. Arizona and the nation are waiting.
BP COO Suttles wants folks to “feel free to share their thoughts and experiences with journalists”
July 1, 2010
July 1, 2010
Day 73
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Key being the journalists have to be there asking the questions.
I want to thank everyone for their tremendous commitment to lead and support the response and cleanup efforts.
I really cannot say this enough: BP wants all individuals to feel free to share their thoughts and experiences with journalists, if they so choose. BP has not and will not prevent anyone from sharing his or her own experiences, opinions, or views.
To this end, BP provided “media access cards“:
And safety guidelines:
Grace
July 1, 2010July 1, 2010
Hello Grace.
Thank you for your kind words. Yes. I have found a lot of oil-soaked wildlife pix in the drafts. I’ve given up trying to figure out why some things post and some don’t. The problems boil down to WP adding ads to the posts and I’m trying to decide whether to stick it out here or move somewhere else or just quit all together. WP support employees located in US, UK, Israel and Portugal have access to all WP blog accounts – including password protected posts. An odd assortment of countries. Wouldn’t bet the list is complete either. Anyway. I’ll post what I’ve found. I took the BP spill cam feed off the front page because they were hijacking it for news reports.
