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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-10 09:42 AM
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29. Forthwith Its More "Change we can Believe In"
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  -U.S. Finds Most Oil From Spill Poses Little Additional Risk alp227  Aug-04-10 12:13 AM   #0 
  - Umm... except there's no mention of the Corexit. "about 26%... is still in the water... that could  truthisfreedom   Aug-04-10 12:16 AM   #1 
  - The Corexit broken down oil  dipsydoodle   Aug-04-10 04:43 AM   #12 
  - Fuck it. Im going to change my oil and dump the water in the stream  Oregone   Aug-04-10 12:17 AM   #2 
  - I'll believe it when I see BP execs, regulators, and "federal scientists" (?) drinking GoM water. nt  metapunditedgy   Aug-04-10 12:23 AM   #3 
  - And eating seafood caught in the mile radius around the well...  pipoman   Aug-04-10 12:36 AM   #4 
  - Drinking salt water isn't usually a good idea nt  Scarsdale Vibe   Aug-04-10 12:50 AM   #6 
     - Yeah. I bet enough of it would kill them.  Wilms   Aug-04-10 01:11 AM   #7 
  - I recall: "The Gulf will bounce back!" . . . per Obama  defendandprotect   Aug-04-10 12:43 AM   #5 
  - If you believe the "Oil Evaporated"....  lib2DaBone   Aug-04-10 01:25 AM   #8 
  - Of course oil doesn't evaporate, which is why it has no smell.  Scarsdale Vibe   Aug-04-10 02:19 AM   #10 
  - The volatile portions of the oil evaporate. That is why they are called volatile.  JDPriestly   Aug-04-10 04:30 AM   #11 
  - Its a well known fact..  DCBob   Aug-04-10 05:06 AM   #15 
  - Then it pollutes the atmosphere. (n/t)  BillH76   Aug-04-10 02:09 PM   #66 
     - so do you every time you drive your car.  DCBob   Aug-04-10 03:03 PM   #69 
  - Don't forget about my bridge forsale too.  L0oniX   Aug-04-10 04:00 PM   #70 
  - wow ...all those millions of gallons have disappeared !  madrchsod   Aug-04-10 01:40 AM   #9 
  - It's magic. POOF!  L0oniX   Aug-04-10 04:01 PM   #72 
  - David Copperfield is in charge of the cleanup!  hay rick   Aug-04-10 05:10 PM   #78 
  - Article about the Ixtoc spill, apparently area is recovering nicely.  dixiegrrrrl   Aug-04-10 04:51 AM   #13 
  - Did they dump Corexit on that spill?  postulater   Aug-04-10 10:58 AM   #47 
     - Yeah, I have the same question.  dixiegrrrrl   Aug-04-10 08:47 PM   #81 
  - Thats very good news but the gloom and doomers will never believe it..  DCBob   Aug-04-10 04:57 AM   #14 
  - Exactly...  Imajika   Aug-04-10 06:16 AM   #16 
  - Its troubling that so many even in our own party have these bizarre irrational viewpoints..  DCBob   Aug-04-10 06:22 AM   #18 
     - Yup...  Imajika   Aug-04-10 07:24 AM   #21 
  - Have they found a way to resurrect all of the dead wildlife?  primavera   Aug-04-10 12:33 PM   #57 
     - Have you found any more ways to make a negative out of positive?  DCBob   Aug-04-10 01:09 PM   #63 
        - Where's the positive part?  primavera   Aug-04-10 01:24 PM   #64 
           - If you cant tell I cant help you..  DCBob   Aug-04-10 01:44 PM   #65 
              - No, you can't.  primavera   Aug-04-10 02:17 PM   #67 
                 - I wont dispute your grim descriptions of the situation there..  DCBob   Aug-04-10 02:58 PM   #68 
                    - Isn't this bad enough?  primavera   Aug-04-10 04:00 PM   #71 
                       - I guess I must explain it... the "worse" was the Gulf is not dead, the beaches are not ruined,  DCBob   Aug-04-10 04:16 PM   #75 
                          - Well, then I have more "good news" for you  primavera   Aug-04-10 04:35 PM   #76 
                             - There are dead zones every year in the Gulf.. this year's DZ extends from MS to Galveston, TX.  DCBob   Aug-04-10 04:41 PM   #77 
                                - Corrections  primavera   Aug-05-10 12:25 PM   #82 
                                   - your "corrections" are more like illusions and misrepresentations...  DCBob   Aug-05-10 03:46 PM   #83 
                                   - Sorry to spoil your happy dillusions  primavera   Aug-05-10 04:46 PM   #85 
                                      - I can assure you that your twisted deranged viewpoint of this crisis has no impact on me..  DCBob   Aug-05-10 05:05 PM   #87 
                                         - Of course not  primavera   Aug-05-10 05:10 PM   #88 
                                   - Oh take a pill.  LTX   Aug-05-10 04:32 PM   #84 
                                      - Easy to say when it's not your home, huh?  primavera   Aug-05-10 04:53 PM   #86 
                                         - I split my time between Houston and New Orleans.  LTX   Aug-05-10 05:15 PM   #89 
                                            - You gotta explain this to me  primavera   Aug-05-10 06:53 PM   #90 
                                               - Of course I'm angry.  LTX   Aug-05-10 07:37 PM   #92 
                                                  - Okay, I understand where you're coming from  primavera   Aug-05-10 08:30 PM   #93 
  - Is this from the Onion? n/t  truth2power   Aug-04-10 06:19 AM   #17 
  - Going to guess it takes a lot of campaign donation to get this kind of "government report".  Yeahyeah   Aug-04-10 07:21 AM   #19 
  - Great news. every day the news is getting better.  robcon   Aug-04-10 07:23 AM   #20 
  - So why is Prince William Sound still polluted with oil?  lunatica   Aug-04-10 07:48 AM   #22 
  - Very different circumstances...  MellowDem   Aug-04-10 10:54 AM   #46 
     - Higher temperature also leads to higher evaporation rates.  Scarsdale Vibe   Aug-04-10 11:19 AM   #50 
        - I think some of it is politics...  MellowDem   Aug-04-10 11:36 AM   #53 
  - So how soon till deep water drilling resumes? Isn't that the real purpose of this "report"? nt  Javaman   Aug-04-10 07:54 AM   #23 
  - You can turn over rocks on Prince William Sound and still find oil and tar there!  sasquuatch55   Aug-04-10 08:44 AM   #24 
  - Luckily  nalnn   Aug-04-10 09:01 AM   #26 
  - Yup.  Javaman   Aug-04-10 09:30 AM   #28 
  - Forthwith Its More "Change we can Believe In"  saigon68   Aug-04-10 09:42 AM   #29 
  - I'm stunned at how brazen all of this has been.  Romulox   Aug-04-10 08:57 AM   #25 
  - Gee, I never knew the largest marine spill in history was so inconsequential.  fasttense   Aug-04-10 09:17 AM   #27 
  - It was large, no doubt, but the Earth is large too  NoNothing   Aug-04-10 12:06 PM   #56 
     - Well the universe is large too so who cares if the world gets destroyed.  L0oniX   Aug-04-10 04:04 PM   #73 
  - Well lookie here, it seems the crabs found some.  Uncle Joe   Aug-04-10 10:14 AM   #30 
  - This sucks, I fill an emotional void in my life with sensationalistic news stories.  Scarsdale Vibe   Aug-04-10 10:37 AM   #31 
  - US says 74 pct of BP spill oil gone  sabra   Aug-04-10 10:53 AM   #32 
  - not sure that "dispersed" is the same as "gone" - sounds like spin to me  DrDan   Aug-04-10 10:54 AM   #33 
  - 99 pct of my faith in the federal Government is gone.  golddigger   Aug-04-10 10:54 AM   #34 
  - 100% BS  xxqqqzme   Aug-04-10 10:54 AM   #35 
  - somebody is telling 'porkies'  Rosa Luxemburg   Aug-04-10 10:54 AM   #36 
  - BWAHAHAHAHAHAH ...yea right. Out of sight out of mind huh? POOF ...its gone.  L0oniX   Aug-04-10 10:54 AM   #37 
  - why mess with what works?  another saigon   Aug-04-10 10:54 AM   #39 
     - Worked for whom? Would the ecology and food chain agree?  The Wielding Truth   Aug-04-10 10:54 AM   #43 
        - I forgot  another saigon   Aug-04-10 11:03 AM   #48 
           - I'm skeptical. Not of you, but in the result of dispersement on bio-culture.  The Wielding Truth   Aug-04-10 12:34 PM   #58 
  - Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. I don't believe them.  GodlessBiker   Aug-04-10 10:54 AM   #38 
  - Oil spills are actually safe.  bushmeister0   Aug-04-10 10:54 AM   #40 
  - Yes, that certainly does seem to be the prevailing attitude around here  primavera   Aug-05-10 07:24 PM   #91 
  - What a big steaming pile of BULLSHIT,  Autumn   Aug-04-10 10:54 AM   #41 
  - I agree with posts 1 - 9...  JuniperLea   Aug-04-10 10:54 AM   #42 
  - All scientists are liars and my own common sense knows better  NoNothing   Aug-04-10 10:54 AM   #44 
  - And moving on. Today scientists have discovered that Corexit  postulater   Aug-04-10 10:54 AM   #45 
  - Gone from the surface maybe...  CLANG   Aug-04-10 11:10 AM   #49 
  - "24 percent was dispersed, either naturally or as the result of operations," i.e. Corexit hid it  wordpix   Aug-04-10 11:29 AM   #51 
  - Is it just me... or does 74% sound ridiculously precise?  FBaggins   Aug-04-10 11:32 AM   #52 
  - estimates.. of course..  DCBob   Aug-04-10 01:05 PM   #62 
  - So 26% of 5 million = 1,300,000 barrels - over twice as much as the Exxon Valdez  Baclava   Aug-04-10 07:08 PM   #79 
  - Actually it's 74.94710582731%  L0oniX   Aug-04-10 04:06 PM   #74 
  - Meanwhile private corporate donations to politicians are at an ALL TIME HIGH!  superconnected   Aug-04-10 11:43 AM   #54 
  - That's nothing new  primavera   Aug-04-10 12:37 PM   #59 
  - Riiight. Sure.  Desertrose   Aug-04-10 11:51 AM   #55 
  - it's magic! The oil just dsappeared! .... below the surface. Burrowing crabs are finding it....  nightrain   Aug-04-10 12:44 PM   #60 
  - Now THERE'S some smart marketing and PR!  tom_paine   Aug-04-10 12:47 PM   #61 
  - I'd feel a little more encouraged if Obama decided to go to one of the  TBF   Aug-04-10 07:20 PM   #80 
  - i remain suspicious that this is bullshit.  bitchkitty   Aug-05-10 08:36 PM   #94 
 

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