Spintested: 05/17/10

Tar Balls Found Off Key West

Monday, May 17, 2010

Apparently they're OFF the case now.

==Jonathan Katz, a physics professor at Washington University in St. Louis, is another member of JASON. But Katz's major research focus has been astrophysics, and in an interview Friday with a St. Louis paper, he didn't seem confident that he had been much help with the mission. "I was honored to be invited and enjoyed the experience," said Katz. "Did I have anything much to contribute? I think I have some ideas for how to prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future, but I don't have anything very specific to offer on the present problems. It is very much in the hands of the real pros." Asked if he'd be willing to go back, Katz said: "I'd be happy to, but someone's got to send me an email or a phone call."==

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/mission_impossible_obama_taps_crack_team_of_scient.php

Nobody should be doing deep sea drilling without a plan and resources in place for accidents.

I think that's what this 5-member "crack scientific team" that Steven Chu put together has determined, and what was already known -- It's out of control, and BP's answer is to stall for time with the 'straw' while they drill another well to tap into the one that is gushing, which they say is going to take months.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Gulf Coast Oil Spill: Senate Democrats Want Justice Department To Investigate

You can survive decreasing your carbon footprint. You can't survive without water and food, which Big Oil is destroying around the world.

Companies that drill for natural gas and oil are skirting federal law and injecting toxic petroleum distillates into thousands of wells, threatening drinking water supplies from Pennsylvania to Wyoming. Federal and state regulators, meanwhile, largely look the other way.

http://www.ewg.org/drillingaroundthelaw
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Chris Oynes, MMS Official, To Step Down In Wake Of Gulf Oil Spill

And BP continues to drill. At the Deepwater Horizon site and elsewhere:

"There is new concern about another BP facility in the Gulf: a former BP insider tells us the platform Atlantis is a greater threat than the Deepwater Horizon."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/16/60minutes/main6490087.shtml

All offshore drilling must be stopped, not just new drilling. There are other deadly rigs out there, other catastrophes waiting to happen, that are inevitable because of how they were built and the shortcuts taken for the sake of bigger and faster profits.
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Jonathan Katz: Member Of Science Team Tasked With Gulf Solution Is A Homophobe, Climate Change Denialist

Those who question what his beliefs about homosexuality have to do with his being put on a select team to do whatever this team has been tasked to do (we really don't know what the focus is), it's about his credentials as a scientific "genius", or having a scientific mind at all.

Katz equates homosexuality with being in the Ku Klux Klan. Not only is that a value judgment (which would have nothing to do with his appointment, true), but it ignores the best scientific theory that homosexuality is biology, not choice. Yes, the statement makes him a homophobic id-jit, but for these purposes (solving this ecological threat to our nation and world) you also have to wonder how good of a scientist he actually is.
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Jonathan Katz: Member Of Science Team Tasked With Gulf Solution Is A Homophobe, Climate Change Denialist

Katz does not believe that global warming is caused by human activity. But even if it is, he doesn't support Americans cutting carbon emissions because "nobody else is doing it". He doesn't believe that warmer climate creates storms or droughts.

I don't know who declared Katz a "genius"* or recommended him for this team, but these papers he's written indicate a mundane shallow narrow mind & scattered thought processes. If you're indiscriminate about facts, your conclusions aren't valid. GIGO.

Obama's seriousness of purpose is in question.

His Papers - http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/

*If only Elena Kagan had left this kind of paper trail. Just last week Obama's surrogates were all over the cable channels trying to assuage liberals' doubts about Elena Kagan by saying, "Thurgood Marshall was her mentor", when all she did was work for him, and did not share his judicial philosophy.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Jonathan Katz: Member Of Science Team Tasked With Gulf Solution Is A Homophobe, Climate Change Denialist

Katz has some startling opinions on a whole host of topics.

How, as a scientist, he comes to his opinions, is troubling. He states things that aren't true, proven falsehoods, as facts. According to him, the war in Iraq was justifiable, because "Al Qaeda carried out the attacks in cooperation with, & perhaps at the behest of, Saddam Hussein and Iraq". And "The single most important fact, confirmed by the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, is that Mohammad Atta, the ringleader of the terrorist attacks of September 11, met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague a few months before". All of which has been exposed as false. Katz also claims, "Some evidence is incontrovertable; for example, that Iraq organized an unsuccessful plot to assassinate former President Bush when he visited Kuwait in April, 1993". Not true. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Pentagon_report_finds_no_evidence_of_0324.html

http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/baghdad.html

He seems to only consider information that validates his beliefs, & rejects what doesn't fit his pre-formed opinions. For example, he believes that discrimination against women in the field of physics (& other fields in science & the law) doesn't exist because his wife has never experienced it & neither of them have ever seen it in at Washington University where they teach.
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Oil Spill Florida Keys: Scientists Think Oil Has Entered Loop Current And Poses Grave Threat To Reefs

Why didn't Obama make recess appointments across the board?

It's not like he and Democrats have been without recourse to Republicans' obstructionism. But Democrats have preferred to make political hay rather than govern.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Oil Spill Florida Keys: Scientists Think Oil Has Entered Loop Current And Poses Grave Threat To Reefs

The O-Team. One team of 5 men whose mission of actually stopping the out of control gusher is not their first priority:

==Chu said he’s tasked his team to develop “plan B, C, D, E and F” in addition to finding a way to stop the oil leak.==

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-14/obama-sends-bomb-mars-experts-to-fix-bp-oil-spill-update1-.html

Just like the hose that BP managed to put into place just takes a small amount of the oil gushing from the center of the leak (not 'polluted' with any seawater which makes the oil unsalable), this group appears to be tasked with coming up with a way to harvest for use/sale the oil gushing & saving offshore oil drilling.

The environmental catastrophe of this is a secondary or last concern, & we know this because there are no chemical experts on this team dealing with the toxic pollutants that BP's dumping into the gulf (nor is this administration prohibiting BP's continued use of them).

Many teams are needed, including allowing outside scientists into the area to monitor what's going on & having the Army Corps of Engineers take over the operation.

How many more weeks of oil gushing into those waters before 0bamabots question Obama's not pulling out all of the stops to deal with this catastrophe? Why is Obama more concerned with protecting BP's proprietary equipment and methods than the lives and well being of the American people?
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Oil Spill Florida Keys: Scientists Think Oil Has Entered Loop Current And Poses Grave Threat To Reefs

From "The President Is Too Busy; Let BP Fix It"-File

Obama's schedule on Tuesday, May 4, 2010:

7:00 AM

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

9:30 AM - Obama and Biden receive the presidential daily briefing.

10:00 AM - Obama and Biden receive the economic daily briefing.

10:30 AM - Obama meets with senior advisers.

11:00 AM

11:05 AM - Obama delivers remarks to the Business Council.

12:00 PM

12:05 PM - Obama has lunch with Elie Wiesel.

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

4:30 PM - Obama and Biden meet with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

5:00 PM

http://www.politico.com/politico44/index.html?refresh=1
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Oil Spill Florida Keys: Scientists Think Oil Has Entered Loop Current And Poses Grave Threat To Reefs

From "The President Is Too Busy; Let BP Fix It"-File

Obama's schedule on Wednesday, May 5, 2010:

9:00 AM

10:00 AM - Obama receives the presidential daily briefing.

10:30 AM - Obama meets with senior advisers.

11:00 AM

11:15 AM - Obama meets with Sen. Jon Kyl.

11:45 AM - Obama meets with Sen. Orrin Hatch.

12:00 PM

12:30 PM

1:00 PM

1:30 PM - Obama delivers remarks and signs the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act.

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

6:00 PM - Barack Obama delivers remarks at a Cinco de Mayo reception.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/index.html?refresh=1
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Oil Spill Florida Keys: Scientists Think Oil Has Entered Loop Current And Poses Grave Threat To Reefs

From "The President Is Too Busy; Let BP Fix It"-File

Obama's schedule on Thursday May 6, 2010:

7:00 AM

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

9:15 AM - Obama receives the presidential daily briefing.

10:00 AM - Obama receives the economic daily briefing.

11:00 AM - Obama meets with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

3:30 PM - Obama meets with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

http://www.politico.com/politico44/index.html?refresh=1
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Oil Spill Florida Keys: Scientists Think Oil Has Entered Loop Current And Poses Grave Threat To Reefs

From "The President Is Too Busy; Let BP Fix It"-File

Obama's schedule last Monday, Friday May 7, 2010:

7:00 AM

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

10:00 AM

11:00 AM - Obama makes a statement on jobs numbers.

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

Off for the weekend, delivers the commencement address at Hampton University in Virginia at 10:00 AM on Sunday.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/index.html?refresh=1
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Oil Spill Florida Keys: Scientists Think Oil Has Entered Loop Current And Poses Grave Threat To Reefs

From "The President Is Too Busy; Let BP Fix It"-File

Obama's schedule last Monday, May 10, 2010:

7:00 AM

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

10:00 AM - Obama nominates Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.

10:45 AM - Obama receives the presidential daily briefing.

11:00 AM

12:00 PM

12:05 PM - Obama meets with the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.

1:00 PM - Obama meets with senior advisers.

1:30 PM

2:00 PM

2:30 PM - Obama holds a meeting to review BP efforts to stop the oil leak.

3:00 PM

4:00 PM - Obama meets with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

4:30 PM - Obama meets with Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

5:00 PM

http://www.politico.com/politico44/index.html?refresh=1
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Oil Spill Florida Keys: Scientists Think Oil Has Entered Loop Current And Poses Grave Threat To Reefs

From "The President Is Too Busy; Let BP Fix It"-File

Obama's schedule last Tuesday, May 11, 2010:

7:00 AM

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

9:30 AM - Obama receives the presidential daily briefing.

10:00 AM - Obama receives the economic daily briefing.

10:30 AM

11:00 AM

11:20 AM - Obama meets with senior advisers.

12:00 PM

12:30 PM - Obama and Biden have lunch.

1:00 PM

1:25 PM - Obama and Biden meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

1:45 PM - Obama and Biden meet with Clinton and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry.

2:00 PM

2:15 PM - Obama meets with Sen. Patrick Leahy.

2:30 PM

3:00 PM

4:00 PM

4:30 PM - Obama and Biden meet with General Stanley McChrystal and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

5:00 PM

http://www.politico.com/politico44/index.html?refresh=1
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Oil Spill Florida Keys: Scientists Think Oil Has Entered Loop Current And Poses Grave Threat To Reefs

From "The President Is Too Busy; Let BP Fix It"-File

Obama's schedule last Wednesday, May 12, 2010:

7:00 AM

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

9:30 AM - Obama receives the presidential daily briefing.

10:00 AM

10:15 AM - Obama meets with President Hamid Karzai.

11:00 AM

11:15 AM - Obama holds a joint press conference with Karzai.

12:00 PM

12:25 PM - Obama has lunch with Karzai.

1:00 PM

2:00 PM- Obama meets with senior advisers.

3:00 PM

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

http://www.politico.com/politico44/index.html?refresh=1
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Oil Spill Florida Keys: Scientists Think Oil Has Entered Loop Current And Poses Grave Threat To Reefs

From "The President Is Too Busy; Let BP Fix It"-File

Obama's schedule last Thursday, May 13, 2010 - Another day of photo-ops and fundraising for the Democratic Party:

9:00 AM

10:00 AM - Obama receives the economic daily briefing.

10:50 AM - Obama departs the White House en route to Andrews Air Force Base.

11:00 AM

11:20 AM - Obama departs Andrews Air Force Base en route to Buffalo, N.Y.

12:00 PM

12:25 PM - Obama arrives in Buffalo.

1:00 PM - Obama stops for Buffalo wings, where he makes a 'hottie' connection - http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/05/obamas-hottie-connection-in-buffalo/1

1:35 PM - Obama tours the facilities of Industrial Support Inc.

1:50 PM - Obama delivers remarks on the economy, says, "How good it was to get out of the capital 'bubble' and see real people" - http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/05/17/1052737/obamas-trip-to-buffalo-uncovers.html

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

3:20 PM - Obama departs Buffalo.

4:00 PM

4:25 PM - Obama arrives in New York City.

5:00 PM

6:00 PM

7:00 PM

7:05 PM - Obama delivers remarks at a DCCC fundraising dinner - [From his White House to Main Street tour of Buffalo to raising money for Democrats from Wall Street executives in Manhattan]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37240.html

8:00 PM

8:35 PM - Obama departs New York.

9:00 PM

9:30 PM - Obama arrives at Andrews AirForceBase.

9:55 PM - Obama arrives at the WhiteHouse.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/index.html?refresh=1
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Oil Spill Florida Keys: Scientists Think Oil Has Entered Loop Current And Poses Grave Threat To Reefs

From "The President Is Too Busy; Let BP Fix It"-File

Obama's schedule this past Friday, May 14, 2010:

7:00 AM

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

10:00 AM

10:10 AM - Obama honors the TOP COPS award recipients in a ceremony.

11:00 AM

11:15 AM - Obama meets with members of his Cabinet about the BP oil spill.

11:50 AM - Obama makes a statement to the press about Cabinet meeting.

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

Other than delivering remarks at the National Peace Officers' Memorial Saturday morning, Obama took the rest of the weekend off.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/
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Oil Spill Florida Keys: Scientists Think Oil Has Entered Loop Current And Poses Grave Threat To Reefs

Obama's schedule today:

7:00 AM

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

10:00 AM - Obama receives the presidential daily briefing.

10:30 AM - Obama meets with senior advisers.

11:00 AM

11:35 AM - Obama signs the Freedom of Press Act.

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

1:05 PM - Obama welcomes NCAA Champion University of Connecticut women's basketball team.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/
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Oil Spill Florida Keys: Scientists Think Oil Has Entered Loop Current And Poses Grave Threat To Reefs

This is not just a matter of aesthetics, of destroying pretty scenery.

40% of US's wetlands are in Louisiana, and that is going to affect the climate for most of the US.

Lousiana is the second largest supplier of seafood to the nation, after Alaska.

This reckless behavior on BP's part, on the part of all industries and deregulationists, for huge profits over lives, has k!lled the goose that laid the golden egg (America and responsible capitalism, i.e., regulated capitalism).

The health impact of this catastrophe will hit more people than just those living along the gulf coast. It's going to cost both lives and the US economy very hard.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Oil Spill Florida Keys: Scientists Think Oil Has Entered Loop Current And Poses Grave Threat To Reefs

Long past the time, if you ask me.

The idea that BP can and is refusing scientists into the area to monitor and assess the situation should tell everyone that the Obama administration is in cahoots with BP.

What is happening in the gulf is a matter of homeland security, and is devastating more Americans' lives than nine-eleven and the bogus "war on terror".
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Oil Spill Florida Keys: Scientists Think Oil Has Entered Loop Current And Poses Grave Threat To Reefs

If someone came into your home and was destroying it, would you allow them to continue the activity and be in charge of clean-up?

No.

You would call in your own people, your own specialists, and give those who had destroyed it the bill.

The argument that BP should control the effort stop the oil from gushing (and subsequent clean-up) because the oil industry's employees are the sole/best experts is abzurd.

It is long past the time when Obama should have pushed BP aside and put the Army Corps of Engineers on this. When the Army Corps of Engineers is allowed to do the job, there is nobody better.

BP has no desire or incentive to stop this disaster. As a matter of fact, by destroying the entire region ecologically, BP and all pro-drilling interested parties (politicians included) can and will argue that offshore drilling increase, "since it's all ruined anyway".
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Elena Kagan Gay Rumors: Should We Even Ask About Supreme Court Nominee's Sexuality?

As long as those in power have the ability to make and enforce laws based on people's sexual orientation, of course voters have the right to know about every politician's (and Supreme Court nominees are politicians, too) sexuality.
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Arizona Senate: 2010 Election BREAKING News

More Americans want REAL Democrats to control Congress. Not DLC-Democrats. Not Blue Dog Democrats. Not Republican-in-Democrats'-Clothing Democrats. Not Centrist Democrats. Not pro-corporate, anti-regulatory Democrats. Not social conservative Democrats.

More Americans want pro-Constitution-Democrats who will protect and defend habeas corpus and due process and free speech and thought rights. More Americans want anti-war, pro-choice, pro-gay rights, pro-environment, pro-clean & sustainable wind and solar energy, tax-the-rich-til-they-bleed, transparent-government-Democrats (release all presidential administrations' papers to sunlight), and put-Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Gonzales-Ashcroft-Yoo-Bybee-Rice-Wolfowitz-Rove-Feith-Cambone-et-al-on-trial-Democrats.

When Americans are informed that Obama and the DLC-controlled Democratic Party controlling Congress are not that kind of Democrats, Obama's numbers plummet.

Get the word out, because it's the only way to make them into good and REAL Democrats.
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Deepwater Horizon Inspections: MMS Skipped Monthly Inspections On Doomed Rig

There actually has been an investigation, the result of which Salazar came up with the plan to split the MMS into 2 agencies.

These people were found to be literally and figuratively sleeping with Big Oil, and Salazar's solution is to separate the agency's functions so that there wouldn't be a conflict of interest.

Here's another example of non-action by Obama and Salazar on this:

Obama announces that there will be a freeze on drilling offshore. No new permits will be awarded. In the past two weeks, 5 new permits were awarded. The spokesperson for MMS, when asked about the 5 new permits insisted that no permits had been awarded.

Surely the permits have signatures and files on record. Why aren't heads rolling?
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Deepwater Horizon Inspections: MMS Skipped Monthly Inspections On Doomed Rig

I appreciate your postings about this story, but what do you think calling BP is going to accomplish?

I think better that people call the White House and their representatives in Congress. Demand they use the power of their offices to deal with BP and this disaster. And to stop ALL offshore drilling, and get a Manhattan-style project going on alternative energy development. Pass legislation supporting the development of alternative and sustainable energy production, including tax incentives and subsidies.

Then call all of your local and national media outlets and tell them you want to see more coverage of this story and the other offshore rigs being operated offshore the US.

And then, make big donations to environmental organizations.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Deepwater Horizon Inspections: MMS Skipped Monthly Inspections On Doomed Rig

Yes, I agree.

Either the jobs are essential to a functioning government, or they're not. And if they're not, eliminate them. But no one is claiming that these are superfluous jobs, not needed. Everyone agrees that work throughout the government is backlogged. There aren't enough people to get the job done.

I don't happen to think that Obama isn't making recess appointments because he's afraid of being called a dictator. He's certainly been autocratic when it comes to dealing with the base of the Democratic Party (liberals). He's had no problem dictating to and snubbing liberals.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Deepwater Horizon Inspections: MMS Skipped Monthly Inspections On Doomed Rig

After 8 years of Bush and Cheney (and after 30 years of post-Nixon, pro-Vietnam War conservatives working to get back into power), voters did not put Obama and Democrats into power to show restraint.

Using the rules and tools of government that are there and available isn't dictatorship; it's a Constitutional democracy.

Obama isn't using the tools to show restraint, by the way -- It's a nice excuse for him, but in truth he's a proponent of the status quo. All anyone has to do to know that is look at what he's doing. He knee-caps liberals, doesn't include them in his administration, is pro-corporation and goes to great lengths to move legislation to the right. In healthcare reform, the votes were there for a public option, but Obama blocked it.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Deepwater Horizon Inspections: MMS Skipped Monthly Inspections On Doomed Rig

During his entire 8 years in office, Bush only issued 12 vetoes. His first one was after he had been in office for 5 years. That is the fewest of any president in modern times.

Between compliant Democrats and signing statements, Bush managed to do whatever he wanted to do.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Deepwater Horizon Inspections: MMS Skipped Monthly Inspections On Doomed Rig

I say this all the time to conservatives who complain about taxes: Life in the US costs what it costs.

If you're not paying it to the feds, you're going to be paying it to the state/county/city.

Those who don't want to support funding public schools wind up paying in the way of a dumbed-down population that went to private schools (private school teachers get paid significantly less as there are no qualifications for teaching in private schools).

The costs of oil are going to skyrocket no matter what is done with existing oil rigs. The costs of seafood is going to rise as there is less of it (Louisiana is the second biggest producer of the nation's seafood after Alaska, providing 40%). The costs of all goods that are shipped through gulf ports are going to rise as ships will avoid traveling in that area due to possible damage by the oil and other chemicals now in those waters.

We're all going to have to make adjustments in our way of life and how we use energy. We're all going to have to cut down, and that's not a bad thing. It might just save our own lives and the planet.

Where is the Manhattan-style project for alternative energies' innovation that Candidate Obama promised?
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Deepwater Horizon Inspections: MMS Skipped Monthly Inspections On Doomed Rig

Why didn't Obama make recess appointments across the board?

It's not like he and Democrats have been without recourse to Republicans' obstructionism. But Democrats have preferred to make political hay rather than govern.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Deepwater Horizon Inspections: MMS Skipped Monthly Inspections On Doomed Rig

"There is new concern about another BP facility in the Gulf: a former BP insider tells us the platform Atlantis is a greater threat than the Deepwater Horizon."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/16/60minutes/main6490087.shtml

All offshore drilling must be stopped, not just new drilling. There are other deadly rigs out there, other catastrophes waiting to happen, that are inevitable because of how they were built and the shortcuts taken for the sake of bigger and faster profits.
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Deepwater Horizon Inspections: MMS Skipped Monthly Inspections On Doomed Rig

Watch the 60 Minutes segment on what happened at Deepwater Horizon - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/16/60minutes/main6490087.shtml

We simply do not have the kind of regulatory mechanism in place, nor the kind of human beings in power anywhere in our government or in corporate management, to allow these environmentally devastating operations to continue.

Imagine the Kerry-Lieberman bill (American Power Act) passing, with its increased offshore oil drilling and building of new nuclear power plants.

The Obama administration, mimicking the Bush administration, has put the cart before the horse by refusing to put regulations into place before bailing out industries.

Bush's first act upon entering the White House was to pass massive tax cuts for the rich ("Get the money out of Washington") before shoring up social security, Medicare, and planning for unforeseen emergencies like war (Bush talked about attacking Iraq two weeks after he entered the White House).

Obama bailed out the banks without any strings, and has left Main St. hanging out to dry while Wall Street is awash in taxpayers' bailouts. No regulations have been put into place to prevent more bubbles and more meltdowns. Unconditional support of Obama that keeps his approval numbers high by his most ardent supporters (for continuing the Bush administration's policies and pursuits) guarantees the next accident is going to be a Chernobyl here at home.
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