1 there are some that say Bambi doesn't like Louisiana.  just sayin

2 I recommend the President waive the Jones Act for all purposes related to the oil spill and oil spill cleanup.  I recommend a 75-day waiver to take us through the end of August (when the relief well is supposed to be done?).  I assume a 30-day waiver with the possibility of extension is more practically feasible.

Makes sense, so of course Obama isn't going to issue the waiver.

Because the US-flagged shipping industry wants the business.

He cares so much about an American industry now that he won't sign a little waiver to allow foreign ships to disperse help?  By the Gods...

3 And they might, gasp, be using non-union labour on some/all of the vessels. And being in a foreign union probably isn't enough either.

4

So tell me when they changed the oath of office from "defend the Republic against all enemies foreign and domestic," to "defend the labor unions..."?

Just curious.

Obama acted stupidly criminally.

5 O/T, but...really, Juan Williams just can't stop honkin' on Obama's wanker, can he?  Does he ever come up for air?

6

Is the U.S.Government that stupid?

Apparently so.

7 _{The unions won't like, and obambi doesn't want to do anything without union approval.  It's the Chicago way.}

8 Why no waiver, not because of U.S. business, but because of U.S. Unions.

Everything Barky does is either for a union or for Arab/Muslim betterment.

9 1 there are some that say Bambi doesn't like Louisiana America just sayin

Posted by: kelley in virginia at June 18, 2010 06:40 PM (XFcBK)

FIFY

10 O/T, but...really, Juan Williams just can't stop honkin' on Obama's wanker, can he?  Does he ever come up for air?
Posted by: antisocialist

Juan had a snorkel specially manufactured for just these occasions. 

11

 

Without a strong lean from President Bush on his Cabinet to “do everything we can,” the waivers would not have happened

 

George W. loved this country.    'nuff said

12 Instead of skimmers just send The Wookie down to the Gulf.  I sure all that fur will attract the oil then haul her in, hose her off and Viola! you are ready to go again.

13 And the effin' retards on the left are still making fun of Palin for talking about this in the context of assistance form the Netherlands and Norway.

14 Instead of skimmers just send The Wookie down to the Gulf.
Uh, they already have a methane problem.

15 14 And the effin' retards on the left are still making fun of Palin for talking about this in the context of assistance form the Netherlands and Norway.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at June 18, 2010 06:52 PM (ieQTh)

That's easy to do once you make a commitment to the concept that the "truth" doesn't matter.

16 "13 I wonder who will go down in history as the absolute worst one-term President?" I don't.

17 Even old toothless $5 whores get requests. Somebody's lying.

18

The green job that will save the economy is pelican cleaning.

19 Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at June 18, 2010 06:52 PM (ieQTh)

And I should add "even after Matt Yglasias smacked tham down and said she was right".

20 Obama is just making sure the solid south stays solid .
Maybe someone could tell Obama there are quite a few black shrimpers too . With their own boats and crews and everything .
That oughta get the ball rolling or the ass kicked but I doubt it .

21 Are these shovel ready jobs?

22 SIU making sure they profit as much as possible from human suffering.

23

Meh.  If President Black Gold^tm had any sense, he would issue waivers now that he and the rest of the Democrat mob have got their $20 billion payoff/slush fund.  It's unlikely they'll get any more money from BP, and if the clean up doesn't start to make any progress, then President Black Gold^tm will completely own this mess.

24 If we don't use Unionized Labor, how will cleanup take Decades?

25

_{The green job that will save the economy is pelican cleaning}.

They make a better alternative energy source before you clean them.

26 Christ.  We don't even have a fleet.

27 Posted by: mpfs,man I get tired lugging these DDs around all day at June 18, 2010 06:46 PM (iYbLN)

Need a hand, sweetie?

BTW.  Why does Drudge have a graphic of a One World Currency on his site?

28 Because the US-flagged shipping industry wants the business.


All three ships.

29 #26  They make a better alternative energy source before you clean them.

And perhaps some damn fine extra-crispy pelican meat.

30 Someone just take a match down there and light it up bitches.

http://tiny.cc/qu0gt

31 Why does Drudge have a graphic of a One World Currency on his site? Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at June 18, 2010 07:05 PM (MmyYP) Because with Obama in the White House, the Dollar is going in the crapper

32

8  Look who got him where he is today, no?

 

Oh, and organized crime -- mustn't forget those peeps.

33 While all this is going on, Toonces is at a baseball game.  No wagyu and cocktail party tonight?

34 #28  BTW.  Why does Drudge have a graphic of a One World Currency on his site?

Because Russia and China want the world to have a new reserve currency.

35 FYI, never eat foods from the galley of a foreign vessel. Every time my brother boards a foreign ship, he gets Atomic Diarrhea for days. MK1 Poopy Pants reporting for....pftthwwurrrt...ffft.

36 OT: The Three Terrors In Concert. (But they don't sing "We Con The World".)

37 Why does Drudge have a graphic of a One World Currency on his site?
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at June 18, 2010 07:05 PM (MmyYP)

Because with Obama in the White House, the Dollar is going in the crapper

Posted by: nevergiveup at June 18, 2010 07:06 PM (U5btG)

I already have a drawer full of tokens from Chuck E Cheeses.  What the fuck am I going do with that thing he's got up?  Buy Illinois Avenue?

38 I'm going to YouTube to look for that Hawaii clerk that says the Oilbama birth certificate is non-existent.  That would get rid of Oilbama, the Wise Latina® Kagan, HellCare and hundreds of other things I'm forgetting at the moment.

39 Isn't Obama a citizen of the world? I remember something like that from a speech in Germany.

Certainly it is unconscionable for him to deny his subjects from the Netherlands, Scandinavia and the Middle East the opportunity to ply their trade. The bonus is that his foreign (if I may be so bold) subjects would be doing work that benefits his original constituency, the United States. Oh, there's the problem, never mind.

40 Daddy? Are you going to use a hot dog to stop the oil leak?

41

imagine how much better off if we had a President that stayed on top of this and actually Let others help us suck this stuff up. for a month!

How many other Times has He stopped clean-up? Or ideas to help contain this?

Srsly,

42 43 Daddy? Are you going to use a hot dog to stop the oil leak?

Child, my ego is quite large enough to plug the damn hole.

43 And hi, Mr Williams. No, don't say 'hi' back. Mommy says you shouldn't talk with your mouth full.

44

a union is excuse for a loser to pretend a winner. Same with poiticians today.

Anyone know why they intercepted Jindals barges?

 

45

What about the regulators  and inspectors keeping an eye on the drill? why didn't they close it down? Is it their job to know If an issue is an issue?is  that their job or not?

or is it another fake gvt. job?

 

46 Where's all that talk of mops and shit now ?

47 OT- over at Hot Air there is a banner ad re Sarah Palin endorsing Star Parker for Congress in LA.  Great liberal head-sploder, and the picture of Sarah is so darn beautiful I'd like to tape it to the wall.

48

Just sayin'--one of my coworkers was so very proud of her autographed Obama photo.  Today she told me the latest way of saying "Hi!" is "Hope died!"

His photos are gone from the break area.

Another coworker who just loved him has taken his pictures down.  She's so upset about the Gulf--and that her family is from that area, and is taking a heavy hit--she can hardly speak.

And another snarled, "When Republicans are in office, we get a nice little raise and a tax cut.  When the Democrats are in, we get more taxes and this stupid health care that's gonna cost all of us working people everything!"  She threw his "auto"biography away.

Just sayin'.

49 Anyone know why they intercepted Jindals barges?


Had to check 'em for sinister Sioux terrorist crew members.

What? Wrong Indians?

50

In this hand, I have a Jones Act Waiver.  And in this hand, I have.....nothing.

Until these muthafuckas get balanced out, you aren't gettin' shit, my friend.

51

On top of the Jone Act waiver, he could have issued an Executive Order about, oh, 58 days ago, requiring all regulatory agencies to waive rules and regulations that would interfere with capping the well, containing the spill and cleaning the water and shoreline.  That would have given green lights to:

- Building berm islands off Louisiana without having to wait for a Fish and Wildlife study

- Obtaining and deploying Packgen boom without rejecting it for minor deviations from Federal specs

- Keeping skimmer barges operating even while their operators go fetch life jackets and fire extinguishers to meet Coast Guard safety standards

- Bringing in skimmer booms from Dutch, Norwegian and other sources and allowing them to pull in oil, even if the subsequent discharge of less-than-pristine seawater didn't meet EPA standards

And ten thousand other things that would have moved the containment and cleanup forward much further than it's gotten in the last two months.

52
Unions.

53

Anyone know why they intercepted Jindals barges?

 

Heard on the news that the Coast Guard halted them...they wanted to make sure they had enough fire extinguishers and life jackets on board.

sad. what's wrong with this picture? the cleanup effort?

 

54

@8: "Everything Barky does is either for a union or for Arab/Muslim betterment. "

What are we, chopped liver?

55 Part of Rudy Guiliani's interview on MSNBC:

When pressed by Scarborough, Giuliani gave a detailed explanation for how he would have handled the crisis differently:
First of all, the first thing I would have done is to bring in experts from the industry who are independent source of advice for me...If your father or mother were sick, you would go get a second opinion from an expert doctor. Not from an academician which is what he did. Go ask the question. Has anyone done remediation before? Has anyone done it better than BP? Bring them in. Make them your eyes and ears. Have them watching everything. Maybe they could have gotten the estimate right of the amount of oil that was coming out. It was horrendous. This is a horrible case of malpractice, negligence, gross negligence. They were off by 60 times. That had to infect every wrong judgment you make.

56 He is doing this on purpose.  He knows he could do this.  He understands we don't have enough ships.  He wants things destroyed.   That is his sole goal.

57 That is exactly what I've been thinking about all the dithering on Obama's part.  Really, just get in there and cut the red tape, call a state of emergency (actually act like it is one), issue a waiver on jurisdictional boundaries, offer reimbursements on XYZ, and let the people that have the means actually come in and start helping. 

58 This is mildly on topic since it's oil spill and response related.  But this new dude Bob Dudley is a first class bad-ass.  I don't know him personally, but I do know some folks who do.  And to a man, they say he is a get shit done kinda guy.

BP is playing POTUS like a cheap fiddle.

Dudley's last stint was running the BP-Russian joint venture, and the dude played hardball with Vladimir Putin.  The Russians eventually ran him out of the country, but he still made the company billions and everyone I know in Hattiesburg (where he grew up) says he's smart, cold-blooded and all business.

Here's the less than flattering but still pretty accurate Bloomberg story on him.

We only thought POTUS was in over his head before. I think Dudley's gonna be pickin his teeth with Barry's bones. I wouldn't want to cross swords with him, and I'm a get shit done guy, too.

59 28 BTW.  Why does Drudge have a graphic of a One World Currency on his site?
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Probably just Putin gettin' uppity again.

60 http://louis8945.blog.zoznam.sk/ louistime