1 Claim he had no idea that he fired Birnbaum.

2 Just in time to steal all the credit.  Well played, Obama and sycophantic MFM!

3 Hint: don't do a shot every time you hear "I," "Let me be clear," or "Make no mistake."

Your liver will crawl out of your mouth and throw itself in front of a bus inside of ten minutes.

4 What was he NOT doing for 310 days? Practicing for a press conference.

5 I fully expect the Obama fellating by the MFM to begin tomorrow.

6 i can't stand listening to that guy. i'll trust you to fill me in later.

7 Remember the crap Bush and I got? 

8 Chip Reid (CBS) and Jennifer Loven (AP), to their credit, asked semi-tough questions today.

9

What happened? Did his t-time get bumped?

 

10

Major Garrett just asked the jug-eared idiot about Sestak..and the dickhead dodged it by saying there will be response soon

11 I can't stand his voice or anything that comes out of his mouth.  It's all lies and he's the most unpresidential president we've ever had--and believe me, Clinton was some stiff competition.  So I'm just listening to Rush and getting his analyses.  So much less painful 

12 The last man nearly ruined this place
He didn't know what to do with it
If you think this country's bad off now
Just wait 'til I get through with it

13 I can't watch this filthy bitch. My blood pressure just won't take it.

14
The country's taxes must be fixed
And I know what to do with it
If you think you're paying too much now
Just wait 'til I get through with it...

15 "This isn't what I expected success to look like"? That's an awesome, even Faustian line! So applicable to so many things.

16 For the first time in his life he said: "I take full responsibility".

Translation to English: "Even Axelrod couldn't figure out how to blame the BP disaster on Bush."

17

Major Garrett just asked the jug-eared idiot about Sestak..and the dickhead dodged it by saying there will be response soon

 

Some enterprising video game designer should create an Obama video game where he dodges tough questions, destroys pillars of American society, gets bj's from the MFM, etc.

18

For the first time in his life he said: "I take full responsibility".

 

Like I said, everthing out of that man's mouth is an out and out lie.  He doesn't mean it.

19 Well, that's an hour (?) of my life I'll never get back.  And I have a headache.

20 To be fair, they were originally estimating 5000 barrels,not gallons. Big difference in units..

21 Obama's lengthy absence from reporters' crosshairs has exceeded President George W. Bush's longest gap of 204 days

22

Obama:

We gave total control to BP to plug the actual leak..but if it works..I'll take credit because I sent Chiu to talk to them

Obama:

Anything above water is our responsibility..except when things don't work out..then we blame the contractors BP contracted to mitigate and and clean up the spill

 

Obama:

I didn't know Birnbaum got canned,...but ...but..but no..she was fired

23 how about tomorrow, a Friday, I'm thinking

midnight - 3 a.m., Saturday

24 I love how every time he was asked what he's doing to help out, he says he's "thinking" about what to do.

This is the problem with institutional intellectuals.  They only know how to think about things, not to actually act on anything.

25 ONE MILLION GALLONS OF OIL A DAY????

My God.  This is an unprecedented tragedy!

Think of all the miles we could have driven!!!

26 how about tomorrow, a Friday, I'm thinking

midnight - 3 a.m., Saturday  Sunday

FIFMyself

27 That whole "presser" can be summed up by The Precedent's need to bring his daughter into the discussion: "Did you plug the hole, yet, daddy?"

28 to see if had done anything improper and found no remaining evidence of any wrongdoing. What's the problem people?

Posted by: Dr. Spank at May 27, 2010 01:54 PM (HfesM)

 

So....guess they cleaned taht one up with some Brauny Paper Towels!

29 6 i can't stand listening to that guy. i'll trust you to fill me in later.

me too -- i can't stand to listen to him or to watch him

30 I guess Obama top-killed that press conference.

31 The new estimate: Up to one million gallons per day.

That is a lot, but don't forget how unimaginably huge the world is. There are twenty thousand million million gallons of water in that ocean.

The spill is kind of a big deal. But kind of. The Gulf spill in '79 was much worse, and the ocean didn't give a fuck.

Just forget it's black.

32 Why didn't we just use Obama's giant dingdong to plug the hole?  I mean, it's only a six inch pipe, that should be easy for him to handle.

Or maybe Elena Kagan's.

Or Hillary's.

33

but none of the "corrupt practices" of the previous administration occurred in the "current administration.

Hey Barry you cocksucker, what exactly were those corrupt practices?

34 His purple lips that indicate he really does not breath O₂ are creepy. I cannot stand to hear him or see him.

35

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama moved aggressively to show his government is in charge of the Gulf oil spill on Thursday, calling the gushing leak an "unprecedented disaster" and blasting a "scandalously close relationship" between oil companies and regulators.

What isn't these days?

 

36 Buck passed, again.

37 How does any of this help Will Folks sex life?

38 This is the problem with institutional intellectuals.  They only know how to think about things, not to actually act on anything.

I'm pretty sure that Barry doesn't even have that problem.

39 Hopefully, a functioning bloviator preventer will be in place for the next presser.

40 Uhh, uhh, the oil is black, so cleaning it up would be RAAAAAAACIST.

41 "Just forget it's black."

Racism!

42

but none of the "corrupt practices" of the previous administration occurred in the "current administration.

Hey Barry you cocksucker, what exactly were those corrupt practices?

Posted by: conscious and saying Obama is the biggest fucking asshole in the world

 

Well, I ...um.... Let me be clear, the money that I received from BP isn't one of them!

43

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama moved aggressively to show his government is in charge of the Gulf oil spill on Thursday, calling the gushing leak an "unprecedented disaster" and blasting a "scandalously close relationship" between oil companies and regulators.

What isn't these days?

 

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 27, 2010 02:05 PM (1Jaio)

 

reaaaaallllly, so Beats:

79 oil spill

9-11

Katrina

Tsunami

AND his fathers broken condom?

44 I guess the question I would ask about the oil spill is:

 "There has been over 30 days of leaking oil and Governor Jindal has repeatedly attempted to get permission from the EPA to build sand bars to protect the wetlands. Would you agree that your failure to order the suspension of EPA regulations and oversight, in this limited situation,  actually made a manageable situation with regard to the oil washing into the the wetlands worse than it otherwise might have been?

Follow-up question:
What is keeping you from issuing an order to the EPA since it has become obvious to even the most casual observer that there are two issues involved with this spill:
1. capping the well
2. protecting the coastline
It seems one is not necessarily dependent on the other.

45

Obama said many critics failed to realize "this has been our highest priority."

After golf games, fund raising and vacations that is

As an example of the government's hands-on approach, Obama said that BP had wanted to drill a single "relief" well in an effort to eventually stop the leak in several months if all else failed. Instead, the administration insisted on two relief wells being drilled, Obama said.

WOW!! Barry is in charge. BP wanted one relief well but Barry wanted two. Count them two. What leadership

46 How does any of this help Will Folks sex life?

Posted by: robtr

 

If one miracle is possible........

47 What a thug, I hope he never gives another presser they are all about him anyway, Incompetent mofo that's all he and his posse are!

48 This dipshit, Mark Levine (an alleged "Constitutional Lawyer" LOL) doesn't understand the differences between making llaw regarding naturalization (the Constitutional language) and making laws regarding questioning and arresting illegals. I just can't stand this stupidity. And Megyn Kelly let's this idiocy fly past her every single time he brings it up, which is every time she interviews the pathetic dipshit about Arizona. I'm not even a lawyer and I know this.

49 Did someone ask him what was so enchanting about last year?

50 Just forget it's black.


Do I need to say it?

51 I still want to know what happened to Obama's gray hair.
There is something creepy about a guy who is leader of the free world and still dyes his hair.

52 @42

We prefer to be called Hydrocarbon-Americans.

53 Two guys try to run down a Ft.Worth police officer and a bystander pops a cap in the bad guy's ass.
http://tinyurl.com/3yqns9u

Gotta love Texans.

54 For the first time in his life he said: "I take full responsibility".

Resignation and a shamed retreat to private life are forthcoming.

55

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 27, 2010 02:08 PM (Qp4DT)

 

Yeah...that guy is always off the mark with his analysis. just says what he wants to be true and she nevr hits it back at him. I think she believes she is there to simply allow for the other saide and does not hold them accoutnble to at least make reasonable arguments!

56 Exactly how did anything the MMS do or not do cause this accident, they were handing out safety awards when happened. The well kicked, kicked harder then anyone expected. A few more reams of government paper would not have stopped the accident, although a full set of MMS and EPA regs would have been a nice addition to the junk shot if needed.

57 I'm So In Charge and In Command I Don't Even Know If Elizabeth Birmbaum Was Fired or Resigned. Ace, you missed the best part. The reporter asked "resigned/fired" to which the Indonesian Imbecile jumped out and said, "You're assuming she was fired." Uh ... no. That's what the slash meant. There's that stellar Hah-vahd brain at work .... once again.

58 It's been 5 weeks since this spill started and I forgot there for awhile that oil is black.

59 5000 barrells = 210,000 gallons

60 |Remember Jimmy Swaggart also went on the trash heap too!

61 So, morons.  What did we learn?

* Barky can't speak (or think) off TOTUS

* Malia wants him to "fill the hole"

* It's all Boooooosh's fault

62 "Did you plug the hole, yet, daddy?"

Plug it up! Plug it up! Plug it up!

63 Ooh, Rush playing a clips of Teh Forehead--his first one where he was ranting against the lack of action and this newer one where he says BP hasn't been candid with Obama and Obama does care.  Someone received a phone call after his initial angry lash out.  How can Mary Matlin be married to this tool?

64 How "defunct" is a terrorist organization that still exists within a larger terrorist group?

And why the hell is DHS telling Texas authorities to do the DHS job?

Ask the Obama Man.

The Department of Homeland Security is alerting Texas authorities to be on the lookout for a suspected member of the Somalia-based Al Shabaab terrorist group who might be attempting to travel to the U.S. through Mexico, a security expert who has seen the memo tells FOXNews.com.

The warning follows an indictment unsealed this month in Texas federal court that accuses a Somali man in Texas of running a “large-scale smuggling enterprise” responsible for bringing hundreds of Somalis from Brazil through South America and eventually across the Mexican border. Many of the illegal immigrants, who court records say were given fake IDs, are alleged to have ties to other now-defunct Somalian terror organizations that have merged with active organizations like Al Shabaab, al-Barakat and Al-Ittihad Al-Islami.

65 If he can't answer the question on Sestak, then they did do something "improper".  They are just trying to find the right legal language to not lie but not admit.

 "depends on what the meaning of is is"

66 The original leak estimate was 5000 barrels a day...not gallons. That comes out to 210,000 gallons/day. The new estimate is now 25,000 barrels a day, though I heard one professor who calculated it might be 80k/day based on the leak video.

67

That whole "presser" can be summed up by The Precedent's need to bring his daughter into the discussion:

"Did you plug the hole, yet, daddy?"

 

 

Well, Malia, honey, obviously I've done it twice...

68 Megyn is playing Major's question on Sestak.  Barry looks like he wants to disappear behind the curtain.  And have Major killed.

69 "...that President Present can't even commit..."

COMMIT?  COMMIT?  That would require a DECISION.  From Barry?
The guy who's been voting PRESENT! for the last 6 weeks!

70 Let's just thank Obama for going down there and stopping the gusher. Only his tremendous intellect and competence where enough to solve the problem.

71 So DHS is asking Texas to enforce Federal Law, but the WH is saying AZ doesn't have the authority to enforce Federal Law. WTF.

72 The DHS alert was issued to police and sheriffÂ’s deputies in Houston, asking them to keep their eyes open for a Somali man named Mohamed Ali who is believed to be in Mexico preparing to make the illegal crossing into Texas.

MOHAMED ALI

73 CNBC has a live shot of the oil gushing out of the bottom of the Ocean. Daddy didn't plug the hole Malaria, sorry.

74 Exactly, Jean.

75 Beck said today that Rick perry should deputize folks and send them to the border, depending on the ROE I'll glad step back into Texas to join up!

76 Is Ace seeing Obama's top-down press conference kill attempt 30 minutes or an hour delayed?

77 Yeah...that guy is always off the mark with his analysis. just says what he wants to be true and she nevr hits it back at him. I think she believes she is there to simply allow for the other saide and does not hold them accoutnble to at least make reasonable arguments! Posted by: rightzilla at May 27, 2010 02:10 PM (rVJH4) I don't buy that. I think Megyn just doesn't know what the Constitution says and hasn't bothered to look it up. Alan Colmes brings up this same stupid argument, and then makes up words when he says what's "in the Constitution". The Constitutional language is very clear about the power of Congress: "To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization" which has nothing to do with enforcement of the residency laws. Arizona isn't saying anything about naturalization. It isn't deporting people. It is doing what states have always done and are expected to do - as there is no federal police force walking the streets and interacting with individuals on a daily basis. The Arizona law has nothing to do with enforcement, at all. I'm glad that Gallagher brought up the bank robbery analogy, but he doesn't really know how to answer this whole idiotic argument, either. I can't give Megyn any slack on this, especially since I got so ticked off that I emailed her about this exact point. She has no excuse for letting the retarded leftists continue to get away with this. It's crazy. And this Levine guy is said to be a "Constitutional Lawyer". WTF.

78 Beck said today that Rick perry should deputize folks and send them to the border, depending on the ROE I'll glad step back into Texas to join up!

Posted by: 'Nam Grunt

 

The fact that Obama still isn't willing to help Texas will go over great if these terrorists do manage to enter via Texas. And if Texas stops them without Fed help, all the better.

79 Jim Treacher just posted, "Helen Thomas asked a question and then put a curse on the village cow."

80 I wonder how congress feels after Obama threw them under the bus today?

81 I hope everybody is satisfied now.  The leak is fixed.  Sestak is a non-issue.  Barack had a press conference.  Now what will you hateful republicans come up with to slam this glorious President?

82 Man, that there is a big ass oil leak.

I can't help to lament that it all could have been cracked into gasoline and sent to me to put into my SUV.

Such a waste.....

83 Now, lemmegetthisstraight.  No penalty, no check for being here illegally, but hammer anyone who employs them.  So what the Dems want is a bunch of welfare clients.

Don't they have enough now?

84 The "did you plug the hole yet daddy" remark reminded me of Jimmah's conversation with Amy about nuclear weapons.

85

President Present can't even commit to a position on this.

 

Commit, isn't that one of those smoking cessation lozenges?  I bet Barky's scarfing those down by the handful (or he's chain smoking like a chimney).  Heh!  Oh, and what color do you think his lungs are? 

86 So how many questions were asked?  Did Bambi stalling tactic work?

87 This isn't what I expected success to look like.

Can't say for sure, but that may be the mud they're pumping down.

Whatever it is, it's a different color from what was spewing out.

88 Speaking of Amy Cahtah, I saw a picture of her recently with her second husband and son (who has hair past his shoulders).  Let's just say time has not been her friend.  *shudder*

89

Is Ace seeing Obama's top-down press conference kill attempt 30 minutes or an hour delayed?

 

 

That's Punch Down, you moron!

90 Y-Not, I don't remember how many questions.  There weren't many.  But Teh One's answers were..........tediously long.  And I have no idea what he said, except Malia wants him to plug the hole.

91 Amy Cahtah is proof that the best of her ran down her daddys leg!

92 Who's standing between Barack Hussein Obama and the pitchforks?

93 Thx, Jane.  I am in awe of those of you who can stomach watching him.  I'd rather poke a sharp stick in my eye!

94 I love you morons, I really do. BUT, I notice that several of these comments are what you might call "inartful". You're all reported. Chicago Jesus has a plan. Remember when he would make the oceans recede? Well, that's what the oil is for you ignorant hillbillies! Oil is more dense that water. When you replace the water with oil, VIOLA! the water recedes! He is so awesomely awesome that he even saved you gaped mouth idiots. You would think you would be saying thank you, that's what you'd think.

95 The fact that Obama still isn't willing to help Texas

idiot-in-chief hates texas -- reasons too numerous to list, but you can bet that a certain native son who is a former POTUS is pretty high on the list

murderous muslim in ft. hood, another one

there's more, so many more

96 I love when Rush plays clips of the talking head idiots all repeating the same talking point. Today's was, Barry cares about the oil leak. Good for him

97

Who's standing between Barack Hussein Obama and the pitchforks?

 

The MFM, Minorities, Unions, Koolaid drinking Libtards, Teh Intelligentsia, for starters.

98 Doesn't bother me at this point that Obama is "ignoring" Texas. Perry did after all say Texas would do it differently than Arizona, in effect joining in the bash AZ brigade. Fuck Rick Perry--on this issue!

99 Y-not, I'd go ahead and start drinking early just to dull the pain of that presser, but I'm waiting (again) for a freaking painter to show up and get started.  What is up with contractors and such? 

100 Speaking of Amy Cahtah, I saw a picture of her recently with her second husband and son (who has hair past his shoulders).  Let's just say time has not been her friend.  *shudder*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 27, 2010 02:20 PM (UOM4

Amy was never the type of woman who would've produced "adultery of the heart" in her cooter-crazed lech father.  She was also a good argument against having children too late in life.

101 Who's standing between Barack Hussein Obama and the pitchforks?

The diverse Secret Service around him just look at them, are they carrying batons like the ones in Philly this past election? Hmmmmm

102

For the first time in his life he said: "I take full responsibility".

Like I said, everthing out of that man's mouth is an out and out lie.  He doesn't mean it.

Exactly.  I don't see him resigning.  Admiral Boorda, now there's a man who could take responsibility.

103 You would think you would be saying thank you, that's what you'd think.

We're such bastards.

104 The DHS alert was issued to police and sheriffÂ’s deputies in Houston, asking them to keep their eyes open for a Somali man named Mohamed Ali who is believed to be in Mexico preparing to make the illegal crossing into Texas.
Yes, and our new police chief just had  a meeting with the Won and said he would not enforce any Arizona type laws.

105 90 So how many questions were asked?  Did Bambi stalling tactic work?

As an observant Muslim, Obama typically takes 13 questions.  This shows the proper Muslim contempt for the Christian idolater's concept of unlucky numbers.

Google that one up, that's what Obama actually does, or did do in his first press conferences.

106 I'm going to order a hit on my contractor.  Damn it.

107 Is anyone buying this crap?

108 Barry flapped around in the wind shouting at people.

Yeah, good "thinking" there, B+rry.

He was CLUELESS the entire time.  All he knew how to do was point his finger and politicize.

Fucking hack.

A REAL President would have been DOWN THERE HELPING.

109

110

 

If halting oil exploration is good for America because of the spill,  the next aircraft accident will also be bad for America and we can stop flying including Air Force One.  Who bout dat Bambi?

 

 

111 (Empty because you've all said it all, and because he makes me so sick I can hardly type.)

112 Fuck Rick Perry--on this issue

wishful thinking that Perry would become more Chris Christie-like -- a.s.a.p.!  or Jan Brewer-like

113

I don't buy that. I think Megyn just doesn't know what the Constitution says

 

Well, she DOES know what it says..I have heard her before her own show be very good at articulating teh constitutions content. Alan Combs never went to law school, never practived law and never covered teh Supreme Court as Megyn did. I am often amazed at what happens when they get a mic and a producer in their ear. Thing is SHE DOES KNOW and still cannot perform on the fly.

114

OH MY GOD: 5,000 gallons of oil per day?

They might have underestimated slightly on that.

The new estimate: Up to one million gallons per day.

I am more than highly skeptical. Ixtoc I, which everyone remembers, was about 6 times worse than this (By current official estimate), and it was also the worst accidental spill in history, and the environment recovered in about 5 years; And everyone remembers that. They think it was bad but we got over it and improved technique. They need people to think that drilling is just to dangerous, in order to keep traction on their "Drill nowhere, ever" meme, they need this to have a greater impact than Ixtoc I which was plugged after months of leaking.

The first step in that plan is to modify the official spill estimate so that it is worse than Ixtoc I. So that instead of calling it "The worst spill in US History" which wouldn't even rank in the top ten world wide nor the worst in the gulf (Ixtoc I again), you can call it "The worst accidental spill in history" and with a real generous estimate of one million gallons a day you can even call it "The worst oil spill ever"

Step 2, play up the environmental impact.

Step 3, Highlight how safety engineering failed to prevent the disaster, and how big oil attitudes toward the possibility spill made it inevitable.

Step 4, declare that oil drilling is inherently risky to the environment, and the risky attitude of private companies oil drilling for profit places everyone in huge danger. A problem which can only be solved by

Step 5, Government takeover of oil drilling. So that the government not motivated by profit or saving money can make sure appropriate safety precautions are in place and only necessary wells are drilled; None of this reckless "anywhere we can get oil" attitude.

From there we can go to rationing, controlling your commute, whatever the opportunities are endless, and acts as a good fallback if global warming cap and tax falls apart.

115 Oh c'mon kiddies he'll be at a spa on vacation after the meaningless hop to La. tomorrow, his job is so hard, his Gallup approval is down 46%, Rasmusson has him at 42%, he's done!  IMPEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

116 I'm waiting (again) for a freaking painter to show up and get started.  What is up with contractors and such?

I hear ya'.  We had flooring put in a couple of months ago and the guys took what should have been a 2 day job, max, and dragged it out for 5 days. 

It was an expensive locally owned flooring place, too, not Lowes or some place like that.  We had used them a couple of years ago to do window treatments, so we thought they would be ok for this. 

Anyway, we had been planning on doing some built-ins around our fireplace and talked to them about it before the floor job, yet they still futzed around.  Needless to say, they are not getting that job.  Nor are they getting the carpet job we're doing this summer. 

Very frustrating. 

117

I only have one answer...in 27 parts."

Prof Barack Obama Barbay

Thornton Mellon School of Business

118

"have you stopped the oil leak yet Daddy?"

Yes, I'm sure this happened.  I'm sure Chris Matthews eyes are moistening right now.

119 Now I'll have to burn gas to drive to Texas to buy my shrimp, this odumbass is ruining this Country!

120 That AP article talking about the gulf oil spill is complete bullshit. The first clue, is when it talks about a "plume" hanging out underwater in the gulf. I learned from salad dressing that oil floats on water, and I didn't have to get a PhD to figure that out. Second, you can't determine through watching a video of the spill the amount that is flowing out of the well. You'd need to know the oil to gas to water ratio, and also the pre and post choke pressures to do a proper calculation. I doubt BP's been giving that information out since they've been so focused on stopping the well. A million gallons? I'm calling bullshit.

The AP just wants to make the disaster sound worse since BP is finally stopping the well from flowing.

121 Holy crap, Obama really said Maia asked if he plugged the hole?

Wow, I thought that was a joke. 

This is kinda like when Jimmy Carter asked his daughter, Amy, what he should campaign on in 1980.

122 Ignoring Texas seems to be working out pretty well for Texas. I just wish he'd ignore me, too!

123 I am sure the media was all over the Idiot 'n Chief asking what he meant by "corrupt practices" of the previous administration.  If he is going to slander someone in that manner he should be made to back it up.  I want to see some people prosecuted if they were corrupt.

BTW, I just noticed that someone up thread used the Idiot 'n Chief moniker before I did.  I guess it is too obvious a put down not to use given the nature of the man in the office.  I will try to be more original next time.

124 Malia: "Daddy, did you stop Iran from going nuclear yet?

125 Jim Treacher just posted, "Helen Thomas asked a question and then put a curse on the village cow."
Posted by: fozzy

"And I don't want to hear any "Bushisms" about fighting them there so we don't have to find them here."

Witch is exactly what he said.

126 ...but none of the "corrupt practices" of the previous administration occurred in the "current administration."

Did he really say that?  At some point even the MFM has to start choking on this shit.

127 Blue Hen and texasmamma,
I'd have to agree with Dave.

Neoconservative Rick Perry isn't just adding PC liberalism to the Republican Party in Texas and nationally. He wasn't just bashing AZ with his "we're too good for that" response. Too good? Wasn't "good" for Perry's administration to authorize Dept. of CPS to kidnap every non-adult from their homes re:Eldorado USING A FALSE COMPLAINT FROM A LYING PRECINCT CHAIRMAN OBAMA SUPPORTER IN COLORADO.

On security matters, Perry's administration allowed the burning destruction of the Texas Governor's Mansion.

Rhetorical lip service to appease voters aside, Rick Perry is not doing what the Texas Governor could, and isn't interested in getting politically involved in actually securing the Texas/Mexico border. He wouldn't support Texas legislation to enable cohesive organization between the Texas Rangers, border sheriffs, and STATE border patrol agents to secure traffic incoming from Mexico. After all, Perry wants the damned highway from hell as badly as McCain wants amnesty for illegals with or without the "danged" promo fence.

128 I agree with the Moose ...

who are these guys claiming to now know it was millions of gallons/day?  One "expert" was some college kid, some guy figured millions but claimed the 21 inch pipe was five feet.  I'd guess it was may be double what they estimated at first (and that estimate was not be BP).

Huge numbers play well with histrionic reporting, and with the far left, and with most of the lefty reporters.  Actual reports of oil are usually shown with a close up of little globs, and a sobbing reporter. 

Yes, there will be some damage, but the left and nuts are disappointed they can't say "see, we must shut down all oil production and move straight to wind powered cars".

129 More skittles for everyone! Now, forget the truth, I mean the lies

130

It's 42 gallons per barrel (not 55).

Just sayin'.

131 Yes, and our new police chief just had  a meeting with the Won and said he would not enforce any Arizona type laws.

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at May 27, 2010 02:28 PM (o+hgo)

Then he should be removed from office, forcibly if necessary.

132 A gazillion barrels a minute have been gushing into the Gulf ever since the day Halliburton tried to kill Gaia. I totally checked the math.

133 Huge numbers play well with histrionic reporting, and with the far left, and with most of the lefty reporters.  Actual reports of oil are usually shown with a close up of little globs, and a sobbing reporter. 

Exactly. Almost all the "reporting" I've seen from the MFM has been conjecture and hypotheticals - "This could be the worst environmental disaster since the dinosaurs got whacked by that meteor", "Scientists say it could be gushing 80,000 barrels a day", "If a hurricane comes, Louisiana will be all oily for centuries". No facts, no desire for facts.

Yes, there will be some damage, but the left and nuts are disappointed they can't say "see, we must shut down all oil production and move straight to wind powered cars".

Well, they're going to do this anyway. Look at Barky's "opened eyes", as if he never understood that there are risks in drilling, as there are risks in every arena of life. Fucking bubble-wrapped magical thinking shitheads everywhere, unable to imagine that life involves compromise.

134 Stay oily, my friends.

135 "Again, Arizona's legislators put a fail-safe in the bill. Again, Governor Brewer signed it into law. I may be old-fashioned, but legislation that remembers POWs and those MIA from Vietnam, gives educational breaks to Purple Heart recipients who are 50% disabled, allows law-abiding citizens to carry firearms in order to protect themselves, and ensures that students are not taught violent, communist ideology in the classroom is not racist. It is patriotic. It is responsible government. Like what you see? Come to Arizona."

TJ Woodard (resides 10 miles from the border)
@ American Thinker

136

On an earlier thread re: BP oil leak I wrote that the USCG gave permission to BP 36 days ago to perform the "top-kill" procedure but then nothing happened.

I was incorrect.  I researched this and the USCG was going to perform a controlled fire surface burn of the oil (don't know they decided not to do this) - not a Top-Kill Procedure with mud.  Sorry for the mis-information. 

I'm such a damned Moronette today!

137 But we're running out of oil. Practically gone, the oil is. So little as much as a million barrels a day gushing out with no end in sight. Boy we're running short. Peak oil my ass.

138

"Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?"

"Leave your mother out of this."

139 CNN assessment of Obama presser: epic FAIL

140 130 Rick Perry is not doing what the Texas Governor could

maverick, i agree

141 Its 23,809 barrels per day at 42 gallons/barrel and 1,000,000 gallons/day.

That is TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED NINE.

Not 230,000 barrels. Sorry to be a stickler, but your number is off by an order of magnitude.

That being said, why have they suddenly switched from reporting bbl/day to gallons/day?

Many people will look at the number and go 'BP must have lied because they were off by a factor of 200 (1 million barrels vs. 5000 barrels)'.

They'll never notice the original measurement was bbl/day and the new measurement is gallons/day.

142 Everyone knows it's 31 gallons a barrell, 15.5 a keg.

Oh wait, oil, not beer....

143 42 gallons per barrel for crude, so around 230,000 barrels per day.

Move the decimal point over one position. 23,000.

144 Mmmm.  Beer.

145 I love when Rush plays clips of the talking head idiots all repeating the same talking point. Today's was, Barry cares about the oil leak.

I heard that.  Rush is totally correct.  Said that they wouldn't have to paint Obama as caring if he really was.  The fact that it had to be supplanted into the brains of the poor, unwashed masses is exactly because he doesn't care.  It's mucking up his real agenda: the realignment of our society.  That's all he cares about....that, and wagyu beef, golfing, parties and perks.

146 Oh for the cynical press that existed while Bush was in office.

O and commies and Saudis don't want offshore drilling...O and commies and Saudis let this destroy La. just to make a point.

Employment whistleblowers....Fired then rehired occurring in Census worker figures...

The list is endless.

Coal mine accident.....don't want coal to be mined...saudis and commies can't get rich on coal.

Where did all those cynics go?

Frank and Dodd...creators of financial crisis, creating laws for new crisis.

147 I am sure the media was all over the Idiot 'n Chief asking what he meant by "corrupt practices" of the previous administration.  If he is going to slander someone in that manner he should be made to back it up.  I want to see some people prosecuted if they were corrupt.

This is a great point.  If the DOJ isn't immediately on this corruption like a chicken on a junebug then Obama is a part of the coverup.

148 ACLU challenges residency rule

SCHUYLER, Neb. (AP) -- ACLU Nebraska is calling on Schuyler Community Schools to abandon a district policy that would require students to show proof of residency.

A letter from the ACLU to superintendent Robin Stevens says the policy violates state and federal laws that allow for free public education.

The policy gives parents and guardians a one-week deadline to provide documentation establishing residency and threatens criminal prosecution and expulsion for giving false information.

Stevens says the district's attorney didn't see a problem with the policy, which was passed by the school board on Monday. Stevens says that was the first of two required votes for a policy to be enacted.

149 144 Its 23,809 barrels per day at 42 gallons/barrel and 1,000,000 gallons/day.

Why, that's almost a million hogsheads per fortnight! Inform her Majesty, immediately!

150 No way that well was producing 270,000 bbl/day. Simply impossible. Likely around 20-30k/day.

151 "Did you plug the hole yet Daddy?"

"Twice.  That's how you and your sister got here."

152 "Did you plug the hole yet Daddy?"

"Twice.  That's how you and your sister got here."



*cough*

153

#134

He can't be removed because he is appointed by our new lesbian mayor and serves at her pleasure.

Not sure what he serves though

154

The CNN folks actually had the sense to react incredulously at Obama's remark that "the only thing I regret about my decision to increase drilling is my assumption that the oil companies had their act together."

Even Wolf Blitzer took that as passing the buck yet again. And what's her name actually said on the air "after a year and a half, blaming the Bush administration is wearing thin."

155

I am sure the media was all over the Idiot 'n Chief asking what he meant by "corrupt practices" of the previous administration.  If he is going to slander someone in that manner he should be made to back it up.  I want to see some people prosecuted if they were corrupt.

I wish that Pres.Bush would suspend his "silence out of respect for the office of President" stand and challenge Toonces on his constant attacks on the Bush Admin. as being corrupt.  I would make him spell it out with actual facts not just his general vague statements and blanket smears.  Make him answer and don't let up until he breaks.

156 Why, that's almost a million hogsheads per fortnight! Inform her Majesty, immediately!

Well if it didn't take 500 Pascals to suck soda through a straw, or 1000 watts to power a bicycle we might have switched by now. I mean really, the Meter is an arbitrary unit after all, you could have at least set up the system so acceleration due to gravity was an even number.

157

I'm sure I agree with Ace on something in this, but I'm not bothering to read the whole thing because you don't need an engineering degree to know that a barrel of beer, a barrel of whiskey, a barrel of crude oil, a barrel of finished product, and a barrel of Ace-blows-it-out-his-ass-again-bullshit are not the same size.

Political Science major, weren't you Ace? Would five minutes on Bing have fucking killed you or something? Congrats on your smart military credibility.  

158 55 Two guys teabaggers try to run down a Ft.Worth police officer an innocent government employee and a bystander deranged gunman pops a cap in the bad guy's ass goes on a shooting spree.

FIFY

159 Did he really say that the Bush administration indulged "corrupt practices" in the past with respect to off shore drilling? What's wrong with this putz that he can't be the slightest bit gracious whenever he refers to George Bush and his administration? Seriously. "W" bends over backwards to be respectful and remain silent and these classless louts can't even fake being civil in a public forum? Goddamn. Class it up a bit, Obama.

160 Posted by: comatus at May 27, 2010 03:42 PM (/VEEI) Dude, what jumped up your pristine ass?

161

Well, the MFM are already at it. Yahoo: "President takes tough stance on oil spill".

 

Lol.

162

Ace baby  42 gallons in a barrel of crude oil;  but 55 gallons in a drum of refined gasoline or other petroleum product.

And total bullshit spewing out of the "hole" in the front of The Won's face.

163

Well, the MFM are already at it. Yahoo: "President takes tough stance on oil spill".

 

Lol.

Posted by: Luca Brasi at May 27, 2010 04:01 PM (YmPwQ)

At this point Yahoo is more left wing than the Daily Kos

164

What do you expect when the US elects Jayson Blair as President? 

"I was in control from the moment the explosion happened, however I can't be held responsible for why it took so long to stop the leak."  Only a Democrat could get away with saying something like that.

165

Defending his dealings with BP, he says there was a lack of "urgency" regarding efforts to clean up/enforce safety provisions, but none of the "corrupt practices" of the previous administration occurred in the "current administration."

That's ... it's just ...

Wow.

166

"When I woke up this morning and I’m shaving, and Malia knocks on my bathroom door and she says — did you plug the hole yet Daddy?"

"I reassured her that my Administration was doing everything to remedy the oil spill along with enacting new laws to stop global warming and create green jobs. I also pointed out to Melia that I inherited this mess from the previous administration and their failed policies and corrupt practices. And finally since I found MaliaÂ’s question impertinent and unlike anything that the main stream media would dare to ask me, I snapped my fingers and had a Secret Service agent remove her from the bathroom and placed in Time Out."

167

At her weekly legislative briefing being televised on C-SPAN right now, Nancy Pelosi is actually blaming the oil spill in the gulf on President Bush, and members of the press corps are actually buying it.  This is insanity.

 Is it any wonder that this administration has accomplished absolutey nothing productive? Their incompetence has the blessings of the imbeciles in the media. I'm incredulous that the people in the media are that stupid. Argh!!! They're so stupid that it is mind-boggling!!!!!

168

First press conference in 310 days and the press conference lasts for over an hour, and yet CNN and FOX show only two 30-second sound bites from that press conference, both of which pertain only to the oild spill in the gulf????? Nothing about the economy. Hothing about Iran. Nothing about about Sestak. Nothing about Korea. Just more tedious bullshit about the oil spill. What is wrong with that picture?

The media aren't worth shit anymore, and we have a useless administration which has accomplished absolutely nothing productive in the past 16 months. That entire administration is the most incompetent administration in the history of this country, and Obame is absolutely useless, also. That empty suit doesn't have any leadership skills, none whatsoever. He is a just a l;azy, useless bullshit artist living like royalty at the taxpayers' expense.

169

171 .....worse than that - besides what they are totally incompetent at, the rest they are doing this with malice and aforethought.

170 Oil leaking is very light so it floats on water.  It degrades to 60% crude because the oil instantly becomes carbon dioxide when exposed to the elements, including sea water and air.  So any leak is reduced by at least 40%.

171 Did you plug that hole yet Daddy??? No I tried twice but it was too big for me to plug with the equipment I have available.

172 Natasha and Boris; The media aren't worth shit anymore

The Media haven't been worth a shit since before Vietnam.

173 Don't know about ya'll but I'm ready for another Prez who acts like a cowboy instead of a prissy, arugula eating, metrosexual.

174

Obama doesn't know if the head of MMS was fired or quit.  He can't give a straight answer concerning whether or not Sestak was offered a job to leave the race or not.

Well hell people, you are basically trying to order chop suey at Joe's taco stand.  Ask the guy about unicorns, rainbows, or how awesome he is, and maybe he won't give you a confused look.

175 Oil spill experts agree: this should be a military operation with all hands on deck. Now we know what O's aversion to the fix is. He hates the military and hates the US even more, so fuck it. Let Gaia bleed.

176

The president definitely had asparagus last night.

177 I like how Obama passed the buck for over a month on this and then on the day they announce they got the hole plugged he says it's his responsibility now. Must be nice to have the media be the propaganda arm of your party and know they won't call you on your bullshit.

178 106 Rush Limbaugh: 10 Questions I Would Have Asked Obama at the White House Press Conference Posted by: newser

More sad than true.

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