1 The voters need to read the Sunday night ONT.  i.e. fk him.

2 I so want it to go to the lowest Bush level.He deserves it of course and they wont be able to spin it.Well,actually they will but it will still be nice.

3 I know what will help.I'll throw another lavish party!!!!!

4

From the bitchy article:

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency told BP that it had 24 hours to find a less toxic alternative to the chemical it had been using to break up the oil. The company, however, replied that no alternatives are available in large enough quantities to deal with the spill.

On Monday, the EPA responded that BP should keep looking. In the meantime, the agency said, it would conduct its own tests on other chemical dispersants, which was an acknowledgment that it has no answer either.

Life destroying idiots.  

5 But Intrade has Obama up by 20%!!!!!!!!!!!

6 Uh, oh. The Skynet spam has become self-aware.

7 I so want it to go to the lowest Bush level.

Won't happen.  Bush's numbers fell as low as they did because he alienated his own base on immigration, spending, ect.  Obama's base will never desert him, so he probably has a floor in the high 30s.  . 

8 I just hope these folks remember that they can do something about it -- vote the guy out in 2012 and in the meantime defang him by taking Congress away from the Dems.

9 Uh, oh. The Skynet spam has become self-aware.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 25, 2010 09:56 AM (foPGG)

it's been sentient for awhile now

10 Where's intrade at on Obama resigning before the end of his term? 

11 Know what? I got a feeling that little stunt Zero pulled with the President of Narcostate in the House didn't play well in bitter-clinger country.

12 Where's intrade at on Obama resigning before the end of his term? 

Posted by: alexthechick at May 25, 2010 09:59 AM (8WZWv)

that would be a horrible bet. Narcissists don't admit defeat

13 And 63% want to repeal BarryCare. It must all be because of racism

14 Heil Obama!  You will all be placed in the camps!

15 Alexthechick, intrade won't take that bet.  It's a cinch.

16 This news can only mean one thing: Democrats roll and take 35 seats in the House in November.

Deal with it, Republicans.  It's common sense.

17 This is the result of the failed policies of the last three years.

18

I have the solution:

Someone offer the Deepwater Horizon a slot as Secretary of the Navy and all this goes away.

19 Life destroying idiots. 

Yes, but the EPA and Obama are playing a different game with BP here, and the name of this game is called "You Can't Win."

20 this unicorn shit doesn't taste like skittles anymore.....

21 It's not us, it's you.

22 Beck said that "once you get to 41%, historically you can't come back"

23

Obama's base will never desert him, so he probably has a floor in the high 30s.

With roughly 50% of all Americans no longer paying income taxes, and with the looming disaster of dysgenic fertility, we are just about at the point where Obama's "base" is an absolute majority in this country.

If not now [in late May of 2010], then no later than about 2020.

But don't kid yourself - demographics necessitate that it's only a matter of time.

 

24 "Life destroying idiots. " I truly can't stand the Environmental Protection Agency. Maybe if they spent some of the billions of dollars they suck out of the economy on I don't know, maybe actually PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT, rather than just churning out tomes of industry killing regulations, they might have had a nifty plan in place for oil spills like the one in the Gulf. Ten billion dollar budget and the Agency that considers itself overlord of all oil production owns ZERO oil drilling equipment and apparently employs NOBODY who is of any use in this crisis. If sanity ever returns to DC, I'd love to see that bloated kleptocracy gutted after a brutal Congressional investigation. But I digress...

25 The only thing that saves Obama is the economy - and given his policies I'd be better off buying stock in Swine Airlines. Another DOW crash and he heads into the low thirties. It's gonna be a long hot summer.

26 "Gibbs on Sestak bribery allegations: If you mention extortion again, I'll have your legs broken"

27 The EPA is all lawyers! that's all! What on earth CAN they do that's useful? Other than regulate?

28 His numbers are nowhere low enough. Keep on hatin'.

29 #28  Typical Chicago-way - shut up or I'll hurt you!

Wonder if Barracky's kicking Bo a lot these days.  Poor dog.

30 31. AS IF he would touch a filthy haram dog! not even with his foot

31 IMO, current events are conspiring to reveal Obama's 'governing' strategy and that is: Continue at any cost to pursue socialism. Continue at any cost to realign alliances and hope that the U.S. survives until our new allies come around and against their nature, love us. Do nothing to address employment and hope that 'natural' cycles intervene to correct the problem. Do nothing to address domestic disasters and hope that others, whoever they may be, will resolve the problems. Spin everything, no matter how bad, as good. Take credit for everything good and place blame for everything bad.

32 Barry's actually not treating his base very well.  Unions certainly get a lot of attention.  But, between his not-at-all-gay SCOTUS pick and his suicidal push to repeal DADT, he is certainly not focusing on "civil rights" in the way his base would understand them.  Indeed he's probably diluting them.

Not that minorities will abandon him, of course.  They're the abused spouse.  They have nowhere else to go.

33 The worst President and administration in the history of this nation. If it wasn't for the racists who voted him in, his numbers would be in the teens.


Hey, at least I had the excuse of being drunk for my four years.

34 Plug The Damn Hole!

35 Had I known Ace was going to "let the chips fall" last night, I would have stayed at the "Q" for a bit longer.

He was in true form last night.

Dammit I miss all the fun shit dont I.

36 "In addition, a Player will be limited to a maximum of one birdie or six pars in any given 18-hole round.
Any excess must be given to those fellow players who have not yet scored a birdie or par.
Only after all players have received a birdie or par from the player actually making the birdie or par, can that player begin to count his pars and birdies again."
"Obama Appoints Golf Czar"

37 What on earth CAN they do that's useful? Other than regulate?

Oh hey that's very useful.  It employs lawyers.

There's a long running joke that the tax code should be known as the Lawyers Full Employment Act. 

38 Just spit-ballin' here, but considering oil companies have been drilling in the gulf for 40-50 years or longer, don't you think at some point in that time, they could have designed and built some sort of giant "oil plug" device and kept it moored somewhere in the region. Don't you think they could have just had this giant cap thingie on hand, just in case, so they could tow it out and cap the leak?

Maybe some petroleum engineer can explain why this could not have been accomplished practically.

39 obama hates the south......

40 Hey! North Korea is turning the dial to Eleven! ♫ torn between two lovers!♫

41 Now I see on drudge that His Turdliness is going on vacation for Memorial Day, and won't be "available" to go to Arlington?

I have mixed feelings on that one.

42 So he said "plug the damn hole" 3 weeks ago? And all the King's horses and all the King's men haven't been able to do squat since then? So much for all that pap about "the best and brightest young minds being brought to bear on our nation's problems" that accompanied Wee-Wee's election. The bumbling dingleberry literally has all the resources in the world at his disposal, and he can't stop a freakin' leak? Somehow I bet that both Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber would have had far better results by now.

43

obama hates the south......

Yup.

44 I will give a speech this afternoon and the hole will be plugged. Ok, let's move on to something else I can screw up royally !!!!!!

45 There goes all your Bubba Gump shrimp, bitches!

46 well.....thank the environmentalists they wouldn't allow drilling in closer to shore in shallow water where the technology was tested and proven to work......funny how obama became a deep water drilling proponent after he received a boat load of money from bp....amazing how janet can see the ocean from the gulf shore.....you know the administration was there from day one.....if bp doesn't step it up they'll have to step aside and let the real clean up begin...

47

41 Just spit-ballin' here, but considering oil companies have been drilling in the gulf for 40-50 years or longer, don't you think at some point in that time, they could have designed and built some sort of giant "oil plug" device and kept it moored somewhere in the region. Don't you think they could have just had this giant cap thingie on hand, just in case, so they could tow it out and cap the leak?

Not a Petro engineer, but an engineer who worked for Halliburton for some years. Everything in the oilfield is difficult. Put the hole under a few thousand feet of water and the difficulty increases exponentially. BP could have developed equipment and methods for this contingency, but it would have cost them hundreds of millions of dollars. So, like many companies, rather than sell that to stockholders, they decided to trust to luck.

48 Axelrod, "Sure he may be telling the truth, but we've covered our tracks to the point now that he'll never prove it. http://tinyurl.com/32tyrvb HotAir

49 I used to think Obama was just inept and foolish. As more bailouts rollout, I think quite possibly- that he is more sinister than I gave him credit for.

By transferring the wealth of this country to world bankers, he is breaking the back of the USA. He is not a son of this country, born here or not.

50 "and won't be "available" to go to Arlington?" -- I hope Palin and Rush show up.

51 that would be a horrible bet. Narcissists don't admit defeat

No, but if BHO Sr really is his father [and there is a LOT of doubt about that - but if he is really the father], then there's at least a 50% chance that BHO II inherited a terrible addiction gene from him [and an even greater percentage if Stanley Armour Dunham is merely the grandfather (and not actually the father)], so it wouldn't be at all out of the realm of the possible to see BHO II keel over from something like a masssive cocaine-binge-induced cardiovascular event, after he had turned to drugs when he sensed that he had lost that lovin' feelin'.

52 I bet Jonathan Katz would have fixed this by now...

53 If BP finally does find a way to plug that hole, it will become the basis for future technology. They may have to wait until the flow slows to a certain point before they can get anything meaningful done, and that might take months.

54

What is wrong with 42% of the country?

That's rhetorical.  I know what's wrong with them. 

55

Axelrod, "Sure he may be telling the truth, but we've covered our tracks to the point now that he'll never prove it.

Translation:  The White House just called the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania a liar.

In a universe where the press reported things, this would be some of that "news" stuff.

 

56 For the first time since Nov of last year I hate my country again. Fucking racists. Oh look Rand Paul!

57 So the flash crash was SkyNet?

58 ""If you could control an oil spill with lawyers and regulation-writers, and by signing papers and obtaining court injunctions . . . then maybe the U.S. government could do something," said Byron W. King, an energy analyst at Agora Financial. "But really, Uncle Sam has almost no institutional ability to control the oil spill. For that, you need people with technical authority, technical skill and firms with industrial capabilities." "--- another money quote, applies to just about everything.

59

For the first time since Nov of last year I hate my country again. Fucking racists.

Oh look Rand Paul!

 

Yes! Yes! Rand Paul! PAUUUUUUUL,

60

Axelrod, "Sure he may be telling the truth, but we've covered our tracks to the point now that he'll never prove it."

Yeh, I don't know where this is going to go. Without any proof, what can happen? He can name the low level official who said it, but then what?

61 "Don't you think they could have just had this giant cap thingie on hand, just in case, so they could tow it out and cap the leak?" --- ADMs baby, its the only way to be sure.

62 Will Forks could plug the hole in the Gulf

63 Posted by: maddogg at May 25 I'm not an engineer and I don't work in oil, so my credentials are only that of a construction manager who's seen everything go wrong at least once. My hindsight suggestion, and one that occurred to me early on in this crisis, was the "blunt instrument approach". Basically send a barge (or two or three...) loaded with rubble (concrete, boulders, anything heavy and hard) out to the site and just starting dumping it down on top of the gusher. Make a mound 500 feet high if you have to. This would (I think) slow the oil that's able to make it's way through the rubble trap to a trickle. The engineers only need a few months to dig the relief well, so the fact that it's not a permanent fix is no biggie. Sometimes there's a point where you can save a ton of effort and energy by looking down the road a bit. In this case, my brute force approach would've been low tech and probably relatively cheap. Doesn't mean it would've worked of course, but at this point I don't think it could have hurt.

64 Man you guys are a riot today!

I've never seen a blog open up such large cans of whoop ass on trolls like this one.

I'm sure we have made several cry themselves to sleep on their Obama "Body Pillows".

65

Franklin Pierce @ #35: Hey, at least I had the excuse of being drunk for my four years.

I told you. It's all Pierce's fault!

66 Word o'the Day

"Study"

Used in a sentence:

On the coast, local officials complained that Washington has been too slow in helping them hold back the oil. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ® said that the administration has not provided enough equipment -- including booms, skimmers, vacuums and barges -- and that it has stood in the way of his proposal to erect artificial barrier islands. Federal officials say that latter plan needs more study.

Sentence #2:

“You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

Now, you can see the problem.

No one wants to be stuck in Iraq.

67 Translation:  The White House just called the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania a liar.

Well.  Yeah.  He's a politician.

68

I used to think Obama was just inept and foolish. As more bailouts rollout, I think quite possibly- that he is more sinister than I gave him credit for.

Obama is an idiot - if you've read any of the stuff he wrote without Ayers's help, then you'd be hard-pressed to grant him an IQ of 115.

The people who pull his strings, though, are very sinister.

Like 1917 levels of sinister.

[Cue Malor to call me an anti-semite.]

 

69 "SOURCE: Obama skipping Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. 'He'll be on vacation in Chicago'..."

me:  not for anything but not celebrating memorial day isn't going to help that approval rating
lib/dem obamabot friend:  oh don't be so hard on him I don't really think he is taking a vacation in Chicago
me:  no, he said he's taking a vacation in Chicago
ldof:  no no we think he must be having to go to Chicago to testify or something, but not for a vacation

70 Now I see on drudge that His Turdliness is going on vacation for Memorial Day, and won't be "available" to go to Arlington?

He'll be speaking at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Illinois.  I'm guessing a lot more than ten sentences, and not a one of them memorable unless it's an excrable insult.

71

@67

No, that wouldn't have worked. The oil is flowing at enourmous pressure, even though it has thousands of pounds of seawater pressing down on the formation. It would cut through the rubble like a hot knife through pudding, and then all the rubble would make getting to the well just that much harder.

72 Hey! We were 48 percenters, back when 48% wasn't cool!

Sooner or later, after all the BS fades away...you gotta put up or shut up. It's shut up time for the Won. Let's hope he takes advantage of it. Golf all week, El Presidente, that's a week of bliss for the rest of us...

73 so it wouldn't be at all out of the realm of the possible to see BHO II keel over from something like a masssive cocaine-binge-induced cardiovascular event, after he had turned to drugs when he sensed that he had lost that lovin' feelin'.

Weekend at Obama's, with Rahm and Gibbsie.

74

Will Forks could plug the hole in the Gulf

and

Basically send a barge (or two or three...) loaded with rubble (concrete, boulders, anything heavy and hard) out to the site and just starting dumping it down on top of the gusher.

equals

the Inappropriate Touching Method^TM of plugging the leak.

75 Posted by: curious at May 25, 2010 10:37 AM (p302b)

Frankly, the less this preening dickhead sullies the memory of the fallen with his odious presence the better.

76 turn the tables.  if gwb wasn't going to arlington, if he was taking another vacation in the midst of all this financial chaos and all the games in Core ear and the mid le east, what would they be saying about him besides just crucifying him.

77 I actually feel safer when he is off playing golf. If something serious happens I would rather have Rahm or Brennan on point.

78 Posted by: Mama AJ at May 25, 2010 10:39 AM (XdlcF)
is will folks the guy who is accusing the candidate of having an affair with him, that i commented about yesterday, since Sarah Palin came to her defense on facebook?

79 is will folks the guy who is accusing the candidate of having an affair with him

Yeah, there were several amusing Will Folks posts and comment threads yesterday.

80 polynikes, the cap and funnel idea didn't work because a large part of this well's flow in gas; that well's depth (pressure) and temperature (cold), those gases formed a icy slush (hydrates) that would prevent a seal or clog it.

81 We wanted to plug the oil leak with Michelle's ass, but we couldn't find a ship that could carry it out there and nobody could figure out how to make it sink to the bottom.

82 I have a friend in the Secret Service. They loved Bush. He didn't vacation on holidays very much. That meant that they didn't have to travel and could remain home with their families. Bush even barbecued for them. They liked him a lot.

Billary, not so much. She hated cops, all cops- those Arkansas troopers imprinted her badly shuttling Slick Willie to Jen's joint and providing cover.

Love to hear my friend's take on the Won. But we are all retired now and gone away...

83

Axelrod: No evidence that Sestak is telling the truth

This is precisely the same bullshit that we got out of this crowd during Whitewater and Lewinsky-gate.

"No evidence" that crimes were committed.

"No evidence" that Hillary had anything to do with the Rose Law Firm billing records miraculously re-appearing in the White House with her fingerprints all over them.

"No evidence" that Lewinsky-gate was amounted to anything more than lies about sex - and, after all, everyone lies about sex, don't you know?

This is straight out of the playbook of the psychological warfare team:

How Obama Is Using the Science of Change
By Michael Grunwald
Thursday, Apr. 02, 2009
time.com

...The existence of this behavioral dream team - which also included best-selling authors Dan Ariely of MIT (Predictably Irrational) and Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein of the University of Chicago (Nudge) as well as Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman of Princeton - has never been publicly disclosed, even though its members gave Obama white papers on messaging, fundraising and rumor control as well as voter mobilization...

 

84 The narcissistic supply grows thin.  Meltdown approaching.

85

does anyone else think the soviet nuke method may actually become an option if this continues?

 

i would think not, and if it were to come to pass it would be the end of offshore drilling in america forever.

86 Rand Paul!

87

 have a friend in the Secret Service. They loved Bush. He didn't vacation on holidays very much. That meant that they didn't have to travel and could remain home with their families. Bush even barbecued for them. They liked him a lot.

Billary, not so much. She hated cops, all cops- those Arkansas troopers imprinted her badly shuttling Slick Willie to Jen's joint and providing cover.

Some ex secret service guy wrote about about the secret service in modern times and how they felt about the presidents.

He said jimmy carter was the biggest phoney prick and they all loved Reagan

88

Yeah, there were several amusing Will Folks posts

If you find Ace being the crap out of someone amusing...then hell yes.

_{I don't ever want him mad at me.}

89 I hear you about the pressure, but they are able to totally corral it with well placed valves and pipes, so I think one could probably slow it down with thousands of tons of concrete and steel. I've looked at the video and it seems like the leak is definitely billowing with some power, but plenty of messed up equipment is lying around it, so it's not like it's a massive geyser we could never get near. Anyway, if that approach sucks, I'll have to think of a new one. Can't let Kevin Costner get all the glory.

90 Posted by: Waterhouse at May 25, 2010 10:44 AM (u+34p)

Why do all the fun things happen when all hell breaks lose at work...shucks I miss all the fun..

91 OT
In case you guys haven't seen it yet today, another Alabama killer political commercial.

http://tiny.cc/bm7ws

92 On of my friends is trying to figure out what to do, in his bathtub.  the water pressure must be enormous at that depth.

93

great Jay Leno somehow managed to connect the oil spill to the tea partiers.

94

I saw on the Chicago morning news that Rahm is taking his son to Israel for his Bar Mitzvah but will practically be in hiding the whole time he's there because Israelis are so pissed off at Barry and think that Rahm is doing nothing for Israel.

95 is will folks the guy who is accusing the candidate of having an affair with him

Yeah, there were several amusing Will Folks posts and comment threads yesterday.

Repeat post from Headlines thread:

But anyway if ya'll want the news on this Will Folks kerfunckle here in SC here it is. First a review

Will Folks is a political blogger much like Ace, only local in SC. I used to read his blog but it became boring. Supposedly he is a conservative Republican and a supporter of Mark Sanford. I can't testify to either one of those facts. I can tell you that in years past from reading his blog I didn't note that it was any great beacon of conservatism or even libertarianism.

This is the web site he founded. It is currently led by other people.

http://tinyurl.com/kvy6g8

The story as I currently understand it is this:

1. We have a bunch of "Republicans" running for Governor. The primary vote is on June 8, only a couple of weeks away. The current candidates are as follows:

Attorney General Henry McMaster, state Rep. Nikki Haley, state Sen. Larry Grooms, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer and U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett.

2. Sarah Palin came to the State a short while ago and endorsed Nikki Haley. Since then her poll numbers have shot through the roof. She is now far in the lead on the Ras poll numbers. Before the Palin endorsement I had never heard of her. In fact, I had heard of only two of the current candidates. ALL of the newspapers here are Dem Party PR rags. The only stories they will print are ones they think will hurt Republicans.

3. According to most of the things I have read Nikki Haley is a true small government conservative i.e. the tea party ideal candidate.

4. The established Republican Party in SC hates small government conservatives, hence the relentless attacks on Mark Sanford and now Nikki Haley.

Keep in mind that the current Republican Party in SC is led by Lindsey Graham. Most of the current Republicans in the State House are former Democrats who became Republicans when SC abandoned the Dem Party. Hence the hate for small government.

5. According to Will Folks a group of liberals was about to release a smear campaign on Nikki Haley after she got the lead in the polls. This smear campaign was going to allege an affair between him and Nikki Haley. This is what made him come forward now.

6. What he alleges is that in the past, before he was married, he had "inappropriate physical contact" with Haley. He refuses to provide any details or further explanation.

7. Of course since this was an alleged affair of a Republican conservative the media led by Jim Davenport (AP- former State Newspaper Dem PR spokesman) picked up on it in a hurry.

8. Nikki Haley denies that any affair has ever occurred between her and Will Folks.

Based on what has actually been said this could be nothing more than Will Folks groping her at a Christmas party.

What I gather from all of this is that it is the typical SC Republican Party hack attack campaign. it only makes me want to vote for Nikki Haley even more.

Morons of SC remember this; a vote for Nikki Haley is a vote against Part hacks like Lindsey Graham.

96 88 Thanks for posting that link. I had read that story a long time ago and couldn't find it.

That shit is pretty sneaky. Dude has taken this game to a whole new level. Psychological marketing- fucking great. But then we all knew it.

97
Dictator (for just a bit) Obama promised to part the seas, walk on water, and lower the sea level.  Where's the magic? 

98 The narcissistic supply grows thin.  Meltdown approaching.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 25, 2010 10:47 AM (fLHQe)

Yep and it'll be great.  Exorcist level insane visuals as the jugeared fuck's inner demons are revealed to all.

99

Israel should pull Rahm's visa.

Can jews excommunicate someone?

100 Fuck yes, they can. Kick his ass out!

101 I'm sure we have made several cry themselves to sleep on their Obama "Body Pillows".

The Obama blanket fleece, formerly $24.99/panel and now $10/panel, is 50% off the clearance price this weekend.   I'm considering performance art.

102 Posted by: Vic at May 25, 2010 10:51 AM (6taRI)

thank you Vic....wow your posts always educate me...always...

103
When Obama's numbers hit the thirties I'm buying a $30 bottle of champagne.

104 Can you imagine Israel managing their borders like California? LMAO just thinking about it...

105

Maddogg,

This well is basically producing through a 42" choke and will probably pull the formation in and kill itself before BP comes up with a solution.

106 "106

Israel should pull Rahm's visa.

Can jews excommunicate someone?

Posted by: Rat Patrol at May 25, 2010 10:54 AM (dQdrY)"

He wasn't on the guest list for "the monarch butterfly blowout bash" and they were saying he was in Israel on important business. 

107 polynikes, you mean like a 10' diameter tube 5000 ft to the surface - I think you would still have pressure effects that would blow out the bottom. They were talking about a heated cap or circulating an anti-freeze down there.

108 90

does anyone else think the soviet nuke method may actually become an option if this continues?

Why would it have to be a nuke? Were talking about a 24" diam. hole. Would a big mofo conventional bomb do the trick?

 

109 It's not you, it's us.  We just don't like being lied to by a meglamaniacal, sociopathic socialist.

110 Posted by: dananjcon at May 25, 2010 10:58 AM (pr+up)

Honestly, you don't know how the earth qill react if you bunker buster the oil hole...how do you know the bunker buster won't dig its way to china or something.   My mom says when she was a kid and you were digging in the ground they would tell you if you kept going you could dig all the way to china.

111 When his numbers hit 30, I'm gonna drink a bottle of champagne, purchased from any place other than California...

112

does anyone else think the soviet nuke method may actually become an option if this continues?

Why would it have to be a nuke? Were talking about a 24" diam. hole. Would a big mofo conventional bomb do the trick?

why? because we've spent billions, tens of billions on nukes and we've only gotten to use two.

damn do nothing nuclear weapons.

113

When his numbers hit 30, I'm gonna drink a bottle of champagne, purchased from any place other than California...

funny you mention that. i stopped buying california wine about 9 months ago.

114 Headline:  Obama and Democrats near agreement to end don't ask don't tell.
 ......

In more mundane news, the stock market is crashing, the oil spill is getting worse, and North Korea and South Korea are almost at War.

And for the weekend,  Muffy and Biff will take the plane and entourage to Chicago for long weekend to rest up.

Screwing up the country really drains the energy out of you.

115 Vic, any comments -- http://tinyurl.com/3a8ws2l

116

Israel should pull Rahm's visa.

Can jews excommunicate someone?

no. there is no central jewish authority like there is with the pope.

117 Hmmm, the conventional explosives method sounds too quick and easy to not have been tried yet, doesn't it? Anyone know a reason it wouldn't work/shouldn't be tried? I'm kinda picturing a huge gushing crater replacing the little leak and the whole Gulf turning into a tar pit.

118 I figure BP will attempt to kill the well  by stabbing pipe down into the casing for a couple of thousand feet, then pumping heavy mud into the casing at a high rate, say 100 barrels per minute. If that won't kill it, they will have to directional drill a pressure relief well into the side of the existing casing, lowering the flow and pressure enough to get Halliburton or Hughs to pump a thick fast setting cement plug into the broken off casing somewhere above the pressure relief intersection. The service companies have cement that sets in under 5 minutes for these situations, though it is hazardous to the equipment is something goes wrong and they have to stop pumping. Been there, done that.

119 Tactical nukes for oil wells? Are they giving away free acid when you hit the paypal button on AOSHQ?

120 ADMs are the answer, regardless of the question. ADMs (Atomic Demolition Munitions), don't fight the geography, change it.

121

Tactical nukes for oil wells? Are they giving away free acid when you hit the paypal button on AOSHQ?

The soviets did it a bunch of times.

122

funny you mention that. i stopped buying california wine about 9 months ago.

Posted by: Ben at May 25, 2010 11:02 AM (wuv1c)

We make a lot of wine here in Arkansas. Just sayin'...

123 funny you mention that. i stopped buying california wine about 9 months ago.

Ben, I quit doing any biz with California after their Arizona bullshit. Do you know how hard it is to buy produce that is not from California? Find a farmers market, buy local, and give Ca. a taste of your ass. Plicks.

124 The problem with the relief well is that the formation pressure may be great enough to pop it too. Something changed between when they drilled that well and when tried to cap it.

125 ADMs are the only government tool available; if they white house wants to kick BP out -- what have they got left.

126 Buy arky wine!

127 Kwame Kilpatrick just got sentenced to five years in the slammer!

128

funny you mention that. i stopped buying california wine about 9 months ago.

Ben, I quit doing any biz with California after their Arizona bullshit. Do you know how hard it is to buy produce that is not from California? Find a farmers market, buy local, and give Ca. a taste of your ass. Plicks.

 

i grown my own vegetables and fruit. Apples, Plums, Tomotos, Pepper, Watermellon, Cukes, Peas, etc. And what I can't get I buy from a local farm up in Butler County.

But you're right a lot of produce comes from Cali. I've done my best to stop buying products from there. It's easy to do with wine though, because it is clearly labeled as california wine at my local state store. I've been buying French and Pennslyvania wine.

129 Only thing stopping the administration from taking over is that they'd also have to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY.  Much easier to stand back and criticize BP.

130 117 Posted by: dananjcon at May 25, 2010 10:58 AM (pr+up)

Honestly, you don't know how the earth qill react if you bunker buster the oil hole...how do you know the bunker buster won't dig its way to china or something.   My mom says when she was a kid and you were digging in the ground they would tell you if you kept going you could dig all the way to china.

Posted by: curious at May 25, 2010 11:00 AM (p302b)

If we can target the NORKOs instead; two birds one stone! done & done! easy peezy lemmon squeezy, winner winner chicken dinner!

 

131 Like, Can't We just stick Michelle Obama's Ass in the thing to plug it up? I heard she "Got Back", Like so it should be big enough....

132

Morons of SC remember this; a vote for Nikki Haley is a vote against Part hacks like Lindsey Graham.

But without Lindsey, who would lick my sweet, hairy, balls?

- Rahm "Spinoza" Emanuel

 

133 Vic, any comments -- http://tinyurl.com/3a8ws2l

No; I had not heard of any of these people.  As I said in my earlier post, the papers here only mention Republicans in two cases, first if there is a scandal and second when they die the local paper may issue an obituary.

Thanks for that link. I write those names down when I go to the polls for the primary.

I hope they are in fact small gov conservatives.

134 Whats with all the explosives talk. Explosives wouldn't close the borehole in all likelihood, but it would make any other method impossible.

135 poly - no, you need something compact to go down a drilled shaft near the well. Then it needs to survive the temperature and pressure -- and explode -- without any environmental O2. You need to crush the well shaft over hundreds of feet, not at a single point.

136 I kill them with my mind. Sometimes, I throw up in my mouth.

137

40    A friend's 16 year old autistic son called her at work to say he had captured a troll and locked it in the closet. The friend thought nothing of it until she got home that night and heard screaming and banging coming from her coat closet. When she opened the door, out came a very pissed-off little old lady census taker.

I heard the same story from my wife, who got it from a woman who claimed the son was hers.   In the version I heard the troll was a dwarf.

Methinks this has all the hallmarks of an Urban Legend. 

 

138

 You need to crush the well shaft over hundreds of feet, not at a single point.

And you'd have to crush it without rupturing it too. Most difficult.

139

 

In the version I heard the liberal troll was a dwarf the dimunitive Robert Reich, Clinton's bull licker and penis scrubber.

140 maddogg, its work 4 out of 5 times for the russkies. But, yeah high risk. Still think it has a better chance then the junk shot. It's a shame wally world doesn't stock 500ton BOPs; dropping another one on top sounds like the best idea.

141

One slightly optimistic way to look at the 50% of us who pay no taxes is my story.  Between the ages of 18 and 32 I didn't pay much if any taxes either.  I spent 5 years enlisted USAF, 6 years getting my engineering degree (least I finished), and 3 more pretend working (stage construction/lighting) and getting business grad degree.  Then later once I started working "real" jobs I still made jack till I hit 40 and only then started making good taxpaying money.  I was a right wing nut job the whole time (must confess I went with Carter not Ford).  So somewhere between ages 46 - 48+ I would have been that average taxpayer – my career could have been divided between 50% paying no taxes and 50% paying taxes. 

Am I wrong to assume that most morons and bloggers are late bloomers?

GeneTheHappy

142

I'd like to call for a renewed focus on redirecting the flow with pressure relief.

143

Maybe we could just start dumping congress on top of the leak. If that does not plug it, we move on to non-essential government union employees. Continue until the hole is filled.

144 Kwame Kilpatrick just got sentenced to five years in the slammer!

Posted by: Ed Anger at May 25, 2010 11:11 AM (7+pP9)

LOL; escort service's safety now at all-time high

Wayne Circuit Judge David Groner who said the former mayor engaged in "contemptible behavior" by hiding assets from the court.

Groner chastised Kilpatrick before imposing the sentence, which included a minimum of 18 months in prison. Several people in the courtroom gasped when the judge handed down the sentence.

"Probation is no longer an option. The terms of your earlier probation no longer apply; that ship has sailed," Groner said. "This is all because of the actions of you, Mr. Kilpatrick. You were convicted ... all because you lied under oath. That lie ... was part of a broader attempt to cover up your misdeeds while serving as mayor.

"You challenged this court's authority," Groner said. "You attempted to utilize semantics and exploit loopholes. The broader context of this issue is that your family living expenses -- including living in a million-dollar home, driving a brand new Escalade and purchasing elective surgery for your wife -- you have made it perfectly clear that it's more important to pacify your wife than comply with my orders."

Groner said Kilpatrick will get 120 days credit, meaning his minimum term would be 14 months. That would put him in a Michigan prison.

Kilpatrick was handcuffed in the court and led away.

Prior to the sentencing, the former mayor pleaded for leniency from Groner.

"Whatever I did ... I sincerely apologize," he said. "It's hard to speak to some of the things that have been said about me. Let me start by saying I'm a human being, a real-life, flesh-and-blood person. Often when I hear about myself from the media, I'm extraordinarily confused because it's not me. I'm not the mayor of the city; the city has a new mayor."

Kilpatrick also owned up to what he called mistakes: "I cheated on my wife, your honor. I don't think anyone in this courtroom can know what it's like to be on the global newswire with text messages to someone that your wife is reading, as well.

"Sending your kids to school after you get ridiculed; getting in fights; things that are totally out of their character, and you did it. I accept responsibility for what I did. I spent a whole year feeling an enormous amount of guilt for what I did to my wife, my children and this city. And I still feel it."

145

"Plug the damn hole"

 

 

That's what she said!

 

 

 

146 Obama is getting bitchy? 

147 sociopathic socialist.

Posted by: The American voters at May 25, 2010 10:59 AM (xxgag)

reflexive synonyms

148

I would think that one of the reasons that a nuke would work to seal the leak and not a MOAB is because the heat produced by the nuke would fuse the well shut whereas the bunker buster may just push rock out of the way.

Just a guess...

149 theBman - can we test one on Congress first?

150 We all remember the old joke:

Q. What do you call 1,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A. A good start.

Well, with the use of some high-tension wire and a tamping rod maybe we can wedge those 1,000 lawyers into the hole at the bottom of the ocean to stop the oil leak.  And if it doesn't work, we still got rid of 1,000 lawyers so there really isn't much to lose by attempting this.  Feel free to substitute "Democratic members of Congress" for "lawyers" if you prefer.

151

@mrkwong

I got no problem with that so long as we make sure the prvailing winds are blowing N to NNE and the morons have ample warning to vacate the fallout path...

152 WHOLESALE WATCHES,RETAIL WATCHES,REPLICA WATCHES,COPY WATCHES,BRAND WATCHES,ROLEX,CARTIER,HUBLOT. www.iloveinwatch.com http://www.iloveinwatch.com/category-126-b0-Rolex+watch.html">Replica Rolex http://www.iloveinwatch.com/category-94-b0-Cartier+watch.html">Replica Cartier http://www.iloveinwatch.com/category-108-b0-Hublot+watch.html">Replica Hublot