tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post8432669741551092161..comments2024-01-05T02:53:03.358-06:00Comments on American Zombie: Evacuate the Entire Gulf?Jason Brad Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-64165484468329284942010-06-29T16:37:44.319-05:002010-06-29T16:37:44.319-05:00The real problem is that there is no source for cr...The real problem is that there is no source for credible information. BP has this thing locked down tighter than a drum. Until there is some real data about the actual conditions released from another source other than BP that backs up what they have been saying these wild speculations will continue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-43619092529036460602010-06-28T22:25:04.322-05:002010-06-28T22:25:04.322-05:00" And you can smell oil uptown. That is a fac..." And you can smell oil uptown. That is a fact. <br />Unless your nasal passages have been blown out from a decades worth of blow."<br /> I'm sorry but I still don't smell it and I tried really hard today and I think I just smelled my neighbors fart mixed with the gas sheen on the road surface mixed with whatever is parked at the port. Remember in April when people were saying their eyes were burning? Shouldn't we be vomiting all over ourselves by now?<br /><br />On a related note, how much will one day of oil smell be worth in the class action? I need to know so I can offer that much to by friend so I can fart in his face.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-89782117183370494362010-06-28T19:17:42.478-05:002010-06-28T19:17:42.478-05:00Pretty good (and funny) article at Cracked.com
6 ...Pretty good (and funny) article at Cracked.com<br /><br />6 Objective Reasons The US Army Should Invade BP<br /><br />http://www.cracked.com/article_18614_6-objective-reasons-us-army-should-invade-bp.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-81285940315449740852010-06-28T11:02:21.025-05:002010-06-28T11:02:21.025-05:00Professor Eric Smith of the Tulane Energy Institut...Professor Eric Smith of the Tulane Energy Institute has this opinion on the article:<br /><br />"termites are coming out of the woodwork".Judy Thornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13871846865461659183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-58412454144933625492010-06-27T12:26:43.003-05:002010-06-27T12:26:43.003-05:00Yeah, there are definitely days when you can smell...Yeah, there are definitely days when you can smell shit wafting through the city. I won't deny that. <br /><br />But there are alos days when you can smell Norco's nastiness wafting through the city.Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-7167676326092941272010-06-27T12:21:03.026-05:002010-06-27T12:21:03.026-05:00" Anonymous said...
It's all about d..." Anonymous said...<br /><br /> It's all about disaster porn. People love drama because it provides an outlet for their irrationality. It's like the whole "I can smell the oil from uptown!". Bullshit."<br /><br />And you can smell oil uptown. That is a fact. <br />Unless your nasal passages have been blown out from a decades worth of blow.Monicanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-36974325663741698832010-06-27T11:44:33.327-05:002010-06-27T11:44:33.327-05:00Well, friends, he's had the effect he may have...Well, friends, he's had the effect he may have been aiming for, though, right?<br /><br />Dambala, you are one of my heros for your ability to spy things out and to communicate what you learn. <br /><br />I was sorry to lose access to your insight on the city issues as the end of the Nagin era coincided with the oil hell, but I wholeheartedly agreed with your switch in focus to what was most important. <br /><br />I'm one of those who thinks you should write about whatever you darn well please, and we're blessed to have you. <br /><br />But notice, the first eyewitness videos of what was happening out on the water that you were bringing to all of us as this began, have, in the past couple of posts, been replaced by refutations of the crazy man(s)/ArrianaAdam'sApple.<br /><br />Do what you will, brother, but I'm fine to stop giving those dudes any more attention, even to refute them. <br /><br />I want to know about fish kills.<br /><br />Kindra Arneson's explaination of BP's "ponies and balloons" phrase might be worth a post; how they've changed up their public meeting styles, too. <br /><br />I'm not saying you have to be the guy to write those things, and I don't think you need to stay on any kind of message at all. You write what you feel is right. <br /><br />But I liked the way you were connecting to the oyster fishermen and the others who go out on the water. <br /><br />You gave us something precious when you did that. <br /><br />Just bearing witnesses to the things that need witnessing, and leaving the rest to sort out itself, one day at a time, is where I'm at right now. <br /><br />Thanks for all that you do, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-17532124121537037812010-06-27T00:01:58.349-05:002010-06-27T00:01:58.349-05:00you called me a tea partier?
We need to meet mo...you called me a tea partier? <br /><br />We need to meet mono y mono and lay our shit on the table over a beer or two.Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-58103349588024359742010-06-26T23:57:46.351-05:002010-06-26T23:57:46.351-05:00oh give me a fucking break. Peak oil is as scient...oh give me a fucking break. Peak oil is as scientifically sound as Creationism.<br /><br />Peak Oil is not even in the same ballpark as the science of climate change.<br /><br />We know fossil fuels are heating up the planet, that is science. <br /><br />The notion that we've reached a point where we are consuming more fossil fuels than we can harvest is not science. Sorry bro, but it's not. <br /><br />I'm not promoting the use of more carbon, I'm just saying that Peak Oil is a fringe theory...and it is. <br /><br />And more importantly, Simmons is notorious for creating doomsday scenarios in order to shift the market. His agenda is not in our best interest.Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-46380119387960029432010-06-26T23:41:19.145-05:002010-06-26T23:41:19.145-05:00"known for promoting the highly contended not..."known for promoting the highly contended notion of "Peak Oil" (basically states the planet's oil needs have now surpassed it's capacity)"<br /><br />Please, don't go around acting a tea partier because you're mad at the hysterics. Matt Simmons is primarily known for raising doubts about the size of Saudi Arabia's oil reserves, but that's related to the <a href="http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2005/8/25/123940/634" rel="nofollow">highly contended</a> notion of Peak Oil. I don't want to get too nasty, but Peak Oil deniers are every bit as irresponsible as climate change deniers, IMO.bayoustjohndavidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03949531682454923206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-32408435810241693902010-06-26T16:25:29.298-05:002010-06-26T16:25:29.298-05:00Yes. Seriously.Yes. Seriously.Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-2201898268890435362010-06-26T15:59:11.720-05:002010-06-26T15:59:11.720-05:00Ashe, I'm not saying the sky is falling. I'...Ashe, I'm not saying the sky is falling. I'm saying the Well Is Collapsing. <br />Now we have a former CEO of Shell saying the same thing as Simmons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt70C35zLWc&feature=player_embedded<br />I'm not saying freak out and go nuts. I'm saying learn and pay attention to the National Response Framework which is The Law right now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Response_Framework<br />That is hard cold fact. You can kid yourself about representative democracy all you want, but that democracy enacted the NRF, which became the Law of the Land the moment the President declared this an Incident of National Significance in May. It was deployed on Galveston Beach after Ike thoroughly and to ruthless efficiency. Not One Dot of that Law has been changed with Obama. It is the same machinery. Please pay particular attention to the Annex Section.<br /> <br />Put everything in hard copy --esp phone numbers.<br />Establish your networks now, hard networks with alternates.<br />This will not be like a hurricane evactuation.Editilla~New Orleans Ladderhttp://noladder.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-13939398046623927132010-06-26T15:45:07.189-05:002010-06-26T15:45:07.189-05:00It's all about disaster porn. People love dram...It's all about disaster porn. People love drama because it provides an outlet for their irrationality. It's like the whole "I can smell the oil from uptown!". Bullshit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-63064453971340201082010-06-26T11:56:05.187-05:002010-06-26T11:56:05.187-05:00This is Kit. I found your site a few days ago and ...This is Kit. I found your site a few days ago and this post and your last one really nails it. The sloppy reporting and misinformation are flying as fast as the speed of the Internet. The blurring of facts from opinions is maddening.<br /><br />@ Anonymous, your feelings reflect my own so much that I included your comment in my current post. <br /><br />Just thought I'd come back to let you and Dambala know. I'll visit again.Kit (Keep It Trill)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03027769872237001801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-7757744444045748462010-06-26T05:02:23.211-05:002010-06-26T05:02:23.211-05:00i also heard that simmons said nuking it is the on...i also heard that simmons said nuking it is the only way to stop the leak. i don't think they'll ever be able to get this thing under control. i know a guy whose father in-law works as an engineer for halliburton. he claims his father in-law said that they know they can't stop the leak their just trying to buy time (i.e top kill and junk shot). <br /><br />i wonder what your opinion on this martin feldman MF'er is?bruthaman1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-29587911935843582122010-06-26T03:07:51.585-05:002010-06-26T03:07:51.585-05:00sober up. It's serious shit, but the sky isn&...sober up. It's serious shit, but the sky isn't falling yet and this is not a time to panic. We have to take this one day at a time...may be for decades...but right now we have to take it a day at a time.Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-30929205740295756462010-06-25T18:13:07.044-05:002010-06-25T18:13:07.044-05:00Simmons is convinced the well will collapse before...Simmons is convinced the well will collapse before they can finish the relief wells and thus nuking it is the Only Option.<br />http://www.businessinsider.com/matthew-simmons-the-relief-well-will-fail-and-an-undersea-oil-lake-may-be-covering-40-of-the-gulf-2010-6<br />From Dr Doolittle to Dr Stranglove.<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDNRk8SVGYc<br />The BOP is in fact leaning, the cap is Not on tight, the well casing indeed seems to be collapsing as evidenced by the loss of 50,000 barrels of mud into the kill shot: mostly went out the sides below the BOP. Kill shots should normally take no more than 6 hours before you know it has worked. <br />So the smart people at Oil Drum are convinced that the casing will collapse at the bad concrete joints bringing down the 450 ton BOP and releasing nearly 3 miles of drill-pipe out of an ever growing un-plugable hole.<br />http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6593#comment-648967<br />There are no more kill shots. There is no more "containment" to stop this flow even now, only the relief wells which are like trying to hit a vein with a mile long rotating needle blind in a sandstorm. <br /><br />We are in for dangerous times, seriously.Editilla~New Orleans Ladderhttp://noladder.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-197966510762285002010-06-25T15:04:55.224-05:002010-06-25T15:04:55.224-05:00Mark,
I understand that it may be necessary to ev...Mark,<br /><br />I understand that it may be necessary to evacuate specific areas due to air quality, but for one of the most highly respected news resources in our country to publish that quote without validating it is quite pathetic. <br /><br />Simmons is notorious for making outrageous claims, and they quoting him here on a matter in which he has no authority whatsoever...disaster response and emergency preparedness.Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-9377657270425600982010-06-25T14:36:57.232-05:002010-06-25T14:36:57.232-05:00Have you seen this?
http://mobilebroadcastnews.com...Have you seen this?<br />http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/MBN/blog/Kindra-Arnesen-Venice-LA-Needs-be-Evacuated<br /><br />Kindra's last update on Facebook is that she had sent her children to be with relatives (presumably because of the rashes they broke out in that disappeared when they were not in Venice).<br /><br />I hate to give credence to the whackos out there grabbing their 15 minutes of marketing on the cable news, but evacuating portions of the coast very close to the oil is a very real possibility.Mark Folsehttp://toulousestreet.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-5292603321753181612010-06-25T14:10:12.071-05:002010-06-25T14:10:12.071-05:00There is so much we are not being told about the b...There is so much we are not being told about the bad effects of this spill on whales, dolphins, fish, marshes, people, and so on, it is frustrating to also see these crazy, over the top stories. <br /><br />Do you remember Dr. Dolittle and the creature the "push-me-pull-you"?<br /><br />That's what this is like. <br /><br />On the "push me" side, I want to know a lot more about how bad this really is.<br /><br /> I want to hear credible figures about how much oil is coming out, I want to know what is going on on the sea bed, I'd like to know about all the fish and animals.<br /><br /> I want to know if and when the oil is going to go into the Gulf Stream, and what that menas for all of us. <br /><br />What will happen if a lot of the oxygen producing plankton dies?<br /><br />This is a bad enough situation, and I hate feeling that there is a lot of high priced PR talent working to make sure that the bad news does not come out. <br /><br />On the "pull you" side, I want these morons with their oil rains and their evacuations of 20 million people to go shit up a tree. <br /><br />It is an odd feeling, to be simultaneously ready to believe that this is the single worst thing ever to have happened, ever... and also to want people to chill the fuck out. <br /><br />Tht video of the oil rain guy made me wish that the man from "Mutal of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" would come up behind him with one of those tranquilizer darts they use on bears. <br /><br />Maybe I just need a cocktail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-75843583760765619542010-06-25T13:45:52.527-05:002010-06-25T13:45:52.527-05:00Yes! The plan is going according to plan.Yes! The plan is going according to plan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-79556861177812529482010-06-25T11:57:29.475-05:002010-06-25T11:57:29.475-05:00I take that back - it's a different guy....thi...I take that back - it's a different guy....this is the tweet link I unfortunately followed:<br /><br />http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/06.10/toxicrain.htmlCharlottehttp://www.nolafemmes.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-37723562148325671282010-06-25T11:54:14.340-05:002010-06-25T11:54:14.340-05:00I followed a tweet link late yesterday to this man...I followed a tweet link late yesterday to this man's website and concluded he was a hysteria-spewing jerk-off. I am getting a bit freaked about how much bullshit is being published without any kind of scientific back-up and that people are believing and regurgitating it.Charlottehttp://www.nolafemmes.comnoreply@blogger.com