Early Morning Open Thread
Here’s the spin: Maybe it’s everybody’s fault! Because if it’s everybody’s fault, then it’s nobody’s fault!
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May 4, 2010 6:40 am
Posted in: Green Balloons, Open Thread
26 Comments
26 Responses
MikeTheZ - May 4, 2010 | 6:57 am · Link
7 AM and I feel like I need a few of those oil slicks…
Folderol and Ephemera - May 4, 2010 | 7:07 am · Link
Law enforcement: It works, bitchez!
Tsukune - May 4, 2010 | 7:11 am · Link
Your Fault
aimai - May 4, 2010 | 7:29 am · Link
Why doesn’t a huge hook come out of nowhere and grab Mary Landrieu and simply throw her to the wolves while she lies to our faces on the Senate Floor. “No one said it was safe…” right after “the environmentalists are wrong?” Hell, she should be defenestrated into a pool of bubbling crude just for wearing that jacket.
aimai
Niques - May 4, 2010 | 7:32 am · Link
It was 40 years ago today . . .
http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/video/xd5j6r
My son made this documentary for a middle school project a few years ago. Thought it appropriate here.
EDIT: Sorry for the advertising.
Linda Featheringill - May 4, 2010 | 7:36 am · Link
I understand the desire to avoid blame for this mess. But that doen’t mean I think the guilty parties shouldn’t be blamed. We can’t allow the deniers to get off Scot-free.
Now, however, we have other things to tend to. I suggest that we ignore the not-my-fault guys for now and try to stop the flow of oil.
I don’t know what the most recent news is. I’ll have to check up on that.
Napoleon - May 4, 2010 | 7:37 am · Link
@Niques:
Trivia fact, when the reports of problems in Kent first came into the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s newsroom they sent cub reporter Joe Eszterhas (of Basic Instinct and other movies fame), who was standing around the newsroom, down to cover it.
WereBear - May 4, 2010 | 7:42 am · Link
Nothing says “meaningless paranoia” quite like the right wing meme claiming environmentalists caused this disaster… to protect the environment.
Granted, it’s the way their pointy little heads think.
jurassicpork - May 4, 2010 | 7:50 am · Link
Some of you may remember that sociopathic screed called “We are Wall Street” that was circulating a few days ago throughout inboxes on Wall Street.
Well, here’s my rejoinder, “We Are Main Street.”
New Yorker - May 4, 2010 | 7:55 am · Link
@Folderol and Ephemera:
Oh, he’s Pakistani and not some disgruntled white dude. Expect the wingnut chorus to demand waterboarding now that we know he’s not a real ‘murkan.
cleek - May 4, 2010 | 8:01 am · Link
@WereBear:
ah… but environmentalists, you see, don’t really care about the environment, they just want to destroy the American Way Of Life ™ in order to bring on the commie revolution. the environment is just their assigned method of attack. other groups attack capitalism (unions, regulators), other groups attack Traditional American Values ™ (teachers, musicians, Hollywood). each group attacks America ™ in a certain way, but it’s a concerted effort; they all work together to weaker our Moral Fiber ™ . this is why yu must oppose them – not because you want pollution, but because so-called “environmentalists” are actually a commie advance group.
/birch
Omnes Omnibus - May 4, 2010 | 8:27 am · Link
@cleek: I have worked with a couple of people who stated, more or less, exactly that as an explanation of why “liberals” do anything. As a bonus, these people said it to my face with full knowledge of my beliefs and political outlook, explaining to me that I was just too naive to understand.
Linda Featheringill - May 4, 2010 | 8:28 am · Link
When are they supposed to place the first cofferdam? In the next couple of days?
ErinSiobhan - May 4, 2010 | 8:30 am · Link
The best information I’ve read on what is being done to stop the oil flow is here. A free two week registration is required to read this and the other related articles.
http://www.upstreamonline.com/.....213982.ece
Omnes Omnibus - May 4, 2010 | 8:32 am · Link
@Niques: 124 years since the Haymarket Affair and tomorrow will the anniversary of the Bay View Tragedy in Milwaukee. People were killed to get the eight hour workday; they should be remembered as well.
David - May 4, 2010 | 8:33 am · Link
On this week’s special one hour episode of Family Guy, Brian eats some sh*t, then eats some vomit, and then confesses he voted for John McCain.
ErinSiobhan - May 4, 2010 | 8:36 am · Link
From Upstream Online:
“Measuring 14 feet by 24 feet by 40 feet, the dome has been completed at a yard neat Port Fourchon, Louisiana, and will be mobilised within the next 24 hours.
BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said it could be over top of the main leak and begin pumping the oil in a week. ”
http://www.upstreamonline.com/.....213982.ece
They also report that a second drilling rig will be there in 10-12 days to start drilling a second relief well. And they may try installing a second BOP above the existing BOP.
BP say that they have triggered all six rams on the BOP but none of them have stopped the flow. The failure of the BOP is the most alarming thing in this disaster because of the implications for other drilling sites.
kay - May 4, 2010 | 8:41 am · Link
@WereBear:
Maybe conservatives caused the disaster to turn the gulf into a dead zone so they can treat it like they perceive it, as some pesky water covering up their oil.
Seems equally likely, and I try to be bipartisan.
The Endless Sheriff - May 4, 2010 | 9:04 am · Link
@aimai:
Defenestration should just be the first step—kind of a softening up, followed up by a lopping off of ear(s) and nose and branding of the forehead.
I want to know why there is a cap on financial responsibility. Some senator is pushing for a higher cap. Why should there be a cap? If this oil screws up our coast, that’s bad enough, but what if it ends up on the coast of Cuba and the Bahamas? Who is going to pay those people for the loss of their livelihood?
There ought to be a way to trace stock holders and confiscate their income from BP until all the people’s lives who were damaged by this are compensated.
SpotWeld - May 4, 2010 | 9:17 am · Link
If a Navy vessel the size of the USS Iowa caught fire and went down in clam weather I really doubt anyone would be satisied with “it’s everyone’s fault”.
de stijl - May 4, 2010 | 9:20 am · Link
@ErinSiobhan:
In Port Fourchon did BP/A stately containment-dome decree
Gregory - May 4, 2010 | 9:27 am · Link
I’m just curious, has anyone signed up to play EVE Online from the ads here? I’ve been playing more than two years and have noticed a Web ad blitz over the past couple of months. If you’ve signed up, what are your impressions?
SGEW - May 4, 2010 | 10:07 am · Link
@Gregory: I think that Yahtzee’s review of EVE Online sums up my impression pretty well.
Gregory - May 4, 2010 | 10:52 am · Link
@SGEW: That was funny.
Paul L. - May 4, 2010 | 1:42 pm · Link
For those who declare ACORN’s innocence based on the Independent investigation they paid for.
Independent investigation No spying in Pa. school laptops case
Zuzu's Petals - May 4, 2010 | 2:21 pm · Link
I actually laughed out loud when I saw this posted at Freeperville:
The Private Sector Has Things Pretty Much in Control
(No worries, not an actual link to FR.)