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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-04-10 01:42 PMOriginal message The WH briefing on the Gulf Oil disaster just now was one of the most frightening Advertisements [?]displays of bullshit I've ever seen in my 46 years of life.We are truly living in an Orwellian nightmare. I don't know what else to say about what I just witnessed...
tridim (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-04-10 01:45 PMResponse to Original message 2. Can you give us any details? Maybe just one detail?You have to say something else, otherwise your post doesn't make any sense.
Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-04-10 01:46 PMResponse to Reply #2 4. My post makes perfect sense to those who watched the briefing. Basically, the oil disaster is OVER. That enough for you?
scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-04-10 01:55 PMResponse to Reply #4 20. That's not what was said.... exactly the opposite They said the gusher is stopped. True statement.They said that cleanup efforts have been successful in taking care of a large percentage of the oil. True statement.They said there is still a *LOT* of work to do. Lots of economic damage, still lots of cleaning up to do. True statement.They didn't sugarcoat anything. Said that rebuilding the Gulf economy and restoring marine life to its pre-spill levels would be a long and arduous process.Are you that averse to positive news.... that emotionally invested in loathing of everything this administration does.... that cynical... that you can't accept a tiny bit of good news about a situation?Why is it a *BAD* thing that the gusher has been stopped?The self-loathing of so many on DU is getting downright ridiculous.
I heard the thing! Boy, nothin' like re-writin' history before the inks dry!
charlie and algernon (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-04-10 02:26 PMResponse to Original message64. Locking This thread has become a trainwreck.
screenshots, people. Do we have to have a refresher class?
one of the most frightening displays of bullshit I've ever seen in my 46 years of life.
The Deepwater explosion was an awful tragedy for the 11 workers who died on the rig, and it's no leak; it's the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. It's also inflicting serious economic and psychological damage on coastal communities that depend on tourism, fishing and drilling. But so far - while it's important to acknowledge that the long-term potential danger is simply unknowable for an underwater event that took place just three months ago - it does not seem to be inflicting severe environmental damage. "The impacts have been much, much less than everyone feared," says geochemist Jacqueline Michel, a federal contractor who is coordinating shoreline assessments in Louisiana. Yes, the spill killed birds - but so far, less than 1% of the birds killed by the Exxon Valdez. Yes, we've heard horror stories about oiled dolphins - but, so far, wildlife response teams have collected only three visibly oiled carcasses of any mammals. Yes, the spill prompted harsh restrictions on fishing and shrimping, but so far, the region's fish and shrimp have tested clean, and the restrictions are gradually being lifted. And, yes, scientists have warned that the oil could accelerate the destruction of Louisiana's disintegrating coastal marshes - a real slow-motion ecological calamity - but, so far, shorelines assessment teams have only found about 350 acres of oiled marshes, when Louisiana was already losing about 15,000 acres of wetlands every year. [...]Marine scientist Ivor Van Heerden, another former LSU prof who's working for a spill response contractor, says "there's just no data to suggest this is an environmental disaster. I have no interest in making BP look good - I think they lied about the size of the spill - but we're not seeing catastrophic impacts," says Van Heerden, who, like just about everyone else working in the Gulf these days, is being paid out of BP's spill response funds. "There's a lot of hype, but no evidence to justify it." [...]LSU coastal scientist Eugene Turner has dedicated much of his career to documenting how the oil industry has ravaged Louisiana's coast with canals and pipelines, but he says the BP spill will be a comparative blip; he predicts that the oil will destroy fewer marshes than the airboats deployed to clean up the oil. "We don't want to deny that there's some damage, but nothing like the damage we've seen for years," he says.
Yes it was. But not for the conspiracy theory reason you are intimating.Maybe it's BS because:http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/07/29/time-mag-shocker-rush-limbaugh-might-have-been-right-about-oil-spill#ixzz0vhaTkUqiAnd for the final knife in the DUmmies collective heart...the author of that Time magazine Article ADMITS that Rush Limbaugh was right on his assertion that this "leak" was overblown and that the ocean has taken care of itself.Suck it DUmmies.
