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Title: Photo's of the Gulf Oil Spill
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Published: May 26, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-05-26 08:16:39 by Jethro Tull
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The leak is still, well, leaking. There is 30+ days more of this type and volume of oil behind this. 60 miles, at last check, of the most productive deltaic region in the world are fouled. Much of this area is mangrove cane marshes, and cannot be feasibly 'cleaned.' It is unknown how badly this will effect the wildlife, but it is enough to shut down production within Barataria bay, the largest single fisheries area in the state of louisiana. Poster Comment: sorry for the text size.
Entire communities, dependent on these areas for the baseline of their economies, will be summarily affected. Said communities generally encompass the houma-thibideaux and greater new orleans metro areas.
Imagine the midwest without farming. This is what you could very well be looking at. It is not an exaggeration, nor hyperbole. This is the shutdown of roughly 15% of the entire seafood production of the united states. (+50% of Louisiana, which produces roughly 33% of the whole US)
It's not just a terrible incident, it's a clusterfark of gigantic proportions. The well is not capped, and we are approaching what has every indication of being a hyperactive hurricane season whose best analog year is 2005. This is not a guarantee, yet, but the bermuda high has set itself almost exactly the same. SST's are abnormally high, and the only thing stopping formation right now is high sheer leftover from el nino. Heat content in the carribean is already at the level of being able to support a category 3 or above hurricane.
This is already bad. It could get much worse. That's the big picture
A ship maneuvers and sprays water near a rig in heavy surface oil in this aerial view over the Gulf of Mexico May 18, 2010, as oil continues to leak from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead. (REUTERS/Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace) #
A shrimp boat is used to collect oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, Louisiana on May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) #
Oil is scooped out of a marsh impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Redfish Bay along the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, May 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) #
Oil reaches the marshlands on the northeast pass of the Mississippi Delta May 23, 2010. (REUTERS/Daniel Beltra
A BP cleanup worker rakes oil from the beach on May 22, 2010 on Elmer's Island, Louisiana. Authorities closed the popular tourist beach to the public and media wishing to visit the beach must be escorted by a BP official. (John Moore/Getty Images) #
Specks of oil stick onto the foot of Maggie Grace Hurdle, 8, of Rosedale, Louisiana, as she walks along a beach in Grand Isle, Louisiana May 21, 2010. (REUTERS/Sean Gardner) #
An oil-stained pelican leaves its nest as oil washes ashore on an island that is home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well at terns, gulls and roseated spoonbills in Barataria Bay just inside the the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, May 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) #
An oil-soaked pelican takes flight after Louisiana Fish and Wildlife employees tried to corral him on an island in Barataria Bay on Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) #
Crews try to clean an island covered in oil on the south part of East Bay May 23, 2010. (REUTERS/Daniel Beltra
An outboard boat motor breaks up a thick layer of oil as Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser toured the oil-impacted marsh of Pass a Loutre on Wednesday, May 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) #
A young heron sits dying amidst oil splattering underneath mangrove on an island impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, along the the coast of Louisiana on Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) #
A Greenpeace activist steps through oil on a beach along the Gulf of Mexico on May 20, 2010 near Venice, Louisiana.
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Thank you Jethro. I've spent most of my free time since becoming an adult in the ocean, near the ocean, or planning our next trip to the ocean. I'm waiting to see what happens when the hurricanes and gulf stream do to this. I really do hope it will desperse.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
Along with the oil is a chemical called Corexit.. a toxic dispersant that destroys all life .. BP has pumped thousands of gallons of Corexit into the Gulf by aerial spraying and by pumping it next to the oil volcano .... wait till a hurricane brings the Corexit up the East Coast... this is a note from a Floridian
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
Well, yes, but actually just another episode in what has become the one long, torturous nightmare in which we are immersed. We have slowly but surely descended into an incompetent, ill-educated, mammonized cultural-economic-political cesspool. My mind picture of our situation is of of nationwide old fashioned wake with the corpse of Uncle Sam propped up in the midst and stinking to high heaven. Party on! If anyone intrudes with a solution of which step-one is not mass executions, just push the idiot aside (or, if you're younger than me, knock him on his ass).. Another word picture of our great nation? How 'bout an avenue as far as the eye can see lined with kool aid stands on each side of it. At the moment I see our best hope as being the final step of a Chinese bloodless takeover.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. .... Yeats
that's a perfect picture.
omg, the pelicans and heron....
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
At the rate it is pumping out of the ocean floor, which based on leaked reports coming out is likely at least ten times the volume the government and BP is admitting to, I'm afraid all a hurricane will do is spread the damage farther inland and over a wider expanse. I am trying not to be gloom and doom but this spill is, even if were stopped today, catastrophic in its impact on the gulf. Another 30 to 90 days and it will include the lower Atlantic seaboard as it spreads out via the gulf stream. No, this is now the worst oil catastrophe in human history and it holds the potential to be the last.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
This is worth repeating.....(anyone else popping Prozac out there?):)
When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along
That's what I've been thinking. As if things aren't bad enough, we could have this mess placed in a blender and sent to the four corners of the globe. I'm so glad I spent the month of April in S. Florida on the Gulf. I have no idea what it will look like next year.
When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along
The spill has taken on the shape of the shill!!!!
When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along
I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but, the first hurricane's tidal surge will defeat every single boom and dredged berm protecting coastal beaches, marshes and real estate, and Louisiana, Mississippi, parts of Texas and Florida will then be abandoned or become long term remediation projects, not unlike Chernobyl.
Actually I'm sufferering(?) enjoying(?) withdrawal from Effexor! ;-)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. .... Yeats
OOPS!
The Mississippi flyway is the most important migratory route of the four major North American flyways. Imagine the toll in four or five months when tens of thousands of Mallards, Scaup, Widgeons, Canada and Snow Geese, etc., land in oil, and from which there will be no escape. The good people from Delaware's TRI STATE BIRD RESCUE struggle as it is to rescue oiled birds. There aren't enough volunteers or BLUE DAWN DISH DETERGENT in the world to save the birds in a single flyway during the winter migration. Never mind ducks and geese, the brown pelicans, egrets, herons, mute and trumpeter swans and fishers such as ospreys and eagles will overwhelm the resources, if they haven't already.
You paint sad, but seemingly accurate, pictures.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. Yeah, it ain't gonna be pretty.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
#2. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#3. To: Ragin1 (#1)
#4. To: Eric Stratton, Jethro Tull (#2)
#5. To: Itistoolate (#4)
#6. To: Eric Stratton, James Deffenbach, Cynicom. Jethro Tull (#3)
What a fucking nightmare though!
#7. To: iconoclast (#6)
How 'bout an avenue as far as the eye can see lined with kool aid stands on each side of it.
#8. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#9. To: iconoclast (#6)
#10. To: Ragin1 (#1)
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I'm waiting to see what happens when the hurricanes and gulf stream do to this. I really do hope it will desperse.
#11. To: iconoclast, all (#6)
We have slowly but surely descended into an incompetent, ill-educated, mammonized cultural-economic-political cesspool.
#12. To: Ragin1, all (#1)
I'm waiting to see what happens when the hurricanes and gulf stream do to this
#13. To: Jethro Tull, All (#12)
#14. To: christine (#13)
#15. To: Ragin1, Jethro_Tull, christine, Original_Intent, James Deffenbach (#1)
I'm waiting to see what happens when the hurricanes and gulf stream do to this. I really do hope it will *disburse.
#16. To: Jethro Tull (#11)
.(anyone else popping Prozac out there?):)
#17. To: christine (#8)
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#18. To: christine (#8)
omg, the pelicans and heron....
#19. To: iconoclast (#6)
Lord Acton
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace
#20. To: HOUNDDAWG (#15)
Louisiana, Mississippi, parts of Texas and Florida will then be abandoned or become long term remediation projects, not unlike Chernobyl.
Lord Acton
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace
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