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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 11:48 am 
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An AP article on Yahoo Wrote:
The first chance to choke off the flow for good should come in about a week. Engineers plan to shoot heavy mud into the crippled blowout preventer on top of the well, then permanently entomb the leak in concrete. If that doesn't work, crews also can shoot golf balls and knotted rope into the nooks and crannies of the device to plug it, Wells said.


So underwater golfing is the answer?


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was Tiger Woods consulted about this?

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His idea was to plug the hole with something else, again and again.


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This whole disaster is one of the biggest FAILS in contemporary history.


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agreed. it's lunacy that all of this shit is theoretical at this point. i can't believe this kind of rig wasn't foolproof in terms of preventing this kind of leak. unreal.


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yes i agree they are all stupid! why didnt they all listen to me and make things work right? ive always said things should work right and disasters shouldnt happen and people shouldnt make bad decisions but does anyone listen NOOOOOOOOOOO why cant they be smarter.


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Holiday Inn will still be packed for Senior Trip on PCB.

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Kids mostly just drive up and down the strip and get wasted in their hotel rooms anyways.


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Holiday Inn will still be packed for Senior Trip on PCB.

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yes i agree they are all stupid! why didnt they all listen to me and make things work right? ive always said things should work right and disasters shouldnt happen and people shouldnt make bad decisions but does anyone listen NOOOOOOOOOOO why cant they be smarter.


there's that whole massive negligence thing, too.

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I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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Oh I know. Don't take that as any serious kind of anything.


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Oh I know. Don't take that as any serious kind of anything.


It was pretty funny. My favorite are all the people I know who join FB groups like "sAVe TEH BeAcheZ of aLaBAMa n fL0-Rida!"

you know, cos their like activists and shit.

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I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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Drinky Wrote:
yes i agree they are all stupid! why didnt they all listen to me and make things work right? ive always said things should work right and disasters shouldnt happen and people shouldnt make bad decisions but does anyone listen NOOOOOOOOOOO why cant they be smarter.


or just have a reasonable process to prevent a known and quantifiable risk?


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some lawyers gonna get RICHG on this

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some lawyers gonna get RICHGERG on this

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I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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Drinky Wrote:
Oh I know. Don't take that as any serious kind of anything.


It was pretty funny. My favorite are all the people I know who join FB groups like "sAVe TEH BeAcheZ of aLaBAMa n fL0-Rida!"

you know, cos their like activists and shit.


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rparis74 Wrote:
some lawyers gonna get RICHG on this

a friend of mine works for the firm that represents BP. they are getting slammed, for sure.


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which firm is it?


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Drinky Wrote:
yes i agree they are all stupid! why didnt they all listen to me and make things work right? ive always said things should work right and disasters shouldnt happen and people shouldnt make bad decisions but does anyone listen NOOOOOOOOOOO why cant they be smarter.


Time to change your panties.


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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 11:31 pm 
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You do make me wet, stu.


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I just had my own little oil spill.


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Haha, gross. See Rads, he DOES have a sense of humor!!


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oily discharge.

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"It's cool, guys... I got it," says Kevin Costner.

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VENICE, Louisiana — Hollywood star Kevin Costner will be pitching in with the effort to avert environmental calamity threatened by the growing Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to a local official.

Costner, star of "Waterworld" and "Field of Dreams," will be in the area on Thursday with his scientist brother Dan, where he will be demonstrating a type of water-oil separation device, said Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish in southern Louisiana.

"Sometimes it takes a star to come in with their money and time to make a difference," Nungesser told reporters at Venice's Cypress Cove marina, at a press conference on the ongoing oil spill held by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.

The Costner brothers founded the Costner Industries Nevada Corporation (CINC), and have in the past promoted an oil-water filtration system designed by Dan Costner to recycle oil, according to records of the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Kurt Fromherz, Nungesser's spokesman, later told AFP that Costner was in the region "lending his support to the clean-up effort in any way he can."

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said earlier Wednesday that the "intellectual horsepower of the country is engaged in solving this problem," to stop an estimated 210,000 gallons of oil that is gushing daily from a sunken BP-leased rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

The growing spill is threatening fragile ecosystems along the shoreline of Gulf states and is severely impacting the local economy as large swaths of federal waters have been shut down for fishing.


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So...no golfing?


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