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To: stockman_scott who wrote (80904)	6/4/2010 10:27:49 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 89467

A Very Fat Fook...makes Real..Phunny The knock-down-drag-out brawl for South Carolina's Republican gubernatorial nomination just got nastier. A GOP state senator called front-runner Nikki Haley, the only woman in the race and a daughter of Indian immigrants, "a raghead" on a political talk show Thursday night. "We already got one raghead in the White House," John M. "Jake" Knotts Jr. said on the Internet talk show "Pub Politics," according to The State newspaper. "We don't need another in the governor's mansion." Knotts, a supporter of one of Haley's opponents, later apologized and said his comment was made in jest.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (80904)	6/4/2010 11:02:30 PM
From: T L Comiskey	1 Recommendation Respond to of 89467

The Disaster in The Gulf.. PBS... pbs.org The MMS... pbs.org

To: stockman_scott who wrote (80904)	6/4/2010 11:22:31 PM
From: T L Comiskey	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Carl Safina...The Blue Ocean Institute... Apocalypse Again Don’t believe the globe is warming? Fine. Whatever. Here’s one thing everyone agrees on: the fact that oil spills. Even without global warming—even if global warming is a hoax—we must, finally, eventually, kick the carbon-energy addiction. The fact that oil spills is among those reasons. As if New Orleans doesn’t have enough problems. As if shrimpers and fishermen, already staggered, need an oil spill that will finish them. And now look: 5,000 barrels a day. Not 1,000 as they’d been saying. 5,000 barrels a day. That’s two hundred barrels an hour, 24/7. When will it end? No one can say. Months, I’m hearing. “It could eclipse Exxon Valdez.” A man asked tonight for my thoughts on what will happen if the oil reaches shore. I’d rather not think about it, I told the audience. Explosions. Dozens of dead workers this month, lost between the coal mine and the brine. Point being: fossil fuels—coal and oil—are dirty. They make people sick. They make people die. They hurt innocents, human and non. Their time has passed. The things that must be done to kick this filth are the same things that must be done to address climate change, regardless: harness the tides we are despoiling. Harness the wind that’s pushing all that oil ashore. Harness the sun that’s making that rainbowed sheen. After the blast at the rig, not enough booms could be found to contain the mushrooming billows of oil. Dispersants? They dissolve the oil, sinking it from the surface. What was polluting the surface now pollutes the whole sea. Right in the only spawning area of the remaining west Atlantic bluefin tuna, which are spawning now. No solution there. Plus, look, there’s not enough to stop the spreading slick. Burn it? Only 3 percent of the slick is thick enough to catch and hold the flame on the surface of the sea. " carlsafina.org

To: stockman_scott who wrote (80904)	6/4/2010 11:27:00 PM
From: T L Comiskey	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 89467

On..PBS...just now Carl Safina from the Blue Ocean Institute A MacArthur Fellow.. 'The Gulf is dead for 40 years..'

To: stockman_scott who wrote (80904)	6/4/2010 11:37:54 PM
From: denizen48	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

To me it appears these are intended fuck-ups. Kind of like that Iraq occupation. TOP HAT, they hadn't been told about the predicted icing? And took a week to build it? And the next one was like trying to put the genie back in the bottle. And then they try what should have been done in the first place, namely splice to the pipe. It should have been done with a giant machined compression fitting(which should have been laying ready on the parts shelf.) And when you do a fitting like that, the pipe needs to be ROUND. You don't fuck it up with shears. How long do we have to watch BP screwing us?