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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (195559)7/21/2010 5:54:21 AM
From: T L Comiskey  Respond to of 362340
 
Relief tunnel should reach Gulf well by weekend
By DAVID DISHNEAU and COLLEEN LONG,
Associated Press Writers –

NEW ORLEANS – Three months into the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the federal government's spill chief says a relief tunnel should finally reach BP's broken well by the weekend, meaning the gusher could be snuffed for good within two weeks.
After several days of concern about the well's stability and the leaky cap keeping the oil mostly bottled up, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Tuesday that engineers concluded the risk of a bigger blowout was minimal and were getting closer to pumping mud into the column to permanently seal it.



To: Wharf Rat who wrote (195559)7/21/2010 6:46:14 AM
From: T L Comiskey  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 362340
 
Andrew Breitbart defamed Shirley Sherrod; Brietbart could be in trouble

Conservative hit-blogger
Andrew Breitbart's known for his extreme approaches in attacking liberals,
but what he did to Shirley Sherrod, a goverment worker who gave a speech to the NAACP this year and regarding a matter that happened 24 years ago, was that he apparently made a new video to claim she was racist, and went way too far.

While he says he intended to harm the NAACP, he picked Shirley Sherrod to do it. She did not ask for this. Breitbart altered a video to twist her words.

Andrew Breitbart may be a target for the U.S. Department of Justice' Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section ("CCIPS") which is in the Criminal Division. The website, which was forwarded to this blogger by the DOJ on another issue, covers various types of crimes that involve a computer.

If Breitbart altered the video of Shirley Sherrod to make it look like she was making a statement he then called racist, he's certainly guilty of defamation of character against Shirley Sherrod.

Breitbart may also be guilty of Internet harassment. He certainly should be made a high-profile example to discourage others from these uses of the computer and The Internet to harass a person. Enough is enough

Read more: sfgate.com