Spill Baby Spill!

Meghan Clyne, who is a conservative journalist and former speechwriter for George W. and Laura Bush, tries to make the argument that Obama hasn't convinced Americans he truly understands the disaster in the Gulf because he's not a fisherman!

LINK (Via: The Wall St. Journal)

Only a true fisherman would make a statement like this.

The reason we're in this mess is because the Obama Administration kept in place the crooked environmental guidelines Ms. Clyne's former boss and his oil industry cronies implemented to favor the industry.

The inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years – and let the world's most dangerous oil company get away with murder

LINK (Via: Rolling Stone)

The WSJ has also been reporting on the lack of Bush era oversight.

The Wall Street Journal reported on May 3 that Bush MMS federal regulators learned in a 2004 study that a vital piece of oil-drilling safety equipment may not function in deep-water seas but did nothing to bolster industry requirements.

Wall Street Journal: In 2003, Bush MMS decided not to require last-resort shut-off device. "The industry argued against" mandating a remote-control shut-off switch that serves as "last-resort protection against underwater spills," and "by 2003, U.S. regulators decided remote-controlled safeguards needed more study.

I’m sorry I slept with your girlfriend, BP. I was drunk.

You Should Totally Apologize to BP.

And up through the Gulf came a bubblin crude......

A recent photo-like image of the Gulf from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Leaked oil appears as a maze of silvery-gray ribbons. Twice-daily images of the Gulf of Mexico are available from the MODIS Rapid Response Team in additional resolutions and formats, including a georeferenced version that can be used in Google Earth.

Save Gulf Wildlife

From our friend Dr. Andy Danylchuk.

I’ve been working with a group here at U Mass Amherst to develop an iPhone app so that people can help report wildlife and habitats being impacted by the oil spill in the Gulf.  The iPhone app is now functional as is our web site

http://www.savegulfwildlife.org/

Please distribute this link to friends and colleagues that live/work along the Gulf Coast who might be interested in using the app.

Carl Hiaasen Takes Aim at BP

Every time a BP executive appears on television, I think of the garage scene from the movie Animal House. An expensive car belonging to Flounder's brother has just been trashed on a drunken road trip, and the smooth-talking Otter comforts the distraught Delta pledge with these cheery words: ``You f----- up! You trusted us! Hey, make the best of it.''

If only the BP guys were half as honest. 

 LINK (Via: The Miami Herald)

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