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WH disappointed by oil spill: not enough dead birds

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Posted by Mike 2010-05-20 06:16|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 no photogenic dying oil-covered birds could be found to form a backdrop for the Presidential tirade

So pay some of the locals to gather dead birds.

Or use dead chickens. With oil covering them, who'll know the difference? Certainly not your average media-folk...

Take a boat out to the oil-slick.

Maybe send some of the staff in for a swim?

C'mon - I thought of this before coffee. And this is supposed to be the smartest WH evah!

Posted by Pappy 2010-05-20 08:30|| 2010-05-20 08:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe send some of the staff in for a swim?

No one would have noticed a difference if Rhambo was coated a sheen of oil.

Posted by Beavis 2010-05-20 09:09|| 2010-05-20 09:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Or maybe the coast guard and BP are actually helping in keeping the worst of it off the beaches?

Either way, the fact that teh ONE wanted animals dying in a horrible way to make a political point against a company that made huge donations to him and is now being thrown under a political bus and being used for political points to prop up a incompetent president really shows just how slimy teh ONE is.

The faster he is driven out of Washington DC humiliated and scorned, the better.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-05-20 09:23|| 2010-05-20 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 DO NOT send them in for a swim. It would take us years to get the scum off the water.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-05-20 11:30|| 2010-05-20 11:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Crude oil and gas has oozed from the ocean depths since the beginning of time. Perhaps I missed it, but what was the daily production capacity (barrels per day) on that well BEFORE the accident? That could give a clue to roughly how much oil is being released. You Rantburg wildcat'rs correct me if I'm wrong.... again.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-20 11:31|| 2010-05-20 11:31|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 DO NOT send them in for a swim. It would take us years to get the scum off the water.
Posted by Deacon Blues

NO! Get a real feel! Swimming to the rig be good! Take ALL the press pogs as well. Don't forget to bring along your 48" Rigid pipe wrenches and fishing tools (ankle tied dummy cords). Never know when these items might come in handy. Recommend the 'buddy system' while swimming with the tools, they are a bit hefty.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-20 11:39|| 2010-05-20 11:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Besoeker,
The BP well was not hooked up to produce and there was no test of its production capacity yet. I had heard guesstimates from semi-official sources of potential open flow capacity of 70,000 BOPD, and that would be in line with the best of the deep water wells (and far better than any shallow water US wells.) The BP well is certainly not flowing unconstrained, so the rate should be below that value. Could be flowing at the semi-official 5000 BOPD, or perhaps 2-3 times that --- I don't think anyone knows or can know. A good guess might be made by comparing underwater photos of the leak with the tube in it before and after sucking 2000 BOPD out through the tube.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-05-20 13:36|| 2010-05-20 13:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks for that info Glenmore.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-20 13:47|| 2010-05-20 13:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, Obumble has said he wants expensive energy. BP has played right into his hands. Reactionary, short term thinking sheep won't have an issue with the stoppage of exploration and drilling.

Posted by Jefferson 2010-05-20 14:14|| 2010-05-20 14:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Bambi can rant and rave all he wants about BP but the rig was approved by his administration.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-05-20 16:07|| 2010-05-20 16:07|| Front Page Top

#11 I can see Rahm choking a few chickens. For O's photo op of course.

Posted by ed 2010-05-20 16:15|| 2010-05-20 16:15|| Front Page Top

#12 That's high quality snark there, ed.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-05-20 18:26|| 2010-05-20 18:26|| Front Page Top

#13 Just remember, "The trouble with being infallible is that you have to deal with everyone else making mistakes."

Posted by Guillibaldo Unusing2147 2010-05-20 19:09|| 2010-05-20 19:09|| Front Page Top

#14 ION TOPIX > CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: OBAMA GUIDING THE [PCorrect-Deniable]DECLINE AND FALL OF AMERICAN POWER.

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