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Sunday, June 20, 2010

An Empty Cab Arrived ; This Man Got Out


BP Tony Hayward testified before the United States Congress this week. Tony's testimony offered little insight of the How and When 11 men died and the Gulf of Mexico became the private cesspool of BP.
The Why, however became abundantly clear to the American citizens. If the viewers tuned in came away with anything it's the overwhelming reality : Tony doesn't know anything and he was in charge!
Hayward's management style is seen as not hands on involvement but; rather catastrophic crisis control
Mr Hayward repeatedly advised; BP has an in progress investigation as does the United States Government. Both investigations are truly pointless. When you examine the man in charge, you may expect similar outcomes.
The cross examination by Congress reminded the viewer of Elementary School Principal Office.
Tony's impressive education and degrees questions the collegiate institutions ability to teach and certify graduates. Proof enough education degrees does not reflect success, often referred to as Common Sense. Tony seemed afflicted with Bushes well known and way to prevalent "Foot in Mouth Disease"
Tony embodies all the attributes of the Peter Principle.
His legacy no doubt will never reflect his statements on Capitol Hill. Tony will always be remembered for his management in denial philosophy.
1.I just want my life back
2. Its a Small Spill
3. It's a Big Ocean
Tony subsequently announced he was stepping down from operations in the Gulf of Mexico to attend the Yacht Races in not so Great Britain. A good fit I think for all.
His replacement has not been revealed as Americans patiently pray for a man like Harry Truman or Lee Iaccoca. A leader without lengthy degrees but embodies the" Buck Stops Here" or" Lead Follow But Get Out of The Way "philosophy.
The oil industry was not built by Universities.
The Universities purpose was to teach and emulate the very industries the illiterate Wildcatter's developed a 125 years ago. The Wildcatter with consideration for his own life as well as others would never have committed such complete disregard for safety over selfish bottom line costs. BP's management conducted wilful reckless manslaughter, crimes against humanity and environment.
It's a shame the University can apply so much scientific knowledge to the oil exploration business but cannot certify the Common Sense taught by sustained adversity, not University.
If collegiate testing resulted in death or injury for each wrong answer the students would benefit enormously from The School of Hard Knocks. If the corporate bean counters in accounting were burned alive and cast into the ocean for each mistake made, perhaps they too would appreciate the importance of safety protocols. We are all witnessing out of control unbrideled Capitalism in concert with more government corruption at the Gulf

Saturday, June 19, 2010

If You Thought It Couldn't Get Worse




Please tell me this isn't true. Americans buying Russian Helicopters to give away to the country that attacked the World Trade Center, White House and Pentagon.


If your over forty, ask yourself "what would Ronald Reagan Say about buying communist helicopters for the Taliban".
If you ever needed proof this is not a war this should qualify. The first objective in war is total destruction of the opponent. As is the second and third.
The claims by our Pentagon is the Russian chopper is better suited for the Afghan climate and the pilots prefer the right side divers seat over the American version.
The Blackhawk and Apache choppers perform best in flower laden meadows with babbling brooks, therefore inferior.
I'm speechless


By Craig Whitlock

updated 4:29 a.m. ET, Sat., June 19, 2010


WASHINGTON - The U.S. government is snapping up Russian-made helicopters to form the core of Afghanistan's fledgling air force, a strategy that is drawing flak from members of Congress who want to force the Afghans to fly American choppers instead.


In a turnabout from the Cold War, when the CIA gave Stinger missiles to Afghan rebels to shoot down Soviet helicopters, the Pentagon has spent $648 million to buy or refurbish 31 Russian Mi-17 transport helicopters for the Afghan National Army Air Corps. The Defense Department is seeking to buy 10 more of the Mi-17s next year, and had planned to buy dozens more over the next decade.


The spectacle of using U.S. taxpayer dollars to buy Russian military products is proving a difficult sell in Congress. Some legislators say that the Pentagon never considered alternatives to the Mi-17, an aircraft it purchased for use in Iraq and Pakistan, and that a lack of competition has enabled Russian defense contractors to gouge on prices.

Friday, June 18, 2010

Thursday, June 17, 2010

More Empty Threats From Congress


First it was the Dirty Dozen Bankers called on the carpet to testify why they stole the American public blind. After the ceremonial ass chewing in the front room, they all convened to the backroom for handouts and bailouts, followed by even more obscene bonus booty.
Scientist place the age of the Earth at 3.5 to 4.5 billion years old. The Universe is 13.75 billion years old. If science thinks this was a big bang wait until the US 17 trillion dollars deficit explodes.
There are one thousand billion in a trillion in America, by the way. I had to check. Not so Great Britain has a different standard , but you get the drift.
Worse yet, Einstein claims there will never be a shortage of zeroes for the zeroes in Congress.
How can anyone spend money this fast. We must be approaching Warp Speeds.


Then usher in corporate elites GM and Fiat whaa whaa whaa crying, the Japaneses beat them up and it's not fare. The Hummer won't hum anymore. Imagine that. Fiat is Italian, flying Italian private jets. More Bailouts ,Handouts and the unemployment rate is still 18%.
Thank your lucky stars Oldsmobile, Plymouth, Pontiac, Studebaker, Packard, Duezenburg, American Motors, Hudson, and a host of others are out of business. Surely they would be just as needy and just as greedy.


Then along comes the biggest dumb asses of all BP, from not so Great Britain.

Not even an American Company destroying what few jobs we have left in America. The ones that the Pharaoh's of Wall Street haven't figured out a way to legislate Wall Street Control.


Here comes BP, the supreme being of incompetence. The Big People of the Outer Continental Shelf dwellers. Sounds so important don't they. They cannot perform their jobs and now destroy fishing and tourism of the little people. Purely "Me First" mentality condemned in Nursery School.


More ceremonial ass chewing and return to backroom for donations, subsidies, handouts and bailouts. Spineless Congressmen with no backbone or intestinal fortitude scolding BP who owns them all lot, stock and barrel.
Have we forgotten the $4.00 a gallon a gas in 2008?
Is it any wonder we see the formations of militia and tea party demonstrations. Our government sponsors the lost liberty in the Patriot Act ,Uncontrolled Borders and Nationalized Banking.
By the way folks please note: Militia and Tea Parties are guaranteed in the US Constitution and Nationalized Banking, Patriot Act and Uncontrolled Borders are expressly prohibited.


Honestly, if your going to steal can you please clean up your mess and leave the little people alone. They don't rely on anyone but the fish . They are men of honor.......

Monday, June 14, 2010

Blow Job


With all the brilliant minds of BP and high paid government official who cannot control the manmade Frankenstein beneath the sea with Bottom Kills, Top Kill, Junk Shots etc. They haven't tried the "Blow Job".
Ingredients required for the Blow Job are one Blow Out Preventer (BOP) an Carbon Dioxide (co2).

Check and check.

We all know the basics of modern day refrigeration are any gas escaping high pressure produces lower temperatures. More pressure means gas will liquefy and eventually turn to a solid. Current under sea streaming video clearly show reflective ice crystals emitted naturally from the pipe.

Plumbers have frozen pipes for years as standard procedure for stopping flow when valves are absent.
Plumbers utilize a collar around the pipe injected with CO2, the gas under pressure forms Dry Ice. Dry Ice being many times colder than ice freezes pipes quickly.

The gas and oil being burnt off above Deepwater Horizon is producing copious amounts of Carbon Dioxide that is currently exhausted into the atmosphere. If this CO2 were captured and forced down into the Blow Out Preventer you would have an under sea freezing of the pipe. Lower temperatures and high pressures are both abundant a mile below sea level.

I call this a Blow Job. Can you imagine I just made it up.

So, if Godzilla is busy and can't make it to the Gulf of Mexico. I suggest the Blow Job. It makes more sense than golf balls for the Gulf Hole...

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Plain as Black and White


The photos at right were both taken in the last thirty days. The top photo depicts a unpublicized community of unpaid volunteer's effort to sandbag an over flowing river in the Mid West.

Their effort will likely save some areas and lessen impact in other areas. The top photo indicates school age children being taught lessons in life that they will teach to future generations. A strong work ethic of responsible grown ups not relying on government aid is seen.

The lower photo is of the Gulf Coast Oil Disaster. The men in green suits are paid employees of BP and depicts another form of sandbagging. The only people in the lower photo working are two women who are performing community service and clearly not being paid.

The top photo will have some success and the lower will produce nothing. Not good news for the Gulf Coast Wildlife.

When ever complex problem are reduced down to their core value comedy always emerges . The pundits and spin masters create mountains out of mole hills while bureaucrats add domestic regulations that impede solutions.

Both Lewis Black and Ron White are masters of this technique discovered by Jerry Seinfeld.


When you expose satire to the problem laughter always follows. Known by some as Dark Humor, but still very funny.
Ron White exposes the truth about how futile the war in Afghanistan has become as he directs his audience to how deep in debt America has become. Ron's solution to sell parts of Florida to the Israelis and buy Mexico with the profit solves three problems. The Debt, Criminal Immigration and Mid East tension of Israel. Brilliant by any standard and much better than anything our elected official have produced.
If American hadn't sent there economic engine overseas we would not be a One Trick Pony dependant on the Pharaoh's of Wall Street.
If Americas wealth were diversified in many industries Bin Laden may not have attacked on 9/11. Bin Laden saw our weakness and he exploited same.
Lewis Black's satire of American Children being taught to seek refuge under a desk in a nuclear blast is off the hook humor. Lewis then accuses the Pharaoh's of Wall Street of pure greed. Emphasizing what could they do with all that money "start a personal space program"
How we as a people could allow so much wealth to so few is far beyond common sense.

Ron Whites financial solution

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Riding A Dead Horse



Riding a Dead Horse








Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

However, US Congressional Authority will often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:

A. Declare the horse is to dead to fail

B. Cover the horse in US currency until it vanishes.

C. Shoot all other horses so they appear the same.

D. Beat the rider.

E. Sell dead horses as derivatives in bulk as AAA Investments

F. Pass comprehensive legislation making it illegal for horses to die

G. Dump dead horses into the Gulf of Mexico and claim accident.

  1. Buying a stronger whip.
  2. Changing riders.
  3. Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse."
  4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
  5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
  6. Increasing the standards to qualify as a dead horse rider.
  7. Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.
  8. Pass legislation declaring that "This horse is not dead."
  9. Unilaterally declaring, "no horse is too dead to beat."
  10. Blaming the horse's parents.
  11. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
  12. Do a Cost Analysis Study to see if contractors can ride the horse cheaper.
  13. Declare the horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead.
  14. Revisit the performance requirements for horses.
  15. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.

What are you looking at?

Friday, June 11, 2010

Spill Baby Spill


Since the Deepwater Horizon exploded burnt and the sank to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico many questions have emerged. BP has not been truthful in any accurate reporting of facts. The latest conservative estimate of goo vomiting from the well is 50,000 to 120,000 barrels a day.

The fines imposed by our government allows for $4,300 dollars per barrel. If we use the low estimate of 50,000 bpd x 61 days x $4300 = 131,150,000,000 and they still have to return the Gulf of Mexico from a private BP cesspool back to a national fishery.
(61 days was used because it's product is even numbers) Regardless BP does not have this kind of money.
No credits are allowed for barrels cleaned or captured as the fine is for spilled oil only.

To estimate the amount of time required for the cleanup I suggest dumping 1 barrel of crude or 42 us gallons on your living room floor. Allow oil to sit, ferment, and decay for 4 months.

After 4 months of seeping into your carpets through the sub flooring and down to your basement and finally back into the water table where it originated, begin cleaning. Simultaneously the odor has permeated the drywall insulation and sub floor and wall framing. The caustic toxic goo will corrode wiring and plumbing that will need to be replaced as well.

When you have restoration complete simply take the total amount of days or 50,000 bpd x 120 days x the number days it took for cleaning your single barrel. The answer is; not in my lifetime. Your house cannot be restored and neither can the Gulf of Mexico. If you question these facts go to Prince William Sound, Alaska and you will find it has not been cleaned either.

Don't blame the President he didn't cause or exacerbate the disaster. Whether he responded quickly enough will not affect the end result. The President should be judged on what steps will be taken to remove America from it's addiction to oil.

To the English Subjects concerned about how our President Obama is handling the BP disaster they should realize he is not driving this catastrophe. The American people are behind this one.
Be patient England before the year is over, BP oil will be infecting the English Channel. Your fisherman will have no fish and you will smell the ignorance of your countryman's greed.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

BP Payments of reimbursements to TARP Funds


This is a great opportunity for the Obama Administration to support the people of the Gulf Coast States. Support Main Street as we supported Wall Street

Similar to child support payments from slow paying fathers. The county should collect funds from US Treasury and remove BP from the arduous task of validating invoices. Since BP has proven themselves incompetent in running an oil company, why would we expect them to handle the additional burden of paying all those invoices in a timely manner. Their deceitful credibility is surpassed only by their poor mathematics. Nor do they posses the unbiased insight objectivity to determine which invoices are valid when they have so much skin in the game. Why would anyone trust these people when they have proven to be ethically challenged.
There isn't any downside to BP for slow payments. The Attorney General of the United States of America has the time and funds to represent it's people against gargantuan BP.
The fisherman, restaurant workers and hoteliers are subject to enormous pressures from creditors who demand payment on time. Pay the invoices directly to fisherman and cleaner's from the county government accounts.

Demand the local government submit all bills collectively to the US Treasury for reimbursement from TARP Funds. Similar to the Bank and Auto Industry.
Allow the US Treasury to collect from BP.

Don't allow the fox to regulate the hen house. Take payment authority away from BP and watch how fast this crap gets cleaned up and crude leaking stopped.

This will circumvent biased BP rejection of payment due to paper work violation. Fumbling around with your hands in your pockets will only impede the cleanup. Are the corporate giants afraid they may be over charged the way they raped Americans at the PUMP?

The US Treasury has proven competent in collecting TARP funds so lets use the repaid TARP money to reimburse Gulf Coast Fishing, Restaurant and Hotel Business for instant stimulus of the economy. The American people should not be forced to deal with BP incompetence at Taxpayers considerable expense. Put your foot down and refuse to allow our government to protect a deceitful, lying and corrupt BP the way they protected the Dirty Dozen Banks........

The Truth About Tar Ball


Anyone who has frequented the beach can testify to the destruction of the beach Tar Ball.
A single 1" gob of goo unattended can infect several states if not destroyed.
The BP goo of the Gulf of Mexico will eventually spread globally.

The experienced beach goer develops a sixth sense avoiding the beach phenomenon.
Once you have stepped in a Tar Ball the victim will soon find out how quickly the balls metastasize themselves across the globe.

The unsuspecting victim becomes the host carrier of the nasty glob of goo.

The Tar Ball doesn't reproduce, it spreads from dividing itself into countless numbers. The untrained beach goer will be diagnosed far after the infection has spread to all of his beach coolers, umbrella, towels and swim gear.

From here it quickly transfers to your automobile infecting the trunk, trunk lid, steering wheel, radio and turn signals. This is usually when the victim first discovers the anomaly.

Unfortunately clean up is not recommended . Clean up will only exacerbate the spread. The wise beach goer will proceed to the nearest car lot and sell the infected auto before the car fax is notified of your infection.
Your beach belongings should be burned immediately. You should walk to the nearest market and purchase a gallon of rubbing alcohol. Rubbing alcohol is the only known dispersant for effectively removing Tar Balls.
When you have showered always check the end of you nose because Tar Balls will always seek refuge here. Once the Tar is removed from your nose you should be decontaminated. The next time you go to the beach tread carefully whenever crossing the tide line!!!

Jail House Rock


Elvis Presley made a fortune selling his talents to the American consumer.
At the height of his singing career the crooner was marketed as an actor. Elvis movies were for the most part all the same. The setting and faces changed from one movie to the next but the predictable story line of boy gets girl; boy losses girl; and finally boy gets girl remained constant. The rest of the movie was just filler saturated in beautiful women and slug fest where Elvis was always the dominant male.
Even though Elvis's acting ability was on par with Cheetah the chimp he made money at the box office repeatedly.
The audience was filled with America's youth of boys who wanted to be Elvis and girls who just wanted Elvis
I'm not sure if Elvis was a product of the 50's or Elvis was the 50's.

Elvis will always be remembered for his singing, acting and gyrating hips. He should be remembered for his marketing abilities of reproducing the same products over and over challenging the sanity of the consumer. The consumer purchased his tickets hoping for a different entertainment value.
The definition of insanity is repeating the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Eventually Elvis and his audience got older and wiser validating the sanity of the American public.

The American people have been lead to the economic trough the last forty years by a system where the American treasury is raided by the same tactics over and over.

Wars are always good for raiding the coffers. Once national security is threatened (real or imagined) the Treasury is raided in the name of National Defense. Corporation such as Haliburton receive no bid contracts. This is giving away a signed checkbook to be reconciled years later. This is a form of embezzlement, only with a twist of home delivery added.

Raiding the Treasury can also be done through legislative reforms.
The first step is where Wall Street lobbyist petition congress to deregulate unfair rules designed to protect the consumer taxpayer. Predatory lobbyist purchase congressional votes at considerable cost to promote the necessary malfeasance changes.
Once the votes are purchased and ceremonial paper signed the raiders begin the second step of now legal theft in America.
We saw the massive deregulation that was endorsed by the Reagan Administration and the destruction of the middle class. Beginning with the Bush Silverado Savings and Loan Fiasco of $160 billion dollars picked up by the taxpayer creating the recession of the early 1990's
Crisis is the third step where the taxpayer rushes in with bailouts in the name of God and Country.
The perpetrators will be formerly admonished as being unethical and promises made to the consumer by congress this will not happen again.
Recently we have witnessed the Glass Stegall Act of 1934 abolished which triggered the Bush Bailouts of 2008. The SEC we're told was not doing their jobs and the crisis went unnoticed. The same old story of BP polluting the Gulf of Mexico. The Department of Interior and MMS was downloading porn, taking bribes of sex and drugs in lieu of inspections and fines. Producing pollution on epic scale. BP will sit on there hands massaging the people until the government steps in and cleans up the mess while fisherman suffer in kind .
Fortunes are extorted and America gets the bill.

The same old movie we keep buying tickets and nobody goes to Jail. When will we learn from Elvis..............

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Ixtoc Disaster 1979


The Ixtoc disaster of the Bay of Campeche Gulf of Mexico 1979 is a constant reminder of we know better. Making our current Deepwater Horizon Disaster a Non-Accident.

The driller was Sedco Corporation which was later absorbed corporately into Transocean.

Deepwater Horizon 11 Dead 7 Critical Condition


Deepwater Horizon: owned by Transocean. Leased to BP.exploded, burned , sank and is now polluting the pristine waters of the Gulf of Mexico with billions of barrels of toxic crude oil since April 20, of 2010. President Obamas Blue Ribbon Committee announced the well may be flowing as much as 100,000 barrels a day of toxic goo.

The Player's in the Manmade disaster are as follows:

British Petroleum
Home Base: St Jame's City of Westminster,England

Transocean
Home base: Vernier, Switzerland

Haliburton
Home base: Houston, Texas

Deepwater Horizon

Manufacturer
Hyundai Heavy Industry
Built in South Korea
Total cost to build 350 million dollars
Insured at 560 million dollars

Registered and flagged as Majuro, Marshall Islands.

Victims
11 dead 7 critical condition and the entire population of the United States of America

Location

Mississippi Canyons Macando Prospect, USA

The same executives of BP who downplayed the event as minor are now confronted with the reality of 11 Dead and 7 critically injured in the worlds worst man made ecological disaster in history.

The media has focused selfishly almost entirely on "where and when" and nothing of, how, who , or why. Where the oil is present. Where is it headed. When will it end. When will it be cleaned are reported extensively.

I read a article written by Scott Pelly of Sixty Minutes when he interviewed surviving workers on board Horizon the night of the explosion as well as corners cut and safety protocols violated in favor of bottom line schedules.
The average guy can connect the dots and justify how this terrible disaster occurred.
Deepwater Horizon should never be referred to as an accident. The truth is more a mixture of ignorance, incompetency and motivations of pure corporate greed.
Whether this can be proven in court is a matter of decades of legal maneuvering. While the wealth and assets are transferred to the safety of a new corporation.
This is what occurred in Ixtoc disaster in 1979 owned by Sedco and later absorbed by Transocean. The crimes of Sedco were quietly buried in corporate name changing as the crime circle continues.
The current issues of how many barrels,planes ships and men in white suits standing on the beach may be secondary to why is an Oil Platform owned by a Swiss Corporation, manufactured in South Korea and Flying the Colors of the Marshall Island permitted in US waters by a British Corporation drilling as if they new what they were doing? Do we not have US Companies capable of drilling safely in the USA with ships paying US taxes and registry.
Why is British Petroleum drilling in US waters? Why have they become the largest petro chemical corporation worldwide, when England's Natural resources are limited?

Do we not have skilled workers that can build oil platforms in the USA? We seem to build 5 acre floating Aircraft Carriers without problems.

What happens to oil found in US waters by foreign corporations. Is this oil being exported to England, South Korea and the Marshall Islands?
Will this become another cash cow for BP similar to the The US Tresury rewarded Golman Sachs? Fool me once shame on you,Fool me twice "Shame on Me"

9/11, Banking Fiasco and now the Gulf Disaster should have all been avoided if our American Government did their jobs!!!!

Sunday, June 6, 2010

The Art of Lying


The Art of lying has emerged to a higher standard this last month. Tony Hayward has thrown down the gauntlet to the likes of George Bush, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon. The daily abuse of words such as spill, pool, slick, and barrels is challenging Webster's vocabulary with absence of definition for scales of global dimensions.

Barrels is simply not descriptive enough for BP or Washington. Due to the scope of the leaking pipe being comparable in circumference of a single barrel and the pressures are in tens of thousand pounds, barrels is inadequate. The massive volume therefore should not attempt to be measured in volumes of barrels. Much like estimating spoonfuls of volume coming from your kitchen sink , it can't be done accurately.

I agree we should have a new standard of measure for the leaking goo. Tanker should be a much better measure of quantity.
Surely Mr Hayward could hit an estimate say within a Super Tanker of 2 million gallons.
When measured in tankers the reader has a much better grasp of the volume as gallons or barrels is to finite a measure to record accurately.

So Mr Hayward, about how many tankers have been deluged into the pristine waters of the Gulf of Mexico?

When a slick is measured in square miles we should have another definition. When an oil slick is larger than a football field it should be referred to as a Goobal, indicating larger than a football field but smaller than say Texas. When said slick is larger than Texas it would become a Super Goobal. When the Super Goobal contacts with land it would then become a Boner. Category 5 Boner being the largest of the Super Goobals

Spill is something that children do at mealtime. When a spill is greater than 8oz. it should be referred to as a Spillyard. When over say 10 barrels would qualify as a Super Spillyard. If exceeding 1000 barrels it would be a Mega Spillyard and measured in Tankers.

This brings me to the term Liar. My research indicates there are no synonyms for Liar. There aren't degrees of liars even though there certainly is a need.
We have all lied at some point in our lives. We have all stated, misspoken words we believed were truthful at the time. Lying is not perjury unless ,the person lies wilfully knowing the real truth. Perjury can be difficult to prove without signed documents or witness. Liars have always exploited this gray area claiming ignorance of truth or twisting numbers to spin yarns of pure fabrications. Nobody knows what a turtle knows unless he can write it down then sign same.

The photo above depicts ten workers in hazmat garb and two women in beach attire. Of the ten men only two are working and five are obviously not working. The remainder are anybodies guess.
The women in plastic gloves are ether shelling or picking up globs of BP goo from the beach. Whether it's goo or shells it's very clear the women will accomplish more than the paid workers of the erroneous green BP employees. The point is if only two in ten are working,what about all the ships, planes and skimmers who are supposedly removing oil from our estuaries and beaches. Is money and profit created in addition to the damage of the disaster? Are people making fortunes while others suffer from BP incompetance? Or worse is BP making windfalls from the disaster? Is anybody keeping records to hold BP accountable or will this be another malfeasance similar to the Banking fiasco?

Greatest Presidential Lies of All Time

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

British Petroleum is Ethically Challenged


Isn't it amazing the oil giant British Petroleum can justify your bill at the local gas pump to a tenth of a cent but can't reconcile the amount of goo spewing into the Gulf of Mexico within 18,000 barrels a day. Obviously BP is ethically challenged and struggling with the truth.

When BP claims a thousand barrels a day and they miss by a 18,000 barrels indicates there level of expertise. People who haven't mastered fourth grade mathematics shouldn't be drilling holes in the Gulf of Mexico.
If a farmer near Muncie, In can drill a whole in his backyard and find oil, maybe there is more oil in the ground than what they tell us and possibly not difficult to find either. Is it possible their 4 million dollar a year salary is without merit and made possible only by an even more ignorant public?
These guys should be doing my taxes.

Deep Water Oil Exploration they refer to as on a par with a Lunar Landing Mission has revealed new technologies such as Top Hat, Junk Shots, Hot Taps, Top Caps, Top Kills, Big Ass Lid and Little Hats are hard for the average guy to accept. Not to mention the new exotic materials of golf balls, old tires and mud. If these materials were dumped into the oceans by anyone else they would have the EPA breathing down their neck and up to their ass in fines.

Don't they know a good plumber? Maybe these engineers should take a good plumbers test before drilling a 13,000 ft hole a mile deep in the ocean.

Did BP attend the same universities as the bankers who brought us the mortgage derivatives that destroyed our economy?

BP informs us that thirty acres of beach and estuary may be contaminated, contrasting other reports of 3000 acres and five miles inland.

The American people are just now getting a clear picture of the problem. The problem is not the 21" pipe or the blown out Blow Out Preventer nor is this a problem of unforeseen conditions creating bad luck. BP is revealing to the American people they are as ignorant as they are incompetent which is exceeded only by their grasp of the truth.
The only thing missing in this futile effort would be George Bush telling BP what a great job they're doing.Spill Baby Spill