Dear Governor Barbour:
Still think this BP oil spill is much ado about nothing?
GULFPORT, Miss. — A morning flight over the Mississippi Sound showed long, wide ribbons of orange-colored oil for as far as the eye could see and acres of both heavy and light sheen moving into the Sound between the barrier islands. What was missing was any sign of skimming operations from Horn Island to Pass Christian. […]
A scientist onboard, Mike Carron with the Northern Gulf Institute, said with this scenario, there will be oil on the beaches of the mainland.
“There’s oil in the Sound and there was no skimming,” Carron said. “No coordinated effort.”
Gee, guess when you drown the government in a bathtub, it gets hard tio find anyone capable of cleaning the bathtub up when someone makes a big mess. But, of course, that’s no reason to stop offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Nosirreebob. That might have unfortunate consequences for campaign contributions to certain politicians in the Gulf states, after all. And there’s nothing more important than that:
Out of the 6,000 National Guard troops President Obama has authorized for response in Mississippi, Haley Barbour has mobilized only 58. However, he has declared today to be a Day of Prayer “to remember the Mississippi Gulf Coast.” […]
“The most important thing right now is the 2010 elections,” Barbour said. “We can’t wait until 2012 to take back our country.”
Fifty-eight National Guardsmen for the entire State of Mississippi? Elections the top priority right now? Any comment people of Mississippi on whether your Governor’s priorities are the right ones?
Barbour on Thursday held Washington fund-raisers for the Republican Governors Association, which he heads, and for one of his political action committees, which is raising money for GOP congressional candidates. His fund-raising is receiving some national media attention and fueling speculation that he is already gearing up for a run for president in 2012.
Gosh, I’m sure Barbour would fix everything in a jiffy if he were President, just like he has done such a bang up job as Governor of Mississippi. Can’t wait to see him take on Obama in 2012. Can you?
We gotta give Barbour credit, though: he knows his audience — ignorant and determined to stay that way. “Obama did this to us, and no way are we going to take any federal help to clean it up, and BP shouldn’t have to, either.”
There comes a point when stupidity can’t be helped.
Yeah. That’s what’s so maddening. He’ll get away with blaming it all on Obama, Pelosi, the usual gang of villains. MS would actually be better off as a US possession than it is as a state. Amazing to realize.
According to Roxanne Conlin’s website a recent (don’t see a date on it) KCCI/Research 2000 poll has her within 8 points of Grassley.
Comment is totally OT b/c thought I was posting this in “Against All Odds”. conclusion: very tired. apologies
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Three days after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, the Netherlands offered the U.S. government ships equipped to handle a major spill, one much larger than the BP spill that then appeared to be underway. “Our system can handle 400 cubic metres per hour,” Weird Koops, the chairman of Spill Response Group Holland, told Radio Netherlands Worldwide, giving each Dutch ship more cleanup capacity than all the ships that the U.S. was then employing in the Gulf to combat the spill.
To protect against the possibility that its equipment wouldn’t capture all the oil gushing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch also offered to prepare for the U.S. a contingency plan to protect Louisiana’s marshlands with sand barriers. One Dutch research institute specializing in deltas, coastal areas and rivers, in fact, developed a strategy to begin building 60-mile-long sand dikes within three weeks.
Boskalis Combats Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."shhhhh Obama’s doing everything he can…
I always wish that Democrats would stop criticizing Palin. She is the greatest gift the Republican party could have given us in the upcoming elections of 10 and 12. And Barbour may be the next best gift we will ever get in these times.
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ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – The marina at Zeke’s Landing is now hallowed waters, a somber place shaken by the death of an experienced boat captain everyone called “Rookie.”
His namesake, a yellow 50-footer is still parked at station B-3, with three wreaths and a bouquet of dandelions on its deck. Friends laid them in honor of Allen “Rookie” Kruse, the 55-year-old charter fisherman who lost his livelihood, then took his life.
Throughout the tar-stained Gulf, elected leaders are choking up at meetings and residents are losing sleep over whether the next sunrise will bring more tarballs.
The mayor of Bayou La Batre, Ala. has reported that calls of domestic violence there have tripled. In Chauvin, La., a man sits catatonic in front of CNN, while his friend planted a sign saying “Our Way of Life: It’s Oil Gone.”
“I don’t know what we can do,” said Mark Jones, Sr., an out-of-work shrimper. “Our heritage is being washed away.”
The people of the Gulf may be “fast-tracking the social and psychological aspects because of the incredible size of this catastrophe. The trust factor is gone in regards to BP and the Coast Guard.
“This is your worst nightmare,” Picou said. “It’s like an amoebae out there. It comes and it goes. It’s underwater. It’s a monster.”
After the Exxon Valdez spill, the rates of suicide, domestic violence and divorce surged in the areas most affected by the contamination of Prince Edward Sound.
Picou and others wonder if the same is ahead for Gulf communities where, for generations, families have made a living from local waters.
Distraught Alabama boat captain commits suicide over BP Gulf disaster
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."