Drill Farther, Baby
Oh, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, it is much bigger than anyone thought it was! The exploded oil rig has, it turns out, three leaks, and is spewing out five times as much oil as previously thought, as much as 5000 barrels a day, though the Coast Guard (the socialist government protectorate) and the rig's operator (fine American company British Petroleum) do not at all agree as to how much oil is beneath the hundred mile long oil slick. What lessons are we learning? Bipartisanship! Gulf coast Republicans and Democrats politicans are coming together; they have sent a letter to the president, asking him to change the administration's pro-offshore drilling plans, and asking him to set a 125-mile oil rig off-shore boundary. They do not understand that the End of Days is upon us, and the planet is ours to husband and harvest!
Hope you like your grouper a lil greasy.
Start up the deep fryer!
"ours to husband and harvest"–so, you're saying we can gay-marry the earth and make all the snowflake earthbabies we want?
der Golems.
Left side: Virgin Mary with head covered or 70s Gregg Allman? Either way, Hallelujah!
This may be just the pessimist in me, but it kind of looks like the reaper, dude.
If it were called the Gulf of the United States of American then I'd care about this shit. Fucking Mexico!
Stupid Mexican gulfs, trying to take away our water's jobs.
Word! I bet that oil swims right up our Mississippi River and starts dealing drugs.
Right it's their gulf, let them clean it up. Why do we always have to mop up the problems of the world?
If this gulf were in Arizona this problem would've been solved already.
This is why world conquest remains so necessary. We all agree that domestic energy production is Priority Number One. Okay, maybe Priority Number Two, but hey, it's up there in the top Six or Seven.
Once we harnass these brigand third-world backwaters and make them ours, we can drill with impunity. It'll all be American, and so our precious little American Birdies and Fishies and Manateeies, but more importantly our Priority Number One and a Half Our Precious Gulf Coast Beach Golf and Family Fun Resort Areas, will be protected by the occasional messy effulgent of an efficient and robust American Energy Industry.
I now yield to the Esteemed Gentleman from Atlantis. Love your dolphins.
Dolphins are rapists and sycophants, Karen. They would take your ladyflower out in the open sea and flick your ear after wards just for the school's easy chuckles. Don't underestimate the smeltmunchers.
A group of dolphins is a pod, not a school. Forget that in front of one of the bloodthirsty bastards and you will shortly discover a whole new world of pain.
I always meant to learn all the names for groups of animals and then I thought "What's the porpoise?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l1GvDWtccI&feature=related
someone's environment is getting messed up to provide us with oil, so I guess it's only fair ours gets messed up, too.
Anyone that thinks that offshore drilling is such a great thing isn't old enough to remember the oil spills that made offshore drilling so unpopular in the first place. Now they have a nice visual for their Twatters and Blergs and Myfaces..
The timing is impeccable.
This offshore leak is the Goldman Sachs lawsuit of the Financial Reform Bill, which was in turn the Anthem Blue Cross of the Health Care Reform Bill. I do not want to know what Obama is planning to get climate change or immigration reform passed.
Maybe this is an incredibly stupid question, but is there any way to suck up all that leaking oil and, I don't know, use it? I am pretty sure there are some Nigerians rebels who could help with this.
But it's all soggy and gross now!
That is any time oil. It doesn't expire.
SpOILed… Lolz!
How about Jon Hamm's head?
It's cheaper not to.
No. It forms a 1mm skim on top of the water (except where it doesn't) and then spreads out (remember, they are like red state/blue state- they don't mix)over as big an area it can. Best way to get rid of it, put a boom out and skim it off or drop chemicals to break it up.
Wow, when they light the oil on fire there are going to be some serious Book of Revelations moments with the Lake of Fire. Anyone know any references to Gulf of Fire?
Fucking OIL! How do they work?
That totally belongs on the thread below :(
I hope dolphins can hold their breath for 100 miles!
burn, baby, burn!
When this first broke there was reporting that the oil wasn't leaking, and it was like, ok, because some kind of magic is keeping it in the ground??? Guess not.
ooh ooh: I know this one! You're right, it was magic – the magic of desperate 'pee arr'.
". . . and with ANY LUCK AT ALL, if we can win day one, maybe no one will notice the slight change in the color, texture, smell, and flammability of the water in the ensuing days."
A Tin Man is crying.
This was all planned a long time ago.
(Cue Richard Attenborough): The Age Of The Dinosaurs was brought, abrubtly, to an end by a meteor which struck Earth in what is now the Gulf of Mexico. As Their prey died and They choked on Pleistocene dust They vowed that They would one day have Their revenge, and foul the land that was Taken from Them.
And lo! And behold! Their essential carbon-based parts sat in waiting for eons until released; a pin-prick of awakening.