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Tea Party “To Do” List
Ten Things You Can Do To Grow The Tea Party! 1) Be Proactive: Join our blog, post your photos, join the forum, and invite your friends at the Command Center. 2) Lead By Example: Tell your friends, family and co-workers about what you are doing. The weight of our beloved nation is upon each [...]
Miller tells BP hurry up
Congressman Jeff Miller resurfaced yesterday for an interview with WEAR TV. He says BP needs to hurry up and have the well capped before August, or at least minimize the flow. Rep. Jeff Miller / (R) FL: "What they've done so far is to try to trap everything, which is the best option. But if [...]
BP Spill Response Plan (pdf)
Someone has posted BP's approved Spill Response Plan online (here). According to the plan (page 509), the Worst Case Scenario for an offshore blowout of an exploratory well is said to be 250,000 barrels per day. BP will make every effort to respond to the Worst Case Discharge as effectively [...]
Latest official report on BP oil disaster
Progress Continues in Drilling Relief Wells The Development Driller III continues to drill the first relief well to a depth of more than 12,000 feet—10 days ahead of schedule—and is beginning to angle the well at 35 degrees. The Development Driller II has drilled the second relief well to a [...]
Don’t believe food poisoning stories
Floating out in the media is a story that the fishermen who became ill while helping BP skim oil off gulf waters were victims of food poisoning. Don't believe it CNN has covered this and reports that one fisherman, John Wunstell Jr., has filed a temporary restraining order in federal court [...]
BP payouts aren’t enough, layoffs expected
From Reuters, "Carol Terrebonne, a wholesale retailer who buys shrimp off the boats in southern Louisiana, laughs when asked about the $5,000 hardship payout she has received from energy giant BP to cushion the economic impact of the Gulf oil spill." Read more. So when you hear the BP spokesmen [...]
News: Locals comment on BP disaster’s impact
From Epoch Times, Sam Camariotes of Sam’s Seafood and Steaks: “The prices have definitely gone up depending on the types of seafood. Shrimp prices have gone up, oysters are off the charts, as well as some other fish.“ Frank Patti of Joe Patti’s Seafood: “Needless to say it affects us [...]
Tea Party upset over Outtakes
Email from a Pensacola Tea Party protester: Mr. Outzen, I was taken aback by your characterization (in your Vol 11 #20 issue) of tea partiers as displaying “racist-phony anger” compared to the all these disparate people feeling “real” anger. I don’t know how you were able to [...]
Buzz: Super Tankers won’t work for cleanup
Another email: First there is not any room for a super tanker at the location they have three Dynamic Position (DP) rigs and one 600-foot Drill ship. All the vessels out there are DP 2 class vessel. There are not any DP Class 2 supertankers that I'm aware of. It's OK to think that you might use [...]
Engineers believe relief wells should work
Last week, I heard rumors that the relief wells that are being drilled to stop oil spewing from the Deepwater Horizon well might not work. The email discussed a similar accident off of Australia, known as the Montara spill, that began Aug. 21, 2009 and leaked as much as 85,000 gallons per day [...]
BP hires uber Barbie
BP has found it has too many men speaking for it nationally and will now use its local BP Barbie approach nationwide. "BP Barbie" is my description for the various female community liaisons hired by the oil giant to deflect criticism and avoid answering any difficult questions. Instead of [...]
Road Trip notes: Dauphin Island
The Dauphin lsland trip was uneventful, but great background for later. The island is south of Mobile, past Bellingrath Gardens. It is wider than Santa Rosa Island and has grass and trees, which reminded me more of Sanibel Island than Pensacola Beach. The island is where Mobile Bay feeds into [...]