Was the Gulf Oil Rig Explosion a Deliberate Attack on America?

No — this is actually typical – There have been 39 of these blowouts in recent history on Oil Platforms in the “Gulf of Mexico” alone. So events like this are actually par for the course in this industry. It’s just buisness as usual for the oil companies with over 300 oil spills in the last 10 years alone.

Some notable platform explosions & spills:

The Ixtoc I oil well exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in June 1979. The oil drilling platform then caught fire and collapsed, rupturing valves and making it difficult for rescue personnel to control the damage. The spill continued until March 1980.

Petrobras’ P-36 Brazil
The world’s biggest oil rig, owned by the Brazilian state oil company, has sunk, after an explosion onboard killed 10 workers, but the resulting spill of crude oil and diesel is said to have been contained.
http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=3996

Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd.[1] The platform began production in 1976,[2] first as an oil platform and then later converted to gas production. An explosion and resulting fire destroyed it on July 6, 1988, killing 167 men,[3] with only 59 survivors. The death toll includes 2 crewmen of a rescue vessel.

SYDNEY, Jan. 14 (UPI) — PTTEP Australasia, the company behind an August oil spill considered one of Australia’s worst environmental disasters, has plugged and secured the leaking well at its offshore Montara rig.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Timor Sea Drilling Spill – Finally Stopped?
PTTEP Australasia is reporting that their fifth attempt to kill the leaking well on the Montara platform has succeeded, shutting off the uncontrolled flow of oil, gas, and natural gas condensate that has been polluting the water and air off Western Australia since the blowout occurred on August 21. The fire that ignited over the weekend, engulfing the Montara platform and the attached West Atlas drill rig, has also been nearly extinguished.

Further comments:- from the Wall Street Journal;
The oil well spewing crude into the Gulf of Mexico didn’t have a remote-control shut-off switch used in two other major oil-producing nations as last-resort protection against underwater spills.
The lack of the device, called an acoustic switch, could amplify concerns over the environmental impact of offshore drilling after the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon rig last week.

The reason why this well didn’t have such a switch– deregulation. Halliburton runs this rig and it happened before.Halliburton also was the cementer on a well that suffered a big blowout last August in the Timor Sea, off Australia. The rig there caught fire and a well leaked tens of thousands of barrels of oil over 10 weeks before it was shut down. The investigation is continuing; Halliburton declined to comment on it.
So rather than engage in fantastic stories about North Korean suicide teams and eco-nuts, look for the basis of the problem as incompetence and greed. Halliburton has featured in two similar incidents. And remember former VP Cheney was a former president of Halliburton and he had a hand in the deregulation that allowed the rig to operate without the exponsive ($500,000) accoustic switchy.

“Obama administration is still covering up the details behind the act of war committed against our country at Fort Hood by a Muslim operative who had infiltrated our Military”
He was an American Citizen who just happened to be Muslim as well. Muslims don’t have “operatives”. Like any group of people there are extremists who just happen to label themselves as muslims. What you said is like saying Timothy McVeigh was a christian operative. Which sounds pretty stupid. No comment on the rest of your Article.

Gina, you are a wacko -writing just to arouse people with no facts. This is not journalist but utter stipidty and you should be oil slicked.

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Google shows the story first appeared here:

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1367.htm

It is a website run (and story posted by) Sorcha Faal, aka David Booth, aka website hoaxer extraordinaire. You may have heard his name in the news before. He's fooled the media into picking up stories several times now.

Also, the Russian Navy doesn't publish these types of reports to the media. When a report is “going around” or “made available”, you can usually download it yourself online. Usually, these stories will be a result of a report being leaked and made available online (on wikileaks, for example).

There is yet no copy of this report anywhere online, only a mention of “a report” in this hoax story being picked up by blogs so far. Might get picked up my larger media.

Look it all up yourself.

BP and Haliburton must be relishing this stuff. Anything that diverts attention from their responsibility in the death and destruction would be most be welcome.

The self-indulgent, thrill-seeking conspiracy theorists who hop on every crisis are a damaging distraction from very real troubles.

Some very interesting points but has anyone considered the following:

Healthcare — Swine flu
Financial Overhaul — GoldmanSachs investigation
Oil drilling policy Obama – Oil Spill

to name a few….i can go on and on….very odd if not coincidental….this was either and act of terrorism or the governement….why send in all the troops t head the investigation..namely Homeland Security..what a joke just like when they sent he FBI to TX when that crazy muslim guy shot up our soldiers….and the FBI said there was no terrorism at the time but the story go out.congress still cant get the fatcs on what happened that day..somethings up here people….

Sadly, this sort of stream of consciousness speculation – lacking any supporting evidence – is what passes for reasoning in most human minds.

Has the author considered why an eco-terrorist, presumably concerned about the welfare of the ecology, would set off one of the world's greatest ecological catastrophes?

Why don't we wait until an investigation is conducted and the evidence can be examined before jumping to conclusions?

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I heard part of the same Savage program last night- and checked out the story that this is based upon. This all is rubish -and I doubt the Russian Northern Fleet story is true- in both terms, that the story itself is true and that the Northern Fleet wrote such a document. In a prior life, I followed the Soviet/Russian Navy and still keep a hand in. If anything, the Far Eastern Fleet would have written such a document, as they are closest to North Korea. But even the idea that the Russian Navy had authored such a document is goofy as well as the disclosure of it in a crackpot website.. The site the story is on, is full of fantastic stories and conspiracies, that I give it absolutely no credence. Check out the author, Sorcha Faal-google the name and you will find the name is connected with any number of fantastic hoaxes.and outrageously laughable stories. Nonsense.

Never underestimate incompetence and lack of preparation in a catastrophe. BP never thought this could happen and made no plans for dealing with such a situation. There is a valve which would turn off the oil that is at a great depth- but for some reason, they can't turn if off.

My article is indeed full of questions. I even said I don't have the answers, and I have my doubts that we will ever know. How can I have any supporting evidence when NO ONE has said a word about the possible cause?

As for the eco-wackos, they are just like the rest of the ultra-liberal left–the ends justify the means. You have to remember that environmentalism is NOT about the environment; it's about power over the people.

There is some merit to these quetions, I'm having them myself. But I do confess that I am calling them conspiracy theories. My understanding is that the rig was finished with drilling the well. Once finished, another rig for production is set into position. It sounds like there was very little, if any, activity with the riser when the incident occured. Reports from the rig are that not only did the lights go out before, but there were two thuds or jolts felt before the rig erupted. I wasn't thinking torpedos. I was curious about an inadvertant collision by a US attack submarine. Watch for a story of a submarine colliding with a ship and needing repairs soon.

Now this could be an accident within the rig, but a whole lot of things had to go wrong all at the same time.

Pablo, I do not have the answers, but I included that “Russian” article as just another source of speculation, because as I was sitting here writing the article, I heard Savage mention it. There are many possibilities here. Hoax or not, the NorK story is quite interesting.

I could've written a better article, but this story is still breaking. I will see about doing a follow-up piece when the oil reaches our beaches. We'll see what happens.

good questions. i live in tampa and we had nearly no news for days and yet could smell the fumes from the fire. your story is at whatdoesitmean.com and involves a lot. blessings of YHVH to you. anne

At the peril of adding facts to the conversation… have you ever heard of Occam's razor? Essentially, a guy a long time ago said that the simplest, most obvious explanation is the most likely. It was very interesting to read all the twisting and turning you had to do, terrorists, eco terrorists, Russians, North Koreans, in order to avoid the most obvious answer. A corporation, when faced with the choice of safety or economy, will choose the cheaper solution every time. It's not hard. Happened at Massey, happened here. Thank you deregulation. May I have some more? Because it's so good for us, creating all these jobs. Just ask the families of the 11 lost. We won't have jobs without it.

But I did have fun reading your article.

You are also making a number of assumptions here. Why does “the most obvious” explantion to your mind have to be the truth?

I was not doing any “twisting and turning” in my piece. I was simply asking questions to which we still have no answers.

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These eco nuts would destroy half of the United States if they had to to get their way.And they along with Al Gore and probably half of the Socialist in the United States Congress want oil drilling stoped completly.The want to force prices on oil products so high we have to stop driveing any thing that runs on oil.These people want drilling stop not only off shore but everywhere.They want us to go back to rideing bicycles and walking.
Mrs. Miller is absolutly right to ask these questions and in fact has a right to and the responsibality and if our Government had any capable leaders our Military would have been put on high alert the moment that oil rig exploded.Thank you Mrs.Miller for haveing the courage to write the article and dont let any liberal idiot bulley you out of what is your right.The killing at Fort Hood was an act of war aganist the United States and ill bet that this is also ,but this so called President will probably bow to whoever did it if he hasnt already.

Keep writeing Gina Miller you have a lot of peoples attention thats not idiots.

your radical right BS is almost (key word) as scary as those of the “ultra liberal left”

the oh so innocent accusations are quite funny but you seem to be getting some attention which im sure was just the ultimate goal.

I'm with you Gina Miller. Don't let them take away my SUV. I don't eat fish, but I do drive. All these libaral bamboons can keep their love and peace dream alive if they want. But us intelligent down to earth people will win ni the end.

the simply fact is that in many parts of the world that this oil rig was criminally unsafe as are most of the rigs that haliburton deals with.

You're sure my ultimate goal was to get attention–what, for myself? You're wrong, pal.

I'm not making accusations nor trying to be humorous; I'm simply asking questions. I want answers to my questions, but I'm not expecting this administration to be forthcoming with the truth. The truth to them is like sunlight to a vampire.

Thank you, John, for another brilliant observation.

Gina

You said “As soon as this happened, my gut told me this was no accident “. So to me, that means before any facts were out at all or you had time to reason things out even a little, that you were already in the mindset that this was a deliberate act. That would be by definition starting with a slanted, a priori, view and when one does that, which we all have done, it is difficult to stay on an objective course, which is the essence of trying to find truth out.

If you were being interviewed for a prospective jury candidate by lawyers or a judge on a murder trial and said that ” Your gut tells you that the death of the victim was not due to natural causes ” before even hearing any evidence, you would be sent home as having prejudicial thought.Umm, have to remember that next time a summons comes my way

I do want to commend you for not jumping completely, 100%, on the conspiratorial wagon. Maybe you're mellowing in your old age

I read an article from someone in my network that the Kremlin is reporting a US Media Blackout due to an act of terrorism by a North Korean minisub on that Oil Rig in the Gulf. It's an EU news site…claims a NK sub fired 2 torpedoes, and then shortly after manuevered directly under the rig and blew themselves up (suicide mission). I'm curious to see if it's verified….because the reports that SWAT teams were at the site of the disaster is HIGHLY UNUSUAL. They didnt do that for the Exxon-Valdez that I remember. Hmmm….

http://www.eutimes.net/2010/05/us-orders-blacko...

Gina, I too had a gut reaction that it was an intentional attack. As to who's to blame, we (the common people) may never know. We may be told a story that serves the interest of the BHO puppet masters, but as to it being the truth, I'm not holding my breath.

The press is always ready with a “HUman Interest” story. Why haven't we heard from a single one of the survivors who were on the rig when it exploded??

How can this be considered an attack on America? I understood that the rig was owned by a South Korean company. Perhaps this was a North Korean attack in a South Korean oiling rig. If that being the case North Korea knows that Obama and Congress are too impotent to take action against them.

The rig is actually owned by Transocean (http://www.deepwater.com) and was being leased by British Petroleum (BP). Transocean has offices around the world, but its headquarters are in Switzerland.

It would be an attack on America, if it was indeed it was a deliberate attack, because it occurred in our Gulf waters. Also, American workers were killed and injured, and it is devastating to America's coastlines, birds and marine life that are in the path of the oil, regional fishing and shrimping industries, and it has pretty much succeeded in shutting us down in the Gulf drilling-wise.

That's bad news for America.

The rig is actually owned by Transocean (http://www.deepwater.com) and was being leased by British Petroleum (BP). Transocean has offices around the world, but its headquarters are in Switzerland.

It would be an attack on America, if it was indeed it was a deliberate attack, because it occurred in our Gulf waters. Also, American workers were killed and injured, and it is devastating to America's coastlines, birds and marine life that are in the path of the oil, regional fishing and shrimping industries, and it has pretty much succeeded in shutting us down in the Gulf drilling-wise.

That's bad news for America.

Well, Brian, you know a “gut instinct” can be right on the money at times. I would bet you've had dead-on correct hunches before.

There are no answers at this point, only a thousand questions. SWAT teams?!!!

Gina

I think, as you have pointed out, what a real tragedy this is going to be. Many people don't realize what a national treasure the Gulf Coast is-just thinking of and watching the wildlife, the shorelands and the people getting decimated will be unbearable. The key now is stopping the leaks, but I understand it could take months for that to happen. Some are even saying it is possible that the life of the oil deposit itself will have to leak out and deplete itself before the oil flows stops.

No matter how this happened, it goes to show that when man requires as much energy as we do, there will always be tragedies. Man is a gluttonous beast.

I only hope there is some egghead scientist somewhere that comes up with a clean, safe energy source, because oil, nuclear and coal will never be in all likelihood

Thank you, Anne, for your prayers.

Oh, do you know something about the cause of the explosion that the rest of the questioning world does not know?

You sound as if you're certain that BP and Haliburton are to blame. Or, perhaps you're just assuming.

By the way, I'm not “self-indulging” and “thrill-seeking” here. People WERE KILLED who lived on the same coast as I do, and marine life and industries will suffer as a result of this terrible event. Your false assumptions about my motivations are just that–false.

Fantistic stories about Korea? Can you put your bong down long enough to notice the 'culprit' in your mind is very conveniently Haliburton?! That is the equivalent of 'Birthers' accusing Obama of blowing up the rig with a drone missile attack he was controlling personally because he had his Original Birth Certificate moved there for storage….. The point is we don't know what happened but it is suspicious. North Korea just torpedoed a South Korean warship and the media also acted surprised when it sank, and had no idea how it could have happened, what an accident…. now we find out what was 'conspiratorial' then, is the obvious truth. Until we get answers, its all on the table…. except the drone attack theory

Hey, I want to know if anyone saw on their internet surfing over this issue a flash of a screen which had a silouhette of an oil rig on fire and gushing oil with the caption of “Thought it was a good idea?” I couldn't find it again as I went back and forth with my browser's navigation bar. This was like the next day after it happened. Earth day yeah, funny coincidence.

I remember when the Govt was talking about drilling in Alaska in 2000-2001, and then were were attacked with a great diversion that stopped us from talking about oil

It's not “conveniently” Halliburton when they had just completed cementing the well below the rig a few hours before. No one knows for sure that a bad cement job was the cause yet, but at least it's a much more factually sound one than North Korea coming to the gulf to torpedo an oil rig built by South Korea.

No one was killed from this accident.

Perhaps you should look up some of the facts surrounding this event before making such an uninformed post. But I understand, “looking for facts” Isnt in your right wing school of thought

I agree, the “coincidence” of this explosion is beyond suspicious. Eco-terrorists are willing to sacrifice human life and even risk ecological disasters to make their points. Remember, after all, that “terrorists” are not exactly rational, responsible humans.

Always love the 'coincidence' arguments people make and like Limbaugh espoused about the explosion occurring the day before Earth Day. What if the explosion had happened the day of Earth Day, the day after, the week before etc etc. You can always find a coincience if you want to. Coinicidence is what the entire fraudulant field of Astrology is all about.

Doesn't anyone just look at facts and if facts don't give the answer then honestly conclude that a rational conclusion can't be drawn. Dogma talks of Eco- Terrorists being willing to sacrifice human life and like they are all around, but beside the Ted Kaczynski acts of 15 to 25 years ago, can't seem to find many of this evil force that has killed humans.

The only reason I would give this credibility is that when Obama had one of his first pressers on this he talked about a SWAT team being sent which sounded bizarre.

I dont know about the Russian or Chinese story but North Korea is definitely believable the way they have been acting lately.

Miller, you will be called a conspiracy theorist because you are a conspiracy theorist, and you prey upon the downtrodden, spewing your idiocy so they will gravitate towards your useless rants.

You are irresponsible.

Well, as much as you obviously put much deep thought in this. Its known that this specific oil rig did in fact NOT have the emergency shut off line that most oil rigs have, the emergency shut off which automatically shuts off the flow of oil from the pipe and literally closes the pipe completely was not on the rig.

And this is why the oil continues to flow, the crack in the pipe that the oil is leaking through is very far underwater and this is why they cannot shut down the flow of oil. How it go so far down is the most speculation, perhaps the sinking rig tilted sideways and cracked in stress at the bottom, we dont know.

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What's irresponsible about my asking questions?

What do you know that I don't know?

I guess you missed the part where I said I have no answers, only questions.

Do you have an answer for this explosion, or are you waiting for Napolitano, Obama and company to give you your thinking points?

“The crack in the pipe?”

Here we go again… Christopher, please fill us all in on all this on-site information that you have that none of the rest of us have.

Maybe we could find the guy who wrote the following, which is just a portion of the whole essay that I have:

“The rig represents the cutting edge of drilling technology. It is a floating rig, capable of working in up to 10,000 ft water depth. The rig is not moored; It does not use anchors because it would be too costly and too heavy to suspend this mooring load from the floating structure. Rather, a triply-redundant computer system uses satellite positioning to control powerful thrusters that keep the rig on station within a few feet of its intended location, at all times. This is called Dynamic Positioning. The rig had apparently just finished cementing steel casing in place at depths exceeding 18,000 ft. The next operation was to suspend the well so that the rig could move to its next drilling location, the idea being that a rig would return to this well later in order to complete the work necessary to bring the well into production. It is thought that somehow formation fluids – oil /gas – got into the wellbore and were undetected until it was too late to take action. With a floating drilling rig setup, because it moves with the waves, currents, and winds, all of the main pressure control equipment sits on the seabed – the uppermost unmoving point in the well. This pressure control equipment – the Blowout Preventers, or ‘BOP’s” as they’re called, are controlled with redundant systems from the rig. In the event of a serious emergency, there are multiple Panic Buttons to hit, and even fail-safe Deadman systems that should be automatically engaged when something of this proportion breaks out. None of them were aparently activated, suggesting that the blowout was especially swift to escalate at the surface. The flames were visible up to about 35 miles away. Not the glow – the flames. They were 200 – 300 ft high”

Oh, I guess that's just another one of those conspiracy theories floating around…

http://www.marklevinshow.com/article.asp?id=179...

The platform was owned by a South Korean industry, could have been one of the North Korean ships operating in the Gulf.

America has removed the rule for oil well safety valve, to “save money”. Ha! Oil companies needing to save money. Each day now costs more then the 500 grand needed for this protective device. Don't fall for paranoid fantasies. Thanks, Halliburton. Greed is what did for the Gulf and its ecology this time…

It does seem very odd that nobody seems to be trying to explain why this happened. Usually the press is all over the survivors and the talking heads are sprouting theories about likely causes. Instead, we get silence. Why? Where are the interviews? Where are the explanations? These things went through a hurricane and now the explode for no particular reason?

Just now the news is saying that somebody left a big bomb in Times Square. We need to remember we have enemies.

There was a blowout as the exploration rig was capping off the well for later use by a production platform. It appears likely that Halliburton's concrete or something else of like nature may have failed and resulted in plugs of the concrete disabling all of the BOP, shutoff valve, deadman switch, and other failsafe features which normally prevent this type of blowout and leak to occur. No one can know for sure until the investigations and lawsuits result in later public disclosures. It appears to be a coincidence in timing due to the completion of the discovery well, pouring of the concrete casing, and some yet to be determined extraordinary circumstances in the failure of the well casings. The oil spill while serious is being hugely exagerrated. Natural oil seepage rates in that region of the Gulf of Mexico result in more than a hundred times greater spillage every year. See the sstories at http://www.wattsupwiththat.com for details and photographs of the incident and its probable causes and impacts.

HI Gina,
I suggest you and the rest of your readers go to this link: http://www.marklevinshow.com/article.asp?id=179...

This is audio from Mark Levin's radio Friday show where he interviews a man who was actually on the rig when the blowback and explosion occured.

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HA! Called him out on that one didn't you! His Messiah hasn't given him any thinking points yet, that's why he hasn't replied. I agree with your story. The questions you asked are all within the realm of posibility. Whether they are right or wrong is yet to be determined. As an ex-military member myself, I would consider these oil rigs to be a high value target that would “effectively” disrupt my enemy. Heck, Sadaam was willing to set fire to his own oil wells to prevent our take-over…….this event with the oil rig explosion doesn't surprise me one bit. However, the SWAT team business is the telling tale. I'd like to hear a rational explanation for that move!

Yes, your question marks excuse all the conspiracy memes you wish to plant. Whatever.

BP chief McKay says equipment failure caused the explosion.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126453296

…but couldn’t BP’s chief be on President Obama’s payroll? Couldn’t the Brits be using BP to retake America? Couldn’t our cherished suppositions be right after all in the face of all available evidence? I’m not making accusations; I’m just asking questions that you ought to ask as many people as you can in order to reinforce your preconceptions.

You keep the faith. The rest of us will keep reality.

http://www.eutimes.net/2010/05/us-orders-blacko...
This is posted on the EU Times site, some are calling it a hoax, I'm not sure.

The silver lining of this is that we will more highly commit to local energy alternatives and non-oil energies, seeing that cheap oil in the short-term, is not what is best for our energy source or national defense. Folk, we are very vulnerable not matter the cause of this event, and it is time to take T. Boone Pickens long time advice to finally eliminate oil dependency on our enemies, and even local oil production must be secondary to other sources as we see it is a dinosaur that may symbolize the fall of America if we let it.

He was a member of the military who by choice is muslim and was a player in the Obama transistion team…..Oh those pesky facts

I believe someone blew it up w/o a doubt, don’t know who but isn’t that out governments job to find out?

Gina, You do know you are never to ask questions on any subject that has anything to do with the chosen one?

Gina,

If you want people to take your opinion seariously please at least report the basic facts that any school child could easily find on the internet. Such that the explosion happened on April 20th, 2010, not the 21st.

Who knows what that means for your argument or whatever that was about Earth Day numerology you proceeded into but recalculate at least that one on your Glenn Beck chalk board while you're out there landscaping (breathing in the burned oil) cause you're clearly ignorant of a desire to fact check yourself before you spew off.

Sorta like BP.

Like your “gut feeling” (lol Steven Colbert roasting Bush) told you this couldn't be an accident, lets keep in mind for the sake of answering could this be “an attack on America” where the impulse for you to frame the question in that way comes from in the first place…

You do realize it's BRITISH Petroleum, I hope.

Lets not mention your little tantrum about N. Korea attacking a S. Korean made platform, which again contradicts your favorite “gut feeling” that a foreign entity was striking out with a deliberate nationalized agenda “against YOUR America.”

The America where if a Multinational Corporation with the blatant actual name of another country in its very title with a piece of equipment manufactured in again another third party country you yourself put forward, you can still in your delusional mind process this as some kind of Iwo Jima flag raising style nationalistic scenario.

I suppose it's because now the oil will lap up to the shores of our region of the nation where you live and work and where the Environmentalists have tried for so long to protect you from this very event and surprisingly enough your gut feeling is its all their fault because the blew it up with the help of the Red Chinese (or someone or something other than your own voting record) on an attack on you.

Aren't our strong leaders supposed to keep us safe Gina?

And if these rigs are so so easy to be attacked like this then shouldn't we STOP drill baby drilling in the Gulf, wouldn't that be your gut feeling to such a scenario (or do we blockade the whole thing with 1000000 subs and battleships, eh?)

OR could systemic deregulation by the government, you know on things like Oil Company standards be (by any chance of the imagination, please Gina please) a problem here, just maybe as an after thought?

Could it be there are multinational corporate entities abounding that have pumped you so full of propaganda for so long that one of them could take a dump on your front door welcome mat, tell you their trading it in for a platinum watch and you'd be running outside in a cheerleading outfit with your pom poms ready to slip and slide for a chance to kiss that butt and beg it to tell you what time it is.

Again, you got “chocolate” all over your legs, again ….

Gina, lets get this straight (since I'm not, and I know you already hate me)

I read this article and I loved the fact that you went there and demanded answers.
It's just you are barking up the wrong tree.
If there's anything below the surface it has to do with Gazprom and BP and what's happening in Washington, Poland and the Ukraine right now.
Its all very CORPORATE and MULTI-NATIONAL Gina, stuff you hate to acknowledge but seem to be realizing you have no choice as you try to clean off the oil from your dirty boots.

I feel for you cause I know you mean well but you gotta try harder, sometimes it's just not about you girl, even when your left holding the check.

odd really don't know what to make of it.

I appreciate the sarcasm, really. But we all have to recognize that individual, voluntary restraint isn’t now and never will be a significant solution to any major problem. Sadly, it is the main purpose of government to force ALL of us to do certain things, lest the burden be disproportionate to the altruistic of us. Tragic but true, if it is voluntary, no one would logically do it for anger that others are no “doing their fair share”.

…I could scatter a deck of cards face-down on the floor and ask to you to follow your “gut instinct” and pick up the ten of spades.

Your “gut” would immediately have a 1 in 52 chance of being right…

Repeat the process enough times and you will eventually pick up the ten of spades.

There’s absolutely nothing remarkable about hunches occasionally being right.

One thing I would like to add, Gina. The President is now sending SWAT Teams. Why would SWAT teams be sent to an “accident”?

Do you realize that you are insane? Environmentalism isn't about power any more than religious conservatism is about terrorism, those ideas just become the flag a few evil people wave in the name of evil schemes. Environmentalism is about wanting to restore this planet to it's natural beauty and living in symbiosis with the planet, not as a parasite. The mentality you, and others like you, have adopted wherein ANY and ALL causes upheld by the other half of this country that does not subscribe to your belief system are only hedonistic and based on an enterprise of lies and greed is the antithesis of the democracy this country was founded on.

Look. They're working with a highly flammable material. They're pumping it from a mile below the surface. It's dangerous. That's why people don't like off-shore drilling. Bad accidents have happened before (off the coast of CA for starters), and they'll happen again.

It's a dangerous business. What is so hard to understand about that?

Sometimes flammable materials explode … duh! Coal mining is also dangerous for the same reason. You don't need to make up bizarre conspiracy theories every time. Do you think some terrorist exploded the W. VA coal mine too??

What is so difficult to understand about how the oil at the wells head is leaking? There was several thousand feet of RIGID and INFLEXIBLE pipe between it and the rig.

Have you any idea of the types of tension and force which must have been exerted on the entire column of pipe – all the way down to the well head – as the rig was sinking — that entire column of pipe was destroyed.

Look — mistakes happen — you right-wing drill-baby-drill folks are always trying to ignore the true cost of carbon-based fuels. You write off all the environmental costs of carbon-based fuels — quite content to run a MASSIVE environment deficit which dwarfs the fiscal deficit of the US Gov. You are all quite happy to saddle future generations with the costs of your profligate ways.

Oops!

Fairy, you caught another typo in my article! I'll have to correct the date, plus another place where I accidentally left out an L in “drilling.” Typos do tend to take away from ones credibility. The oil rig explosion actually happened two hours BEFORE April 21st, at about 10 PM on the 20th, and it burned for about two days.

By the way, I was not practicing “numerlogy” in the piece. The Earth Day paragraph was my simply telling what Rush had said on his program. In fact, that's what I did also with the NorK submarine story–reporting what some people are saying. And, in your great wisdom and maturity, you claim I had a “tantrum” about North Korea. As I said, you apparently missed the part where I was simply reporting a “rumor” that Savage had also spoken about.

You could do a little fact-checking yourself and actually attempt to understand what I was saying in the article; instead you stand on your high mountain and condescend to tell me I'm ignorant and don't know how to “fact check,” when you clearly misunderstand what I said in the piece.

You felt compelled to put in capital letters that, “it's BRITISH Petroleum.” Um… You are correct that BP was involved. They were leasing the rig, but they do not own it–perhaps you missed that little detail when you were doing your fact-checking. The rig was owned by the global, Transocean corporation. However, (I repeat myself here) the blast occurred in AMERICA'S Gulf waters, and it is AMERICA that's taking a direct hit as a result of this oil spill. It was AMERICANS who were killed and injured, and it is AMERICA'S coastal waters, industries, birds and marine life that will be hurt by this.

You are, at the very least, naive if you believe that environmenalist have been trying to protect us “from this very thing” for so long. You could not be more wrong about their intentions. Environmentalism is about money, power and control over the people. But, I do not expect you to believe that.

As I said in the piece, I DO NOT KNOW WHAT CAUSED THE EXPLOSION. That's not terribly hard to understand, is it, Fairy? You should not mistake a person's musings over the possiblilities with making assertions. I did no such thing. My gut? Yep, it still smells a rat here, but we may never really know the truth.

And, I really don't know what you mean by your last sentence. It's not just about me? What are you even talking about? “Left holding the check?” What check? I can see you presume to know quite a bit, but you really should do a little more fact-checking–that way, you may eventually get it right.

You are the absolute perfect minion of your environmental masters.

Marx had a precise description of “foot soldiers” like you; “useful” was part of it…

[...] Meanwhile, expect more and more of this lethal crap to happen and more and more Americans to die while we are called conspiracy theorists and nuts. One more tidbit… Just remember, Rush Limbaugh pointed out this explosion happened the day [...]

Of course its an attack from foreign entities.Hey, look at this. A huge iol rig explodes. I can’t ever remember one blowing up. Failed bombing attenpt in Times Square. US and Australian authorities are now warning India of an imminent attack.
Ok, it sounds far fetched, but here we are looking at a burning rig, natural disaster with spilled oil pending. All of a sudden, there’s a bomb in NY, we look left. Now theres a threat in India, then right. I ask you now, what is coming up from behind. Its the one thing I fear most and have feared most for about 15 years.
I was in Sunday school years ago. The teacher asked each of us what we feared most. Some said loss of spouse, some said children, some said home. I said Islam. Well here it is with a President that is beginning to embrace it. Now, look over your shoulder!
Everybody is blaming Bush. It was the Muslim terrorists that attacked us.

Matthew,

In order for you to be true to your principles,

Move out of your house (made of wood that should not have been logged)

Sleep in a tent (wait, can't do that probably made of rayon in some filthy factory)

Unplug your computer (electricity delivered from some filthy factory)

Throw away, I mean, recycle your computer (made of components manufactured in some filthy factory)

I could go on but you can see that your hedonism is like so not “green”.

You really must try harder.

Universities and scientific organizations sometimes have minisubs ( and no not every university. I think there is one somewhere in Florida). An improvised explosive from the alchemists cookbook which I fully support being published on the grounds that knowledge is inert coupled with overseers who don’t really care enough to watch every action because “what are they going to do” and a simple little statement of “Let’s see how the sealife behaves near the rig” and voila. Does not require a huge stretch of the imagination, just a lack of faith in humanity’s ability to pay attention.

I know Gina well enough to know that her main concern is our country. But I would just like to look at 'conspiracy theories' in general. Here are a few: The New World Order,the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, Free Masons, Vaccines,Water Flouridation, AIDS, 9/11, UFO's, Princess Diana, Paul is Dead, The daVinci Code, Montauk Project, Lincoln assassination( King,RFK etc), Clinton Body Count, Vril Society Conspiracy, Phoebus Cartel, Pearl Harbor ( Eisenhower knew about it, but let it happen ), Aliens, Peak Oil, Moon landing being fake, Port Chicago Disaster, Prohibition( Capone and the mob got the gov't to enforce it, so mob could get rich) etc etc etc.

I only hope we look at the truthful history and validity of these before adding more to the list. Lets wait for a shred of evidence to surface and then entertain and pursue it.

Brian, don't forget TWA Flight 800. This is a very fascinating book to read…
http://superstore.wnd.com/store/item.asp?DEPART...

Gina,

Haven't read the book, but remember all the fallout afterwards. But again, all theories like these always seem to fade into the past and nothing ever gets resolved. Just leaves people confused and angry.I get impatient with them, because I want answers !

But I think I know why people are interested or even propose 'conspiracy ' theories and it goes way, way back in our biologic history and DNA. Simplified, here it is : The suspicious, survival oriented animal or person who looks at a shadow at night and assumes it is an enemy rather than just a shadow is more likely to survive than an animal or person who sees a shadow at night and assumes it is a only a shadow and it is an enemy instead

Yes, Corey, I already saw that very brief report. He said, “a failed piece of equipment” caused the explosion. The last I checked, there has been no investigation completed into the cause. What “piece of equipment,” and how does he know this so quickly? That was quite a vague statement. I look forward to a complete report on this incident from them.

Perhpaps you may have noticed that I am not leveling accusations, but merely pondering possibilites. Just because many folks refuse to entertain some of the darkly disturbing potentials here, does not mean I have to keep my mouth shut about them.

I'm not living in “unreality,” simply because I am fully aware that this could be sabotage or an attack just as easily as it could be a complete accident. To say that it is impossible that this could be a deliberate act is unrealistic.

Actually, the platform was owned by Transocean, a global corporation headquartered in Switzerland with offices all around the world. But, it was apparently constructed by a South Korean company.

You're right, JK. It sends the liberals into hysterical rage.

Then I would suggest that you always ignore your “gut feelings” about anything, since you don't believe there could be any merit to them whatsoever.

…problem here, Gina, is that you believe EVERYTHING is a conspiracy:

A socialist conspiracy…

A Marxist conspiracy…

A homosexual conspiracy…

An Obama administration conspiracy…

A Democratic conspiracy…

A Muslim conspiracy…

A scientific community conspiracy…

A media conspiracy…

An environmentalist conspiracy…

And now a North Korean conspiracy.

Do you ever believe that something is NOT a conspiracy, do you accept the fact that things just happen, or do you spend your whole life looking for boogeymen?

[...] [...]

My gut tells me that you don't know what you're talking about–you certainly don't know much of anything about me.

ALSO, you like a number of other people, mistakenly take my reporting of an Internet conspiracy theory involving North Korea to mean that I actually believe it to be the case.

As I said, you don't know so much.

Well, what do you know! Looks like I'm not the only “stupid, insane wacko” asking questions about this incident…
“Oil Spill a Catastrophe of Monumental Proportions: Is It Sabotage?” http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/22667

Gina

I looked at the Canada Free Press website and noticed they also had an article on the Enoch Project where the Global Elite( who really control the world you know) will take the world over in 2012 because something about the anti-Christ and the Mayan calender etc etc. Not sure Gina you want to be in their camp or near it. This Project Enoch thing by the Canada Free Press website IS a little wacko. Your concerns at least could be right, albeit a longshot. Would stay away from horse race betting

Brian, that Enoch Project link is a paid advertisement, not a Canada Free Press article.

Oh well, still a little close for comfort to me. Did you watch the Derby ? My brother-in-law put ten dollars down for me on off line betting at our local racetrack and my horse came in 12 th. Another reason I should never go with long shots of any kind.

Oh, darn the bad luck, Brian! That's gambling for you. I did not see the Derby, but I heard that the horse that won was also a long-shot, though I don't know that for certain.

Yesterday, Keith and I were discussing the tradition of the Derby and the fact that it's mostly a big ol' mint julep party with the culmination of a few minutes' worth of action. By the time the horses run, everyone is well down the road to their hangover.

It doesn't get much more American than THAT! HA!!

Right-on, CJ. I'm glad you understand what I'm trying to say. “High value target” indeed! You said it. And, SWAT teams… If it was just an “accident,” why the SWAT teams?

It's too bad that more people are not willing to consider the real possibilities in our very brutal and evil world.

Most people just want their bread and circus and to be left alone.

Dan, seems like you are jumping to conclusions also; “eco-terrorist?” The more obvious motivation would be money motivation; simply ask the question; who could or would benefit from such an incident. Oil prices could rise as a result, bankers could provide loans to finiance the clean-up effort….the list goes on. But to be sure it is possible for someone to make huge gains from such a disaster….hey, USA could even blame Iran for it and give an excuse to invade Iran….it HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE (9/11) !!!

Interesting, GIna. You raise some of the same questions that keep going through my mind.

That being said, I'm at least 75% certain there's probably a normal reason for this disaster, but still there's that 25% that wonders if eco-terrorists weren't somehow involved, especially in light of Obama's capitulation to everyone but the most rabid leftists over the drilling issue. The timing simply raises do many questions, IMHO.

Good article.

Man! Thank you Scooter so much for checking in. You don't know how much I appreciate you, my friend.

Yes, 75 percent of me also hopes this is just a terrible accident. But, God help us all if that is not the case.

Coincidentally, less than two weeks later, we have BOMBS discovered in public places in New York and Pittsburgh.

We are living in interesting times, to say the least.

Amazing how many Americans immediately jump to thinking of terrorism. Bankers and oil merchants have a far greater motive than any foreign objectors. There is little a money-hungry power grabber will not do for his own vested interests. Iraq was invaded under a similar pretext. Do your research and you will find this for yourself….if you are willing to look with your eyes open.

Pretend my last sentence contains the word “too” instead of “do” (damn margaritas)…

Just heard a testimony of a survivor of this disaster on Horizon as Mark Levin interviewed him. There are two parts.
http://www.marklevinshow.com/Article.asp?id=179...

This still does not answer why it took 8 days for “OOO” to address this disaster and then sending 30 SWAT teams to all the oil rigs. This does not make sense. Meanwhile the fishermen will suffer.

Could the almost terrorist attack in NY City on May 2 be a little reminder from N Korea to Obama since the NPT meeting begins tommorrow in NY City?

You're just a very fast typer, Scooter!

Nigel, maybe you missed the part where I said I don't know the cause of the explosion.

It seems quite odd for a number of reasons, including the inexplicable dispatching of SWAT teams. I realize there are a number of groups or people who would have an interest in such a “high value target,” as CJ put it.

As I said, if it was not just a terrible accident, then I doubt we'll be allowed to know the cause.

They would not have cut costs on a rig like this. These things cost a bundle to make and are an investment that need to work for at least 10-15 years for them to make their money back.

While I'm not sure about the terrorism angle, I can tell you that this was not because BP cut corners on rig construction. It is my understanding that a large gas bubble formed which is very verr rare.

Where do you propose Rintintin that we get the oil America needs without dependency on foreign oil?

While I may not agree with you on your political affiliation or even religious conviction, I hear you as an American. I totally agree that we should be suspicious of any event with such “coincidences”. Asking questions, no matter how outlandish they may seem, is a logical way to arrive at the truth once the questions posed have been critically evaluated without bias. Thank you for thinking.

No matter who or what caused the disaster the ultimate responsibility has to rest on BP. If it was caused by some sort of deliberate attack whether by a foreign enemy or domestic terrorist BP should have taken adequate security and safety measures. Since they were either unable or unwilling to do so they should not have been engaged in offshore drilling, and I hope our President comes to his senses and make the current halt to offshore drilling a permanent one.

Give me a break.

It's completely foolish to hope that America ceases our own offshore drilling. That's the very last thing we should do! We should drill ALL of our own oil offshore and elsewhere, instead of buying oil from terror-sponsoring nations, with whom we should be doing NO business.

Gina

Agree with you all the way. We have over a thousand offshore rigs and can't let one mechanical accident make us want to shut down or abandon this type of drilling. We need to learn from it and improve the technology .That is how tecnology, industry and science work in confluence.

Besides, our brilliant governor of Texas solved the issue of who caused this when he said today ' it was an act of God and nothing could have prevented it ' Oh My.

An “act of God?” GADS, Perry!!

Shane, thank you for understanding what I mean. I'm only asking…

Gina

I know you are ” Texan ” ( gulp, me too ), but now reside in the the Gulf State area. You don't have to answer, but are you near the coast, and even if that isn't the case, what is the mood and how are the spirits of the people right now in that area ?

Brian, we live right off the beach in Gulfport, just two blocks from the shore. This is not a secret, so I'm not being foolish by saying it. We can see the water of the Gulf from our front porch and yard, thanks to Hurricane Katrina having leveled the houses that used to be in the “way” of our view of the Mississippi Sound.

The mood here is that of waiting expectancy. We've had reports that our Coast may be spared. We have the latest updates available on one of my radio station's websites: http://www.newsradio1049fm.com.

Even though Clear Channel brought me back to do production (commercials) for our four FM stations, and to record the country station midday show, they have now, after reading my articles, put me on the talk station doing “audio blogs” twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays around ten or so minutes before seven in the morning Central Time. In tomorrow morning's audio blog, I'm going to address this article I wrote, and the fallout I received as a result. You can hear it streaming live on the website I included above.

I'll be up and be listening !!!!!!

Gina,
I listen to Michael Savage, too! I began hearing this “conspiracy news” about 1:00 a.m. this past Saturday morning(May 1st), and the “conspiracy theory” all began to make sense. I also heard that this was supposedly a “nuclear device.” Anyway, again, also heard rumor that Obama had issued a “news blackout” on this(shades of The Soviet Union, keep “The People” in the dark). Gina, you are right! And, to me, we have a Marxist in the White House, and a bunch of “Yes Men and Women” following the moron! We “NEED” to take our country back, whether if “THEY” like it, “OR NOT!!!”

Hey, preradstudent, maybe you need to take a course in “REALITY,” and the reality is, we live in a very mean world right now where people are trying to gain “POWER,” because they don’t give a **** about anyone, except themselves, and their own pocketbooks! Gina is right, and you need to stop accepting money from the Marxist’s who are running this country, and paying you to throw the “smoke screens.” I hate “STUPID PEOPLE!” So, move on now, little one, because you will not deter us from our mission!

Ok so here it is. The pictures that you have seen of the robotic arms trying to close valves on the sea floor are proof that a torpedo didnt hit the well head because its still there. The explosion being on the rig floor is also proof that a torpedo didn’t cause the explosion on the rig. A torpedo being shot from North Korea and hitting the exact spot to make the explosion take out the rig floor is a little out of the scope of reality . The riser which is the pipe that goes from the rig to the sea floor broke off of the rig as it sank and is laid out like a noodle on the sea floor kinking and causing cracks in the pipe thus causing the leaks. This also could have damaged all the “shut off valves” on the rig floor, but they are still there a piece of proof that negates a torpedo attack. This kind of thing isnt supposed to happen but no accident is supposed to happen. This is the “perfect storm” in that all the factors that had to happen for this to be the tragedy to human and marine life that it is, happened. I would like nothing more for it to be able to be proven that our socialist president had his hand in this, but being as i work offshore and have an understanding of these things and an inside knowledge into what is going on under the water right now, I know this is a unfortunate and horrific accident and nothing more.

Gina

I noticed the radio station that broadcast your ' radio blog' was having problems with it's editing–someone would be talking and then they would just be cut off and someone elses voice would come on on a different story or topic. They only broadcast the last of you and your comments, BUT it was good to hear your voice !!!

The DJ did warn the listeners before you came on that you made him seem like Barney Fife, which was funny . Will try and catch you Thursday and hopefully the editing problems will be resolved. You have a good radio voice. My keen ear could still pick up a little of that good ol Texas Twang

Brian, I'm glad you caught at least part of the audio blog. Kipp is aware of the streaming problems (I was not), and he said they're working on gettinig that fixed.

He also said there have been people requesting copies of them, so he's going to go to the production computer where I've been saving mp3 copies of the audio. He's going to create a place on News Radio's website where you can listen to the blogs as I record them. I've only done three so far, so this has just started. I didn't realize that he's already getting feedback.

Yes, I do still have the Texan in my voice, though I try to force a neutral accent, but I can't quite do it, especially when I get “worked up.”

Thanks for tuning in!

Thank you, Midnight Poet, for taking the time to comment. I love Michael Savage, even with all of his quirks.

You can see that all I'm doing here is asking questions that SHOULD be asked. To say this could not be anything but an accident is preposterous. There are many reasons why that explosion might not happen as an “accident,” MANY reasons, not the least of which are the multiple layers of redundant safety features on those rigs.

I just heard a new conspiracy theory. Ever since America has resurrecred the Tea Party, the British have resented it as it brings back memories of us throwing tea into the Boston harbor and the ensuing rebellion. British Petroleum is simply retaliating now by dumping oil into one of our harbors.

HA! There's a scenario!

Oops, sorry Gina perhaps not a crack in the pipe, I meant the literal split where the pipe comes off and literally is sort of opens up leaving it spewing out, not just a simple crack. I have an issue of using the wrong wording on what I mean. (Possibly using it wrong again right now with what I meant.) And that's what I meant when I also meant the emergency shut off, the BOP's, their are automatic ones aren't there, deadman's? I believe those were not on this specific rig? (At least this is what I have been told, if they were on then that is doubly strange they didn't work.) And that is quite strange that none of them were activated, I was in no way denouncing you or your article but just hopefully letting you know something that you may not have known. (Which you appear to have already known! Doh! >.<)

But of course there are the times where technical issues or poor action will cause the BOP's or Deadmans not to work. Your article is very well written and not far from possible, and I in no way meant to say that it wasnt possible. I was merely stating something which you appear to have already known, forgive me for coming off as possibly calling you ill-informed or a nutty conspiracy theorist if I did.

Thanks, CBeaux, for your input.

Hopefully, you realize that I also find the North Korea torpedo Internet theory pretty far-fetched. I was simply reporting what's going around out there.

But, because of the magnitude of the explosion, I tend to question the assumption that it must have been an accident. I, too, have heard from people with extensive knowledge of these rigs, and an explosion as big as this one was, is rare, to say the least.

I worked for many years doing as an equipment operator for Dowell,which at the time was part of Dow Chemical in Freeport, Texas. I have had a hand in cementing many a well in the Gulf. Had a much larger platform catch on fire and burn to the water line(Cerveza Platform) with very little environmental impact. I have said from the beginning of this something smells fishy. There are so many safety devices in place to prevent this from happening. I remarked to my wife,I think someone deliberately did this. I also posted this same message on Fox News. . How they will ever determine how this happened I don’t have a clue. I believe they need to interview every rig worker.It could have been a disgruntled employee but my gut tells me it was more. They (democrats) are already calling for a ban on drilling so I would say it was successful. They’re are people I believe that know the truth,they had better come forward now,otherwise one of their co conspirators will beat them to the punch and they will die by lethal injection!

I think discussions and concerns that sabotage could have been a factor in the explosion are valid, as long as they are put in proper perspecttive and most importantly don't cause us to keep our eye off the ball. As time goes by , it appears more and more likely that the cause was mechanical failure if for no other reason, evidence of the contrary is completely lacking so far. We should look for horses and not zebras.

The main focus should be to zero in on BP and Halliburton to see if they have stringently followed all current levels of safety procedures that would have prevented such an explosion. Is there a past history of fines or examples where they haven't done so ? Turns out that BP has indeed had some fines concerning such things.

Then we have to look at things such as are more regulations needed to make sure the BP's and Halliburtons don't do everything possible to make sure rigs like these are safe. I bet in a months time, we will totally talking about deficiencies in BP/Halliburton and whether or not more regulation is needed to make sure one innocent American is never needlessly killed again or a gulf coast decimated..

Christopher, I apolgize for coming off short to you. I was on the offensive because of the liberals attacking me. I also thought maybe you did have new information that I didn't know about. Thank you for your input.

I don't consider this to be one of my better articles, by any means. If I had known it would explode across the Internet like it did, I would certainly have put much more time, thought and research into it.

There's not much that I know in this world. I just smell a big ol' rat here and question that this was really an accident. I can't prove anything, and I really doubt we'll ever know if it was something other than an accident.

This event has served to fire up the anti-drilling maniacs. They're all coming out of the woodwork denouncing offshore oil drilling as being “too unsafe,” because of this incident. That's a lie, but that's the effect of this explosion, and they're playing it for all it's worth. Again, it makes me think this was no accident.

I just don't believe it was an accident, but what can I know?

You can bet your bottom dollar, Brian, that BP and Halliburton are ALL that's going to be discussed by this disgusting administration.

Our offshore oil drilling is ALREADY as safe as mother's milk in the grand scheme of things–look at the huge number of offshore rigs with the almost statistically insignificant number of deadly occurrances in relation to the number of rigs. Incidents of this magnitude almost never happen!

This administration does not want more regulation–they want NO DRILLING–period.

That's why I say that they will have that “laser-like focus” ONLY on the companies involved with the rig itself. Even if it was NOT an accident, but a deliberate act by who-knows-who, this administration will NEVER admit it. NEVER. Because this incident plays right into their slimy anti-American, anti-freedom hands, and there are thoughts I have about this incident in relation to THIS ADMINISTRATION that I am not even saying.

Gina

I understand what you are saying, but what if you are wrong ?

And, the obvious comeback is: what if I'm right?

Well, I know that answer. If I'm right, we'll never know.

Gina

I meant what if your wrong about BP/Halliburton and wrong that off shore drilling is as safe as mother's milk. As a doc, we talk about this all the time, especially with our surgical comrades who hold life in their hands every day. They are the first to admit what they do isn't safe and can ALWAYS be improved and scrutinised, unless we say things like ” No need. It's safe as mother's milk”

I too wouldn't want to sound like “crazy conspiracy theorist” but on April 21 when the explosion occurred the moon was in its first quarter. I’m not claiming the Deep Horizon was bombed by green cheese. Of course my question is innocent and I merely pose the question here is it possible? Oh yes, we should add the need to keep the families of the offshore workers killed in prayer. Wait there is more, on top the prayers let’s add our doubt of Obama administration. Is there more? Yes, for good measure we add “Muslim operative.” Now we have something that smells fishy, a cauldron of lunacy, full of division and doubt.

It’s unbelievable that they didn't even have a proper contingency plan. We need the regulatory authority to oversee proper safety measures, and backup plans before oil drilling. That means worst case scenarios everywhere. That means advance construction of shut-off valves, and containment structures. We should not be the 3rd week into this disaster before implementation of a plan.

The Cheney/Bush clan fired the EPA members that opposed their policies. They gave away our resources for huge profits and helped destroy the environment. All this to the king of the no-bid contract company Halliburton which has so many fraud issues from Iraq already and the oil giant BP, which has brought us other previous environmental problems. This is the drill baby drill mantra. Deregulate, we don't need supervision, shrink the government regulatory capacity.

This tragedy shows a total failure of the system in place. We need an independent academy of scientists that studies potential consequences of these technologies. The environmental cost of this will last generations. Moreover, this is the same problem with the coal industry. They rape the mountains, fill the valleys, poison the rivers, and destroy our national treasures that our children will only be able to read about.

The public gets the shaft in pollution and pays the costs in health, the workers die, and the CEO's take out hundreds of millions of dollars a year in personal profits. Yet, in your post you mention prayer. Such hypocrisy! The only thing you worship is unregulated capitalism — your only concern is drilling production! The government must be there to protect our rights against this intrusion of greed and it needs to be up to this task regardless of senseless politics.

Brian, that was hyperbole. I said safe as mother's milk–in the big picture of offshore oil drilling–there's the qualifier. Of course there's NOTHING completely safe in this world–nothing. I would bet the odds of dying during surgery are greater than the odds of dying on an offshore oil rig.

Oil companies already have high safety standards, and they are always under pressure to improve upon them, which they do. They want their men to be safe, and they don't want oil spilled. However, if you want to look at it from a purely “pragmatic” and not “humanitarian” viewpoint, you could say that these companies want to be VERY safe to avoid lawsuits by grieving families, and the monumental cost of cleanup and lawsuits in the event of a spill–not to mention, all that oil escaping the well and pouring into the Gulf is also their money down the drain.

Your sarcasm sounds very “youthful,” if you know what I mean.

Your insult of my prayer request is pathetic.

You are not qualified to know what's in my mind. Your presumption that this is all about “unregulated capitalism” is uninformed, at best. Your comments show that you are indeed uninformed, but you have the eco-wacko thinking points down pat.

Apparently, you are too blinded by your Gaia worship to realize that this type of explosion of an offshore rig just DOESN'T happen. There has not been a United States offshore incident this deadly in almost fifty years. Fifty years.

Gina

When I first heard the 'conspiracy' stories going around, my gut reaction was OH NO. Then I realised you guys are right and they must seriously be entertained and researched considering our world today. I also believe equally that all may not be well in the private sector when it comes to them always maintaining the highest standards of safety. Man is fallen and fallible is he not.

To assume that since we have never had an explosion this big or that an explosion this big 'just doesn't happen' ,due to a private companies or human error, is dangerous. A ship like the Titanic had never gone down before either and a nuclear reactor like three mile island had never malfunctioned either.Their had never been such a fire as the one at The Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York in 1911 that kiiled innocent women because of inadequate safety standards before either.And on and on.

History tells us that just because something has never happened before, it indeed can and it can be due man's fallibility.Remember the shuttle explosion ?Never happened before. I say let us all put our political ideologies aside, deeply look into ALL possiblities and learn so there will be less of a chance it will happen again.

Gina

I mistakingly put a reply a few comments above. But basically, someone saying something hasn't happened in fifty years or that it has never happened this big before, therefore it most likely wouldn't be to human failure is ignoring history.Space shuttle explosion, etc etc etc Men and thus companies are fallen and fallible and for that reason we should even expect these things to happen. Try to prevent them, but know they will happen due to human fallibility. That combination will keep us on our toes

Brian, I did get both of your comments in my email, and I understand what you mean.

Do you know that there are some people who even say the Challenger was actually shot down as an international demonstration of America's “Star Wars”-type technology? There is no end to conspiracy theories.

You're right that anything is possible. We live in a fallen and fallible world.

The Challenger too !! Not surprised I guess it is a given that people just don't adhere to a principle my Daddy taught me long time ago–When adversity, tragedy or confusion strikes, always look at yourself completely and honestly first and then look at those close to you or who appear to be on your side. For that is where we are most easily fooled.

“Sadly, it is the main purpose of government to force ALL of us to do certain things, lest the burden be disproportionate to the altruistic of us [those that are smarter and better than the rest].”

Liberalism in a nut shell. Thanks for sharing Mr. Hall.

“The government must be there to protect our rights against this intrusion of greed and it needs to be up to this task regardless of senseless politics.”

But who will protect us from bloated, totalitarian greed and tyranny? If you'd like to see the environmental impact of such governments look into what became of Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Cuba, etc. under Communist rule. Thanks, but I'd rather trust Halliburtin and BP.

Hi Gina,
So, you are a Texan, eh? Well, I am a Kentuckian, but, I spent a total of 8 years living in Texas back in the 80's, till the early 90's, Great State! I lived in Fort Hood, then Killeen, then Austin, back to Killeen, then Harker Heights, and finally settled in little Rockport, Texas, just up the coast from Corpus Christi. I miss Rockport, Texas, great place to raise your kids, or at least it was then. I lived in Rockport from September, 1991 – August, 1993.

Anyway, this oil rig disaster has left me scratching my head. It happened very close to Earth Day. It happened not long after Obama announced to the world that we were going to begin offshore drilling to relieve some of our dependence on foreign oil. It happened not long after Obama announced that we(the USA) would not necessarily immediately attack someone just because they attack us first, especially if it is a nuclear attack of some sort. What's the “IDIOT” going to do, just let them keep coming at us and take us over? He and his “YES People” are going to ruin us if something is not done. He is a moron of the highest caliber, and I will not apologize for such an opinion! EVER!

The American People have their heads so far in the sand that they cannot hear nor see the truth of what is happening to our country. I never dreamed that I would watch America be dismantled right before my eyes in my lifetime, but it is happening! The Government issued a news blackout on this issue. People say to me, “Oh, no they haven't, because I have been hearing the news about it?” See how stupid people are, because they automatically accept what that crazy “boob-tube” tells them. They think the news on TV is the truth!!!!! LOL!!!! That box is full of lies! I don't even own a TV, and if I did, sports and weather would be about all I would watch on it. TV sickens me nowadays, just a box full of lies! My granny always taught me, “Never believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see.” The American People are being led like sheep to the slaughter, and they don't even realize it!

I doubt if we have heard the last of secret attacks like this on the USA, and if the truth is known, are all being master-minded by the morons in Washington. Wake up America, before it is too late!

Gina, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

Even “Vladimir Ilyich Lenin” spoke “TRUTH” on occasion, even though he was a staunch communist:

“So as long as The State exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no State.” ~ Vladimir Lenin (Russian Leader, and Communist)

Big Government(The State) is taking away our freedoms! People, can't you see it????

“It is true that liberty is precious……so precious that it must be rationed.” ~ Vladimir Lenin

Freedom, rationed??? Who will ration our freedoms if The State takes us over completely(and they're close)? The State will ration your “liberty”(freedom). I cannot believe that people are too blind to see it. Oh well, when we have a cashless money-system, a National ID Card, and we have to have a passport to travel from State to State(or to various sectors of our country), then you will wished you listened.

Keep up the good work, Gina, because “We The People” need a medium by which to allow our “VOICE” to be heard. Remember: “So long as The State exists, there is no freedom.”

~ MidnightPoet

TO GINA

Spoken like a true Rush Limbaugh neophyte, a mix of conjecture, pseudo-science and half-truths in which to perpetuate your reasoning.

It has not happened before in “Fifty years”, so it must be a conspiracy, so your language goes. If it was an accident by design why didn't happen on “Earth Day” instead of a day before or later? If there was a political message here would it be so ambiguous? According to your logic if the accident happened on Groundhog Day, would you blame a groundhog? Or, if it happened on Elvis Presley Birthday, would blame undisputed King of Rock 'n' Roll?

In one paragraph you mention Obama disapproval then in a subsequent paragraph you mention prayer. Politics and prayer, all very tasteless, but effective approach in deliverance when writing. I don’t know you but I have known people like you. You remind me of the cheap carnival barkers, who sells elixirs, snake oil, inviting you for an extra 50 cents to check out the half man/half woman in the secreted tent. Quaint and harmless, only misguided and distasteful.

So you sell your snake oil here to whoever will listen. As I look at recent post on this forum I have no doubt you are engaged in writing opinions about yourself in order to save face. Just like Limbaugh, in what typifies his usual senseless politics. If given the time you will throw whatever it takes at this discussion. It’s called the “kitchen sink syndrome”. It is the type of discussion that becomes too broad to be supported, too unmanageable, you will do whatever it takes. So broad you mention “Muslim terrorists to the Red Chinese, Venezuela and beyond. Remember that China and Russia are drilling out there, as well”. In other words, you think too much.

Of course, you do not use this word “conspiracy” directly. You lack the courage and conviction to say it directly. Instead you water down your language by saying “just DOESN'T happen”. Then to suggest that “Eco-terrorists” may have done this is utterly ridicules. You have no proof, not even an interview from one of many survivors to justify your claims. What did the Eco-terrorists do, sneak on deck in frog-men military style like invisible ninja warriors and take control? Your theory is laughable, indeed!

Even Fox news has not adopted your conspiracy theory. Their position being broadcast right now is more about blaming Obama for delaying action due to “pure politics.” Fox opinion comes from Michael Brown, who lost his job as director of the FEMA for mishandling the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Where is your so called expert witness?

You can attack my character as a basis for defending your shallow reasoning, but that still doesn’t prove anything. The fact remains that with only the thinnest conjecture and half-baked languages of you have formed this ridicules conspiracy theory. You have no proof, no support from major networks, not even an interview from one of many survivors.

It should be obvious this oil spill was simply an accident. My reasoning is simple — it is only reasonable hypothesis that introduces the fewest assumptions makes the most sense (Occam's razor). Still can’t understand? Let me spell it out for you “KISS” — an acronym of the phrase “Keep It Simple, Stupid”.

Hello Gina,

Thanks for your courage in a country that's no longer free, where thinking and truth are fast becoming a crime.

Since we are censored whereever we want to tell a truth (even with documented evidence) on certain subjects, I sure would like to contact you by email.

I've been doing some intensive investigative research on what's behind the curtain of Oz for over 17 years. The untold hours I've put into this research would be at least close to the equivalent of a PhD. I have no doubt about who committed this horrendous terrorism act. It's none of the “enemies of America” that We The People have have been brainwashed into thinking of as our enemies. Consequently, this extremely arrogant and diabolically brilliant racist group is seldom ever mentioned as the possible terrorists.

We are an occupied country. There's been a coup d'etat which has happened incrementally since the days of slavery. At the time I write this, the coup d'etat is now thoroughly entrenched and controlling every aspect of America. It's the elephant in the room. It's right in everyone's face but it's as if the majority of people are walking around deaf, dumb and blind.

I will only say this in order that my post isn't considered “hate speech”: Those who can control the money and every facet of media in any country own that country, lock, stock and barrel. This group of people readily admits they control America. They also control the EU, Aussie, and most other nations. They use same MO wherever they are and they are expects at it. They are not benevolent. They're cunningly deceitful, cruel and malicious. They send our Sons and Daughters as cannon fodder to make war against their enemies which they have convinced us, through their stranglehold on our media, are our enemies; or, they will torture and mass murder them themselves if they're in close proximity.

Enough said.

I'm leaving my email, and I'm hoping you'll contact me. Thanks in advance.

I had the same thought pattern. It's an obvious pattern with these eco-socialists to do the extreme
in hopes of twisting public opinion. IT was no accident. Keep looking at this, the media and the gov are in spin control to advance the Obama and eco-green marxists over-arching new social order. We the people must be kept in the dark while the smart elites plan our demise.

Thank you, Poet, for taking the time to comment here.

There once was a guy from nowhere,
Who had all the world by the hair.
He went on a junket
To sell all his bunk-it,
Then, America died in thin air.

Pretty lame, but I just made that up in a couple of minutes. I used to write poetry, too.

God bless you, and thanks again for your support.

I agree with your words, Nuna.

I will contact you.

I really feel sorry for you.

But, I still thank you for wasting so very much of your valuable time trying in vain to analyze me and come up with a brilliant “gotcha” argument; however, you're still missing the mark by a mile.

Who cares about a no-name blogger who claims the oil spill resulted from environmentalists blowing up the oil rig? Gina is nothing but a ditto blogger of Rush Limbaugh, who lives in a bizarre world where anything possible.

So, just to get this straight, environmentalists blew up the rig, and then swam 5,000 feet down to the ocean floor to sabotage the fail-safe system that would have prevented the oil from gushing out of the ground????

This would be good for some laughs except now you are the laugh. What this country needs is informed discussion, not those most interested in setting new records in bogus political exploitation.

Brian, as a former biomed, I know that the docs do all that they can. I used to work on heart/lung machines and blood recovery units (among other things). I've seen many cases. There is only perfection in Heaven! That is what we strive for. If BP screwed up, then it needs to be exposed.

Everybody dies in recovery, never on the table.

I guess I could turn around and say, “Who cares about an anonymous commenter who does not bother to read the article or the comments to receive any elucidation on what the 'no-name blogger' is even saying?”

Who cares, indeed!

You'll have to try much harder to score any “points” on this thread.

While most people, including the company itself, hold British Petroleum (BP) responsible for the Oil Spill, you and far right zealot Rush Limbaugh imagine some kind of sabotage conspiracy. Why would BP take responsibility? What proof do you offer? Have you evidence from interviews of any surviving workers? Who are you to say anything else happened? What this country needs is informed discussion based on FACTUAL content, not those most interested in setting new records in phony political exploitation!!! At some point you will need to provide factual information as “talking points”, that is if you can hack it!

The fire's are seen across the chasm, as the fog lifts into the sky.
Never more will the people sing and dance, no more the birds will fly.

Man has made his worthless bed, that sinks into this pit.
He strives to make things better, but now must lie in it.

~ MidnightPoet (February 21, 2005)

You apparently don't read and comprehend very well, so I don't know if you will be able to absorb these factual statements. But, I'll say them anyway. Nowhere have I claimed to know what happened, only that I “smell a rat.” Nowhere have I leveled an accusation at anyone–I've only pondered over the possibilites, including the possibility that this was just a terrible accident (apparently you didn't pick up on that little detail). I also reported on a couple of comments by Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh. You can't even get what Rush said right. He never accused anyone of anything–but hey–don't let the facts get in the way of your agenda!

You are either willfully ignoring what I'm saying (and Rush, too, for that matter), or you are just attempting to be a troublemaker. Either way, your ignorance is not becoming.

You are free to be a rabid liberal, and I am free to keep asking questions. That's all for you here, buddy.

Chilling. Sounds like the Last Days…

Hi Gina,
“The Last Days?” I hope not, but, I do believe in a God, and, at the same time, I believe that, that same God might allow certain things to happen to “cleanse” mankind of “certain impurities” before “things” get better! So, could “America” as we know it be doomed? Sure it could! But, that does not mean that “THEY” will win, just needs a severe “cleansing” before the “good one's” come forth and “take contol.”

Anyway, God is always in control, so regardless of what the Socialist, Communist, Marxist, Fascist say, “HE” will prevail, and the “DUNCES” in Washington will fail, and will have special places in “HELL” reserved just for them!”

~ MidnightPoet

Your article presented fully provides suspicion and circumstance regarding your conspiracy theory. While most people, including the company itself, hold British Petroleum (BP) responsible for the Oil Spill, you and far right extremist Rush Limbaugh imagines sabotage conspiracy theory regarding offshore drilling.

Even the National Review magazine, the standard of conservative magazines, has drawn a line declaring your conspiracy-theorist theory as laughable. Your theory is too extreme for even to the most conservative party magazine.

In other words, your “Extremism” is characterized as excessively “Extremist”, see as follows:

May 4, 2010
Yes, Keep Drilling
http://article.nationalreview.com/433349/yes-ke...

A word on conspiracy theories: It is unfortunate that the timing of this event, coming so soon after the administration’s drilling order, has led some commentators (of varying degrees of seriousness) to entertain some outlandish scenarios. The environmental movement did not sabotage the rig to further its agenda, nor did Big Oil do it to create artificial scarcity in the market for crude. Disasters happen, and this is one.

I weigh in on the side of Gina. What surprises me is the very LACK of press coverage of the cause of the explosion. What exactly was it that exploded? Gas and oil are flammable, not explosive. Why is the controlled press not saying much about the cause?

It is not necessary to know the motive before investigating or questioning the cause of the explosion. Some have said that this would be the “Three Mile Island” of the offshore drilling industry. Who is it that wants to prevent any offshore oil and gas exploration and production? Is it beyond imagination that such an incident could be deliberately created just for the predictable reaction against offshore oil and gas drilling? No, not at all. Why, just above this I read a headline: “Obama Interior Nominee Wants to Re-Ban Offshore Drilling”. Well, THAT didn't take long! Just as the Murragh Building bombing was deftly used by Pres. Clinton to unite Americans against the vast right wing conspiracy and domestic terrorism, could this not be used by the Obama eco-people to mobilize opposition to offshore drilling? Certainly. So, we ask about the cause of such an unusual accident, and whether it really was an accident.

why did the oil spill happen in the first place?huh?

Stephen, you make excellent points, and those points are the very reasons I ask the questions I do.

It's interesting to note the manic and vitriolic response here of some of the liberal minions. Why are they so lathered up about our simply asking questions? I think they protest too much. Hmmm…

They try to accuse me of espousing “conspiracy theories,” when all I've done is ask questions. There's no doubt I tilt my head at this incident, but I make no claims whatsoever to know the truth behind the explosion. In fact, NO ONE has admitted the cause of the explosion, but these liberals that are ranting on this thread are “fully convinced” (without any investigation or official report of the cause) that big, bad oil MUST be at fault, and it MUST have been an accident, because there's NO WAY that it could EVER have been a “bad guy” that caused this.

It seems to me that the liberal's assertions have no more basis in reality than the Russian website that said it was the NorKs with torpedoes. [Note to liberal wackos: the preceeding line was NOT me proclaiming the NorKs did it. It was just an illustration of the absurdity of your liberal, zombie thinking.]

Again–hmmm….

Gina what kind of math did you learn in school? BP may have donated money to Obama campaign but nowhere in the amount this disaster caused. The estimated costs of the oil spill are $2 billion to $14 billion. The range of cost depending on whether oil reaches land or remains largely contained in the ocean. You are still a no-name blogger who knows knowing about what caused the oil spill. Add to that uneducated in math as well.

What caused this accident started with Vice President Dick Cheney. In 2001 Cheney allowed over 100 oil industry officials to draft a wish list of demands. Cheney then used that time to re-staff the Minerals Management Service (MMS) with oil industry cronies. In 2003 the MMS concluded a study that “acoustic systems are not recommended because they tend to be very costly.” It is that acoustic trigger, which costs about $500,000, as a backup fail system could have prevented this Oil Spill Disaster. Now, with the estimated costs upward of $14 billion to gulf state communities, we can see what Bush/Cheney oil friendly administration did.

Lawmakers are starting to focus on the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) which oversees drilling on federal lands and in federal waters. MMS’s approach to regulating drilling safety contributed to the oil rig explosion on April 20.

Update: More Scrutiny Ahead for MMS
http://new.rotor.com/Publications/RotorNewssupr...

Okay. I will reply to you once more.

YOU, tell me what the heck caused this explosion!

Don't give me this insulting crap about math, or whatever you think you can use to sound like you have a clue.

Give me the facts, since you call yourself “just the facts!”

What caused this explosion? YOU TELL ME WHAT CAUSED IT, IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW SO MUCH! And, be sure to provide links to the report on the cause.

Tell me, or shut up! Or, explain to me why you're so darned rabid about my ponderings. Could it be that my ponderings get in the way of your master's agenda?

Could it be that this horrible incident provides the perfect excuse to demand a stop to offshore oil drilling? Oh, NO! That could never be the case!

Give us some FACTS, or go pound sand, troll!

Gina, by your own admission you refer to yourself as conspiracy theorist. Maybe you should begin by reading your own article. You are quoted as saying “I am fully prepared to be called a “crazy conspiracy theorist”, well you are!

Then you go on to describe various scenarios of this “Deliberate Attack” on America: Eco-terrorists (don't forget Earth Day), hippie eco-wackos, Russian, North Korea, Muslim terrorists, Red Chinese, Venezuela and beyond. You mention “Two torpedoes launched from a submarine could cause those things to happen.”, “Remember that China and Russia are drilling out there, as well, and they would benefit from America cutting back on our own drilling,” the list goes on.

You are still a no-name, no-account, blogger who must be reminded what you wrote, cannot even remember referring to yourself as a “crazy conspiracy theorist.”

You remind me of the cheap carnival barkers, who sells elixirs, snake oil, inviting you for an extra 50 cents to check out the half man/half woman in the secreted tent. Misguided and distasteful you sell your snake oil to whoever will listen. Your only goal here is to sell this bogus political exploitation!

Yeah, she is getting her information from scientific cornerstones like Rush Limbaugh and Mike Savage. OK, that explains it all.

All the voodoo flying monkeys these guys are stirring up DOES appeal to a certain segment of the population. But of course if you buy into it, then of course you get to blame someone other than the corporations who where digging for money out there.

The funniest theory to me the the Rush Limbaugh story. What a nut job!

But go ahead and believe it. Take it all down, hook, line, and sinker. The more people who are outraged at phantom agents the less people there will be to demand energy reform that includes the elusive but real Zero Point Energy and Fusion.

And while your at it, keep believing in Left vs Right as opposed to Big Business & Government vs “We the People…” Most people are decent, and as long as we keep fighting over stupid things, the more rapidly our freedoms are going to be usurped.

The only party is the Greed party. And the idea that terrorist attack this well, is an attempt to allow blame to be placed on someone other than the corporations who caused it. it is in the corporations that caused this best interest to keep people stupid and continue buying their oil. Because once everyone figures out we've been lied to for a long time about energy, we will be angry. We the people will demand modern energy sources be used, and distributed, (and wow…won't that create a ton of jobs?).

We the people, have the power to create real change. Not the so called politicians and talking heads who play on people's fears.

Think about this, why would BP and all the other oil companies walk away from their cash cow by allowing clean Fusion, and Zero Point energy to emerge as the cornerstone of our economy? They would lose control, and their empire would crumble.

Anytime there is a news story as crazy as this. Think about the problem, reaction, solution model. And then follow the money. That will always give you a clear head.

What caused it? It's all right here. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487...

Read woman. Don't just listen to AM radio, and think that is news. Those guys are almost entirely corporate agenda driven politics…just like Washington DC…but not as slick.

I urge you to seek out alternative media outlets. Read what they write about us in foreign papers in the UK and abroad. Gather the information, and then ask yourself , “Whom profits from this information being taken as fact?”

For instance. Most people think the Pakistani Times Square Bomber acted out because he was a Muslim extremist and he hates out freedoms. But the truth is that CIA drones have been attacking targets inside Pakistan, and well…not always hitting intended targets. One of these drones killed this guy's family. So he came here to strike back.

Now why isn't that in the mainstream media. (just so you know….am radio is not alternative.) Try rense.com and for the love of God, learn to think for yourself. Your gut told you someone else did the Gulf Oil Disaster. Well, after I listen to Rush Limbaugh, my gut tells me something too.

Excellent post! WSJ represents excellent source for information, certainly a step up from “scientific cornerstones like Rush Limbaugh and Mike Savage.”

To quote WSJ:
“An oil-drilling procedure called cementing is coming under scrutiny as a possible cause of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico that has led to one of the biggest oil spills in U.S. history, drilling experts said Thursday.”

My comment:
With 11 people killed, and a possible major crisis of an immense cleanup and consequences now threatening the entire Gulf Coast and Florida, one wonder’s where the inspectors were? Why weren't there satisfactory contingency plans implemented prior to the accident? Before drilling even took place there should have been advanced construction of shut-off valves, and containment structures already in place.

We should not be in the 3rd week of this disaster, now second guessing our plan, and whether this dome and other containment structure will even help avert further disaster. What are we doing drilling at 5000 feet if we have never tried anything like this containment structure before at this depth?

Who needs to worry about terrorist, Taliban, and conspiracy theories when corporations operate fast and loose like BP and Goldman Sachs? Corporations are becoming our own worst enemy!

With a growing creditability issue with corporate decision making, one wonder’s what could be looming in our future. What of power nuclear power sites, are they being properly inspected?

You should not assume my quoting FM talkers (yes, ours is on FM) means that I don't read. That's pretty juvenile of you. But, I'm glad you at least sent in another article to add to all the theories floating around out there, although I had already read what was in the article.

I was hoping there would be some new information in it, but alas, here are the highlights…

“Federal officials declined to comment on their investigation, and Halliburton didn't respond to questions from The Wall Street Journal…. The timing of the cementing in relation to the blast—and the procedure's history of causing problems—point to it as a possible culprit in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, experts said…. Several other drilling experts agreed, though they cautioned that the investigation into what went wrong at the Deepwater Horizon site is still in its preliminary stages…Scott Dean, a BP spokesman, said it was premature to speculate on the role cement might have played in the disaster.”

Well, that was certainly an enlightening article, packed with rock-solid speculation. I should've added the cement theory to my article to extend the list of possibilities.

OK, sure take the word of the Corporate heads who will say anything to avoid accountability for this. Think about it, if an investigative journalist asks tough questions to a CEO, and those answers might in fact harm that CEO's position, what do you think he's going to say. I'm sure the corporate lawyer told him to say what he said.

Try this, Google, “BP warn of problems 10 years ago.”

Guess what? The Federal Officials are NOT investigating eco groups, and they are not looking for North Korean subs, because of this disaster. (Besides, our Los Angeles Class subs are hunter killer subs, and would blow those crappy North Korean subs out of the water the second they turned their nose at a rig. You think the Navy doesn't run security in our Gulf?)

And exactly when did eco terrorist get so high tech. Aren't these the same hippies who try to stop big ships with rubber dingies?

Yes, I can see you do listen to Rush Limbaugh & Glen Beck and the gang. I listen too, just so I know what I'm talking about. The idea that eco terrorists caused the spill is what Rush said. And the North Korean thing is from Mike Savage. But that doesn't matter because here's the bottom line. (But the fact that you know that locally it's carried on FM says a lot to secure my point.). Are Rush & mike funding their own investigations? No, this is a dog & pony show to shift blame away from the corporate elite. If you want to buy their story and speculate on phantom causes, then they have won you over. But from what I read here, most of us have a much more discerning firewall for what we will ingest as fact.

Also, your argument is based on you calling me juvenile. Logic 101 calls that a “tear down the other man” argument. You don't really have a counter punch to what I have to say, so you call someone something, and base your argument on the idea that since this person is juvenile, then the rest of what they say is crap. Well, in Logic 101, the “tear down the other man”, argument is an invalid argument.

All that to say this. These huge corporations influence our government. The big media conglomerates like Clear Channel who pay Rush Limbaugh have a vested interest in keeping the status quo elite in place. From CNN, to Fox news, to Talking head radio, they all support the rule of corporations over our country. Basically what we have in American today is fascism. Corporate & State rule. Occasionally the government will do a slap down for a public circus show, but for the most part they are in bed together. (ie the bail out from both GW Bush, and then immediately from Obama.).

What better example of collusion did we as Americans need than both Rep & Dems giving away our tax money to these fantasy baseball money schemes. I mean they bet against our own economy and have profited from all this. And WE bailed them out. It made more sense to bail people out of crazy high interest loans, and to lower their rates to something like .5%, by Federal Mandate. (And why are they only loaning money to the fishermen…why not bail them out?). All this would have been MUCH less expensive than the bail outs.

So with the history of such moral pillars like CEO's of BP and Halliburton, how can you take their evasive rebuttals seriously?

I suggest before you answer that question you rent a documentary called The Corporation. It's an excellent film that exposes the intent, and methodology used by huge corporations, and how they have impinged themselves upon our liberties.

Liberty! That's what we all want. And frankly, when I took an oath to the Marines, one of the things we say is to “..defend our country from all enemies foreign and domestic.” I wonder when we will see an admiral giving the news one night. He'd be telling us they they arrested and/or detained the news agencies, and that the Marines are out gathering up the criminals who have stolen our liberties. (and hopefully they'd give a nice warning to our so called elected officials…shape up and do what the people want, or else.).

Question authority. Think for yourself.

Much, much more to derby week than that final race. The traditions of this part of American life are quite steeped in old American family history and the legends of a time long past.
And it isn't a fact at all that it's “a big ol' mint julep party” where “everyone is well down the road to their hangover” as you seem to think.

Sabotage! Conspiracy! And Other Ways to Spin the Oil Spill

While crude oil surges into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of thousands of barrels per day, political opportunists seek to advance their agenda on the back of this disaster

* Rush Limbaugh: “What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing here,” Limbaugh said, vaguely suggesting that supporters of cap-and-trade, or maybe the Obama administration, had been responsible.

* Former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino: on Fox & Friends “I'm not trying to introduce a conspiracy theory, but was this deliberate? You know you have to wonder…yeah, if there was sabotage involved…”

* Former FEMA Director Michael Brown: The administration is exploiting the spill as an opportunity to “shut down offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico,” Brown told, Chris Matthews, who in turn told Brown he sounded “crazy.”

* National Review contributor Mark Levin: He believes President Obama seizing control of the oil-drilling industry to nationalize it because Interior Department is “sending SWAT teams to the Gulf to inspect all platforms and rigs.” Mark Levin says “I think this is a precursor to another form of government nationalization.” Interior Department in defense of these allegations went on to say “The 'SWAT team' is just a turn of phrase, and composed of highly qualified inspectors from the Minerals Management Service.”

* Fox News: they came up with the theory that the rig was torpedoed by a North Korean mini-submarine, manned by sniper troops, deployed from a North Korean cargo vessel just departed from Cuba. They attacked the rig because it was built by Hyundai Heavy Industries, a South Korean company. The Obama administration, allegedly, is covering this up.

* Republican John Boehner: he said this proves a need to implement the GOP's “all of the above” energy strategy.

* Democrats: they say an energy bill that involves new offshore drilling will be dead on arrival.

* Greenpeace: they have called it a “failure of the United States' energy policy.” MoveOn.org used images of the oil spill in a TV ad, which is currently airing on cable TV nationwide, calling for Obama to reinstate a ban on offshore oil drilling.

* Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee: they are asking for contributions and accused Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, of politicizing the oil spill with its e-mail.

* Internet Blogger: their message is simple to understand — to think differently, get noticed! Good journalism does not always pay the bills. With thousands of new blogs and millions of blog posts originating every day, the focus often is somehow come up with a post that stands out. Just like National Enquirer, or other shock magazines, what catches readers’ attention is “Controversy”. Even better what sells, but not necessarily ethical, the most successful Blogger will engage in deliberate argument to further stir readers’ interest. It’s all very simple — a good argument, a “crazy” argument in the article can make better money!!

The point is there are shades of politicization in this environmental disaster. A number of political factions are obviously seeking to grandstand and gain political advantage from this oil spill.

We see everything from Blogger's which seek to catch attention, to environmentalist seeking a moratorium on oil drilling, to the right seeking to make Obama look like a bad leader, to the left seeking to mass supporters, and contributions before the next election.

Who wins, who loses in this battle for our hearts and minds? It is no wonder many just ignore the news. Often it is bewildering to the average person. Staying informed can become a full-time job that can seemly go nowhere. With everyone vying for media control many people simply become confused who to listen to.

Credits:
Sabotage! Conspiracy! And Other Ways to Spin the Oil Spill
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/201...

Bob! I was just being silly with Brian, and of course you're right–The Kentucky Derby is a steadfast American tradition dating back to around 1875. I was just being goofy with the mint julep stereotype hoping to make Brian smile, nothing more.

Thanks for checking in! We love the run for the roses by the beautiful and majestic horses of God's creation!

Okay, all you yea-sayers and nay-sayers!

We've been contacted by Jeff Lynch of The Jeff and Mike Show out of San Diego. They want to interview this “no-name” blogger about my article and thoughts on the as-yet-unexplained (and likely never to be explained) explosion of the Deepwater Horizon.

They're going to call me tomorrow to do the interview, and if all goes well, I'll come back and post the details of when and where you can hear their show with the interview streaming this Sunday evening.

The Jeff and Mike Show looks like another corporate agenda fear mongering scare tactics show. So no big mystery why you are being interviewed. Like I said, there is a segment of Americans who buy into all the Voodoo BS.

And these radio shows are all agenda driven and don't allow people both sides of the story. They just rehash what people want to hear. There is absolutely NO critical thinking on their show. It's just all blow hard hot air crap. I frankly can't imagine bragging about that.

But even more interesting to me, is now the rational people will all think you were paid to have this opinion, and are just another puppet in the mind control talk radio media.

If they had a decent set of morals and values they'd invite someone on who can actually and factually discuss what went down. Someone who DOESN'T believe we got torpedoed, and someone who is maybe, a Marine Engineer.

Just because some other people who are just as paranoid, misinformed, and or dishonest as you, doesn't make it any more valid that you will be on the radio.

The fact the the Corporate Controlled media is going into overdrive over this only intensifies my point that they are trying to sway people away from the culprits. And the fact that you base your argument on the fact that you are on the radio just points out that you can't actually uphold a strong argument for your point.

Yeah, I'm sure the Wall Street Journal is full of crap. Sure…well just take a CEO's word for it, and Rush Limbaugh! Sure, they have nothing to lose if the truth about Haliburton screwing America again gets out.

And finally I add this to my argument. If we got torpedoed, WHY, has BP been going around with a platoon of lawyers trying to get fishermen to sign waivers for $5000 checks? Answer that!

Also if we were torpedoed, when did the US Navy decide to take a break, and just let an old loud crap get into our Gulf.

Here is an excerpt about the North Korean Navy's Submarine fleet. – Submarines, most of which are of the 20-some Romeo-class, are outdated and slow, but they are sufficiently capable of blocking sea lanes. These vessels could attack ROK surface vessels, emplace mines anywhere within the ROK maritime territory, or secretly infiltrate commandos into the South.

Here's the link if you want to verify. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/dp...

The problem that corporate controlled media is having today is there are people out there like me, who are A) Political Atheists, B) Question Everything, and C) Check up on claims made by others. So for God's sake, do your research before you go blaming those old fashioned North Korean Boats.

Here's the info on our Los Angeles Class Subs. And after reading it, try to tell me that the most advanced Anti-Sub Submarine in History let an old clunky diesel power piece of crap into the Gulf Of Mexico. The Los Angeles class is credited my some as being the straw that broke the camels back of the Soviet War Machine. It rendered their Balistic Missile Subs ineffective.
http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/man/uswpns/navy...

If you continue on this path you are going to anger a lot of US Navy Submariners. You are essentially saying they failed.

AP – The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, according to interviews with rig workers conducted during BP's internal investigation.

Not the “deliberate attack” you were gut-feeling about…

And, YOU are NOT agenda-driven, how?

Yes, I saw this report, earlier.

The report is based on an AP reporter's interview of, ” Robert Bea, a University of California Berkeley engineering professor who serves on a National Academy of Engineering panel on oil pipeline safety and worked for BP PLC as a risk assessment consultant during the 1990s. He received them from industry friends seeking his expert opinion.”

So, we're talking about, what, THIRD-HAND reporting here?

If we're to understand what we're reading, the guys who were blown up–well, they can't give a statement–but the guys who were ALMOST blown up can attest to the “fact” that it was a methane “bubble” that came up through the pipe.

Here's another quote from the AP report, “Meanwhile, far below, the rig was being converted from an exploration well to a production well.”

Our reports indicate that this was not the case. This rig was being prepared to be MOVED to another location, not to be put in production–that's why they were “capping” the well with cement.

Let's keep on keeping on with this ONGOING INVESTIGATION, which I doubt will ever yield the truth.

GADS!!! Don't tell me the White House is willing to entertain CONSPIRACY THEORIES regarding the inexplicable near-crash of the stock market yesterday! SAY IT ISN'T SO!! Surely they did NOT use the s-word!!
ha.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/9671...

There were about 100 workers on the Gulf oil rig at the time of the incident. I understand that 11 died due to the explosion but how come we haven't heard from any of the survivors. Not one interview with a surviving rig operator after weeks of third and forth party news reports.

“The platform exploded, despite redundant safety features”. Several oil companies, including BP, lobbied Cheney to relax offshore drilling regulations, which he did. As a result, there was only a blowout preventer on the seafloor, and no redundant shutoff valves, one of which would have been an automatically operated acoustic valve. The accident happened while a Halliburton crew was capping the well with cement, but BP reported the well to be 18,000 feet deep, while the well was actually 24,000 feet deep. They used cement for an 18,000 foot deep well, which was not enough to contain the pressure for a 24,000 foot deep well, and it blew out. Blame BP, Blame Halliburton, Blame deregulation. S&%it happens. The terrorist stories are pure crap.

My only agenda is Truth, Liberty, and the pursuit of freedom. Like Superman, except, I don't have his nifty powers.

Oh and love. I'm really into forgiveness and unconditional love. Even if sometimes I write something kind of mean, I still am able to back off from that modality, and reengage the situation with love and compassion.

Seriously, check out the documentary called, The Corporation. Then check out Why We Fight. Very good films, not like…ah whats his name….the fat guy from Michigan's films that are very jaded and skewed.

Well, now that we now the truth, I hope you came a little closer to reason. I heard it on the radio as i got home tonight.

Wrong again. The report was from an investigation conducted by BP.

Their is no ongoing investigation. And please do your research on the submarines I posted info on, and just answer your own question. It's getting to the point of insulting American's intelligence.

Gina, quick check using Google tells me the source you quote (theHill.com) maybe the ONLY website that uses the word “sabotage”. It is almost as if you deliberately searched out an article with the word “sabotage” with “Wall Street” in it.

As your news source says, Gibbs told reporters “I wouldn’t rule anything in or rule anything out, I think that’s, appropriately, why they’re reviewing what may or may not have happened.”

Just because the issue is open and being fully investigated provides little or NO reason to introduce wild speculation that “sabotage” is involved, or any other “crazy theoretical” ideas. On can easily jump to ridicules speculation in the absence of factual information on ANY subject.

As to what really started the Wall Street sell-off, the issue remains to be investigated. It’s common knowledge that recent events involving foreign banking have introduced a great deal of uncertainly in the market, and most trading is done automatically under computer software control. This combined can trigger unintentional selling. In the past there have been huge sell-offs like this before. This seems like a repeat problem, and is what is “in fact” currently being considered.

Please see the following WSJ article.

Computer Trading Is Eyed
Debate Turns to Absence of Circuit Breakers, Market Makers as Mystery Plunge Is Probed
http://bit.ly/aCYayJ

It's no fault of your own that theHill.com chooses to exaggerate the news; good journalism does not always pay the bills. Just like National Enquirer, or other shock magazines struggling for reader exposure, what catches readers’ attention is often controversy, controversy, controversy, controversy …

You may take this an insult, but for what it is worth I am not here. It would be wise to do more research. A person who is driven to wild speculation frequently may appear to others as dreamer, if not credulous.

Good luck with your Jeff and Mike Show interview. I Checked out their Facebook and their show looks interesting.
http://bit.ly/8ZhT2G

Gina, concerning your statement “Let's keep on keeping on with this ONGOING INVESTIGATION, which I doubt will ever yield the truth.”

Currently BP is being held “liable” for this accident. I'll bet you dollars to donuts that before BP accepts liability it will determine the cause, or the “truth“, as you put it.

If there was a deliberate attack that caused the Gulf Oil Well Disaster then liability would shift away from BP to another source, ultimately saving BP billions in restitution. In either case, you can bet the public will hear how this plays out. This is not going to simply go away quietly.

HA! Actually, I didn't “search out” anything. That Hill article was posted in red at the top of Drudge. You couldn't miss it, and I posted it here for the humorous irony.

Gina, I'm not sure what is worse, that you post any screwball post you find from “Drudge” then act like it is a joke, or post your unrealistic terrorist suppositions as if you are asking questions. Either way it's all pure crap.

Is this what “Dakota Voice” stands for?

I agree with another post “It's getting to the point of insulting American's intelligence.”

I'm wondering why on earth you're wasting so much time and effort on a no-name, wacko, insane, stupid blogger.

If my questions are entirely without merit, why even give me the time of day? Why don't you go somewhere else where all the intelligent, humorless people hang out–where your efforts might be appreciated?

Okay, the interview with Jeff Lynch and Mike Howard is complete. We had a nice 40-minute discussion, wherein we covered the theories, plus the new “methane bubble” development. The methane bubble was fodder, and we took advantage of it.

The Jeff and Mike show is recorded on Saturday afternoons, and it streams Sunday evenings. The show is heard globally on http://www.rantradio.com, http://www.roundtableradio.net, and http://www.randomradioonline.net every Sunday from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Pacific Time from San Diego.

Their interview with me will be the first thing on the show, so if you tune in to the start of the program, you'll catch it. Or, if you want to listen at another time, they have it available to hear at this link: http://thejeffandmikeshow.podomatic.com/

Solution for the Deep Horizon disaster
Solution for Resolving the Oil Rig disaster.
By Richard Rios

In light of the recent oil rig explosion and subsequent oil flow into the Gulf of Mexico I’m declaring a war on this catastrophe and calling it a “War On Oil Proliferation and Sanity (WOOPAS)”. I know this will be shocking at first but it appears that the only way to get funding for solutions in the world is to declare a war on something. Yes folks, we are apparently more than happy to provide hard earned dollars to something we can blow up or use some new technical gadget on. Since the Russians recommended using a nuclear weapon on the thing I can see how this can be even more appealing to those that want to see a really big boom if all else fails. Yes, we are talking the mother of all wars baby. Since this could impact the human population for years to come and maybe the folks that built the Georgia Guidestones will get their wish and reduce the world population to no more that 500,000,000 bipeds.
Heaven Forbid for all faiths.

Oh, that's good!

First source is actually EU Times: http://www.eutimes.net/2010/05/us-orders-blacko...
See also

http://www.helium.com/items/1822086-possible-no...

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Yes, it was a premeditated attack by a few very powerful BP oil employees. The rig workers who knew it was coming were silenced forever in the first blast. This kind of thing will keep happening until the people responsible are brought to justice just like the nazis and the taliban. This was a crime and people were murdered in cold blood. The perpitrators are scot free because it isn't being called a crime. Yet millions of living creatures are on their way to a cruel death worse than the human victims and many fishermen will be out of work in this area permanently.

OK sister! The gig is up! You are an obvious shill for big oil! How much do they pay you?

Enjoy your blood money!

Good grief! You're a basket case!

What the heck do you think you even know?

Let me tell you–if anyone were actually PAYING me to write, I would do a much better job than I did in that stupid little article.

Dream on, BC

Damn right, BC! Where is the blood money, and how much did she get?! Enquiring minds want to know. The oil companies have plenty of cash. I should know, because every time I fill up my gas tank, the cost is more.

Gina is my wife… She is obviously hiding something from me.

Enemy submarines?? So our navy's sonar defense capabilities missed this likelihood?

Sorry Gina. A more likely scenario is that BP and perhaps even Deepwater Horizon failed to install proper safety apparatus or had it in place and failed to properly test it before drilling began. Is it a possibility that Michael Savage and even Limbaugh could be on BP's payroll behind the scenes? There's a conspiracy theory I would enjoy watching played out.

Dan- You are a very naive boy. You give us your wise guidance, spoken in a British accent: “Why don't we wait until the proper authorities tell us what to think”.

This is the source I linked in the article: http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1367.htm

I didn't realize our navy was patrolling the waters around the oil rigs. But, you might have noticed that the NorK theory is not mine; I only reported it.

However, that rig was indeed equipped with redundant safety mechanisms, including the Blowout Preventer, safety valves and the “deadman” switch. And, we're being asked to believe that ALL of the safety features failed simultaneously.

Sure.

Still waiting Dan…. not one word…. forget the Eco-Terrorists theory, how about an Oil rich nation that does not want to see us drill, much less increase drilling. This has all the markings of a military exercise.

Here's my biggest thing… between thins and the NYC car bomb attempt… why haven't we heard from our “President”? We have one confirmed attempted attack on our country and thousands are asking if the oil rig explosion was an attack, so why hasn't he come forward and made a statment. All it looks like to me is that our government whom we count on for security, which I don't, is hiding things from the people of this country.

Actually, tracking nuclear powered subs is near impossible.

Lack of press coverage? Read this – http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?...

Read what the actual people on the rig have to say.

Thats funny when you lose it. You have never responded to one of my post with anything that resembled a factual argument. And now that the facts are out there plain as day, you still cling to your submarine attack theory.

OK, I have a question for you. What submarine fleet is advanced enough to slip by a Los Angeles Class Hunter Killer Sub?

I don't expect a retort, because you've already shown you are not interested in the facts.

And then you further debase yourself by calling the guy a troll. Wow! What a wonderfully crafted argument.

You asked, “Could it be that this horrible incident provides the perfect excuse to demand a stop to offshore oil drilling?” My answer is hopefully it will wake people up to the dangers we face of polluting our planet, specifically when it's right in our own back yard! And this should get people bothering congress to mandate research into alternative energies like Zero Point and Fusion.

Sure we will still have out gas powered cars & trucks for the long haul in the transition, but to think that we can continue on this course for the next 50 years is insane. Regardless of how this disaster happened, it will hopefully get past the idea of if we should drill or not drill.

GM had an awesome all electric car for a while. Great documentary called “Who Killed the Electric Car” explains what happened to it. But short range commuter electrics are viable and Nissan is coming out with one soon.

I suppose if you have gotten to the point of calling a guy a troll, you may be way past reason and logic here. But if you have an ounce of fairness in your soul, please read this article about BP's long history of putting profits before everything else…including safety. http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/08/1620292/g...

I have to admit, I already think you are a shill and an actual employee of some sort who is paid to rant about all this. So of course this may be a futile gesture. But just from what I've read, the vast majority of people who have responded don't believe the “attack” theory. It is much more likely the gas igniting on the deck of the Deepwater Horizon Theory.

The fact that you are married to Gina doesn't prove or disprove that she is being paid by the oil companies to write this blog.

I think it's funny when she can't actually formulate a real argument and has to resort to calling me a basket case. Why would anyone put a basket…in a case?

But seriously, I hope you two can come to reason on this. Regardless of how this happened, anyone with a logic mind can realize that the technology is in place to free us from our oily masters. Of course it would be a transition, not a cold turkey event.

But to me, the gist of what Gina is pushing is the idea that we have to use oil, trust the oil companies, and keep using it with no other alternative.

Just all sounds like a big PR campaign.

And Gina's reasoning is that if she was paid, she'd do a better job. Well, you should always put your best foot forward, so when the time comes to get paid writing you have something good to show.

So to someone who is a political atheist, I stand back and can see all the politically charged rhetoric coming from this string, and well…it does not help her case at all. And while there are people out there who make a fortune with their daily radio circus and name calling, to the average person, it comes off as crass and uneducated.

A reasonable discussion is the way to go if you want to get people to side with you. But I think that the insanity of this situation is so great, that reason can get clouded by emotion pretty easily. Emotion for me, is one of the biggest things that keeps me coming back here to argue about all this.

I grew up on the Gulf Coast, and this whole thing has me a bit shocked. I worked of shore between semesters and I've seen 200 ft tall flames coming off of rigs, (scared me back to college).

So I suppose I'm puzzled as to why someone from the Gulf Coast would take a stance that we must keep drilling in light of what is happening. What will it take a Hurricane to blow all that oil up to 30 miles inland? Thats the worst case scenario.

Wouldn't a more logical stance be that OK, we had this disaster…what mindset got us here? And how can we change our mindset to make sure this never happens again? When you have companies who continually break laws and are still able to operate, then something is wrong with the laws. And worse still, something is wrong with our technology and our outlook on the future.

So to me, someone like Gina who writes this blog and wants to blame anyone but BP, Halliburton and Transocean, (with all of the above as reference), she comes off as a shill for them.

We haven't heard from the President because he's a business as usual status quo elitist just like GW Bush.

We need a good 3rd party candidate to go up against the big corporations and put the PEOPLE 1st.

Read this and think about the “so called liberal” Obama in the White House. Please! He's another corporate puppet! – http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/...

BC,

After all you liberals call me every name under the sun (insane, stupid, wacko, etc.), you take issue with my correctly identifying an Internet troll? As for saying you're a basket case, perhaps “unhinged” would be a better description.

You are the one not interested in “facts,” or you wouldn't sit there and tell me I'm “clinging” to a submarine story. I'm doing no such thing–I don't know WHO did it, and I've repeatedly said that.

And, you can't believe the laugh that you gave us all in claiming that I'm being paid by big oil–my family got the biggest kick out of that! BC, I really think that was the best comment out of all of these! I'm amazed to join the ranks of those people who are much better than me–those who the left accuses of the very same thing! It kinda tickled me that you said it, as I know that if “big oil” actually did pay people to write for them, they could certainly do much better than a layman like me.

I imagine it would be nice to be paid by “big oil” to write, but it's not the case–I'm not paid a penny by anyone to write. I'm just a free contributor to Dakota Voice, a website that I care very much about.

[...] a few weeks ago, leaving millions of barrels of oil gushing into the Gulf, along with lots of questions about why this disaster occurred.BP has announced it has spent $450 million in trying to stop this [...]

w! That DPRK boomer drove down to Venezuela and has sunk one of Hugo’s offshore rigs. Of course, to accommodate the conspiracy loons, lets presume that Hugo offered up the rig as target practice for his DPRK pals. Right, loons?
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http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article21481...
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Aban Pearl semisub sinks
Crew evacuated, ‘no risk’ to environment
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Aban Offshore’s Aban Pearl semi-submersible drilling rig sank into the Caribbean early this morning, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced in a message sent out on social media platform Twitter.
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Anthea Pitt & news wires 13 May 2010 10:42 GMT
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The semisub was operating for Venezuela’s state-run producer PDVSA at the Mariscal Sucre complex development under a five-year contract which came into effect last year.
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Venezuela’s Oil Minister Ramirez later told Reuters that the accident was caused by water entering a subsea float, adding that that there are plans to try to retrieve the unit.
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In his tweet, Chavez said all 95 crew on the rig were evacuated safely. He later added two navy patrols were in the area.
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Chavez’ first tweet said: “To my sorrow, I want to inform that the natural gas platform Aban Pearl sunk a few moments ago. The good news is that the 95 workers are safe.”
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Will be interesting to see how the intellectually dysfunctional sociopaths explain this one.

So, you're saying that in your perfect world there would be no “conspiracy loons” to ask questions and demand answers which we doubt we'll ever get?

Do you suppose it would be best if we all just wait slack-jawed until THE ONE in Washington tells us what to think?

You go ahead and be an automaton; I'll keep my inquisitive mind, thank you.