Yea...I was talking about the ships/Rigs...I dont expect guys picking up tar balls on the beaches to be much.
Send all those Fat Lazy welfare slops down to clean beaches:drink:

What Jindal wanted, he got. Then he went off on a political tangent that was more in line with what his handlers wanted.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/121436

Nice find Steve! Looks like the chickens are coming home to roost for the Republican governors of the Republican South.

As for Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, he's just mad at Obama because his response to the SOTU speech sounded like a douche.

It's what happens when every single issue is handled on a partisan basis. Problems get solved by people and common sense, not parties. He has been mishandled, like most every politician.

Look on the bright side, a good coating of oil will help fight the corrosion of salt water :D

Hey vette131 here's something you can do
 

While you're watching and hoping;

Published on Thursday, June 24, 2010 by Audubon Magazine
Hands Across The Sand: In Opposition to Offshore Drilling, This Saturday Activists Nationwide Join Hands

by Nathan Ehrlich

On February 13, 2010, thousands of people synchronously gathered on numerous Florida beaches in order to join hands. The reason for this unification of 10,000 Floridians from over 60 towns and cities was a message: “No to offshore drilling. Yes to clean energy.” This Saturday, June 26, there will be another hand joining session, only this one will be national.

["People in love hold hands," says Rauschkolb. "People who want to change the world join hands.” If you want to get involved, check for participating beaches near you at the organization’s website www.handsacrossthesand.com. ]"People in love hold hands," says Rauschkolb. "People who want to change the world join hands.” If you want to get involved, check for participating beaches near you at the organization’s website www.handsacrossthesand.com.
The man behind the event is Dave Rauschkolb. A year ago Rauschkolb was a restaurant owner, surfer, and for the most part a pacifist from Seaside, Florida. But after the Florida House of Representatives began working to pass a bill permitting the ban on off shore drilling to be lifted, just three miles off the coast of Seaside, Rauschkolb became a galvanized environmental activist. The February 13th demonstration, which he dubbed “Hands Across The Sand,” was his creation. And now Hands Across the Sand is coming to a beach near you.

With the help of environmental groups such as Audubon, the Sierra Club, and Greenpeace, which has dispatched 500 volunteers to numerous states, people will be joining hands on America’s shores.

What will a demonstration such as this actually accomplish? Shortly after activists joined hands last February, Republican Dean Cannon, who wrote the bill that outraged Rauschkolb, abandoned the effort saying, “It’s not the right time to vote on this issue.” Perhaps if enough people literally hold hands, the show of support for clean energy and for a moratorium on offshore drilling will provoke some amount of governmental action. It would certainly be timely.

This week, Martin Feldman, a federal judge in New Orleans, granted a preliminary injunction, effectively halting President Obama’s moratorium on offshore drilling. Feldman wrote in his decision that, “The court is unable to divine or fathom a relationship between the findings and the immense scope of the moratorium.” Furthermore, many political analysts are predicting that President Barrack Obama will not be able to pass a clean energy bill through the Senate that has both a comprehensive limit on carbon emissions and significant fuel economy standards.

The instructions for participants of Hands Across America are as follows: Step 1, “Go to your beach on June 26 at 11 am in your time zone;” Step 2, “Form lines in the sand and at 12:00 join hands.” Here in New York City, the demonstrations will be held at Coney Island and Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, and High Line Park in Manhattan.

"People in love hold hands," says Rauschkolb. "People who want to change the world join hands.” If you want to get involved, check for participating beaches near you at the organization’s website www.handsacrossthesand.com.
© 2010 Audubon Magazine

Nice responses. The RS piece was just an online link. Certainly you've heard about the guard actions from the military, the DOD, anyone? There's lots of stories out there, I thought some would like information from actual sources.

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=59021

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...;videoMetaInfo


I'll bet you see many more guard troops in Louisiana within a couple of weeks. Florida has called on less than 100 Guard troops so far.

Just an update from yesterday.

By the Numbers to Date:
The administration has authorized the deployment of 17,500 National Guard troops from Gulf Coast states to respond to this crisis; currently, 1,640 are active.

Approximately 37,000 personnel are currently responding to protect the shoreline and wildlife and cleanup vital coastlines.

More than 6,200 vessels are currently responding on site, including skimmers, tugs, barges, and recovery vessels to assist in containment and cleanup efforts—in addition to dozens of aircraft, remotely operated vehicles, and multiple mobile offshore drilling units.

Approximately 2.6 million feet of containment boom and 4.24 million feet of sorbent boom have been deployed to contain the spill—and approximately 850,000 feet of containment boom and 2.26 million feet of sorbent boom are available.

Approximately 25.6 million gallons of an oil-water mix have been recovered.

Approximately 1.48 million gallons of total dispersant have been applied—977,000 on the surface and 502,000 subsea. More than 422,000 gallons are available.

275 controlled burns have been conducted, efficiently removing a total of more than 10 million gallons of oil from the open water in an effort to protect shoreline and wildlife. Because calculations on the volume of oil burned can take more than 48 hours, the reported total volume may not reflect the most recent controlled burns.

17 staging areas are in place to protect sensitive shorelines.

Approximately 179 miles of Gulf Coast shoreline is currently oiled—approximately 34 miles in Louisiana, 42 miles in Mississippi, 42 miles in Alabama, and 61 miles in Florida. These numbers reflect a daily snapshot of shoreline currently experiencing impacts from oil so that planning and field operations can more quickly respond to new impacts; they do not include cumulative impacts to date, or shoreline that has already been cleared.

Approximately 78,600 square miles of Gulf of Mexico federal waters remain closed to fishing in order to balance economic and public health concerns. More than 67 percent remains open. Details can be found at http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/.

To date, the administration has leveraged assets and skills from numerous foreign countries and international organizations as part of this historic, all-hands-on-deck response, including Canada, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization and the European Union's Monitoring and Information Centre.


http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse....c/2931/709407/

It's BP Image so.....I do not want to doubt.
 

Chart Updated 6-20-2010


By the way, the fed DICTATED they drill a second relief well in case the first one failed. It was started several weeks after the first one.