Welcome to your Friday open thread! You may not see me around too much for the next few days. My brother is coming into town from Tennessee. We’re going to run in a 10 K race in Kennett Square tomorrow and knock around the area. Any suggestions of fun places to go while my brother is in town?
Anyway, let’s get this thread started!
The BP oilcano is way worse than it has been represented, according to professors who have examined the video that was released. It could be equivalent to 2 Exxon Valdezes per week.
Based on “sophisticated scientific analysis of seafloor video made available Wednesday,” Steve Wereley, an associate professor at Purdue University, told NPR the actual spill rate of the BP oil disaster is about 3 million gallons a day — 15 times the official guess of BP and the federal government. Another scientific expert, Eugene Chiang, a professor of astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley, calculated the rate of flow to be between 840,000 and four million gallons a day. These estimates mean that the Deepwater Horizon wreckage could have spilled about five times as much oil as the 12-million-gallon Exxon Valdez disaster, with relief only guaranteed by BP in three more months.
So far all efforts to contain the leak have failed. I hope we’re not going to have to wait until the sea bed runs out of oil.
I thought John McCain’s reputation had hit rock bottom, but I think I was wrong. Watch the Morning Joe crew try to contain their laughter at McCain’s newest ad “Build the Danged Fence.”
“You’re one of us now.” One of who? In addition to the stupidity of the ad, the sheriff featured in the ad is not actually the sheriff of the county where the ad was filmed. The sheriff is from Pinal County which is not on the Mexico border. The sheriff from the actual county where the ad is filmed opposes the border fence.