MUST WATCH: BP Fails Booming School 101 Gulf Oil Spill

[Junkdrawer]

Run time: 08:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnTPOx-XCBQ   Posted on YouTube: May 18, 2010 By YouTube Member: jakluk4 Views on YouTube: 497   Posted on DU: May 20, 2010 By DU Member: Junkdrawer Views on DU: 2768

 
Warning: Strong Language

[Angry Dragon]

1. Learned something about booming from this

Seems there was a skip in the audio....I kept hearing the same word over and over again

[Junkdrawer]

2. I could be wrong, but I think the narrator was angry....

:P

[Karenina]

4. Ya thimk?

:rofl:

[Angry Dragon]

5. I believe you have the magic word

ANGRY...we all need to feel this emotion until we regain this country from the corporations, bankers, corrupt politicians, corrupt government workers, the biased media. We need to use this anger to save this country from the corruption within this country. We have nothing to lose by using this anger. If we sit back it is lost anyway.

[zeemike]

3. Wow....sounds like a comment on the culture of drilling.

And a surprise to me...I figured the booming people knew what they were doing.

[swilton]

6. Edifying Explanation

from someone familiar with the culture and experienced with the nautical dynamics. As former Navy, I thought this made a lot of sense - with or without the colorful language.

Over the past week, I have felt that neither the government nor BP knows what they're doing vis a vis appreciating and therefore mitigating the existing or looming environmental/ecological holocost. In BP's case, I trust that they are trying to salvage as much petroleum as possible while waging an aggressive PR campaign. Remediating the damage is questionable. I also doubt that the government and BP are being honest with the public.

Consequently, I find the monologue here (despite my burnt ears) totally credible and educational. Its value is just that a perspective from outside of corporate America.

[swilton]

7. Correction

In the above post, I mistakenly distinguished between BP and the government as if they were mutually exclusive. Saddly, I have now realized that BP=Government - what works for one, works for the other.

[Devil_Fish]

11. I think your right, BP is trying o salvage and profit from the oil rather then clean it up.

Please send this video to BO/BP

[bleever]

8. VERY informative.

Thank you.

[breadandwine]

9. What strikes me is how utterly ineffectual Obama seems in all this.

There is no kick-ass. It's all what Martin Luther King derided as "The tranquilizing drug of gradualism."

Obama announced the other day that he is forming a commission to study the oil leak situation. If Bush had done that we would have all been screaming. Obama is looking utterly weak and ineffectual and limp-wristed and hamstrung. Whatever happened to "audacity"?

Obama chose to embrace the DLC crowd and all he is doing is trying to appear in the middle of the road, no matter how far off in right field that entire road is. If you are altogether on the right (wing) side of the universe, what difference does it make that you have found some little road there in which you are in the middle?

Politically Obama is a DLC wimp and we see that he is being a wimp also on substance and administrative activity in dealing with the leak in the Gulf.

Wimp, wimp, wimp.

There is talk now that he took a lot of campaign money from BP.

I don't care if he took money from the freakin' Pope.

He can't get out from under the political quagmire in all this to actually do something tough? If Bobby Kennedy were here he would be kicking ass, sending in Federal marshals, he'd be pouring over legalities to find ways to kick ass within the existing system, arrest people based on this or that statute. When Martin Luther King was in jail during the 1960 campaign Bobby picked up the phone and made calls that saved King's life in jail.

But what I see with Obama in the Gulf oil disaster is just tiptoeing around the edges hesitantly, worrying about what the GOP would say etc.

Wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp, wimp.


Him and the whole DLC crowd.



Now I'm also reading that the BP oil leak is being called "Obama's Katrina."

[Citizen Worker]

12. Obama "utterly ineffectual" HA!

Don't you know that Obama is playing three dimensional chess while the rest of us are trying to figure out which squares the checkers belong on. You just don't know our president.

[V_Byl]

26. ...wimp wimp wimp wimp wimp wimp...

Seriously, right now I wonder why the hell I voted for this prez. One quarter step forward and then a half step back - and now this response is killing me.

Where is the Army Corp of Engineers?! FIND A WAY TO PLUG THIS THING! Nationalize the response effort and fix the damn source of the problem already. Drop giant preformed cement onto the damn thing and at least slow it down!

If I see one more video like the one from CBS where the Coast Guard said it was BP's rules I will work my ass off to see Obama taken down in the primaries. SHOW SOME LEADERSHIP!

At first I wanted to puke when the Con's called this Obama Katrina - but IT'S WORSE!

Sick, disgusted, and deeply saddened, this is the most negligent, stupid, moronic failure on so many levels... I don't even know where to begin.

Fail.

edited for typo.

[zenprole]

10. Booming Language

"Ha Haaaa! Nice one centurion! Like it, like it!" - Ben the Prisoner, Monty Python's Life of Brian

In a recent article I noted that booms 'look appropriate for an Olympic-sized swimming pool' but that's 'cause I didn't know fucking proper fucking booming.

Now I do, and this blowout is still the most hideous event any of us will ever see (that's see, not the stuff we're responsible for elsewhere in the world, which might as well be in Alpha Centauri). Another article called the Deepwater Disaster a 'fixing point' for all the ills that plague us as a nation - corporate personhood, political corruption and inertia, environmental destruction, a useless media, and crucial public issues shrouded in secrecy (even in the aftermath). It is a fixing point, and the only thing left is to see the full public reaction, to determine if we still have the ability to take matters into our own hands. Because if this isn't just cause, there is no such.

[swilton]

29. Fixing point for what ails us as a nation

about sums it up - Chernobyl was analogous in the USSR - corruption, no news coverage, the misplaced belief in technology, the misplaced belief in the communist system, cronyism, corruption, and cynicism (is there any cynicism out there???) bureaucrats who wouldn't talk to each other, secrecy, etc., etc. and we all know what happened to the USSR not long after Chernobyl.

[Petrushka]

13. K & R

:kick:

[Devil_Fish]

14. Error, You have allready recomended this post.

What a Fucking disaster.

[Junkdrawer]

15. Kick

:kick:

[1955doubledie]

16. K&R

:kick:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

17. Wow.

I like how that person rolls.

[mainer]

18. Great video. Maybe this is why the media was stopped from visiting.

Because they didn't want the press to see how they're screwing up.

[ooglymoogly]

19. Big fucking KR and a big kick in the butt to O and to the fucking crooked power structure.

that has carelessly allowed this to happen. Make that big kick to the fucking power structure, fucking us and our planet with oil over and over and over. O is totally useless on this. There are not words to convey the anger I feel for this total carelessness and greed.

[bear425]

20. Wow. I really hope Rachel Maddow gets to see this

and gets the narrator on her show. Immediately.

[Greyskye]

22. I sent her the link. I hope everyone else does too.

[MissMarple]

21. Ouch! that's a good one.

[20score]

23. Great video! Hope it make the rounds and goes viral.

[amyrose2712]

24. Fucking Kick and Fucking Rec.

[Ticonderoga]

25. Latest spill figures

I am aware of from Purdue Univ. is 95,000 - 125,000 bbls per day spewing into the GOM.

[RoccoR5955]

27. K & Fucking R!

Damn right. It only makes sense that you don't try to contain all the oil in one line of booms. I thought it was kind of odd when I saw what they were doing on the news.
Thanks for that video. It makes perfect sense to a person with a little bit of Marine Biology and Geology training.

[MrMickeysMom]

28. Thanks JD

I'm weak, yet angry, just like her voice right now.

KICK

[Devil_Fish]

30. A kick from me b4 I go home.

I know a lot of DUers have sceen this, but I think it's important enough to stay on top so I'll Kick it up there. I realy hope it gets sent to BP, and BO.

[Shining Jack]

31. I fucking agree.

Kicking.

[Tansy_Gold]

32. Another fucking kick n/t

[Devil_Fish]

33. BP this is more then a fucking disaster, and BO and the piece of shit cunt media need a clue. N/T

[Lorien]

34. Kick. nt

[Devil_Fish]

35. back to the top for more views. N/T