Massive Oil Spill Threatens States Along Gulf Of Mexico

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by Frances Martel | 7:27 pm, April 27th, 2010

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A massive oil spill floating around the Gulf of Mexico has gone from an environmental concern to a homeland security menace, as it grew today to a size larger than the state of Rhode Island and is expected to hit the shores along the Gulf of Mexico later this week.

The spill was caused by an oil rig explosion last week, but the severity of the spread of the oil across the Gulf only recently became a serious problem, especially in light of the possibility of the oil hitting beaches soon. The Obama administration announced today it would be launching an investigation into the reasons behind the spill, but for now, steps are being taken to ensure that the damage to the shores– which would cause the tourism and seafood industry, among others, to take a major hit– is as limited as possible.

In this segment of today’s America Live, Megyn Kelly highlighted some of the technology used to clean up the spill, as well as the scope of the spill and what it could mean for the states along the Gulf:

America Live, fox news, Gulf of Mexico, Homeland Security, Louisiana, oil rig, oil spill

Nacho

Hows that “drill baby drill” thingy workin’ out for ya?
ex political-media hack

nacho – are you seriously that uninformed?

If you want to make politics your “hobby” why not at least try to stay current on the issues – it might keep you from writing such a stupid and embarrassing thing again.

Do you really not know that it is not talk show host sarah palin that is putting our coastline in danger, its obama himself who is the biggest threat to our shores and coasts?

Obama – who received massive amounts of money during the 2008 campaign from oil company executives (including two of his top bundlers – even though his campaign ran a completely disingenuous and misleading ad that said that they didnt take money from oil companies – which of course is illegal anyway) has gone against decades long Democratic policy and is now pushing to open offshore drilling off of much of our coastline including my home state Delaware. This is an outrage and from a phone call I had with one of his top staffers, I know that Biden, who has done much to oppose offshore drilling for decades, is very disappointed in this.

This is just another instance of Obama paying back his big contributors – just like he did with big banks, big pharm and big insurance. Obots are still so caught up in Obamas race and his suppossed “racist” enemies and a “racist” population to even see that this fellow is a wolf in our midst – selling away our greatest gifts in order to secure his own personal political survival. (think big oil execs will be giving to Obama 2012 huh?)

To this lifelong democrat obama is a disgrace and so are any of his supporters who dont have the brains to know or even care that he is doing exactly what they criticize the GOP and their arch enemy – sarah palin – for. (Some Obot enablers are even pretending that Obamas doubling down on his support for drilling since the spill is another instance of Obamas “12th dimensional chess” strategy – even though this wild and wrong policy hasnt moved one repub to change their mind on cap or trade or anything else.)
Rogue-Comic

Nacho says:
April 27, 2010 at 11:07 pm
“Hows that “drill baby drill” thingy workin’ out for ya?”

How’s that having no soul thing working out for you?
Nacho

On the contrary Hack.

The current climate of political debate has very little to do with the facts. You don’t have to look far to see Fox is dominating the cable news networks and the conservative pundits dominate talk radio. The tea-bagers are out in force eating up what these talking heads have to sell.

They did not make it to the top and have the impact they do by reporting facts. I have learned the uneducated masses respond to the lowest common denominator and eat it it up like its gold (buy now! buy often! brought to you by goldline.com)

My one line jab hits home with these simpletons. You need to take your crazy loony talk somewhere else.
Rogue-Comic

Nacho says:
April 28, 2010 at 9:33 pm
“My one line jab hits home with these simpletons. You need to take your crazy loony talk somewhere else.”

You turned a tragedy into a cheap political cheap shot. We’ve been drilling in the gulf as long as I’ve been alive.

Take “your” crazy loon talk somewhere else.