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Lawrence Solomom: Avertible Catastrophe. I guess that's the English spelling. If this is even partly true, Obama is toast. Read the whole thing, especially this:

When ships in U.S. waters take in oil-contaminated water, they are forced to store it. As U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the official in charge of the clean-up operation, explained in a press briefing on June 11, "We have skimmed, to date, about 18 million gallons of oily water--the oil has to be decanted from that [and] our yield is usually somewhere around 10% or 15% on that." In other words, U.S. ships have mostly been removing water from the Gulf, requiring them to make up to 10 times as many trips to storage facilities where they off-load their oil-water mixture, an approach Koops calls "crazy."
The Americans, overwhelmed by the catastrophic consequences of the BP spill, finally relented and took the Dutch up on their offer -- but only partly. Because the U.S. didn't want Dutch ships working the Gulf, the U.S. airlifted the Dutch equipment to the Gulf and then retrofitted it to U.S. vessels. And rather than have experienced Dutch crews immediately operate the oil-skimming equipment, to appease labour unions the U.S. postponed the clean-up operation to allow U.S. crews to be trained.
A catastrophe that could have been averted is now playing out. With oil increasingly reaching the Gulf coast, the emergency construction of sand berns to minimize the damage is imperative. Again, the U.S. government priority is on U.S. jobs, with the Dutch asked to train American workers rather than to build the berns. According to Floris Van Hovell, a spokesman for the Dutch embassy in Washington, Dutch dredging ships could complete the berms in Louisiana twice as fast as the U.S. companies awarded the work. "Given the fact that there is so much oil on a daily basis coming in, you do not have that much time to protect the marshlands," he says, perplexed that the U.S. government could be so focussed on side issues with the entire Gulf Coast hanging in the balance.

Today's MSN Home page features the 'Top Ten Conspiracy Theories of All Time." Eight of them are baloney, and, IMHO, two of them are true. The two true ones appear consecutively.

Via Casting Pearls Before Swine, an article by Andrew Cline that gets to the heart of the problem with our Commander-of-Everything-in-Chief.

We don't know where we're going, but follow us anyway!

"But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it... ." Nancy Pelosi


"What has defined us as a nation since our founding is the capacity to shape our destiny—our determination to fight for the America we want for our children. Even if we’re unsure exactly what that looks like. Even if we don’t yet know precisely how we’re going to get there. We know we’ll get there." Barack Obama

"No one will know until this is actually in place how it works." Chris Dodd

More evidence, as if any were needed, that we are being ruled by a man with no respect for law, if the law gets in the way of his agenda. Unlike the Jones Act, federal immigration law is just a nuisance to be avoided. Kyl gets to the point at about 3:17:

In other words, Obama won't enforce the law as written, because he wants to force others to change how it's written. But it's his job to enforce the law as written. Impeachable? Well, I suppose it's neither a high crime nor a misdemeanor to willfully neglect your duties.

Update: The Obama White House is calling Kyl a liar.

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