To a cut-no-slack federal bureaucracy overseen by a feckless president who’d rather golf, have “date nights” and throw White House parties. Whom Big Media has allowed to say nothing about the oil spill since June 22. What, isn’t New Orleans at risk, too? Isn’t that Big Media’s favorite place? Oh, that was just when Bush was president. Yeah. He isn’t now so it’s okay that federal response is stuck on stupid.
Via Instapundit.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Science/Engineering, Texana
Tagged BP, Gulf of Mexico, oil spill, Red State beaches, The Heritage Foundation
When science turns strictly political: 496 scientists, some quite distinguished, whose protests on AGW the National Academy of Sciences says should not be believed. Amazing. And scary. First there was the faking of results. Now the Nazification.
Via Instapundit.
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Posted in Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate
Tagged AGW, AGW's enemies list, global warming, National Academy of Sciences
Hostage to a federal bureaucracy the executive seems unwilling to control. As fiction author and Alabaman Winston Groom puts it, they have created:
“…a perfect storm of bureaucratic and regulatory gridlock around the Deep-water Horizon disaster. Whatever is done to prevent the oil from coming ashore must be approved by the EPA, OSHA, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Coast Guard, and a host of lesser bureaucracies….It seems oil skimming or booming requires taking courses and passing tests given by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Otherwise you run the risk of being arrested.”
Whatever happened to the Hope and Change sales pitch?
Comments Off on Day 75: The Gulf Coast Held Hostage
Posted in Obamalot, Science/Engineering, Scribbles
Tagged BP oil spill, federal delays, Winston Groom
This was five years ago when his Navy uncle first cousin graduated from multi-engine school at the air station at Corpus Christi. Mr. B.’s paternal grandfather also was a pilot, but in the Air Force. His maternal grandfather was a Navy flight engineer. Is he destined to fly? Wait and see.
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Posted in Mr. Boy, Science/Engineering, Texana
Tagged Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, multi-engine aircraft, Navy winging
Hostage to our feckless president who’d rather play golf, give “kick ass” speeches and act tough than try something new to keep the oil off the beaches and out of the estuaries and marshes. Something new such as the A-Whale.
He already blew off the Dutch and their expertise. Not-invented-here, etc. So now the A-Whale is set upon by the fed’s bureaucratic EPA piranha. If Barry doesn’t ignore it, because he can’t get his community-organizer brain around the concept, they’ll chew it to death.
BP was only drilling in 5,000-feet of water in the Gulf in the first place because of our dimwitted politicians who imagine solar and wind can replace oil:
“According to 2008 Energy Department figures, nearly 80% of potentially oil-rich offshore lands are off limits to oil and gas development, and 60% of onshore lands are.”
Comments Off on Day 69: The Gulf coast held hostage
Posted in Obamalot, Science/Engineering
Heck of a good story, this one. My only complaint is that it ended too soon. Nobody said it was a novella. Well, that and a few formatting problems on the Kindle version. But nothing seriously distracted from the engaging story of Osaji, a floater who thought she wanted to become a barnacle (or even a spacer) but turned out to have floating in her blood, after all.
I’d read Carolyn Ives Gilman’s short stories, so I knew to expect good plotting and believable characters. But the biotic membranes the floaters use to get about the sea of their ice-covered world (think Jupiter’s Europa or Saturn’s Enceladus) are brilliant conceptions. Even my old scuba diver’s fear of deep water relaxed after a few dozen pages. Now we can look forward to the next installment of Osaji’s adventures and discoveries, yes?
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Posted in Library, Science/Engineering
Tagged Arkfall, biotic membranes, Carolyn Ives Gilman, hard science fiction
Nevermind his latest “I’m really tough” speech. This quick clip from Reason.tv makes sense to me. It’s been a fed oil spill all along, unlike Hurricane Katrina, the last disaster in the Gulf.
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THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 