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  Choose Your Own Reasons for McCain Cancellation

  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/23/164556/555
  35 days ago in Daily Kos: State of the Nation · Authority: 10,202

  Via Politico: UPDATE: Just over an hour after finalizing plans to visit an oil rig tomorrow, the McCain campaign has cancelled the visit. "The meeting with Governor Jindal has been postponed and we are cancelling the trip to the rig due to
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  Major Spill on the Mississippi

  http://www.taproot.com/wordpress/2008/07/24/major-spill-on-t...
  34 days ago in Root Cause Analysis Blog · Authority: 7

  Major Spill on the Mississippi July 24th, 2008 by Mark Paradies See: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/23/mississippi.spill/index.html Posted in Accidents, Current Events
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  The unending benefits of an oil-fueled economy

  http://www.youngpeoplefor.org/blog/posts/3114
  34 days ago in The YP4 Blog | Young People For · Authority: 3

  The unending benefits of an oil-fueled economy Daniel Klein | July 23, 2008 - 3:38 pm Tags: environment, Fuel Spill, Mississippi River, New Orleans, oil I feel like someone is trying to give us a hint. Daniel Klein's blog 1 comment
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  New Orleans, Louisiana, Jackson Square, oil spill on the mississippi river

  http://jefflamb.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/oil-spill-on-the-mi...
  34 days ago in jlp/ New Orleans · Authority: 3

  IMG_9452 Originally uploaded by New Orleans Lady oil spill on the mississippi river, wher it flow three ways, closing the river up and down for 90 miles, photgraphed by the new orleans lady this week cnn,www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/23/mississippi.spill/index.html?er…
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  McCain campaign cries over spilt oil?

  http://politicalirony.com/2008/07/24/mccain-campaign-cries-o...
  34 days ago in Political Irony › Humor and Hypocrisy from the World of Politics · Authority: 62

  You aren’t supposed to cry about spilt milk, but how about spilt oil? McCain has been on the attack recently because Obama wants to keep the current limits on offshore oil drilling. So today, while Obama was giving a speech to a crowd of over 200,000 people in Berlin, McCain decided to pull his own photo op, and helicopter out to an offshore oil rig near New Orleans. Unfortunately, the photo op was cancelled. The McCain campaign claims it is because of poor weather, but a more likely reason seems to be because of an oil spill that just happened near New Orleans, closing 89 miles of the Mississippi River and disrupting water supplies.  I guess it just isn’t a good idea to give a speech about how safe oil drilling is right in front of an 400,000 gallon oil spill. Or as Senator Bob Menendez put it: Look up ‘irony’ in the dictionary and you will find a description of this turn of events. Having to cancel your big oil drilling photo op because of a massive oil spill is like canceling a crime safety photo op because the house next door just got robbed. Bookmark/Share »
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  Oil Vey! Exxon’s Capitol Hill Shaming

  http://theusconstitution.org/blog.warming/?p=439
  34 days ago in Warming Law · Authority: 5

  This post was co-authored by Doug Kendall, President and Founder, Constitutional Accountability Center; and Sean Siperstein, New Media Director, Constitutional Accountability Center. Talk about unfortunate timing.  Just as conservatives in Congress shamelessly announced their latest “drill everywhere” energy plan on the steps of the Capitol yesterday, a major oil spill closed down part of the Mississippi River.  The dissonance was probably easier because they weren’t present in a packed hearing room just a few hours earlier, where a victim of the worst oil spill in U.S. history delivered  emotional testimony about the damage that oil companies’ bottom-line-driven recklessness has done to the livelihood of 32,000 Americans-and by extension of some legal sleight-of-hand, to the Constitution. There, a Judiciary Committee hearing convened by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) examined the Supreme Court’s troubling movement towards siding with corporations over individual citizens and juries of their peers-a trend encapsulated by  the Court’s ruling in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker last month. The star witness was Osa Schultz, an Alaska fisherwoman and remarkably energetic small-business entrepreneur from the coastal town of Cordova. She and her husband were partners in a thriving fishing cooperative that nearly went bankrupt after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. They are still feeling the financial impact of the spill nearly 20 years later, long after the three-year period covered by compensatory damages in the case. Osa isn’t an environmental activist by choice or trade; this was one of her first visits to Washington.  And she has long been open, like many Alaskans, to the development of drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), but now she’s not so sure. Much like Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, she recognizes that drilling our way out of a dangerous addiction to oil is both impossible and pointless, and is directly tied to the mindset that caused such devastating results in her community.    In her Senate testimony yesterday, she asked: “If our highest court in America fails to hold [Exxon] accountable, how will they ever be forced to take responsibility for their destructive actions?”  It’s a good question. And perhaps environmentally devastating spills like the one yesterday might happen less often if corporations had to pay the full cost of their reckless behavior. Rather than pulling stunts like yesterday’s press conference, politicians should be using this election campaign to listen to the voices of fed-up Americans like Osa; her husband; and their neighbors among the Tatitlek Alaska Native community, who have seen their entire way of life irrevocably altered in wake of the oil spill. They deserve judges who will take seriously the Constitution’s deference to impartial juries, like the one that decided to make Exxon pay back a fraction of the spill’s true cost. And moreover, they deserve leadership that recognizes the damage done to our climate, land and oceans, and overall economy by our addiction to fossil fuels, and squarely emphasizes the development of alternative energy sources and a new “green” economy.
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  Mississippi oil spill

  http://www.smarterscience.com/earthblog/?p=132
  34 days ago in SmarterScience’s Earth Blog · Authority: 2

  Mississippi oil spill July 24th, 2008 Read more on the Mississippi oil spill on CNN.com. Posted in Environmental | No Comments »
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  WHOOPS!

  http://olfroth.blogspot.com/2008/07/whoops.html
  35 days ago in Froth Slosh B'Gosh · Authority: 10

  This is pretty slick. The U.S. Coast Guard closed 98 miles of the Mississippi River from New Orleans, Louisiana, southward after a fuel barge and a tanker collided early Wednesday, spilling more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil.
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  Environmentalists must stop fretting over spilled oil

  http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2008/07/24/environmentalists-...
  34 days ago in William K. Wolfrum Chronicles · Authority: 21

  If there’s one thing that current gas prices have taught us, it’s this - environmentalists hate America. It’s been explained over an over again in right-wing circles. Why are so many people so concerned with the environment when we have gas underneath some caribou somewhere? Or offshore? Don’t they understand that by drilling in conserved areas the U.S. would see prices at the pump drop by a nickel or so? In the next decade or so? Don’t they know that company oil executives believe that drilling everywhere and anywhere they want is the true secret to energy independence? Heck, even John McCain understands that. “My friends, we have to drill off shore. We have to do it. It’s out there and we can do it. And we can do that. The oil executives say within a couple of years we could be seeing results from it. So why not do it?” said McCain. So remember, people, there’s oil out there. Billions and trillions of barrels, just waiting for brave oil companies to go and get it. Yet environmentalists stop them, because they hate America, and the liberal media bails them out. How else would you explain the news coverage given to minor oil spills? Spill could close part of Mississippi River for days (CNN) — The U.S. Coast Guard closed 98 miles of the Mississippi River from New Orleans, Louisiana, southward after a fuel barge and a tanker collided early Wednesday, spilling more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil. The closure — on what is a major shipping route between the Midwest and the Gulf of Mexico — could last days, and the cleanup could take weeks, said Capt. Lincoln Stroh, the Coast Guard chief in New Orleans. The collision between the Liberian-flagged chemical tanker Tintomara and the barge pushed by the tug Mel Oliver happened about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, splitting the barge nearly in half and dumping more than 419,000 gallons of oil into the river, the Coast Guard said. The accident happened just north of the massive bridges connecting downtown New Orleans to the west bank of the Mississippi, the Coast Guard said. The tanker was undamaged. … … The accident left a sheen of oil over much of the river and its banks. Booms were deployed to contain the oil, and skimmers are being used to suck it off the surface, said Petty Officer Thomas Blue, a Coast Guard spokesman. The spill is much smaller than the ones that followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when the Coast Guard estimated that more than 7 million gallons of oil were dumped into the Mississippi and nearby waterways. Do you people realize how small 400,000 gallons of oil actually is? That’s one year of flying for Al Gore. Leonardo DiCaprio uses that much annually just going out and cruising with his pals. And it’s not like most of you live in that area, anyway. So remember, not a drop of oil was spilled due to Hurricane Katrina - seven million gallons were spilled. And no one was bothered in the least. So while CNN trumpets news of oil spills, think about how it affects you and your pocketbook. Because oil spills will come and go. Getting a nickel off a gallon of gas in seven years or so, that’s priceless. –WKW
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  Monti’s News

  http://theladiesroom.movin925.com/2008/07/24/montis-news-42/
  34 days ago in The Ladies Room · Authority: 1

    McCain’s first choice for VP says HELL NO ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ goes topsy turvy Experts say cell phones cause cancer. For real. Child molester still free a year after his conviction. Flori-DUH ADHA is rising among 12-17 year olds FEMA is full of punks The minimum wage went up by 70 cents There’s a huge oil spill on the Mississippi River

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