Maggie's Farm

concur with Gringo --and from a former roughneck, derrick hand, and technical award winning global consultant mud engineer's perspective. In fact when one digs a little deeper one gets more and more ice-cold shocks of realization that a pattern this admin's people have had career-long, of stoking up a problem only they can solve because only they can choose to quit creating the problem, and then helplessly watching as the problem gets out of hand, then gringo is actually rather much downplaying the darkness.

I agree with your every word, foxmarks, but there's something more in this case --something tantamount to playing russian roulette, perhaps? No, something equivalent to playing russian roulette in a hurry, and to save time, just leaving all six chambers loaded.

They had an intrusian into the well bore that by pushing and pushing a test...ahhhg ...i can't do it --too much typing, to gloss thru the typing is to seem to've glossed thru the thinking, and to type the thinking is to spend an hour on text no one will read. but it's all in gringo's links, tho spotted here and there.

Meanwhile, the Mississippi Canyon was going to be a game changer for our ability to influence margins where prices change. When the lease auctions take place in the houston Astrodome usually, each winning bid is named secretly in the bid, and that winner's name is the name used (there is a theme every year, to the names companies append, but the names themselves are their own ideas).

Somebody at BP told the rig company man (who is now under medical sequestration and can't be interviewed, and his two assistants have both 'taken the fifth') to displace without a bottoms up, and someone, probably the same someone, named the auction bid for the heart of the Mississippi Canyon "Macondo" --a name which exists only thru the fictional town in a famous communist 'magic realism' author's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude", where the town of Macondo is a fine place until capitalism and private proerty and hereditarty wealth came into it via a banana plantation, which then enriched the town beyond the original natives' imaginations, until Nature blew it away with a windstorm, after which it was rebuilt with the saved capital value borrowing power, at which point Nature rained rain upon it for four straight years until all those who had wanted growth and progress over nature and pastoralism, had given up and moved away --leaving a wrecked, empty miserable place with only a little hope to recover under the old ways, before the capitalism arrived.

who at BP named the prospect? Who called in the decisions of April 20? Perhaps the same office that wrote Sen kerry's "American Power Act" and stands to profit enormously and specifically from it? The legislation on death watch likely to die for good in the November election, that needed a BIG catalyst in order to give the president a 'mandate' to resuscitate it, and drive it thru the senate on the basis of what O is --post blowout --calling "the disasters of the last century's energy source?" The legislation that will eventually crowd out all private enterprise and will nationalize and socialize thru price and regulation, all American commerce?

...and that's to ignore the two recent BP bad accidents in similarly politically sensitive energy areas --retarding investment and begging added layers of regulation in same: Prudhoe Bay and the big refinery in TX where expansion is a hot tater. 760 ''willful and egregious'' OSHA violations in last 3 years, the next two highest, tied at 8 apiece, Conoco and Sun.

Rahm Emanuel living five years before the election in an apt paid for by BP. Eric Holder before AG defender of Chiquita Banana against charges of hiring the Colombian FARC narcoterrorists to kill --literally --the competition, and BP's big cash cow being the paid-for Los Canos field ($8 bbl/yr net) in Colombia, offset the same FARC vulnerability, but without a bit of trouble from those Eric Holder defended fine fellows.

And why, with the oil and gas burning away as if a planned and safe flare-off, did BP insist on the fire boats continuing to spray --saying "the rig will never sink" --until the rig --engineers surmise something had holed the watertight pontoons --the rig DID sink, thus breaking the riser pipe and beginning the oil release into the sea?

I know --i sound like a copy of the well-known conspiracy nutjob. but, jeeez --i mean --jeez --

i sincerely hope you're right, foxmarks --because if you aren't we are in a whole lot more trouble than we thought. And we already thought we were in plenty of trouble --at least i did (not to speak for anyone but yours truly).

Foxmarks, thanks for the soothing words. i do understand the value of positivism and equanamity, and the need to go forward and repair what can be repaired. However, it is just that, just that eye on the future, that makes it crucial to identify and cope with the possibility of deliberate attacks, and avoid the temptation to look the other way under the guise of trying to respond to our better angels. Hence there is nothing but necessity to digging into this thing on the basis of the as-yet-unexplained acts of April 20.

www.pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/100900/

Instapundit links to BP info, identifies John Podesta (of the Soros-sponsored Center for American Progress) links to BP.

I went to Center for American Progress' website, and found their oil ideas as of one year ago:

www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/06/clean_energy.html

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as well as many other far-left, Kremlin's Delight type essays. One that i opened, and found buried in the details a prescription for utterly transforming the Coast Guard command --some puzzling ideas sneaking around among the fluff of patriotic fervor misdirection -

www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/06/coast_guard.html

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