PORT FOURCHON, La. – The oil rig that exploded, caught fire and then sank 36 hours later could lead to a major oil spill, officials said Thursday… The well could be spilling up to 8,000 barrels of crude oil a day, the Coast Guard said, and the rig carried 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry … Read More
Back To Business As Usual at Massey Mines
This is downright Dickensian. Or if that is too antiquated for you — it's downright Norma raeish. Charleston, W.Va. — Two weeks after the horrific explosion that killed 29 coal miners in southern West Virginia, it’s business as usual for the owner of the project. Massey Energy, the Virginia-based coal giant that runs the Upper Big Branch Mine, has denied … Read More
Correction
My source was wrong about the CO2 emissions from the Ejasdfhaksdjalg Volcano (see post below). This is the correct graph:
CO2-Spilling Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajokull May Actually Be Reducing CO2 In The Air
Here's how: RELATED: Some dramatic video —
Aftereffects of the Chilean Earthquake
Make no mistake — the Chilean earthquake was massive. It was over 500 times stronger than the eathquake that hit Haiti — the salient difference being that it hit out in the ocean, near — but not in 00 a region that has earthquake preparedness (building codes, etc). How massive was the Chilean quake? Well, it threw the Earth off … Read More
Is There No End To Stupid Conservative Spin on Haiti?
Glenn Beck today, speaking of Obama: BECK: I also believe this is dividing the nation…to where the nation sees him react so rapidly on Haiti and yet he couldn’t react rapidly on Afghanistan. He couldn’t react rapidly on Ft. Hood. He couldn’t react rapidly on our own airplanes with an underwear bomber…it doesn’t make sense. […] Three different events and … Read More
STFU, Pat Robertson
After the 9/11 attacks, Robertson said liberal civil liberties groups and homosexuals were at least partly reponsible for the terror strikes that leveled New York's twin towers. After Hurricane Katrina, Robertson again blamed Americans for invoking God's wrath. Now, he's at it again, claiming that the catastrophe in Haiti was brought on by the Haitians themselves for "making a … Read More
Haiti Relief — How You Can Help
The UN has stated that over 3 million people in Haiti are impacted by the devestating earthquake that hit yesterday. This raw uncut footage from CBS highlights how bad it is: UPDATE: According to CNN, the Haiti Prime Minister is saying that the death toll could be "hundreds of thousands". For those interested in helping immediately, simply text "HAITI" to … Read More
It’s True That Dogs Can Detect Earthquakes Before They Hit
Video proof from the 6.5 magnitude off the California coast on Sunday:
Flight 1549 3D Reconstruction
This is pretty amazing, especially the matter-of-fact tone to everyone's transmissions:
Oh By The Way…
The Rapture is scheduled for today. You can read the evidence here, but basically it all boils down to this sine wave graph (click to embiggen): I hope you are using your last day wisely…. P.S. Anyone up for some pre-rapture sexual adventures?
Terror Politics
I've largely refrained from posting about the Bush White House ever since Obama became president, but sometimes my self-imposed ban is hard to maintain. Now that Bush is out of office, we're finding that the actual illegalities are just as bad, if not worse, than imagined. The firings of the U.S. attorneys, for example, were politically motivated and were orchestrated … Read More