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[boston bean]

[nc4bo]

1. RIP Oh beautiful Gulf of Mexico.

:cry: :scared: :grr:

[boston bean]

2. I vacationed off the Gulf a few years back on Indian Rocks. Glad I got to see and experience it. nt

[defendandprotect]

41. 5th pic from last seems to show oil hitting some land mass . . . ???

Amazed that we haven't had absolute reports of this yet --

but by the time it happens, it will have so penetrated the waters that it will

be impossible to prevent great damage -- !!!

[tabatha]

3. Good Lord, those are awful.

Jeepers.

[Brickbat]

4. Are these all from the Gulf?

I'm curious about context.

[boston bean]

5. yes, they are all from the Gulf spill of 2010.

[Brickbat]

9. Thanks.

[jillan]

6. It makes me all teary eyed to look at that. So pitiful, so depressing, so unnecessary.

[boston bean]

11. The people beaching it while people in hazmat suits are combing the beach is surreal, nt

[inna]

7. What in the world is this - ??

[boston bean]

8. blobs of oil.....

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. Boston.com says they are the globs of oil that have risen to the surface so far

no telling what is still below.

[defendandprotect]

40. This is the result of the "dispersants" . . . . ??????

[BrklynLiberal]

12. Sickening.. Horrifying.. Disgusting. AND 11 men died. This is beyond description.

[intheflow]

22. And more will die as a result of this.

Many fishermen and coastal residents commit suicide or drink/self-medicate themselves to death, there are folks down there who still subsistence fish who will still ingest the seafood, it'll get into the local water supplies and contaminate more people. The eleven men were just the start.

[BrklynLiberal]

66. You are absolutely right....Those 11 men were at the beginning of a long and painful

road...

[Scuba]

13. Final analysis completed....

...it was the fault of one of the oil rig workers, who was a Democrat. Yeah, it was his fault. Not ours. Thanks, BP.

[CLANG]

14. We are so screwed!

[Mad_Dem_X]

15. God forgive us...

Those were painful to look at. I feel nauseous.

[DemReadingDU]

16. more pics at this link

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/disaster_unfolds_slowly_in_the.html

[a kennedy]

19. this just makes me ill......just sick to my stomach.....

:mad: :grr: :cry:

[inna]

61. Thanks for the link, more amazing/horrible images there....

Seawater covered with thick black oil splashes up in brown-stained whitecaps off the side of the supply vessel Joe Griffin at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill containment efforts in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana Sunday, May 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)




An oil soaked bird struggles against the oil slicked side of the HOS Iron Horse supply vessel at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana Sunday, May 9, 2010.

[BJ10]

17. Don't worry, BP Cheif says it's not serious...

Just a drop in a bucket really.

[Faygo Kid]

18. Only one solution: 7-figure bonuses for the top BP guys!

OK, OK - 8-figure bonuses. There, I fixed it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. Yep

:mad:

[dchill]

46. I don't know - I think they're really...

going to have to seriously beef up their campaign donation fund. Low-eight-figure bonuses, at best.

[marmar]

20. Amazing.......and tragic.

k/r

[ensho]

21. picture two is so revealing - black men cleaning up while whites watch

the pic of the baggy filled with oil crap is like a stab in the heart.

an aside:

I play the online game Guild Wars and one of the monsters to be killed during missions and quests is like an oily black blob.

was the game's originators prescience, I wonder?

[trumad]

26. Dumb comment...

So no white people are helping...is that your take...

Again---what a dumb comment.

[ensho]

32. I stand by what I said

nt

[datasuspect]

42. FAT, doughy white people btw

[Blacksheep214]

35. The White People...

are German tourists.

Is there anything you would care to add?

[Bluebear]

65. Idiot, they are German tourists who paid for a vacation.

[bluescribbler]

23. If you look at them without context

Look at them simply as images, colors and shapes, nothing more, some of those photos can be quite beautiful. But of course, they're not. In context, they are quite ugly. Drill, baby, Drill, my a$$.

[Robb]

24. I was thinking about that, too

...the attractive symmetry of destruction. :(

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. Drill, baby, drill. Spill, baby, spill. Kill, baby, kill. And that's the whole story

[quakerboy]

43. It is a terrible beauty, but it is beauty

I went to the coast to enjoy the ocean, the animals, the sun, even the sand. Perhaps the next generation will go to enjoy the beauty of fluid dynamics and oil on water. People are adaptable. Mother nature is adaptable too. Some things will change, but something will live on.

[sabrina 1]

48. They'll just have to adapt to never swimming

in the ocean, or never eating fish which they'll hear stories about, or seeing Dolphins jumping joyfully in the water. They shouldn't HAVE to adapt to never experiencing the beauty of nature without the interference of human beings who see more beauty in profits than in the planet's natural environment.

[quakerboy]

50. That is our shame(or at least should be)

but it will be their burden.

[sabrina 1]

51. Yes, it is so sad ~ n/t

[malaise]

25. There are no words

:cry: :cry:

[66 dmhlt]

27. Like Oil and Water ...

Toddlers & HazMat teams don't (or at least shouldn't) mix well together.



It's a picture that leaves you speechless beachless.

[sce56]

28. Here is a map of the oil fields in the gulf

[sce56]

31. BP to send in the A Team

[onethatcares]

33. I just came back from Pass A Grill beach, St. Petersburg FL

I do the beaches each weekend along the coast of Pinellas county, as I sat on a bench today, I couldn't help to think about how it's all gonna change now once the oil hits, and hit it will.

It sickens me to think of how the sand fleas, the fish, dolphins, turtles and birds are gonna start washing up on the sand.

We'll be living with this cesspool for a long, long time.

[jwirr]

34. Awful, just awful. This may be a idiot idea but when I was a kid

there was a flood along our river. Many of the fish were trapped after the water receded in shallow ponds. My father would seine them out and return them to the river. Seeing the picture of the dolphins and knowing the turtles that died I am wondering if the best rescue would be to catch them and remove them to another area. Surely there is some safe place they can be settled in.

[demigoddess]

36. america the beautiful no more. Perhaps to the planet as well.

too bad they will only fine the stupid idiots that did this. Prison should be in their future

[Lorien]

37. Too bad "corporate persons" get a break from the responsibilities and rules that apply

to the rest of us American citizens. They should be jailed for the negligent homicide of 11 workers at the very least!!

[rhett o rick]

38. There costs will be a very tiny percentage of their obscene profits. They will use a larger part

to influence Congress to look the other way.

[defendandprotect]

39. Especially everything beautiful has to be destroyed in the war on nature . . . .

that's beyond question!

And it is patriarchy's war on nature -- and its system of capitalism which delivers the

destruction they seek.

Patriarchy and violence are mirror images of one another --

And patriarchy consciously or unconsciously continues to create a world which mirrors its

own fears, paranoia, ugliness and confusion.

[Stardust]

47. Speaking of patriarchy, have you seen this?

"The Terminator Soaks the Poor." (It's much, more more than a Govinator bashing.)

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1095787

[defendandprotect]

64. Whew!! .... prison labor in India!! Now that's "harvesting slave labor" . . .!!!

Someone was mentioning that the line up for Governor/GOP is even more

fascist than Arnold!!

[YankeyMCC]

44. Well at least its not a view obscured by windmills

:sarcasm:

[liberal N proud]

45. Sure makes for pretty pictures

Better than that usual emerald green you once saw in the Gulf.

:sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

49. We should drop the CEO's .....

of BP, Transoceanic and Halliburton into the worst spot of this oil disaster and let them swim to shore.

It's only a drop in the bucket. :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

Having a real hard time calling this an oil "spill". Need a new term.

[Odin2005]

52. *CRY*

:cry:

[femrap]

53. I had no idea that

there were close to 4,000 oil rigs along the Gulf Coast.

I feel sick.

[Yavapai]

54. BP will probable get a tax credit for giving away so much free oil to the

people of the Gulf Coast.

But now we know what they meant by "Beyond Petroleum" in their commercials.

[ooglymoogly]

55. This oil spill is insignificant compared to the huge profits

that can be made....to hell with the earth and fellow travelers on it.

We are not stewards, but for a fist full of dollars, we are destroyers. Though many of us fought this carelessness because of the possibilities of just this, we were yelling into the roar of a, take no prisoners, hurricane of very dark stupidity. We are looking into the jaws of hell. Yes there is a hell; Not the biblical one, but the one made by the greed of the worst scum of mankind.

[Angry Dragon]

56. But bp said it was just a little oil

compared to how much water is in the gulf............maybe to show us it is okay his family should swim in it and I will even pay for their travel there

[McCamy Taylor]

57. Great photo essay. My mom lives in Galveston. First the hurricane, now this.

[Chemisse]

58. Incredible photos.

What a tremendous tragedy.

[rug]

59. .

[pleah]

60. I'm sick.

:cry:

















http://www.asherheimermann.org

[amborin]

62. horrific....and the underwater plume is so much worse......

[orbitalman]

63. Totally TRAGIC. nt