Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 14 - Catastrophe Never Sleeps

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Friday May 28, 2010 · 11:54 PM PDT

2010/05/28 · 23:54

Welcome to the BP Junk Shot Diary #14. This is a subset of the Mother Ship #3. Don't rec this, rec the Mothership diary so that we keep this solidly on the rec list with ONE pointer only.

Come here to continue to comment, commiserate, look at the links share any news, point out any significant happenings, excellent to egregious, at the live cams or on the shore.

The video feeds we are watching:

BP video feed
CNN multi camera view
BP videos
WKRG - Mobile/Pensacola

Don't post images or videos, to keep bandwidth down.

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Monday October 05, 2009 · 4:39 PM PDT

2009/10/05 · 16:39

After several diaries here about iSinglePayer being rejected from Apple's app store, the app is now available for download according to the developer and clearly appears in the app store if you check iTunes.

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Saturday November 15, 2008 · 1:40 PM PST

2008/11/15 · 13:40

SoCal is once again on fire. Temperatures are in the 90s and winds gusting to 50-60 MPH. Red flag warning extended to Sunday 4PM. Some concern that the Yorba Linda/Brea fires could merge. Reports of water shortage in Yorba Linda/Anaheim Hills. Residents around OC are asked to not use water.

At least 4 fires are burning in Santa Barbara, Sylmar, Brea, Yorba Linda and Corona. Yorba Linda/Corona/Anaheim Hills fire is burning out of control rapidly to the west and destroying homes.

Evacuation Hotline: (800) 439-2909 (h/t peraspera)
California Fire Incident Page (h/t giodude)
LA Fire Department Blog (h/t giodude)
Orange County Red Cross

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Sunday November 02, 2008 · 11:30 AM PST

2008/11/02 · 11:30

The Formula 1 world championship was just decided in the last race of the year. In fact, it was decided pretty nearly in the last turn of the last lap of the last race of the year. Formula 1 is hardly a popular sport in the U.S., but it's hugely popular around the world. Drivers can make tens of millions of dollars per year and a top team can spend upwards of $300M on car development. Many Formula 1 innovations find their way into consumer vehicles years later.

Lewis Hamilton's win may be interesting to those here due to the symbolic nature of his championship. Lewis is biracial. His mom is white, his dad black. Blacks are proportionately underrepresented in auto racing, and the Formula 1 World Championship is among the highest achievements in racing.

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Friday September 26, 2008 · 2:24 PM PDT

2008/09/26 · 14:24

Assume that I'm talking about the Democratic revisions to Paulson's plan here. I'm not defending $700B with no oversight, rather Paulson's general concept with reasonable limits and oversight.

Here is what the plan isn't:

It's not a plan to hand or even loan money to failing companies.

It's not a plan to specifically buy out bad mortgages

It is a plan to buy up mortgage backed assets - bonds that are mortgages all bundled up - comprised of both good and bad mortgages at a fair valuation which can be sold later for something close to their purchase price. The goal is not to drop cash into companies that need it, but to provide a buyer for these assets, not so that companies can unload them, but so that companies can value them properly.

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Wednesday April 23, 2008 · 11:23 AM PDT

2008/04/23 · 11:23

It took me a while to figure out why the rule shifting by the Clinton campaign and supporters was pissing me off so badly until I talked with a friend of mine.

At the outset of this election we had a candidate that was close to an incumbent as you could have without actually being one. Clinton has been a household name for almost 20 years. I bet more voters would recognize her than Dick Cheney if they ran into them in a grocery store. Clinton was earning free air time that Obama and Edwards and the others couldn't get because the media had indicated that she essentially had this in the bag. Before the first caucus was held, Clinton had nearly 10% of the delegates she needed to win already sewn up due to her party connections with superdelegates.

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Wednesday March 12, 2008 · 12:43 PM PDT

2008/03/12 · 12:43

It's now day 3 or so of the Ferraro fluff-up, and we've had a bit of time to vent our spleens over her comments (or defend them, as the case may be). But nobody is asking why she said them, and said them now. Well, this is Clinton's last play, and it's a big one and it just might work. And we can look to Bush's invasion of Iraq as why it may work, since Clinton is drawing off his playbook.

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Wednesday March 05, 2008 · 6:21 PM PST

2008/03/05 · 18:21

There's been a lot of hand wringing over Hillary's ad "True" and how Obama's appearance differs from the original debate footage. Some have suggested it is accidental. Some have suggested it's deliberate and racist. I propose neither. I propose that it's incompetent.

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Tuesday February 19, 2008 · 11:34 AM PST

2008/02/19 · 11:34

I salute you. I salute you in your unwavering pride in your nation. You are indeed the true American heroes, standing steadfast and resolute with your nation and all that it stands for. While some would proclaim their pride to be tempered, you do not. When some would suggest that their pride could be greater, yours could not be greater nor less. Let us examine where these unamericans and traitors fall short, yet you stand tall.

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Thursday February 14, 2008 · 12:27 PM PST

2008/02/14 · 12:27

It pains me to write those words, but I accept evidence when it is presented to me. After 2000 and 2004, the usual right-wing pundits chastized Democrats as being coastal elites, not caring about the interests of voters in flyover states like Nebraska and South Carolina. 'Hollywood liberal', 'latte-sipping intellectual' we were called. They called out the Democrats for treating people that live outside of top media markets as rubes, unable to fully grasp the issues that plague this country. The suggestion was that we treat all the 'God people' as irrational hillbillies.

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Sunday October 21, 2007 · 7:19 PM PDT

2007/10/21 · 19:19

Southern California is suffering through its regular fire outbreak. For those unfamiliar, a few times each year a particular weather condition develops which causes the winds to blow from the hot, dry desert to the coast, rather than the other way around. The result is that SoCal suffers through near-perfect conditions for fires to develop and spread out of control.

Today we started such a cycle expected to last 4 days or so, and the fires are breaking out. 10,000 acres and 5 homes lost in Malibu. One firefighter killed in San Diego. Over a dozen fires reported so far. Unfortunately, SoCal is a large place and these events develop extremely rapidly. The news really isn't equipped to track a few dozen spontaneous events scattered over a 200 mile coastline.

Two fires have broken out in the Tustin/Irvine/Newport Beach area, but I can't find much coverage of them. One seems fairly large. I'm sure other areas have the same situation - a dangerous fire and no information flowing. And that's why I'm here. Kossacks spread information like nobody else. Share the news, folks.

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Monday April 16, 2007 · 8:59 PM PDT

2007/04/16 · 20:59

Following what happened at Virginia Tech today, there's a lot of attention obviously being paid to guns here. But this isn't about guns. Columbine wasn't about guns. These are stories about communtiies - ones that aren't functioning the way they should be.

Other countries have the same gun ownership rates as we do and don't have these problems. Why is that? The left and right are discussing entirely the wrong things. Neither more or fewer guns solves this problem. Neither more nor less regulation does either. They might result in larger hurtles to cover, or a little more time to identify a problem, but the guns aren't the problem and supply-side thinking won't do a thing to solve the problem.

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