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[Peelz]

I know... I said you sounded like him..
I know you are a crazy right winger like the rest of us

I am on no wings!  I stay on the tail 

[Krandall]

^--- likez da buttz

[Peelz]

not left or right wing...


call me da hot wing baby! 

[Hefe]

how bout a HAWT wing?

[Colorado700R]

how bout a HAWT wing?

Either way, he'll try and suck all meat off his own bone

[Spartan]

Any updates on that oil spill?

[Peelz]

they're putting a concrete dome on the well under the gulf to stop the leak for now.

[Spartan]

That's good, I know some friends who live on the panhandle not far from where it happened. 

[Krandall]

I read this AM that they've been spraying chemicals into the leak that help break down the oil faster. This is the 2nd time it's been tested... kinda scary stuff using this as a labratory.

[Krandall]

Now this is a father!  you need to go to the site to see the vid.


http://www.asylum.com/2010/05/11/shocking-car-crash-footage-shows-father-taking-full-impact-to-sa/


Shocking Car Crash Footage Shows Father Taking Full Impact to Save Baby

We love a hero, but in our time reporting on worldwide acts of heroism, few reach the level achieved by Andrew Leich.

The Aussie father was captured on CCTV clinging desperately to his son Haydn after taking the full impact of car smashing into him and a shop front.

Amazingly, the baby escaped without a scratch, but Mr. Leich's elderly parents were tossed across the foyer. Despite a long period in a critical condition in hospital, both have now recovered.

The shocking sequence was captured on a security camera near Sydney, Australia. The 82-year-old driver had a heart attack and careened her car at almost 45 mph into the Leich family.
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"I was thinking I can take the hit. I can repair, but there's no way my son is going to repair," said Andrew. Keep reading to see the amazing video.

[russ-russ]

Now this is a father!  you need to go to the site to see the vid.


http://www.asylum.com/2010/05/11/shocking-car-crash-footage-shows-father-taking-full-impact-to-sa/


Shocking Car Crash Footage Shows Father Taking Full Impact to Save Baby

We love a hero, but in our time reporting on worldwide acts of heroism, few reach the level achieved by Andrew Leich.

The Aussie father was captured on CCTV clinging desperately to his son Haydn after taking the full impact of car smashing into him and a shop front.

Amazingly, the baby escaped without a scratch, but Mr. Leich's elderly parents were tossed across the foyer. Despite a long period in a critical condition in hospital, both have now recovered.

The shocking sequence was captured on a security camera near Sydney, Australia. The 82-year-old driver had a heart attack and careened her car at almost 45 mph into the Leich family.
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"I was thinking I can take the hit. I can repair, but there's no way my son is going to repair," said Andrew. Keep reading to see the amazing video.

 That was  f ing crazy.  That guy is a stud for sure.

[Colorado700R]

Dead for 15 minutes

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/05/12/jk.dead.for.15.minutes.cnn?hpt=C2

[Krandall]

Oh my word.

a lucky man.

[Colorado700R]

Oh my word.

a lucky man.

And a damn good surgeon.

[Krandall]

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/gulf-oil-spill-supertankers-051310

The Secret, 700-Million-Gallon Oil Fix That Worked — and Might Save the Gulf

There's a potential solution to the Gulf oil spill that neither BP, nor the federal government, nor anyone — save a couple intuitive engineers — seems willing to try. As The Politics Blog reported on Tuesday in an interview with former Shell Oil president John Hofmeister, the untapped solution involves using empty supertankers to suck the spill off the surface, treat and discharge the contaminated water, and either salvage or destroy the slick.
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Hofmeister had been briefed on the strategy by a Houston-based environmental disaster expert named Nick Pozzi, who has used the same solution on several large spills during almost two decades of experience in the Middle East — who says that it could be deployed easily and should be, immediately, to protect the Gulf Coast. That it hasn't even been considered yet is, Pozzi thinks, owing to cost considerations, or because there's no clear chain of authority by which to get valuable ideas in the right hands. But with BP's latest four-pronged plan remaining unproven, and estimates of company liability already reaching the tens of billions of dollars (and counting), supertankers start to look like a bargain.

The suck-and-salvage technique was developed in desperation across the Arabian Gulf following a spill of mammoth proportions — 700 million gallons — that has until now gone unreported, as Saudi Arabia is a closed society, and its oil company, Saudi Aramco, remains owned by the House of Saud. But in 1993 and into '94, with four leaking tankers and two gushing wells, the royal family had an environmental disaster nearly sixty-five times the size of Exxon Valdez on its hands, and it desperately needed a solution.

Pozzi, an American engineer then in charge of Saudi Aramco's east-west pipeline in the technical support and maintenance services division, was part of a team given cart blanche to control the blowout. Pozzi had dealt with numerous spills over the years without using chemicals, and had tried dumping flour into the oil, then scooping the resulting tar balls from the surface. "You ever cooked with flour? Absorbent, right?" Pozzi says. Next, he'd dumped straw into the spills; also highly absorbent, but then you've got a lot of straw to clean up. This spill was going to require a much larger, more sustained solution. And fast.

That's when Pozzi and his team came up with the idea of having empty ships park near the Saudi spill and pull the oil off the water. This part of the operation went on for six months, with the mop-up operations lasting for several years more. Pozzi says that 85 percent of the spilled oil was recovered, and it is precisely this strategy that he wants to see deployed in the Gulf of Mexico.

Yesterday, I spoke to Pozzi and his business partner, longtime Houston lawyer Jon King, about their proposed solution, and the difficulties they've encountered trying to assist in the disaster, with both BP and the government. While BP is attempting its very difficult maneuvers to contain the gusher at the source, they say, nothing is being done to adequately address the slick itself. Dispersant is being used by the ton, some of the oil is being burned, and there have been other efforts, which taken together, Pozzi likens to "a flea on an elephant's ass." The two men have been trying to rally support since just after the rig blew up, without much success. This has been typical of their experience:

JON KING: Well, we went down to the BP headquarters in Houma, Louisiana, and we didn't have an appointment so they wouldn't let us in. Then I called the president of BP and I talked to his secretary and she put me in touch with somebody, but the somebody she put me in touch with didn't know who we should talk to. Nick contacted a gentleman that he used to work with at BP, and he threatened to sue Nick for not going through channels. And I said, "Great. I'd love BP to sue us for trying to help them. That would be wonderful."

NICK POZZI: Keep in mind that what supertankers typically do is they sit in the middle of the ocean waiting for all the traders to come up with the right price. When they feel that the price is right, the tankers that are full, they take off, and they can be anywhere in the world in a few days. Right now there are probably 25 supertankers, waiting for orders, full of oil. So all they got to do is come to Texas, in the Gulf, unload the oil, and then turn around and suck up all this other stuff and pump it onto shore into on-shore storage. It's not rocket science. It's so simple. It's a Robinson Crusoe fix, but it works.

This past Monday, Pozzi and King spoke with Captain Ed Stanton, who is commanding the United States Coast Guard for much of the affected coastline. Stanton requested a quick proposal in writing, and said he would "take it up the chain of command." Below is the proposal, to which Pozzi and King are still awaiting a response.