This article says exactly what I predicted it would say three weeks ago in talking with my brother who was freaking out over the spill. The only thing is, the article is quite a bit more sophisticated than I expected, a darn good job of glossing over.

Damn, Rush was right.

"Where Has All the Oil Gone?"

Gone to shorebirds everyone.
When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?

Damn, Rush was right.

#2 | Posted by KBM

I thought only "libtards" cared about the Fat-assed Clown. You're slippin', KlanBoy.

Whales need lubricants too

TMI bro.

TMI bro.

Posted by LetUsPrey at 2010-07-29 12:46 AM | Reply

Now who's mind is in the gutter hmmmmmmmmmmmmm sure isn't moi

C'mon man.

A few hundred million gallons seems like an awful lot when you're talking about filling up tanker trucks. But in a huge body of water--not so much.

"I thought only "libtards" cared about the Fat-assed Clown. You're slippin', KlanBoy."
#4 | Posted by LetUsPrey

Damn, Rush was right.

#2 | Posted by KBM

When is he not?

"When is he not?"

Posted by wurster at 2010-07-29 10:02 AM | Reply| Flag: idiot

Pretty much all the time.

"we never lie and make things up"

Sure Rush, and your fawning idiot fans just eat it up.

Damn, Rush was right.

#2 | Posted by KBM

Sure Rush, and your fawning idiot fans just eat it up.

#13 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2010-07-29 10:12 AM

Proof Left wing Liberals would rather have a GIANT mess in the Gulf before having to admit Rush was right all along too funny no partisan hacks here(ZAT)...

I'm not a Rush fan, but it's funny to see all of libtardom fact-checking every single snippet from his show. He's on several hours a day, every day. That must keep a lot of people busy.

it's funny to see all of libtardom fact-checking every single snippet from his show

How do you think he gets his ratings? Notice nobody on the right admits to listening to Rush or Bill and nobody on the Left admits to listening to Keith and Ed? Somebody is based on their ratings. It is the Right listening to Keith and the Left listening to Rush.

Rush was right? This proves just how out of touch with reality Limbaugh fans are.

There is still oil in the Gulf and it's still washing up. Fisheries are closed. People have lost their livelihoods. Experts and other sane people realize that the Gulf will be effected for at least years. And though the well is not leaking at this time, the problem is not over.

What exactly was Rush right about?

All the toxic dispersant that has been dumped has caused the oil to sink, just because it's not on the surface or washed ashore yet doesn't mean it's gone.

PROZACBOI

Done, IMO, for PR purposes. Stupid, stupid move. Can't gather oil that isn't on the surface.

Of course, we all recall how BP claimed it was 1000 bbls a day for a long time too. Turned out to be closer to 60,000

Does this also mean that the spill is not "Obama's Katrina"?

There is still oil in the Gulf and it's still washing up. Fisheries are closed. People have lost their livelihoods. Experts and other sane people realize that the Gulf will be effected for at least years. And though the well is not leaking at this time, the problem is not over.

What exactly was Rush right about?

#17 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar

really, well i cant recall the dude's name who said yesterday that normalcy would return in months. now the jobs associated with drilling, not so much, thanks uhbama. over reacting, hmm, seems to be a pattern here.

Damn, Rush was right.

#2 | Posted by KBM

No...Obama did it. You did pray to Him didn't you? He answered your prayer.

This "huge contamination" story will soon go away when people see the truth of it..Maybe there is still hope for the glowable warming trumpeters.

Here's a sugestion to make good use of this crisis:
Send VP Bitten in a canoe into the open sea to search for the missing oil. Call it a vacation trip. HE hasnt had as much as he should. The Clown.

A few hundred million gallons seems like an awful lot when you're talking about filling up tanker trucks. But in a huge body of water--not so much.

#9 | Posted by rightisright

Isn't that what the BP CEO said?

Where has all the oil gone?

The ocean ate it. Just like it always has.

If the truth were know, there are dozens if not hundreds of leaks on oceans floors all over the globe.

Is the oil leaking into the ocean or is the water leaking out of the ocean? Inquiring minds want to know.

Funny seeing the frantic wheezing from the Rush haters.

Where has the oil gone? For the most part, nowhere - YET.

If it's on the surface, you see it, but there is a MILE of water beneath the surface. Some has landed ashore, but there is no natural mechanism to cause all of the leaked oil to rush ashore. We'll be seeing patches of oil contaminating wildlife and beaches for years.

One thing you can be sure of, the "environmentalists" have gotten it wrong - they always do. Can't mix your agenda with science. Politically, Rush would have loved to have a catastrophe to crow about, but common sense is all you need to out-smart these crooked "experts".

The environmentalists have gotten what wrong? Nobody claimed to know exactly how much of a catastrophe this would be, and I would think that this has been catostraphic enough as it is.

Wow, this thread is bullshittery on high. Consider this folks: can oil disappear? Why didn't the Valdez spill rapidly disappear - it's had decades! Yet another massive spill has just happened in the same location THIS WEEK ALONE - almost as if this is a purposeful dumping into the gulf. If oil is smothering and toxic to all life in the gulf basin wouldn't that also disperse throughout to the shores? Maybe these two scientists are plugging their noses before they make their surface "analysis"?

Nobody claimed to know exactly how much of a catastrophe this would be,

and yet it this is been reported as the "worst/largest man-made environmental disater in the history of the world"

I don't know to what degree scientists have gotten this wrong. What we read mostly is media spun reports on what they say.

Why didn't the Valdez spill rapidly disappear - it's had decades!

2 to be exact.

I don't know shit from nothing about oil or oil spills.

But Valdez was closer to the shore and the water is colder.

relevant points? I don't know

Red, the oil spill in Alaska was heavy crude and the water was very cold. The leak in the gulf was light crude and the water is warm. Hell, other than that, they are exactly the same. You know.... oil in the water.

FTA:

"It is still far too early to know how much damage the spill has done -- and may still be doing -- to the environment. Tar balls continue to wash up on beaches. And the risk of a leak remains, until the well is permanently capped sometime in the next few weeks."

just in case nobody else actually read it to the bottom...

'relevant points? I don't know'

I don't know shit about oil spills either, but I know most kinds of oil get thicker as they get colder.

#32 | Posted by eberly at 2010-07-29 05:46 PM

It has never been reported as the worst environmental disaster in the history of the world. You're making that up. It has correcly been reported as the worst environmental disaster in US history.

Not to downplay that this was the biggest oil spill for the US--damaging the enivironment, the fish, the birds, the economy...

But perhaps the oil went to where the 3.5 million jobs created or saved are hiding. No one really knows where those jobs are--so maybe they are hiding with the oil.

;o)

You're making that up.

actually I was exagerating. you are right.

But I wasn't doing it to mislead but rather illustrate that some have, indeed, claimed to know how big of a disaster it is.

I'm not sure we really know how big of a disaster it really is.

we don't know how long the fishing industry will be impacted. We don't know how much resorts and other industries will be impacted either.

"Why didn't the Valdez spill rapidly disappear - it's had decades!"

2 to be exact.
I don't know shit from nothing about oil or oil spills.
But Valdez was closer to the shore and the water is colder.
relevant points? I don't know
#33 | Posted by eberly at 2010-07-29 05:50 PM

You and I don't know. Realistically, our best sources for all data appears to be the industry that invented this technology and their dysfunctional lackeys endorsements - all of which have been duplicitous and straining believability. The tropical microbes didn't appear to like the sweet crude 1000% as much as the article alleges they are going after "tarballing" deathglop.. I can only presume the damage will that much more magnified without this under-explained explanation. Where are the marine biologists surveying this!?!

Red, the oil spill in Alaska was heavy crude and the water was very cold. The leak in the gulf was light crude and the water is warm. Hell, other than that, they are exactly the same. You know.... oil in the water.
#34 | Posted by Sniper at 2010-07-29 05:50 PM

You know? Realistically, it's only similar to a deep ocean volcanic vent or to near-surface lava than anything I've ever seen. The types of animals and the ecosystem involved are quite different in their natural defense to this type of exposure, but no less similar in reaction to oil of either form.

Wouldn't the microbes have to have been planted in boggling volumes either close to this disaster or during? Their proximity is either unbelievably fortuitous (Godsend) or a purposeful release. Would this have been a secret open test of some form?

Perhaps HAARP transforms hydrocarbons into decaf?

Just think we wont have to grease the pan before we fry those fish and shrimp. And if the oil in the Gulf is sweet light crude...well then it's less fattening too. Right? Plus it's all 100% natural, no added chemicals and such. How can this be bad?

Just think we wont have to grease the pan before we fry those fish and shrimp. And if the oil in the Gulf is sweet light crude...well then it's less fattening too. Right? Plus it's all 100% natural, no added chemicals and such. How can this be bad?
#42 | Posted by Tedly at 2010-07-29 07:05 PM

No ban I

don't know if this was discussed here . . . but Rush seemed to predict this from the get-go - - -

it's eriee that he was correct when the doomsayers were bustin' on him

btw, where the hell is 'humpty dumpty' anyway?

Of course since Rush is a drug addict, people will havea tough time believing him

Oh My God!!! Isn't this wonderful??? How lucky for US !!! /sarc/

Even before humans started drilling for oil in the Gulf -- and spilling lots of it -- oil naturally seeped into the water. As a result, the Gulf evolved a rich collection of petroleum-loving microbes, ready to pounce on any new spill...

And the article says decreased oxygen levels are a sign that the microbes are working hard!!! Oh, those fabulous, mighty microbes!

Hell, I knew they were going to downplay this. And this "it's not that bad" kind of spin is going to carry the day. But wait, about a year from now there will be a big outcry about "the real damage has been swept under the rug and hidden, but the real secret is the horrible degradation of the (fill in the blank) and the fact there is nothing that can be done about it."

It's forming a big, black, carbon-monster that will slowly make its way to land. From there it will travel from town to town, killing all the townspeople and the local constables. Pretty soon, there will be nothing left but the indians, the true stewards of the earth. They will smoke a peace pipe, renounce capitalism and private ownership rights. The bison will again roam free, the birds will sing, and the air and water will be clean.

There will be no cars, no pavement, no buildings, no electricity, nothing we describe as civilization. It will be a peaceful, magical land, without strife, hunger, global warming, or disease. Plants and animals will live harmoniously. There won't be any wildfires, and God will be well pleased.

Scientists Find Evidence That Oil And Dispersant Mix Is Making Its Way Into The Foodchain

Scientists have found signs of an oil-and-dispersant mix under the shells of tiny blue crab larvae in the Gulf of Mexico, the first clear indication that the unprecedented use of dispersants in the BP oil spill has broken up the oil into toxic droplets so tiny that they can easily enter the foodchain.

Marine biologists started finding orange blobs under the translucent shells of crab larvae in May, and have continued to find them "in almost all" of the larvae they collect, all the way from Grand Isle, Louisiana, to Pensacola, Fla. -- more than 300 miles of coastline -- said Harriet Perry, a biologist with the University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast Research Laboratory.

In part due to the1.8 million gallons of dispersant that BP used, a lot of the estimated 200 million or more gallons of oil that spewed out of the blown well remains under the surface of the Gulf in plumes of tiny toxic droplets. And it's short- and long-term effects could be profound.

Fish, shrimp and crab larvae, which float around in the open seas, are considered the most likely to die on account of exposure to the subsea oil plumes. There are fears, for instance, that an entire year's worth of bluefin tuna larvae may have perished.

Of course since Rush is a drug addict, people will havea tough time believing him

#46 | Posted by truthhurts at 2010-07-29 08:31 PM | Reply | Flag:

What's Charlie Wrangle's excuse?

#50 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2010-07-29 10:53 PM | Reply | Flag: Yuk yuk yuk.

Could be the intent (if you go with the conspiricy theory wackjob thought) is to so polute the Gulf that it would make the regulations and whatnot a moot point.

No point in protecting a cesspool, so drill baby drill and consider the multi billion dollar fines as a cost of doing business and besides, they'll recoup it anyway with the tax breaks they're already getting.

Loh

What's Charlie Wrangle's excuse?

#51 | Posted by Washboard

40 years in congress!!!!! He thinks he is untouchable.

If Rush Limbaugh is to be believed let's send a camera back down and see if the oil is really disappeared. Why are BP scientists not monitoring this 24/7?! Where is the news coverage?! What possible other premise are they responding to?

It's forming a big, black, carbon-monster that will slowly make its way to land. From there it will travel from town to town, killing all the townspeople and the local constables. Pretty soon, there will be nothing left but the indians, the true stewards of the earth. They will smoke a peace pipe, renounce capitalism and private ownership rights. The bison will again roam free, the birds will sing, and the air and water will be clean.

#49 | Posted by somoco

Damn, right back to the stone age. WOW!!!! That is the dream of the tree huggers.

#12 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2010-07-29 10:09 AM | Reply | Flag: RELIES ON SOROS' MEDIAMATTERS FOR OBJECTIVITY

It started a mile down and was pushed by currents in all directions. The oil is suspended at all depths over huge areas.

"Time Mag Shocker: Rush Limbaugh Might Have Been Right About Oil Spill"
newsbusters.org

#10 | Posted by KBM at 2010-07-29 09:51 AM | Reply | Flag:

If Rush was right about is being "just a leak", then what are all you rightards screaming about in regards to the response? After all, it's
"just a leak".

Get over it, cupcake.

hmm . . . .
now it appears that the hapless Fed firefighting response may have 'over-run the ballast system' resulting in a sunk drill rig, followed by the massive splill

Oil is heavier than water, so I would suspect the oil is falling, and moving to the lowest points of the ocean floor.

Zeor % of this oil should have reached shore. The Agreed to plan was not utilized. The Plan was delayed by the Administration and birds died.
Keep doing the wrong thing and only GOD can bail us out!

Oil is heavier than water, so I would suspect the oil is falling, and moving to the lowest points of the ocean floor.

#62 | Posted by briwo
* * * * *

Oil isn't heavier than water, except at the molecular level. Water is lighter, but denser.

That's why oil floats.

Oil is heavier than water, so I would suspect the oil is falling, and moving to the lowest points of the ocean floor.

#62 | Posted by briwo

When the hell did that happen?? That statement deserves a first place stupid for the week.