mystery tar?

[meow mix]

coast guard = sock puppet



"The results of those tests conclusively show that the tar balls collected from Florida Keys beaches do not match the type of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico," the Coast Guard said.
"The source of the tar balls remains unknown at this time."

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/coast-guard-key-west-tar-balls-not-from-bp-spill-2010-05-19-852510

[mimitabby]

1. and the plot thickens

it must come from a local tar factory some where. (sigh)

[elehhhhna]

5. and BP's liability dwindles. Convenient.

[Oregone]

2. Oh, thats rich

What is funnier....them thinking people are dumb enough to buy that....or maybe the thought that people really are that dumb

[tom_paine]

19. Given the 100% falsehoods laundered into "conventional wisdom" by Corporate M$M and the RW Lie

Machine in the last 20 years, collectively, we ARE that stupid.

I guarantee you a majority, possibly a VAST majority of the American Subject Populace, believes it.

[ensho]

3. there are still too many neo cons working in the Coast Guard to ever

trust them

[elehhhhna]

4. maybe BP's got more than one leaking (gushing) offshore well.

[DefenseLawyer]

6. Zoinks! Like it's a mystery Scoob!

[Statistical]

8. +1 You made me chuckle.

-1 You made everyone in the office look at me when I chuckled.

[fishwax]

10. lol

:D

[revolution breeze]

7. Back in the early 1970s

we used to pick up tar balls on the beach in Corpus Christi every summer. However, given the current crisis, they must really think we are stupid!

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. Listen I've been going to the Keys since 55

as a child and then later on as a young adult.


We better not hope its in the gulf stream. Thousands of ships past through the Florida straights
and illegally dump their huge bilges filled with tons of tar, diesel, oil and crap. Its been killing the the reefs, fishing and keys for years.


One time our fishing boat lost an engine and we were in the current and drifted 20 miles in an hour.
think about that speed for a second.

You don't know the power of that current. Finally got towed back to Islamorada and had to drive fifty miles to reach our hotel.

I've seen what the ships dump and its disgusting...... lets hope they are right that its not from the spill
because when its in the Gulf Stream....... look out.

[northernlights]

13. too late. it's already in the loop.

Atlantic coast, here we come. :(

[Uncle Joe]

11. If you spell tar backward, what would you smell?

Thanks for the thread, meow mix.

[SPedigrees]

12. I'm buying one of our New England lobsters tomorrow

and a couple pounds of fresh haddock for a last feast. I think that soon I will not be trusting the safety of seafood caught off our northeastern shores.

[texastoast]

14. Lying ass oil companies

Never changes.

[Festivito]

15. Might well be from ANOTHER OIL WELL in the water.

These tar balls are common I guess:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4388303&mesg_id=4388506

[lunatica]

16. That makes me feel sooo much better!

Phew! Thank God it isn't the BP oil!

No need to set our hair on fire





:sarcasm:

[ThomWV]

17. They come from where they've always come from, tankers flushing their ballastoff shore

[Hubert Flottz]

18. The Clenis I'd guess!