Fishgrease: Booming the Airwaves II

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Sunday November 07, 2010 · 7:01 PM PST

2010/11/07 · 19:01

Two things, right out of the gate here.

First. As soon as I published my last diary about how nice it would be, here in the redder states, to hear Ed Schultz or Rachel Maddow or Keith Olbermann on our local radio, people began to point out that this was copyrighted material. They are correct. So. Now. Here's the deal:

We will not broadcast nor re-broadcast any material that is not VOLUNTEERED by the person who created and/or holds the copyright on it. We will not seek their permission. They want it available to us, they can send it to our website, Free Radio Me. Or, they can post ON THEIR OWN WEBSITE, that it is specifically permitted for Free Radio Me participants to download and rebroadcast their material.

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Wednesday November 03, 2010 · 10:03 PM PDT

2010/11/03 · 22:03

Boomers! Fuck! Long time no see!

LONG-assed diary proceeds from here.

Well Update: We don't have a clue. Big secret. BOP was still on it a week ago with a little bit of oil still bubbling up outside the surface casing. That means they had problems. No big deal. It's obviously a problem well. What problems? They haven't said. They haven't said anything. They finally had a conference call with Admiral Thad's replacement, Admiral Zukunft. They said nothing about the well. The media didn't ask about the well. You know, THE WELL! The one that blew out and fucked the Gulf up. Word is that some news outlets finally asked BP about THE WELL and got cut off. BP Sharron Angled them.

Election Update: I voted. I'm a Democrat. I voted for Democrats. ONLY Democrats. I gave a little money to Act Blue and individually to Reid and Sestak and Boxer. If I had a do-over I'd have sent something to Feingold and Grayson. I feel pretty stupid not having done so. But now it's time to literally change the fucking channel.

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Saturday August 28, 2010 · 5:52 AM PDT

2010/08/28 · 05:52

These are fucking exciting times, Boomers! If you've been watching the Fucking Deepwater Horizon Disaster Hearings on CSPAN, you've no doubt wondered why anybody put this collection of clowns in charge of a deepwater well. God Damned thing HAD to blow out! Good thing we have competent people in charge now.

Except, we, you know... ummmmmm... don't.

This weekend, coming off this week's complete and spectacular fucking failure of a fishing job on the Macondo well, they're going to pull the old BOP and replace it with a new one. Okay. Not a new one. One off the second relief well. The replacement BOP has the exact same make and model of rams (valves) (except valves that are supposed to be able to cut or smash pipe) that are on the old fucked up BOP and also the exact same make and model of rams that were on the Capping Stack that has done nothing but leak and malfunction.

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Thursday August 12, 2010 · 2:19 PM PDT

2010/08/12 · 14:19

First, I'm honored to be included in this series. Second, after looking at the diaries in the Gulf Recovery series that have preceded mine, I've noticed they're all stupendously well done. What this series lacks is crappy diaries! I'm here to remedy that.

I fear that the word "Recovery" here might be taken to mean that the actual center-point of this crisis, the blown-out well, is completely sealed, no more worries, we got this sucker, look how fast the oil is dissapearing! Like friggen Magic! In Thad-Allen-Speak: there'll be no more hydrocarbons released into the environment because we can tell by our tests that the well has integrity and the annulus has a magic seal that allows magic cement to keep stagnate hydrocarbons down in the well.

Wait. Integrity? This well? BP?

Fucking integrity?

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Wednesday July 28, 2010 · 5:18 AM PDT

2010/07/28 · 05:18

Boomeroomers! I'm going to use a little different format for explaining Static Kill than I did in explaining Top Kill... not that Static Kill is any different. Not that Static Kill is going to, like, work. It's not. What I'm going to to do is give you a Kossack's translation of yesterday's BP briefing. These briefings are basically conference calls. The various organizations in the News Media each assign the reporter they hate the most to call in to these and try to ask questions. There's one question per-reporter, per-call. So obviously no follow-up questions are allowed. If you were BP, you'd do it that way too!

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Thursday July 15, 2010 · 2:18 AM PDT

2010/07/15 · 02:18

Boomers! Yesterday! A date which will live in fuckery.

"It has been indeed fuckery most foul."

-- Kossack Onomastic in yesterday's Gulf Watchers ROV liveblog diary.

REC AND SUPPORT THE MOTHERSHIP!!!

Yesterday, Our Government bought in to BP's lies and maneuvering. Yesterday, Our Government approved the Integrity Test. That test is now underway. If anything bad happens, and there are many many bad things that can happen, Our Government will be visited by the Ghost of Richard Feynman.

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Wednesday July 07, 2010 · 11:12 PM PDT

2010/07/07 · 23:12

Boomers! I'm going to be on Virtually Speaking with host Jay Ackroyd and fellow-guest Riki Ott! We'll be on July 8th at 6:00 PM Pacific, 9:00 PM Eastern.

BlogTalkRadio

Also HERE

There'll be a podcast available for those who want to listen later. We'll also be on Second Life. I've never done Second Life, so if my avatar scratches his balls or struts around squawking like a huge ckicken or starts humping Jay Ackroyd's leg... please forgive me. I'm really nervous about fat-fingering the Second Life controls.

The most popular feature of my diaries here has always been my explanations of oil and gas technology and processes. Today, I'm going to talk about gas, oil and water separation. It's something I actually know a lot about. Let's splash over to the other side of the baffle.

Fishgrease

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Thursday June 24, 2010 · 1:23 AM PDT

2010/06/24 · 01:23

Boomers, I didn't want to have to do this. I didn't want to have to spend time and room on Daily Kos's rec list (if you so honor me) debunking pure bullshit. But in recent days, the bullshit has gotten wider and wider circulation. I've had to write a form letter to use in replying to emails asking me about bullshit. First, it was the Matt Simmons' bullshit about the seafloor opening in a huge gash, which is where most of the oil was coming from.... and so we should nuke the well (????).

Most recently, I've had to contend with the dougr bullshit from an otherwise wonderful website, The Oil Drum.

Both, doomsday scenarios (as if we needed those right now). Both, bullshit.

Jump the manure heap with me and I'll explain why this is all bullshit and I'll also issue a challenge to anyone in the Oil and Gas industry, or anyone else, to prove otherwise.

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Sunday June 13, 2010 · 9:05 PM PDT

2010/06/13 · 21:05

Hiya Boomers. I guess it's time for me to get all cultural again. No tech this time. I've worked amongst BP and other corporations like them. I'm going to be discussing BP executives here, the tippity toppest of them who are the primary problem -- but I need to start with a warning:

DO NOT research where anyone lives or anything about their lives as a result of what you read here today. DO NOT picket, protest or go anywhere near the private homes of anyone. ANYONE! Doing so is stupid, overwhelmingly counterproductive and if you do it I will denounce you with language more foul than any I've used so far. My crap is being read outside Daily Kos quite a bit and I cannot control that. So I include this warning, not for Kossacks, who don't need such a warning, but for those outside of the DKos community, a very few of whom might lack common sense. You may hate corporate culture as much as I do. Maybe even more. But we effect change in Congress and in print. Not in person. You want to picket BP Headquarters, fine. Wish I could join you. I can't. I have a big ~~opiate addiction~~ family to support.

Here we go. Continued below.

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Wednesday June 09, 2010 · 12:50 AM PDT

2010/06/09 · 00:50

Rachel Maddow, Queen of Boom!

Defender of Good Booming who doth Slayeth The Bad Boom and Reclaimest The Golden Boom Anchor!

Boom Goddess!

Most of you DKos Boomers have been following Rachel Maddow's discussions of the complete lack of Oil Industry investment in leak and spill cleanup research. This, while their exploration and research budgets supported drilling to ever more dangerous depths. She has also been the only MSM journalist to expose the way current technologies have been implemented... wrong. Rachel Maddow said, "That is bad boom right there!" and "Why is that boom so bad?". She did this while the rest of our News Media used useless boom installations as backdrop, never seeming to notice that a single thing was amiss.

Jump the berm with me and I'll discuss good boom, bad boom, and as an added feature, Proper Boom Tending and how devastatingly attractive it is!

Fishgrease

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Monday June 07, 2010 · 2:14 AM PDT

2010/06/07 · 02:14

Yo Boomers. We've recently been given information from BP that they are choking flow from the #4 LMRP cap at the surface. This is signifigant. It's wrong. It's disgusting. Below, I'm going to explain all this as best I can. For a few here at Daily Kos and many many people outside our community, my credibility on this will, perhaps rightfully, be called into question. After all, I'm just some guy named Fishgrease and Fishgrease is obviously not my real name. I and a lot of Kossacks are pretty sure that Keith Olbermann was talking about me when he said "supposed industry insider on the internet" with reference to my saying there's a lot of boom being floated incorrectly. That doesn't hurt my feelings Keith, because it's fully accurate. I'm very much supposed. I do hasten to point out in my own defense, that Keith's expert guest at the time essentially verified what I'd said in my first booming diary many weeks ago. Last Thursday, Rachel Maddow's expert guest, (Michael Blum - Tulane University - Solid Boomer) did the same.

Whoa! Bump!

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Tuesday June 01, 2010 · 2:16 PM PDT

2010/06/01 · 14:16

Yo, Boomers.

In yesterday's diary, I renamed the LMRP Cap process that BP is now trying, Money Shot. Apart from any technical fitness of that name, I meant for BP to basically give all their money to people along the Gulf Coast, without those folks having to resort to litigation. Just give it to them. Just hand it to them. All BP's money from all their U.S.A. production. Now. Money Shot.

I had some complaints that the technical aspects of Money Shot I discussed were,

Stream of Thought... too difficult to understand.

Covering simple things that the ~~Unified Command~~ BP LMRP teams have obviously thought of and accounted for... therefore showing arrogance on my part.

Generally poorly written, a weak attempt at humor, as was that entire diary and all my other diaries.

All these complaints are valid. All of them are accurate. My Bad.

So leap the heap with me, Boomers, and I'll try to do this better. I'll also discuss some recent rumors regarding the demise of the LMRP, before it's even tried once.

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