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"I've just been trashed up and down and they have been saying things that are untrue. And when they say I'm for repealing the Civil Rights Act, it's absolutely false. It's never been my position and something that I basically just think is politics."
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Paul's Civil Rights Comments Could Embolden Tea Party Critics (as seen here on FFXU)
The controversy over Paul's comments on federal civil rights legislation has revived suggestions by Tea Party critics that there are racists in the movement, an allegation Paul denies.
The most recent ABC News polls show the perception of racial prejudice in the movement exists, particularly among the movement's opponents. Among all Americans, 28 percent see racial prejudice against President Obama as a substantial factor in support for the Tea Party movement.
Paul clarified his views in a written statement Thursday, saying whatever concerns he may have had about parts of the Civil Rights Act, he has not -- and has never -- called for repealing it.
"Even though this matter was settled when I was 2, and no serious people are seeking to revisit it except to score cheap political points, I unequivocally state that I will not support any efforts to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964," Paul, 47, said.
"Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws," he said.
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James Carville, a stalwart Obama defender -- and Louisiana native -- and MSNBC's Chris Mathews both voiced concerns about the president's handling of the spill, and Obama's decision to allow BP to take the lead on plugging the pipe, which has been pouring oil into the sea for a month.
Their statements came on a day when the press corps spent the better part of an hour grilling White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about the administration's response to the Deepwater Horizons disaster -- and the cloud of confusion over the amount of oil spilling from the severed exploration pipe and BP's efforts to staunch the flow.
Matthews, speaking during an appearance with Jay Leno on NBC's "Tonight Show," said Obama's response "scares me. He's been acting a little like a Vatican Observer here. When is he actually going to do something?"
Carville, one of the President Bush's harshest critics in the wake of the 2005 hurricane that decimated New Orleans, called Obama's response "lackadaisical."
"They are risking everything by this 'go along with BP' strategy they have that seems like, lackadaisical on this," Carville told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Friday. "They seem like they're inconvenienced by this, this is some giant thing getting in their way and somehow or another, if you let BP handle it, it'll all go away. It's not going away. It's growing out there. It is a disaster of the first magnitude, and they've got to go to Plan B."
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Could the Obama administration’s bashing of BP (or British Petroleum) over the Gulf oil spill harm relations between the White House and the new Cameron administration? I think there is a good chance it could. After all, a major British corporation, which employs 29,000 Americans, has been demonised by this administration with language that it would dare not use even against America’s worst enemies, such as Iran and North Korea. In addition, it is facing xenophobic calls from some Democrats on Capitol Hill to be banned altogether from operating in the United States, a petty form of protectionism which is fundamentally against the spirit of free trade which for centuries has helped drive the prosperity of both the United States and Great Britain.
The consequences for US-British relations should not be underestimated, and the White House should exercise caution before repeating its “boot on the throat” refrain, especially with new leadership in Downing Street that is more likely to respond forcefully than its predecessor.
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The “boot on the throat” remark however, was beyond the pale, and symbolic of an arrogant, imperial-style presidency with a track record of disdain for US allies, as well as the private sector in general.
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Kentucky's Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul criticized President Barack Obama's handling of the Gulf oil spill today as putting "his boot heel on the throat of BP" and "really un-American."
Paul's defense of the oil company came during an interview in which he tried to explain his controversial take on civil rights law, an issue that has overtaken his campaign since his victory in Tuesday's GOP primary.
"What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP,'" Rand said in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America." ''I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business."
Paul appeared two days after a landslide primary victory over the Republican establishment's candidate, Trey Grayson. He had spent most of the time since his win laboring to explain remarks suggesting businesses be allowed to deny service to blacks without fear of federal interference. On Friday said he wouldn't seek to repeal civil rights legislation.
On the oil spill, Paul, a libertarian and tea party darling, said he had heard nothing from BP indicating it wouldn't pay for the spill that threatens devastating environmental damage along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
"And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be somebody's fault instead of the fact that maybe sometimes accidents happen," Paul said.
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If the crude oil has a specific gravity of 0.82 (and different crudes have varying spedific gravities) then the pressure at the bottom of a 5000' pipe filled with crude would be 0.82 x 2165 or 1775 psi.
Suppose however that the oil is at the bottom of a hole 8000 feet below sea level under 3000 more feet of rock with a specific gravity of 2.5. Now the total pressure of sea water plus rock overburden at the bottom of the hole could be:
2165 + (3/5)*2.5*2165 = 5412 PSI
However, the oil in the 8000 foot well would have a pressure of 8/5 * 1775 = 2840 PSI.
So there is a pressure differential of up to 5412 - 2840 = 2572 PSI available to push the oil up the well. Hence the blowout.
Now the above is not exact, since the pressure of the oil flowing out of the sand at the bottom of the well is not as much as the simple calculation would suggest, given that the rock is stiff and there is resistance to flow through the sand or rock to reach the well.
But that is the general idea.
During drilling, the well is supposed to be filled with a dense "drilling mud" in order to overcome the pressure of the oil under the weight of the rock.
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Salvin noted that about 3,000 feet of water can crush a Navy submarine. Jason Holvey, a marine engineer, said smaller containment devices have been used in the Gulf, but at depths of only about 300 feet.
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