Kevin Costner's Oil Extraction Machine, Takes the Oil Out Of Water

If this can work on a large scale this is a greater miracle than Jesus turning water into wine.

Thanks to Louey Maistros and the Home Team of Humid City.

He demonstrated it Thursday:

Local parish leaders were excited.

We will be pushing for this to at least get a demonstration out in the open water to put this to a test," St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro said. "If it shows what it shows here on land, then we may have found ourselves another tool for the tool box."

"With these odds and percentages, it only makes sense," Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nunguesser said. "Let's give it a try."

The company offers five different machines that work from 5 gallons a minute to 200 gallons a minute.
Fifteen years ago, Costner funded a group of scientists headed by his brother to develop such a device. Local partners have been organized to deploy the machine for BP.

This is the closest thing to positive news about the BP Oil Blowout Catastrophic Crime -- and the first positive news too.  Yes, that pipe is supposedly working sort of, but that's only one of the drill holes, and nobody has any idea at all of how much, exactly is getting siphoned to the ship -- and -- why, yes!  BP's NOT TELLIN'.

So all you all who have always made fun and been mean to Kevin Costner, all you all may just have to apologize.

Off to the Jazz Gallery to hear "Voices of the Big Easy featuring Chuck Perkins & Henry Butler.

Transocean Ltd. Issues issues $1 Billion Dividend To Stockholders

In a terse statement sent after the Zurich stock market closed, Transocean said it would distribute some $1 billion in dividend to shareholders, or about $3.11 per share....

Transocean moved to Switzerland two years ago to protect its low corporate tax rate, and few in the city had heard of the company, even three weeks after the April 20 blast that resulted in more than 4 million gallons (15 million liters) of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from the well drilled by the BP-leased rig. Eleven workers were killed in the explosion.

Speechless.

I don't usually respond like this, but in the face of such freakin' global evil and oppression = destruction of the planet, I think I'm gonna get drunk.

Keepin On Keepin On.

Carlos last night; papers today; tonight, uptown for some Dominican music.

I can't stand it, what's going on down there.  May all these people get a terrible disease and rot rot rot, like they're rotting the ocean, the sea life, the birds, the coasts, the people.

DO NOT FOOL YOURSELVES.  THIS AFFECTS ALL OF US, SOME SOONER, SOME LATER, BUT US ALL.

Awful Day, Deeply Depressed

Mz has been informed by the NVC that he has to come up with another $500 for fees for more paper processing before K is given even an interview date (she's 6 years old!) for getting a visa to come to the U.S.

M has now been in Haiti for two full months. She and Mz have been a separated marriage because of these stupid rules for a little girl with parents who are in the U.S.

In the meantime the violence in the streets over President Preval arbitrarily extending his term as (like Bloomberg did and Giuliani wanted to do) is great -- people protesting are being shot. Everyone's sick, there's no medicine or medical care -- where ARE all those personnel who have made such big media noise about how they've gone to Haiti to provide medical care? They sure as hell ain't anywhere around in Port-au-Prince's soleils it seems. Mz is facing eviction because he just can't seem to make enough money to keep supporting everyone he's supporting.

This is a cold, dreary grey day. And I'm looking at never-ending stacks of papers written by indulged bigoted conservative guys who insist that what they FEEL is fact, and racism doesn't exist, it's just a bunch of whining by black people who are too lazy to work.  While they've never had a job in their lives and their parents are paying for their education.

Then there's the BP Oil Blowout Catastrophe and their shameless campaign to wiggle out of liability -- even to hiring shills that National Public Rhetoric is all too happy to give mucho tiempo to say: "Poor poor poor BP!  Do you know how much money they're losing every day that this leak goes on?  You can't expect them to pay compensation and liabilities and all that too.  They've already paid enough!"  I am NOT making this up.  I heard this on ATC last night.

Big Oil Bidness Execs Blame Shift To Each Other

"It was YOU!" yells British Petroleum at Transocean.

"It was YOU!" yells Transocean at Halliburton.

"It wasn't US!" yells Halliburton at Transocean.

This at the Senate hearing, as described in the WaPo.

Of course it ultimately is the Senate's and the bush regime's fault for allowing all the de-regulation, but the story doesn't include that bit of information, does it.

Jazz Funeral for the Gulf

One of our best friends is going on a second line today.  He says, "I've been trying to ignore as much as possible the tragedy of the BP blowout for the sake of my sanity.  But you can't.  Goin' on a second line today.  I feel it's a jazz funeral for the Gulf."