This weekend at Ala beach ( pic)

[dixiegrrrrl]

and some signs from a protest rally in Mobile:

[BrklynLiberal]

1. OMIGAWD!! that picture of the oil saturated wave.......horrifying.

[JanMichael]

8. You are right, the oil saturated wave is a killer.

Wait until more of these situations start happening. The outcry which is now at medium will reach a glass shattering pitch.

Than what?

[Bozita]

10. It should be installed as wallpaper on every BP-owned computer in the world

[Initech]

2. BP can go fuck themselves!!!

[donco6]

3. That wave isn't acting right.

Where's the foam? Is the dispersant doing something weird to the surface tension?

[obxhead]

6. Waves in the gulf

are generally very small. I've created bigger waves with a boat on the lake in fact.

Typically they don't foam very much there.

Not to say in any way there's not something wrong with the wave. It's full of oil for goodness sake :(

[donco6]

7. I'm used to Pacific waves.

Just looking at those globs makes me sick. I can't imagine what it must smell like.

[Recursion]

15. Gulf and barrier islands

Alabama's coast isn't exactly known for its surf :)

[eppur_se_muova]

17. Oil does that. ("oil on troubled waters")

In earlier times, the pouring of modest quantities of oil into the sea was done deliberately in order to forestall rough seas. This phrase alludes to the calming effect of that oil has on wave action as it spreads over the surface of the sea. Very small quantities of oil can cover a surprisingly large area as it spreads into a layer just a few molecules in thickness. The surface tension of the oil layer has an effect similar to that of a thin skin and is highly effective at calming 'troubled' water.

The calming effect of oil was known to the ancient Greeks. In 1762, Benjamin Franklin repeated an experiment first performed by Pliny, which he reported in A Letter from Benjamin Franklin to William Brownrigg, 1773:

"At length being at Clapham, where there is on the common a large pond which I observed one day to be very rough with the wind, I fetched out a cruet of oil and dropped a little of it on the water. I saw it spread itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced; for I had applied it first on the leeward side of the pond where the waves were greatest; and the wind drove my oil back upon the shore. I then went to the windward side where they began to form; and there the oil, though not more than a teaspoonful, produced an instant calm over a space several yards square which spread amazingly and extended itself gradually till it reached the lee side, making all that quarter of the pond, perhaps half an acre, as smooth as a looking glass."

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/288150.html




And yes, that is a grotesque sight.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. Kick

it is unbelievable what is happening...

:cry:

[mikita]

5. it takes your breath away, even though you know what to expect

sad beyond words, ALL of it.

[madrchsod]

9. i have pictures of the coast from 58...

went to NO and up the coast when i was a kid. we stopped and walked on the beach...

mother earth weeps for her children

[xxqqqzme]

11. I was down at the Huntington Beach Pier

this morning for our Sunday morning peace demonstration. I stood on the pier a long time watching the waves and breathing deeply of the salt air. If the waves, where I live, looked like that I'd be crushed and feeling helpless and I would be pissed beyond belief. I feel so bad for the people living along the gulf. Their treasure has been trashed.

[awoke_in_2003]

12. And BP's response....

this video would be funny if it weren't so true
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM

[Mira]

13. So sad. So gross. So hopeless.

Every day it still gushes I get more quiet. Recommended

[Recursion]

14. God... I used to go to Gulf Shores every summer as a kid

Maybe my great-grandkids will be able to go there in 100 years. If we're lucky. :(

[arcadian]

16. Orion Project?

Oh no. That UFO nut Steven Greer's latest snake oil.

[eppur_se_muova]

18. Ick. I had to google that.

Time lost I'll never get back. x(