TheHill.com
In a conference call with Iowa reporters, Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa) said that some of the ingredients used to make beer could be deployed in the Gulf to contain and consume the oil that has been spreading over the last 51 days.
"I think that there's alternatives to soaking up oil that have not been used yet," Grassley said in a conference call with Iowa reporters. "There's a process for making beer — I don't know if it's the yeast or what it is in making beer. You can put those microscopic things on oil and they die, and all you've got is some methane gas left." (click here to read the entire article)
Not to put too much into a few blog comments, but just for fun, here's a sampling of reactions to our esteemed senator and his proposal:
Let me guess, his state has lots of this stuffCorrect?
Ignorance on quite this scale by an elected official really ought to be more widely known. Thank you.
And everyone thought the looneys are all locked away
Smashing idea. If the wildlife affected by the oil spill is to die, the least we could do is to get 'em sh*tfaced first…;
It's true…have you ever spilled your beer into 3 in 1 oil? We use to do this all the time in college… the oil would rise to the top and fizzle away and then we'd knock it down. I can see where ships loaded with beer could be pumped into the gulf and presto…there would be a whole lot of sizzling going on…! Now if you do not want to waste the beer and save it for after… you can drop HAY into the water and it absorbs the oil as well. How do you think the farmers keep their water clean in Texas?
I think he heard that over the internets - you know, those tube things that have all the info. Or maybe he was drinking beer during the conference call, needed to come up with something quick, and the bottle was in front of him?
And/or, old saying from Grassley's prime, about 60 years ago: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." Maybe he has both?
Ignorance on quite this scale by an elected official really ought to be more widely known. Thank you.
And everyone thought the looneys are all locked away
Smashing idea. If the wildlife affected by the oil spill is to die, the least we could do is to get 'em sh*tfaced first…;
It's true…have you ever spilled your beer into 3 in 1 oil? We use to do this all the time in college… the oil would rise to the top and fizzle away and then we'd knock it down. I can see where ships loaded with beer could be pumped into the gulf and presto…there would be a whole lot of sizzling going on…! Now if you do not want to waste the beer and save it for after… you can drop HAY into the water and it absorbs the oil as well. How do you think the farmers keep their water clean in Texas?
I think he heard that over the internets - you know, those tube things that have all the info. Or maybe he was drinking beer during the conference call, needed to come up with something quick, and the bottle was in front of him?
And/or, old saying from Grassley's prime, about 60 years ago: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." Maybe he has both?
~ Ah the Chuckster, the primogenitora signature of the all time Huckster of rearward thinking, no one could think this dude up, even he couldn't make himself up,
he would have us believe he arrived through parthenogenesis, his shenanigans will never end
he and his "Game" have been the ruination of Iowa and it's People for well nigh THREE Generations now
The LONG Shadow and Bag(man) of Shame of Grassley stretches across and has DARKENED the beloved Rolling Hills of the Beautiful Land of Iowa for Fifty Two Years of Ruination ~
where his acts have now polluted and ruined the entire nation and the ruins of Ruin bloodclot and cloud the Sky of Des Moines
Never doubt the REAL PAIN Grassley has caused hundreds and thousands of Fellow Iowans for his own sheer meanness, cold heartedness, GREED, personal gain and advancement
Now the Grassman comes hat in hand back to Beautiful Land of Iowa
askin "Please send me back to Washington for another six years of outright hegemony over you, I'm one of YOU, just plain Good Ol Simple Chuck, don't ya know"
and that folksy down home Good Ol Chuck bullshit schtick just doesn't stick anymore, while tens and hundreds of thousands of Iowans linger and languish,
the "Grassley Solution" to the oil spill is the Swan Song of Marie (Grassley) Antoinette "Let them eat cake" rehashed to fit the times as "let them drink beer"
well Chuckster its time for you to move out of the way and step aside,
cuz you've NEVER lent a hand to anyone (cept yourself)
The Times They Are A CHANGIN'
Good News!
The Grass Man Time Count is ON!
as sands through the slithery Grass Man hourglass
so are the soon to be bygone days of Grass Man's political life
146 Days!!!
and COUNTING!!!
YEAH!!!
Go Roxanne!!!!!!!
~ by John Shumaker
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