A RANT, if you will:

What really has me shaking my head in pity are those retardo TV commercials for Charmin toilet tissue, where the family of cartoon bears need to locate a roll of T.P.

SINCE WHEN DID BEARS NEED TO USE TOILET PAPER?!? BWAAAhaha, anthropomorphism is such a shit concept. There should be a law against the use of cartoon animals on TV.

=== A DIFFERENT TOPIC ===

SOLUTIONS, RE: GULF OIL LEAK
Hey everybody,

I emailed the following solutions in a single email addressed to Ken Salazar, Secretary of The Department Of The Interior, who is one of the main government points of contact with BP Petroleum and the contractor TransOcean:

Ken,

It is time for the oil companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil leak to consider doable solutions that are contributed from citizens outside the oil industry. What I have not heard being tried are any attempts to plug up the oil leak from within inside the hole. This type of leak CANNOT be plugged from outside the hole due to the great pressure differential between the inside and the outside of the leak.
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About the Gulf Of Mexico oil leak, why doesn't BP just do the most simplest solution of all:
Shove a stiff hose 70 feet or so into the gaping leak hole, and quickly inject several thousand gallons of READY-MIX CONCRETE from within inside the hole ?

The oil, sand, and flotsam flowing its way out towards the exit hole will help the concrete to congeal, plugging up the hole by the time it makes contact with the inside of the hole, effectively plugging the hole up.

Then crew can then cap the leak better on the outside because the escaping oil flow will be GREATLY reduced by the inside plug.

I've sent emails with this same solution to The White House, to BP, and to the American Chemical Society, among other organizations and talk radio show hosts, and the only reply I got was a stupid form letter email from the white castle, in wording that tells me absolutely nobody even reads emails there.

This solution is the most common-sensible one, much less expensive and has a much higher probability of success than anything they've attempted so far. You CANNOT effectively plug a leak of that kind from outside the leak.

The solution is staring them in the face, but it is being ignored and not tried.
My conclusion is that the Powers That Be have a nefarious ulterior reason for not stopping the oil leak. The onus is on them to prove this assumption incorrect. The onus is also on the responsible company to solve the problem -- the ENTIRE problem and its consequences. And then to never EVER do the same activity in the same way again.

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THE ALTERNATE SOLUTION:
Design what would be a rapid-fire large-bore spud gun, that will shoot Brawny PAPER TOWEL ROLLS out of a 50 foot long stiff rifle barrel...
Shove the spud gun rifle barrel 50 feet inside the oil leak hole, and shoot thousands of paper towel rolls within inside the hole, the rolls EXPAND on contact with the oil, and WALLA you papier-mâché' the leak shut FROM THE INSIDE.

A SLIGHT VARIATION:
Use the spud gun design in the same manner as described above, but this time, shoot hundreds of large round wads of those MIRACLE SPONGES (the kid's toy, rapidly expands when placed in water) from within inside the leak hole about 50 feet inside, so that there is time enough for the sponge to expand and plug up the oil leak hole, again from the inside of the hole.

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A 2ND ALTERNATE SOLUTION:

Have those mechanical engineers over at LANL design an open ended acceptor sleeve that fastens securely and watertight over the existing leaky oil pipe. BP has the dimensional drawings for that part of the oil pipe. The upper end of the connected acceptor sleeve will next have fastened to it a conical, open-ended orifice with a gradually-closeable iris shutter valve built inside of it. The iris shutter valve will be installed while in the wide open position. Once the sleeve-valve assembly is secure, the iris shutter valve can be gradually closed shut. Perhaps this valve assembly could even be designed with a hose/pipe to transfer the oil to a containment ship that is anchored directly above the leak.

This 2nd alternate solution can be used in conjunction with the previously mentioned stoppage-type solutions, since these solutions will slow down the flowrate of the escaping oil in a manner required for successful assembly of the items mentioned in this 2nd alternate solution.

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I am an out-of-work electrical engineer, and I do a lot of quick thinking inside and outside my field, and I am available to get to work ASAP if someone will allow me to get involved with a design team. The solution is NOT in addressing the symptoms of the problem; the solution is in directly addressing the cause of the problem.

Please call me or email me if you can use me or my ideas; in any case, please do NOT email me a form letter reply.

Thank you for your personal consideration Mr. Salazar.

Calling out all inventors:

All you Pantone Engine Geeks should mass together, and make petroleum oil obsolete, by developing an affordable reliable mass-production Pantone engine car. The oily unprocessed Gulf water could fuel the car.

And all the HHO Engine Geeks should mass together and do the same, develop affordable reliable HHO vehicles.

Inventors, do these things:
without government subsidy or consensus;
without corporate cooperation or blessing;
without transportation industry's approval.