Asked why officials waited for a week before conducting even a test burn, Gouget said, “Good question. Maybe complacency was the biggest issue. They probably didn’t have the materials on hand to conduct the burn, which is unconscionable.”
He said the NOAA officials involved at the Unified Command Center in Louisiana know how to respond to spills, and know burning should have started as soon as possible after the initial release was detected. Gouget said they may have been overruled.
“It may have been a political issue. The burn would make a big big plume and lots of soot. Like Valdez, the decisions to get the resources mobilized may not have occurred until it was too late,” Gouget said. “This whole thing has been a daily strip tease. At first they thought it was just the diesel, then they said the well wasn’t leaking. It’s unfortunate they didn’t get the burning going right away. They could have gotten 90 percent of the oil before it spread.”

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Sandra Bullock is reportedly filing for divorce which is expected by everyone after scandals were released about her husband Jesse James numerous affairs with different women including stripper Michelle McGee, fetish model Brigitte Daguerre, former employee Merilee Gerth and a certain Melissa Smith. The final straw, as revealed by Bullock’s close confidants, is when photos of James wearing a Nazi war headgear surfaced on the internet. Sexual deviance, infidelity, and racism has no place in the successful actress’ life and she decided to end the relationship once and for all.
This is good judgment on her part especially now that she is in the final stages of her adoption. After formalities are settled, she will be the official guardian and legal mother of 3-month-old, African-American baby boy named Louis Bardo. The couple have decided to adopt a baby from the bayou in New Orleans after the devastation of hurricane Katrina and long before the cheating scandals blew open. The legal process began early last year and the baby boy officially moved in with the couple along with Jesse James’ three children from a previous relationship last January.

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Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock has filed for divorce from husband Jesse James after a string of lurid revelations linking the reality TV star to a stripper, People magazine reported Wednesday.
In an interview on People’s website, Bullock also revealed she had secretly adopted an African-American baby boy prior to her split with James and was now planning to raise the child as a single mother.
“Yes, I have filed for divorce,” Bullock told People, ending weeks of speculation about the fate of her five-year marriage since the allegations of infidelity involving her husband first emerged. “I’m sad and I am scared.”
The magazine quoted James, 41, as saying he has a “huge hole” in his heart, but understands her decision.

Yet allegations by tattooed stripper Michelle (Bombshell) McGee that she had been involved in an affair with James for several months left Bullock’s seemingly rock-solid marriage in ruins.

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But she never said so in countless appearances during awards season. Bullock wouldn’t let anyone come to the house for fittings for her dresses. She told People that her makeup artist couldn’t understand why she was always so tired she needed “copious amounts of concealer” to cover up.
Throughout awards season, Bullock looked rested and glowing. In interviews, she never let on about the baby at home, even after a little lime-green baby sock popped out of her bag on the red carpet; people would pick it up and hand it back to her without even asking why she had a baby sock in her handbag, she said in People.
Then she won the Oscar, and days after, the details of James’ dalliances with a stripper spilled out. Bullock left L.A. with Louis, now 3½ months, and disappeared from view.

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SANDRA Bullock has adopted a baby.
Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock has filed for divorce from her allegedly philandering husband, and at the same time has become a new mum, adopting a three-and-a-half month old baby boy, People magazine reported on Wednesday.
The Hollywood gossip mag wrote on its website that Bullock has filed divorce papers to formally split from celebrity mechanic and reality-TV star Jesse James, who reportedly cheated on her for months with tattooed stripper Michelle “Bombshell” McGee.
“Yes, I have filed for divorce,” the 45-year old Hollywood actress, who won her first best actress Oscar last month for her role in the hit film The Blind Side.
She reportedly added that she felt “sad and … scared.”
Bullock, one of Hollywood’s most popular and most bankable actresses, cancelled public appearances and vanished from the public eye in the weeks following revelations that her husband had strayed, and news of her divorce and new motherhood marks an emphatic return to the spotlight.

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Of all the sordid details to emerge about James’ alleged affairs, was the fact his primary alleged mistress was a tattoo-clad stripper with a penchant for swastikas and Nazis. The whole racial supremacy thing was the huge factor that made me think that a woman like Bullock would definitely not stay married to James. That’s why I predicted they would divorce in a previous column. Cheating is one thing. Maybe a couple can get past that. But being a bigot is just totally untenable to those who don’t share such misguided beliefs.
I don’t know whether Jesse shares the same fascination with Nazis as does his stripper gal. Some say that he does, and that he’d successfully fooled Bullock into thinking he’d changed and had lived down his bad boy past. For his part, James actually put out a statement today saying that he loves little Louis and has a “huge hole” in his heart at the prospect of losing him and Bullock.

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… The Blind Side” has changed Sandra Bullock’s life, professionally and personally.
First, she wins an Oscar for for the movie in which she played a woman who adopts an African American son.
Now she’s adopted a black child in real life. People has reported her adoption of a beautiful 3 1/2 month-old baby, born in New Orleans. And the amazing part of this adoption is that she didn’t specify race or sex in her adoption petition. It just worked out that way.
But what really amazes everyone in Hollywood is how Sandra’s camp was able to keep this baby a secret when celebrities’ entire lives are under such intense scrutiny from the media.
Especially Sandra, thanks to her soon-to-be ex husband Jesse James’s recently revealed actions involving multiple tattooed strippers

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Although Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds topped the bill on The Proposal,
Betty White owned the movie as the offbeat and
free-spirited Grandma Annie. If you had a grandmother
like Betty White in The Proposal, life would
be a never-ending stream of comedy. Two of the
most memorable Betty White moments ever are
preserved on film in scenes that show Betty
getting busy with a male stripper at a bachelorette
party for Bullock’s reluctant character and
White embracing Native American dance with Sandra
Bullock in one of the best scenes in the movie.
If you haven’t seen the movie yet, White also
plays a hilarious comedic role in the climax.
Rumor has it that Betty White begged the production
to let her do a nude scene since Sandra and
Ryan got buck naked. Told you Betty White is
fearless.

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Antoine’s musical woes provide humor and pathos this week. The episode opens with Antoine bragging on his “bone” while getting it on with a stripper. Later, alas, he discovers that while he’s playing music at a strip club, he’s more famous pals have flown to New York for a Lincoln Center charity gig. Antoine drunkenly croons “I don’t have a ghost of a chance with you” with Sonny and Annie, but then runs afoul of the cops. By the end he’s not only misplaced his trombone, he has a loosened tooth and a cut lip, all of which threaten his livelihood.

I’m going to suggest that “Treme’s” characters prove more effective when their dialogue drives their actions, rather than simply serve as out-of-thin-air sermonizing. Creighton remains an impassioned but passive figure, although maybe his discovery of Youtube (still new back in 2005) will give him a pet cause. Davis, on the other hand, still pontificates but has become a bohemian man of action: he also teaches Creighton and Toni’s daughter to play “Tipitina,” writes a terrible song about strippers moving into his neighborhood and takes Janette out to a fancy restaurant.

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