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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 09:16 AM Original message |
If You Think You Have a Sense of the Oil Spill's Scale |
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janx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
1. kick |
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Juneboarder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
2. Thank you for sharing... |
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AnArmyVeteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
3. Just like our soldiers dying in war, it's out of sight, out of mind to most people... |
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happygoluckytoyou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 09:36 AM Response to Reply #3 |
31. the powerful are already pointing fingers.... odds are it ends up being blamed on environmentalists |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
4. This is THE ecological catastrophe of our lifetime. |
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Cal Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 10:38 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. It's so much easier to say BP is at fault |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 10:50 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. As if the USSR didn't have its fair share of ecological disasters? |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 11:46 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Not at all |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 12:10 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Ah, "we know better now". |
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NoSheep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 11:32 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. Who knows better now? |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 01:11 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Yes, but those regimes were "war socialism" at best since they were militarized to fight capital |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 03:51 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. So even when socialism fails... |
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liberation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 02:27 AM Response to Reply #16 |
24. Let's cut it out with the false dichotomies, shall we? Just because Communist regimes collapsed... |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 07:36 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. I certainly never said capitalism is perfect. |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 10:11 AM Response to Reply #25 |
33. Russia was a basketcase under feudalism |
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caseymoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 08:57 AM Response to Reply #8 |
29. Ah, the Soviet Union had Chernobyl. What if this is our system's Chernobyl? |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 09:45 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. I'm hardly saying we shouldn't try to use our brains... |
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caseymoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 11:06 AM Response to Reply #32 |
35. Now your arguments turn a bit strange. |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 12:48 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. I think people should have a viable, proven alternative to propose first... |
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caseymoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:29 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Who bashed it? I just said we're stuck with it. |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 04:25 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. I'm not just addressing your comments personally... |
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caseymoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 09:52 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. By natural, you mean easy. |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 03:05 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. The failure of any system that people depend upon... |
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caseymoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 06:09 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. False dilemma, again. |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 08:21 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. Using a flippant example is hardly making a false dilemma. |
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caseymoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 09:26 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. So, you deny that there are even other alternatives? |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 11:48 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Regardless of whether you're taking your ball and going home... |
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shellgame26 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 01:23 AM Response to Reply #4 |
23. I've been trying to tell people that |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
6. It's the MEDIA.. You have to show them the NYC picture: |
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janx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 12:29 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. HAHA |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
7. I heard the spill was the size of Connecticut |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 10:13 AM Response to Reply #7 |
34. It's the size of Delaware right now |
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WillyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
11. Big K & R !!! |
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Desertrose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
12. If the oil spill really was over DC....maybe |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
13. Argh!! I can't get the plug-in to work for me! |
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madmax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 08:06 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. wouldn't work for me either :( nt |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
18. IMHO This is the most important thing we face as a nation/world in our lifetime. |
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NoSheep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 11:36 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. I appreciate you feelings but it is just one of many terribly important |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 12:29 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. The eminient destruction of the entire Gulf Eco-system and Gulf Economy |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
22. and that's just the surface! They have shown a real lack of imagination trying to present this |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 08:47 AM Response to Reply #22 |
28. I thought oil floats? |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 11:29 AM Response to Reply #28 |
36. It does, but it also clumps and sinks... |
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Courtesy Flush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 07:40 AM Response to Original message |
26. I have a conservative friend who works in the Louisiana oilfield |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
27. Hmm... is that the spill or a cloud of evil emanating from McConnell's office? NT |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
30. Interesting article: |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 07:10 PM Response to Original message |
43. knr |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-13-10 01:18 AM Response to Original message |
47. And this is only after 3 weeks or so. |
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