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Offline jinxmchue

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Re: This oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico will mark an epic moment in human hist
« Reply #25 on: May 02, 2010, 10:57:28 PM »
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sixmile (971 posts)        Sat May-01-10 04:44 PM
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24. We are a vampire sucking the Earth dry
   Humans are parasites on Mother Nature. Nature creates very little waste. That's ALL we create.

People who say crap like this make me want to hit things.  Good gosh.  If your opinion of humans is so low, then hurry up and off yourself so we don't have to keep hearing your incessant whining about it.  Oh, but before you do, please go visit a cave where a huge bat colony lives and let me know if it makes you reconsider the whole "nature creates very little waste" bit.
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Offline Alpha Mare

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Re: This oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico will mark an epic moment in human hist
« Reply #26 on: May 03, 2010, 12:33:47 AM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8262240

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AnArmyVeteran  (1000+ posts)        Mon May-03-10 04:45 AM
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I went to the coast and got a jar full of oil. Do I have to pay BP for it?  
 Actually, I believe all of the earths resources belong to all the inhabitants of the planet.
It's about time corporations like BP stop making obscene profits and share the money from resources with people. It's time to force our government to represent us for a change. They can start by forcing corporations like BP, and every other corporation that extracts natural resources from the ground, to share their wealth with the people who are true owners of the land.

And for starters, you can share the cost to clean up this spill and cover the lawsuits.
  I'm sure you've volunteered to stick around and help, right? Even a DUmmy can wash a duck.
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Re: This oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico will mark an epic moment in human hist
« Reply #27 on: May 03, 2010, 02:26:10 PM »
Quote from: Alpha Mare on May 03, 2010, 12:33:47 AM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8262240

And for starters, you can share the cost to clean up this spill and cover the lawsuits.
  I'm sure you've volunteered to stick around and help, right? Even a DUmmy can wash a duck.

Ya know something? I don't think they could. I think somehow DUmmies would find a way to **** up a duck
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Re: This oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico will mark an epic moment in human hist
« Reply #28 on: May 03, 2010, 02:36:46 PM »
Quote from: Randy on May 03, 2010, 02:26:10 PM
Ya know something? I don't think they could. I think somehow DUmmies would find a way to **** up a duck

DUmmies can "F" up an anvil in a sandbox using a rubber hammer....   :hammer:
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Re: This oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico will mark an epic moment in human hist
« Reply #29 on: May 03, 2010, 03:09:53 PM »
A Mississippi Dem Congresscritter said it ain't nothing but a little spilled chocolate milk... could you image the MSM reaction if that were a GOPer?
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Re: This oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico will mark an epic moment in human hist
« Reply #30 on: May 03, 2010, 06:58:45 PM »
Quote from: camaraderie on May 02, 2010, 07:54:54 PM
It seems like this is being treated as no big deal by many here. No...it ain't the end of the world and it will be cleaned up but it is one hell of a disaster over the near term (and I mean a number of years...not months).
Ixtoc I was TWO to FIVE times as bad as the current 210,000 gallons per day estimated for this blowout so it will take approximately TWO months for the current situation to equal the Exxon Valdez spill and two YEARS to equal the Ixtoc spill.
Now consider this...the Ixtoc rig was in 164ft. of water and could be reached by divers. This is a MILE down.
It took TEN months to cap the Ixtoc well even though access was relatively easy. In ten months we will have the equivilent of 5 Exxon Valdez spills off the coast of our most prodigious shrimping and fishing grounds and ruining Florida beaches and perhaps even impacting east coast beaches due to the currents.

No need to be DUmmies about this...but this is one of th worst environmental disasters we've ever had and the damage to both the coast and the people who make their livelihood there will be felt for years to come. It will also impact energy policy negatively.

BP needs to be held fully accountable financially for this...but the focus should be on getting the well capped off ASAP and then finding out what went wrong and what will prevent this from happening again.

I'm guessing you didn't see my post from the other thread...

Quote from: NHSparky on April 29, 2010, 10:54:44 AM
I wonder if the DUmmies realize how many "oil spills" are caused NATURALLY???

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-causes-oil-spills.htm

Oh, and this is gonna REALLY make their ****ing heads explode...

http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/oceanography-book/oilspills.htm


Average annual contribution to oil in the ocean (1990-1999) from major sources of petroleum in kilotonnes.
From Oil In The Sea, Ocean Studies Board and Marine Board of the National Academy of Sciences (2003).


Mods, please feel free to post this in the Political Ammunition thread as well.  That's right, camaraderie, that slow drip from your engine is 10 times WORSE for the environment than all the tanker groundings, wellhead blowouts, and seaborne pipeline leaks COMBINED.
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Re: This oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico will mark an epic moment in human hist
« Reply #31 on: May 03, 2010, 07:00:58 PM »
Al-Jazeera has an interesting video about this:

[youtube=425,350]XLiqvZOP8TY[/youtube]
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