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#2731 Re: The Garden » BP's top kill effort fails to plug Gulf oil leak » 787 weeks ago
Drill baby drill!
#2732 Re: The Garden » BP's top kill effort fails to plug Gulf oil leak » 787 weeks ago
The video of that pelican is one of the saddest sights.
(Not sure we needed a new thread for this though)
Fucking sickening man. The tarballs are just now rolling up to N. Florida now. If they hit the gulf coast where I live it will simply be devastating (not implying in anyway it's not up there, just to see it in my backyard.)
An hour south of me is Sarasota. The sand there is incredibly soft, it feels like sugar under your feet. It is one of the most beautiful and unique beaches in the world. To think of that spot with oil coming up on shore is just a shame.
#2733 Re: The Garden » BP's top kill effort fails to plug Gulf oil leak » 787 weeks ago
Thats a two way street. The same people wanting Bush tarred and feathered over the Katrina fiasco are fine and dandy with the current handling of this crisis, unless it was happening on Bush's watch of course.
There would be riots in the streets right now if he was in office handling the situation like this.
Obama has had more financial contributions from BP than any other president, so I'm not really all that surprised by how it's going down. He's bought and paid for and will do what they want him to do, which is nothing.
Welcome to the forum freak.
I keep hearing the Katrina comparison but I don't see it. Katrina was a failure of the State and Federal governments to prepare and react to a natural disaster. This is a royal fuck up by private industry (capitalism run riot.) While the government should be doing everything they can to expedite a solution, it's simply not their job to be an expert on this; it's BP's job.
Who BP contributes to is irrelevant imo. If you were to argue that they were awarded no bid contracts by Obama's pals for instance (an example) I'd accept that argument. But what are you implying? That because BP donated huge sums of moola that Obama won't put on a scuba suit and fix the patch himself until day 60?
Thanks, NA beer please. 
#2734 Re: Guns N' Roses » Oslo, Norway - June 2, 2010 (Oslo Spektrum) » 787 weeks ago
Well think about it, they've been doing this tour for nearly a decade at this point. I first saw them in...01 in Vegas if memory serves. Then they toured America a little bit after that with essentially the same songs. I can't think of any band who has done this.
#2735 Re: Guns N' Roses » Oslo, Norway - June 2, 2010 (Oslo Spektrum) » 787 weeks ago
Yup ^^ Sad but true.
#2736 Re: The Garden » Poll finds anger over country's leaders » 787 weeks ago
I'm taking a leap right now and saying Democrats get re-elected in a LANDSLIDE come November.
Despite these "polls", which are almost never right, throughout history time and again, the country has always favored a pro-government, pro-intervention Democratic White House & Congress during times of economic hardship.
The reason I think Obama will fall in this category, is like FDR before him, he inherited the problem. Alot of people like to make that Carter correlation, but Carter created his own mess. Obama was asked to grab a mop. Big difference.
I say Democratic government will be in power up through 2014, then it'll start going back to Republicans taking everything back by 2016.
The thing you always have to remember is how unsuccessful the GOP have been so far. Before the election they threw everything they had at him and lost. During the health care debate they same thing happened. This country is so divided by right wing ideologues/hysteria merchants that no matter who was President the polls would say 51/49 etc. So I highly doubt their hi-jinks amount to much.
I think they may influence a small segment of America, but for the most part they just rally the base and get one another whipped up into a frenzy.
They will pick up seats without a doubt in November, but I'd be shocked if they took the House. The most recent elections showed they weren't nearly as strong as they claim to be. They surely aren't in ANY position to beat Obama in '12 yet.
#2737 Re: The Garden » Rain causes giant sinkhole in Guatemala City » 787 weeks ago
Craziest shit ever, looks like something out of a movie.
#2738 Re: The Garden » BP's top kill effort fails to plug Gulf oil leak » 787 weeks ago
mickronson wrote:Why dont I see someone hanging by their neck over this yet?
Because Mr. Hope and Change is presiding over the disaster.
If Reagan, Bush, or even Clinton had handled it like this, there would already be impeachment proceedings underway.
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Impeachment for what? This is the PRIVATE SECTOR fucking up, not the government.
Now the same people who screamed "Socialism" when government stepped in to fix capitalism run amuck are screaming for Obama's head because they don't feel he is doing enough.
I've gotta ask: Which one is it?
Wanna buy my BP shares?
I'd short the hell out of them right now and then buy 'em back in a few months. Make some money on the way down and then on the way back up.
I won't buy gas from them though, fuck those cocksuckers.
#2739 Re: Guns N' Roses » Dj Ashba and Dizzy Reed: "We're working on a new album" » 788 weeks ago
I doubt we see anything for a couple of years at least. Although rest assured we can be happy as pigs n' shit contemplating every angle you could possibly imagine.
#2740 Re: The Garden » Bret Michaels Hospitalized (Again) with "Warning" Stroke » 788 weeks ago
I've got total respect for the guy now more than ever, but at the same time somebody needs to reel this guy in and sit him down. He NEEDS rest right now.
