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Gulf Oil Spill 2010

Re: Gulf Oil Spill 2010

Greyeagle said:
He's going to call in NUMA. :D
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Brent: From Wiki:

The fictional NUMA
In the Dirk Pitt series of adventure novels by Clive Cussler, NUMA is a government organization. The fictional NUMA is devoted to oceanic exploration and investigation, and is the agency employing the main characters in the series of books. Its headquarters is a 30-story building located on the east bank of the Potomac River, overlooking the Capitol building in Washington, DC. The agency comprises over five thousand employees and scientists that often work around the clock on expeditions. It is often referred to as a marine version of NASA, although it mission seems to be a cross of NOAA and the US Coast Guard.

The fictional NUMA is headed by the character Admiral James Sandecker, with Rudi Gunn as second in command, although Dirk Pitt is eventually asked to take over when Sandecker pursues the vice-presidency.

Housed inside this headquarters is one of world's most advanced computer systems which contains almost every known piece of information, both current and ancient, about the sea. The computer center takes up the entire 10th floor but is in an "open" setting with a raised circular platform that uses a hologram to display Hiram Yeager's computer's embodiment, named Max, at its center. There are no cubicles. Hiram Yeager designed, runs, and maintains the computer lab.
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Re: Gulf Oil Spill 2010

Greyeagle said:
The biggest fear in Blaine is walking into someone's house - or having someone walk into your house - because the houses all look the same & are the same general shade of Mississippi River mud. :p
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Funny thing is, that is pretty much the truth.
 
Re: Gulf Oil Spill 2010

huskyfan said:
James Cameron, Spock, Joe Biden, whoever. stop the spill now.
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Seriously...I just dont get it. People mocked Costner for trying to help...but at least these people are trying. It is unbelievable the self-righteousness of some people.
 
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Handyman said:
Seriously...I just dont get it. People mocked Costner for trying to help...but at least these people are trying. It is unbelievable the self-righteousness of some people.
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I didn't mock Costner for trying to help. I mocked Costner for wasting his contribution on developing tiny little oil separators. If he wants to kick in $30M, I bless him for it with complete sincerity. But that $30M would hire at least 1500 minimum wage workers for a full year. They would make far more progress than Costner's oil separators.

If I said I was going to help by throwing all my clothes in a wood chipper and becoming a nudist, it simply wouldn't be a just world if people thanked me for my contribution instead of mocking me for it.
 
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LynahFan said:
If I said I was going to help by throwing all my clothes in a wood chipper and becoming a nudist, it simply wouldn't be a just world if people thanked me for my contribution instead of mocking me for it.
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Try it and see what happens.
 
Re: Gulf Oil Spill 2010

LynahFan said:
OK:

"I'm going to help by throwing all my clothes in a wood chipper and becoming a nudist."
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Thank you for your contribution.

"Life isn't fair, Princess. Life hurts. Anybody who tells you different is selling something."
 
Re: Gulf Oil Spill 2010

SteveP said:
Fear not, James Cameron to the rescue! :eek:
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I only had to go back to May 27th--less than a week(!)-- on that site to find a reference to calling Obama a socialist because he's too involved in regulating private business. Funny that none of these clowns are calling for the government to back off and let private business handle things when something like this happens.
 
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MaizeRage said:
I only had to go back to May 27th--less than a week(!)-- on that site to find a reference to calling Obama a socialist because he's too involved in regulating private business. Funny that none of these clowns are calling for the government to back off and let private business handle things when something like this happens.
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We don't hear "where in the Constitution does it say the federal government must protect the environment?" Free Marketeers much these days. :p

With very few exceptions, the Norquists and Gingrichs are merely opportunists, not philosophers. And for an opportunist, it's any tool to hand. Anybody who supported the "drown it in a bathtub" company line of the Republican party has zero credibility to criticize the handling of an environmental disaster for which their own negligence is likely largely to blame.

I would like to hear Rand Paul stand right on that beach and say "no, the government has no place here. Just because it sucks doesn't make it any less true." I would absolutely respect that -- he would be wrong, but he would be principled.
 
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Kepler said:
I would like to hear Rand Paul stand right on that beach and say "no, the government has no place here. Just because it sucks doesn't make it any less true." I would absolutely respect that -- he would be wrong, but he would be principled.
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In fact, he's said exactly the opposite. Because the oil spill took place in international waters, the government definitely should be involved, according to him.

However, I think you could definitely make the case in watching the government's inept response to the spill, that government doesn't always have all the answers, which is definitely a point I'd imagine conservatives will be making a lot.
 
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WeWantMore said:
In fact, he's said exactly the opposite. Because the oil spill took place in international waters, the government definitely should be involved, according to him.
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That makes no kind of sense. Not least because Deepwater Horizons wasn't in international waters.

The most inept thing the U.S. government has done in this case was to permit operations in that location in the first place. Evidently. :) :(
 
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