Something I have always remembered... by Niki2

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Something I have always remembered...

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Friday, June 25, 2010 06:33
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Thursday, June 24, 2010 9:52 AM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

...and part of what drives me to keep the Gulf Spill in our discussions:

Quote:
The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived though its first material expression be destroyed.

A vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer,

but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.

...William Bebe

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Thursday, June 24, 2010 10:34 AM

WHOZIT

The people who want this story to go away are BP and the Obama White House.

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Thursday, June 24, 2010 10:39 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

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Thursday, June 24, 2010 10:58 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

"The people who want this story to go away are BP and the Obama White House."

Hello,

I can find nothing factually wrong with this. The longer this catastrophe is highlighted in the hearts and minds of the American people, the worse the people in charge are going to look. Those people being BP and the Federal government.

There is a caveat. This catastrophe provides a very long lever for environmental and alternative energy policy, should someone care to pull it. I suspect, like all administrations, this one will seek to find an advantage in this disadvantageous event.

Even oil companies and their supporters are trying to find ways to turn this to their advantage. It's a remarkable adaptability of human beings, to seek an avenue for success in the midst of any failure. Hopefully we don't adapt ourselves right out of existence.

--Anthony

Due to the use of Naomi 3.3.2 Beta web filtering, the following people may need to private-message me if they wish to contact me: Auraptor, Kaneman, Piratenews, Wulfenstar. I apologize for the inconvenience.

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Thursday, June 24, 2010 4:47 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Meanwhile, the Republican party is using this opportunity to remind everyone that we owe a massive apology to BP for getting our dirty dirty sand all over their precious clean oil.

"I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."

On this matter, make no mistake. I want you to go fuck yourself long and hard, as well as anyone who agrees with you. I got no use for you. --Auraptor

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Thursday, June 24, 2010 6:19 PM

IREMISST

For me -in a truly tragic way, I am grateful for the oil spill. My dad is months from his last breath but we pretty much grew up on the southern coast, every time we got a week that's where we went. Straight to the beach and there we'd stay the whole vacation. He was sayin' how much he'd like to go travel the coast again, but since the spill I think it's made him be thankful for the times we had during those good years instead of being sad for those days he won't get to be there, and doesn't WANT to be there now... Like I said... tragic, but at least he's coming to terms easier... In a way it's a dark irony that they're both dying together.

Doesn't help anybody else out but dad always said life's never fair...

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Friday, June 25, 2010 2:43 AM

MALACHITE

Quote:
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
"The people who want this story to go away are BP and the Obama White House."

Hello,

I can find nothing factually wrong with this. The longer this catastrophe is highlighted in the hearts and minds of the American people, the worse the people in charge are going to look. Those people being BP and the Federal government.

There is a caveat. This catastrophe provides a very long lever for environmental and alternative energy policy, should someone care to pull it. I suspect, like all administrations, this one will seek to find an advantage in this disadvantageous event.

Even oil companies and their supporters are trying to find ways to turn this to their advantage. It's a remarkable adaptability of human beings, to seek an avenue for success in the midst of any failure. Hopefully we don't adapt ourselves right out of existence.

--Anthony

Due to the use of Naomi 3.3.2 Beta web filtering, the following people may need to private-message me if they wish to contact me: Auraptor, Kaneman, Piratenews, Wulfenstar. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Yes, this is also just the nature of the beast. Tragedies garner a lot of attention immediately, but then media coverage fades and people get tired of hearing about the same thing and thinking about such depressing ideas. Remember the earthquake in Haiti? How about the tsunami in, um, where was it? Malaysia? (I'm already forgetting important details even though one of my collegues had even gone over there and had told me some stories of his experiences).

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Friday, June 25, 2010 4:39 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Yes, Malachite...I've been watching it happen right here, which is one of the reasons I keep posting a thread or two on it, to bring it back to our attention. I contributed to Haiti, there's no more I can do, but this is in OUR country, so I'm not gonna let them forget it, dammit! And the more we stay informed on how it progresses, the more we can't be manipulated (much) into believing their lies. Or something...

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
signing off

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Friday, June 25, 2010 5:01 AM

DREAMTROVE

I agree with Anthony and whozit

BP seeks to keep it's oil well and the admin seeks to forward it's agenda, and both are willing to sacrifice the gulf coast. Sad. They should both be sacked.

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Friday, June 25, 2010 6:33 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

I don't agree with the latter. This isn't doing the Obama Administration any good, and the worse it gets, the worse he looks compared to Dumbya's Katrina.

I do agree about BP, tho'...it's obvious from all they've done/are doing that they want to make it look "less worse" than it is.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
signing off

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