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The Good News About Offshore Oil Rigs
Townhall.com ^ | October 22, 2014 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 10/22/2014 7:03:37 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 10/22/2014 7:03:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
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My wife, daughter & her husband, grand children all went down to the Gulf for a 2 week vacation in October. I was distressed to see they all came back from there covered in oil from that disaster and how devastated everything there was. /s


2 posted on 10/22/2014 7:06:17 AM PDT by Gaffer
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October - September.....


3 posted on 10/22/2014 7:06:54 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Everyone who’s wet a hook in salt water knows this......more structure will actually create more aquatic life - it doesn’t just gather existing life - (structure allows development at bottom of food chain and works its way up).

Gonna tick off environmentalists to no end....


4 posted on 10/22/2014 7:07:56 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Kaslin

Jonah Goldberg has matured greatly as a columnist. Both his selected subjects, and what he writes about them have improved greatly. This is a story that I had not known about and would not have surmised.

I once figured he only got space because of his famous mother. Whether that was once true or not, he has earned his keep.


5 posted on 10/22/2014 7:08:13 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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you don’t fish, do you? Or snorkell/dive?


6 posted on 10/22/2014 7:11:18 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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you don’t fish, do you? Or snorkell/dive?

Nope. I don't even swim if I don't have to.
7 posted on 10/22/2014 7:13:57 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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Why do we have some of the best fishing around in Louisiana? Yep, just cruise out to your nearest oil platform and get your quota of wonderful fish. We have always known that the rigs are teaming with fish. The greenies need to stop eating fish because they may come from the hated oil rig!


8 posted on 10/22/2014 7:23:19 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: C. Edmund Wright

It’s true of freshwater too. Look for structure with sonar and you will find fish, from baitfish to predators, it is their preferred habitat.


9 posted on 10/22/2014 7:25:17 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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Wild blueberries are pathetic. Manmade blueberries rock.


10 posted on 10/22/2014 7:26:15 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. We have no 'news media', only a Soviet Pravda.)
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yes, but there’s no oil rigs in fresh lakes and ponds....


11 posted on 10/22/2014 7:33:34 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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...because if you had ever done so, you would have known about the relationship between structure and increased marine life.

100% of the time.


12 posted on 10/22/2014 7:51:19 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Bitsy

Everyone in Louisiana knows it’s simply the way the way the food chain works.

Structure causes more marine growth which attracts small fish which eat the growth.

Small fish eating the marine growth attract the larger fish which eat the smaller fish.

The larger fish which are eating the smaller fish which are eating the marine growth attract even larger fish which eat them.

The larger fish then attract the Coon Asses which will eat anything that doesn’t eat them first.


13 posted on 10/22/2014 8:03:36 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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The larger fish then attract the Coon Asses which will eat anything that doesn’t eat them first
Yummmmm, I’m think’in road kill!


14 posted on 10/22/2014 8:33:27 AM PDT by Bitsy
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In a 15-year study, researchers found that the ecosystems that build up around artificial rigs host 1,000 percent more fish and other sea life than natural habitats such as reefs and estuaries. The California rigs outstripped even famously rich ecosystems such as the coral reefs of French Polynesia.

WTF? This has been known for decades.

 

15 posted on 10/22/2014 9:41:57 AM PDT by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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A completely disjointed set of ideas.
16 posted on 10/22/2014 9:55:03 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Take the chip and let them hack your brain.)
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Globle warming makes more fishies and animals.

The globle warming hoaxters should be sued for cruelty to fish and animals for denying fish and animals a healthy habitat with ocean oil rigs.

OIL RIGS : make 5 star hotels for fishies.


17 posted on 10/22/2014 10:00:40 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Bitsy

Road kill gumbo!

Now we’re talking good eats.


18 posted on 10/22/2014 10:21:25 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: IMR 4350

Now we’re talking good eats.

Stewed Nutria! Cher


19 posted on 10/22/2014 10:52:39 AM PDT by Bitsy
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So offshore oil wells are GOOD for nature while wind farms and solar panel farms kill thousands of animals.

The econazis don’t care.


20 posted on 10/22/2014 12:50:55 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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