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Study: No signs of island that could extend Mexico's offshore oil claims
Los Angeles Times/AP ^
| June 24, 2009
| MARK STEVENSON
Posted on 06/24/2009 3:15:24 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
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Mexican(s) have long bounced around conspiracy theories about the affair.
To: SwinneySwitch
Ask Algore where it is. I think that globull warming took it due to rising sea levels.
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posted on
06/24/2009 3:19:01 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: SwinneySwitch
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posted on
06/24/2009 3:19:19 PM PDT
by
SouthTexas
(Waterboard Pelosi NOW!)
To: SwinneySwitch
With today’s satellite technology (or even from the 70s), this should be a resolved issue.
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posted on
06/24/2009 3:19:52 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: SwinneySwitch
How do you say ‘Fantasy Island’ in Spanish?
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posted on
06/24/2009 3:24:21 PM PDT
by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: SwinneySwitch
I read about this island a couple of months ago. I looked for it on Google Earth. I think that if you Google the name of the island you can even find an approx. lat/long for it.
From a 30,000 foot flyover view on Google Earth, the name of the island sometimes pops up on Google Earth. If you zoom in on that spot, at some point the name of the island disappears, and you're looking at open water in the Gulf of Mexico.
Very strange.
To: SwinneySwitch
Even if it exists, why should Mexico be allowed to claim it?
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posted on
06/24/2009 3:28:19 PM PDT
by
ZOOKER
( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)
To: Islander7
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posted on
06/24/2009 3:38:29 PM PDT
by
SwinneySwitch
(Mexico - beyond your expectations.)
To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan; NorwegianViking; Texas resident; GulfBreeze; rellimpank; AH_LiveRight; ...
The plane! The plane!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
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posted on
06/24/2009 3:46:24 PM PDT
by
SwinneySwitch
(Mexico - beyond your expectations.)
To: SwinneySwitch
I did a search on the island and found this http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=792022 , Along with this map:
If the yellow arrows point to the right island, it wouldn't change anything, as there are other islands farther offshore from Mexico.
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posted on
06/24/2009 3:47:20 PM PDT
by
passionfruit
(When illegals become legal, even they won't do the work Americans won't do)
To: SwinneySwitch
Since our government has nixed off-shore drilling, and Cuba is cooperating with Venezuela and China in off-shore dwelling projects, it seems to me that Mexico ought to be more worried about the communists than the Americans.
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posted on
06/24/2009 3:50:45 PM PDT
by
La Lydia
(.)
To: SwinneySwitch
Cool...i think i will claim an island, declare it a country then claim oil reserves!
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posted on
06/24/2009 3:52:54 PM PDT
by
Always Right
(Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
To: passionfruit
The USA got lots of non existent islands in Lake Superior from Great Britain/ Canada, then Michigan got them as a means of appeasing us so we wouldn’t fight over Toledo. (We got the better end of that deal)
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posted on
06/24/2009 3:59:45 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: SwinneySwitch
Someone dropped a bread crumb then rolled up the map - ain’t no island.
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posted on
06/24/2009 4:03:57 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(I'm..opposed to shooting abortionists,but don't believe in imposing my morality on others-Coulter)
To: GOPJ
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posted on
06/24/2009 4:09:11 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: SwinneySwitch
Well, in the 1700s, maps were showing California as an island. Up until Lewis and Clark’s expedition, there were many learned people who thought that there was a Northwest Passage, wherein one could sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Part of L&C’s mission was to prove or disprove that belief.
Lots of hearsay or speculation in those old maps.
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posted on
06/24/2009 4:51:39 PM PDT
by
Oatka
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
To: SwinneySwitch
The island snuck across the Arizona border and is working as a landscaper under an assumed identity.
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posted on
06/24/2009 4:54:40 PM PDT
by
sanchmo
To: SwinneySwitch
I claim ownership to the large island off Florida. I will call it Daveland.
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posted on
06/24/2009 5:10:34 PM PDT
by
davetex
(If it's in stock, we've got it.)
To: SwinneySwitch
Has anyone asked Ben Linus?
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posted on
06/24/2009 5:18:06 PM PDT
by
Marie2
(The second mouse gets the cheese.)
To: Don Corleone
Yes ask Al. This is so Mexico on so many levels!
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posted on
06/24/2009 6:08:39 PM PDT
by
BellStar
(May the Fourth be with you!)
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