Posted on 06/10/2010 6:22:32 AM PDT by txlurker
As each day goes by, the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico becomes more gruesome. Oil-drenched birds and turtles wash up along the shoreline, pristine beaches are polluted by balls of tar and an oily slick laps at Louisiana's ecologically fragile marshland. Understandably, Americans are livid. But has the bloodlust directed at BP gone too far?
Egged on by catch-all protest coalitions, a "seize BP" campaign is organising demonstrations in major cities calling on the US government to snatch the British company's US assets. A "boycott BP" action group advocates shunning BP service stations. Placards abound with slogans such as "God bless America – go to hell BP" and "BP – billionaire polluters". The wife and children of BP's chief executive, Tony Hayward, are under police protection following threats.
Urged by political strategists to act more angrily, Barack Obama shed his uncharacteristic cool this week and declared that if it was up to him, BP's boss would be fired. The White House now wants BP to pay not only for cleaning up the Gulf, but also for the cost of jobs lost on 33 other oil rigs because of a government-imposed six-month moratorium on offshore drilling. And the US department of justice is threatening legal action to halt BP's dividend payouts to investors.
Anthony Weiner, a usually sensible Democratic congressman, declared: "Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum, they are not telling you the truth."
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Of course! It's a job killer and Barrack doesn't want to be held responsible!!!! AGAIN.
It's stupid to shut down the other rigs and it was a decision made by the Obama administration....NOT BP.
The moritoriium is further proof the Chicago thugs don't know dip-stick about drilling for oil and are too stupid to know it!
SALAZAR LIED TO MAKE A CASE FOR THE MORITORIUM.
THE RESPONSE BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WARRANTS A CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION!!!!!
Heard on Fox news this AM that BP told obama to go pound sand on paying the economic costs associated with the govt shutting down the gulf. Good for them. Go Brits.
Seriously though, this outright assault on BP will get them to thinking about pulling out of the US entirely. Way to go dims. If you can’t tax away American jobs, you just sue them away.
>>>>lines on a map at the
>>>>county recorder’s office or something?
>>Nope, but you’re used to getting it wrong,
>>so what’s the diff?
There’s no map at the county recorder’s office delineating how parcels of private property are divided?
>>...especially when the border is a river that
>>changes course repeatedly.
Oh, so you think the concept of sovereign borders is invalid because rivers change course. In the 10Ring Circus world, does that render illegal immigration legal? Does it render transnational piracy a legitimate bidness?
Chicago thugs would have nationalized them by now!
As long as Prince Charles isn’t a shareholder, he’s good with that.
I see, you can ask all sorts of questions about the British Royals, pirates, criminal enterprises breaking & entering homes, Mexican law, ad nauseum. But, the minute someone asks you a question, you pop a vein. Call a whambulance already.
Typical 10Ring Circus Act discourse - which, sans anything resembling logic or reason, consists of you telling other people who their heroes are, what they "really" meant, and what they "really" believe.
Followed by this:
Oh, so you think the concept of sovereign borders is invalid because rivers change course. In the 10Ring Circus world, does that render illegal immigration legal? Does it render transnational piracy a legitimate bidness?
Keep it real, LB!
So, I ask you for an example of Chavez's career where he acted as a revolutionary that is in anyway remotely similar to our Founding fathers and you say he acted like Castro. Brilliant.
Prince Charles has been known to wear a kilt, too. Must be kilt envy.
>>>>so you think the concept of sovereign borders is
>>>>invalid because rivers change course. In the 10Ring
>>>>Circus world, does that render illegal immigration
>>>>legal? Does it render transnational piracy a legitimate
>>>>bidness?
>>10Ring says: Keep it real, LB!
Illegal Immigration and transnational piracy isn’t real?
Who do you imagine came into your house and took something?
‘What is he doing there?’
‘He is putting the fire out, your Excellency.’
‘Not likely. The fire is in the minds of men and not in the roofs of houses. Pull him down and give it up! Better give it up, much better! Let it put itself out.’,,,The fire does not break out as a result of spontaneous combustion, as Barone seems to imply: it is deliberately set by disgruntled workers acting under the influence of a nihilistic cabal. This is meant to dramatize Dostoyevsky’s view of the Russian revolutionaries of his time, whom he saw as possessed by a desire to destroy and little else.
Who did the American Founders think came into their house and took something?
Again, WTH are you getting at? Did illegals break into your home? What pirates? Sure, just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean these pirates aren't after you. Hope they don't get your kilt.
LOL...George Bush revolutionaries? What were they revolting against...no new taxes?
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