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Beaches turn black in Baldwin County as oily waves roll in
Press-Register ^ | Sunday, June 13, 2010 | David Ferrara

Posted on 06/13/2010 2:00:35 PM PDT by SonnyBubba

GULF SHORES, Ala. -- Fifteen-year-old Dakota Byrd kicked sand over a puddle of black oil lining Gulf Shores beach.

As far as he could see Saturday afternoon, the white sand at the shoreline had turned black.

"I want to get rid of it," he said. Byrd looked into joining the cleanup effort, but he's too young.

Summer for him and his Gulf Shores buddies, he said, along with many others who enjoy the Alabama coastline, "is done."

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.al.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida
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To: SonnyBubba

Who needs Alberta’s “Oil Sands”?
We have our own.


21 posted on 06/13/2010 2:24:22 PM PDT by Delmarksman (Pro 2A Anglican American (Ford and Chevy kill more people than guns do, lets ban them))
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To: aimhigh

The oil cleanup will create all of those green jobs that pay minimum wages.


22 posted on 06/13/2010 2:26:52 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: dennisw

Being a native of Alabama, I’ve spent much time enjoying Gulf Shores the sugar sand and saltwater. I believe you are spot on when you write of the amount of oil still to cover the coast that is to come.

I wonder if it were Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, would the response be any different.

Thanks O for nothing.


23 posted on 06/13/2010 4:00:50 PM PDT by Hilltop (Control the high ground. Control the battlefield.)
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To: Hilltop
I wonder if it were Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, would the response be any different.

Yes...

Maybe the oil will eventually find its way there.

24 posted on 06/13/2010 4:09:09 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: OrangeHoof

I’ve been saying for weeks that Obama could care less if states that didn’t vote for him and never will are covered in oil. Every particle of this thing is political. The Kenyan hates America anyway - why should he care how polluted it gets?


25 posted on 06/13/2010 4:20:25 PM PDT by Argus
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Damn, damn, damn, dammit to HELL! I’m gonna cry!

That about says it for me.

26 posted on 06/13/2010 4:23:41 PM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: OrangeHoof
Gulf states or not all Americans should be outraged at what they are seeing. He should be thrown out of office now.
27 posted on 06/13/2010 4:26:40 PM PDT by angcat (GOD SAVE US!)
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To: SonnyBubba

The Mississippi Coast is in trouble. I was stationed there 25 years ago and the Gulf currents push the debris off like a lagoon. Those folks have weathered alot but this may be to much.


28 posted on 06/13/2010 4:34:29 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: Hilltop

I wonder if it were Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, would the response be any different.>>>>>>>

It would be vociferous and loud. The attitude in Obama’s DC is “It’s just a bunch of rednecks there on the Gulf coast who don’t vote for us anyhow”


29 posted on 06/13/2010 4:54:13 PM PDT by dennisw (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid - Gen Eisenhower)
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To: Tarpon

Ivan and Katrina damaged the beaches but where was the moaning and groaning then?

People just got off their asses and worked on getting it cleaned up.


30 posted on 06/13/2010 6:15:12 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (A blind clock finds a nut at least twice a day.)
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To: angcat
Americans should be outraged at what they are seeing. He should be thrown out of office now.

On Fox News Sunday you actually had Brit Hume and Bill Crystal saying it was not obama's fault. The media got their marching orders. It's sickening.

31 posted on 06/13/2010 6:21:27 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: SonnyBubba
Byrd looked into joining the cleanup effort, but he's too young.

Americans want to work. Americans want to jump in and solve problems.
But the government has a thousand reasons why we just can't do stuff like that anymore.

32 posted on 06/13/2010 6:24:51 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: jersey117

And after I heard that I promptly turned them off. Clueless.


33 posted on 06/13/2010 10:37:38 PM PDT by whatisthetruth
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