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rodndtube Dolphin Glider
Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 690 Location: USA, MD, Baltimore
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Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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geoffreylevens wrote: | Not just Cheney or those at the top... It is not just the Republicans either, Obama is still gung-ho (or is that "oil-ho'") for off-shore more drilling. There is really only one party at this point and it really is a massive, corrupt corporatacracy. The entire deep structure of our economy and society currently supports and promotes this and our education and media deeply program "the masses" to keep it all rolling...
www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/25/interior-department-ig-re_n_588755.html |
A new mindset and shift in philosophy took place during the Reagan Era. During the past administration there was a systematic dismantling of the regulatory system and weaning of the institutional knowledge in the regulatory agencies, e.g., EPA, and the mostly non-political civil servants were transitioned into a more politic environment with initiatives such as pay-for-performance. Many realized that the next administration (the current one) would be set-up with a huge challenge in the first 2 to 3 years to unravel the bureaucratic mess and to rebuild institutional knowledge and ethics.
For this reason I don't lose too much sleep as the Red State governors sweat it out and start asking for the Federal Government to step-in, to "take over," and to help the States. Hopefully this situation will crystallize the choices between a utopian "Tea Party" conservative (Republican) movement and the progressive movement.
I have not been anti-offshore drilling, but I have been a strong proponent of a sound regulatory system of rules, oversight and enforcement. If the nation can not do that then I will hardly sign-off on expanded nuclear power. _________________ rodNDtube
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geoffreylevens
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Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Man, do I ever wish we had even a remotely progressive govt! Think you are right though. Astrological predictions (seriously!) are for increasingly hostile polarization for next couple years and the 2012 election to be the real "break point" when we find out what our country is really made of down deep; either we will really start to head in a progressive, peace, justice, and sustainability direction or on down into full-on repressive corporate fascism.
I'm not at all convinced it will be as crisp and clear as that but the next few years should be interesting indeed! |
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geoffreylevens
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Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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Just pulled this off live-blog page in Guardian from London newspaper re: Obama's press conference. So far so good. Maybe the wake-up call is being heeded...
Quote: | 11.55pm CDT: Obama's now laying into the "scandalously close relationship between the oil industry and those who were regulating them", and how laws were "tailored by the industry to serve its needs and not the public's."
Obama made official the announcement of action against deep-sea drilling:
• suspend two permits to drill off the coast of Alaska
• cancel oil lease sales off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and Virginia
• suspend new permits for deep water wells for a further six months
• suspend action of current wells being drilled in the Gulf of Mexico (that is, new wells being drilled, not wells in operation)
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Poobah Dolphin Glider
Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 696 Location: California, San Diego
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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It looks like the mud and little rubber bits failed to plug the well. Maybe we could grind up all the SUPs in the country and send them down the pipe.
A little off topic, but....what sort fo paipo would you make for Obama? Mike and I knocked around the subject last year, but we never got around to making Paipo One for the Prez. |
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mrmike
Joined: 06 Sep 2007 Posts: Location: coronado, ca
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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I think I would make the prez a 48" guitar pic board made out of red cedar
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rodndtube Dolphin Glider
Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 690 Location: USA, MD, Baltimore
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 9:34 am Post subject: |
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Like it! How many of ya could make it to D.C. for the presentation? _________________ rodNDtube
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mrmike
Joined: 06 Sep 2007 Posts: Location: coronado, ca
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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this is the bag I would give him with the board. I call it my anti dick cheney bag
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Poobah Dolphin Glider
Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 696 Location: California, San Diego
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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I'm leaning toward something with horizontal fins (ears) out on the rails. |
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geoffreylevens
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