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Kavek,



This is the crux of your argument, and belief system for that matter. You have to believe that the wealthy are actually ******** the little man to justify your own failures. It couldn't be that something these people, or you, has done that's been the cause of your current situation. It's much easier to just blame it on the rich. If you truly believe this then you don't have a problem with the govn taxing the sh*t out of the people you think are to rich; because you don't think you'll ever get to that level anyway. It's really sad that so many people feel this way. So quick to blame others and so slow to make personal changes. You liberals just don't get that something given has no value. When you stop playing the blame game and open your mind to the oppurtunities that present themselves daily you will be a much happier person and less likely to blame someone else for your situation because you'll be happy with the direction you're heading.

If the Dems were good at marketing they'd try to capitalize on spill, baby, spill. But they aren't so they won't.

Edited, May 27th 2010 9:31am by Allegory

Lube,



Stealing is stealing. Who am I talking to; of course you don't care about other peoples property.

You're just mad that Obama is better than you at basketball.


see, I can connect totally irrelevant ideas, too.

Bard,





Good one.

Should he not be going to N.O.? I mean anything a politician does in the public eye is politicized but that doesn't mean there aren't still things they need to do.

That's not the reason I think it's fine to tax the rich more.

(A) The award was to Transocean for its overall operations, not specifically to the Deepwater Horizon rig.
(B) The award was given in early May 2009 for the 2008 rating period ("January 1st to December 31st, 2008"). If people weren't doing their job inspecting in 2008... well, let's not go there.
(C) You should stop believing conservative talking point tidbit that goes viral.

Edited, May 27th 2010 2:40pm by Jophiel

I was just responding to a question varus asked. Obama visited the Gulf in early May, around the second.

Kinda like saying "WTG Catholic Church! You're doing a great job!"

Debo,



You realize this had been going on 50 days don't you?

W called La the very next day to see what could be done.

Yes. That was the 2009 SAFE award. What everyone is talking about is that they were the hands on favorites to win the award for 2010. Fortunately, MMS canceled what would otherwise have been a pretty embarrassing ceremony. Given that it was supposed to occur about a week after the disaster, it's entirely possible that they already had the awards plaques printed out and whatnot. Could just be a rumor created via ironic circumstances, but it would be interesting to see if we ever find out who would have won that award this year.


Honestly, it's kind of a silly thing to get in to. It's not like the folks sitting in offices in the White House have much to do with the day to day operations of the MMS (how many of us knew those initials before just recently?). Organizations like that tend to run the same way year after year, and administration after administration. While I'm sure some blame will get tossed around anyway, it's just politics as usual.

No, what everyone is talking about "LULZ THEY WON SAFE AWARD HAHAHAHA!!!!"

Granted, I'm only one man but I haven't been hearing about it in the future tense, but a lot of noise about it in the past tense. Especially since it happened in 2009 so it must have been Obama who did it!