sometime in the recent past Chemiker posted this:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:00:58 +0000 (UTC),
> (Steve Pope) wrote:
>
>> Dan Abel > wrote:
>>
>>> Obviously, this oil spill is Obama's fault.
>> It does have the appearance of a sort of slapdown after
>> he just stood up and said he wanted to drill more.
>>
> What a slapdown. Just before EarthDay a drilling rig, not in
> production, blows up and sinks. And now Axelrod decrees there will be
> no further Gulf drilling until the investigation is "over". Funny how
> it all works out *against* drilling. And what's this I hear about SWAT
> team being sent to other oil rigs to "inspect".... for what, I wonder?
> Faulty valves? IMHO, SWAT teams don't seem the right inspectors for
> drilling hardware....
>
> Smart money bet that renewed or expanded drilling was never going to
> happen, despite the PrezBO's rhetoric. Now: Do Axelrod's words mean
> that drilling for NatGas in the Green Canyon lease will be halted? BHP
> Biliton and Rio Tinto have just initiated major NatGas efforts there.
>
> Details at 10.
>
> Enquiring minds and all that.
>
> Alex
But we don't have to worry about drilling for oil now because it was
announced, also on Earth Day, that the U.S. will be signing an international
treaty to jump start whaling. What a beautiful sight it will be with all
those whales swimming around with little derricks sticking out of their fat
blubbery bodies? Let the overfed, overconsuming, overwhining *******s die a
quick death.
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Wilson 44.69, -67.3