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Huge Amounts of Oil Found On Gulf of Mexico Floor
intellitech tips news of a study examining the Gulf of Mexico sea floor in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Marine scientists have found a thick layer of oil, and say it has devastated life there.
"Studies using a submersible found a layer, as much as 10cm thick in places, of dead animals and oil, said Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia. Knocking these animals out of the food chain will, in time, affect species relevant to fisheries. She disputed an assessment by BP's compensation fund that the Gulf of Mexico will recover by the end of 2012. ... 'The impact on the benthos was devastating,' she told BBC News. 'Filter-feeding organisms, invertebrate worms, corals, sea fans — all of those were substantially impacted — and by impacted, I mean essentially killed. Another critical point is that detrital feeders like sea cucumbers, brittle stars that wander around the bottom, I didn't see a living (sea cucumber) around on any of the wellhead dives. They're typically everywhere, and we saw none.'"
And don't forget that GW(and his cronies) also had/have significant interests in Haliburton, the company that did the work that failed in the gulf...
As if destabilizing world politics and the WFC wasn't bad enough, now they are destroying the environment; one last FU to the world!
America, the land of the corrupt, immoral and gullible, and the occasional balanced individual; Don't give up BO!
You seem to have missed the truth that 2 judges have ruled that the federal health care reform law in unconstitutional while 2 have ruled that it is constitutional
Clearly, in a reply to a post pondering that the debate of whether or not Obamacare is Unconstitutional has been overlooked, I should have gone into the rulings that confirmed it, right? If the default assumption is that it is perfectly Constitutional, then the news that two judges confirmed it is nothing of note, correct? Did I also not say that it would be on its way to the Supreme Court for review? Clearly, there is a debate going on BUT some people, by virtue of their choice of media outlets or intellectual laziness, haven't acknowledged that it may, indeed be Unconstitutional.
As a U.S. citizen who is looking forward to the Supreme Court striking down a law that forces citizens to buy over priced insurance policies from corrupt scum bag corporations I can also see that a single payer system would be good for the welfare of the entire nation, from individual citizens to all corporations excluding the scum bags currently ripping off citizens.
Hey, welcome to the strawman. You don't want to debate whether or not it is Constitutional, clearly your mind is made up since two judges ruled in your favor, so let's set up those evil corporations and how they harm the little people so we can argue how bad we need socialized medicine regardless of its Constitutionality so we can tear them apart instead. Want socialized medicine? Pass an amendment giving the federal government the power to do so. Alas, we get distract and deflect.
What's more interesting, is whether or not Justice Kagan will recuse herself since, as Solicitor General, she advised the Obama administration on the very bill that will be coming before the court, giving her a rather substantial conflict of interest.
So I have to ask, that super Koolaid you are drinking that blinds you from reality, is it a bum trip or a super high cause I wouldn't want a bum trip but if the fantasy world your living in is any fun perhaps it would be worthwhile to take a sip.
and now we resort to ridicule and personal attacks... classic tactic of attack the messenger if you can't defeat the message. yawn. Do you actually have any arguments to make or do you just have kneejerk reactions every time someone posts something that you don't want to think about? Hey, could it be that I'm encouraging you to stop YOUR koolaid politics? I mean, not that you drink the koolaid, you just always know what is best and I'm just dumb (and probably one of those evil, racist, ignorant teabaggers). After all, Colbert told you reality has a liberal bias.
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Agreed, neither of the major parties give a rats ass about adhering to the Constitution. That's why it has been under a systemic assault for at least a solid century. You see, the Founding Fathers could have never known that our governmental needs may change in the future, so they didn't give us a way to grant government new power via an amendment process... ok, so they did, but, darn it, it's too hard to pass an amendment so we shouold just abandon the process entirely, ignoring the fact that it is deliberaltely difficult to pass an amendment, because while government is a necessary evil, it is still evil, and we should conisder the full ramifications of drastic changes to our core governing principles rather than changing them on a whim.
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