Tag Archives: Alaska

Apr 20

AFTER 2YRS FISH, BIRDS, PLANTS DISEASED, DYING, FLOATING……

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Friday is the second anniversary of the explosion at BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig that killed 11 workers and spilled upwards of five million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Thanks partly to nature’s resilience, some progress has been made. The gulf is open to fishing, beaches are mostly clean and President Obama has resurrected an ambitious oil exploration plan that he shelved immediately after the spill.

But the healing from this extraordinary act of corporate carelessness is far from complete, and there is important work to be done to minimize the chances that such a disaster will happen again. Here are central issues that remain unresolved:
THE GULF Scientists believe that the oil has mostly evaporated, been consumed by bacteria or dispersed in deep water. Yet oil has poisoned Louisiana’s salt marshes and wetlands, which are vital fish nurseries, and visibly damaged deep-sea coral. The toll on the gulf and its marine life may not be known for years. The herring population of Alaska’s Prince William Sound did not crash until three years after the Exxon Valdez spill.
REGULATION The spill exposed serious structural flaws in federal oversight of offshore drilling, including the cozy relationship between the oil industry and its regulators in the Interior Department. The department has since been reorganized to eliminate conflicts of interest, and it has agreed to give environmental concerns higher priority in the planning, leasing and drilling process.
Sep 04

ON WHAT DO WE BASE OUR DECISIONS?

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ON TRUTH?: the body of real things, events, and facts

ON FACTS?: something that has actual existence <space exploration is now a fact> b: an actual occurrence <prove the fact of damage>

ON OPINIONS?: belief stronger than impression and less strong than positive knowledge b: a generally held view

ON FEELINGS?: often unreasoned opinion or belief

ON HEAR-SAY?: a rumor: a statement or report current without known authority for its truth (not accepted in court)

ON HALF-TRUTHS: a statement that mingles truth and falsehood with deliberate intent to deceive

(definitions from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/ )

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ON WHICH ARE THE FOLLOWING BASED (from some items posted)?

“Lets face it……The Republican Party is one where the very rich lead the very ignorant…..There are some exceptions as we saw at the Democratic Convention…..Republicans who had lost their jobs, their health insurance, their homes, etc……and when Jesus didn’t step forward and come to the rescue, they turned to the Democratic Party.
 
The Republican Party now offers America as its Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates a 72 year old man with serious health considerations and a born again, rifle shooting, moose gutting, abstinence teaching, anti choice, oil drilling woman who, as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska tried to ban books from the local library…..books that she considered morally or socially objectionable to her.  This is truly a dangerous woman to have one heart beat away from the Presidency.”
 
Ron
 
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WORDS SARAH PALIN DID NOT SAY…………

Pregnancy, economy, abortion, values, Health Care, Immigration, Foreign Policy, Environment, Polar Bear, Abstinance, Israel, Science, abortion, etc.

MICHAEL (for more click on:

http://blog.indecision2008.com/2008/09/03/words-sarah-palin-did-not-say-tonight/ )

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“If this is an unbiased site well why not check out Obama’s sudden
jump to wealth. I’m told that his salary is approx. $250 THOUSAND
annually and now his worth is $5 MILLION. HOW DID HE BECOME SO WEALTHY
IN SUCH A SHORT TIME?”

Charlie

(please note that in that article I only summarized and gave the source of the article.  I stated no opinion.  Please send me the source of what you heard and I will be glad to check it out and get back to you. -editor)

 

 

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