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Despite Obama’s Moratorium, Drilling Projects Move Ahead

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/us/24moratorium.html?pagewanted=2

Horizon well response: there are those that talk, those that “do”, and those that go white water rafting…

http://www.floppingaces.net/2010/05/05/horizon-well-response-there-are-those-that-talk-those-that-do-and-those-that-go-white-water-rafting/

When they cap the Horizon well, can they also put a lid on Obama?

http://www.floppingaces.net/2010/05/04/when-they-cap-the-deepsea-horizon-well-can-they-also-put-a-lid-on-obama/

UPDATED! Deepswater Horizon tragedy – tempered by a dose of reality

http://www.floppingaces.net/2010/04/30/deepsea-horizon-tragedy-tempered-by-a-dose-of-reality/

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Wow, what a fun article to read in the midst of the tragedy in the gulf. The quotes of renowned expert Sarah Palin just puts this over the top. Thanks for the laugh, it is a nice break as I watch an entire section of our country get devastated thanks to conservative sponsored corporate greed.

How silly those dirty environmentalists were for questioning big oil’s safety claims!

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“The post I responded to from yonason had nary a word about ‘oil’, ‘gasoline’ or ‘drilling’.

Like my folks always said, “Close the door, your letting the flies in!”

But, actually, my comment was on topic, which was the attempt to invalidate America’s need to drill because “the Chinese aren’t drilling.” I didn’t say it explicitly, but that was clearly enough what it was about.

Then Stoner comes along and injects Racism totally out of the blue. So, yes, that was off topic, and I took the bait. My bad! But flies are so annoying that one can’t help but swat at them when they get in the way.

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Mike typed:

“Yonason: Notice how Artie is trying to distract us again from the subject of the post?”

yonason typed: Yes. I was going to bring that up if he posted off-topic again.

C’mon guys. Read the thread. The post I responded to from yonason had nary a word about ‘oil’, ‘gasoline’ or ‘drilling’. And in fact I actually quoted from your post which would, to a reasonable person, disqualify me from distracting you from your post. Got that?

And of course Mike is always eager to pile on and would never let a fact get in the way of his flights of rhetoric.

Cheers.

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There was a darned good reason Martin Luther King was a Republican.

And it is NOT because Democrats were for Civil Rights

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Lightweight ?? Let me ask you something do you think that would be the type of insult that an Einstein would use ? And as far as the Republicans were the best in promoting civil rights for Blacks perhaps we should remember that at time both parties had both conservative and liberal wings. The conservatives of BOTH PARTIES were against the passage of the Civil Rights act while the liberals of both parties were for it. When it came time to renew it in 2006 it was on much more of a party line vote I believe all or nearly all who voted against it were Republican.

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“Yonason: Notice how Artie is trying to distract us again from the subject of the post?”

Yes. I was going to bring that up if he posted off-topic again.

And, yeah, “all of the above” seems like the correct answer to me, too.

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Yeah… those Dems sure do have a good record on civil rights:

Yonason: Notice how Artie is trying to distract us again from the subject of the post?

This is the second such attempt today.

I guess they don’t like having their big lie exposed.

As for your question: “Arthurstone (#50), … DELUDED IDIOT, OR LYING WEASLE?”

I think he’s both.

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Here is the video of the Speech of how to translate Democrat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EcQ03qRE1s

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…how little in common the Republican party of the 19th century has in common with it’s 20th – 21st century incarnation — Arthurstone

And those refs., he gives are excellent illustrations of how that happened! (Racist Dems jumping ship to become rinos in order to support someone because of his seemingly racist opposition to the racist aspects of affirmative action. Once inside they could try to turn that opposition into a vehicle for their own really racist agenda – not the “mark” he means, I’m sure).

Nothing was more problematic than the civil rights issue — particularly the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlawed most forms of racial discrimination. Goldwater was no racist; early in his career as a Phoenix city council member, he aggressively supported local civil rights ordinances. But as his conservatism deepened, he grew first skeptical and then fearful about the use of government for social engineering. “You cannot pass a law that will make me like you — or you like me,” Goldwater told one rally. “That is something that can only happen in our hearts.” He understood, too, that government-mandated affirmative action was merely the flip side of segregationist racialism: “It reintroduces through the back door the very principle of allocation by race that makes compulsory segregation morally wrong and offensive to freedom.” [his opposition to the social engineering is what the cross-over supporters were attracted to, NOT any racism on his part] And, that, to Barry Goldwater, was the bottom line. “Our aim, as I understand it, is neither to establish a segregated society nor to establish an integrated society,” he said. “It is to preserve a free society.”

Goldwater was privately appalled to discover that his opposition to the Civil Rights Act rallied to his side not only libertarians but racists who detested and feared not state power but black people. He was horrified when Alabama’s racist Gov. George Wallace offered to switch parties and run as his vice president. Goldwater eventually became so paranoid about the influx of racists to his campaign that he worried that a summer riot in Harlem had been secretly instigated by his supporters in hopes of generating a white backlash vote.

And many Blacks also know that Goldwater was no racist.

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