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SargeUNN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:09 PM Original message |
Oil Spill my rear end, Let's call it what it is .... |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. They called it a spill because that's what everyone in the industry calls it...nt |
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SargeUNN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. yeah because it is less threatening |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:52 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. You can call it an oil armageddon if you want... |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Generally when a tanker goes down, yes. |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:58 PM Response to Reply #3 |
17. Ixtoc 1 was a blowout that gushed 140 million gallons into the Gulf of Mexico... |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:17 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. The industry has framed the discussion with euphemisms |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. I think it came from 'Spill, baby, spill!' Not as effective (or lyrical) as |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
6. "Crippled " nuclear plant; "wounded" war vessel "limped" home |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
7. This is very, very important. Let's frame the debate. It's an oil holocaust. |
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SPedigrees (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
8. I call it a gusher. nt |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
9. I've been using "blowout," because that's what it is. |
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SargeUNN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. good term |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
11. how about 'environmental disaster'? |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
12. I think most people understand this "spill" is not synonymous with spilling a glass of water. |
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SargeUNN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 04:00 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. sure and remember Vietnam was not a war but Police Action |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 04:05 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. The last line of your OP: "What you think?" You asked, I answered. |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 04:06 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. If every war in history had been called a police action prior to Vietnam... |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 01:51 AM Response to Reply #18 |
28. Recall the Korean conflict was a police action also. Call them what |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
13. "Leak?" Its a goddamn GUSHER! |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 04:25 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. What ashling said. |
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PCIntern (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
15. It is not a leak... |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
16. Cheney's Chernobyl |
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janx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 04:10 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Excellent screen name. Here's a video you might enjoy: |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 05:45 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Thanks. I've dived throughout the Carib. and I'm heartbroken by this disaster. |
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The_Commonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
23. "It's not leaking, it's overflowing!" |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
24. It's a well blow out that has created a gusher of oil in the sea. |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
26. BP and our entire government are in major cover up mode..its all the way they phrase it don'tcha |
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Kablooie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 01:44 AM Response to Original message |
27. Call it an oil spew instead. |
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