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rsmith6621 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:26 AM Original message |
BP Should Not Receive Any Federal Fines or Penalty... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
1. Better than that, the US should nationalize BP and use the proceeds to pay |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:43 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. To do that they 'd need to buy all of the shares |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:59 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. We don't have to buy anything. We can seize or commandeer assets due |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:26 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. You may not understand |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:30 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Oh, if I'm so dumb, explain it to me. |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:42 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Which foreign country would that be ? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:54 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. 'British' Petroleum? |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 06:02 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Get with the program |
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golfguru (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 06:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
17. In your mind pre-meditated attack on Pearl Harbor is same as an accident? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 06:45 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Pearl Harbor was a crisis. 9/11 was a crisis. Katrina was a crisis. |
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golfguru (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:25 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. There difference between wishful thinking and reality |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. News flash! Venezuela is a democracy that follows laws. |
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conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:47 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. the Securities and Exchange Commision |
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golfguru (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:29 PM Response to Reply #23 |
42. and then final decision will be made in courts? |
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ShadowLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 08:57 PM Response to Reply #4 |
43. People would never put up with that in today's society |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:56 AM Response to Reply #1 |
24. Can we nationalize an international company? I don't think so, but please correct me if I'm wrong. |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:01 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. We can do whatever we want. |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:05 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Did you spell "screwed" wrong on purpose? |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:22 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Well, when talking to small people |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 11:09 AM Response to Reply #30 |
37. Not if the enterprise is international property... |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:03 PM Response to Reply #30 |
44. the rule of law? |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:30 AM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Tap dance. We went into Panama and Iraq and did as we pleased without legal justification |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 11:08 AM Response to Reply #31 |
36. You want to go to war with Britain then? Brilliance. n/t |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 11:59 AM Response to Reply #36 |
41. I don't desire such an outcome and neither does England |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:04 PM Response to Reply #31 |
45. I thought we didn't like it when the government did those things? |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:02 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. I don't but if I'm having goose then I want the sauce. |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
2. There's no question |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
6. "I don't thing the government should fine BP for this disaster " |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:47 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Currently |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 06:12 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Aren't there investigations pending? |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 06:35 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Any mention I've come across |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:58 AM Response to Reply #19 |
25. However that, Obama has sent out the FBI to look for information. |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:56 AM Response to Reply #25 |
34. No |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 11:07 AM Response to Reply #34 |
35. No. The dirty dealing in the DOI was well known. |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 11:14 AM Response to Reply #35 |
38. Yer right |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 11:21 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. As I said he was taking action. |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 11:27 AM Response to Reply #39 |
40. heh |
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asphalt.jungle (792 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
8. everyone has an opinion ... |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
11. another winner of an idea. keep the hits coming. |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:59 AM Response to Reply #11 |
26. I think Palin came up with this one on Bill O before she said they should face criminal charges. n/t |
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Dawgs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
12. How bout they stop giving tax breaks to oil companies, and instead give them to... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:56 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I think they do, however, start up companies need seed money. |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
18. Unrec. They should have to do both. And not limited to 2 billion. //nt |
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ladywnch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
29. whose to say the fine couldn't be used for that? get the money.... |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
32. Absurd. Two billion is nothing access the penalties and use some of that money |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
33. and unrecced for trying to shortchange the damage and dumbass libertarian talking points |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
46. Of course they ought to fine them, if the law provides for it |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
48. You forgot the sarcasm tag. n/t |
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