Ted Rall for June 23, 2010

not in my grand kids life time….. what a mess…

Be patient. The recovery of the Gulf will take only a few generations. Of course some things will be lost forever, but we will have forgotten they ever existed.

How do you people know this? Are you marine petroleum clean-up experts? In 1979 the Ixtoc 1 well blew out off the coast of Mexico, in the gulf. It wasn’t capped for over 9 months. Some estimates put the release at 140-150 million bbls. of oil. I bet you’ve never even heard of it, let alone were affected by it. Most reports say environmental damage was minimal, granted that’s probably by 1979 standards. This blowout in the gulf is a tragedy, but it’s not the end of the world just because the evening news tells you it is. They will always say the next big thing is the end of the world. They have to, to get you to tune in.

^^That was an impressive display of sarcasm. I hope.

I, for one, have heard of Ixtoc 1.

What I’ve been wondering about is what they’ve been saying in Cuba, which is just as much in the path of the Loop Current as the Florida Keys are.

It shows what big corporations and big government can do when they work together. Remember, they are just filling a demand. I’ll remember that the next time I get on my bicycle.

” They will always say the next big thing is the end of the world”

Well said coot31.

Witster23, that’s some classic Repub arguing there, kudos! Obviously to claim something, one must be a certified expert! We can’t possibly have gotten our points FROM an expert. I’m sure all the experts are totally on your side, that we certainly will not see negative effects of this spill many decades into the future.

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^^ Sex changes are against the precepts… except in Asian & Muslim countries.

Which makeup would you recommend?

The fun has yet to begin: just wait until a major hurricane barrels through, aerosolizing all that oil onto everyone and everything in its path. I’m guessing extant cancer clusters in the Gulf region are going to metastasize. But, hey, that’s for the next president to let the next president deal with.

Yes, poopsie, you are a woman.

Fashionbeauty said, about 1 hour ago

YOU MUST NOT MISS IT!!

I just saw Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana using the chronic oil spills in the Niger Delta (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/world/africa/17nigeria.html) as an excuse for doing more drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, on the twin theories that (1) if we don’t do it there, the oil companies will just move operations to poorer, more vulnerable parts of the world that can’t cope as well, and (2) our advanced technology can serve as an example to the rest of the world how drilling can be done safely. She missed the point completely of how horrible the effects have been on the people and ecology of Nigeria.

Beebee Doodle says; Pup, Sooky just found out you’re a girl, so he told me to have a birds and bees talk with you sometime… He was going to, but he foud out you’re a girl.

Gotta give jordaner credit for perseverance. It’s like trying to drown a water bug. (Or stop an oil spill.)

Or, in this case, stirring the wok.

^ Is jordaner a certified Asian entity?

He/she has previously identified the underlying company as CHAOYUE:

http://www.corporateinformation.com/Company-Snapshot.aspx?cusip=C344B3990

”Celebrates the Chinese Jordan Corporation 5th anniversary.”

Q.E.D.

Sooky Rottweiler says; Noecon, you have dogs? I bet they are purse chihuahuas! Pooches you probably can’t stand but buy because they are expensive?

Inbred Dog show dogs with their own private jets?

Uh-oh. I can’t flag those last two – it jumps to something else in a new window. Have they found a way to defeat the software?

it worked for me

Yeah, now it worked for me, too. Whew! Got scared there.

Not boring at all! And for me, the least boring parts were the documentary-style sections on the technical aspects of whaling, the very parts that the abridged versions leave out. Melville’s dialogue and prose are truly Shakespearean in many places.

Also by Melville: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade.

“All’s o’er, and ye know him not!” came gasping from the wall; and from the fingers of Isabel dropped an empty vial – as it had been a run-out sand-glass – and shivered upon the floor; and her whole form sloped sideways, and she fell upon Pierre’s heart, and her long hair ran over him, and arbored him in ebon vines.

– Pierre (1852)

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The feeling is far from mutual, spambot.

Repetition is the lowest form of flatulence.

@sirromsirrom said, about 1 hour ago

Kindly not to quote the spammer.

I visit its home page (click its name) then visit each comic it has spammed upon. I search for text from its spam, then flag it.

I recommend this to all here, so we can flood spammers with flags.

Unfortunately, GoComics only saves the last 20, but maybe fortunate – this spammer has 344 spams, too many to flag all.

That’s the problem – you can’t possibly flag them faster than they post new ones. I just wish GoComics could make more of an attempt to weed out IP addresses when registering new members.

I still like an idea I had some time ago –

Put in an automatic nullifier, so any account that gets more than “N” flags is automatically nuked. Especially accounts that are under a week old, since they were probably opened specifically for the purpose of spamming.

The offending account holder gets an email so he can appeal, just to prevent people from ganging up on a legitimate account where they just have a beef with the guy. It’s essentially a guilty until proven innocent strategy.

The idea is to evaporate the spammers’ accounts and postings before they have a chance to sucker in any paying victims. If we can do this often and quickly enough, eventually they’ll stop.

Obviously, they’re doing this to generate revenues, so they’re paying somebody to steal facetime. The idea here is to make it cost more than it’s worth.

That, of course, depends on our own diligence in flagging!

Hey, if we can kvetch about it, we can flag it.