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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 05:59 PM
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The complete absurdity just hit me.
I can vividly remember the demands for less reliance on oil during the Carter administration. I remember telling myself that in 15 years or so, we will come up with an alternative fuel.

Now, there is an uncontrollable gusher of oil in the Gulf.

And we are asking people to send human hair to try to fix it.

WE ARE SENDING HUMAN HAIR TO TRY TO FIX IT.
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:04 PM
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1. And fur. Don't forget fur!
Talk to your groomer and your vet!

(I agree, BTW -- this is just surreal)
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:06 PM
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3. We should ask the upper crud to volunteer their mink stoles nt
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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:21 PM
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14. and don't forget Poland! nt
:rofl: :smoke:
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chillspike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 07:02 PM
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17. yes, the oil gods must be appeased with the fur of baby seals
their determination to fit the stereotype of villainy is relentless.

cue oiled mustache and sinister laugh....BWAHAHAHAHHA
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:06 PM
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2. The hair isn't to fix the gusher, it is to be used to clean up
the unending mess caused by the gusher. There isn't enough hair or fur available to do any good if they don't turn the damn thing off.

:(
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:09 PM
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5. Yes merh...
I guess what is blowing me away is that 30 years ago, I would not have even expected that rig to be there today, and now we have to resort to primitive means to clean up the hell we made. :-(
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:26 PM
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16. I remember how we promised we would be more mindful of
the environment.

Ecology was the in thing then.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:09 PM
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4. I remember Carter giving a speech in a sweater.
I remember in 1977 going to a house on a school trip that was entirely solar powered.

I remember the VW Rabbit getting about 50 miles to the gallon.

Trust me, the absurdity hit me right around 1983. x(
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:10 PM
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6. Yes, I remember that speech.
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 09:06 PM
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20. Yep, I think of Carter every time I put on a sweater instead of turning up the heat
I kid you not.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 09:36 PM
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21. I don't have any sweaters, as I love the cold.
But I love that you think of that! :D
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 12:58 AM
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24. We had a mild winter but I am a weenie about cold
so I have wool sweaters and I wasn't kidding about thinking of him each time.
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:13 PM
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7. Howdy Lefty
Yeah, it is absurd.

We had a good thirty years now to be away from oil.
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:15 PM
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9. Hi texanwitch...
When I was in grade school over 40 years ago, I remember a teacher telling me that cancer would be cured in 20 years.

:-(
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DrDan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:14 PM
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8. on the bright side . . .
our wealthy are weathier
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:18 PM
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11. Plus there is way more poor people, serfs
for the rich to fuck over in even more ways than we'd ever have thought possible 30 years ago.
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DrDan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:26 PM
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15. darned right . . .
and in this global economy, we can screw over the serfs 'round the world
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 07:53 PM
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19. I can see now that that was the plan all along
I didn't see it at first with nafta, cafta and going into china what the ulterior motives were but I do now. It was never to build up the Chinese to our level but to tear us down to their level. There should be a ceo hanging from every tree from coast to coast. borrowing from a fellow okie, Will Rogers.
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:16 PM
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10. Do you remember that Ronald Reagan took the solar panels OFF the White House?
Then he eliminated the tax credits for solar conversion and gutted the research budget.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:21 PM
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13. A couple three years ago one of our fellow DU'ers were selling some of the evacuated tubes
from the whitehouse. I almost bought some from him myself but didn't because I had my hands full with my remodel job.
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 07:17 PM
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18. And gutted the funds for the American nuclear fusion program. (NT)
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 09:57 PM
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22. I used to have a bar chart of federal funding for renewable energy research ...
during the Bush I/Reagan years. As you might expect, it was a pretty good likeness of a downward staircase.
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 10:06 PM
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23. It was bad for bidness
Big Oil Bidness.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:19 PM
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12. big money trumps common sense
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