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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 05/04/2010 : 04:18:15
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Governor Rick Perry must think that God is a total scumbag who works for BP and Halliburton.
If the very Christian, very Republican governor of Texas is right on this one, he may soon find it politically expedient to rethink his allegiances, what with 2010 being an election year and all.
That's right: according to Republican Rick Perry, no amount of safety requirements can prevent an "act of God," which may or may not have occurred in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in 11 dead oil rig workers and a gusher of oil jetting over 2 million gallons of crude per day into the fragile aquatic ecosystem.
Initial estimates claimed just 1,000 barrels of oil per day were leaking, but that number was quickly revised upward to 5,000 barrels per day. Current estimates project as much as 50,000 barrels a day are spouting from the sunken rig, and it may yet increase.
Speaking at a benefit funded by the Chamber of Commerce, Perry suggested that tighter safety regulations just don't have anything on God.
“We don’t know what the event that has allowed for this massive oil to be released,” Perry said, according to Politico. “And until we know that, I hope we don’t see a knee-jerk reaction across this country that says we’re going to shut down drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, because the cost to this country will be staggering."
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I suggest signing the Greenpeace petition below.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Ebone4rock
SFN Regular
USA
894 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2010 : 05:57:42 [Permalink]
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| Is that damn God at it again? What an evil bastard. |
Haole with heart, thats all I'll ever be. I'm not a part of the North Shore society. Stuck on the shoulder, that's where you'll find me. Digging for scraps with the kooks in line. -Offspring |
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TG
Skeptic Friend
USA
121 Posts |
 Posted - 05/04/2010 : 09:45:52 [Permalink]
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Not that 50,000 barrels a day is trivial, but it's a long way from 2 million.
I suspect everyone is just pulling numbers out of their a$$es.
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2010 : 11:46:29 [Permalink]
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| Um, its 50,000 barrels and 2,000,000 GALLONS, not 2M barrels. Just saying, no doubt the numbers are of ass-origins though. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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sailingsoul
SFN Addict
2830 Posts |
Posted - 05/05/2010 : 05:02:07 [Permalink]
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| TX gov.: might be God done it! |
There you have it right from the golden buckle of the bible belt, Texas. It could be God's reaction to Obama's flip flop on off shore drilling. Read the bible. It's in there. Nostradamus predicted this too. Wake up! These are the end times. Accept Jesus as your savior. Here are pictures of those who accepted satan, as others have. Without knowing it, people have been lead away from the purity of heavenly waters and delivered satan's bottled water. Any day now, be prepared. SS |
There are only two types of religious people, the deceivers and the deceived. SS |
| Edited by - sailingsoul on 05/05/2010 05:03:09 |
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TX gov.: might be God done it!
