StrangeSox

Any amount of hypocrisy from Republicans doesn't make that any less stupid/ dishonest/ sleazy.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 18, 2010 -> 08:09 AM) Yay. I'll be there next week screaming "where's the oil?!" like that idiot on Fox. Link? edit: Sounds like the idiots with videos of plants growing better in CO2-rich environments and therefore more CO2 is actually good for everyone!

New Black Keys album out tomorrow

I wonder if the KC clubhouse was laughing when they found out about the lineup.

Main power to the front deflector shields!

Which is why the "Accident" or "act of god" excuses don't stand up to a trivial amount of scrutiny. This should be criminal negligence.

Neimi with another great save. He's kept them in this game.

Which is why I had my post earlier about the conundrum we have: Deregulation clearly does not work. Regulation doesn't work when its not effectively enforced. What is the public left to do?

That's not the message I got from that article.

Always good to see Jose pitching well

Good to know that San Jose has "exercised the dragons"

Amazon, mostly for the gift card.

Thank you, kap. I think you've done a fair job of pointing out the difference between hardcore libertarians (who would want complete deregulation) and the typical conservative position. But, as Balta's and my own's analogy with drunk driving pointed out, you can't call it an "accident" and then remove responsibility for what happens. It's really looking like this was a completely preventable situation but that there were multiple systemic failures; some in government, many in the companies owning and operating the rig. And then you go back to your strawman argument of accusing Balta and myself of professing luddite beliefs while using technology. I think it's safe to say that neither of us are anything close to that. We just want responsible energy policy and responsible economic policy. We're a long way off from that. I don't oppose oil drilling 100%, but I do oppose lax regulations, poor enforcement of what little regulation there was and completely ignoring what all of the scientists are saying about risk levels and potential environmental impact. I oppose faulty test reports and sub-standard equipment. I oppose not really having any sort of plan in place before a disaster happens. It may not typically be the stance of "deregulate everything" that conservatives take, but there is definitely a position of "government is the problem" and that the free market is the best solution to sorting out these problems. That ideology is simply unworkable at such large scales and with so much inherent risk. I find this article depressing: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/us/16oil...amp;twt=nytimes

Nice feature. I've noticed that it takes an extra second or two to pop up, but I don't see that as an issue.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 15, 2010 -> 01:24 PM) . Can you actually make a coherent argument against a position for once? QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 15, 2010 -> 05:01 PM) Yup, that's how stupid the argument is for your side. It's always a double standard for what your side of things are and what morality is according to your world. Thanks for proving me right once again. Eh, guess not.

I thought the flashback was pretty insulting. Did they really think viewers were too stupid to get what the scene meant?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 15, 2010 -> 11:14 AM) picture=George W. Bush picture=capitalism picture=Obama needs to save the day picture=government needs to fix it picture=something to throw out to bash "conservatives" How about you put the computer down, stop driving your car, stop using electricity, stop earning your money or taking it from another source, and go live in a cave without fire (because after all that emits carbon and might pollute something). Because otherwise, your stretches here is on about the same equivaliancies and you're just as much to blame as any one other category above. Lack of regulations, lack of good enforcement of what regulations there were and the drive to cut corners to increase profits led to this. Can you actually make a coherent argument against a position for once?

What are you talking about, kap?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 14, 2010 -> 08:19 PM) Oh yes, we get "f***ed over". OMG. Evil f***ing capitalists. Yeah, we really did here. You're actually going to white knight BP and defend deregulation in this case?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 14, 2010 -> 08:09 PM) Zambrano's fastball is way down. Not topping 90 mph today. On B&B today they said he topped out at either 84 or 85. Something's wrong.

Fantastic lucky piece of hitting there.

how's Frank been in the both?

What are you even going on about? Bush had s***ty, heavily-pro-business-especially-in-energy policies. I just said Obama really hasn't done much to fix them until this major clusterf*** happened. I really don't know what the right solution is here or with regulation in general. We see what happens when we deregulate--we get f***ed over by businesses. We see what happens when we regulate--we get f***ed over by businesses and their paid-for politicians.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 14, 2010 -> 07:45 PM) Yup. And by that same token, the current administration has had a year and a half to correct this "s***ty policy", now hasn't he? So he's got just as much oil on his hands as GWB. And, for the record, it was an accident, so neither are to "blame"... but you people can't get the f*** over your hard on Bush hatred. Yeah, they have had time to correct. They haven't. That doesn't change who started the s***ty policies when. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/us/14agency.html It was an "accident" that, as of now, has all the hallmarks of incompetence, cutting corners, marginal legality and fraudulent testing and reports. Running a red light while drunk and plowing into a tree is an "accident", too, but it comes with responsibility.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 14, 2010 -> 04:41 PM) Yup. Every motherf***ing bad things that happens, anywhere, anytime, is George W. Bush's fault. Every bad thing that happens as a direct result from GWB's s***ty policies is, at least partially, his fault.