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Old 05-03-2010, 05:45 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Since most of Rush's listeners are conservatives, and most of the people in the gulf states are conservatives (most of whom listen to Rush and support him), I don't care a whit if they lose their fishing and tourism industries for however long they lose them. Let them suffer, they brought it upon themselves.
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Old 05-03-2010, 05:46 PM
 
Location: southern california
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thank you rush.
very interesting interpretation of nature.
when we lose our jobs and have no insurance is it also natural and will take care of itself.
???
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Old 05-03-2010, 05:58 PM
 
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The problem with Rush mentality is that all other rights are subordinated to oil interests.

The problem with our govt policy and laws is that there's little incentive to do the right thing or go the extra mile being responsible. It's more cost effective to cut corners and operate irresponsibly in the eyes of many in leadership positions (commercial and govt). There are no meaningful consequences for those enabled to pass the costs of their mistakes onto all others. That would be the problem of a government who has deferred to the wishes of commerce to the extreme of abrogating themselves of all responsibility.

Congress did this? Obama? Decades of wrong headed governance did this, and we need to get this attitude evicted from governance once and for all.[/quote]

I suppose the problems began in the 19th century--unfortunately I do not know.
Boortz is probably correct in his assessment---a multimillionaire, friend of Sean Hannity's with a 2nd empire in Florida, Naples. He divides his time between Atlanta and Naples. He wouldn't support anything that would jeopardize one penny of his money. I quit listening by the time he got around to discussing the oil spill--I believe his first hour on the air was 'illegal aliens'--a topic he truly enjoys.
I assume that there are thousands of experts---and arriving at a consensus would be like herding cats.

With my 'tiny' brain all I can do is worry. There is really no 'guarantee' that there won't be another Katrina---or a catastrophic earthquake in California, or another severe drought.
About 20 years ago I tired of criticizing 'The Leader' and political rantings, etc.
I suppose I am now inclined to cast my lot with those who support alternatives. Yes---drive smaller, more fuel efficient cars. Use paper not plastic and whatever you can do to consume less. I don't need the Government to Make me...
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Old 05-03-2010, 06:12 PM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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I'm not a Rush fan, but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.

The oil spill may not be natural, but oil is. He said it wrong, but he is not too far off. Nature will break the oil down over time.

It'll break down nuclear waste too, mind if we store it in your garage?
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Old 05-03-2010, 06:12 PM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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For different reasons, mainly exploitative humor. Freakshow.

Oooh, nice one.
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Old 05-03-2010, 06:12 PM
 
Location: Right where I want to be.
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Let's have Rush sit down and snort and slop his way through a tureen of terrapin soup made from all those dead sea turtles now washing up on the beaches of the gulf coast. Then we can tell him that puking his guts out is "natural" and "will take care of itself."
Not defending Rush or minimizing the oil spill but I was reading articles in early April showing that sea turtles have been washing up in unusually high numbers this spring along several beaches in the gulf (it's not uncommon that they die and wash up in the spring but 20-30 at a time is unusual). It didn't start with the oil spill and the cause is still undetermined. The reports I have heard about the turtles found since the spill said that there was no sign of oil on the turtles or the beaches where they were found...they need to have a necropsy to determine the cause of death but at this point it is likely that the cause of death is not the oil spill.
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Old 05-03-2010, 07:03 PM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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Limbaugh, Environmentalists Square Off on Who is to Blame for Oil Leak - ABC News
Limbaugh has downplayed the need for a massive cleanup, saying that oil in the ocean was a natural phenomenon and as a result the ocean would take care of cleaning itself.

"You do survive these things. I'm not advocating don't care about it hitting the shore or coast and whatever you can do to keep it out of there is fine and dandy, but the ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and was left out there," Limbaugh said. "It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is."
thank you, loozie, for utterly destroying holdie's insipid premise that limbaugh claimed this oil spill was a natural event.
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Old 05-03-2010, 07:48 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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A link to the exact statement in which he deemed this latest oil spill 'natural' would be nice...
Do you suspect that the damage from some oil spills are more "natural" than others?
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Old 05-03-2010, 09:15 PM
 
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thank you, loozie, for utterly destroying holdie's insipid premise that limbaugh claimed this oil spill was a natural event.
" Limbaugh, oil spill "natural" and will "take care of itself"

aaaand... the link and quote....

= same thing.
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Old 05-03-2010, 09:17 PM
 
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Do you suspect that the damage from some oil spills are more "natural" than others?
If Rush says so.
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