drill, baby, drill!
 

sarah palin's recent battle cry - a little muted of late, for some reason...:rolleyes:

Re: drill, baby, drill!
 

Yeah, how's that drilly, oily thing working out for ya'?

I think I'll go to that extreme right wing discussion forum I've been frequenting lately and ask if everyone who's ever chanted "drill baby drill" will be donating their money and time to help clean up the ecological disaster that the policies they support and celebrate have created.

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I need a bumper sticker that reads, "Drill Baby. . . whoops!"

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Can't make a petroleum-based omlette without cracking a few eggs. And by eggs I mean fragile coastal ecologies.

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bang on, cacophony:

from palin's farcebook page, from a piece titled 'why we can still believe in domestic drilling'

albeit a rather oily one. and not very prosperous where the oil lands. otherwise, a bang-on assessment by the century's great thunker.

read the full insight here

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no thanks. i don't gotta stick my head inside a garbage can to know it stinks.

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And more importantly to the "drill baby drill" crowd, how about the local economies that are being devastated, from fishing industries, to fish markets, to tourism, etc.? Doesn't exactly move us towards "prosperity".

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drilling is ok. next time don't spill it

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nope - the remedy is to distrust pesky foreigners:

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In the months before BP's Deepwater Horizon rig sank in a ball of fire in the Gulf of Mexico, the company had four close calls on pipelines and facilities it operates in Alaska, according to a letter from two congressmen obtained by ProPublica.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...fety-oil-spill