Sarah Palin blames environmentalists for the Gulf oil spill

[mnaz]

Sarah Palin (of ‘drill baby drill’ fame) blames environmentalists for the Gulf oil spill. No kidding.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/06/04/sar ... oil-spill/

Oh yeah! Her political star is definitely rising! She won't go away!

It's a pretty big spill. I wonder if she can see it from her house.

[stilltrucking]

What is wrong with that woman? She must be an atheist. Everyone knows it was an act of god.

If oil spill is 'an act of God,' BP merits divine retribution

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) delivered the startling revelation last week that the BP oil spill was caused not by a faulty blowout preventer but by the Almighty Himself.

With this curious theology, Cole has joined the ministry of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a fellow Republican, who last month said of the oil spill: "From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... inionsbox1

[mnaz]

I'm still trying to figure out if there's any ounce of validity in her points about all these supposed "vast" safer reservoirs being placed off-limits. How much is really there, and how much "safer" are these places? Haven't found a specific link yet. Seems to me that pipelines on land have had massive spills in the past, and there was that big shallow-water blowout/spill off Mexico's coast.

While googlin' I did find a couple of links explaining how Palin raised taxes on the oil companies while she was governor of Alaska, which killed a lot of their Alaskan projects. S.P., hypocrite du jour

Don't the oil giants simply go where the most oil can be had for the most profit margin? You mean to say a bunch of mean old sprout-eating hippie enviro-libruls bullied poor little old BP way off shore, and it had no choice? Please.

"From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented."

Hmm... almost like that rowboat parable-- a devout believer trapped on his roof in a big flood, and refuses a rowboat rescue three times, saying "God will save me." When he perishes and goes to heaven, he asks God, "why didn't you save me?" And God says, "What to you mean? I sent you three rowboats!" And thus sayeth God to the oil giant, "I provided you with that blowout preventer thing!" . . .

Anyway, read the comments on wonkette.com Hilarious (and painful).
http://wonkette.com/415813/millionaire- ... mentalists

[stilltrucking]

Do you remember the electricity crisis in California during the heydays of Enron. California was suddenly out of electricity and Rush Limbaugh said it was because the environmentalists had made it so hard to build to build electric power plants. Of course it turned out that Enron was diverting the electricity from California to other states and then sending it back to California at double and triple the price.

Rush Limbaugh is behind this story too.
For what that is worth.

He started the spin On May 1st
http://trueslant.com/justingardner/2010 ... entalists/

On April 30th Palin had not yet jumped on the blame the environmentalists bandwagon.
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=384560338434

[stilltrucking]

I know my reply is not exactly congruent with you topic mnaz. I am not that skilled in logic but I know I have kind of used some fallacy in my argument which is how the sophists refine their spin, start out outrageous then fine tune it if it gets some traction in the mass media. Make it sound more plausible.

Maybe the environmentalists do have a share. For being too cozy with the oil companies.

I think BP was going to drill that well no matter what. A lot of oil down in the Mississippi Canyon