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Hardly Ideal's avatar

What? No! No wildlife was harmed. That's just a rare Ebon Pelican!

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Hardly Ideal's avatar

Sprinkle some arsenic on it, while you're at it. It occurs naturally in almonds!

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sgt. jmk de la résistance's avatar

I bet the executives draw straws to see who gets to pay the annual fines out of his bonus each year.

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Come here a minute's avatar

There were no reported injuries, but how many plankton were sacrificed? I really like those little guys!

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tedmills's avatar

Here's a great local article about the hoops the company went through to not be regulated. Plus the area is mess of overlapping county/city/federal land and agencies:http://www.independent.com/...

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HogeyeGrex🌻's avatar

Ah, the good ol' days.

I still work on equipment that had a design life of twenty years or so, and with regular care and feeding is still going strong thirty and forty years on.

Much of the stuff made in the last decade or two goes toes up fairly quickly and isn't worth the labor cost to repair.

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HogeyeGrex🌻's avatar

Then they'll laugh and skim it off of the hourly workers' benefits package.

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BadKitty904's avatar

Pat Roberson? Is that you?

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lalameda's avatar

2014 election results for Santa Barbara

U.S. Representative, 24th DistrictLois Capps(D): 75,307 (51.6%)Chris Mitchum(R): 70,673 (48.4%)

Measure P (Oil Drilling Ban)Yes: 30,732 (37.35%)No: 51,547 (62.65%)

http://www.independent.com/...

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Sir Leggy Mountbatten III's avatar

I'd like to see 100,000 barrels of oil wash up in Mitt Romney's backyard.

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memzilla Ω's avatar

...Plains Pipeline, has a safety record to make Captain Joseph Hazelwood proud...

I'm taking bets on who the Rethuglicans choose to operate Keystone XL. Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

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Rick Hill's avatar

What a quandary Mitt would be placed in....or maybe not. He's not running again(probably) but then again he's probably poor-fucking buddies with the oil company execs.

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FauxAntocles's avatar

"You're our boy"

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dslindc's avatar

You know what we really need is less regulation so these companies can grow the economy pollute like crazy.

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Rank Member's avatar

This one hits home as I spent countless days and nights camping at Refugio when I still lived in California.

One of my favorite places fouled, again.... I'm just fucking pissed.

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