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“A pre-emptive veto by EPA would set a dangerous precedent and could have a chilling effect on similar projects throughout the nation,” said Georgia Republican Rep. Paul Broun.

Yes, asshole . . . that's the whole idea.

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I's only a disaster for the little people -- what matters is that the men who own the GOP profit handsomely.

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I thought Salford Docks had been yuppified. New BBC studio etc.

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Yes, but the Lowry brings a new class of punter looking for authenticity and an old fashioned knee-trembler.

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To remember how it used to be <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watc..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wj7xZf8xm8">http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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Thanks for the link. Peggy Seeger was in fine voice on that.

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oh man now i need eggs benedict.

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That guy in Washington let the truck go first - and look what happened to him.

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And with Stephen Harper in Ottawa, companies like this can get away with bloody murder.

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Um, yes we need moly, but this particular mine is a phenomenally bad idea. I really have to think that we have the technology to extract the mineral resources we really need (as opposed to the stuff like gold that we can get elsewhere) without endangering entire ecosystems.

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Another place to read about this, from time to time, is teh Mudflats.

This mine proposal is simply an environmental disaster waiting to happen. Maybe the containment for the tailings will last for thirty years. Maybe not. But sooner or later, adios salmon. Adios thousands of square miles of Alaska.

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Animators called them "Hanna-Barbarian" because they introduced (or, at least, were the first big studio to use) computer animation.

Sounds rather quaint today, huh?

At least it was better than Johnny Quest. But, then, what wasn't?

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M2: From wikipedia - which, as we all know, is always right!

Mel Blanc was the principal voice of Barney Rubble, although Daws Butler (who previously voiced Ned Morton, a mouse version of Ed Norton — the inspiration for Barney Rubble — in the Looney Tunes short The Honey-Mousers) briefly assumed the role while Blanc recovered from a car wreck.[12] Since Blanc's death, Frank Welker, Jeff Bergman, Stephen Stanton, Kevin Michael Richardson, Brad Abrell, Seth MacFarlane, and Scott Innes have all performed the role. Hamilton Camp voiced Barney in The Flintstone Kids.

In the 1994 live action Flintstones movie, Barney was portrayed by Rick Moranis. In the 2000 prequel, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, he was portrayed by Stephen Baldwin. In a Toshiba commercial he was voiced by Scott Innes.

"Voiced" by The Lesser Baldwin! How low can a Hollywood career go?

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I thought that Moly hated wearing Levis!

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<i>...which is going to be a fucking disaster!</i>

Ha! Like <i>that</i> ever matters to a Republican.

Exxon Valdez; BP Deepwater Horizon; Katrina; Iraq War; Bush Presidency; etc.

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There's some cheap hookers down Salford docks who'll work for a nice bit of haddock and some chips.

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