Environmental Groups Hope Oil Spill Will Help Build Momentum For Offshore Drilling Ban

The catch-22 is that while banning drilling would be good for the environment it would increase our dependence on Mideast oil and the whims of the cartel and big oil. We're not in a position yet to do without it. Alternative sources of energy need improving and they're also screaming about coal, nuclear and other sources that do work.



I heard tonight that a $500K valve they could have installed during the Bush years would have averted this whole thing. After Exxon, I can't imagine the feeblemindedness that could cause a company making billions to decide not to spend that kind of petty cash on a simple way to protect the earth and all its life, including us. It's also beyond me why they don't take some of that ill-gotten gain and use it to clean up their mess, stop the leak and give reparations to the families whose lives they've shattered. Immediately!
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Halden Prison: Norway Builds The World's Most Humane Prison

For all of you thinking Norway is the next thing to perfection, crime there is actually on the rise. Especially in Oslo, where the rate is more than 4 times that of New York City! Fewer highways, cold weather and distance had kept much of it isolated, and strict drug and drinking laws as well as police and private security patrols and frequent roadblocks have kept the peace until now. Organized crime & street gangs are building. And an influx of Europeans has resulted in a big increase in burglary and home invasions. Life in Norway is becoming more like everywhere else.
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Roman Polanski SPEAKS: Breaks Silence On Legal Woes

Dirty little secrets? Are you blaming us for simply wanting justice? I wish you could have sat with me in the courtroom and through the investigation when my daughter's abuser was coddled by the system. As charges were dropped right and left. And the one who violated at least a dozen girls spent less than a month in jail, expressed how he felt victimized by the parents of those children wanting him in prison, and now has the rest of his life to do whatever he pleases. Maybe you'd also have seen the changes in the girls and how they carry the scars. How their lives have been affected.



Maybe then you'd think differently when you hear of a pedophile who escapes justice. And you'd have a tad of empathy for those who care more about the safety of children than they do the freedom of an abuser.
About Roman Polanski
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Roman Polanski SPEAKS: Breaks Silence On Legal Woes

It makes me sick that so many are anxious to forgive this guy for what he did to a child.



Like many pedophiles, he had a number of charges that were reduced. That was his first big break. He pled guilty to a lower crime and just before sentencing he took off. He paid his victim a huge sum of hush money and lived in luxury rather than serve his sentence. Now the law wants justice and he feels persecuted.



I wish our society treated the victims better than the criminals. We happily drop all kinds of charges, let them buy freedom, try to understand them, fight for prison reform and call them products of a broken community. The victims are violated by the creep, the investigators, the courts and then thrown under the bus to be forgotten. And when it's our children that makes it so much more vile.



Poor Roman... should be rotting in a cell.
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Impact: Get Involved

Great! Now Cheney will continue to dig his claws into citizens through their checkbooks.



I love how Mr. Waxman sent a "tough" letter to Halliburton over this. May as well have far ted in the wind for all the good it'll do.



Thanks for the link. More information is a good thing! Fanned!
About Gulf Oil Spill
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New 'Sex & The City 2' Poster: Photoshop Disaster? (PHOTO)

Must be why she dropped the middle name Winny!
About Airbrushing
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Upper Big Branch Miners' Families Offered $3 Million Settlement By Massey Energy

Maybe there are two points here. Make the mines safer or shut them down. That could be done by a strike, class action lawsuit or petitioning the fed to do their $@#* job.

And what do the families do to survive now that their providers are gone? Do they work the mine themselves, get other jobs in a repressed mining community, take a chance on suing, maybe winning, and racking up huge lawyer bills in the process, or take 3 million (more money than any of them would ever see in their whole lives) and live comfortably.



Why couldn't they do both? Add their voices to others to push for change and take the money just like it was a life insurance policy. That way the owner has to pay all the families many millions plus he's forced to make the needed changes.
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