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| 26709 | 330 | OIL ON THE BEACH | 28 | PeakMaster | Jun 6, 2010 | 2010-06-06T02:56:25-0400 | peacefulpete wrote: PM, In all seriousness, thanks for the civility. I do appreciate that politics can gets hot and passionate (but not in a good way and usually try to keep it out of topical discussions on the 'net. But this is an ocean-driven forum, and the ocean is hurting in a major way. I believe the animosity we see above in this thread is fueled on both sides by a corporate media who benefits greatly from infighting and bickering amongst the voters. The status quo is acceptable only to CEO's and the top 1% of earners in this land, and the bulls&*t Lindsey Lohan-type media coverage serves mostly to distract us from serious things like the destruction of a massive ecosystem. I'm super passionate about our oceans and their tributaries. I spend 12-15 hours a week in the Pacific ocean now, which pales in comparison to my youth on the Gulf coast. Given the venue, I assume our passion for riding waves and keeping them clean is at least one thing we have in common. It's way more productive for us to work together on common goals than to focus on our differences. Even if that doesn't happen, we would both better serve our "causes" by doing instead of talking about doing. Agreed? When you come to Cali, look me up. We'll surf and not talk politics. Click to expand... PeacefulP: Your passion for the environment, specifically the ocean is both noble and admirable as are your efforts towards protection same. I'm no political party centric. I go with who I think will be the best. It takes an outrage like this to show that no matter what, we end with "ass clowns" fronting like they run our country. Bush and his group were no better with Katrina clearly worse of a disaster since there was so much human tragedy. But this one does not seem to have an end in sight and no one taking command of the situation to even suggest that will happen. They put some Admiral in the Coast Guard in charge??...WTF??!! he will become a scapegoat in short order. Anyway, perhaps my response was a bit heavy handed but I'm passionate about this one and furious that as each hour goes by, we get nothing but lip service and photo ops. from a President who has yet to deliver on one single campaign promise. s&*t, I wouldn't care if he delivered on none if he grew some balls and squared this disaster away. That doesn't appear to be happening any time soon. Oh and as far the ACOE goes: those are the same guys that end up working for State DOTs. The good engineers get real degrees from real schools and end up with real engineering jobs. I can't think of a project they work on that isn't a goat fuck. |