03-03-2009, 01:04 PM
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Rex Murphy on the National Geographic Oilsands article
A great listen. He feels the same way I do but sounds far more intelligent. Not like that is difficult though...
As with all CBC articles, some of the comments are priceless.
High-Minded Hypocrisy
http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/vide...pocrisy_1.html
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03-03-2009, 01:12 PM
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One of the Nine
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Holy crap! That guy looks like Chretien's younger, slightly less ######ed brother.
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03-03-2009, 01:13 PM
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Two of my favorites.
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REX is ignorant. To say that we must pump oil out of the ground is ignorant. For thousands of years, mankind has always innovated. REX is ignorant of the human intellect & human intelligence. If we think like REX, then we would still believe the Earth is the center of the universe. Luckily, mathematicians in Northern Egypt & Southern Spain rejected this notion by recording movements of celestial bodies.
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Although the tar sands have indeed provided jobs for many thousands of people, how can you come to their defense when it is high time to invest in the future: in massive energy conservation, and in the development of renewable energy sources?
Tar sands are the dirtiest sources of energy on the planet, and we are resorting to them like a heroin addict resorts to the veins in his toes when every other vein in his body has collapsed.
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03-03-2009, 01:27 PM
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Well done, Rex. There were a couple of Herald articles in the last week admonishing National Geographic for not reporting the entire story.
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03-03-2009, 01:34 PM
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I think I blacked out. Something on the CBC that didnt want to make me throwup.
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03-03-2009, 01:35 PM
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Awesome video. He puts it so much more intelligently than I can.
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03-03-2009, 01:38 PM
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Best one yet:
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This is not Fox News, and I, among other Canadians, are not stupid enough to buy the shallow argument!
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I ARE NOT STUPID ENOUGH.
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03-03-2009, 01:44 PM
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I love how the comments against the oilsands are always from hippy trash living in Vancouver. Thanks for telling me an inconsequential story about how people figured out the earth orbited the sun.
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03-03-2009, 01:48 PM
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Book this man on Jim Rome.
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03-03-2009, 01:52 PM
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One of the Nine
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^^ Rex #15
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03-03-2009, 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by fotze
I liked the comment about the toxic oil sands wells that people live downstream of.
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Hahaha, I think I said that in a recent thread. 
Shame! Shame!
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03-03-2009, 02:25 PM
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I mostly identify with the centre-left side of the political spectrum, I am very happy with how Michael Ignatieff has approached the engineering marvel taking place in the oil sands. While I do wish we as a society could start to develop alternative energy sources, that does not change the fact that it is vital to our daily lives. The oil companies should be required to extract the oil with as small of an environmental impact as reasonable, but do not burden them with unnecessary taxes and restrictions to the point where projects dry up completely and production slows. Common sense, not rhetoric, is what is needed... especially during a recession.
Thanks for speaking up, you old windbag!
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03-03-2009, 05:56 PM
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The lesser known Sedin brother
Join Date: Jan 2006
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My truck runs on hopes and dreams...I don't know what Rex is talking about....
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03-04-2009, 10:31 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Fantasy Island
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I try to read the CBC comments but I just can't get through them because I feel like my brain is melting. 
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