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Dover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:35 AM Original message |
Poll question: What do you fear most - Big Oil or 'Terrorism'? |
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haikugal (476 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
1. Aren't they the same thing? |
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Dover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:40 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. That was an option in the poll...n/t |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:46 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. My opinion too |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
2. K&R |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:40 AM Original message |
What's the difference? |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
3. Big oil can be regulated if politicians act - telling a terrorist no is a joke |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
11. We create terrorists when we occupy their Nations and steal their oil. nt |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 12:05 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. No terrorist ever destroyed an ocean. What they do is pitiful in proportion. |
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AnArmyVeteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
6. Hayward is to BP, as Bin Laden is to Al Qaeda |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 12:52 PM Response to Reply #6 |
24. Those "principles" are about acquiring power. |
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AnArmyVeteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 02:12 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Al Qaeda members aren't rich. They are driven/manipulated by religious 'principles' |
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FBI_Un_Sub (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
7. Some talking heads and analysts |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:56 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. ...and if one thinks carefully....was it not the quest for oil that first brought us into the |
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FBI_Un_Sub (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 12:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Just go back to the Sykes-Picot (Secret) Agreement |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
8. Terrorism may just be part of the fight against big corporations. On |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 12:20 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. Wait, whaat? |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 01:14 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. It has been suggested that the terrorist were angry about troops stationed |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
9. Four people are actually most afraid of "terrorists?" |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 12:04 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. The Cheney family |
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Dover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 12:07 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Perhaps those who chose 'terrorists' could explain their choice?..n/t |
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amyrose2712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 12:15 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Wow. nt |
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fishbulb703 (492 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 12:34 PM Response to Reply #9 |
22. lol, I'm more afraid of lightning nt |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
16. You can shoot a terrorist. |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 12:20 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. "A corporation has no body to send to jail and no soul to send to hell." |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 01:33 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. Thanks, but I can't take credit for it. |
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Dover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 12:25 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. True. Corporations are inherently undemocratic and nonrepresentative in their governance. |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
21. The Big Oil / MIC Complex is Terror Incorporated marketed by M$M |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
23. I Chose the Third one Down BUT think big corporations and big oil are one in the same |
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Dover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 12:53 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. ...and the early settlers/government framed Native Americans as 'terroritsts' too. |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
29. What was the name of the film in which Marlon Brando, as an oil tycoon says, "We ARE the Arabs!"? |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
30. Without big oil, there would be no terrorism. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 05:01 PM Response to Original message |
31. Coal and the climate change crisis endanger the lives of hundreds of millions. |
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Dover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 05:11 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. True. I guess I'd put Coal in the 'large corporations' category in #3 |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 05:15 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. I believe Mountaintop removal is worse than the Gulf gusher. |
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Dover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 05:33 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. He took some steps in the right direction, but hasn't ended mountaintop mining. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 05:46 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Yes he did end it That's an outdated article. |
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Dover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 05:59 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. My apologies. I completely missed that rather huge bit of news! |
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kgnu_fan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
32. Big Oil is the Terrorism all over the world, destroying everything |
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Prophet 451 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
35. Large corporations |
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gleaner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
38. I chose the large corporations option..... |
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