This has been in the news some, but I hadn't decided to make a thread about it.
Basically on March 31st the Pegasus oil pipeline ruptured near Mayflower Arkansas. It spilled 10,000+ barrels of oil (A barrel = 53 gal. or 158L) Mayflower is a small town about 20 minutes north of Little Rock, where I grew up, and about 15 minutes south of Conway, where I went to college, so I know this area pretty well.
Interestingly, what spilled is not crude oil. Rather it is "diluted bitumen." What they mine out of the tar sands fields in Canada is far closer to solid tar than it is crude oil. They blast the tar sands with steam and chemicals to free the oil, then they mix the oil with light petroleum compounds to make it liquid enough to flow before transporting it.
Exxon evacuated people and shut the pipeline off the day of the spill, and have been cleaning it up. But at the same time, they, along with police have basicaally created an exclusion zone. If you're trying to approach the spill area on main roads police will tell you to turn around. Reporters are being barred from the site of the spill they also Pissed off the Arkansas Attorney General by trying to herd him into a "tour" of the area rather than freely moving about
Thankfully, this is rural Arkansas and there's more than one way to get into anywhere, and people have been taking videos of the oil.
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OboeCrazy Freelancer
4 years ago
Men in suits are sexy. Happy V-Day!
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Thorenir
4 years ago
Happy Thanksgiving!
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JakeHCoker
4 years ago
Hey thought you might be interested in checking out ARvB. Would be nice if we could all host a small event on day.
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bobomonkey
6 years ago
too late on the forum to be worth posting on there..so a direct response is at least merited.
I didn't say Republicans would raise more or less funds than Obama's re-election campaign; only that it isn't really the right time to be comparing the two as if it were a level field....especially before there is an official nominee.
IMO - Obama isn't going to raise as much as he did last election, he HAS P.O.'d enough on his own party lines to effect that number and people's pocketbooks are hurting...not to mention a lot of the occupy (effectively just an mainstream anti-establishment block) movement and people who support them were more likely to be D supporters than R which should also reduce some of his "grass roots" fundraising. The same general reduction in donations (because of the economy) should hold true for the other side as well, but, Obama has pissed off enough people off on the right AND they have the added drive of removing him from office. Add a few other options out there, if a Mormon gets the nomination, don't think for a minute that the LDS church (through it's membership of course) won't offer up a substantial throw their weight in the pot. Give them their criticism if you will, but they support their own to a degree I wouldn't have thought possible a few years ago. You also have the added factor of the "personhood" of corporations, right now, generically, Obama is NOT pro private industry; if that doesn't effect the totals, I would be absolutely amazed.
Will Obama raise more funds than the R nominee...maybe...possibly...who knows? But to make a comparison before the candidate is even known, isn't really going to be effective.
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Chi_Mangetsu
6 years ago
Link on the Parry plane is forbidden.
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Chi_Mangetsu
6 years ago
Like I said, he's a closet case.
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KWierso AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
6 years ago
Turing*
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Leo
6 years ago
Do you have any tips for the LSAT? Any specific material to study?
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BigBen
7 years ago
English as a Second Language
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KWierso AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
7 years ago
You have thread moving powers, right?
Wanna move this one to the Technical forum?
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Chi_Mangetsu
7 years ago
ICH BEN LEIBER, HEIL GRAMMAR!
What doth mean ESL?
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swooper74
7 years ago
You might want to poke your head back into the Extremism thread in the PCE, looks like a couple of somebodies don't really feel like having their accounts last for a whole three days.
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swooper74
7 years ago
you might want to just go ahead and delete trollface's account. maybe along with his partner's.
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BobLablaw
8 years ago
True.
Very true.
Though, since it's a school project, I'm just going to do what the overlords say and not question it (for once.)
I've had far too many health problems this year to bog down in semantics.
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Duste Returned Without Receipt
8 years ago
Simple question, not trying to get you involved.
Where should I go if I have a complaint about a mod?
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Exodusv
8 years ago
Hey m8 remember me?
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srlanky
8 years ago
im super cool thats a fact
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RavenAdonis
8 years ago
Need some help, please.
roosterteethcomics.com/forum/viewTopic.php?id=2224351&page=12 Bottom of the page.
roosterteethcomics.com/iamappear Culprit.
I don't know what to do...it's been a while and none of the mods or admin have been helping (I've only been asking those that are online).
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LoverLady
8 years ago
u suck monkey ballz. u see, i have a little rule anyone that denies or ignores my friend requests, immedialtey goes into the hate file
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DEATHROW
8 years ago
In memory of 9/11, save this image and use it as your profile image. Please pass it on. roosterteethcomics.com/members/images/image.php?id=2741557
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Excalibur49
8 years ago
Can you help me? I've had this problem of being perma-banned for maybe a semi-unknown reason and would like to have some help with the situation.
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TheForge
8 years ago
this group got hacked...pretty badly
redvsblue.com/groups/profile.php?id=38
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MrJacinto Hey I'm Grump
8 years ago
Bored?
Suicidal?
3 seconds from torching your own scrodim?
You need STIMULTAINMENT!
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yelnocp TNETENNBA
8 years ago
In reply to BigBen, Blog Post #3074:
It sounds like someone is whistling "if i only had a brain at the end of your video there.
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KFire
8 years ago
Congrats! Good luck on the Bar!
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ClydeLayson
8 years ago
Um hey if its cool with you can you add me i left you a comment if that means anything if not no worries.
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Evilmrj
8 years ago
HA! I remember you! Congrats on graduating from law school.
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MurcielagoAI
8 years ago
can you please un-ban me from the animated .gif thread?
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MurcielagoAI
8 years ago
the only slight idea i have is for a gif i posted of this chick about to fellate a bannana and then chris hansen pops onto the screen saying "why don't you have a seat". I linked it for NSFW.
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MurcielagoAI
8 years ago
why am i banned from the animated .gif thread?
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TheTaco007
8 years ago
never mind, sorry.
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TheTaco007
8 years ago
Excuse me, can I get you to lock one of my threads?
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AFKeeker
8 years ago
Any chance we could get you to at least temp ban Gooley for spamming in the new live chat? Since there's no chat mod, it makes it somewhat difficult to chat with his idiocy taking up most of the box. Thanks!
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LittleHelper
8 years ago
I need help with thinking of the name for my production team. If you have your own answer, respond, ASAP.
Which Name so far is Better?
Giga Drill Breaker Productions
Lucky Productions
Roadkill Productions
Final Slaughter Productions
Secret Society
Balls Taken Productions
Within Living Productions
RT Community Productions
Something Else
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NuRdRMsZ
9 years ago
Don't let the bastards grind you down [/wikipedia] ?
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LittleHelper
9 years ago
In Russia, language learns you!
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MJbigbro
9 years ago
i have reason to believe that lildee101 has 2 profiles, and they are lildee101, and hannah_dee......just thought i should tell you seeing as how i believe its against the rules to have more then one profile
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FLASHFIST
9 years ago
can I post my surgery pic's on My Images? there kinda gross.
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graveyman
9 years ago
Thanks for the advice, I will consider it while planning ahead.
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graveyman
9 years ago
Hey, I am interested in pursuing a law degree at the United States Military Academy. I noticed that you have pursued a career in this field and was wondering if you had any advice. I would appreciate it very much.
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DaDouche
9 years ago
I've been thinking about using Rosetta Stone to learn a language, how well did it prepare you for your trip to Russia?
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Gearoid
9 years ago
Hey Ben. I knew so legal advice regarding a potential small claims suit I'm considering. I knew a site that is unfair to individual and group of user.The site ban user from form or the site who have not use proper spelling and grammar.This must be break some laws.
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lmf221
9 years ago
Hey Ben. I put up a topic in the General forum requesting legal advice regarding a potential small claims suit I'm considering. Frankly I think you are one of the more knowledgeable people on the site regarding legal matters so I was hoping (if it wasn't too much trouble of course) maybe you'd have time to drop by? If not I totally understand, just keep putting ignorant fools in their place in the politics forum, haha!
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GIJooWarHero
9 years ago
You should run for president.
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LTedd
9 years ago
This guy is trolling all over the place.
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Freelancer The Trash Man
9 years ago
Sorry to bother you but you are one of the only mods online and in the Red vs Blue forum there is a massive troll on the loose named blackout92 in the Red vs Blue: Relocated thread.
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SupaChurchFn
9 years ago
You are my favorite person of the day, you brainwashed obama-loving liberal bastard.
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Sircatnipman
9 years ago
This user has some images that could possibly be NSFW..
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Sircatnipman
9 years ago
I have a feeling this is NSFW.
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purehalo
9 years ago
Hey bro..Quick question
how come i got banned from that gif forum?
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