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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    10/29/09

    In reply to Cleaning Lady Hints at Plastic Diet
    Eat Your Makeup #news
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    10/29/09

    In reply to Cleaning Lady Hints at Plastic Diet
    Crowley as in Crowley Maritime? #news
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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    10/29/09

    In reply to Cleaning Lady Hints at Plastic Diet
    Earth 2.0 = Earth + Plastic (I think it was George Carlin who said we're stupid for worrying about it and Earth will figure out a way to integrate plastic into itself long after our insignificant human selves are all gone) #news
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    10/29/09

    @homoviper: I see. And the collapse of whole current period ecologies are absolutely nothing to be alarmed about.

    I love Carlin, but his take on certain subjects, including anorexia ("Rich cunt don't wanna eat? Fuck her!") was not particularly useful.
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    Image of pipetjockey pipetjockey
    10/29/09

    @homoviper: I, for one, would like a clean planet that's still a home for us. However, you're right. Bacteria have already been found that use plastic as a food source. #news
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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    10/29/09

    @RollsRoyceRevenge: I understand, but he has a point: the planet will heal itself eventually. Yeah the fact that all life on this planet will likely cease before that happens is shitty, but we made it that way, didn't we? #news
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    10/29/09

    @homoviper: Well if 'all life' will ceases before that happens earth would be a barren rock and nothing could heal. I think just human life will cease before that happens. And yeah we (and by we I mean America) led the downward spiral - for everyone!
    [www.carbonfootprint.com]
    from the site ( UK spelling) :
    "The average carbon footprint for people in United States is 20.40 tonnes, The average for the industrial nations is about 11 tonnes, The average worldwide carbon footprint is about 4 tonnes, The worldwide target to combat climate change is 2 tonnes." #news
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    Image of Notes from the underwhelmed Notes from the underwhelmed
    10/29/09

    In reply to Cleaning Lady Hints at Plastic Diet
    What the world needs now is a giant Brita filter. #news
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    Image of markscottmusic markscottmusic
    10/29/09

    In reply to Cleaning Lady Hints at Plastic Diet
    The oceans also used to be teeming with life. So we're over fishing to the point where there are huge swaths where you can't find any life AND dumping our garbage in the ocean, making it harder for the life forms left to thrive and reproduce. The oceans currently produce something like 25% of the food humans eat. When that source is depleted, while more and more humans live on the planet, then what? We've got to have a serious conversation about how much human life this planet can support. We're probably closer to the tipping point than we think. #news
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    Image of jrhys jrhys
    10/29/09

    @markscottmusic: Soylent Green. #news
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    Image of SwapnasundariFazoo SwapnasundariFazoo
    10/29/09

    In reply to Cleaning Lady Hints at Plastic Diet
    True facts, I'm an oceanography graduate student who has been to the North Pacific Gyre on research cruises three times in the last three years. We always get tons of plastic in our net tows. I've also attended dissections on open ocean sea birds, who spend very little time near shore, whose stomachs are packed full of tiny pellets of plastic.
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    10/29/09

    @SwapnasundariFazoo: Have you seen these pictures? It's so awful to see what is actually happening out there.

    [www.chrisjordan.com] #news
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    Image of Art_Yucko Art_Yucko
    10/29/09

    @SwapnasundariFazoo: It's all those exfoliation scrubs being used by teenagers and metrosexual douchebags everywhere. awesome! #news
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    10/29/09

    @mainesqueeze: The albatross chicks, dutifully fed by their parents, die of bellies filled with plastic, brought to them across the open ocean by devoted parents foraging and mistakenly grabbing bright colored bits of poison
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    10/29/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: [www.chrisjordan.com] #news
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    10/29/09

    @Art_Yucko: All the worse because a simple and biodegradable loofah would work just as well. #news
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    Image of Art_Yucko Art_Yucko
    10/29/09

    @Smitros: My grandad was a lifelong waterways conservationist, and grew loofah gourds. He knew what was up with plastic. #news
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    10/29/09

    @Art_Yucko: Thanks. I live by the loofah in a non O'Reillian way, as even conventionally gendered men need to exfoliate. #news
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    Image of jrhys jrhys
    10/29/09

    @mainesqueeze: Wow those are DEVASTATING. Thank you. Damn. #news
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    Image of GuyBitchy GuyBitchy
    02/04/09

    In reply to Harry Markopolos Rips SEC for Missing Madoff Warnings
    And now, via The Treasury and Federal Reserve, those very same folks are in charge of the country--completely.


    Yes, the individuals who created the disaster have been given, in direct response to that disaster, total control over how to deal with it.


    And they are merely dealing as they dealt all along--self-dealing.


    America is over.

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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    02/04/09

    In reply to Harry Markopolos Rips SEC for Missing Madoff Warnings
    Financial illiterates at the SEC! Intelligence illiterates at the CIA! Disaster illiterates at FEMA! Wow, the Bush administration really was one for the record books.
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    Image of ifstone ifstone
    02/04/09

    In reply to Harry Markopolos Rips SEC for Missing Madoff Warnings
    Here's Markopolos's 2005 letter to the SEC, which is amazing reading:

    [online.wsj.com]


    The gist is that it wasn't hard at all to see that Madoff was either "front-running" (doing insider trading based on clients' trades) or running a Ponzi scheme.

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    Image of smithhimself smithhimself
    02/04/09

    In reply to Harry Markopolos Rips SEC for Missing Madoff Warnings
    Dr. Smithhimself is in...


    As much as I respect this man, I find his physical mannerism even more fascinating.


    Functional Asperger syndrome

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    Image of ifstone ifstone
    02/04/09

    @smithhimself: Yeah, I hate to say it, but you wonder if his style was one reason he was ignored (in addition to the bigger reasons of SEC incompetence and fear of going after a big figure).
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    02/04/09

    @smithhimself:


    Probably not a bad thing for somebody in that line of work.

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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    02/04/09

    In reply to Harry Markopolos Rips SEC for Missing Madoff Warnings
    What exactly does "working" for the SEC entail these days? inter-office tickle fight tournaments?
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    02/04/09

    In reply to Harry Markopolos Rips SEC for Missing Madoff Warnings
    The Markopolos Case. This guy has been around a loooong time.
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    02/04/09

    In reply to Harry Markopolos Rips SEC for Missing Madoff Warnings
    Marko?
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    Image of katastic katastic
    02/04/09

    @saythatscool: Polos!
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    02/04/09

    @katastic: Maaaaarrko?
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    Image of caligulash caligulash
    01/24/09

    In reply to Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Blago
    It is utterly unfunny how many people don't get it that lynching is not the same as fair trial. What else can better explain the Wild West style lawlessness than the example with a cowboy accused of stealing a horse? An old poem comes to mind:


    First they came for Blago, but I was not Blago, so I did nothing

    Next they came for …

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    Image of rosaluxembourgeoise rosaluxembourgeoise
    01/24/09

    @caligulash:

    What part of bread and games do you not understand, you humorless refusing-to-enjoy-the-floorshow person?
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    01/23/09

    In reply to Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Blago
    Poor, lame Blago. He has confused his defense strategy with the plot of a Cormac McCarthy novel.
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