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Matt Damon’s Latest Film Simplifies a Complex Political Issue

shubi_ Wrote: Jan 06, 2013 6:49 AM
Conservatives want to follow the founders and the Constitution. That is a patriot, RGR, you stupid commie rat bword.
RGR27 Wrote: Jan 06, 2013 7:08 AM
Oh, wait. Many of the founders were supporters of slavery, women and blacks being denied the vote, and child labor.

You're so enlightened.
RGR27 Wrote: Jan 06, 2013 7:08 AM
Joseph64 Wrote: Jan 06, 2013 7:33 AM
Actually, women and free blacks WERE allowed to vote. Learn some history, dingbat.
RGR27 Wrote: Jan 06, 2013 7:07 AM
You wouldn't understand the constitution or the history encompassing it if it sat on your face.
Joseph64 Wrote: Jan 06, 2013 7:33 AM
You're the one who does not understand the Constitution.
RGR27 Wrote: Jan 06, 2013 6:55 AM
Yes, if I have different ideas about energy production the only explanation is that I am a commie.

How this joins up, we'll never know, but I'm glad that you posited it.
RGR27 Wrote: Jan 06, 2013 6:56 AM
And, Shubi, I'm waiting breathlessly for you to tell us what the founders said about fracking and energy production.
shubi_ Wrote: Jan 06, 2013 7:02 AM
Please keep holding your breath for the next half hour.
RGR27 Wrote: Jan 06, 2013 7:11 AM
translation: I couldn't discuss what the founding fathers thought about energy production if they were holding a gun to my head.
Joseph64 Wrote: Jan 06, 2013 7:32 AM
The founders would have been in favor of it because they did not believe it was the government's business to interfere in private enterprise.
RGR27 Wrote: Jan 06, 2013 6:53 AM
Yes, conservatives are the God-informed patriots of the America. I just love reading your posts -- you have taken me into a world I never though possible in the twenty-first century.

Matt Damon’s latest film “Promised Land” arrived in theaters nationwide yesterday with a focus on the controversial issue of fracking. Written by Matt Damon (who won an Oscar for co-writing “Good Will Hunting”) and John Krasinski (“The Office),” the story focuses on a small community that is asked to debate the merits of the process when a large corporation arrives in town wanting to buy much of the local land.

In an article from the Wall Street Journal, reporter Daniel Gilbert described -- much more succinctly than the film does -- what the process of fracking entails. He noted that...

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