[Eleutheria5]

The moment I heard oil platform off the coast of Louisiana, I got suspicious. Those platforms withstood the big hurricane in 2005 for one simple reason: you can shut them off at the ocean floor level, so if anything happens to anything higher than that, there is no spill. That’s what they did during Katrina. Now suddenly it’s leaking like a mangled garden hose? Why aren’t they shutting it off at the floor level, then? Then I saw what The One has just decreed, and the pieces fell into place.

[geologist]

One of the great things about Free Republic is the ideas that come out after any major happening. THINK TANK.
There are many ideas, and many smart people here. We do tend to jump to conclusions,. a bit too quickly. Perhaps yes and perhaps no.

Truly to be vigilant is of supreme importance. The danger is in defusing the energy and passion that comes from real threat and peril. MO. we do not want to ‘cry wolf’ too often. In truth every word and action coming from the executive branch is aimed at furthering the Marxist take over of our government. For whom? Simply the flawed members of the executive branch in Washington? (and the legislative and other, as we see, etc. When this is true it is overwhelm for the system. We have no time to develop proof and pursue justice before the next outrage happens. we have not been able to close the border, we have not stopped OBAMA care, we did not stop the two stimulus boon doggles, nor the take over of GM, etc., etc.. We are pretty much batting zero!

We are behind the curve in informing the people of America in an effective way. Personally I receive 100 plus mailings a week asking for contributions for dozens of worthy causes. Sound organizations. Except for a few legal cases won. There is little or no effect or discernible results.

I liken it to spitting into the wind. Going nowhere.

Sorry to be a wet blanket today. We are approaching a point of no return soon. Tell me a nation that has come back from such a point.

We believe in a God of the impossible. The most high God. He is sovereign. Are we bowing before Him and asking for mercy and being repentant?

Father help us in our day, in Jesus name, amen.

[gathersnomoss]

Common sense response.

[freethinker_for_freedom]

I think they call it a “Sub-Sea Safety Valve (SSSV)”, or something similar, but I’ve heard that they are not required, and perhaps BP didn’t put one on this well.