Well, here's the best I could do with rudimentary photo editing skills:
Surely another Freeper can do better than this.
Posted on 06/08/2010 6:49:06 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
He figured there’d be a demand so he started cranking out a supply, and … crickets.
He’s already had a representative from BP visit his factory and inspect his product. The governor of Maine, John Baldacci, visited the facility and made a video plea to no one in particular to close the deal. Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins wrote a letter on May 21 to the secretary of the Interior, the administrator of NOAA, and the commandant of the Coast Guard to alert them to the existence of Packgen, their supply of boom, and their demonstrated capacity to make more. I have no idea if those are the correct persons and agencies to notify about the manufacturing capacity and the availability of boom. One wonders if the senators know…
The ASTM specifications for containment boom aren’t rocket science, and Lapoint’s business was used to dealing with that sort of thing. So Lapoint took a chance and started manufacturing oil boom, figuring that Packgen would be able to sell it to help in the containment and cleanup effort. He added shifts and employees, and started cranking out the oil boom right away. It was a big financial risk — and he knew that — but he also figured that in an emergency of that magnitude, you had to act quickly, and figured that BP and the federal government would have to act quickly as well, and every single foot of boom he could make would be useful and in immediate demand.
He figured wrong.
Watch the clip (both clips, actually). Lapointe seems to be under the impression that he’s stuck waiting for BP to approve a purchase, but that can’t be true, can it? Surely the feds can step in and buy as much boom as they want. They’re still the ones in charge of protecting the coastline, aren’t they? Or has Kickass now farmed out that task to a guy he won’t even talk to on the phone? Remember, Jindal was demanding millions of feet of boom just a week or so after the rig exploded and, as of May 24, was still millions of feet short. I sure hope we’re going to find out tomorrow that Packgen’s material simply isn’t equal to the task and needs to be rejected, because if it turns out this is purely a matter of red tape — and if BP’s new claim that it’s ready to capture “virtually all” of the remaining oil doesn’t pan out — then Jim Hoft’s Katrina school-bus comparison is going to be awfully popular awfully soon.
Thanks. That’s right, I recognize the name. As I recall, BP may also get a piece of the NALCO action.
They are - BY LAW.
Stopping the oil spill is BP's job.
The rest is, by law, the feds job.
Why are they not having their feet held to the fire by the press - the people know, but they can't get heard.
“Obama doesn’t want America’s industrial power to help prevent an ecological disaster. He wants America’s industrial power to die.”
Precisely what he, and his handlers want. Their goal is to Detroit this Nation.
I haven’t investigated. I am sure the collusion runs deep.
And it’s going to take an insider to end it.
vaudine
Another Obama fail.
Intentionally
I’ve looked around a bit. Apparently there’s at least one connection: “Rodney F. Chase, who sits on the board of Nalco, was also a BP board member.”
Obviously that alone isn’t enough to explain it, but NALCO is a Chicago company, too.
Chicago is all I need to know.
Hmm... looks like yet another supposed ‘businessman’ that thinks that the federal government is supposed to be it’s customer and sugar-daddy.
You know what? I’m a businessman too! I make snot-balls. Why isn’t the government buying my snot-balls? Can’t the Bamster make a few phone calls and DEMAND that somebody buy them? How many more jobs can this country afford to lose! Wouldn’t it be better to take everyone’s tax dollars and buy my snot-balls?
Where’s the compassion? Where’s the mercy?
No. One: Bamster is the biggest recipient of BP campaign money. Been getting money for years - that's YEARS.
No. two "Dithering" is the ONLY thing he has mastered.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64420A20100505
PERFECT
Well, here's the best I could do with rudimentary photo editing skills:
Surely another Freeper can do better than this.
Exactly.
The U.S.A. has been the World Policeman for seemingly ever. With the U.S. power diminished, or destroyed the World becomes the playground for every crooked Dictator, Dictator Wannabe, or investment swindler. Lawlessness becomes the way of life as in many hell-hole Nations we see today. The Chicago way we have heard of so much fits the scenario well.
This perspective is why my tagline was changed awhile back to what it is today.
Great work. The sizes just need to be reduced so both photos can be viewed in one window.
Whether they planned it or not - it's a “perfect crisis” for their cause - destroying the country.
It's straight out of Alinski’s play book:”Never let a good crisis go to waste.” (the “WON” taught Alinski in college - and the quote is one of Rahm’s favorites.
They pretend it's BP’s job to ‘clean up’. It is not.BY LAW, that's the Feds charge.
And just how much does the “WON” hate BP? You think he'll kick BP ANYwhere? (One does not kick one’s cash cow.)http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64420A20100505
How about:
Obama tried,
birds died,
his a$$ is fried.
Bingo = especially when the big players are from Chicago. They couldn't do the right thing if they wanted to. They never learned how.
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