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To: Puppage

Meanwhile, the Coast Guard is still stopping oil eating barges to check for life vests and fire extinguishers.


7 posted on 06/18/2010 8:21:12 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter
Meanwhile, the Coast Guard is still stopping oil eating barges to check for life vests and fire extinguishers.

Still?

14 posted on 06/18/2010 8:22:47 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: skeeter
Meanwhile, the Coast Guard is still stopping oil eating barges to check for life vests and fire extinguishers.

That reminds me of when California was burning, and (Then) gov. Davis was not allowing privately owned firefighting planes to help with putting out the fires because their planes didn't pass the California safety inspections..
22 posted on 06/18/2010 8:26:48 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
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To: skeeter
Meanwhile, the Coast Guard is still stopping oil eating barges to check for life vests and fire extinguishers.

Time - long PAST time - to waive the rules and regs and kiss off the unions - and get the job done. Those rules and regs are for worrying about long BEFORE a catastrophe, not during.

38 posted on 06/18/2010 8:47:46 AM PDT by maine-iac7
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