Posted on 08/20/2012 4:23:48 PM PDT by bayouranger
I wish this were fiction. Good article by Sen. Vitter.
It’s ALL true, and was calculated.
To quote a famous person...”I hope he fails!”
LLS
Bless your heart...and I mean that in the kindest and most fond way possible.
You have always been one of my favorites, and I am very concerned about your well being.
Hopefully, after this election, everything will be coming up roses...ala Reagan with real economic improvement. It can’t get much worse.
Know that you and yours are in my prayers.
Exactly, just the same old BP M.O.
I am really fed up with BP, trying to play the fascist partner game with the Democrats. Even after the Horizon spill and the other accidents at BP refineries, after having parts fall off their oil tankers in Alaska and the delayed maintenance on the Alaska pipeline, BP is still trying to position themselves as the crony partner of the Obama administration.
LLS
The rig was NOT sabotaged. There were corners cut, and there were inspectors ON the rig at the time, trying to tell the operators NOT to perform the action that they believed would cause the blowout.
They were ignored, and we saw the result.
There are no more exceptional people in this great country than you “country boys.” Y’all, and those like you, built this country.
I have NO doubt that you are resilient, innovative, and creative.
I know you will be fine.
It’s those Harvard educated, city slickard, tassel loafered people I worry about. ;o)
What you say is very true. If things get as bad as they could get... those kind of people are in for a rude awakening and a major attitude adjustment. As the Warden in Cool Hand Luke said, “Luke, you gonna have to get your mind right”.
LLS
That is SO true!
There’s another quote, the quote I remember best...
“What we got here is... failure to communicate.”
In these times, that would be between Obama and the American people.
AND...it would be on purpose.
How else do you explain the contrived War on Women?
I love that movie... old George Kennedy rubbing Newman's belly and telling him he can eat more eggs. Loved it!
Have a great Saturday friend.
LLS
Knowingly disabling the safety systems is the same as sabotage.
Gas detectors, fire alarms, safety valves, and numerous other systems were either turned off or bypassed.
The definition of sabotage is:
— n
1. the deliberate destruction, disruption, or damage of equipment, a public service, etc, as by enemy agents, dissatisfied employees, etc
2. any similar action or behaviour
Turning off or otherwise disabling the safety systems is “not” sabotage?
The general alarm was in manual override at the time of the blast which means that someone would have had to physically hit the alarm switch to sound it.
The emergency shutdown system which would have cut off all ignition sources when the gas alarms went off. But ooops that didn’t work now did it?
Same goes for the automatic gas pressure valves that shut down once a certain pressure is reached thus preventing gas from blowing into the rig. The valves were in bypass mode at the time of the blowout and explosion.
And there were no inspectors on board when the Blowout and explosion happened.... They were some corporate hacks “visiting the troops” who were more preoccupied with playing a simulator than doing anything else.
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