Posted on 11/03/2005 8:44:57 AM PST by Bosco
Broadcast excellence continues after an Operational Pause. Go get 'em, Rush!
The problem with the tradeoff of deductions for lower rates is that they never give back the deductions when they raise the rates.
Several of the levees that flooded New Orleans may have been built with shoddy materials or by contractors who took shortcuts to save money, an investigator told Congress Wednesday.
About a dozen people, including engineers and contractors, made the allegations of poor workmanship in recent weeks to investigators probing the levee failures, said Raymond Seed, the head of a National Science Foundation team examining the levees.
Seed would not identify the tipsters and he cautioned that the allegations may ultimately have nothing to do with the levee disaster that led to hundreds of deaths. But he said that investigators are taking the tips seriously and intend to turn them over to federal officials.
"What makes us nervous is we're hearing multiple accounts," Seed said after testifying before the Senate Homeland Security Committee. The National Science Foundation, which gave Seed a grant to investigate the levees, is an independent federal agency charged with promoting science and the nation's welfare.
The complaints focus on two canals where levees topped with flood walls were built in stages over the past 15 years. One of the claims is that contractors used steel sheets - which were driven into the levees to prevent water seepage - that were shorter than what was called for in designs. If true, that could have made the levees weak and prone to failure.
Other tipsters complained that inferior materials, such as porous soil, were used to construct the levees.
Robert Bea, another University of California, Berkeley professor working with Seed, said in an interview that he talked on the phone with two women who said they had specific information from their late husbands on construction shortcuts taken on the levees.
Seed said other investigators received similar complaints.
He wants the Army Corps of Engineers, which oversaw design and construction of the levees, to dig up portions of them to make sure they were built properly.
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Class of 98 reporting for duty.....Bosco!
I saw $1.97 on the way to work this morning.
I wonder if chairman Robert has a similar problem, or if he knows what's going on and doing what he was elected to do? And, I agree. IF Rockefeller is not up to the job he should resign. If none of them are able to do their jobs perhaps the entire committee should be disbanded as unnecessary.
I think that Rockefeller's admission should be used to get him removed from the Intelligence Commission...dereliction of duty.
I'm with you! It would seem that reading Intelligence reports would be your Primary duty when you're on the Intelligence committee! Guess he thinks it's up to his staff to do the menial work! He sure doesn't seem to have trouble reading the daily Dem Talking Points memos!!
We've got to take the bad with the good. Back in the 90's there were times when oil was less than $10/barrel(roughly the cost to extract it)and I knew of many in the drilling industry who lost their jobs because of this. Just guessing, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it back down in the high 40's by sometime next year.
Last week here: $3.18, this week $2.23. I have an Expedition, and believe me it makes a difference gassing up three times a week.
I'm sure it was just coincidence that they dropped almost a dollar after Rush mentioned record profits and people started asking wth.
And worse, people don't seem to understand that unless the oil companies are making a profit, they can't explore for new oil or build more refineries just to bring in more oil from the Mid-East!!
I agree with you. When did it become the oil company's job to make sure you can put gas in you tank. It's a business just like anything else. I hate high gas prices just like everybody else but it's my responsibility to either change my driving habits, drive a different car or pay the price.
What's strange though is I have been hearing how high it's going to be to heat your home this year. When we got this month's gas bill, we had used less than last year and the bill is less than last year. On the other hand, we used less electricity this year than last year but the bill is quite a bit higher than last year. Why have I not heard anyone complaining about the high cost of electricity?
We need Boortz's tax plan quick.
Also don't tell me it's supply and demand. Oil companies have a monopoly on transporation fuel, period. There will always be someone who needs to purchase fuel, as long as that is the case, there will always be someone who will pay $4.00 a gallon.
$2.13. One of the few times it pays to be close to Canada
York, PA
I'm in correspondence with a raving liberal (retired State Department....retired, thank God) who is sending me email about Michael Brown and Libby as examples of not-doing and wrongdoing under our President.
I know there were some Clinton cabinet members or appointees who had to "resign".....also Dem congressman Alcee Hastings, convicted of some crime, still serving.....Tony Cuehlo, maybe?
I thought I saw such a list at some point in time on FR. Can anyone help out here with links or good memory?
Leni
Do we know if Rush has been following the MD4Bush story, which allegedly involves at least one Maryland Democratic operative saying that Karl Rove perfected smear tactics, so they might as well use them too?
Typical leftists, who believe the right wins by lies and deception and smear-that's how THEY win, they think it's the only way to win, therefore in their mind Rove and Bushco "must" do it too.
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