EH> Now, watch them come back with "so. what's your suggestion?" as if
 EH> BP needs suggestions from people who have no earthly clue about
 EH> dealing with a spewing oil well a mile under the surface of the
 EH> Golf of Mexico.

uh... they /are/ taking suggestions from all points...

 EH> The claim that a $500,000 redundant switch would have somehow
 EH> stopped a hydraulic failure of the blow out preventer is making its
 EH> rounds of all the left-wing blogs and talking heads. It has passed
 EH> the left-wing gospel rule, so that's all they can point to as the
 EH> cause. What they can't square with that is the fact that shortly
 EH> before the well exploded, Obama's administration gave that well an
 EH> award for safely.

where is this award mentioned? i've not seen anything about it... since
when does some presidential administration give awards for corporate
operations or some part of a corporation's operations? don't they have
better things to do... like run the country??

)\/(ark