-=> MARK LEWIS wrote to ED HULETT <=-

 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.

 ML> 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.

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

I've not heard anything about that either.

Sounds like bull to me.

The only award I'm aware of was the one conferred by BP
where the BP executives flew out to the Deepwater Horizon to award
that crew for exemplary safety and that turned into quite an ironic
tragedy. 


It's becoming ever more difficut to get ANY credible news on most anything 
of importance about anything these days IMO.

Even with my having all the time in the world and the internet
it's quite difficult to remain informed about the important issues.

For instance the war in Iraq seems to have disappeared off the radar.

Afganistan, well Afganistan is going the way historically it always does with
Afganistan.

Pakistan, the number three as yet undeclared war.
North Korea simmering.

Iran??? who knows.

Lively times we live in.

A couple of year back when all this was just all flaring up I
made mention I was nostalgic for the good old days when we only
worried about nuclear death raining down from the skys and not terrorists
behind every shadow. 


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