On 05/29/2010 11:43 AM, mark lewis -> Ed Hulett wrote:

 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>> Not from idiots who think it can be frozen by pumping liquid
 EH>> nitrogen into it.

 ml> bullshit, ed... they are taking suggestions from all points... whether
 ml> or not they consider or use them is another matter altogether...

Apparently you are another who likes to argue for the sake of argument.

 ml> if you don't work for them on this project, then don't speak like you
 ml> know what they are doing... you doing so is nothing more than armchair
 ml> quarterbacking without facts or knowledge and it belittles you more than
 ml> you try to do to others...

Huh? Where on earth do you get the silly armchair quarterbacking idea? I
haven't done any such thing.

 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??

 EH>> It was given by the interior department, namely the MMS whose head
 EH>> resigned just a few short hours before BHO gave his long overdue
 EH>> press conference.

 EH>> It shouldn't be hard for you to do a Google search of your own to
 EH>> verify that the award was given.

 ml> i wouldn't have asked if i hadn't done the searches... since i did and
 ml> found nothing, perhaps you'd care to actually post a URL to the mention
 ml> of said award??

http://bit.ly/azgmqA

 EH>> Uh... in BHO's case, he's not "run[ning] the country, he's golfing,
 EH>> taking vacations, refusing to comment or answer hard questions from
 EH>> the press and trying to bribe Congressmen to drop out of primary
 EH>> races.

 ml> gee... ya think? sounds much like your hero(s)... if they can do it, why
 ml> not others?? double standards??

My heroes? Who would that be?

You just above claimed BHO was too busy running the country to give awards
for safety to an oil rig. Now you are saying "they all do it"
when I point out he's out playing golf rather than running the country.

Which is it?

Ed

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