Womack ,'The Message'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hi you guys! I got all of the technology policies and they said you can have "reasonable" personal internet use! Although they caution that your definition of reasonable may not be the same as your supervisor's, and you should go with what the supervisor says...
Also amusing that both Kagan and Obama smoke (or maybe she quit, but it was a thing during the tobacco cases).
My people! That's probably how they got to be friends....
oops, double-post. I need to learn how to work a Mac.
I know - plus, I may be wrong, but I keep getting the feeling that BP just didn't plan for this eventuality. They seem so ill prepared to deal with this sort of failure.
And also, so very many of the Katrina "whiners" were old and/or poor and/or disabled and quite often all three -- the people who needed help the most and given very little.
I bet, just as a for-instance, that no one in Nashville was prevented, at gun point, from walking out to an unflooded area.
Jesse, I totally think you're not being reasonable.
I bet, just as a for-instance, that no one in Nashville was prevented, at gun point, from walking out to an unflooded area.
Or, you know, shot by the cops.
I know - plus, I may be wrong, but I keep getting the feeling that BP just didn't plan for this eventuality. They seem so ill prepared to deal with this sort of failure.
The plan was that the failsafe valve wouldn't fail. Really, it's hard to imagine being able to do much past that at that depth.
Remember the controversy about VP Cheney meeting with oil execs to set US energy police, early in Bush II's first term? Evidently one of the policies they decided on was to skip on requiring a $.5m extra-safety valve for deep wells of this type.
I do get annoyed at the pundits who talk about the oil leak as "Obama's Katrina". The coast guard was there from the very beginning and really, what's the military going to do aside from put out oil booms and I get the impression that those were already getting put out? It's fair to criticize him for not making a public statement earlier though.
Evidently one of the policies they decided on was to skip on requiring a $.5m extra-safety valve for deep wells of this type.
From what I understand, and I might be wrong, it wouldn't have helped. It would be a back-up method of activating the blowout preventer that busted.