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By: The Greenroom » Too Often, Consensus Means Rubbish

The Greenroom » Too Often, Consensus Means Rubbish — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:53:03 +0000

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By: Too Often, Consensus Means Rubbish

Too Often, Consensus Means Rubbish — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:51:33 +0000

[...] just o’er the horizon Why aren’t they allowed down there? The EPA…the EPA! Consensus! Obama…Obama! Consensus!When humanitarian motives need a reason To carry out an action that [...]

By: salvage

salvage — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:45:14 +0000

Damn, here I was coming to correct Jimmie and I see someone's already picking up my slack.

By: Zuzu

Zuzu — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:09:36 +0000

Oh I have no doubt you spend a fair amount of time giggling.

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:49:55 +0000

Shame. At least one of us is amused, though.

By: Zuzu

Zuzu — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:40:37 +0000

And your penchant for less than honest hyperbole is not even giggle-worthy.

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:48:01 +0000

And you will have the last word on this matter because, quite honestly, your penchant for writing criticisms of my posts that are, in aggregate, longer than my posts is truly tedious to me.

By: Zuzu

Zuzu — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:57:26 +0000

You are the one who dragged ME into this post, Jimmuh. So complaining about my criticism is pretty rich – especially as you now admit (thanks to MY research) that your reason for dragging me into this was mistaken.

Despite your cut and paste descriptions of interagency relations, this WAS a situation where the Coast Guard was enforcing vessel safety regulations.

You will note that Jindal did NOT notify the Unified Command, but called the White House. What a nitwit, since according to you all it would have taken would have been a single phone call to the Unified Command…unless, of course, he knew a little better than you what the relationship between a state program and the Coast Guard involved in this case.

As someone with your vast experience should know, basic safety requirements would be suspended only in the most extreme cases. This is not a case of pulling Coast Guard inspectors off emergency duties to make sure pop's cruiser has enough life vests, this is a case of ensuring that emergency vessels operating in hazardous conditions met even the basic safety requirements.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N1763752…

I have no doubt if workers had been injured in an onboard fire or if one of the boats had capsized because of improper stability practices and/or workers were injured or drowned because of inadequate lifesaving equipment, helpful folks like you would be the first ones to scream about how Obama has failed AGAIN!!! to keep us safe.

But then again, you seem to know all about manufactured outrage.