Skimming barges shut down due to lack of life vests.

Becca-when you have no intellectual basis for your adoration of the "new messiah" and you are most likely one of the paid DNC posters(yes they monitor these type sites and have paid posters to try to refute any facts about their incompetence)all that's left is to call Palin a retard.I di'nt vote for either party but I know Palin would have done a better job than the incompetent SockPuppet that Soros got elected....

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Zant - it was Prismseed, not Becca that provided the quote you are referring to.

There's no reason the BP contractor would need to be contacted.
He surely couldnt tell them if the boats had life preservers and fire extinguishers, or were properly licensed.

It's all BS by BO

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Quote: You are correct and let's not forget-these are GOP states.

So just to get this, you think that this could actually be a plot by the Dem/Liberal/Progressives to do ? ? ?

I'm sorry, but that goes along the lines of those people who question 9/11 and offer gov't assistance in it...... at least to me it does.

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Uh duh? It would be easier to dial, hey I need the figures for these boats, oh they're ...' that it would be to manually check every boat or acquire the materials to outright equip them. These aren't bathtub leisure boats these are tankers built to hold thousands and thousands of gallons. Not to mention Louisiana probably already has a sizable chunk of their cost guard mobilized and working on the spill. And the bureaucratic red tape to get funding to just out buy and give the equipment? Pffft when have you seen government paperwoork that didn't take atleast a week if not months? BP could have volunteered to do so, did they, heck no.

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and if BP can have paperwork out the wazoo to cover their own rear ends they should have this stuff documented.

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Louisiana has its own Coast Guard?

LOL Do you REALLY think a contractor would know what exact safety equipment they have on each boat?

He's probably never even SEEN the boats. He'd just be a paper pusher

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By Obama and his cronies-absolutely, I would not put Anything past them- nothing. The Dems in the congress and Senate, they are a different story, but they should be standing up to O and so should the Repubs. Haven't seen enough of that, except a few.

By Obama and his cronies-absolutely, I would not put Anything past them- nothing. The Dems in the congress and Senate, they are a different story, but they should be standing up to O and so should the Repubs. Haven't seen enough of that, except a few.
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I talked to a man that had worked on lots of offshore rigs he said from what he has gathered they had took to many short cuts . Said it was either inexperience on the Co men & tool pusher part and setup to fail one or both .

Engineered crises at it's finest i would say . Some will never learn sheep don't count or play in the O W O tournament It is time to wake up and

Not suggesting anything, but with Obama's mobster mentality, who knows what he's likely to do to get his agenda going again.
He's capable of anything but being a good president.

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Check this out,just got it.http://www.prisonplanet.com/states-n...oil-spill.html

LOL.

Why would a contractor have "figures" on the number of life preservers and fire extinguishers on each boat?

The ONLY way to CONFIRM they are there is to BOARD and INSPECT each boat.
It's what the Coast Guard does for a living

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You know that the link you quoted pertains to small boats, and large commerical and industrial ships are an entirely different ballgame right?

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No, there's really no difference at all
The Coast Guard still has to board the ships to CONFIRM the equipment is there.
They won't accept a piece of paper as confirmation

http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owad...ble=DIRECTIVES

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Also typically if it is anything remotely like the local DMV and inspections types its a few a day and generally an appointment made days, weeks, or months in advance. This was 16 barges, and by the end of the first day of the situation only 8 were still docked.

How fast do you think you could manually check 16 barges for all that?

I've got a great low insurance rate on my car. It's a safety discount thanks to air bags, daytime lights, side airbags, antilock breaks yadayada. Did some jackalope personally inspect my car? Nope The dealership just faxed the invoice over to the insurance company. So why is it such a leap to expect people to be capable of doing the same with boats?

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None of those things were given as the reason for the hold up.


Because your car has nothing to do with this topic.
The INSTALLED equipment on a car is not the same as "lifesaving equipment" on a vessel
Use a little common sense

If you can't tell the difference between a car and a boat, you probably don't have the brains to be discussing this to begin with (Sound familiar?)

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Thank you, sweetie! I know Zant has my back, though. Now I know you do, too.

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Becky

You act like the oil is nuclear toxic goo. You all forget it is an all natural substance. Just rotten plants and animals.

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