Ox
Diamond
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2002
- Location
- Northwest Ohio
To start off - I don't follow the news at all.
I cought a wee bit of the oil spill on The Weather Channel a few times is all. Also - I heard one night that the miners were about to be hoisted up the mine shaft. I think the next morning on the radio they made mention that it was Yankee drill rig guys that bored the hole.
...but a day or two later I was talking to a business buddy of mine on the phone and he brought that up - and the fact that Yankees were drilling, but he said that it was kind of a werld wide effort.
Somewhere during that time (I think on TWC) it was siad that the Yankees were up in Europe or N Africa or ??? when this happened and they instantly hopped a plane and headed for Chille.
I had been thinking about posting this ??? for some time - but it came up aggin tonight at a National Honor Society sh-bang. Just how good the American public education system is - that we were there to take care of these miners.
Now there are times when a global effort is mandated...
A) The Big One.
B) The War to end all wars
B1) D Day
And maybe simply Yankee help for:
D) Saving mariners from the Kursk. (Not that it was really gunna happen to begin with.)
But this miner thing really has me
Correct me if I'm wrong, and please help me to understand this...
They doo drill holes in South America on their own eh?
They only sunk ONE hole down there?
In the case of sinking only one hole - how much extra hands doo you need? Could you use? Would you even want just for moral support?
What specialties did the Yanks (and maybe others?) have to offer that these guys didn't have? I take it that it was NOT special equipment? I highly doubt that they shipped special drill rigs to Chille in a few days. ???
Now - armed with little to no knowledge of what actually went down here, my thoughts on this are that
A) the Yanks, armed in all their (our) arrogance - thinking that no-one can doo anything important without us, just had to git in there and show the world how good we are.
and/or
B) Follow the money. Who did these guys werk for? Who sent them? Uncle Sam? Or a private mining company that has been trying to git mining rights to that area for decades and is trying to use this "safety" issue as a wedge to git their foot in the dirt.... ???
So - are we really that good? We only THINK we're that good? Or the money?
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Think Snow Eh!
Ox
I cought a wee bit of the oil spill on The Weather Channel a few times is all. Also - I heard one night that the miners were about to be hoisted up the mine shaft. I think the next morning on the radio they made mention that it was Yankee drill rig guys that bored the hole.
...but a day or two later I was talking to a business buddy of mine on the phone and he brought that up - and the fact that Yankees were drilling, but he said that it was kind of a werld wide effort.
Somewhere during that time (I think on TWC) it was siad that the Yankees were up in Europe or N Africa or ??? when this happened and they instantly hopped a plane and headed for Chille.
I had been thinking about posting this ??? for some time - but it came up aggin tonight at a National Honor Society sh-bang. Just how good the American public education system is - that we were there to take care of these miners.
Now there are times when a global effort is mandated...
A) The Big One.
B) The War to end all wars
B1) D Day
And maybe simply Yankee help for:
D) Saving mariners from the Kursk. (Not that it was really gunna happen to begin with.)
But this miner thing really has me
Correct me if I'm wrong, and please help me to understand this...
They doo drill holes in South America on their own eh?
They only sunk ONE hole down there?
In the case of sinking only one hole - how much extra hands doo you need? Could you use? Would you even want just for moral support?
What specialties did the Yanks (and maybe others?) have to offer that these guys didn't have? I take it that it was NOT special equipment? I highly doubt that they shipped special drill rigs to Chille in a few days. ???
Now - armed with little to no knowledge of what actually went down here, my thoughts on this are that
A) the Yanks, armed in all their (our) arrogance - thinking that no-one can doo anything important without us, just had to git in there and show the world how good we are.
and/or
B) Follow the money. Who did these guys werk for? Who sent them? Uncle Sam? Or a private mining company that has been trying to git mining rights to that area for decades and is trying to use this "safety" issue as a wedge to git their foot in the dirt.... ???
So - are we really that good? We only THINK we're that good? Or the money?
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Think Snow Eh!
Ox