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PC view of mine rescue

Wild TurkeyWild Turkey Member Posts: 2,425 ✭✭✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
from the woodworking board:

"A Senate committee composed of senators Daschle, Clinton, Kennedy, and Feinstein, have announced that the rescue of Pennsylvania's nine coal miners has been cancelled. The miners will, by recommendation of the committee, be placed back in the mine for potential further rescue, or additional rescue, if done correctly and legally, because the senators noted the following violations in the rescue process."
10.) Heavy diesel equipment was moved to the rescue site without concern for possible air pollution.
9.) Water was first pumped out of the mine without first determining if the water was polluted or providing an environmentally safe catchment area for the water.
8.) Numerous holes were drilled in the ground for the rescue without first performing an environmental impact study.
7.) No effort was made to make sure racial, ethnic, and sexual diversity of the rescue workers.
6.) The governor of Pennsylvania was heard to thank God during the live TV broadcast of the rescue many times, violating the separation of church and state.
5.) Several people at this public government supported rescue mentioned praying. The miners' families mentioned praying. In fact when the miners came out they said they had prayed. For that reason alone they ought to be sent back in there.
4.) The trapped miners did not represent a diversified cross-section of American society. There wasn't one of them that was black, there wasn't one female, there wasn't one native American, there wasn't one Hispanic, there wasn't one member of al-Qaeda.
3.) Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Hillary Clinton were not given sufficient time to arrive and make speeches at the site, which will be corrected during the next rescue if all these other things could be handled first.
2.) The senate was not given sufficient time to determine whether or not any Republican officeholder owns stock in the coal company, thus being responsible for the conspiracy to cause the mine to flood in the first place.
1.) No one mentioned that Algore invented mine rescues himself.



Wild Turkey"if your only tool is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail"

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