Damn the Miners and Full Speed Ahead!
For a look at typical big business one can listen to the mine boss in Utah who suddenly switched from We’re going to get them out” to “we will start mining in the safe parts of the mine as early as next week. I don’t know much about mining, but it seems if they were going to all the trouble of drilling boreholes, why not drill the 30” hole for the escape capsule right from the start. I am sure it would take a lot longer, but they might not have lost any more miners in the attempt. I hope the time factor and not the expense was the driving force behind the decision to try to dig the poor men out vice going the capsule route. The moral of the story is if you think the company you work for really cares about you, wait until the bottom line is involved.
Still quite hot here. If the temperatures keep above 100 into September, Arizona will set a new state temperature record for the number of consecutive days above 100. I don’t; mind the heat, but would like to have a little bit of a break As terrible as Hurricane Dean is – I wouldn’t wish that any anyone (well, almost anyone) the Low coming in with the hurricane was supposed to help pull some moisture in to the state. The Weather Buffoons aren’t saying much about that anymore so I don’t know if it will come to pass or not. In a way the Weather Jackasses aren’t much different from the mine boss- they keep saying everyone was lucky Dean came ashore in a sparsely populated area. I suspect the sparse population at Dean’s ground zero doesn’t share their sentiment.
There I go yakking on and on again. Here’s a picture for those of you who put up with it…
The orange tail is to honor the Tuskegee Airmen, in fact this entire monument is dedicated to their memory... The 302nd FS was originally one of their squadrons.
Labels: big business, big coal, greed, Mine boss, weather
posted by The Phosgene Kid @ 12:03 PM
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17 Comments:
i saw
the movie
about Tuskegee Airmen
pretty cool -- cool pic, too, especially those little lambs by the pilot's canopy, indicating successful bbq runs
/t.
That's a pretty plane.
The miner's families are not happy with the mine owner. I can understand how the families feel not knowing what happened to their loved ones. I would want to know.
I don't see any lambs in the picture.
Seems they couldn't get a drill big enough up the mountain in time.
You hear about the mine owner giving an angry victims relative a dollar at the funeral to basically shut up. A real class act.
/t.: The movie was pretty good. They originally flew P-51 Mustangs, probably the hottest plane in the ETO.
Don't tease the lambs!At least until she gets the pool finished...
ll: Sorry, no lambs. I have a friend that has lambs. They had one called Lamby that though it was a dog. It played with the farm dogs and it would come up to everyone to get petted and then untie their shoelaces.
hammer: The mine owner looks like one great big greasy piece of shit for sure. He better watch himself 'cause I think the folks there are fixin' to hang him.
I'm glad my husband and I are self employed..I wouldn't want my fate in anyone elses hand.
My Dad was in the airforce...not a Tuskeegee Airman though.
THIS might interest you.
leelee: Very impressive. Tail gunners generally had short life spans in WWII. Enemy fighters knew if they could take the rear guns out the plane was defenseless from behind. His story is very interesting.
I was just an Intel specialist and save for a couple SCUD attacks was pretty much unthreatened throughout the war.
Mining is dangerous work. My grandfather was one. I feel bad for the families. I wish they could have at least somehow managed to retrieve their bodies if they couldn't be saved.
Poor Miners do such a risky job!
Keshi.
du: It is important the the miner's families have some sort of closure. I was interested in mining when I was younger, but never followed that path.
keshi: Very risky, even more so when the owners of the mine are pushing the edges of the safety rules.
Haven't heard about the miners, but I'm assuming they were trapped and no one has bothered looking for them? I think it'd be one of the worst jobs EVER!! I don't think I'd let my hubby (if I had one!) be a miner. Too risky.
On the subject of weathermen - sometimes I wonder why we have them, what their qualifications are and who the heck pays them? Often it just seems like they're taking a stab in the dark!!
KB: Been a rough week for miners all over. There were the fellows in Utah and there were a bunch in a Chinese coal mine. Glad someone likes to do that type of work so I don't have to - where would we be without coal or metal?
As far as weathermen I think one of those magic eight ball predictors would work as well and not be quite as irritating. I think all they have to do to be certified is send the meteorological Association a couple of bucks.
"I suspect the sparse population at Dean’s ground zero doesn’t share their sentiment."
- So True!!
Wasn't there another mining related incident in the US a year or so ago?
Beautiful bird that!
Your friends lamb sounds cute.
The mine owner reminds me of "Raising Arizona", where Nathan Arizona tells the reporter, "... meanwhile, it's still business as usual down at "Unpainted Arizona" (his furniture warehouse store), so c'mon down!", after Nathan Jr. had just been kidnapped.
hdwk: Right you are - it is never as much fun when it is happening to you!!
sj: There have been a couple. One not too long ago only one miner was recovered alive - barely. He has suffered brain damage. There was another with a happier end where the miners were rescued with the use of a capsule.
ll: She was a cutie. I expect she is a sheep by now. My friend shears them - funny thing is he is the only one with the skill to shear sheep in the area, so he makes some side money shearing others sheep.
pw: As Bush would say, "Money trumps concern for the working man."
Coal: The fuel of the future.
What a great idea.
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