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.