skyrider 0 #1 October 23, 2010 While the White House may not believe in American exceptionalism ... or CBS? NBC? ABC? ... I do. And I'm thinking there's a whole bunch of people in Chile that would agree. Regarding the mine rescue, did you know: The guy that designed the rescue module was a NASA Engineer? The Drill was made by Schramm Inc. from Pennsylvania . The Drill Bits were made by Center Rock, Inc. located in Berlin , Pennsylvania . The lead driller Jeff Hart and his team are from Denver , Colorado . They are on loan from the US Military in Afghanistan where they are drilling water wells for our Forward Operating Bases. He spent the next 33 days on his feet, operating the drill that finally provided a way out Saturday for 33 trapped miners. "You have to feel through your feet what the drill is doing; it's a vibration you get so that you know what's happening," explained Hart. Hart was called in from Afghanistan, "simply because he's the best" at drilling larger holes with the T130's wide-diameter drill bits, Stefanic said. Standing before the levers, pressure meters and gauges on the T130's control panel, Hart and the rest of the team faced many challenges in drilling the shaft. At one point, the drill struck a metal support beam in the poorly mapped mine, shattering its hammers. Fresh equipment had to be flown in from the United States and progress was delayed for days as powerful magnets were lowered to pull out the pieces. The mine's veins of gold and copper ran through quartzite with a high level of abrasive silica, rock so tough that it took all their expertise to keep the drill's hammers from curving off in unwanted directions. "It was horrible," said Center Rock President Brandon Fisher, exhausted after hardly sleeping during the effort. Fisher, Stefanic and Hart called it the most difficult hole they had ever drilled, because of the lives at stake. "If you're drilling for oil and you lose the hole, it's different. This time there's people down below," Stefanic said. "We ruined some bits, worked through the problems as a team, and broke through," Hart said. "I'm very happy now." Miners' relatives crowded around Hart on Saturday, hugging and posing for pictures with him as he walked down from the rescue operation into the tent camp where families had anxiously followed his work. "He's become the hero of the day," said Dayana Olivares, whose friend Carlos Bugueno is one of the miners stuck below. In a different day and age, Jeff Hart would be a most famous American in our country right now. He would be honored at the White House. School children would learn of his skill and heroism. But because Jeff Hart works in an industry currently being demonized by (insert name for the clowns currently running our country) more people in Chile will celebrate this symbol of American greatness than in America itself. - Michelle Malkin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 0 #2 October 23, 2010 The extent to which some people will stretch logic and play "six degrees of separation" to get in a cheap bash at Obama or Democrats is really pitiful. Hey, nice job on your daily cut & paste of some idiotic "article". I eagerly look forward to whatever piece of shit you'll be serving up for us tomorrow. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #3 October 23, 2010 Quote The extent to which some people will stretch logic and play "six degrees of separation" to get in a cheap bash at Obama or Democrats is really pitiful. Hey, nice job on your daily cut & paste of some idiotic "article". I eagerly look forward to whatever piece of shit you'll be serving up for us tomorrow. You are so stuck walking lockstep with your comrades, You can't even read an artical, and get the deeper meaning! ...Odumbo or Demorcrates aren't even mentioned!Try reading it like an adult that watches the news, and cares about how we as humans are changing! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
usedtajump 1 #4 October 23, 2010 There's not a forum on the internet more in need of an "eye rolling" icon than Speakers Corner, jeez.The older I get the less I care who I piss off. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #5 October 23, 2010 QuoteThere's not a forum on the internet more in need of an "eye rolling" icon than Speakers Corner, jeez. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v400/onekick/Gifs/skyroll.gif Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
usedtajump 1 #6 October 23, 2010 Quote Quote There's not a forum on the internet more in need of an "eye rolling" icon than Speakers Corner, jeez. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v400/onekick/Gifs/skyroll.gif That'll do nicely. The older I get the less I care who I piss off. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #7 October 23, 2010 Your welcome.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,122 #8 October 23, 2010 And remember: Chuck Norris is an American. Wendy P.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 1,623 #9 October 23, 2010 Quote While the White House may not believe in American exceptionalism ... or CBS? NBC? ABC? ... I do. And I'm thinking there's a whole bunch of people in Chile that would agree. Regarding the mine rescue, did you know: The guy that designed the rescue module was a NASA Engineer? The Drill was made by Schramm Inc. from Pennsylvania . The Drill Bits were made by Center Rock, Inc. located in Berlin , Pennsylvania . The lead driller Jeff Hart and his team are from Denver , Colorado . They are on loan from the US Military in Afghanistan where they are drilling water wells for our Forward Operating Bases. He spent the next 33 days on his feet, operating the drill that finally provided a way out Saturday for 33 trapped miners. "You have to feel through your feet what the drill is doing; it's a vibration you get so that you know what's happening," explained Hart. Hart was called in from Afghanistan, "simply because he's the best" at drilling larger holes with the T130's wide-diameter drill bits, Stefanic said. Standing before the levers, pressure meters and gauges on the T130's control panel, Hart and the rest of the team faced many challenges in drilling the shaft. At one point, the drill struck a metal support beam in the poorly mapped mine, shattering its hammers. Fresh equipment had to be flown in from the United States and progress was delayed for days as powerful magnets were lowered to pull out the pieces. The mine's veins of gold and copper ran through quartzite with a high level of abrasive silica, rock so tough that it took all their expertise to keep the drill's hammers from curving off in unwanted directions. "It was horrible," said Center Rock President Brandon Fisher, exhausted after hardly sleeping during the effort. I guess we're still doing a great job educating engineers in the USA. Pity that the MBAs who ran AIG, Lehman Bros, Countrywide, Indymac, Enron, etc, were so clueless, like the politicians who deregulated them.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jakee 1,255 #10 October 23, 2010 QuoteQuoteThe extent to which some people will stretch logic and play "six degrees of separation" to get in a cheap bash at Obama or Democrats is really pitiful. Hey, nice job on your daily cut & paste of some idiotic "article". I eagerly look forward to whatever piece of shit you'll be serving up for us tomorrow. You are so stuck walking lockstep with your comrades, You can't even read an artical, and get the deeper meaning! ...Odumbo or Demorcrates aren't even mentioned!! The very, very, very start of your article; "While the White House..." Who's in the White House?Do you want to have an ideagasm? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skipbelt 0 #11 October 23, 2010 QuoteThe extent to which some people will stretch logic and play "six degrees of separation" to get in a cheap bash at Obama or Democrats is really pitiful.Hey, nice job on your daily cut & paste of some idiotic "article". I eagerly look forward to whatever piece of shit you'll be serving up for us tomorrow.so american exceptionalism is obuma bashing ? lib logic ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,400 #12 October 23, 2010 [extremist mode on] In a decade or so, the GOP will be back in power, and they will be back to demonizing education, and scientific research, and mining safety regulations, and will have forgotten all about heroes like Jeff Hart. The (insert name of future GOP clowns) will be writing editorials about how educated people like Hart are ivory tower elitists, that NASA is a waste of taxpayer money, and that mining safety regulations are for business-hating socialists. And let's hope that someone like Hart never does anything like this while the GOP is in power. He'll be described at best as a non-patriot, spending his energies rescuing foreign miners while US miners are put at greater risk by his abandoning them. Perhaps Malkin will even describe him as a traitor, yet another American outsourcing jobs to places where people speak non-American and look different than we do. [extremist mode off] Seriously, this is the best Malkin can do nowadays? Using an unrelated tragedy to get her attacks in? I have zero doubt that had Obama honored him, she would have attacked him for honoring the rescue of foreign workers while callously ignoring American firefighters who died saving Americans. Hart did a good job at what he was trained to do. Good for him. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 0 #13 October 23, 2010 QuoteQuoteThe extent to which some people will stretch logic and play "six degrees of separation" to get in a cheap bash at Obama or Democrats is really pitiful. Hey, nice job on your daily cut & paste of some idiotic "article". I eagerly look forward to whatever piece of shit you'll be serving up for us tomorrow. so american exceptionalism is obuma bashing ? lib logic ! Brilliant! Did you not read post #10, did you not understand it, or are you simply ignoring it? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
futuredivot 0 #14 October 24, 2010 Quote I guess we're still doing a great job educating engineers in the USA. The down side to that is that no matter how bad we screw something up we expect the engineers to swoop in with a solution because they always have. Coming from someone who often promises that my engineers can do something without consulting them firstYou are only as strong as the prey you devour Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skipbelt 0 #15 October 25, 2010 and i noticed chris tingle matthews didn't waste an instant to use miners in an attempt to bash non libs ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,400 #16 October 25, 2010 >and i noticed chris tingle matthews didn't waste an instant to use >miners in an attempt to bash non libs ! Ah, well, if both sides do it, it must be perfectly OK then. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 3 #17 October 25, 2010 Quoteand i noticed chris tingle matthews didn't waste an instant to use miners in an attempt to bash non libs ! I don't suppose you'd like to link some supporting evidence to that statement would you? Maybe something on YouTube?quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skipbelt 0 #18 October 25, 2010 QuoteQuoteand i noticed chris tingle matthews didn't waste an instant to use miners in an attempt to bash non libs !I don't suppose you'd like to link some supporting evidence to that statement would you? Maybe something on YouTube?not really , but if you insist Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pirana 0 #19 October 25, 2010 The rescue effort was most commendable; and it sounds like this guy was a key figure in the heroics. Too bad that can not be called out and discussed without everybody using it as a jumping off point for their next let's-bash-the-other-side diatribe." . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 1,623 #20 October 25, 2010 Quote The rescue effort was most commendable; and it sounds like this guy was a key figure in the heroics. Too bad that can not be called out and discussed without everybody using it as a jumping off point for their next let's-bash-the-other-side diatribe. You could always stick to Bonfire. You'd get boobies too.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 212 #21 October 25, 2010 QuoteQuoteQuoteThe extent to which some people will stretch logic and play "six degrees of separation" to get in a cheap bash at Obama or Democrats is really pitiful. Hey, nice job on your daily cut & paste of some idiotic "article". I eagerly look forward to whatever piece of shit you'll be serving up for us tomorrow. You are so stuck walking lockstep with your comrades, You can't even read an artical, and get the deeper meaning! ...Odumbo or Demorcrates aren't even mentioned!! The very, very, very start of your article; "While the White House..." Who's in the White House? Michele Obama, and a dog or two or three.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skipbelt 0 #22 October 25, 2010 it'sbush'sfault is in WH ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skipbelt 0 #23 October 28, 2010 i read the one where you got spanked but by then this happened...http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703673604575550322091167574.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 0 #24 October 28, 2010 Nobody clicks on your shit, Skip. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
timmyfitz 0 #25 October 28, 2010 QuoteNobody clicks on your shit, Skip. You are incorrect. I suppose you could just ignore him if it bothers you that much. ______________________________ "1981 to 1988 is 7 years"-Kallend (oops, it's actually 8 years Kallend) The decade of the 80's was from 1980 to 1989. 10 years. If you remove 1980 and 1989 you have 1981 to 1988. 8 years. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
