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BP, Halliburton Knew Oil Spill Cement Unstable

Posted November 01, 2010 9:30 AM

From Discovery News - Top Stories:

BP and Halliburton knew weeks before an explosion tore through a BP rig in the Gulf of Mexico that the cement mix they planned to pump into an undersea BP well was faulty, a probe found. But they went ahead regardless, and the unstable cement that Halliburton poured into BP's Macondo well to secure the casing on the sea floor was fingered by a commission set up by President Barack Obama as one of the key causes of the April accident.

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11/01/2010 11:38 AM

From the article:

"This is like building a car when you know the brakes could fail, but you sell the cars anyway," said Congressman Edward Markey, chair of the energy and environment subcommittee in the House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee.

Geez. How stupid and irresponsible. Congressman Markey (D, MA) provides an excellent analogy.

I mean (just imagine), what if Congress were do to something like, oh let's say pass a major overhaul of the U.S health care system without anyone in Congress actually having read the entire bill and not know what's in it. Thank goodness our Congressmen aren't as irresponsible as to do something like that, right?

Oh, wait... http://truthbeforedishonor.wordpress.com/obamacare-roll-call/

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11/01/2010 12:18 PM

Right.

Since the "Chewbacca defense" doesn't apply here, it only makes sense to apply the "Pot & Kettle defense" - famously first used in Neener vs. Neener.

Who can ever forget that monumental speech when the defense attorney stood up and crried "But Mommmmmy! He was bad tooooooo!"

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11/01/2010 12:52 PM

Don't get me wrong, I AM NOT defending Haliburton. It's just the irony of his statement gets me; such a hypocrite. So yes, if I were there when he made that statement I might have said, "Mr. Pot, your black suit is just as ugly as Mr. Kettle's."

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