Posted on 07/03/2010 9:03:54 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
concur - 20 yards is nothing at sea and limits ability to manuever if your that close. They are making hay about nothing here. But I don’t mind as long as it makes ob look bad.
The article ridicules the headline.
I don’t think BO is keeping anything under wraps.
Whatever he’s trying to hide must be pretty small if you can’t see it from 65 feet away.
In sunlight I can see (see,but not read) the numbers on a 25 yard slowfire target, and if I get a good group, I can definitely see the holes in the x ring. No scope. With my crappiest scope, I can actually read the numbers and see the one pesky 8.
As for details, if I use my good 300 mm lens, things are pretty clear from 100 yards away, and I can blow it up a little with photoshop. If you were 100 yards away, holding a bill, I probably could tell what denomination with my 300. So what tiny things is the vast conspiracy attempting to cover up?
The list, ping
And with a cell phone, you can get a whole lot closer, simply by calling the Coast Guard office in New Orleans and gaining access, which I've yet to hear a single report of a media outlet being denied access. Same with the flight restrictions, again, a simple call, and you get a waiver. And if that single call doesn't grant the waiver, you just send someone down to the federal court house to go talk to that judge who ruled against the Obama administration over the offshore oil drilling ban, and let him know that reasonable access is being denied.
It's extremely common for a working disaster scene for restrictions to be put in, here you've got restrictions for a few reasons - to give the larger craft room to move in, to minimize the opening and closing of containment booms, and to keep people out of the way of clean up operations.
If any media outlet really believed these restrictions were impeding their coverage, they'd be breaking the rules, and just itching to have someone call them on it, and then go take it to court to get the rule overturned. But most media outlets are quite happy not to have the expense of covering a disaster that spans so many miles, and doesn't afford easy access to devastation for them to picture.
Did anyone listen to Coast to Coast AM the other night when two physicists pronounced there were fissures growing in the gulf floor due to a gigantic Methane gas bubble? It was advised that all gulf states be evacuated. There is certainly worse to come. Tell me, who is to benefit by keeping this alleged truth to be withheld from the American people?
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No, I missed that one. My favorite episode of Coast to Coast was when Chief Red Elk expounded on the lizard people who live under the earth. He sounded like a very interesting and nice man.
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/elk-red/5687
One can only conclude this government is totalitarian.
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Working on it anyway. No totalitarian government can maintain power without a terror though.
I LOVE your rant! PREACH IT BROTHER!
Mrkd
I just _knew_ he was one of those turds that puts his dirty damned feet up on a desk.
I detest that posturing affectation.
“So what tiny things is the vast conspiracy attempting to cover up?”
Dead and dying birds, fish, dolphins, turtles mostly. Of course the limit is 65 feet outside the boom. The boom is supposed to be placed outside the oil. So on beaches and choppy water the animals end up being pretty darn hard to locate.
But it seems you’re ok with the govt dictating what you can and what you cannot see.
If the feds can evacuate millions of people from the East Coast they can sure as heck deport all the illegals!
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Yes. They also attempted, and failed, to disarm residents in and around New Orleans.
How is that swine flu vaccine coming along btw?
God DAMN him!!!
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In due course. BAIPA alone would have secured that.
Barring a whole lot of repenting going on, BHO is in deep coals.
Well when you are talking about CNN, I would question that statement!
Just add your name to the clueless idiot list. You are past all help. Really.
Oh, and Happy Independence day.
I too am stunned by the FReeper defense of CENCORSHIP and, as I asked above, how many even bothered to watch the link to the TEN MINUTE CNN piece?
About SEVEN minutes of the interview is with two Louisianna Parish Presidents who flat out said What is being reported, from the Government, is LIES! The number of skimmers (on paper) is many times more than what they SEE off their shores; same with miles of boom and timelyness of changing oil soaked boom. What is being reported is NOT what they are seeing in their Parishes!
And face it folks, the spirit of this thread, no matter how many ‘field goal,’ Waco, or gun sight comparisons that are made, is defending the indefensible...Obama’s reaction. Local, LA Parish Presidents were saying ‘the feds are lying, we need reporters down here, with cameras to show the lies’ and we have FReepers, either not watching the video or just thinking its too much fun to make fun of Cooper than it is address government censorship of what is happening in the Gulf.
I’ll ask again, how many watched the complete TEN minutes?
The Coast Guard using its well-established regulative authority to tell gawkers and paparazzi to stay 65 ft away from working boats is hardly censorship. They can photograph what they like and publish what they like.
The Coast Guard are trained dedicated professional men and women serving their country, just like the marines. Try not denigrating them too much. This did not come from the white house. It is just a normal procedure that the Coast Guard follows whenever there is an incident of this kind at sea.
The Coast Guard also frequently establishes safety perimeters around transiting warships. Is THAT censorship? Or just a reasonable precaution.
I love all the landlubbers here who are so ignorant of what constitutes safe navigation on the sea.
Quite simply, man, if you operate a boat in a way that makes collision appear imminent when you have a duty to stand clear, then the other boat is quite within its rights to cut its gear and take action to avoid. It can then turn around and sue for the damage and lost equipment in a court of law. Additionally, the perp of this navigational error has probably committed additional felonies having to do with intentionally harming the environment, etc.
You clearly have no idea how many mindless numbskulls there are out with boats, big boats, fast boats, with powerful engines, that can cause messes in seconds that will take years to recover from.
No professional mariner would condone the sort of interference with marine operations that you are condemning the Coast Guard for prohibiting.
In no way did I insult the Coast Guard..mand this edict came from Thad Allen, in a press briefingan with Gibbs, at the WH. It is in the CNN piece.
Maybe the Coast Guard also wants the media there...because, again referencing the two Louisianna Parish Presidents, who said ‘the Feds are lying, the amount of skimmers being reported (by the Feds) on paper IS NOT what we have in our waters.” Same sentiments with the boom. Someone is lying. Can career Coast Guard call out the lies? No. That is what the media is needed for.
Where is Fox? Why wasn’t Greta or BOR on that beach with those two exasperated LA pols?
The story isn’t Cooper, or even the 65 feet. Its elected LA officials saying the Feds are lying (not providing the help/assets they say they are). That is what needs addressed.
Watch the video.
I spent some time on a minesweep. As an officer I had to get permission from the bos'un to go on deck when we were running gear, and he kept a closer eye on me than on his gear and his men until I was safely out of the way. He didn't trust officers an inch. A landlubbing reporter would be even worse.
We are talking working boats with heavy loads in rolling seas, here, man. Even the smallest screw up and lots of people get hurt. The sea is still a cruel taskmaster.
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