tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post7478334971967919518..comments2023-09-15T04:27:57.129-04:00Comments on Commentarama: Miraculous Recovery For Terrorist Bomber, And BP May Have HelpedAndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-57397815637785904462010-07-21T14:53:21.898-04:002010-07-21T14:53:21.898-04:00For clarity's sake, I should revise my prior c...For clarity's sake, I should revise my prior comment to say "to paraphrase Mary McCarthy speaking of Lillian Hellman . . . "LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-78665021384880039782010-07-21T13:48:05.590-04:002010-07-21T13:48:05.590-04:00CalFed: To paraphrase Lillian Hellman, "ever...CalFed: To paraphrase Lillian Hellman, "everything they say is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" BP is beginning to make Exxon look like a paragon of truth and virtue. And at least Exxon didn't make drilling deals with terrorist nations in exchange for the release of mass murderers.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-25270357999267506802010-07-21T13:40:05.180-04:002010-07-21T13:40:05.180-04:00LawHawk. And now it's coming out that BP doct...LawHawk. And now it's coming out that BP doctored photos of its command center for the oil leak. The photoshop makes the place look like high tech central, when in fact it's quite an ordinary post. I'm beginning to doubt everything, and I mean everything, that BP tells us.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02284025222779154243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-8069498515570311472010-07-20T23:57:35.089-04:002010-07-20T23:57:35.089-04:00Bev: Well, doesn't that just figure? The mor...Bev: Well, doesn't that just figure? The more I learn about this, the more appalled I am. Consideration was given to everyone and everything except the 180 Americans and 270 passengers who suffered a horrifying death that fatal day.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-59078289644612585622010-07-20T23:21:35.662-04:002010-07-20T23:21:35.662-04:00The Sunday Times reported that the doctor who actu...The Sunday Times reported that the doctor who actually gave the prognosis that this guy had 3 months to live knew that he could live for 10-20 years longer, but "it would be unusual". He was the only doctor the Libyans could find who would make that prognosis.BevfromNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953050916932306270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-23932786731966865102010-07-20T22:39:06.741-04:002010-07-20T22:39:06.741-04:00Stan: Awww, have a heart. The poor guy was s-o-o...Stan: Awww, have a heart. The poor guy was s-o-o-o sick, after all. Or maybe not. What a load these people are trying to feed us.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-56427951505864867732010-07-20T21:58:01.730-04:002010-07-20T21:58:01.730-04:00Just wow! I heard this story a couple weeks ago an...Just wow! I heard this story a couple weeks ago and asked, “what in the hell are people thinking?” That slimy piece of Islamic debris should have died in prison, while being gang raped by all of cell block C. Incredible!StanHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07395708786509590321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-73103750993229869732010-07-20T19:03:33.857-04:002010-07-20T19:03:33.857-04:00HamiltonsGhost: What Cameron did was sensible and...HamiltonsGhost: What Cameron did was sensible and chicken, at the same time. The sensible part was not being an Obama and blaming all evil and all failures on the prior opposition administration. Commendable. But then he proceeded to do what too many American politicians do, without a decent basis for doing so. He blamed Scotland. The last time I looked, Scotland was still part of the United Kingdom, despite being given much more autonomy under the Blair administration. The tie between the two countries is closer than the Constitution provides for the federal and state governments in America. At the very least, Cameron should be saying "we (Great Britain) dropped the ball by failing to make our objections far more public and far more vocal." Instead he acts as if an entirely sovereign nation made a bad decision over which England had absolutely no influence. And it's British Petroleum, not Scottish Petroleum. England should at least have objected to having its own name sullied by this reprehensible release, even though British Petroleum is not an organ of the British government. Hooey.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-27082353324985783612010-07-20T18:49:33.519-04:002010-07-20T18:49:33.519-04:00Andrew: The Nazis did a similar calculation with ...Andrew: The Nazis did a similar calculation with human lives. They decided it was more efficient to work "inferior races" to death and replace them with fresh ones than to treat the workers at least somewhat humanely. Let me emphasize that I am NOT comparing BP or Scotland to the Nazis. I am merely saying that human lives cannot be treated as mere numbers in an economic formula.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-64699765574486478892010-07-20T18:44:18.026-04:002010-07-20T18:44:18.026-04:00Lawhawk--I also noticed that Cameron kept emphasiz...Lawhawk--I also noticed that Cameron kept emphasizing that it was Scotland, not Britain, that released the bomber.HamiltonsGhosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07777000856977635480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-1327854489615498532010-07-20T18:09:43.892-04:002010-07-20T18:09:43.892-04:00Joel: It was bad enough when they were all marchi...Joel: It was bad enough when they were all marching to the same tune, but without direction. Now it appears that there actually have been "progressive" MSM journalism organizations that planned to squelch any negative news about Obama. They don't have to get together in a room and plan their Obama strategy, they just do it online with their fellow insiders. I'm not big on conspiracy theories, but I really have to wonder how, within 24 hours, all the liberal media manage to tell almost verbatim the same stories that minimalize or ignore the truth behind criticisms of Obama.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-74954124000422278922010-07-20T17:46:26.843-04:002010-07-20T17:46:26.843-04:00Lawhawk, I can't disagree. They have basicall...Lawhawk, I can't disagree. They have basically let a terrorist kill 270 people in exchange for letting BP drill for oil. That's not a transaction anyone should be proud of.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-72806450512788178952010-07-20T17:39:27.729-04:002010-07-20T17:39:27.729-04:00Current lies MSM and the powers-that-be want us to...Current lies MSM and the powers-that-be want us to believe.<br /><br />I never inhaled, I didn't listened to that Wright fellow, climate warming is caused by man and now the Lockerbie Bomber was sick.<br /><br />Any one wonder now why MSM is losing it's audience?Joel Farnhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15856960977033430002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-15712372987084747122010-07-20T17:18:29.804-04:002010-07-20T17:18:29.804-04:00Tennessee: The diagnosis appeared originally to h...Tennessee: The diagnosis appeared originally to have been negligent. Now, without further explanation from Scotland, the UK and BP, I have every reason to believe it was rigged and an outright lie.<br /><br />I can't say much about personal contact with BP. The full extent of my knowledge of them is that the crooks who used to run a Unocal service station in San Francisco that screwed my son over on a repair to his truck now run it as a BP station. Oh, and one day all the Phillips 66 gas stations in town were suddenly sporting BP signs.<br /><br />I'm not much of a boycotter or ecofreak, but I boycotted Exxon after the Valdez disaster not because of the accident but because of their lame explanations and slow taking of blame. Imagine how I feel about BP right now.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-45485086523996559472010-07-20T17:10:34.713-04:002010-07-20T17:10:34.713-04:00Andrew: One murder, maybe humanitarian release mi...Andrew: One murder, maybe humanitarian release might apply. Particularly if the surrounding circumstances indicate that it truly was a once-in-a-lifetime act for which the murderer is genuinely contrite. But this was the cold-blooded, carefully planned and successfully executed mass murder of innocent civilians that this scumbag had no direct knowledge of. There was simply no, zero, excuse for releasing him for any reason, humanitarian or otherwise. If the facts ultimately support it being at least partially an economic decision, it becomes one of the greatest human rights violations in modern times.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-50151095075176649922010-07-20T16:12:05.964-04:002010-07-20T16:12:05.964-04:00Hawk - I take a couple of things away from your po...Hawk - I take a couple of things away from your post. First, whoever made the diagnosis of the terminal nature of the illness has zero credibility. Second, how hard BP actually lobbied is almost irrelevant in the sense we know they would put their own interests in securing a beneficial agreement ahead of anything else.<br /><br />I don't happen to use BP/Amoco products, but now will make a special effort to avoid them. Interestingly, the weekend of July 4th, I traveled to Biloxi, Ms. to take grandchildren home. There were a ton of BP stations down there, but I saw hardly anybody patronizing them.Tennessee Jedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10604275115906776992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-58968782385283609782010-07-20T16:10:24.362-04:002010-07-20T16:10:24.362-04:00Why am I not surprised? When Scotland released hi...Why am I not surprised? When Scotland released him, it stunk. Even if he was sick, humanitarian releases are rare and are rarely given to mass murderers. They are usually given to people that everyone suspects are really innocent.<br /><br />Add in the timing of the whole thing and how it was done apparently without the knowledge of the Americans, and something was up.<br /><br />Now we start hearing about BP lobbying to release this guy, and it just wraps it all up.<br /><br />This is the kind of influence peddling that is entirely despicable. This is the subversion of justice and of the hard work of thousands of investigators on behalf of one stinking international oil company that just wasn't smart enough to go find oil somewhere where the government was a group of whackos.<br /><br />Disgraceful.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.com