Mike, you are right to commend the Chileans on this. They did unbelievable work. But, let’s not forget that companies in Pennsylvania and Texas were instrumental in all of this, and that their representatives had the grace and dignity to withdraw from the glare of the camera when the actual rescue unfolded into a beautiful conclusion. We’re an imperfect lot in the US, and, perhaps, getting even more so. The Tea Party notwithstanding, we remain an intelligent, innovative nation and a compassionate and graceful people.

When is this lying sack of dog squeeze going to end his 15 minutes of fame?

Doesn’t he have another distorted documentary to produce?

The Real Royal King said: actual rescue unfolded into a beautiful conclusion. We’re an imperfect lot in the US, and, perhaps, getting even more so. The Tea Party notwithstanding, we remain an intelligent, innovative nation and a compassionate and graceful people

Royal, in the future, would you please wait until noon to write something that pompously stupid? It’s early in the morning and you’ve already made me nauseous.

“..rather than trying to use [a] story to further some other agenda?”

Yes Mr. Moore, stop behaving like Mediaite.

Azarkhan said:
Royal, in the future, would you please wait until noon to write something that pompously stupid? It’s early in the morning and you’ve already made me nauseous.

I’m sorry you feel a recognition and recitation of our nation’s abiding wisdom and strength nauseating.

The Real Royal King said:
The Tea Party notwithstanding, we remain an intelligent, innovative nation and a compassionate and graceful people.

Yeah because people that think the government should not put us into trillion dollar debt and deficits are just ignorant. I mean, according to you, the Tea Party, which is based on fiscal responsibility, are just fools for thinking that the government should be able to balance a budget. Every child born today instantly has a $35,000 share of our national debt – that’s good right King? Those that think this is wrong, like the Tea Party, are just meanies.

RRK and Michael Moore share the same brain.

Unless the hole is larger in diameter than the Barringer Meteor Crater in Winslow, Arizona, the government should simply use Michael Moore to plug it.

Larry sure lands the big guests .

If they had to bring Moore up out of the mine , it would take at least 2 trips .

Why dont we call the Chilean government to plug Michael Moore’s mouth while we’re at it?

More Liberty said:
Yeah because people that think the government should not put us into trillion dollar debt and deficits are just ignorant. I mean, according to you, the Tea Party, which is based on fiscal responsibility, are just fools for thinking that the government should be able to balance a budget. Every child born today instantly has a $35,000 share of our national debt – that’s good right King? Those that think this is wrong, like the Tea Party, are just meanies.

Actually, my Dear Myopic Twit, I am a fervent believer in not running up deficits. No one applauded more fervently or longer than I when Clinton retired the Raygun/Poppy debt. But, I also realize that in times of war and economic distress, it may be necessary to incur debt. W and the Big Dick had no problem with incurring debt for a discretionary war, and they had no problem with not having a plan to retire it (other than the absurd belief Iraqi oil revenues would flow to us to retire the debt). Hence, the W and Big Dick Depression. And, the Japanese got timid about pumping money into their faltering economy in the 80′s, hence the Lost Decade. Any moron can scream about no deficits and make a ridiculous analogy to their hosehold budgets, but that is not the type of thinking that puts America back on track. It simply keeps us mired in the railyard.

And, don’t play this Tea Party purity game with me. You very well know that the Tea Party is at least as interested in its anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-gay, anti-immigrant agenda as it is the question of the deficits.

I know a bit about your political philosophy as you know a bit about mine. And, the Tea Party is as much an anathema to you as it is to me. As it is to our great and abiding American traditions ….

Andy Lamb said:
Unless the hole is larger in diameter than the Barringer Meteor Crater in Winslow, Arizona, the government should simply use Michael Moore to plug it.

I wouldn’t know. I have a deep, natural tan from the passing summer. as such, I avoid Arizona lest I be detained and deported.

gordonbloyershow said:
RRK and Michael Moore share the same brain.

Which would mean both of us have twice the brains you do, Marceaux, I mean Blower.

Since Chile is embracing the successes of Free Market Capitalism, and the expertise of someone like Mr Hart, I’d say they are welcome to return the favor any day. But, that isn’t what Moore means. He still doesn’t get it, does he?

All one has to do is compare the miner rescue to the way the Obama administration handled the gulf spill to see.

http://online.wsj.com/video/opinion-journal-capitalism-saves-miners/3050DF90-879C-41C7-B372-A1F6A542C58C.html

Actually I believe the Chilean President almost immediately recognized that his country was unable to execute the processes necessary to save the miners and asked for the outside help right away. I commend this President’s act because other leaders might let their ego get in the way and not ask for help. You know like when other countries offered to help Obama with the Gulf and he sat on his hands.

I believe Chile had an expert that was over in Afghanistan fly over right away to start with the rescue efforts.
NASA also offered their services for the rescue. As stated in this article other Americans were also there helping. It was a great story and of course somebody like Michael Moore is there to try and push some wacky side agenda.

The Real Royal King said:
No one applauded more fervently or longer than I when Clinton retired the Raygun/Poppy debt.

WJ Clinton retired no debt, my friend. When Reagan left office, the national debt stood at 2.5 trillion dollars. It is now between 13 – 14 trillion dollars. 1.7 trillion dollars was added during the Presidency of WJ Clinton. With the unprecidented economic explosion that was the internet, he has nothing to be proud of. However, he is truly Ebenezer Scrooge compared to the current President, who has added over 3 trillion dollars in 20 short months.

The Real Royal King said:
W had no problem with incurring debt

On this point, you get no argument from me. GW Bush was, in many respects, more of a liberal than WJ Clinton. Not a good President (neither one really was) but a misguided and misunderstood man with a bigger heart than Clinton. GW was a huge liberal when it came to social spending. No Child Left Behind with Kennedy, an 18% annual increase in education spending, record amounts of money to inner city schools, Medicare prescription drug benefit, record multibillion-dollar fund to fight AIDS globally, tripled financial aid to Africa, American Dream Downpayment Act (zero downpayment loans for poor people) and I could go on and on and on.

The Real Royal King said:
Hence, the W and Big Dick Depression.

He surely had a hand in it, as did Clinton and Andrew Cuomo, a man who now, for the “great” work he did helping shred the housing market as Clinton’s HUD Secretary, will be elected as Governor of New York. And, you have to give a big tip of the hat to the man sitting in the big chair now, BH Obama, whose horrid agenda is making things much, much, much worse.

The Real Royal King said:
Which would mean both of us have twice the brains you do, Marceaux, I mean Blower.

Here’s a thought. Let’s all stop feeding the RRK troll. The only way he’ll ever go away is if we ignore him.

Andy Lamb said:
WJ Clinton retired no debt, my friend. When Reagan left office, the national debt stood at 2.5 trillion dollars. It is now between 13 – 14 trillion dollars. 1.7 trillion dollars was added during the Presidency of WJ Clinton. With the unprecidented economic explosion that was the internet, he has nothing to be proud of. However, he is truly Ebenezer Scrooge compared to the current President, who has added over 3 trillion dollars in 20 short months. On this point, you get no argument from me. GW Bush was, in many respects, more of a liberal than WJ Clinton. Not a good President (neither one really was) but a misguided and misunderstood man with a bigger heart than Clinton. GW was a huge liberal when it came to social spending. No Child Left Behind with Kennedy, an 18% annual increase in education spending, record amounts of money to inner city schools, Medicare prescription drug benefit, record multibillion-dollar fund to fight AIDS globally, tripled financial aid to Africa, American Dream Downpayment Act (zero downpayment loans for poor people) and I could go on and on and on. He surely had a hand in it, as did Clinton and Andrew Cuomo, a man who now, for the “great” work he did helping shred the housing market as Clinton’s HUD Secretary, will be elected as Governor of New York. And, you have to give a big tip of the hat to the man sitting in the big chair now, BH Obama, whose horrid agenda is making things much, much, much worse.

Many good points. Many with which I agree. Thank you for a thoughtful, well-written post. I enjoyed it very much.

Ah, the porcine, hygiene challenged Michael Moore grunts out yet another anti-American opinion, criticizing America while wallowing in her largesse.

The fact that the US provided both the technology and the manpower to drill, only adds to Michael´s point and maybe whats wrong with the US is management and its time to offshore CEOs and Government positions

Still, [idiot] went on to give a rationale: the miners were extracted in a little over two months, whereas “it took us three months to plug a seven-inch diameter hole. And all there was, was oil coming. There weren’t human beings down there.”

Also, just in case you missed it, Michael, that hole in Chile wasn’t under FIVE FUCKING THOUSAND FEET OF WATER. I’d say that anyone with half a functioning brain would be able to conclude that, oh, I dunno, maybe it was just a SMIDGE easier to do a drilling operation from dry ground.

Of course, the hole “half a functioning brain” part would rule out Michael Moore, so I guess we shouldn’t exactly expect coherent logic out of that meatsack.

Michael Moore. The Only Morbidly Obese “Human” on Earth who can still Speak, while doing a Perpetual Handstand.

THE DREAMS OF MICHAEL MOORE….

Okay, let Chile take over disaster relief in the US. Hire Fidel Castro to handle our healthcare. Put Noam Chomsky in charge of homeland security. Huge Chavez can take over as CEO of Facebook. Kim Jong ll can step in as host of Saturday Night Live. Charlie Rangel becomes head of the Federal Reserve. Andrew Sullivan becomes top general at the Pentagon. The Dixie Chicks get hired as the joint chiefs of staff. And how about a community organizer for President.

Whoops, I forgot…we already have a community organizer as President.

“Man, wouldn’t it be great if we could just be thankful that those 33 men are safe, rather than trying to use the story to further some other agenda?”

Agreed, Ms. Busis

By the way, both the drill used to rescue the Chilean miners and the man operating that drill, Jeff Hart, came from the United States
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If this guy had a solution to the GO problem the Obama administration would probably have told him to get lost as they didn’t want to miss capitalizing on a situation.

The next time I lose a pork chop I’ll call Michael Moore.

felixw said:
THE DREAMS OF MICHAEL MOORE…. Okay, let Chile take over disaster relief in the US. Hire Fidel Castro to handle our healthcare. Put Noam Chomsky in charge of homeland security. Huge Chavez can take over as CEO of Facebook. Kim Jong ll can step in as host of Saturday Night Live. Charlie Rangel becomes head of the Federal Reserve. Andrew Sullivan becomes top general at the Pentagon. The Dixie Chicks get hired as the joint chiefs of staff. And how about a community organizer for President. Whoops, I forgot…we already have a community organizer as President.

Remember when campaigning started in 2004 and Castro offered to send election observers to Florida to make sure the will of the people was not thwarted. I thought that was clever.

You would.

The lesson learned from the Chilean mine disaster was the President of Chilean immediately accepted help from outside of Chile. Within 48 hours of the original collapse two Western Pennsylvania companies sent a specialty drill to Chile. A Kansas-based company came up with the plan to drill the shaft and the method that would be used to bring the men to the surface. Jeff Hart, an expert driller from Denver, was transported from Afghanistan to man the drill which dug its way to the men. A team of NASA scientists helped monitor the men’s health, and came up with plans to help the miners deal with the difficult, closed space conditions in the mine. Plans were specifically designed to help keep the miners physically and mentally healthy. The plans included strict diets, a daily exercise regiment, and vaccines.

This was a teachable moment meant solely for Obama who did not act quickly and decisively on the Gulf Oil Spill. He relied on his advisors from academia to solve the problem.

Thirteen entities offered the U.S. oil spill assistance within about two weeks of the Horizon rig explosion. They were the governments of Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations.

Belgium and Dutch dredgers were ready to go, but Obama said no go.

Obama preferred to go with a political solution than a practical solution.

The Real Royal King said:
Mike, you are right to commend the Chileans on this. They did unbelievable work. But, let’s not forget that companies in Pennsylvania and Texas were instrumental in all of this, and that their representatives had the grace and dignity to withdraw from the glare of the camera when the actual rescue unfolded into a beautiful conclusion.

Should’ve stopped there dude.

Has anyone pointed out the obvious difference?

I don’t think they were working against thousands of pounds of pressure when they were drilling this hole for the rescue.

Also, that boy crying when he saw his father got me right here. *pats heart*

“By the way, both the drill used to rescue the Chilean miners and the man operating that drill, Jeff Hart, came from the United States—which deflates Moore’s argument.”

I was thinking this when I read the headline. Three teams were working those rescue efforts. The U.S. team beat the other two by drilling three times through the same hole, each time making the hold larger. The problem in the Gulf is that no one knew what to do about this. There was no plan in place, and let’s face it, 69 days of that oil spill would still have been a disaster.

This should be a warning to everyone left or right: if you don’t know what you’re talking about, change the subject to something you do know something about or just shut up!

Andy Lamb said:
WJ Clinton retired no debt, my friend. When Reagan left office, the national debt stood at 2.5 trillion dollars. It is now between 13 – 14 trillion dollars. 1.7 trillion dollars was added during the Presidency of WJ Clinton. With the unprecidented economic explosion that was the internet, he has nothing to be proud of. However, he is truly Ebenezer Scrooge compared to the current President, who has added over 3 trillion dollars in 20 short months.

Correct. Perhaps the most oft repeated nonsense is that there was a Clinton surplus. There was a projected surplus in the 7th year of his term which never occurred. He can take the credit for presiding over a vastly reduced deficit in one year but never a surplus. Ironically while it took him 6 years to get there, Bush was decried by the Left for not running surpluses from Day 1 in the time of recession, 9-11 and its economic aftermath!

Andy Lamb said:
On this point, you get no argument from me. GW Bush was, in many respects, more of a liberal than WJ Clinton. Not a good President (neither one really was) but a misguided and misunderstood man with a bigger heart than Clinton. GW was a huge liberal when it came to social spending. No Child Left Behind with Kennedy, an 18% annual increase in education spending, record amounts of money to inner city schools, Medicare prescription drug benefit, record multibillion-dollar fund to fight AIDS globally, tripled financial aid to Africa, American Dream Downpayment Act (zero downpayment loans for poor people) and I could go on and on and on.

You’ve left out one point however, and thats in all of his large initiatives the one complaint the Left had in every case was that they didnt go far enough. The idea that Lefties criticize Bush for being a big spender when left to their own devices they would have spent more in every case is frankly idiotic.

Andy Lamb said:
He surely had a hand in it, as did Clinton and Andrew Cuomo, a man who now, for the “great” work he did helping shred the housing market as Clinton’s HUD Secretary, will be elected as Governor of New York. And, you have to give a big tip of the hat to the man sitting in the big chair now, BH Obama, whose horrid agenda is making things much, much, much worse.

Economic trends are cyclical. The economy was faltering in the last two years of the Clinton Presidency, then it came full cycle again at the end of the Bush Presidency. Robust growth as happened during Clinton and Bush at some point has to self correct.

Where things are different now however is that the collapse of the mortgage market coupled with the Wall Street meltdown led us into problems that will take longer to recover from. They were exacerbated by TARP (Bush) , and then blown completely up by Obama’s moronic $787 Million “stimulus” and $1 trillion Healthcare reform. Stay tuned, the expiration of the Bush Tax Cuts along with the submoronic Cap and Trade legislation are going to put us on the souplines once again.

I only clicked on the Mediaite link to learn which !!!***@@@ cable news network would do something so absurd as to put Michael Moore on the air.

Obama and the Dems could learn from the pride of country shown by the Chilean people and its government. I doubt President Pinera would criticize his own country the way BO, MO, Bill Maher, Michael Moore, and the rest of the extreme left have done.

Instead of effing around like Obama did during the BP oil spill, President Pinera and the Chilean government accepted the help offered from other countries, designed a plan, and followed through with it.

Pinera gave a beautiful heartfelt speech after the rescue praising the miners, rescue workers, and their families of whom he said:

“Their faith was permanent and it moved mountains”

The Real Royal King said:
But, let’s not forget that companies in Pennsylvania and Texas were instrumental in all of this, and that their representatives had the grace and dignity to withdraw from the glare of the camera when the actual rescue unfolded into a beautiful conclusion.

Hear Hear! Well put.

theendisfar said:
Hear Hear! Well put.

Royal King has another alias.

Michael, I have a lot of respect for you, but on TV they said the four main men over in Chili, overseeing the operation was from the USA. The best in the world comes from the USA, you know that.

Does this lardassed idiot have a clue that the hole drilled to save the Chilean miners was drilled by an AMERICAN firm, staffed by AMERICANS?

The next time there’s a blow out in the Gulf, it would be great to stuff that idiot in it.

uggugg said:
Michael, I have a lot of respect for you, but on TV they said the four main men over in Chili, overseeing the operation was from the USA. The best in the world comes from the USA, you know that.

Sorry, I did not see your comment until I had posted mine.

Who’s Michael Moore? Maybe I’ll google him. Well, maybe not. I might find out.

Oh, now I remember, he’s that really disgusting fat guy who wants us to model our health care system after Cuba. So did they botch his brain surgery while he was there?