A Halliburton technician encharged with monitoring pressure data on America's most hated oil rig, the Deepwater Horizon, failed to see signs leading to the explosion that resulted in this year's Gulf oil spill because he was taking a break to smoke and get some coffee, he told a federal panel. Joseph E. Keith would have alerted everyone on board that the thing was going to blow, and cost Obama about five seats in the House come November, but obviously God made nicotine addictive for a reason. When did Keith finally know that something seriously wrong was going on? He ran across the "body of a dead colleague on the deck." You need to insert about five of your own Dick Cheney jokes into this post, by the way.
When one monolithic industry collides with another.
Halliburton. Worth every penny. Maybe I'll call them to do the electrical work for the bathroom renovation I'm planning.
The Schoal Rebel would not have had this problem although there might have been some accidents caused by slipping on the spittoon overflow.