WSJ - Regulators Accepted Gifts From Oil Industry, Report Says

Fraternizing, Porn & Drugs.

But no big news stories about politicians taking all kinds of shite from lobbyists.

I'm pretty sure as far as the sex, drugs, and alcohol, not all that many.

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Yeah, name me an industry where this doesn't happen.

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yeah but these guys got caught.

It's like college football, everybody cheats but that doesn't give a school a free pass when they get caught doing it.

Oh the "everybody does it" excuse. That makes it ok. Nothing to see here.

The MMS is a huge group of scumbags that have been pawns for the oil and gas industry for a long time. They deserve the scrutiny and negative light being cast over them. The sooner they get fragmented the better imo.

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Oh the "everybody does it" excuse. That makes it ok. Nothing to see here.

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Perhaps you read another post by someone with a similar name that said something similar to your post above, but it wasn't me. In case you have trouble understanding what I meant, read the post by me two posts above your most recent one. If you can't find it, here it is:

Nobody said anything about a free pass. I'm saying there isn't a big conspiracy theory or even much to this unless something specific comes out where there were serious safety issues overlooked and MMS allowed it on this rig. All the shite that happened with gifts is old news and irrelevant to the reasons as to why the rig blew up and why the safety devices failed.

I didn't say it was okay. I said name me one that doesn't. You didn't, and all you did was twist my words to make it appear as if I said something else. Sort of like what the media does in their grandstanding and scare tactics in making out the whole O&G industry and MMS as one big slimy industry overrun with corruption and filth.

Are there people like that who work for MMS? Of course. Are there people like that who work in Congress? Of course. Are there people like that who work in Education? Of course.

I've worked with dozens of MMS field reps, and they are nothing like what the media makes them out to be.

As I said before, until something comes out where MMS intentionally overlooked an area that was out of compliance on the Deepwater Horizon because of what that report stated, that and this disaster have nothing to do with each other.

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The MMS is a huge group of scumbags that have been pawns for the oil and gas industry for a long time

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FWIW, you could change up that comment and replace MMS with Wall Street, and oil and gas can be replaced with the banking industry, and you have just as accurate a statement.

MMS didn't cause this. Look other places for blame.

Jesus you're dense. I didn't try to excuse anything. I said that this report has nothing to do with the oil rig disaster, and I'll stand by that until you or one of the other posters can link a story that says otherwise. Nobody has done it yet.

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Find another lin eo fwork because we're going to be closing the doors shut on offshore drilling.

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Since you're the expert, why don't you tell me what we're going to do for energy. List 5 things in your house that have no sort of petroleum product or by-product in them.

Your idiotic knee jerk reaction by saying we're going to shut down offshore drilling is just that; idiotic. My job is safe.

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List 5 things in your house that have no sort of petroleum product or by-product in them.

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That is an interesting question. When you factor in transportation, I cannot think of a single thing.