Thursday, October 14, 2010

Hurray for Chile!

I want to thank all the sociology majors, women's studies majors, philosophy majors and communications majors that played an important role in rescuing those poor miners...

oh wait.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Michelle Malkin made a good point regarding the American driller. The Washington folks and media down played his success. This is a huge story, and should have been a great international PR story for the US.
I guess if you are not in a union or a civil servant, team Obama and the media just do not care.

Anonymous said...

I wonder how long it took President Piñera to find out whose a$$ he had to kick to get this done.

Sylia said...

President Piñera is a business man; someone who trusted his own judgement, rather than deferring it to 'experts'. He also is a trained Economist. Coincidentally, so is the current Prime Minister of Canada. Did I mention that Economists (the good ones, not the Paul Krugmans of the world) rock.

randall g said...

Welcome to the First World, Chile. If this had happened in China or Iran nobody would have cared.

Anonymous said...

I am a geologist, I have worked in Chile, in Copiapo, actually (well, 4 hours drive in the middle of nowhere, 4,500m up).

These Chilean miners are f*****g tough; they usually have little education, but they know how to work, *HARD*, and will take some risk to do a good job. Also, and nobody has pointed it out, the vast majority of Chilean men spend 1-2 years conscripted... and it shows; my foremen had little formal education (no degrees in Arts or Social Studies), but they could: 1) plan like hell, 2) take freaking good notes, 3) act on the information available... and at the end of a 14 hour day they are laughing and singing... I think the mixture of Conquistadores and the tough local natives has produced good results...

Captain Capitalism said...

Could you send a couple of them here to teach the American men how to man up? I'm doing the best I can, but one can only grease myself up in motorcycle repair so many times.