Among the federal employees to be sent home? BOEMRE inspectors...

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Thursday April 07, 2011 · 9:37 AM PDT

2011/04/07 · 09:37

I'm sure this has absolutely nothing to do with the hard right GOP insistance that the government be shut down if they don't get their way, but among many other federal employees, BOEMRE (Board of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement) inspectors will also be sent home.

For those who don't know or remember, these are the folks that do offshore oil rig inspections... BOEMRE is the agency previously known as the Minerals Management Service (MMS).

I know this first hand from a "close relative" who works for a BOEMRE contractor. They were sent home the last time the government shut down too.

Don't think the GOM rigs will shut down just because the inspectors can't go offshore to check up on them.

Of course, down here in south Louisiana, which was/is an epicenter of tea party mentality long before there was a tea party, everything is Obama's fault. There is a billboard on the corner of Johnston St. and Ambassador Caffery Pkwy in Lafayette, LA, the highest traffic intersection in our city, which proudly asserts that we should blame Obama the next time gas gets to $4.00 a gallon... drill in America! So few of the local NASCAR pickup truck driving crowd will likely be very upset that BOEMRE is shut down, except maybe the inspectors themselves assuming they are in that group that won't get paid.

Though I haven't heard anything in the local press or media about the 8th deepwater permit that has been approved by BOEMRE. For starters, it doesn't jive with the "it's (the black, Muslim, alien, anti-Christian, oh, did we say he was black?) Obama's fault" meme...

Just sayin'.

ulyankee

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Saturday June 12, 2010 · 3:21 PM PDT

2010/06/12 · 15:21

Almost forgotten due to the worsening Oilpocalypse beast destroying Louisiana's marshes, waters and shoreline is the fact that our legislature is currently in session, wrestling with a state budget that Bobby Jindal’s tax cut to Louisiana's wealthiest has thrown into shambles. But not to worry... before Jindal went to Fourchon and Grand Isle and Venice to throw his oil coated hands in the air, make a deal with BP to build sand berms that may or may not work, and then rail at BP for not doing enough for Louisianians affected by the oilcano, he had a plan to work it all out.

Much of it hinges on "fixing" higher education, which, as in many, many other states, has taken the biggest hits over the last two years in order to balance the state budget. More below the fold...

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Among the federal employees to be sent home? BOEMRE inspectors...

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