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From: Ray OHara on 3 Jul 2010 09:55 "OceanView" <F(a)chance.org> wrote in message news:Xns9DA9ED698C94D373(a)216.196.97.131... >>> >> "Local officials feel the federal government is making the perfect the >> enemy of the good in cleanup efforts;" >> >> >> mario in victoria > > I know it's late and I've had a long day, but I read it three times, and > no, I can't. It's a common saying . think of George Patton's sayings "good enough is good enough" and "a good plan this week is better than a perfect plan next week" letting the perfect be the enemy of the good because you want to do it perfectly you faail to do what you can.
From: JTibbs on 3 Jul 2010 13:28 "mario in victoria" <mario5491(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:pWwXn.4270$Zi.3216(a)newsfe14.iad... > OceanView wrote: >> "Ray OHara" <raymond-ohara(a)hotmail.com> wrote in >> news:i0lsat$jbr$1(a)news.eternal-september.org: >>> "Polarhound" <polarhound(a)comcast.net> wrote in message >>> news:vCtXn.6736$RC5.986(a)newsfe08.iad... >>>> http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Reports/7-1-10_O >>>> GR_Report_-_How_the_White_House_Public_Relations_Campaign_on_the_Oil_S >>>> pill_is_Harming_the_Actual_Clean-up.pdf >>>> >>>> Findings >>>> >>>> Committee staff has discovered the following based upon witness >>>> interviews and documents provided by federal and state entities: >>> >>> a republican committee, yeah they wouldn't lie. >>> >>> >>> >> >> They'd be awful quiet if they wouldn't. >> > > Can you make sense of this sentence? > > "Local officials feel the federal government is making the perfect the > enemy of the good in cleanup efforts;" > I can make sense of it. I just don't see the point of saying it there.
From: JTibbs on 3 Jul 2010 13:31 "Ray OHara" <raymond-ohara(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:i0nfge$4dk$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > "OceanView" <F(a)chance.org> wrote in message > news:Xns9DA9ED698C94D373(a)216.196.97.131... >>>> >>> "Local officials feel the federal government is making the perfect the >>> enemy of the good in cleanup efforts;" >>> >>> >>> mario in victoria >> >> I know it's late and I've had a long day, but I read it three times, and >> no, I can't. > > It's a common saying . > think of George Patton's sayings "good enough is good enough" and "a > good plan this week is better than a perfect plan next week" > > letting the perfect be the enemy of the good because you want to do it > perfectly you faail to do what you can. > That sums it up.
From: Ray OHara on 3 Jul 2010 14:07 "JTibbs" <jtibbs08(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:899aahFsqlU1(a)mid.individual.net... > > > "mario in victoria" <mario5491(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:pWwXn.4270$Zi.3216(a)newsfe14.iad... >> OceanView wrote: >>> "Ray OHara" <raymond-ohara(a)hotmail.com> wrote in >>> news:i0lsat$jbr$1(a)news.eternal-september.org: >>>> "Polarhound" <polarhound(a)comcast.net> wrote in message >>>> news:vCtXn.6736$RC5.986(a)newsfe08.iad... >>>>> http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Reports/7-1-10_O >>>>> GR_Report_-_How_the_White_House_Public_Relations_Campaign_on_the_Oil_S >>>>> pill_is_Harming_the_Actual_Clean-up.pdf >>>>> >>>>> Findings >>>>> >>>>> Committee staff has discovered the following based upon witness >>>>> interviews and documents provided by federal and state entities: >>>> >>>> a republican committee, yeah they wouldn't lie. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> They'd be awful quiet if they wouldn't. >>> >> >> Can you make sense of this sentence? >> >> "Local officials feel the federal government is making the perfect the >> enemy of the good in cleanup efforts;" >> > I can make sense of it. I just don't see the point of saying it there. Local officials will destroy what they want to save and the feds block them to prevent worse damage. people who don't know what they are doing, no matter how well meaning, will screw things up worse. the hypocratic oath doctors take starts with "First, do no damage" something those like polarmutt would do well to remember. ..
From: nate on 3 Jul 2010 14:37
On Jul 3, 2:07 pm, "Ray OHara" <raymond-oh...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > Local officials will destroy what they want to save and the feds block them > to prevent worse damage. > > people who don't know what they are doing, no matter how well meaning, will > screw things up worse. > > the hypocratic oath doctors take starts with "First, do no damage" > something those like polarmutt would do well to remember. > . for example, using explosives to close off the hole has been discarded due to the fragility of the layer of bedrock above the oil. an explosion could open up a huge hole instead closing the drilling hole. it's a nasty mess of things with no easy way out. - nate |