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Let me again share with you what is the United States of Hell's problem!
An Open Confession
Catholics have the Sacrament of Reconciliation and non-Catholic Christians are now discussing the importance of counseling by Protestant ministers. There is a belief that confession is good for the soul.
I, too, believe that confession is good for the soul. Here is my open confession to the readers. Actually, it is my confession to a priest in California while we were visiting our son. Our son’s parish church is a very conservative church.
Bless me father for I have sinned! It has been about a month from my last confession. I have committed the following sins.
After reciting my litany of sins from various sources like the Ten Commandments, the Beatitudes, and the Seven Cardinal Sins I asked the priest a question. I cannot deny that I am a sinner.
Father, I am starting to want and wish that Americans would feel the pain and suffering like other countries so we might have more sympathy for their plight. Wanting and wishing pain and suffering to any of God’s children is a mortal sin and it is similar to people who believe that the Iraq war is right and moral. Believing in the Iraq war is a mortal sin!!! The priest said to me that I did not have to want or wish for our country to experience pain and suffering because we are presently feeling this pain and suffering. Americans will continue to feel pain and suffering because they will not repent. Unless Americans repent, there will be ongoing pain and suffering.
What the priest said to me made me feel good because I no longer had to want and wish pain and suffering for any of God’s children. As I look around, I can see Americans feeling the pain and suffering. This pain and suffering is ongoing because Americans refuse to repent.
I asked the priest for forgiveness for the sins I can remember and for the sins I cannot remember.
I concluded my confession by thanking the priest for answering my question. The priest gave me my penance to complete and the absolution and I said an Act of Contrition. He also said “Go with God” and I thanked him. This is my open confession to all who care to read it.
Numb Nut Americans will never repent because they believe their way is the right way. They are never wrong. Every day Numb Nut Americans commit the Cardinal Sin of Pride. We can no wrong. A false belief is embedded in their psyche that we, Numb Nuts, are good, holy, and saintly. Actually, we are the devil’s disciples.
There is no “Bobby” Jindal in Louisiana; there is only Piyush, the noted Republican anchor baby and exorcist/kidnapper.
Google Earth shows the ocean submarine terrain. The Deepwater Horizon is in quite deep water off the shelf.
Moving your mouse over the terrain shows its altitude. In water, it shows a negative number representing the sea bottom depth.
Problem is that the DEM message is squelched in the corporate media and the REP message is celebrated.
Generational job losses overshadow those from moratorium
U.S. Department of Interior Frank Quimby confirmed for the Examiner that the 6 month refrain from drilling would have "applied to about 30 deepwater rigs initially. Any drilling rig that was completing a well or doing maintenance on an existing production well, were also exempted. As these drilling rigs shut down and move, the number will be changing. There are about 40 drilling rigs in shallow water (<500 feet)."
Careful to draw a distinction between the drill rigs the moratorium would have effected and production platforms for which drilling had been already completed and were in production only, Quimby said "There are about 3,500 production platforms in federal waters Gulf of Mexico; 46 production platforms in waters >500 ft and 3401 in waters <500 ft." The employees on these production platforms where the drilling has been completed and are in production only phase are not likely to lose their jobs as the moratorium did not include them.
The Governor of the State of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, has publicly released claims that the moratorium would save thousands of jobs in the oil industry for the next 6 months, however has failed to provide numbers on how many jobs have been lost due to the entire collapse of other industries because of the oil industry, that promise to be gone for generations.
http://bit.ly/cnwgGK
As I ranted earlier, where is the focus. As progressives we attack several different fronts at once without concentrated strength. We lose the battles because all the Corporations have to do now is sit their and bat away the feeble attempts to wrest control. They take more and more of what we have simply by consuming our commons and growing like the blob. We have to decide on one area to concentrate on and attack with all our focus. I favor Public Campaign Reform and IRV, but if the progressive movement decides on planting flowers around the Washington Monument, then by God I'll get behind that, whatever it is that we choose to go after, we better make that choice and act on it... yesterday.
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We need a movement on account of being shat upon.
One protest action even less useful than the boycott (in a highly economically developed country) is the labor strike. Shameless plug: http://n8chz.blogspot.com/2009/02/calling-for-general-boycott-general.html
“We need a movement other than a bowel movement.”
Richard L. Adlof – Lowering the quality of discourse one syllable at a time.
The issue with the incremental conversation is it is only useful in erosion of the revolutionary. Gains are not made incrementally, loses are memorized one millimeter at a time.
Boycotts replace the one-man[sic]-one-vote principle of democracy with one-dollar-one-vote of capitalism. This fact alone weakens the potential of boycotts. Another factor is the counterboycott, or 'buycott.' In two-party America, there are usually two sides to every issue, and controversial issues are by definition those issues whose forces are more or less evenly matched. Add to that that people on the conservative side of an issue, all other things being equal, have more money (votes) to play with. If the marketplace of ideas has to operate within the marketplace of economics, we're screwed.
We definitely need a movement. I can help everyone with this movement.
Relief
I have tried to inform you through serious information and humorous information. Americans face many problems from mass murders, home foreclosures, loss of retirement benefits, etc. Americans need a better life and relief may help our citizens. Our youngest son has travelled to Asia and Europe. In Asia he introduced me to a Korean recipe for Kim Chee. At first I ate Kim Chee by purchasing it from an Asian Mart. Kim Chee can be found in most Asian grocery stores.
Kim Chee can offer relief for many of our problems. I must alert you to a fact. When you open the jar of Kim Chee, the smell can bold you over. You will be introduced to a noxious stench. If you can forget about the smell, the taste of Kim Chee is really great. I can make Kim Chee an entire meal just like I can make my wife’s famous marinated four bean salad a main meal.
Kim Chee offers relief by having you experience the greatest BMs in your life. Great BMs can ease your life’s problems and you can start your life renewed to take on all of your problems.
The real issue with uprisings is that civil unrest is uncivil. It remains my firm belief that flesh and blood human-form bipeds are better than that even if our non-corporeal, existing-only-on-paper, liability-mitigating, responsibility-deflecting kindred aren’t. I think the revolution of society’s mindset is the answer for a lasting solution.
Nationalize OIl
You betcha!
Caller Stewart-
Do not diminish the power of the incremental-
Boycotts stopped working when business began to be measured in billions. Relating insane numbers related to money means the dog can ignore the fleas.
@rladlof, as much as I would like to see the Cheneys and Bushes etc... brought to a say elevated platform with a humane device devised by a Doctor for quick end... I don't think I want to experience all the rest that goes with that. However, so long as our corporations and political leaders act as foolishly detached as the French aristocracy did, they may be heading for the same fate. Incredibly I expect the Tea Parties to go this route first, it will be "Reign of Terror Redux". Will make the McCarthy witch hunts seem like an ice cream social.
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"The air does not contain a high level of benzene and other components and the saturation level of these in air is often well above concentrations that can be achieved from an evaporating slick." This means that the air can generally store enough of the volatilization of the oil vapor. However, in this case, we can ascertain that the amount of oil vapors are so great that the air molecules have become saturated and can no longer store the gaseous vapors and so will expel them, along with the release of water as rain. Fingas, M. F. (1994). Evaporation of Oil Spills. ASCE p.1
Evaporation Of Oil Spills
Evaporation is the most important change that most oil spills undergo. In a few days, light crudes can evaporate as much as 75% of the starting oil mass and medium crudes up to 40%. Heavy or residual oils may only evaporate to the extent of 10% in the first few days following a spill. Many spill models incorporate evaporation as a component of their prediction because of the large mass balance changes.
http://www.mms.gov/tarprojects/120/120BG.PDF
The French Revolution was civil unrest and the aftermath of that dust-up worked out fairly well for six or so years . . .
Although it didn’t work out for Thomas Paine . . . Until Lafayette stole his body and returned it to be buried in American soil in an unmarked grave.
Yesterday at http://michaelmoore.com/ was presented the following:“Obama administration announces deployment of drones to Mexico border, as though constant high-pitched whine far overhead is going to make us feel safer.”
www.pahrumplife.org speakwrites: Lets imagine that there are no Democrats and no Republicans but there is just the Hell-bent, greed driven, great juggernaut multi-national Corporatocracy Complex rounding up alien “criminals” putting them in for-profit prisons and letting them work for little or nothing, almost making the George Orwell classic “1984” look like a walk in the park under the watchful eyes of a babysitter. Illegal aliens, illegal drugs and illegal “whatever” make for a happy policepolity.
We already have public funding of elections. We just don't have any control of the funds.
It IS about money. You cannot manage basic mandatory needs with the one size fits all free market approach. With health care, it is not "whatever the market will bear". When you apply such prinicples to things like food, energy, health care, you get what we have now; an unsustainable drain on the biggest economic driver of the economy, the middle class.
http://writingfourmylife.com/blog/2010/03/24/why-we-needed-reform/
Massive civil unrest will lead to violence, violence from the bosses against the peasants.
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It is truly amazing that with all the concern and scrutiny, they were able to avoid directly addressing fixing the causes and instead offer useless "reforms" that leave the door wide open to continued abuses.
Glass-Steagall should have been dusted off, revised for modern practices, and put back in place. The results would have been immediate and pronounced. Instead we get promises to "regulate" and "oversee".
We are in for one rough decade.
Two teachers under fire for war protest:
http://www.progressive.org/mc062410.html