Out of the frying pan and into the fire: Gulf turtles

God Knows Best

I have tried to give you a picture of a loving and a merciful God but God can also be a punishing and a vengeful God. I have also tried to say that God does not work in mysterious ways but God does work in mysterious ways. I have also tried to say that God is also a patient God but God is also an impatient God.

The hell hole and the rat hole that is evolving in the United States of Hell is God’s will. I must accept God’s will. The evil and sinful America must now pay for her sins. God’s punishing and vengeful ways may take another two or three generations. Unless the United States of Hell repents the punishment and the vengeance may take four or five generations. America’s misery, pain, and suffering may last until 2100. America and Americans have created their hell and hell they will have.

What is happening is God’s will and God knows best. I would feel more confident if I believed that Americans can learn from their mistakes but Americans are too stupid to change the course of their manifest destiny of remaining in hell for this entire century.

I must learn to relax and accept God’s will because He really does know what is best. Maybe the misery, pain, and suffering now will ease or have us escape damnation as a people upon our death. Only time will tell. Let us accept God’s will because God does know what is best for you and me.

What is happening in the United States of Hell is God’s will and He knows what is best for the American people.

Remember when There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea was just a kid's song?

@DRichards:

This, also from the article you linked:

JAY: So a lot of these things get dressed up as ideological positions like "we believe in the power of the free market". The war in Iraq is "we believe in democracy". But a lot of this is just about money-making."

WILKERSON: It is about money-making. It's about commercialism. I had a student at George Washington University who wrote a great paper about Colombia. Why have we been putting $750 million, roughly, a year, about $1 billion a year, some $6.8 billion overall, I think, into the Andean region, into Plan Colombia? Why have we been doing it? Has it really been to fight drugs? Has it really been to fight drugs? Is that what we're really interested in?

Well, if you look at where we're talking about building our military bases, they're not near the FARC, the group that is involved in narco-trafficking. They're not near the coca fields. The bases are near the pipelines, the pipelines in Colombia, the oil pipelines. Where are we laying down our troops in Afghanistan? Near the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India proposed pipeline. It's all about commercial interest in the long run. And I don't fault the country for that; I don't fault our leadership for that. We do have to have a sound economy, and we do have to be competitive in the world. But I do fault them for making this less than transparent to the American people, and even to lying about it at times. (This doesn't want to italisize for some reason, third edit try.)

JAY: Well, it's also a little difficult to get young Americans to go give up their lives to defend somebody's oil pipeline.

WILKERSON: Absolutely.

Well, Golly - Wilkerson doesn't bemoan the actions themselves, just the duplicity. A card-carrying Republican, indeed.

As it turns out, and I hadn't realized when I posted earlier, Oliver Stone's new film, South of the Border was:

Written by eminent UK historian Tariq Ali (who had songs written in his honor by John Lennon and Mick Jagger) and Mark Weisbrot, a leading progressive authority on Latin America,

Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali were interviewed today on Democracy Now!

Last week Thom asked for links to info on South America, may I suggest the work of Mark Weisbrot?

How great thou art!

All human beings have failed us in our country and all that is left is our God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q8ESzK5pCw&feature=related

Be not afraid!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hup6wQ17XRI&feature=related

I would think that this would be a good time for the people in congress to make a point of regulation. Just think if all the safety procedures would have been implemented like in Brazil and the Netherlands this would not have happened. Yet the Greed of the Corporations supersedes safety and common sense.

This company has proven that they are incompetent to even be in this field of operations. Right now each and every oil well that is in or near water needs a complete inspection. If they have chosen the way of profit over safety they need to have hugh fines placed on them. What BP did was criminal. Their total disregard for the people of this planet in my opinion should be viewed as a crime against humanity.

Ethics and Morals

I am approaching my seventy-first birthday and I have through the years talked to different people. Recently, I heard a person mention his father. The son and his dad went fishing. The bass season was about to begin. They went on the lake in the evening. The son landed the biggest bass he has ever seen. The father looked at his watch and it was 10 PM. The bass season was to start at midnight. The father told the son to return the bass to the lake. No one would have known that the bass was caught two hours before the official start of the bass season. The son has always remembered this experience. The father said to his son to do what was right.

Do you honestly believe that the fathers in the WH, in the U.S. Congress, and in the U.S. Supreme Court are teaching their children to do what is right? What kind of messages are they conveying to their children? We have lunatics and scoundrels running our D.C. asylums.

A Strong Friendship

I am going to share with you some information. There were two men and their names were Joe and John. They became close friends because they both loved baseball. Detroit was where they lived and they would see as many games as possible. If they traveled to another city, it had to be a city that had baseball, such Cleveland with the Cleveland Indians.

Over the winter Joe died. John was lonely and saddened. John prayed to God and he asked God to see Joe one more time. John had a question to ask Joe. God answered John’s prayer. Joe appeared to John. John asked Joe, “If there was baseball in heaven?” Joe had a big smile on his face. Joe said to John that the good news was that there is baseball in heaven. John was very happy. Joe also said to John that the bad news is, “John, you are pitching on Friday.”