Louisiana Oil Spill Worse than Feared

That oil spill from an oil rig that crashed and burned off the coast of Louisiana has gotten much worse in the past 24 hours. A couple of days ago they were explaining the problem as an oil pressure escape pipe valve was now open to the ocean and spilling oil and they explored various options including just turning off the valve to the pipe under water, and various other under water robotic options where if one plan didn’t work they would go to a plan B and if that didn’t work they would remain confident and try other measures including the instelation of an underwater dome to capture the oil. None of those options worked and now they are endeavoring to corral the oil slick and move it further out to see where the excess oil would be set on fire and eliminated that way. But now the situation is worse and they say the leakage is five times worse than they thought, so that from a thousand barrels of oil you now would have five thousand barrels of oil leaking. There had been two leaks and now they have discovered a third leak. Previously the wind had been blowing out to sea but what they feared has now come to pass and the wind is blowing on shore and the oil is now just twenty miles from the shore, and they say that by Friday the edge of the slick will be hitting landfall, but even then the worst of the oil will be off shore. Well, Republicans, how’s that “Drill, baby, drill” thing working out for you?

Laura Bush has published her memoirs. In it she says that she and the President were possibly poisoned at a G 8 conference when she and the President and a bunch of others to a delegation fell ill. Secret service agents were concerned. Maybe it was a virus but somehow I think not. It could have been Vladamir Putin doing a little international landscaping. Also Laura states that at age seventeen she was involved in a severe car crash when she and a girlfriend were out on the road, and the other passenger was killed in the crash. Now the former first lady is sensitive to the issue and always writes back in letters where people were involved in car crashes and particular when there has been a death.

Charlie Crist in an effort to save his political skin has now decided not to run in the Republican primary but as an independent because Crist has been crucified by a damning visual – of he and the President embracing after Crist lent his support to President Obama’s stimulus plan last year. Charlie Crist of Florida was pegged as a strong vice presidential contender in 2008 and perhaps even a Presidential one. But this is before the Republican Party began their all out purge of the party of anything that smacked of being even slightly liberal. Back in March of 2008 I was reading an old blog where I expressed the hope that if I ended up voting for John Mc Cain that as president he would be ruled by “the better angels of his nature”, or however I put it. I also said I believed John Mc Cain to be a moral, sincere man. My concern was that he was known for his temper. I didn’t think he would take on such a lurch to the political right. At the time I said that Berock Obama was pretty much washed up because he had lost decisively in Texas and in Ohio, which were two really big, key states. Crist’s opponent in the Republican has been that guy named Rubio. Every time they say “Marco” on the Stephanie Miller program, someone else says “Rubio”, and I didn’t get it before now. This doctrinal purity thing will be the Republicans’ doing in 2012 and perhaps even this year of 2010. It seems that Britain’s next Prime Minister may be a liberal because Herald Brown made a gaff with an open microphone yesterday. Now Britain may be looking more to Europe for guidance rather than to the United States. Britains have become fed up wsith being America’s lap dog supporting their foreign policy and the support of US led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The election is only a couple weeks off.

The former President’s daughter, Chelsea Clinton is getting married this summer, and I imagine she’s around thirty by now. She made the former president promise to lose about fifteen pounds before he walks her down the aisle. President Clinton had one of those stints placed in his heart a couple months ago, so health concerns are paramount.

The Republicans have finally allowed the democrats to begin debating the Wall Street regulation bill in congress, after the democrats tried and failed three different times to get the votes to get the necessary sixty votes to bring the bill to the floor. Apparently this relenting of the republicans occurred without a formal vote. As such I am wondering whether some back room deal was struck, or some promise was secured by the republicans not to put certain provisions in this bill. But it may be as others have predicted that the republicans were just grand standing and they wanted to claim “We only allowed the vote to come to the floor when we were assured that the democrats didn’t have loopholes in this bill”. Since when have the republicans been against loopholes? Someone is lying here.

They now for the first time ever, approved a vaccine that fights cancer. In this vase it’s a vaccine that delays the final effects of prostate cancer. The FDA has approved this drug even though it only extends life from 22 to 26 months, or just four months. Still there is the hope that with this “foot in the door” other people with vaccines for other types of cancer will come out. Wouldn’t it be nice is cancer were a thing of the past!

People are more led by visuals than they are by words. And yet when I get my revelations about the Federation, I am told by Mal Evans and others to place more weight on the word commentary to the visions than I should to the visions themselves. Every word is placed in a sentence to have a precise meaning, and if I have any questions as to the meaning, I am to ask them and they will elaborate further. Many things in math and science and chemistry can be explained better with visuals. One wonders why God doesn’t have “Go to my computer” to explain some of his edicts. How interesting it is that most theological fights are fights over words. Some people get visuals that might not be correct. For instance with the Rapture or “catching away” many have the visual of cars and trains crashing and planes going down because there are no longer drivers or pilots to man them. But what if God is an incrementalist, like those on the political right accuse liberals of being? Supposed God used evolution to create life by every now and then introducing a new cell mutation that “kept evolution on the right path” kind of like Mark Felt kept Bob Woodward in the right path. John Lennon felt divorced from his own soul on the “Lennon” album, and he seemed to equate this loss of self, the “Self” seemingly connected with the Beatles, as the loss of “God”. We know that in life sometimes people change and old connections are broken. I would never vote for John Mc Cain for President now, for instance. He just is not the same man as he was ten years ago. All of his beliefs, it would seem, the very nature of his soul has been altered. I remember a married couple, very close to me, that was thinking of buying their first house, and they took me and my Mom to look at it around September 25^th of 1975. Nobody would have guessed divorce was on the immediate horizon. Some events you can see coming. Other events, like “sudden genetic evolutional mutations” just arrive full blown, and you don’t know how. There seemed to be no inception or germination period. No pastor’s conference would help because nobody suspected it. Last week I was going to do a blog posting where on the morning of April 23re of 1990 Henry (an alias) called me up to share a dream he’d had with me, and I had a dream I shared with him. His dream (from a far right perspective) was of a rapture on the Jewish feast of Sukkoth, around September 25^th of 2010. This date of September 25^th is also the date that the Devil would own the soul of Joe Hardy in the movie “Damn Yankees”. But what occurred to me that day was “What if I’m not one of the chosen lucky ones?” I think sometimes movies and songs can be prophetic, such as the line “Pigeons plot in secrecy” as Thom Hartman pointed out in the song “At the Zoo”. Sukkoth as you may know is the feast of Booths – or the final in-gathering. No, not John Wilkes Booth or a voting booth or a telephone booth- - - (enough jokes). Back in March of 2008 I wrote in that blog that we have no idea what events will overtake us six months from now. I use that term “overtake” but it’s not as if you saw it coming in a mirror. It’s more of a case of blinking and suddenly everything is different. Incrementalism. I also said “It may well be that the issues we regard as so important now (like the 3 AM phone call) will be laughable six months from now. And so it was that none of the fears that Obama or Hillary had about each other came to pass. But sometimes we lose our connection - - like Lennon did - - like I did after watching the Empire Strikes Back last Saturday. I went to reconnect the other cord after I was done watching the movie on the VCR - - and there was no signal. The line was dead. This is how it is with people we think we know suddenly being raptured and as scripture says “Let another take his place”. (Selah)