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Steven Weber

Posted: May 16, 2010 11:32 AM

God Is Covered in Oil

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The oil industries rape the Earth while the citizens, shackled to the planet's life's blood, look on and wonder when She will shrug them off like a dog flinging water off its fur.

And let's face it: reliance on "God" doing the regulating while mankind does his business is now officially a bullshit proposition. God? Just another PR construct allowing rich fellers and the willfully ignorant to do what they please regardless of the consequences.

Because the folks at BP and all the other ancillary entities who pull the strings are the real gods here. And the gods are merciless.

Behold the gods of unregulated industry: they guard the wells, the banks, the battlefields; they guard the media, the farms, the laboratories.

These gods are sick. They have sated themselves on the planet's bounty and their attendant gluttony has created misery. We are being told that there is trouble in the Gulf. But we are not told the real story. Gods don't want the whole story told about anything, lest it become apparent that they aren't gods at all but just dumb, greedy, powerful men.

So as the oil weeps its way into the ocean, starting a chain of death that the stupid god-men dismiss with a smirk, thinking they are immune from the effects of their unregulated ignorance, the rest of the sentient world will have to resign themselves to becoming a race of coal mine canaries, twitching and spasming as the waters become fouled, the food chain ruptures, the life cycle becomes corrupted and the world wide withering begins.

Maybe the bible was a deceptively wry joke, that "God" is really Man, and that "His" creation is really whatever Man creates out of what the resources the Earth has in abundance. And that Armageddon is the war Man has with his world after the generations of misuse and abuse.

It shows you how badly regulation is needed for things which inevitably spin out of control. Things like Man. Too bad God is in the way.

 

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02:18 PM on 05/18/2010
What we need to realize is that nature will ALWAYS have the last say. there is no corporation, no right-wing tea bagger, no preppy rich private school kid that will ever change that.

However, we on the left need to help nature. Soon there will come a call for a rise against Capitalism. The private schools, banks and elite will fall.

After that, it will be a new world.. A world where the logical prevail.. A world where nature and man live in harmony.. A world without classes.. A world of paradise.. Believe.
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Anna Nicole Dahmer
Lie like that & you won't go to heaven
12:15 PM on 05/18/2010
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/tar-balls-key-west_n_579660.html

oh no, I lived in Key West for 20yrs.
heartbreaking.
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K.J. Dwyer
American Ex-Pat/Writer
09:53 AM on 05/18/2010
The bible also says that the meek will inherit the earth. Given what they'll inherit, it now sounds more like a hellish threat than the promise of something good.
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marthamothra
06:51 PM on 05/17/2010
Stephen, .... YOU ARE MY GOD. Thanks, again.
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marthamothra
10:23 AM on 05/18/2010
sorry, STEPHEN.
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marthamothra
10:25 AM on 05/18/2010
sorry, STEVEN -- my brain is tired
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06:35 AM on 05/19/2010
I wrote "Stephen" as well, the first time I posted on one of Steven's blogs.
I think I was remembering Steven's fine performance in Stephen King's "The Shining" TV mini-series remake. (I plug this well done, superior to Kubrick's, version every chance I get, Steven)
Anyway, I think Steven forgave me. :)
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shamanlight
05:46 PM on 05/17/2010
There is a major coverup going on with this oil spill.....a microbe exists that will literally eat this oil and neutralize the toxic effects of this oil in the Gulf of Mexico!The major corporations refuse to use it because they cannot patent it, own it, or sell it because its very inexpensive....It is available all over the world!!...It' time for BP to stop the BS...and use what has been proven to work,,,,

http://www.gatorinternational.com/
03:59 PM on 05/18/2010
Note to everyone: This is not a spill, and the problem is not the cleanup. Unfortunately, since this is an uncapped hole in the Earth, every single method of cleanup is totally irrelevant right now. There's thousands of gallons of oil, and untold amounts of natural gas, spewing uncontrollably into the ocean every day. It will continue to spew like an underwater geyser until we monkeys stop it, or the reserves eventually deplete themselves in a few month. Or according to some scientists, in an absolutely worst case scenario, the Earth's crust around the well could become unstable and give way, increasing the size of the hole, and creating an almost certain....this is no joke....Earth extinction scenario. Considering that's even a vague posibility, it's pretty ridiculous that we're letting BP cast this off as some little "oil spill". This is a hole in the planet, and Steven seems to be one of very few people to really take this catastrophe seriously. We should really not be okay with the possibility planetary extinction.
09:11 AM on 05/22/2010
Do you know what this substance is? I heard it talked about on the radio, but I missed part of the broadcast and didn't hear what it was. You're right, when capitalism is allowed free reign and corporations and people don't have rules and regulations, greed will almost always win over doing what's right. The average person and wildlife become the victim to these selfish, greedy "Gods".
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shamanlight
02:08 PM on 05/22/2010
It's some kind of micro organism
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05:42 PM on 05/17/2010
I love the way your mind works Steven. You're doing a great job on IPS, I am really enjoying the character, and hope to see more.
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Ohioan4truth
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01:11 PM on 05/17/2010
The only upside to this is if we do destroy our selves through the ruination of the earth is that it will start to reclaim it's pristeeness the very first moment we disappear. This Mother Earth has survived calamities in it's past whereas various species have come and gone without her "knowledge".
06:03 PM on 05/18/2010
I agree with your post, but I got stuck on 'pristeeness'. I'm wondering if the word should be 'pristenity'?
Sounds awkward, but here's my logic:

serene -> serenity
pristene -> pristenity

That's it.
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02:46 PM on 05/19/2010
My only reply is....I googled it prior to it's usage. Check it out 4 urself.......LOL.
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07:53 PM on 05/26/2010
Pristine.....this has bothered me since your post.....I say we're both right and both wrong with the usage of the word, but that's the beauty of the Engrish language, we can do with it as we like so long as there's no test in the morning. LOL
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12:19 PM on 05/17/2010
man wasn't created in god's image god was created in man's image. religion has always been a way for the powerful to control the weak. it has always provided the excuse to exploit and steal. god's will, manifest destiny ... it's all about assuaging your guilt while you take what you want. the meek will inherit the earth, and the poor will be rewarded in the next life, all the while the powerful take what they want now.
11:51 AM on 05/17/2010
Ok..if this is, as so many seem to say, an act of "God"...can we now start taxing his churches to pay for some of it?
10:17 AM on 05/17/2010
Gulf Oil Disaster - Stop The Blame Game . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCh3y5ycfns

Perhaps we could clean up the oil first . . .
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TRex86
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08:46 AM on 05/17/2010
Here's the deal for all the ignorama that aren't concerned about trashing the environment or global climate change. If you believe the planet was populated only 5,000 years ago I can't help terminal stupidity. If you're willing to look at the geological record what we're doing at his time is mondo crazy.
Planet formed: 4.5 billion years ago.
Proliferation of sea life 500 million years ago. Atmospheric CO2 35 x present day. Ocean detritus begins oil formation (carbon fixing), driving atmospheric evolution.
Coal forming swamps and enough O2 released by plant life for ozone layer (permitting terrestrial life forms by blocking most UV light). Accelerated atmospheric evolution. 320 million.
CO2 4-5 x today. 200 million.
CO2 like today. 140 million. Subsequent drops in CO2 (accompanied by rising O2) led to cycles of glaciation up to 15,000 years ago.
In short the terrestrial plants and planktons have fixed 350-500 million years of CO2 as "fossil fuels." In geologic time a decade isn't a blink, but to wait on a "meaningful trend" while we incinerate all that carbon and put it back in the atmosphere risks returning to a planet incompatible with mammalian life. God has given us a brain. Let's use it. PS, clearing the equatorial rain forests, which account for a third of O2 production is also a really bad idea.
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09:35 AM on 05/17/2010
From one lover of paleontology to another, I salute you.
We now see where Palintology gets us, with the Exxon Valdez Supreme Court verdict in 2008, the current Gulf oil spill fiasco, and the ongoing C02 climate change threat.
God gave us a brain, but he didn't set it up to eliminate the primitive lizard part as the mammalian cerebral cortex evolved.
That lizard demon is still buried deep in our heads, and it never sleeps.
09:47 AM on 05/17/2010
That lizard steers the right.
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TRex86
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12:16 PM on 05/17/2010
Ironically, this is a simple risk: benefit calculation. Save energy; save the planet. Burn, baby burn; give the world back to the ostracoderms. Burning carbon is a very inefficient source of energy. The internal combustion engine has about 10% conversion of potential to kinetic energy. (Steam engines are close to 90%). So we can continue madly incinerating carbon with utterly predictable consequences or we can find alternatives with minimal environmental impact. A reduction in the rate of release of CO2 via a reduced rate of consumption would necessarily prolong the lifespan of fossilized carbon, preserve amounts that can be used for other purposes, and take some of the pressure off the oceanic buffering system. Nonetheless, burning all that carbon in 1000 years rather than 100 will take us to the same place, self-induced Armageddon.
10:16 AM on 05/17/2010
You are proof positive why we can't trust "experts."
All of your science is correct as long as everything is exactly like you think it is.
If it's not, then you are dead wrong.
You have no reason to act like we are on the brink of disaster by continuing to burn oil.
What you have are THEORIES....
Like the THEORY of creationism...
Or the THEORY of evolution...
Or the big bang THEORY...

YOU DON'T KNOW...
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TRex86
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12:07 PM on 05/17/2010
Who is the "we" that can't trust experts? Who do you trust, your local soothsayer? I've cited information from Geology IA. Anyone can access this information. Everything in my post is verified fact. I challenge you to give a comforting answer to the proposed results of burning 350 million years of fossilized carbon in a few centuries. Evidently you're willing to risk the release of enough CO2 into the atmosphere to take us back to the Cambrian Period.

The buffer for atmospheric CO2 is our oceans. They have a very limited capacity--at the cost of acidification of the ocean and the destruction of coral reefs, et. al. Do you want to wait until we can bottle the Pacific Ocean with flavorings and sell it as soda pop? The insatiable human appetite for fossil fuel is the equivalent of the Yucatan meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs. Sadly, anti-intellectualism is at the core of Republicanism. Ignorance is not bliss; it is the death of the planet as we know it.
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06:37 PM on 05/17/2010
"You are proof positive why we can't trust "experts." "

I never trust "experts." I always take my car to the 8 year old down the street for repairs, and my truck driver brother-in-law does all my medical work. You can't trust mechanics and doctors.


"All of your science is correct as long as everything is exactly like you think it is.
If it's not, then you are dead wrong."


And the Earth is in orbit around the Sun. Unless it isn't, in which case I definitely paid too much for that beachfront property.



"You have no reason to act like we are on the brink of disaster by continuing to burn oil."



Okay, lets "act like" the world's glaciers aren't melting at an alarming rate. Let's "act like" the western US isn't experiencing record multi-year droughts. Let's "act like" the oil spilling into the Gulf at the rate of an Exxon Valdez once a week, is actually good for the environment.



"What you have are THEORIES....
Like the THEORY of creationism...
Or the THEORY of evolution...
Or the big bang THEORY...
YOU DON'T KNOW..."



I have another theory as well. The reason it took three billion years for sealife to finally crawl out onto the land, is because conservative fish were baring the way.
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08:15 AM on 05/17/2010
So what was that "Deer in the headlights moment" when Sarah Palin was asked by Katie Couric if there were any recent Supreme Court Decisions that she didn't agree with?

It was her knowing that just the month before the Supreme Court had finally resolved the Exxon Valdez case of that ship that destroyed the ecosystem of her constituents, siding in a major victory for Exxon, but realizing that a good Republican doesn't talk bad about ANY corporation, even if it's pitted in a Major Class action lawsuit against not only your people, but the land and coastline of their State.

This incident brings home just what kind of a leader Sarah Palin has turned out to be... Disloyal to her own people, bought by corporations. Another candidate for the trashheap of history.
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08:46 AM on 05/17/2010
"This incident brings home just what kind of a leader Sarah Palin has turned out to be... Disloyal to her own people, bought by corporations. Another candidate for the trashheap of history."



I certainly can't argue with that, but lets not forget the other folks responsible here.
Those conservative Supreme court Justices, who voted in favor of Exxon and against the good people of Valdez, were appointed by Ronald Reagan, George bush Sr. and W Bush.
Alaska voted for each of those Presidents, and consistantly votes Republican.
That doesn't mean Alaskans deserve the Exxon Supreme Court verdict, but they certainly set themselves up for it. Elections have consequences, and who appoints Justices to the Supreme Court is one of the most important consequences of all.
Reagan, Bush Sr. and W still rule from that last chance for a shot at beating the bad guys in court.
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05:29 PM on 05/17/2010
'Exxon Valdez' was the name of the ship.
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07:52 AM on 05/17/2010
I also would like to see some movement on the hemp issue. Our problem is not the oil itself, it is the greediouz's that are going after it. As you will soon find out BP has been concerned with nothing but profits. Unfortunately, we need oil, be honest here, the alternatives for various reasons are not working
07:15 AM on 05/17/2010
I think you hit the nail on the head so far as worship of free market capitalism becoming a religion and CEOs and investment bankers being its deities. Why are we constantly propitiating them? The only reason they have so much power is WE keep giving it to them.
05:04 AM on 05/17/2010
Steven...will you marry me??