Louisiana Lawmakers Ask God For Help – Will BP Pay For Miracle?
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While cleanup crews and technical teams continue efforts to stop crude gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana lawmakers are proposing a different approach: prayer.
State senators designated Sunday as a day for citizens to ask for God’s help dealing with the oil disaster.
“Thus far efforts made by mortals to try to solve the crisis have been to no avail,” state Sen. Robert Adley said in a statement released after last week’s unanimous vote for the day of prayer. “It is clearly time for a miracle for us.”
The resolution names Sunday as a statewide day of prayer in Louisiana and calls on people of all religions throughout the Gulf Coast “to pray for an end to this environmental emergency, sparing us all from the destruction of both culture and livelihood.”
Another famous miracle
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I agree with Stephen King.And this is one more way the “shrink govt then drown it in the bathtub” Right uses to force $ upward. Put cleanup spending in the same category as social services spending. Just service the debt held by investors.
I just finished reading a piece over at Firedoglake on how many illegal immigrants are working as clean up crews for BP along the shorelines and in indy skimming boats. Bad shit. really.
Gwen, it is terrible, terrible, shit. Promise that if you help out, that you will wear respirators for benzene and PVA gloves.
Remember..PVA gloves only!!
If you email on Facebook, I can send you several pairs.
Krell… ty for being a friend. It’s appreciated. I realize I’m a bit too old to go front on any of the hazardous clean up of the crude from the beach or first wash on wildlife. My lungs are just now sorta coming around…
but I can do the second wash, if the birds survive. I’ve been taught to hold gulls, small birds and ‘crawlers’ which indicates turtles. Folks don’t know that even with the washing, lots more die than are saved. My neighbor is one of the local environmentalists. He’s a little old for it too, in his late 40’s… but he won’t be stopped…I’m aware. He says that Tallahassee has begun to send boxes of hazmat masks, gloves, eyeglasses… just bunches of stuff that have been warehoused for over a decade. Thx FL State legislators. dammit.
Kenny is going to go online to find a good surplus supplier. Can you imagine? Well, I’m hopeful. We do have Bill Nelson. Charlie Crist is moving into liberal / progressive territory on this for his chances to win the election. I don’t have any idea what is going to happen David… just that this black awfulness is on it’s way. Ty for being a friend…
Gwen, thank you for being a friend to Mother Earth. She needs as many friends as she can get right now.
Stephen King once wrote that God provided legs, not taxicabs. I think that’s kinda monotheistically ‘it’ in a nutshell. But fer chrissakes…
Row towards shore!
Every Christian who dies in a foxhole prays. One person with a paper towel on the beach in Louisiana would do more good than a whole nation at prayer. Pretty sure that since this began, the folks there have been praying for the miracle that has yet to deliver them.
Every night I pray that people will stop praying and start doing. That’s another prayer not answered.
God helps those who help themselves.
We and Louisianians could help ourselves by starting criminal procedings against bp and specifically charging its leadership with the crimes they have commmitted.
But we are a nation of pussies when it comes to going after corporations and big industry. We’ve already forgotten about the coal industry’s ongoing criminal activity.
I think we’d see a different level of urgency from Hayward and others, and at least it would save us the disgrace of seeing that smug prick smirking at the world from a regatta as he enjoys azure, pristine waters far away from the seas his company destroyed.
I hope people start throwing black oil at Hayward when he appears in public.
Wouldn’t it be much nicer to see Hayward in prison orange, instead of a white polo shirt at dockside surrounded by his impossibly rich friends?
-SJ
The bigger the company, the more they can get away with. Even though there is this supposed $20 billion fund, why do I get the feeling that BP will get away with murder, like Union Carbide did in India.
You get that feeling my friend because you don’t have a short memory.
Whatever bp did is their fault, whatever they get away with? -is ours.
-SJ
Sheez-shaking my head as usual when elected fucktards invoke the non-existent invisible sky beings.
Fly – Some things refuse to change.