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"Oil spill worsens, offshore drilling plans in dire straits?



...The last big blowout, at Ixtoc off Mexico in 1979, took almost a year to stop and spilled some 140 million gallons of oil before it was through...



It would take two years for the Deepwater Horizon spill to surpass the 1979 event at present rates....



And there could be policy impacts too. A similar spill off the coast of California in 1969 helped spur a moratorium on offshore oil drilling—a moratorium President Obama effectively ended on March 31. [will Obama stop future off-shore drilling?]"



(http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=oil-spill-worsens-offshore-drilling-2010-04-29)



Yes there have been accidents and deaths but an accident once every few years-decade in the context of the entire US oil industry is a fair risk. People aren't crying over the deaths they're screaming about the environment.



Since 1961 32 US astronauts and civilians have died in the space programme either in space, in training or as part of other directly related accidents.



Now, we need space exploration but we don't need it like we need energy and oil. There aren't many people who support NASA as much as I do but at the moment we don't need it to survive, we have to have off-shore drilling if for anything to help lower our dependence on foreign oil.



But last I checked, unlike with oil, when shuttles explode and people die for non-vital projects we didn't shut things down for decades.



So now because fish might die and a bird may need to be washed with "Dawn dish washing detergent" we're honestly thinking about stopping a major expansion of national-life giving operations?



**And all of this after people are wanting to sue to kept an of-shore WIND farm from being built in Cap Code. A clean energy source that will produce 3/4 of the power for 220,000 people because it might LOOK BAD?**



Do they fail to realize how important oil is? Without it there are almost no cars on the road, no planes in the sky, no new TVs, computers, roads, make-up, less medicines, less food packaging or plastics being built or produced and much much more. Approximately 99% of everything in our modern world is touched in one way or another by petroleum and its bi-products.



I get this is a really bad disaster but it was just that, a disaster, and once more one that wasn't caused because of a gross oversight. Trillion dollar industries are going to have problems no matter what they are but you can't just pull the plug on them.



Until government get out of the way of real innovation and until someone comes up with a fully viable plan to take us off fossil fuels without wrecking the global economy we need oil.



For once can we take a look at reality and stop worrying about the purple spotted breast toad and start thinking about the everyday lives of 310 million Americans?

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ThothLestat
13:49 Apr 30 2010

re: Really bad disaster...

But there's something strange about Obama sending in SWAT teams from the EPA and DOD to investigate other oil rigs, no? I'm not inclined to believe in conspiracy theories, but that makes me think that there is something suspicious about this disaster.

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dabbler
14:47 May 06 2010

Simular to the protest of the Wind Project, in southern Cali environMentalist are protesting a Solar Mine, set to be built on donated land, on the edge of Death Valley. The cries of astetics, and

inturupting the wild life, have yet to be substanciated be said environMentalist.



Just can't " win" with that crowd.

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This doesn't seem right at all.



The Library of Congress is going to archive ALL messages sent on Twitter since 2006. Why on earth would they need to do this? Remember the LOC is exactly that, it's the library FOR Congress. It's to be used in making laws. To me this is a massive step forward toward a totalitarian government simply because of the implications in having all of these tweets, many of which question the government and its actions.



http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acquires-entire-twitter-archive/

This is a very sad and blood boiling news story:



U.S. woman returns adopted son to Russia





Russia threatened to suspend all child adoptions by U.S. families Friday after a seven-year-old boy adopted by a woman from Tennessee was sent alone on a one-way flight back to Moscow with a note saying he was violent and had severe psychological problems.



The boy, Artyom Savelyev, was put on a plane by his adoptive grandmother, Nancy Hansen of Shelbyville.



Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called Hansen's actions "the last straw" in a string of U.S. adoptions gone wrong, including three in which Russian children had died in the U.S.



The cases have prompted outrage in Russia, where foreign adoption failures are reported prominently. Russia's main TV networks ran extensive reports on the latest incident in their main evening news shows.



The Russian Education Ministry immediately suspended the licence of the group involved in the adoption — the World Association for Children and Parents, a Renton, Wash.-based agency — for the duration of the investigation.



In Tennessee, authorities were investigating the adoptive mother, Torry Hansen, 33.



The Russian government office in charge of children's rights says Artyom was carrying a letter from Torry Hansen.



According to a copy of the letter published in Britain's Daily Mail, Hansen said she adopted Artyom in September but was lied to by workers at the Russian orphanage from where he came.



"This child is mentally unstable," the letter reads. "He is violent and has severe psychopathic issues.



"After giving my best to this child, I am sorry to say that for the safety of my family, friends and myself, I no longer wish to parent this child."



Nancy Hansen said Friday the family had paid a man $200 to pick the boy up at the airport in Moscow and take him to the Russian Education and Science Ministry.



She said it wasn't child abandonment because a stewardess was watching Artyom on the flight and a reputable person picked him up in Russia.



The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Beyrle, said he was "deeply shocked by the news" and "very angry that any family would act so callously toward a child that they had legally adopted."



'Last straw'

In the past, Russia has tried to get the U.S. to sign an accord outlining conditions for international adoptions and the obligations of host families, but to date, the U.S. has refused.



"The recent event was the last straw," Lavrov said. "We have taken the decision ... to suggest a freeze on any adoptions to American families until Russia and the U.S.A. sign an international agreement."



The boy was taken to hospital in northern Moscow for a checkup, Anna Orlova, spokeswoman for Children Rights Commissioner Pavel Astakhov, told The Associated Press.



Orlova, who visited Artyom on Friday, said the child reported that his mother was "bad," used to pull his hair and "did not love him."



Nancy Hansen said the child was violent and angry with his adoptive mother in the U.S.





Source: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/04/09/russia-adoption-tennessee.html



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This woman, a Registered Nurse, makes me sick. I can't believe that she actually lives in my State.



She adopts this boy, then send him back, alone, with nothing but a note and some snacks and thinks it's ok? Hell, she then pays a STRANGER to pick him up from the airport. She told him that he was going on an "excursion" to Moscow. According to additional sources there is no evidence the 7 year old boy had any major psychological problems, although I'm sure he will now. The story gets even sadder when you add the fact that his biological mother was taken from him a year or so ago because she was unfit.



I hope everyone involved gets to spend a nice time in jail and I hope the boy can find a loving family with a caring mom and strong father.

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Oceanne
18:44 Apr 10 2010

:( Thats really very disheartening.Poor ,poor boy.

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Pantervamp
18:46 Apr 10 2010

What a tragic story. Sometimes i really wonder how some people thinking.

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imagesinwords
18:58 Apr 10 2010

Yep, I read that yesterday. I know how little mere 10 year old boy is (as I have one)... I wouldn't let him fly alone- I can't imagine a 7 year old. Mentally unstable? Well, they were the parents then and probably should have taken him to counseling. You don't adopt and just give them back like that. When you adopt- that child is YOURS and you claim the adoption is just as valid as having the child biologically.

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LadyKrystalynDarkstar
18:59 Apr 10 2010

This has been all over the news. It's very sad. I don't understand why the adoptive mother couldn't call her local authorities and ask for help. Why would she have to resort to what she did? SHE needs mental help for thinking that way.

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WhiteWolf
21:08 Apr 10 2010

If she was aware of these so called problems, why adopt him? If she knew she wasn't fit to be a parent then why spend all that $ to adopt him then turn right around & send him back?! What about some of us here who would love to be in her shoes & have the $ to adopt a child that needs loving parents?! I hope Russia gets her good for her stupidity & that the US Govt also steps up along with the state of Tennessee to make sure she can never adopt again.



That poor child! If i had known i would have taken him in capable of having $ to care for him or not :(

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hannahrose
09:18 Jun 13 2010

WHAT ACRUEL VILE CALLOUS BITCH! I HAVE A SON WITH 3 LIFE THREATING MEDICAL CONDITIONS AS WELL AS AUTISM AND NO MATTER HOW HARD THINGS GOT I WOULD NEVER EVER WANT TO BE WITHOUT MY BOY. MY SON HAS GIVEN ME YEARS OF HAPIENESS AND HAS TAUGHT ME MANY LESSONS I NEEDED TOCLEARN AS WELL AS MAKING CHRISTMAS SPECIAL AGAIN. I HOPE THAT BITCH GETS WHAT SHE DESERVES! AS A MOM HOW COULD YOU D OTHAT TO YOUR BABY ?

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This is pretty sick in my opinion:



Dad of a fallen Marine perseveres against protests at military funerals



Washington – A father of a Marine killed in Iraq says he won't pay the legal fees of a protest group who picketed at his son's funeral in 2006 – at least not until he hears from the US Supreme Court on the matter.



Albert Snyder, whose son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, was killed in Iraq, learned Friday that a federal appeals court is requiring him to pay more than $16,000 in legal fees to the Westboro Baptist Church, a Christian fundamentalist group that demonstrates during military funerals to gain attention for its antigovernment, antihomosexual message. The group rallied at Matthew Snyder’s funeral in March 2006 in Westminster, Md., chanting antigay slogans and carrying signs such as “Thank God for dead soldiers,” says Albert Snyder’s attorney, Sean Summers.



The group was protesting about 30 feet from the church’s main entrance, and Mr. Snyder had to enter through a separate entrance, Mr. Summers says.



Snyder subsequently sued the Westboro group for emotional distress and won a $5 million judgment. But on appeal, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, finding in favor of protecting the protesters' free-speech rights. About three weeks ago, the Supreme Court agreed to take the case and is expected to hear it in the fall. (Last year, the high court had declined to take up the issue.) Meanwhile, the circuit court has ordered Snyder, a salesman, to pay the church’s court expenses.



Snyder, of York, Pa., told Fox News on Tuesday that he would not pay the Westboro Baptist Church "until I hear from the Supreme Court."



“It’s fair to say that they are not getting any Christmas cards from Mr. Snyder,” adds Summers, in a phone interview. “He obviously thinks they are despicable and doesn’t understand why they would target him.”



The Westboro group has been protesting at military members’ funerals for years. The church leader, Fred Phelps, preaches that American deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan are punishment for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality. (He was among those banned from Britain last year for fostering hatred or extremism.) The protests have nothing to do with the fallen service members' sexual orientation, and the church says its protests are held within a “lawful distance” of the funerals.



Ultimately, say some, the church protests are a matter of constitutionally protected free speech.



“I really don’t see that [the protest] was a violation of the First Amendment [principles]. It was a violation of decorum and good taste and all sorts of other things, but not a violation of the First Amendment,” says Charles Gittins, a civilian lawyer in Virginia.



But Summers argues that his client’s right to peaceful assembly and freedom of religion were infringed by the protests and that, unlike at a public park where people are free to express themselves, a funeral setting draws a “captive audience” that requires attendees to be in a particular location – they can’t simply walk away.



Westboro Baptist Church, which is based in Kansas, plans to protest in Florida on Wednesday, outside a funeral for a Marine killed in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan on March 22.



“Military funerals have become pagan orgies of idolatrous blasphemy, where they pray to the dunghill gods of Sodom and play taps to a fallen fool,” states a press release posted on the church’s website, announcing the rally at a memorial service for Lance Cpl. Justin Wilson. At the bottom of the press release are printed the words “Thank God for IEDs,” referring to the roadside bombs that have killed thousands of troops in both wars.





Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100331/ts_csm/291560



If there's ever a time for articles like mine to be out and circulating it's now. (See "Homosexuality and Christianity" https://www.vampirerave.com/member_articles2.php?entry=412 )



A good verse to remember is James 1:26 (New International Version)



"If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless."