So Long, Annie, It's Been Good To Know Ya!
Hello, everybody!
Gulf Oil Catastrophe, Week 9 (just about): Well, the oil cap is doing its job of syphoning oil from the broken well, but now comes word that the oil leak is much worse than everyone seems to have thought. It seems that there's more oil that leaked out into the bottom of the gulf than even BP had even known about (or, maybe they knew about it all along, but just didn't tell anybody). And to make matters even worse, the number of animal casualties as a result of this catastrophe appears to be rising, with more dead dolphins and sea turtles washing up along the shores of the gulf coast and the number of oil-covered birds rising every single day. I've seen picture of oil-slick pelicans, and, believe me, it just sickens my stomach, as, I'm sure, it must sicken yours. And, I've also heard that, as the temperature rises in Louisiana, the heat is literally cooking some of the birds covered in oil! (I'm sure that's one Louisiana meal you don't want to consume!) Putting all this unappetizing circumstances aside, no is quite certain when all this madness is going to end, if, heaven forbids, it's ever going to end at all, for, even if they do successfully cap the undersea oil well, the ecological complications the consequential oil leak has caused can go on for years to come, with the fragile ecosystems along the southern coasts of the United States drastically changed forever. Either way, it doesn't sound too good for the citizens of the southern part of the United States.
It also doesn't look to good for the future of the newspaper in the United States as well. As if you didn't hear by now, the long running comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, ends its more than eighty-five year run today. Once appearing in more than one hundred newspapers in America and now appearing in less than twenty, the people who drew it finally decided that, after today, the sun will not come out tomorrow for Annie, Daddy Warbucks, and dear old lovable dog, Sandy. This, however, fares even worse for the newspapers that once carried her, since more and more newspapers all over the country have now, literally and figuratively, folded. But don't worry, it seems that Annie and the newspaper will soon have a chance to live on, thanks to the Internet, through online newspapers. So, maybe for Annie and the newspapers that once carried her, the sun will come out tomorrow after all.
Well, that's all for today. Until next time, be well, stay well, and don't forget to help the earthquake survivors!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
Gulf Oil Catastrophe, Week 9 (just about): Well, the oil cap is doing its job of syphoning oil from the broken well, but now comes word that the oil leak is much worse than everyone seems to have thought. It seems that there's more oil that leaked out into the bottom of the gulf than even BP had even known about (or, maybe they knew about it all along, but just didn't tell anybody). And to make matters even worse, the number of animal casualties as a result of this catastrophe appears to be rising, with more dead dolphins and sea turtles washing up along the shores of the gulf coast and the number of oil-covered birds rising every single day. I've seen picture of oil-slick pelicans, and, believe me, it just sickens my stomach, as, I'm sure, it must sicken yours. And, I've also heard that, as the temperature rises in Louisiana, the heat is literally cooking some of the birds covered in oil! (I'm sure that's one Louisiana meal you don't want to consume!) Putting all this unappetizing circumstances aside, no is quite certain when all this madness is going to end, if, heaven forbids, it's ever going to end at all, for, even if they do successfully cap the undersea oil well, the ecological complications the consequential oil leak has caused can go on for years to come, with the fragile ecosystems along the southern coasts of the United States drastically changed forever. Either way, it doesn't sound too good for the citizens of the southern part of the United States.
It also doesn't look to good for the future of the newspaper in the United States as well. As if you didn't hear by now, the long running comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, ends its more than eighty-five year run today. Once appearing in more than one hundred newspapers in America and now appearing in less than twenty, the people who drew it finally decided that, after today, the sun will not come out tomorrow for Annie, Daddy Warbucks, and dear old lovable dog, Sandy. This, however, fares even worse for the newspapers that once carried her, since more and more newspapers all over the country have now, literally and figuratively, folded. But don't worry, it seems that Annie and the newspaper will soon have a chance to live on, thanks to the Internet, through online newspapers. So, maybe for Annie and the newspapers that once carried her, the sun will come out tomorrow after all.
Well, that's all for today. Until next time, be well, stay well, and don't forget to help the earthquake survivors!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
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