Stars, Stripes,--and Oil?
Hello, hello, hello!
I'm blogging a couple of days earlier this week, because this Sunday is the Forth of July, and my family and I are going to be very busy this weekend preparing for it! I'm juggling things on a very tight schedule even as I blog. There's last-minute shopping to do (all the stores are packed, even now!), a menu to prepare, and all those other things to do. But fortunately, I do have a little time to spend on my weekly blog, two days earlier, of course.
We've found out a lot about the Gulf Oil cataclysm (now going into its third month), over the past week or two, and, unfortunately, none of it is good. First of all, this stuff is poisonous, because it's coming straight out of the center of the earth and not being refined, like it would be if it's shipped to the mainland refineries, and a lot more stuff is coming out of the center of the earth right along with it: methane gas (which first caused this tragedy when it ignited underwater on April 20), benzine, and a couple of other things I can't pronounce very well, and I'm sure many of you can't either. Well, anyway, many of the workers are getting very sick while cleaning this stuff up from the Gulf, and along the shores and beaches that line it. And here's the worst part: this poisonous raw oil is causing "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico, meaning that there's no life-giving oxygen in these pools of water that not only the oil has invaded, but the dispersant that BP has used to thin it out, and you know what that means: water that has no oxygen, can't sustain any life at all. No marine plant life, and no marine sea life. The fish and other marine animals are all dying from this. Looks like the people who's cleaning this stuff up will soon be buying the farm as well. So who's next? The people who live way inside the mainland, mainly, the rest of us? All of this have gotten way too spooky, folks! And it isn't even a freaking movie in a theater or on TV! It's freaking real! I mean, Universal Pictures couldn't have thought of a more scary, a more diabolical, and a more life threatening worldwide scenario! Stephen King could take footnotes from this real-life horror show! Everything I watch the TV news and see all that oil coming out from the bottom of the sea, I wonder when this real-life nightmare is going to end.
Well, that's all for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, don't for get the survivors of the earthquakes, and Happy July 4!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
I'm blogging a couple of days earlier this week, because this Sunday is the Forth of July, and my family and I are going to be very busy this weekend preparing for it! I'm juggling things on a very tight schedule even as I blog. There's last-minute shopping to do (all the stores are packed, even now!), a menu to prepare, and all those other things to do. But fortunately, I do have a little time to spend on my weekly blog, two days earlier, of course.
We've found out a lot about the Gulf Oil cataclysm (now going into its third month), over the past week or two, and, unfortunately, none of it is good. First of all, this stuff is poisonous, because it's coming straight out of the center of the earth and not being refined, like it would be if it's shipped to the mainland refineries, and a lot more stuff is coming out of the center of the earth right along with it: methane gas (which first caused this tragedy when it ignited underwater on April 20), benzine, and a couple of other things I can't pronounce very well, and I'm sure many of you can't either. Well, anyway, many of the workers are getting very sick while cleaning this stuff up from the Gulf, and along the shores and beaches that line it. And here's the worst part: this poisonous raw oil is causing "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico, meaning that there's no life-giving oxygen in these pools of water that not only the oil has invaded, but the dispersant that BP has used to thin it out, and you know what that means: water that has no oxygen, can't sustain any life at all. No marine plant life, and no marine sea life. The fish and other marine animals are all dying from this. Looks like the people who's cleaning this stuff up will soon be buying the farm as well. So who's next? The people who live way inside the mainland, mainly, the rest of us? All of this have gotten way too spooky, folks! And it isn't even a freaking movie in a theater or on TV! It's freaking real! I mean, Universal Pictures couldn't have thought of a more scary, a more diabolical, and a more life threatening worldwide scenario! Stephen King could take footnotes from this real-life horror show! Everything I watch the TV news and see all that oil coming out from the bottom of the sea, I wonder when this real-life nightmare is going to end.
Well, that's all for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, don't for get the survivors of the earthquakes, and Happy July 4!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
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