stupidity at work:damn:

Leave it to CNN to botch the story up. Simply put, legistlators put forth the call for a statewide day of prayer - on sunday. Its simply a reminder to all people of faith (and it was a non-demoninational call) to hold to their beliefs and offer prayer for the situation.

Leave it to some here at subsim to ridicule anything having to do with faith.

It should be noted that when most organized religions get together for such activities, they usually also go out and DO in an attempt to help - thus this is also a call to help organize additional help and manpower. How terrible.

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it would help alot more if they would just skip the prayer part and go out and help a bit more instead

Meh ... alot of folks want to help but are prevented for whatever reason.

I see nothing wrong with saying a prayer.

That may be the case - but the reality is that for groups to go out and help in an organized fashion, they have to be exactly that - organized. The fact that churches and other groups of faith already have the framework to help make such organization - both manpower and structure - easier to be made use of - is somehow a bad thing?

In some situations, you take what you can get. In this one, so they want to spend an hour saying a prayer before they go do whatever.... as compared to spending 2 hours milling around figuring out the organization of who tells who to go where and do what.

Just because its about people of faith isn't a reason to ridicule it.

And hey - is prayer really going to hurt? After all - some new agers would tell you that a "group consciousness" with a goal can do all kinds of wonders. Same difference.

im just saying, if people are able to go out and help, but pray insted..then they are idiots. if people are unable to go out and help, then choose to pray insted, i couldnt care less.

When did David Cameron use the US as a punch bag?

Look I have never said BP isn't responsible but if you cannot see why people in the UK are getting fed up with Obama and his loud mouthing then you should look back at some further disasters in the past which involved US companies, Bhopal being one.

The special relationship is one that is touted and used quite conveniently when the US government wants UK support on something. Iraq comes to mind with that one.

Also there is an interesting article in a left wing paper here how everyone and his dog is taking advantage of the compensation scheme. eg Strippers trying to claim money cos the fishermen clients can't afford to come and drool over them. If that isn't taking the proverbial I don't know what is.

Is Obama still bashing us Brits? :arrgh!:

You know you're screwed when you have to start asking the ceiling for help. :DL

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1416392020100620

^^ I pretty much take the numbers reported to us and multiply by two to get a better estimate. We already know it's bad, what we don't know is just how bad it will be a year from now. It ain't over till it's over. :-?

Decades. ;)

The parts of Alaska that were hit by the Exxon Valdez disaster still suffer from it, even if the damage may not be visible to the naked eye - ask biologists and sceintists about it.

In the Gulf, we have an oil spill of the ammount of one single Exxon Valdez event every couple of days. Go figure. It would be easier to contain the effects if it would have happened on land, but unfortunately that it happens on the open sea makes it all that much worse.

Waters of the Gulf.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1wZ6XEtSp8
Birds of the Gulf.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJd4EM9vKp0

Just so you don't think it's over, or something. :nope:

It leads the news every evening. I don't think anyone believes that it is over.

I'm still keeping an eye on it. They're monitoring weather activity in the Gulf and preparing for the worst. BP said that their operations around the leak could be halted for a couple of weeks if/when a hurricane develops. No links for ya, only information from what I watched on the television this morning.

Cross your fingers and hope Mother Nature will hold off another month.