Urantian Sojourn — Life On The World Of The Cross — Page 3

Mourning In America

by Propagandee June 19, 2010

NRO asswipe John Derbyshire finds something to celebrate in the ecological and economic catastrophe unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico in an article titled No We Can’t. After citing a controversial entry from The Oil Drum concerning the consequences of a “down hole” breach in the well casing, a distinct possibility, he indulges the most [...]

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A Tale of Two Sloppy Joes

by Propagandee June 18, 2010

Whoring for multinationals like BP has its limits, after all. You don’t call an escort service and have them deliver the goods to the family home door, broadcast live on cable tv and streamed around the world.

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Tony Baloney’s Congressional Testimony (Update)

by Propagandee June 17, 2010

BP CEO Tony Hayward preparing for his congressional testimony today Well, watching Hayward’s congressional testimony thus far has been a frustrating exercise, more a textbook example of lawyered up stonewalling. The Mustache of Justice, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), tried in vain to get him to answer the questions posed in the committee’s letter they sent [...]

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The Wave Of The Future

by Terry June 16, 2010

It is with no small amount of exasperation, anger, and sorrow of soul that I observe a few obscenely wealthy corporate oil executives have taking a huge defecation in the oceans of the world.

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Nuke It Closed? (II)

by Propagandee June 16, 2010

Seventeen days after I posted this , Mathew Simmons is back on Bloomberg News with this update. Highlights: 1. He bumped up his earlier estimate of the amount of oil gushing into the Gulf from 70k barrels per day to 120k.  (He’s been consistently ahead of the “official” estimates from Day One). And that unless [...]

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The Neuro-Cognitive Wisdom Of George Costanza

by Propagandee June 15, 2010

Given that cognitive scientists believe that up to 95% of our thinking processes are unconscious, with our 400 million year old lizard brain dominating our half million year old rational brain; given that the lizard brain has as its number one priority the perpetuation of the species (demonstrated in males by the power that the [...]

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Fancy Pants

by Terry June 14, 2010

Not only is the president not throwing a tantrum, the president is also not dressing up in Palin-esque chest waders over a haz-mat suit, but is, according to news actress Gretchen Carlson, wearing “fancy pants.”

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BP’s A-Team Tackles Oilmaggedon

by Propagandee June 12, 2010

I suspected something like this was going on all along… In other developments in what some people are considering to be earth’s first human caused extinction level event: 1. The US government has issued a new (soon to be revised) estimate for the amount of oil gushing out of the Macondo well head. Having uncritically [...]

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Oilmaggedon: The Sequel

by Propagandee June 9, 2010

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Okay, I don’t think its too soon to start really freakin out about the disaster unfolding in the Gulf right now. There have been rumors on the internets for at least a couple of weeks that the situation is a hell of a [...]

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Dr. Suess’ Environmental Warning

by Propagandee June 8, 2010

Dr. Seuss reaches out from the grave for his take on the BP‘s Oilmaggedon, as captured by this mention of his book, The Lorax, by the School Library Journal: Celebrate the Lorax Project Student Earth Day 03/09/2009 Long before saving the Earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss spoke about this issue through his book [...]

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Consider The Orchids…

by Michael Hart June 7, 2010

“Consider the [orchids], how they grow;  they toil not, neither do they spin;  yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  If God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is cut down and cast into the fire, how [...]

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Queen Meg In Wonderland

by Propagandee June 5, 2010

HuffPo: The former eBay CEO has spent more than $81 million so far – $71 million from her personal fortune. And if she wins the GOP nomination on Tuesday, it marks only the halfway point in her quest for office. Eighty one million freakin dollars for a freakin gubernatorial primary! Why anyone with so much [...]

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Leakage

by Propagandee June 4, 2010
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Oily Barbour’s Killer Toothpaste (Edited)

by Propagandee June 3, 2010

Mississippi’s Boss Hog Haley Bourbor is giving BP CEO Tony Hayward a run for his money for most asinine comment about the catastrophe both of them helped unleash on the Gulf of Mexico. Upon viewing the first traces of oil from the Macando well blowout to hit the Mississippi coast at Petit Bois Island Wednesday, [...]

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Vogons Step Into BP Spill

by Terry June 2, 2010

President Barack Obama and BP CEO Tony Hayward at a surprise meeting with Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. If you want to hear the poem, you must click it. VOGSPHERE — President Barack Obama met Wednesday in an unscheduled consultation with BP CEO Tony Hayward, and Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the [...]

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Putting An End To It

by Propagandee June 1, 2010
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Afutilestan VIII

by Propagandee May 31, 2010

Rep. Alan Grayson introducing his War Is Making You Poor Act on the House floor As we look back to honor the fallen on Memorial Day, the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan grind on. Afghanistan, in its ninth year, is already the longest war in US History and Iraq, at seven years, is not [...]

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Beckasaurus Dasillyas

by Terry May 31, 2010

The Man with a plan— Beck uses Malia Obama as a human shield to protect himself from a red ripe invective hurled by an angry ex-fan, when he publicly mocked the child after declaring children of politicians “off-limits.”

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Nuke It Closed?

by Propagandee May 30, 2010

Matt Simmons’ interview on Bloomberg News Forty days and forty nights– that’s how long the rupture of BP’s Macondo Well has been spilling its oily guts into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of nearly a million gallons per day. That is,  if you accept the twice revised estimates of BP and the US [...]

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What Happens When We Die?

by Michael Hart May 30, 2010

Most of us, if we think about our inevitable death at all, usually only think of one kind of death: the physical cessation of life. But there are really three kinds of death: Physical (body and mind) death; Intellectual (mind) death; and Spiritual (soul) death.

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