An amiga up this way in the boondocks sat me down yesterday and tried to explain to me how I might win more people over to my perspectives, if I used . . . What was that word she kept trying to remember? Oh, yeah, after about two minutes it came to her – diplomacy. I said I know how to be diplomatic, but it isn’t any fun and is a close relative of politically correct, which is a terminal spiritual disease. When I tried to yank Jesus into my defense, she objected, said he knew his audience, knew how to speak to them. Yeah, like when he went into a church and kicked over all the tables. Real diplomatic, I quipped. Maybe they would have liked it better if he’d just shot them a bird.
 
I used that analogy, because it was the The Finger Candidate – District 2 post of the other day that had caused this amiga to sit me down and try to talk me into being diplomatic. Then, to my utter amazement, she said it was a really good post, she’d really liked it. But it just throws people off, she said, when I talk about giving people the finger and, in the next breath, bring God into my campaign. What could I say? Maybe God is fed up, wants somebody to be giving the finger, as God’s proxy? Probably not, but the thought did occur to me, I have to confess.
 
Try to put yourself into my shoes for a minute. I realize that’s asking a whole lot, but at least I didn’t ask you to try putting yourself into my skin, which, had you succeeded, would have killed you nearly instantly, perhaps before you went permanently insane. So take that as diplomacy: I only asked you to try to put yourself into my shoes, which probably wouldn’t hurt you too badly, if you didn’t stay in them too terribly long. Like, not any longer than it takes you to read the rest of this post.
 
Your feet so retrofitted, think of how you would feel if you had already run for office five times, and every time you ran, people you didn’t even know, as well as people you did know, kept telling you that you have really great ideas and are the only candidate making any sense. After pondering that a while, ponder how you finished up in each of those five races. What that tells you, right, is voters don’t want people in office who have the best ideas and make the most sense. What that tells you, right, is voters want somebody in office who doesn’t shoot birds, cuss, pick his nose, scratch his balls, get talked to by angels who give him your bright ideas and so forth. What that tells you is voters want in office people who are diplomatic and politically correct, who don’t get talked to by angels.
 
On the front page of today’s Key West Citizen (keysnews.com) is an article about the Monroe County Commissioners asking the Key West City Commission (which includes the Mayor) to weigh in with their sentiments about the applicaiton to develop Wisteria Island. I attended that county commission meeting yesterday in Marathon, and was glad to hear from Mayor Sylvia Murphy, who for reasons I cannot fathom, is not quoted in today’s Citizen article. I cannot fathom her non-inclusion, because she was the commissioner who kicked off the discussion that led to the resolution she and Commissioners Heather Carruthers and Kim Wigington passed, asking for Key West to weigh in on Wisteria Island before the County Commissioners meet on July 21 in Key West to decide that application’s fate.
 
The way Sylvia went about it was pure Sylvia. She said she didn’t care if Key West has the right to weigh in or not. The development will affect Key West, Key West will have to provide the amenities for the development to work. Amenities like sewerage treatment, parking, police, fire, etc. Sylvia said no way is she going to make a decision on Wisteria without hearing first from Key West. It won’t be fair to the city, and she doesn’t want the city doing something like that to the county. She also seemed concerned about wasting county staff time, if it turns out Key West isn’t on board. This stuck me as both practical, economical and politically correct. It struck me as good manners. It struck me as diplomatic. It struck me as doing unto others what you want them to do unto you. Yet Sylvia’s sage remarks were not included in today’s Citizen article.
 
I attended all but one of the county meetings on Wisteria Island. I watched county staff plow ahead as if Key West weighing in was irrelevant. As if it was a done deal. As if Key West was in the bag. I even watched a county planning commissioner ask county staff if they knew whether or not Key West had to approve the Wisteria development, and county staff, with two county attorneys sitting there, and the planning director sitting there, said they did not know if Key West’s approval was required. During a break at yesterday’s meeting in Marathon, Heather told me it isn’t clear that the Key West City Commission’s approval is required. I replied, if Key West doesn’t provide sewerage treatment, there is no deal. Heather seemed caught up short by that. To be plain blunt, the county has approached this entire matter as if the county is running the entire show — – until Sylvia fired her mighty shot across the County Commission and county staff’s bow yesterday, none of which Key West Citizen reported. Astounding.
 
As stated above, the County Commissioners will meet in Key West, July 21, to discuss and perhaps decide whether to adopt and transmit the Wisteria development applicaiton to the Department of Community Affairs. Whether or not that gives the Key West officials time to weigh in is not yet known. If they do not weigh in by then, it would seem the decision by the county commissioners will be continued until after the first of the year. The commissioners have only two transmittal dates a year, and the time for this one will pass, if they don’t act on July 21.
 
When I spoke to the commissionners during citizens comments yesterday, I said I hope the commissioners will make their decision at the June 21 meeting. I said two commissioners are running for reelection, and I hope the commissioners do not continue the Wisteria application until after the elections, for the convenience of those two commissioners. Unsaid, which all five county commissioners well know, the development of Wisteria Island appears to be just as heated an issue in Key West this year, as it was when much the same deal came up in 2007. The citizenry of Key West rose up in arms against it, and the City Commission and Mayor backed off trying to annex Wisteria Island into the city, so it could be developed under the City’s Comprehensive Plan, instead of under the County’s Comprehensive Plan. Also in 2007, a referendum passed that requires Key West to get voter approval for any annexation or acquisition of land by the city.
 
Make no mistake, the Wisteria application now before the county is a blatant attempt by the developers to do an end run around that referendum. It is a blatant attempt to get Key West to unofficially annex Wisteria Island and furnish it with everything it would get if the city had actually annexed the island. Make no mistake, the citizenry of Key West who oppose this shenanigan will not forget at the polls this year. They will express their ire, if County Commissioners Neugent and Di Gennaro vote to adopt the Wisteria application and transmit it to DCA. And they will express their ire against other county commissioners who vote in favor of the Wisteria applicaiton, when their commission seats come up for reelection in the future. Those same citizens also will express their ire against their own city commissioners and mayor, if they weigh in in favor of the Wisteria application now before the county, when those city officials’ seats come up for reelection in the future.
 
I hope the Key West officials do not dawdle. I hope they go ahead and weigh in now, so the county commissioners will know where Key West stands before the July 21 meeting in Key West. I hope the county commissioners do not dawdle at that meeting. I hope they make a decision, and do not pass the Wisteria application over to a later date, which will prove a hell of a lot more convenient to Commissioners Neugent and Di Gennaro. The rich and powerful want to see the Wisteria developers get their application approved. The people in the pockets of the rich and powerful want to see the developers get their application approved. They want Wisteria turned into another Sunset Key, and they don’t give a rat’s ass that the citizenry of Key West rose up in arms over that in 2007.
 
Cheers.
 
Sloan Bashinsky
 
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A correction to yesterday’s Gulf War Doomsday Scenarios post. 

Hi, Suzie. 
 
I don’t remember if I sent this down below to you already. It came about as part of an email exchange with someone who knows someone I was corresponding with. The introducer later told me the woman was wealthy and upset that she and her husband had to give up one of their two yachts, and had to start sharing their airplane with another family, all because times were getting tougher; and that the woman and her husband are George Bush fans and Tea Party members. I can’t imagine what it was like for her to read this below, which I wrote totally ignorant of any of that. In it, you will see some of how the angels work with me, and how that translates into how I work in this world. The prophet people, whose online stuff you keep referring me to, some of them might not like getting to know me very well. It’s one thing to receive forecasts, be told things are going to happen; it’s entirely something else to make that your whole life.
 
Sloan 
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Hard to take this horrible mess in the Gulf of Mexico as anything but a divine interdiction — forget the human mechanisms employed — to get us to stop deep offshore oil drilling, and all offshore oil drilling, despite our discomfort. Just as hard to take this horrible mess as anything but a divine interdiction – again, forget the human mechanism employed — to get America to stop making war, which requires huge amounts of oil-based fuels. Also, the two current wars are entirely oil-motivated at inception. Iraq, for control over its oil supply and fields; Afghanistan, because of the long coveted pipeline into the Asian oil fields, to bring oil to the West.

President Obama’s threat to America is not his oil policy. His threat is himself. We saw that with all certainty when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, while continuing the wars of his predecessor, which he should have ended as his first order of business after being sworn in. Six months after he was sworn in, all American troops and civilian personnel should have been out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Our navies should have been out of that region. It’s not our problem over there to attempt to control or resolve. We have mucho problems at home, which are conveniently ignored by starting another war.

I told someone just yesterday, a pretty close younger friend down here in the Florida Keys, who had served in the Special Forces in Central America, he was not down there for a vacation, that Osama bin Laden was used by God, even the Devil can be used by God, to try to wake America up, get it to stop meddling in everyone else’s business as if it has a diving right to do so. Now we have a divine interdiction in the Gulf of Mexico, and while we have to do all possible to stop the gusher and protect the Gulf and the coasts, we must not lose sight of what brought all of this down around our heads. We brought it down around our heads by electing and tolerating presidents and congress men and women who don’t have any understanding of how things really work.

I knew George W. Bush was the son of the Devil before he even secured the Republican nomination in 1999. I knew John Kerry was trying to out-hawk Bush in 2003, when he should have been screaming to get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Yeah, it probably would have cost Kerry that election, which he lost anyway, but it might have have spared us what we now face in the Gulf War we are fighting in our own national territorial waters. Likewise, if instead of continuing the wars of his predecessor, President Obama had gotten America the hell out of that region altogether. I was told even before he had secured the Democratic nomination that Obama had all the potential for being the Anti-Christ. Not that he would be, but that he had the potential. He’s very slippery, a chameleon. He should have hugged his outspoken general and thanked him for speaking the truth; and then he should have told his general to initiate immediately a complete pull-out from Afghanistan with all due speed.

It is so easy to compartmentalize. It is so easy to not see the dots, the links, which I have been given eyes to see; and when I don’t see, I’m shown it. We keep electing the bind to lead the blind, the deaf to lead the deaf, the lost to lead the lost, even as we put them on pedestals until they prove they aren’t any wiser than we are and might even be a lot dumber. We have the President we deserve. George W. Bush was the President we deserved. Bill Clinton was the President we deserved. At least he made a national apology to Vietnam, which was his main spiritual assignment during his time in office. That’s why he was like teflon. That’s why he skated and came out well ahead of the curve he went into office on. From Clinton’s model, we were supposed to stop using war to get our way. Our selfish way. Vietnam was a totally selfish, imperialistic war. It was as destructive to our national soul as what our ancestors did to the Indians, and what they did to the African slaves. All of that comes back around. There is no getting out of it.

I hope I’m not still on this planet when all of America’s chickens come home to roost, which they will do. Alas, the way things are now going, I may still be here for it, or for some of it. It’s not making my day to be participating in this. Try to imagine what it was like for me in March 2001, when, in my sleep, I hear a voice I have come to trust with my life and soul say, “You are being lifted off of this world; the Tree of Life is being lifted off of this world.” Try to imagine what it was like for me to hear in early September of that same year, the same voice say to me in my sleep, “Will you make a prayer for a divine intervention for all of humanity?” Startled out of my sleep, I ask for a divine intervention for all of humanity. On the third day, the Trade Towers came down. I wasn’t in the least distressed. I was put into a state of grace that day. My only concern was that America, as in, George W. Bush, would retaliate, start a war, instead of making a Jesus response.

Imagine what it was like for me on the one-year anniversary of that request to again be asked in my sleep to make the same prayer, but this time, instead of waking up, I ask for a divine intervention for all of humanity in my sleep, and to the prayer I add, “And let it begin in me!” I thought I’d been through a lot of self-examination, looking in the mirror. I had, actually. But it turned out there still was lots of room left for improvement. There still were plenty of beams left in my own eye that needed removing. There still are. As it is for all of us, and for all nations. This is the Jesus response. This is the response that would have changed America and world history if it had been made after 911 by America. But it wasn’t made. And look what happened after that. Proof enough that the response America made was very, very incorrect.

If I had my way, I’d abolish all partisan primaries. I’d abolish the Electoral College. I’d abolish second terms in elected office across the board. One term only, to put an end to running for reelection while still in office. Focus on what’s in front of you, if you are an elected official; make your one term the monument you wish to leave behind you. Look at the monument George W. Bush left behind. A joke is what he left behind. And a very sick joke at that. God only knows what Barack Obama is going to leave as his monument. Like the Gulf disaster, there’s no way there will be a good outcome. All that remains is for us to learn, if we are capable of learning, just how bad an outcome it’s going to be. For all I know, this is the best possible scenario. For all I know, a quck catastrophic nation-leveling disaster is more merciful than a lingering delusionary death.

Hard to believe I look at things this way, given the outlook I once had. God killed that outlook and that man. I remember him well, and sometimes he tries to come back to the future, but he doesn’t do very well at it, and I suppose I ought to thank my lucky stars for that.

Sloan

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 Todd German, Chairman of Hometown! PAC, called me yesterday morning to say he found my campaign slogan and sign, the finger, intriguing. He said it reflects the mood of many Americans today toward government at all levels. I said I had not thought about that when it came to me to write yesterday’s The Finger Candidate – District 2 post, but he was correct.

The finger might become a very popular anti-government symbol before this is all said and done. In fact, it might become so popular that it eclipses such icons as the salute, the right hand over the heart during the Pledge of Allegiance, the bow, the curtsey and the handshake. The finger could be accompanied with quips like, “And the horse you rode in on,” “Up yours,” “Eat shit and die,” “I’m also showing you your age and IQ;” “Rotate on this, mother fucker;” and “That was the good news.”

I keep trying to get somebody to bump me off, but so far I’m not having any luck.

Meanwhile, here’s welcome news forwarded back in time from the grandson of a Destin, Florida holocaust victim:

JUNE 2, 2050 PRESS RELEASE 

Scientists and Environmentalists held a news conference today on the SS Barak Obama, a Federal Garbage Scow, to announce a success in the final test stages of experimental microbe production and deployment. One US Senator proudly announced that schools, research labs, and individual grants totaling $72 billion had “helped boost the areas of learning in his state and if the Keys waste lands ever came back and if the re-introduction of crabs and fish was successful. by the year 2115, we should see some growth in the area!”

Scientists and environmental groups applauded the fact that they stood in the way of deploying microbes in 2010, thus allowing the clean destruction of sea and plant life to make way for the recovery anticipated for 2115. They once again spoke about the wisdom of allowing the oil to “clean the plate” instead of throwing all those dangerous microbes into the mix. ” With the oil, we KNEW the resulting effect on sea and plant life,” said Homer Q. Micheleckolisa, lead scientist and fund raiser for The Sea and Plant Museum and Car Wash,” I mean, what do you want, a sure thing destruction or who knows what outcome with new technology that has only worked 92% of the time? Besides, look at the jobs we created in the horrible economy from 2010-2030 with the infusion of money into the schools and committees that look out for the environment. Look what we learned… oil kills… people don’t need jobs… money to colleges and university can solve problems and endowments… Now, we are prepared to spend a month studying microbes as an alternative in the event of a recurrence.”

Sadly, with the stupidity of Obama and his golf partner, and the money grab for grants instead of real activity, this press release might just happen. This situation is like watching scientists and environmentalists and lay persons arguing over a volcano erupting and pouring lava over a continent. Scientists would apply for a 10 year grant to study lava flow… environmentalists would form committees to form associations to release white papers… lay persons would say: “Holy shit we gotta get outta here!” and leave.

We have a technology that could and should be deployed. Get the politiians, the scientists, the tree huggers, and other procrastinators out of the way and DO SOMETHING!!!

MM

Further meanwhile is this terrifically piercing, and actually hilarious, youtube knock off on the Fake President, sent to me yesterday by Dr. Sancho Panza, PhD, Professor Emeritus, B.S. University. I wrote back, “A-fucking-men.”
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUKlhKG0leI&NR=1 
 
Rachel Maddow is a host of a MSNBC Cable Talk/News show… she has this
“Fake President Obama” spoof she does every now and then!
I thought you might appreciate this one!

The Fake President has done the impossible: proven he is dumber and more malignant than George W. Bush.

I wuz told by an Alabama amigo, who spends a lot of time worrying that Obobmer is going to turn America into a socialist Islamic state (impossible, if you know anything about Islam), that the reason the Fake President didn’t accept the foreign help offer with the Gulf War was because that would piss off American labor unions, whose members would not be on those foreign ships. When I asked him to clarify, he said “The Jones Act.” So I looked up the Jones Act online.

Merchant Marine Act of 1920
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (P.L. 66-261) is a United States Federal statute that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters and between U.S. ports.

Section 27, also known as the Jones Act, deals with cabotage (i.e., coastal shipping) and requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried in U.S.-flag ships, constructed in the United States, owned by U.S. citizens, and crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents. The purpose of the law is to support the U.S. merchant marine industry, but agricultural interests generally oppose it because, they contend, it raises the cost of shipping their goods, making them less competitive with foreign sources. [1]

In addition, amendments to the Jones Act, known as the Cargo Preference Act (P.L. 83-644), provide permanent legislation for the transportation of waterborne cargoes in U.S.-flag vessels.

It don’t look to my Alabama born and raised mind, limited as that historical geography automatically makes it, that the Jones Act applies to foreign vessels sailing from, say, Amsterdam, to say, the Gulf War near Pensacola Beach, Florida, to skim oil and funnel it into waiting tankers or supertankers. Nor does it look to my naturally demented Alabama mind that the Jones Act applies to, say, Dutch ships going into, say, Pensacola Bay, and doing oil clean up there and on the barrier beach. Beyond all of that, the Fake President can suspend the Jones Act if he wants to, because of a national emergency. Alas, the Fake President doesn’t want to piss off his beloved labor unions and cost himself a second term in the Offal Orifice.

Sancho and I have discussed before the federal judge’s block of the Fake President’s moratorium on new offshore oil rigs. I described reading online that the federal judge had personal investments in oil and gas companies and had refused to be interviewed by the press about that. Not investments held in a pension fund, but direct investments held in the judge’s personal securities portfolio. If this is true, the Fake President should have instructed the United States Attorney General to arrest said federal judge and send him to Guantanamo and put with suspected Al Qaida suspects and waterboarded, and so forth, until hell freezes over. Alternativly, the Fake President could have had the federal judge sent to Havana, where he could issue injunctions against the oil and keep it sequestered up in the Gulf of Mexico and out of the Florida Straights, in exchange for being allowed by enraged Cubans to continue breathing air as, as oppose to, say, oil and water.

I told Sancho the Fake President should have told said corrupt federal judge (this was before I read of his oil and gas portfolio), “You wrote your order, now let’s see you enforce it.” Not for a moment should the Fake President have instructed his lawyers to file an appeal in the genereal direction of the U.S. Supreme Court of Republican Oil & Gasdom. Instead, the Fake President should have sent the US Navy steaming into the Gulf War, to board and hold secure any oil rig under construction until hell freezes over.

The Fake President should have done that because he knew for a fact that off-shore oil drilling is an oil version of ebola – once it breaks loose, lean over and kiss your ass goodbye.

The Fake President should have done that because BP launched a biological war against America, and did it knowing what it was doing.

While the Fake President had BP’s titular fool, Tony Hayward (sort of rhymes with haywired) in his grasp, he should have sent Tony to Guantanamo, or perhaps to Havana, to greet the federal judge when he arrives. The Fake President should have seized all of BP’s tangible and non-tangible assets in America, because there is no way before the next ice age that BP will willingly cough up what it owes in war reparations.

Accordingly, the Fake President should have required Great Britain, BP’s home country, to seize all of BP’s remaining assets, to pay for what America is doing in the Gulf of Mexico to save Ireland, Great Britain and France, the Netherland countries and Germany, Portugal and Spain, the Mediterranean Sea and the northwest coast of Africa from what Great Britain’s very own BP did in the Gulf of Mexico.

How could the Fake President have forced Great Britain to do this? Easy. The Fake President could have frozen all British assets in America. The Fake President could have stopped the payment of all US government and U.S. corporate debt and dividends due British corporations and subjects, and diverted those funds to pay for America’s expenses in the Gulf War. The Fake President could have blocked all Bristish exports to the United States. The Fake President could have stopped all British subjects from coming to the U.S. and all U.S. citizens from going to Great Britain. Imagine what that would have done to the professional golf tour and the British Open at St. Andrews next month.

The Fake President could have said in his address to his fellow Americans, that America saved Great Britain’s ass in World War I and World War II. So screw BP. Screw Great Britain, if it doesn’t screw BP. Let Great Britain have its own Revolutionary War, if it does’t screw BP. How long could the Queen and the Royal Navy and Royal Marines and Commandos, and the RAF and the British Army and Scotland Yard, and M 15 and M 16, and James Bond whoever he is now, kept the British people from making BP make this right? I figure it about two weeks before London Bridge started falling down — Fore!!!

In a perfect world, the Fake President would have known a few days after the Deepwater Horizon well blew up just how bad it really was, because the angels would have told the Fake President just how bad it really was. Armed with such knowledge, the Fake President sends the US Navy in immediately. The Fake President puts the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff personally in charge of waging the Gulf War, with the Fake President perched on his shoulder watching him like the eagle early Americans adopted as their national bird, even though they descrated that eagle’s vision nearly unceasing throughout America’s history.

The Fake President orders his Navy, armed with gas masks and its entire military arsenal, to stop BP’s use of all dispersants immediately. The Fake President orders his Navy to begin a round-the-clock counterattack, spraying farmed microbes on all oil that reaches the well-areated, wind-and-wave stirred surface around the blown well. The Fake President’s Navy has the blown well so surrounded with microbe-armed cruisers, destroyers, tenders and other maneuverable sea vessels, that there is no way surfacing oil escapes via shifting sea and wind currents.

The Fake President orders his Navy to send submersibles down to the wellhead, to video was is going on, and give those videos to Navy engineers to size up and make an assesment. The Fake President has engineers from Exxon, Shell and ARAMCO looking at the Navy videos, advising his naval engineers. The Fake President removes all but essential BP personnel from the enviorns of the blown well. The Fake President gives BP’s engineers and repair crews a choice between going to work for him, or going to Guantanamo or Havana.

The Fake President sees to it that citizen navies on the American Gulf coast get what they need to go out to sea, to set up a defense perimeter. The Fake President swears them them into his Navy, as citizen militia. The Fake President lets them fight, instead of being slauughtered like sheep. The Fake President ignores all court orders aimed at him or his armed forces. The Fake President orders the deportation to Guantanamo, or Havana, of anyone, including labor union leaders and members of Congress and Supreme Court Justices, who try to interfer with the Fake President’s sworn, sacred duty to defend the United States of America.

The Fake President hires Exxon, Shell and ARAMCO to work with the BP engineers and repair crews, under his unified command, to try to stop the oil gusher without making it worse. If necessary, the Fake Preesident lets the gusher run its course, until it reaches its own equilibrium with the weight of the sea above and it stops gushing. The Fake President does nothing to compromise the seabed. The Fake President uses his Navy and civilian volunteer vessels and unemployed oil workers, fishermen, dock workers, restaurant and lodging owners, and anyone who signs up, who has been hammered by BP, to patrol, skim, sweep and microbe oil that reaches the surface and American coasts and wetlands, for so long as it takes.

The Fake President does not let BP run one newspaper, radio or television ad in America. Otherwise, freedom of the press and freedom of speach is protected. The Fake President allows and tolerates no censorship, and demands free and vigorous democratic public debate. The Fake President keeps the American public fully apprised of what he knows and is doing, hidiing nothing.

The Fake President puts someone in charge of setting up a disaster claims bureau, most likely an American military person recommended by the Commander of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Fake President puts another recommended military leader in charge of supplying food, water, clothing and other essentials to stricken Americans. The Fake President declares martial law wherever he sees things starting to get out of hand on the land or on the sea, and the Fake President sends in American military personnel to enforce martial law, to protect Americans from Americans, to stop a civil war from occurring.

The Fake President does everything possible to keep the oil out of the Straights of Florida, through which it will head east in the main Gulf Stream and eventually northeast toward Ireland, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands counties. The Fake President tells those countries they are welcome to send their skimmers and tankers over, to get all the oil they can, which they can keep, but not a penny will America pay them for their help, because America is doing all she can to save their asses.

If the Gulf War ever ends, the Fake President offers the top engineer and scientist war heroes jobs figuring out how use hydrogen to fuel various kinds of engines and factories and so forth; and how to turn water into hydrogen for fuel and oxygen to repenish the atmosphere, using solar energy, and wind, tidal and hydroelectric generators, and even methane gas emitted in great quantites in Washington D.C. and other government capitols, to fuel the hydrogen and oxygen production.

Sloan Bashinsky

Co-Author, among many contibutors, of Dead Sea Scrolls II; and co-founder, among many, of the Finger Party, not to be at any time confused with the Tea Party, which, like the Republican and Democratic parties, is for fools, weenies and crybabies.

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Segments of email dialoge with someone who appears to have appointed himself as Danny Coll’s campaign manager; or maybe Danny appointed him, but it’s just not yet official. His part in italics. Danny and inbumbent County Commissioner George Neugent are squared off in the Republican primary for the District 2 County Commission seat. The winner faces me, non-affiliated, in the general election. 
 

You might also wish to check out the cheery Wisteria Mafia – Key West post at Today’s Cock-a-doodle-doo, goodmorningkeywest.com  today.

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What continues to nag me is the federal government trying to stop us from saving ourselves from BP and the federal government. That, and the likes of this response to yesterday’s Homeland Defense – Florida Keys post from a developer in Alabama, who likes to vacation in Key West:
 
SLOAN – you are right on target with the approach that is needed. I fear a lot of dithering and hand holding is what is going to happen. The “let someone else do this for me” syndrome. R

So far, my Board of Directors agrees with that perspective.
 
Well, let’s not focus on just the negative. Consider this cheery news from SolaRichard yesterday, who had estimated the BP gusher flow rate at 67,000 barrels a day. I’m going to send him a pencil sharpener.

U.S. oil spill response coordinator Admiral Thad Allen said more ships and equipment were being brought in to boost the effort, but the spill will not be capped at least until BP completes the first of two relief wells in early August.internal BP document released by a Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) Monday showed the firm contemplated a worst-case scenario of as much as 100,000 barrels, or 4.2 million gallons, a day.
 
In italics, is the text from the internal BP document web link:
 
Markey: BP ‘either lying or grossly incompetent’ on worst-case scenario

By Molly K. Hooper – 06/20/10 01:48 PM ET

Officials estimate between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels are pouring into the Gulf each day, but an

America’s worst previous oil spill, the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, saw nearly 11 million gallons leak off the Alaskan coast, but even under the low end of current estimates, more than 90 million gallons have now spewed into the Gulf of Mexico.

A key Democratic lawmaker revealed an internal BP document on Sunday showing that the embattled oil giant’s worst-case scenario projected that 100,000 barrels of oil could be released each day that the well remains uncapped.

Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, said that number was in stark contrast to BP’s public projections at the time the study was finished that only 5,000 barrels would be lost each day.

The top-ranking Democrat on the Energy and Commerce’s subcommittee on energy policy said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” that “again, right from the beginning, BP was either lying or grossly incompetent. First they said it was only 1,000. Then they said it was 5,000 barrels. Now we’re up to 100,000 barrels.”

Almost nine weeks have passed since an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig and the ensuing Gulf Coast gusher that BP has not been able to cap yet.

Markey held a high-profile hearing last week with BP CEO Tony Hayward.

“It was their technology. It was their spill cam. They are the ones that should have known right from the beginning and either to limit their liability or because they were grossly incompetent they delayed a full response to the magnitude of this disaster,” Markey told “Meet The Press” host David Gregory.

Then, I see on the TV news last night that a huge nine-mile long oil tide hit Pensacola Beach yesterday. Then, I see on TV news criticism of BP using dispersants, which keeps the oil down, makes it cake up, globule, and stay down deeper where it can’t be skimmed. Then, I see on TV news that something went haywire with the BP blown well’s containment cap, and a lot more oil was escaping as a result.

Then, I think to myself: “Gee, this problem with the oil cap failure on the day BP’s new clean-up ramrod goes to work is a pretty loud, as in screaming spiritual message that God isn’t too terribly pleased with the day before yesterday’s federal court block of Uncle Obama’s moratorium on new offshore oil drilling.” 

Another Uncle Obama whomp yesterday was his telling we the people that he intends to pursue and accelerate his dumber than dumb predecessor’s war in Afghanistan, which Uncle Obama had loudly criticized when he was courting gullible Americans to elect him President. It just ain’t all that terribly hard to connect the spiritual dots between Uncle Obama’s Afghanistan head general and a young British jounalist telling the truth, with God trying to tell Uncle Obama his war policy sucks and he ought to get America the hell out of Afghanistan yesterday.

It also just ain’t all that hard to connect the spiritual dots between Uncle Omama’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the BP oil well blowing up. It’s just ain’t all that hard, unless you are blind, deaf and dumb.
 
All the more reason for the Florida Keys to forge ahead arming our own navies, for we truly are doomed if the oil comes down here and we have depended on BP and Uncle Obama.

Meaning, if you still think pep rallies, holding hands and taking Hazmat training are going to save the Keys from the demon twins, BP and Uncle Obama, you should go to the nearest state mental hospital and check yourself in and never come out. If we don’t field and arm our own navy with microbe launcher warheads, we will end up a lot worse off than Pensacola Beach. It’s a hell of a lot easier to clean oil off a beach than it is to clean oil out of mangroves and off a coral reef.

In yesterday’s Key West Citizen was a article saying our Tourist Development Council’s budget had increased to $27,000,000 this year, all paid out of bed taxes. The TDC ought to turn every penny of that $27,000,000 over to our scientists and navy. If we don’t beat the demon twins, BP and Uncle Obama, we won’t have anything to advertise about the Keys. We will be kaput. You can count on it. The oil is coming our way. The angels told me so. Sweet dreams.

Sloan Bashinsky

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I received something horrible yesterday from Alabama woman, which can be gandered by clicking on the web link at the end of this paragraph. Be sure to keep reading the article until you get to the video, which is the part that is so cheerful. I don’t think people who see the video will have much trouble transposing it to other areas of the upper Gulf Coast, the Florida west coast, and the Keys. Ought to do wonders for Gulf coast and Keys tourism. All the more incentive for we in the Keys to gather our own navies together, arm them with microbes and incubation vats and water hoses and pumps, and whatever else we can come up with to defend ourselves, so our navies can sally forth into the Gulf War hoping to keep what you will see in the video from turning the Florida Keys into the shark surf fishing capitol of the Universe, until all the bait fish get eaten or jump up on the land trying to get away from the sharks and the oil. Bon apertif – Sharks and Submerged Oil Spell Trouble Off the Alabama Coast

Along similar lines is this email exchange with a local biologist, who has rolled up his sleeves and, with other local scientists, plunged into trying to use their backgrounds and experiences to defend the Keys:
  
Sloan

Out there, in deeper water, you can use microbes on surface and near-surface oil . . .
 
From out there, you can fight a retreating action, hoping to keep the oil away from/out of mangrove islands . . .
 
You can use the rising high tides twice a day to insulate the use/risk of microbes in shallow water, such as flats, banks and mangrove islands . . .
 
You have to be prepared to take some causalities caused by microbes, because the causalities oil will take are much greater, if oil comes in massive amounts, which it may well, just like on the upper Gulf coast . . .
 
You need lots of boats ready to go out there armed with microbes, incubation vats, hoses and water pumps . . .
 
You need to be prepared to go up against the Coast Guard, sadly . . .  
 
Sunken oil approaching shallower water will move up the incline more toward the surface . . . such oil is harder to reach with microbes . . . this, I think, is where your air curtains might be most important, if you can make enough of them and get them deployed . . . but it sounds like you are only just starting there and are not in production, certainly not in large scale production . and what do you do with the oil air curtains trap? Or maybe I don’t understand air curtains . . .
 
You will have to take risks . . . You have to guard against paralysis, because you might not have everything all figured out, because there might be causalities . . . You might be surprised by winning over other agencies, as your persistence stands firm and you do not back down . . .
 
Somebody/somebodies need to take the lead in the water, defending the land, and so far we don’t have that yet . . . I just saw a news segment . . . Gulf coast Florida counties want to sally forth into the ocean to defend their beaches and estuaries from attack . . .
 
I know these areas well, having fished them quite a lot . . . I know those  beaches well, having used them a lot . . . Alas, those communities cannot get out to defend themselves, because they don’t have the funds to sally forth . . . they are looking to BP to give them the money they need to launch their navies . . . and they are not getting the funding . . .
 
I still think our Tourist Development should cease all advertising, what idiocy in the face of not entirely out of the question annihilation, and funnel all of its funds into arming and sending for out navy . . . I think the wealthy people in the Keys should be getting out their checkbooks to fund the navy . . .  I think BP ought to be funding the navy, since it sure as hell won’t be able to defend us, as we saw from the upper Gulf coast experience . . . I think every environmental organization in the Keys should be channeling all of its money into arming our navy . . . every local government should be contributing money . . .
 
This is not the time to be seeking grant money . . . this is the time to gather and arm our navy . . . alas, our navy has no bullets . . . it has no guns . . . without bullets and guns, it cannot fight . . . it needs bullets and guns . . . and that’s where you folks come in, it looks to me . . .
 
Maybe more later . . .   

Dear Oil Defense Whiz Kids:
 
Here is a Key West man’s reply to your emails included in yesterday’s Black Tea Party – Florida Keys post.
 
“Although I do understand their concern, I find it rather hilarious
that they are worried about the off-chance side effects of the
microbes when we are facing devastation from the oil. All the other
methods I have heard about and seen are inefficient and expensive. They
are time consuming and get only a fraction of the oil cleaned up. Just
ask the Gulf Coast. Just ask the folks in Alaska where the oil is ever
present under a few inches of rocks. Only the oil that showed was ever
cleaned up. This is just how BP operates, they think if they can sink
it with dispersants, we won’t know it’s there.”
 
Also for your esteemed consideration is a retort from a fellow based in Tacoma, Washington. I met SolaRichard in Key West last year, after he came to town trying to persuade Key West City to go solar. Someone told him about me and he looked me up because I was harping on Key West using a whole lot more solar energy. After talking with him a while, I said he sort of remind me of what I’d read and heard about Nikola Telsa. He said he’d been told that before. He estimated the oil gusher at 67,000 barrels a day, when BP and Uncle Sam were saying it was much less. Eventually, the two blackhearts’ estimates increased almost to SolaRichard’s estimate. If the well casing gives out and/or the seabed caves in or erupts, multiply SolaRichard’s figures by 10, or 20, or 30? I include his email address, in case you egg heads wish to consult with him.

In a message dated 6/21/2010 4:46:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, keysmyhome@hotmail.com writes:
 
What effects will this have on the calcium carbonate (CaCO2) skeleton of corals?
  
Keys coral, the Thompson formation and all the base coral of the State of Florida is CaCO3 not CaCO2. I hope they don’t make other mistakes as basic as this. Perhaps a misprint?
 
In a message dated 6/21/2010 4:46:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, keysmyhome@hotmail.com writes:
We anticipate some results soon but in the mean time, the use of aeration in any of the situations or ecosystems mentioned above will only help to alleviate potential problems. We expect the employment of air curtains in areas of critical concern to have, at minimum, the following beneficial environmental effects:

1. Oxygenation of the water in any environment benefiting natural bacteria to digest oil products

2. With proper application, potential deflection of oil products away from areas of critical concern

I respect your passion and understand your frustration. That is why the FKEC was formed. There are ways and means to approach this disaster. We have to make sure the solution does not become worse than the problem. We are stewards of this environment and must not make decisions in haste. I am confident that together we can, at least, reduce the impacts, should they occur here.

Patrick Rice

I can design a solar photovoltaic power system for the air pumps needed for this effort. SolaRichard.

 
those smart folks with all the capital letters after their names. Having a degree don’t mean you know how to use it! SolaRichard – Piled Higher and Deeper.

http://www.google.com/search?q=kevin+cosner+oil+spill&hl=en&source=univ&tbs=nws:1&tbo=u&ei=Gq0fTJvQEdqynAfX3_idDg&sa=X&oi=news_group&ct=title

I’ve tried to get hold of Kevin with “Attaboys” and anything else that seemed appropriate but my emails go unanswered. You folks in the Keys need about 10,000 of these skimmers off Tampa now.

Sell the collected oil back to BP for $507 per gallon. That’s the price Exxon finally paid per gallon for the Exxon Valdez spill. They still haven’t paid the $94 million owed to the fisher man of the area. As a deckhand and First Mate this really pissed me off. SR”
I share this Hopi Prayer? That came to me on my last trip the visit and bring solar energy to the Navajo of Monument Valley. I put it up on the back of my bathroom door so all that enter might read it in leaving. Feel free to share. Hopi Dwellings face South with the front door open to the Sun. I like that and them…….. SR
 
Solar Richard is one smart cookie. Maybe he can help you save time, see better, do better.
 
Although it seems from your collective wizard silence that you don’t care to hear what the angels think about this situation, it seems the angels have found people to speak to you anyway.
 
I’d love to see BP, the Coast Guard Admiral and President Obama go into an oil-stricken upper Gulf coast community and say, “We, at least, reduced the impacts.”
 
To further try to sober and shock you into your senses are these devastating, infuriating videos from the wounded and dying and dead on the upper Gulf coast.

Drill, Baby, Drill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-heDWycOuYM
 
I do truly hope all of you whiz kids do not want such videos made of you, if oilageddon comes to the Keys and you did not stop it because you were still talking, doing experiments, checking with your lawyers, paddling your kayaks, going to pep rallies, appearing on television and holding hands somewhere chanting, “Where the fuck are we? Where the Fuck are we?”
 
Alas, you don’t look to me like you are any farther ahead of the curve than BP, the Coast Guard and Barack Obama. So far, you look to me like you are still operating in the same pinhead box they are.

 
Here’s the out of the box primer, in case you coral heads cleverly managed to dodge it.
 
The Texas Solution 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCzhmGHQ_1c

Sloan Bashinsky, messenger from Mother Nature and the angels you asked to look over all of you
 
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Recent email dialogue with several people caused by recent posts about the black tea party in the Gulf of Mexico. These people belong to a group that has assumed leadership in defending the Keys. Their comments are in italics. This ain’t gonna be pretty, but then, the black tea party isn’t pretty either.
 
Good morning Sloan,

I think you haven’t been in touch with what is going on with several of the groups that you mentioned, i.e. GLEE, Reef Relief and other environmental groups in the keys. They are part of a coalition that is looking into the use of microbes and many other new technologies and methods of dealing with the oil spill. I am forwarding your email to the coalition so they can respond to you directly.
 
Hi, Mary Lou. Actually, every time I get something from GLEE, Reef Relief and other concerned environmental outfits, I send them something I wrote/received about microbes, and I hear nothing back but more meeting notices. Maybe they don’t read replies to what they send out? As far as I have learned/heard/read, there is no technology that can deal with massive sea oil disasters but microbes Mother Nature produces, or borrowed from Mother nature and farmed and concentrated and applied to the oil rush. I see all sorts of methods that can collect oil in a bathtub or swimming pool, or a lagoon or beachhead, but it is mechanical and takes a lot of human hand work, and then there is the disposal problem after the oil is collected. If this gets investigated and discussed and consensus-ed to death, it may end up being the death of the Keys as we know it. Then, we will investigate and discuss and consensus that to death. Instead of holding hands on Duval Street, and other places the famous lost tribe gathers, we need to arm our conch navy for battle. Sloan
  
Another email from Sloan – has anyone responded to him? I sure would like to have a letter from one of our scientific members in response to what he is publishing everyday.

Dear Sloan,

We haven’t had the chance to meet yet, but I am one of the members of the newly formed Florida Keys Environmental Coalition and on it’s Steering Committee.  Mary Lou Hoover, and Girls night Out are members of the FKEC and have asked if we can address some of the concerns that you raised in your discussion of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response.

Inc. (Microbe Production company with corporate Scientist and Engineering support) and many other nationally engage experts who are supporting us and in constant contact with us.Bioremediation Hall), support form MOTE marine Research Labs, UGA, Rutgers, Area Inc (Marine Air Curtain and Aeration systems patent holders), Seaton (Sowa Hall Chemistry), Dr John Seaton (Stroud (Eco World Energy and Marine Hydrology expert), Dr Bill Irwin (Marine Biology, FL Keys resident), Dr Eric Lysinger based Marine Biologist), Ross IslamoradaWe would first like to invite your participation with our group and find the comments within your ad below reflective of the sentiments and questions many within our organization have as well.  To be more specific with addressing your technical initiatives concern, I am a Master Degree Engineer and sever as a project manager for our technical task force.  Dr Patrick Rice the Dean Of Marine Science at FKCC is our science leader and the man we all rally behind.  I say science leader because our science team includes Dr. Martin Moe (

Dr Rice is currently proceeding with test labs at both FKCC’s lagoons and at MOTE on Summerland Keys in specialize research tanks, to test the effects of specific microbe products on the various ecosystems we are trying to protect and remediate if necessary here in the Keys.  We have already ran initial tests in the Keys with Bioremediations microbe products including some basic performance tests and bird cleaning exercises on actually oiled bird cadavers.

Thanks again for your concerns and please join us!
 
Barry Wray
Florida Keys Environmental Coalition
305-304-9898
 

I would think high tides twice a day will bring in enough fresh seawater to keep too many mangroves, sea grasses, other ocean life from dying of oxygen deprivation living microbes might cause. Especially if application is near the full moon and new moons, when tides run higher and lower. Also, the air itself provides oxygen, and waves and wind action provide aeration, although I doubt there is much wave or wind action in the interior of mangrove islands.
 
It sure looked to me that the oil plume approaching the Dry Tortugas, which I saw on the front page of Key West Citizen some weeks ago, was close enough to the surface to be treated with microbes, if we’d had any to use and a delivery system. I use that plume as an example of what might lie ahead and how it might be intercepted “offshore.”
 
What to do about federal interference? The EPA, the National Park Service, US Fish & Wildlife, the Coast Guard, they say we cannot intercept oil in federal waters. Well, we have a nine mile claim to waters on the west side, don’t we? We have boat captains who know the waters well enough to go out under cover of dark, don’t we?
 
Boat captains used to go out under cover of dark to pick up drugs from mother ships. Those captains were darned hard to catch because they knew the waters and where the channels and shallows were. They ran at night at high speeds, using powerful flashlights. I have been fishing with flats guides at night, who ran very fast in waters they knew.
 
What do you do with oil you trap with booms, air curtains? How do you dispose of it? Do you treat it onsite with microbes, to just get rid of it?
 
From what I have read, enhancing microbes with fertilizer runs a high risk of creating dead zones. That happened in the Exxon-Valdez clean up. Fertilizer runoff into the Mississippi River created dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico below the mouth of the river.
 
From Sean Kinney’s article in the Keynoter:
 
He [Dr. Rice] mentioned an experiment involving 20 drops of the microbes being placed into one liter of water containing 10 drops of gasoline.
  
“I was floored,” he said. “In five minutes, [microbes] consumed 75 percent of the gasoline.”
  
Why were you floored, Dr. Rice? It’s well known in science that microbes that eat oil do this. After what I have read, seen online, including the video produced by the State of Texas, I would have been floored if this had not happened in your lab test.
 
From the same Keynoter article:
 
Rice said he should soon have a working demonstration of the microhabitats set up in the dive lagoon adjacent to the college.

“We’re going to quit talking and we’re going to start showing,” he said to thunderous applause. “I’ll keep working as hard as I can to try to come up with outside-the-box thinking and ideas that can help protect us.
  
“I’m optimistic that we’re going to be able to make a difference. We’re going to set an example for the rest of the country and the rest of the world. I’m gonna keep on trying. As God as my witness, I will not stop.”
 
With God as my witness, Dr. Rice, I was told by angels of the Lord within days after the well blew up that oil-eating microbes are essential to cleaning up this black holocaust. I was told in-the-box methods were not going to work. I then learned from the news that BP was using dispersants at the wellhead to make the oil globule and heavier, so it would stay down and out of sight, to disguise the size of the problem and to save BP skimming fees and fines.

I also was told by the angels that the gusher could get a lot worse, which Florida’s Senator Nelson soon concluded from what he was seeing, hearing, reading. Not a lot worse than what BP and Uncle Sam were reporting, but a lot worse than what it actually was. Even what it was to begin with is still being understated. If the well casing collapses and/or or oil geysers erupt out of the nearby seabed, the black gusher we’ve seen so far will become a trickle by comparison.
 
The angels will continue to advise me on this. Do you want to hear their input? If so, when’s your next meeting?
 
Sloan 

Mr. Sloan,

Thank you for your passionate reply. As you pointed out below, I was floored during the test I ran with Bioremediation, Inc. Not because the microbes worked (I have seen many demos of the microbes in action), but because of the ratio of microbes necessary to work in a large volume of water. I think a little more testing will determine potential application ratios, if microbial application are deemed appropriate for a tropical marine ecosystem.

We are setting up experiments, both acute and chronic, to determine the effect of the microbes on corals. We plan to employ methods similar to Ritche (2006) for our experiments. Corals secrete a mucus layer which contains mucopolysaccharides (i.e. hydrocarbons) embedded with bacteria in a symbiotic relationship with the corals.  The effects of microbes on the muccopolysaccharide layer and the indigenous bacterial community surrounding corals is critical information to be considered before making the decision to apply microbes in our tropical coral reef ecosystem. Also, these bacteria produce carbon dioxide (CO2) as waste. Increased CO2 concentrations in water reduce pH. Reduced pH causes calcium carbonate to dissolve. What effects will this have on the calcium carbonate (CaCO2)  skeleton of corals?

The proposed bacteria for oil mitigation are aerobic (i.e. require oxygen). Sheltered mangroves environments are very low energy systems and typically low in dissolved oxygen concentrations. Therefore, studies focused on microbial effects on application in mangrove environments is critical.

We anticipate some results soon but in the mean time, the use of aeration in any of the situations or ecosystems mentioned above will only help to alleviate potential problems. We expect the employment of air curtains in areas of critical concern to have, at minimum, the following beneficial environmental effects:

1.       Oxygenation of the water in any environment benefiting natural bacteria to digest oil products

2.       With proper application, potential deflection of oil products away from areas of critical concern

I respect your passion and understand your frustration. That is why the FKEC was formed. There are ways and means to approach this disaster. We have to make sure the solution does not become worse than the problem. We are stewards of this environment and must not make decisions in haste.  I am confident that together we can, at least, reduce the impacts, should they occur here.

Patrick  Rice

References:

Ritche, K.B. (2006). Regulation of microbial populations  by coral surface mucus and mucus –associated bacteria. Mar. Eco Prog. Ser. Vol. 322: 1-14. 
 
Diana, Patrick, Barry, Mary Lou, others . . .
 
I read Diana’s and Patrick’s emails.
 
I think I understand Patrick’s scientific explanations and concerns.
 
It still looks to me that you folks are way behind the curve, and it still looks to me that you are focused too close in to the Keys, when you should be focused on intercepting the oil as far from the Keys as possible.
 
It looks to me that the information, not the conversation, Patrick provided to me should be published in Key West Citizen and/or the Keynoter, accompanied by periodic updates. Keys people should know how the people who have assumed responsibility for a scientific defense of the Keys are thinking and what they are doing. 
 
Regarding microbes creating dead zones in mangroves: What kind of zones will oil create in mangroves?
 
Regarding microbes attacking hydrocarbons in corals: What kind of attack will oil make on corals?
 
Regarding designer microbes, as opposed to microbes occurring naturally in nature, which are farmed and mass-produced: Which type of microbe poses the greater threat to a native ecosystem?
 
Diana, you asked me to ask my angels to look look out for us all. They are your angels, too. They are all of your/our angels, assigned to us right now.
 
Diana, you and Patrick speak to me of frustration. You have no idea what it’s like to deal with people who do not have angels telling them what to do.
 
Patrick, you brought God into this. Diana, you asked me to ask angels to look out for us all. Yet neither of you asked me to tell you what I am hearing from above about you and your committee’s efforts. Looks to me like you don’t want to know what I’m being told about you and your committee, which is the main thing I could offer as a member of your committee, since I don’t have much scientific training or understanding. 
 
My prayer is that God’s will alone for you be done, whatever it is, and that you are made able to hear/see/understand what God wants you to do.
 
Sloan

Received this below from a Facebook friend, as the above was starting:

Looks to me that this is one of those situations where God helps those who help themselves.

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