Big Brother embodied by Captain qua Admiral Kangaroo Allen Ever since an ancient, giant methane bubble traveling at the speed of sound sunk the Deepwater Horizon, an aircraft carrier sized oil drilling platform leased by BP, the transnational corporation has mounted a persistent campaign of coverup and denial. From deliberately underestimating the volume oil and gas unleashed by the explosion …
Convicted felon BP holding a gun to the head of the US economy Today as I was hanging the Stars and Stripes from my front porch, reflecting on the event 234 years ago that precipitated this most national of national holidays, colonial America’s Declaration of Independence from their English overlords, I was struck by the resonance it has to the …
US taxpayers funding the killing of its own troops [Note: The arguments of my previous eight Afutilestan diaries explaining why the continuing and escalating presence of US troops in Afghanistan is doomed to fail are incorporated herein.] So what’s new since my last quagmire update? Last night the House approved another $30 billion in military spending in Afghanistan, on top …
We’re not sure whether FireFox’s latest “fix” has fixed us in a way that sucks, or WordPress’ latest upgrade has fracked us somehow; but new posts aren’t showing up— and if you can see this one, you can’t tell us because comments have stopped working. Anyway. We’ll get a digital doctor’s appointment to get to the bottom of it. In the …
Note: We’re having a weird WP problem with our latest posts. If you don’t see a picture here, you wont be able to tell us— because comments stopped working too. —FRACK! If the Borg ever show up on our planet, Urantia, seeking to absorb intelligent life into their corporate, hive like mind, our best chance of survival is to offer …
This post started out as a reply to Terry’s response to my previous post: Is BP’s Oil Volcano An Extinction Level Event (ELE). There he takes exception to Dr. Gregory Ryskin‘s account of the ELE that occurred some 251 million years ago ( mya), comparing it to the account given in The Urantia Book in Paper 59 titled: “THE MARINE-LIFE …
