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The major and exponentially expanding disaster that is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill could not have happened to a more deserving nation and culture, to be brutally honest.
Never in the history of mankind has one cultural or national grouping been as collectively greedy, self-serving, manipulative, hedonistic, heedless of warnings, and destructive of the Earth and of all other races getting in their ways as have Americans since the end of World War II.
Americans must learn the hard way that they cannot always have their ways and control outcomes--that they cannot consistently have the best and most of everything desirable, while running roughshod over all the world.
The Deepwater Horizon disaster will, hopefully, become a sobering episode and way marker in the national history of the United States of America.
D. Grant Haynes
(For reference, the pipe is 21 inches in diameter.)

Alien world? Alien, indeed, for creatures of the Gulf of Mexico that are floundering and dying in choking crude oil now coming ashore in Louisiana. Pea soup smog presided over an oil slicked and dying Gulf of Mexico Friday afternoon--an altogether fitting commentary on man's blindness, self-centeredness, and greed. Men, nations and worlds are all subject to the universal cosmic law of karma. Modern industrial man will, both individually and collectively, get his--reap what he has sewn.
D. Grant Haynes
How many gallons of BP crude oil went into the Gulf of Mexico while we slept? Counter was on 4,089,564 gallons May 8 at 11:50 PDT.
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