DRILL BABY DRILL

This oil disaster in the Gulf Of Mexico is about to change our life here in Florida, and not for the better.

AP is reporting that the oil slick will hit the Florida Keys in a week, and that will compound what is already an enormous ecological disaster:

From the AP report:

Nick Shay, a physical oceanographer at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, said Monday once the oil enters the Loop Current, it likely will end up in the Keys and continue east into the Gulf Stream.Shay says the oil could affect Florida's beaches, coral reefs, fisheries and ecosystem within a week.He described the Loop Current as similar to a "conveyor belt,"sweeping around the Gulf, through the Keys and right up the East Coast. Shay says he cannot think of any scenario where the oil doesn't eventually reach the Florida Keys.

The anti-intellectual crowd of right wing and religious republicans prefer their leaders to have a ready quip, be a person of the people, and not be too smart. Prayer is better than education and intelligence in their (warped) view of the world. And this is not to diminish prayer, but this is to diminish those who would rather their leaders pray several times a day then have a high IQ and be learned in the areas where they work and seek to lead. That is why Sarah Palin's "Drill Baby Drill" was such a hit and was much preferred by those religious republicans as an energy policy to a thoughtful discussion of energy issues.

So here is our question: Where is Sarah Palin and her pals now that an ecological disaster of dare we say biblical proportions is about to strike and perhaps wipe out a unique ecological zone? Will prayer protect the coral reefs of the Florida Keys? Will prayer stop the 210,000 gallons of oil leaking into the Gulf every day? Will prayer solve our energy crisis, because as we've seen, the slogan "Drill Baby Drill" hasn't helped that much.

It is said that the good lord helps those who help themselves.

We've put our entire ecosystem at risk by drilling for oil in the ocean. The ocean is a resource that is precious, fragile, and not necessarily salvageable depending upon the damage we inflict upon it.

With more than a million gallons of oil about to hit the gulf stream and loop around Florida and head up the east coast, the least we can do is pray for those in power to have the wisdom and ability to help solve this disaster.

Folks, this is going to be a whole lot worse than we realize right now.