After a hurricane hits the Gulf of Mexico "it's going to be raining tar balls in Nashville"

[Better Believe It]

Does the Ruling Class Really Want to Commit Suicide?
A Hell of Their Own Creation
By CHARLES M. YOUNG
une 10, 2010



A prophecy: At some point this summer, a hurricane is going to blow through the Gulf of Mexico. It’s going to drown New Orleans in carcinogenic sludge, again, and a day later it’s going to be raining tar balls on Nashville. People all over the South will go to church and demand that Jesus save them. Jesus will choose this moment to make his return to earth: “Hey, I told you 2000 years ago that it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven. I told you that the poor are blessed. I told you that as you treat the least of these, you have treated me. That means if you oppress the poor, you oppress me. That means if you drown pelicans in oil, you’re drowning me. But you didn’t read that part of the New Testament. You only read that weird symbolism in the Book of Revelations and argued about nothing while the ruling class destroyed everything. You came to believe that my teachings were somehow consistent with capitalism. I mean, where did you get that from? I’m the guy who threw the money changers out of the temple. You think the money changers of Wall Street are going to save you when the ocean dies? You think I’m going to save you with some kind of rapture and vacuum the believers into heaven? Not a chance. But you do have a choice. You can deal with the ruling class now, or you can burn in a hell of your own creation.”

http://www.counterpunch.org/young06102010.html

[FSogol]

1. Sorry but, it can't rain oil. Oil will not evaporate like water to condense in

the clouds and return to earth via precipitation. The same goes for salt, which is why we don't have salt water rain ruining the earth.

[Better Believe It]

3. The writer is making a little joke. However, it can rain cats and dogs.

:)

[tuckessee]

4. Then what about when it rains frogs & fish? n/t

[FSogol]

8. Shades of Exodus? Well, it is possible for a waterspout to pick up objects

and it could pick up some oil balls but, it is unlikely.

Here's a good article on frogs and fish: http://science.howstuffworks.com/rain-frog.htm/printable

[golddigger]

5. No, but it will rain dispersant.

[nolabear]

6. No but it can blow oil. And it just might rain dispersant.

Not Nashville, maybe, but far enough inland to cause a world of hurt. This is potential illness and death for many people and other life forms.

[Desertrose]

2. Recc'd for this part-

"You think the money changers of Wall Street are going to save you when the ocean dies? You think I’m going to save you with some kind of rapture and vacuum the believers into heaven? Not a chance. But you do have a choice. You can deal with the ruling class now, or you can burn in a hell of your own creation.”

[mix]

7. Our "ruling class" is incompetent.

Throughout history, as the cliché goes, some ruling classes rise to the occasion despite themselves-during the Great Depression and WWII for example.

It's been an accelerated decline since Raygun and the reign of neo-liberalism and now with endless war and environmental catastrophe endangering us, there are no solutions among them, just the crass pursuit of profit and preservation of status and self-interest.

[nichomachus]

9. I think you got yourself the title of a new country song

[Better Believe It]

13. Now that was really funny! Like to see Willie Nelson sing it.

And the number one country song is Willie Nelson singing "It's gonna be raining tar balls in Nashville"!

[femrap]

10. Jesus was

a True Liberal! The only part of the Bible that I really like is that story of the money changers. That was some nice righteous anger.

The other day some old dude said that Jesus was mad at the 'gamblers.' He thought these were the money changers.

Save me from the Willfully Ignorant.

[Gin]

11. along the religious lines.....one of the commandments says

thou shall not have false gods before me.....money is our god!!

[femrap]

12. And I remember something

about 'Covet'....hell, our capitalistic society is founded on coveting what the Jones' have!!!!