Things that make you go "Hhhhmmm?"....

So...my husband was just now reading to me some of the excerpts from updates on the oil spill "down South". It stands to be ranked the worst environmental disaster our country has ever seen (my future grandkids will study this, alongside Hurricane Katrina). They are "preparing for the worst", one expert stated...that would be 150,000 barrels a day, of our precious "black gold" (something we don't actually have to sacrifice our unborn future generations to the Arabs for), being dumped out into the Gulf of Mexico...the "redneck Riviera", as it's fondly referred. This is going to make the Exxon-Valdez spill of '89 look like the time I dumped a whole crockpot full of cocktail weinies, in thick, gooey sauce, into the carpeted floorboard of my car. A nasty little mess.

And this couldn't have happened at a worse time...birds are nesting and mating along the coast, beach tourism is just beginning to blossom and shrimp season was supposed to open today (they did allow shrimp boats a couple of days, ahead of season, to take advantage of a small window of opportunity). If they can't stop it, they say it will likely make its way around Florida and up the east coast, possibly destroying what makes up 84% of the world's coral reefs. How's that for front-page news? And those devastated families of the 11 who lost their lives....

I'm no expert (as IF you even speculated such)...BUT there is NO way this accidental disaster won't affect our already unstable economy...not to mention our precious, depleted environment (you do realize that this will wreak havoc on an entire ecosystem?). I mean, won't we likely see business bail-outs (for something like BP) or entities having to file Chapter 13? Will we see more people lose jobs? I imagine the "experts" haven't even figured out all of the ramifications yet.

Ok...what's the point of this post? ("Just get to it already!", you plead.) Well...just a couple of days ago, I made a comment to my husband that it wouldn't be surprising to hear this incident was the result of sabotage. Seriously. I would imagine the world knows how vulnerable we are right now...weak economy, "skeleton crew" of a homeland military and mixed public opinion on our government's ability to make good decisions. I asked him if they had discovered the cause, and he said it was still under investigation (apparently, DUH, it's all the more difficult considering you cannot send guys in SCUBA gear 5,000 feet below the surface of the ocean to check things out). However, they are investigating the company originally contracted to construct the pipeline because, perhaps, it was faulty or inadequately done. Know who that company is? Halliburton. Recognize the name? A construction company our government has used for decades. She's an entity with quite a controversial reputation of "sleeping with the enemy"...the kind who harbor terrorists.

Now, I'm also no conspiracy theorist, but it was just one of those "things that make you go 'Hhhhmmm?'". "C'mon, Christy! Please. Quit over-thinking and go wash another load of clothes!", you say? Maybe you're right. It isn't like our government has ever had prior knowledge of a possible US attack around Sept 11 and failed to follow-through and like buried the faxes under someone's grocery list, or knew it needed to rebuild crucial levees in Louisiana and didn't or dragged its feet rescuing hurricane victims and give them relief. Nah! Not our government! "Go wash your mouth out with soap, Christy!" Really now, what would it benefit a government to have its big businesses begging for assistance, or to have its people looking to it for answers and guidance because they're hungry and broke or to know its citizens live in fear of uncertainty? Hhhhmmmmmmm........

I'm just sayin'...