GULF OIL SPILL IMAGERY SAYS IT ALL By Reverend Barbara Sexton www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

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Oil Spill Clean-Up Crew Hard At Work


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Oil Spill Clean-Up Crew Hard At Work Posted by Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

          Oil Spill Clean Up Crew Hard At Work

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E-Mail Me: What Group Or Groups Are Best To Donate To To Help With Bird & Wildlife Degreasing In the Gulf Oil Spill Areas? From Reverend Barbara Sexton www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

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     'To live is to laugh'.  I have a sneaking suspicion that God really appreciates those who can manage to laugh amongst today's difficulties and bad news. 
     This is just one such opportunity, if it helps us to reflect upon and appreciate ALL living things.  You needn't even consider critters to be 'God's creatures', just so long as you reflect upon the poor and helpless animals who are being tortured as a result of the Gulf oil spill. 
      You needn't be a 'dog person' or a 'bird person' or a 'cat person' or any other 'animal person' to want to help....All you have to do is show that you CARE AT ALL.
     What I am asking for is a link or two of reliable organizations or groups who are 'degreasing' our little animal friends in the Gulf. 
      Please email me with the names of these organizations at : BarbaraKSexton@aol.com ,so I can endorse them and encourage people to donate to them.
     May 'Breakfast With Ginger' help you to appreciate ALL animals, including those who need to be degreased and rehabilitated due to the foibles of humans.  And if you really are not 'an animal person', then at least consider the sensitivites of those around you who are.  It will serve you well and it's the right thing to do.
     There is a Biblical imperative that humans be responsible stewards of the land and it's creatures, but many of you already know that.  The fact is we all need to help.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you and God Bless you.
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets The Cross"
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'A Man Was Driving Down The Road & Ran Out of Gas..' Posted By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

 

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A man was driving down the road and ran out of gas. Just at that moment, a bee flew in his window.

The bee said, 'What seems to be the problem?'
'I'm out of gas,' the man replied.

The bee told the man to wait right there and flew away. Minutes later, the man watched as an entire swarm of bees flew to his car and into his gas tank. After a few minutes, the bees flew out.

'Try it now,' said one bee.

The man turned the ignition key and the car started right up. 'Wow!' the man exclaimed, 'what did you put in my gas tank'?

The bee answered,


Wait for it.wait for it..

You're just going to love this.

     I see you smiling    

'Stuck on Stupid, They Think We Are, When It Comes To This Oil Spill' By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

Oil washes ashore at Grand Isle Louisiana UPI Photo

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Soaked in oil, a seabird lies dead in the surf on Elmer's Island, Louisiana, May 21, 2010. Oil began washing up on the beaches and marshes of Southern Louisiana after the explosion of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig a month ago. UPI/A.J. Sisco
     Is this a picture of a 'Phoenix' for us?  No.  I think that God is giving us message which is loud and clear.  Already I hear our President obfuscating about this issue and already he is pumping out 'the Green Initiative'.  Again we are being regaled with his lofty and empty rhetoric as to 'how this oil spill definitively points to 'evils' of petroleum fuels.  Of course Obama says this; it's his bread and butter.  And of course it's "Obama's Katrina".  It'll be "Obama's Katrina x 14.078 Trillion (that number is the estimated national debt for 2010 in case you haven't been paying attention).  Just watch.
     The other day, I watched a child prodigy explain why she'd 'switched her high school science project from solar to something else'.  She explained that where she lived, it was 'cloudy all the time and she couldn't get her projects to work well'.  Surprise, surprise.  Kids today are smart.
     All I ask is why we can't be like the French who currently get 75% plus of their electricity from Nuclear Energy. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf40.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/french.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
      Nuclear Power is 'here', it's powerful, it's clean and it's safe when used properly by those who are not ignorant about it's use.  But plugging nuclear power here would be as insensitive as what the 'Greenies' are doing. 
     Personally, I think solar energy is dead in the water before it will ever take off.  Why?  Between natural disasters (volcanic eruptions/ash cloud accumulations, lightning-induced fires, etc) and man-made ones (oil spills which ignite either at the hands of humans or nature)...And with the use of coal in China and elsewhere polluting the dickens out of our atmosphere...We don't have a snowball's chance in the Sahara of having 'clear enough skies' to satisfy the 'Greenies' lust for solar technology.   In simple terms: we won't have enough sunlight to make solar energy very useful.
     Poor Al Gore and his posse.  Not only is his 'global warming agenda' now totally debunked as 'junk science', but his financial investments are now also at risk, given what we now know about the state of affairs of earth's atmosphere and ionosphere.  (Stay tuned for a piece on the latter which will prove to you once and for all what dolts we are for fouling our own nest with  'HAARP' for those of you who are up to yet another technical treatise at http://www.dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/)
     And poor Al Gore as he gets 'outted' for the fuel-guzzling jet-setting 'lifestyle' he consistently maintains.  It can't be easy for the man to be such a hypocrite.  You'd think that a guy who's smart enough to invent the Internet would be able to put '2 and 2 together' for himself, but not Al Gore.  He belongs to that dying generation who thinks that we people are 'just too dumb' to see what he is doing.  He also thinks that we noodnicks won't speak out.  He thinks 'we're just stuck on stupid'.  But we're going to fool him, because we're not.
     But there's a new paradigm for 2010 now.  For me personally, I'm the little 'phoenix' myself rising up out of the ashes of political disinterest up to a vital interest and activity in the TEA PARTY MOVEMENT.  I must say it feels really good to be 'liberated' not just from the anti-white,  heterophobic, anti-American, anti-Israeli politics of my former church, the UCC (better known as the Obama/Wright church)...But it is also feels great to be able to 'do something' other than sit on the sidelines and wring my hands (not that I'm the type to wring my hands, actually, but you get the idea).  Now I understand why the progressive-lib culture I've been immersed in is so damn political--it's LIBERATING and EMPOWERING, is why and  I think I LOVE it!
     Still, no matter how hard I try, I still honor my root sensitivities.  I watch things like this below and I weep for all involved.  I'm not self-centered enough to promote my own political agenda at the cost of those who suffer.  It's not time for me to 'push a nuclear agenda'.  It's not time for the 'Greenies' to push their phoney 'global warming' agendas and it's not time to peddle the solar panel business sector.  It's time to get busy and band together and help with this oil spill.  It's time to act like sentient human beings and understand and be empathetic to the harm and grief being done to those in the Gulf area--to humans, animals and ecosystems, alike.
     Watch this below.  If you don't feel this man's pain, you're just...well, you are just what you are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL9YXvYbk5Q&feature=player_embedded
I pray God has mercy on us all.
Reverend Barbara Sexton
www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com


    

'MY SUGGESTED REMEDIES FOR GULF OIL SPILL CLEAN-UP-EVERY BIT HELPS' By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

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MY SUGGESTED REMEDIES FOR GULF OIL SPILL CLEAN-UP-

EVERY BIT HELPS

By REVEREND BARBARA SEXTON

May 14, 2010

"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

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     There are a number of factors in the gulf oil clean-up which remind me of (albeit smaller) situations that I've encountered and dealt with in the drug and cosmetic manufacturing industries over the years, in the lab and 'in the field'.  I've handled degreasing/cleaning/sampling/clean-up of a number of 'unctuous substances' all over the place, including in the wooded and populated areas surrounding various manufacturing and petrochemical storage areas.  In other words, I am familiar with situations requiring  "degreasing" and disposal of both innocuous and hazardous materials.    
     The first line in 'degreasing methods' is the physical removal of as much of the offending 'unctuous mass' as is possible, followed by the use of steam, hot water, hot water and detergent, volatile solvents, emulsifying agents, additional physical scrubbing and so forth.  Sometimes, 'like-dissolves-like' technology is useful, as well.  An example of this is using a lighter weight oil to cut through and clean up a heavier weight oil, if this is practicable.
      Breaking it down to basics for the specific GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL SITUATION, here are my suggestions in no particular order:  For obvious reasons, I've eliminated many of the usual chemicals and methods, as they are too toxic and or dangerous for use in this situation.

1) FOR THE 'FROZEN CRYSTAL PROBLEM'--Use microwave, laser and/or light optic fiber heating elements via a 'probe-type' apparatus that can be lowered down to the problem area, perhaps threaded inside the 'top hat' rigging if they can get one in place.  Think of something like the catheters used during angioplasty with their various internal 'tools' and micro-lights inside of them.
     The microwave, laser or optic fiber heating elements can also be rigged to a small submersible and guided to any problem areas.  If they can get a camera down there (and they can), they can get a heat generator down there to 'melt' those crystals.  Again, as with angioplasty medical devices, there should be an attendant 'suction /blower unit' to suck dislodged and/or melted crystals upward to the surface for clearance, or to 'swish them away', with an eye towards proper disposal later.

2) FOR GROSS SKIMMING OF OIL & OIL/DISPERSAL AGENT MIXES: I have two suggestions utilizing 'film technology'.  We all know that many plastics carry a substantial surface 'electrostatic charge'.  This property can be put to good use with the GULF OIL SPILL by the public as well as by the entities in charge of the clean-up.  FOR THE PUBLIC: Get some heavy plastic line (polypropylene, polyethylene, preferably, as they are relatively 'innocuous' to the environment except for a 'wild life entrapment hazard').  Regular fishing line is usually PVC, polyvinyl chloride and that would do in a pinch, also.  Get yourself a heavy duty metal 'sailor's needle' (one used to mend tears in ships' sails) and a good thimble.  Then collect, empty, wash and 'string' uncapped
plastic water bottles (without the labels) and similar bottles onto the line.  This 'unit' may be easily cast into the water, jostled until the entire 'unit' is coated with oil' and then 'hauled in', properly bagged in a large plastic garbage bag and submitted to the proper EPA collection site for hazardous material disposal.  We can ALL do this and it costs us nothing but time.  Personally, I like the irony that these plastic materials will end up being of some use to the wildlife and ecosystem they have so affected at times!
 FOR THE PROS-REV BARB'S SKIMMING SUGGESTIONS: Take large sheets of 'Tyvek' or Tyvek-like (spun-bonded polyolefin) material.  "Lattice them" as they do for skin-grafting.  In other words, prepare the Tyvek by splitting it into a series of small, incremental 'cuts' until a 'netlike formation' emerges which can be stretched open.  Obviously, this procedure is intended to greatly increase the SURFACE AREA of the material which will then be 'laid upon' the oil-laden water (emulsified or not), dragged, scooped up and disposed of.  Given the fact that Tyvek-like materials are so durable and inert, it may be possible to clean off oil-loaded 'netted Tyvek-like skimming sheets' with steam and reuse.  Believe me, having worn enough 'disposable lab coats' made out of this material, I can certify that they are durable and 'pick up grease and oil' like crazy on the surface.

3)  EMULSIFYING LEAKING OIL AT THE SOURCE, NOT JUST AT THE SURFACE-Since stopping the leaks in the gulf has not been accomplished 'yet', I suggest rigging a tanker ship with a hot Emulgade-type emulsifier with an aim towards injecting said emulsion to the oil leak site, itself, where not only will the crystal problem be solved, but a reasonable degree of oil will be emulsified which can be subsequently evacuated under suction to the surface.  If nothing else, this technique may allow 'cappers'-i.e. those who are trying to actually stop or cap the leaks to have a somewhat easier job of things.

4) DIRECTING & DIVERTING THE LEAKS IF THEY CANNOT BE STOPPED-If the leaks cannot be stopped, perhaps they can be 'diverted' using jet engine technology.  Perhaps an area of the Gulf can be designated as a 'capture area'.  This would mean cordoning off a relatively shallow area, hanging Tyvek containment curtains there and diverting oil streaming out of the ocean floor into the containment area.  This is a different approach from the so-called 'top-hat' containment already proposed.  I think of some of the  fish-corralling methods used in commercial fishing can be adapted for use like this and probably some of their gear can be adapted without too much of an ado.  We'll never 'capture and contain' all the oil, but we may be able to cordone off some, at least, and keep it out of the rest of the worlds' oceans and waterways.

5)  FREEZE-SOLIDIFYING LEAKING OIL AT SOURCE FOR SUBSEQUENT 'CHUNK REMOVAL'-Here is another suggestion worth considering:  I propose that some super-cooling substance/technology is used to essentially 'freeze'...or at least solidify...the leaking oil, once it is some distance from the immediate leak.  We see what has transpired with the crystals down there and maybe we can use that very concept to make 'clean-up' easier.   Advanced super-cooling refrigeration units are available, as well as super-cooling compressed gasses and liquids.  Now before anyone comes up with brilliant suggestion of using liquid nitrogen for this, I would respectfully submit that you might want to consider that nitrogenous compounds plus petrochemicals generally lead to trinitrotoluene-like by products.  That's TNT to the rest of us and not the best mix for our needs here.  Hydrogen gas, while cold under pressure is flammable, so I would suggest something 'inert' and available primarily to the refrigerator manufacturing industry, which, ideally, will be used in a 'closed coil system'.

6) MICRONIZING OF RESIDUAL OIL-My suggestions to accomplish this include the use of ultrasonic probe utilization (good for dispersing small amounts of remaining oil to be subsequently subjected to microbial treatment).  Other 'agitation methods' can also be used, including : underwater mechanical vibration (again, with subsequent microbial treatment), microwaving of small oil clumps with subsequent agitation and dispersal of resulting droplets set for mechanical removal or microbial treatment.  And finally, I would propose the use of a good, relatively 'inert' safe emulsifying agent such as used in foods, drugs and cosmetics.  The choices are many, but I would suggest something along the lines of one of the 'Emulgade' products, used concurrently with heat treatment and suction evacuation of the emulsified oil mixture to the surface for proper disposal.  We need to be ever-mindful as we chose an emulsifying agent that it is literally as 'edible' as possible, for we are injecting it into an ecosystem.  The chemicals in use so far...I'm not so sure of their safety, let alone their efficiency and efficacy.  Fans of sodium fluoroscein are having a 'heyday' at least. ( chemist's joke here)
    
     So, there you have it.  These are my ideas to date for assisting things in the Gulf Oil Clean Up.  I don't know if it will be possible to correct what has happened.  By all indicators, this seems like an unavoidable accident.  With all the 'imaging' and 'sensing' equipment available to the oil industry today, it is very possible to 'detect' massive methane pockets/exposures/leaks.  My thinking is that with all the EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY we've been having lately all over the globe, the sea floor has been undergoing massive tectonic plate shifting, jostling, pushing, pulling and shoving. 
     You may want to read my Earthquake Tutorials on this.  Even the best minds in the world of seismology admit that seismic maps of the sea floor fall far short of those that have been prepared for land areas.  In all fairness to BP, I'd like to say that they and we are likely the victims of just this.
     If you'd like to contact me, my email is: BarbaraKSexton@aol.com or you can comment at the link below.  I do pray that we as a peoples can come to an accord and solve our domestic energy and other problems and adequately deal with this emergency.  Unfortunately, I'm already thinking along the lines of seeing an uber-LaBrea Tar Pit in-the-making.
     God I hope I'm wrong!
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com
May 14, 2010
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SEAFOOD SAFETY IN LIGHT OF THE GULF OIL SPILL By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

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Dear Ones:
     You've heard me repeatedly urge caution when it comes to eating certain seafood products, most notably RAW OYSTERS and other SHELL FISH.  Most recently my ongoing concern has been for norovirus in Mississippi and Louisiana oysters.  Here's the link: http://dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/2010/03/oyster-alert-miss-la-norovirus-posted.html 
     A little known fact that not many are familiar with is that this norovirus infection is highly contagious, unlike some other food-borne illnesses, which can only hurt and even kill 'one victim at a time'.  Here's a CDC link on norovirus for you: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/revb/gastro/norovirus-qa.htm
     My advice has been this for years now:  DO NOT EAT RAW OYSTERS.  THE RISK OF CONTRACTING SOME SEVERE AND PERMANENTLY LIFE-ALTERING VIRAL OR OTHER ILLNESS IS JUST TOO GREAT TO RISK IT.  This applies to the young, the elderly, those who are immunocompromised and pregnant and nursing women, especially.
     I understand that there's nothing better than a good 'Oyster/Seafood Bar'.  But from a microbiological standpoint, things have been dicey for a long time now.  Add to the recent Gulf area flooding (with attendant sewage and cemetery upheaval and run-off) and I am forced to ratchet up my alert level to you. 
     The Gulf Oil Spill is fouling all living things in the area.  From a biochemical point-of-view, chemical contamination, whether from petrochemicals, pesticides or putrefaction cannot be 'cooked or processed away'.  Therefore, I am expanding my standing ADVICE FOR YOU THAT GULF OF MEXICO STATIONARY BOTTOM-FEEDERS SUCH AS OYSTERS AND CLAMS AS WELL AS SHRIMP, FISH AND ALL SWIMMERS, BOTH RAW AND COOKED ARE LIKELY TO NOT BE SAFE FOR CONSUMPTION UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
     It is very likely that the gulf stream will transport oil up the East Coast and as such, all of the sea and it's food will have to be monitored henceforth.
     NOTE FOR PET-OWNERS: Everything I write here pertains to animal and pet food, as well.  Take care to check the source of the fish and fish-byproducts, such as fish meal in your pet's food.  I just pray that pet food manufacturers are vigilant, conscionable and responsible when it comes to their raw material sources.  It is extremely difficult to know what it is exactly we are eating and to a certain degree, dining has become a literal act of faith.
     Since I've mentioned 'fish by-products', I will also mention 'meat by-products' in animal/pet food.  Simply put, by law these by-products are allowed to contain, meat scraps, organ meats, meat from 'downers' (sick animals which means infected tissue, tumors, etc), and everything else that's left over after filleting/deboning or butchering.  There is a very real risk of contracting the prion disease BSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, known as 'mad cow disease' or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD in humans.  Forms of prion disease care capable infecting many mammals.  http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/ResourcesforYou/AnimalHealthLiteracy/ucm136222.htm 
     MY ADVICE IS TO AVOID THESE BY-PRODUCTS AT ALL COSTS WHEN THEY ARE LISTED AS THE PREDOMINANT INGREDIENT IN YOUR PETS' FOOD.  CHANGE BRANDS AS NECESSARY IF YOU LOVE YOUR PETS.
     Even the bleakest situation has some upside and the morbid one in the current Gulf Oil spill is no exception.  I predict that microbial contamination of the Gulf is bound to change one way or another.  Petrochemicals are quite anti-microbial, even being used in the form of 'coal tar' in ointments and shampoos.  Petrochemicals, as coal tar and in other incarnations kill everything from bacteria to head lice, so we shall wait and see specifically transpires in the microflora and fauna of the Gulf waters. 
     It will be my sad duty to stay on top of the safety of food of Gulf-origin and to report to you regularly.  You can read it here...or sign up for my FREE NEWSLETTER at email: BarbaraKSexton@aol.com  and get health news immediately.  (For removal from NEWSLETTER LIST, Just write 'NO' in subject line, no worries.)
For You With Love in Christ,
Reverend Barbara Sexton
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Here's the FDA link about the multi-agency response to the Gulf oil spill.  Just remember it's from some of the same folks who insisted there would be no long-term health ramifications for Sept 11, 2001 first-responders!: 
http://www.fda.gov/Food/ucm210970.htm
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Update - May 5, 2010\Multi-government agency response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), other Federal agencies, and several state authorities in the regions affected by the recent oil spill. FDA continues to closely monitor this developing situation and its potential impact on the safety of seafood harvested from the area.
Although crude oil has the potential to taint seafood with flavors and odors caused by exposure to hydrocarbon chemicals, the public should not be concerned about the safety of seafood in stores at this time. There is no reason to believe that any contaminated product has made its way to the market.
Federal and state officials are monitoring the waters from which seafood is harvested and will act to close areas contaminated by the oil spill to fishing and shellfish harvesting. NOAA has the authority to close Federal waters to commercial fishing and states have the authority to close waters within the state 3-mile limit.
NOAA has already closed a large area of the Gulf of Mexico to commercial fishing and some state molluscan shellfish beds have been closed in anticipation of the oil nearing the shoreline. Closely monitoring and, if warranted, closing harvest waters which could be exposed to the oil spill should prevent unsafe seafood from reaching the market. If, despite these steps, adulterated seafood is found on the market, both the FDA and the states have the authority to seize such product and remove it from the food supply.
Fish and shellfish harvested from areas unaffected by the closures are considered safe to eat.
From: http://www.fda.gov/Food/ucm210970.htm